"Europeans do not drink water" meanwhile in Italy there are fontaines of drinkable water in the streets and in France every bar and restaurant are forced BY THE LAW to give you tape water for free if you ask
In Finland you can safely drink tap water all across the country. We have even signs in the airport toilets that you can fill up your water bottle strigh from a tap.
THIS!!! I loved the fountains all over Milano when I visited there, & I live in NE Scotland where our fresh water is still drinkable (but we're still raging at our water companies for polluting our seas so there's that). Anyway, all you have to do is ask for a free water & you will get one
@@elaineb7065 ikr saved my life in roma, it's crazy how fresh water is drinkable in your country the only time I dared to drink fresh water was in the mountains otherwise I will not take that risk I heard enough stories about turista 💀
As a German, I hate it when every summer Riot-Flood-Earthquake-Typhoon-Rebellion-Thieves-Scammer-Season hits... Only thing to do is to drown my sorrows in Beer and Olive Oil
Yeah as a German, i can never pay any mind to all those news we get about some new devastating catastrophe that hit America, like Hurricane Catherina or something, because I'm so busy with the Riot-Flood-Earthquake-Typhoon-Rebellion-Thieves season. If we can afford it this year we'll do a vacation to some calm, peaceful place, like westeros or something.
The American 1% is so accurate. I am 50% German, have a German passport and i am fluent in German. But I did not grow up in Germany, so I never really considered myself German. Seeing Americans insist on their 8% German-ness is valid is so strange to me…
Yeah. I have an ancestor of RIGHT NOW, not 100 years ago, who is Russian, I grew up with some Russian tv and food and I speak some Russian, but I don't consider myself Russian.
I feel like it's only braggable if it's around 25% or more honestly. Any less than that and I mean, it's cool and that's valid but there's no substance to the brag. Unless you can tell stories about the family you're talking about, maybe place that brag on the bottom shelf.
@@anonomous8649 Yeah, I'd consider that the cutoff as well because if your grandparent was from the culture, they might have passed something down to you - foods, traditions, etc. you might have at least some actual connection to it. Anyone older than that and the connection is either fully gone or vaguely passed down through other non-natives.
Jeez, you have German passport. you know German language. Germany basically accepted you as one of them. Mixed heritage can be pain in the ass in terms of self identification, that's correct
😂 I mean that is baseless speculation, but I see your point. The problem is some politicians try to pass laws to help the homeless then the voters say, “I am not paying anymore taxes. They are already way too high.” That person’s legislation gets block by populists or conservatives, and that person loses their next election And repeat.
@@mitchconner403 I’m not sure why it’s baseless or funny. I volunteer with the homeless population in my Texas city and I see where they sleep. You can’t drive anywhere without seeing encampments under overpasses.
@@mitchconner403 I agree it's speculation, but it's not baseless. Drive around any major city and you will find homeless people under the freeway ramps. It is relatively safe, people will leave you alone and unless there is an accident, it's pretty quiet except freeway noise.
@@LadyCaspar 🤣 you misunderstood me To be more specific, I intend to say, “that is baseless speculation for that SPECIFIC intersection, but I see your point“. I probably shouldn’t have used the word “baseless”. I don’t think it was a big deal. 😂 I just found it funny that you looked at a satellite image of a random bridge in Texas, and you were like, “Yup that intersection has a high probability of having an unhoused person”, which could be said about nearly any public property. When the post literally had nothing to do with the issue of homelessness, which is what I found funny The post and discussion was just comparing the population density of two different areas 🤣. Therefore, me laugh, and acknowledge the seriousness of the homeless issue. To have the cake and eat it. And yes everyone, I know unhoused people live under freeway ramps. I live in Seattle
Fun fact: The bald eagle sound that everyone is familiar with is actually a Red-tailed hawk. This is because filmakers used to dub over bald eagles with red-tailed hawks due to bald eagles not sounding "magestic" enough.
Don't the customers pay the wages in all restaurants? What pisses me off in the US is being given a price that is just a baseline for what the ultimate cost is.
I went to pay for fathers day meal last weekend and the staff just give the total. Exactly what the menu said the price would be. Wasn't even a check or anything to write a tip on. Seems stupid that the person serving me has their income affected by my ignorance of tipping normalcy or custom. The company should be the one paying the staff the value of their work and the revenue it brings the company, not the customers generosity or ability to give determining their wages. Also if im tipping someone for good service, it's cash on the side so they aren't taxed or anything on it. It's a gift not income.
It's mind-blowing because I've seen plenty of Southern American restaurant owners ranting online about socialism--yet rely on it to maintain their business. because they wont pay over federal minimum wage ... $5/hour here is the usual rate to pay a server and they rely solely on tips to survive.
The Demi Lovato thing was edited and taken out of context. Demi had posted their DNA test results and the 1% African was listed at the end after several other ethnicities. Someone took that last line and edited it together with a picture of Demi visiting an African indigenous tribe and wearing their traditional clothing out of respect.
Makes it a lot better, but still pretty silly. Maybe because we're all too used to Americans being obsessed with personal genetics and too many claiming to be XYZ when they're just Americans. 😂
As an American, I wish it cost $2k, and 48 hrs of active training. Driving here is terrifying, no one knows how to drive, but we're forced to by how awful our city planning is. I was terrified how easy it was for my dumb 16-year-old self to be allowed to drive a two ton mini van at 70 mph. People take driving for granted here, and it makes it more dangerous for all of us😅
Like about 15 yrs ago Texas made driver's Ed a requirement for getting a driver's license or a parent can get at home course(basically homeschool driver's ed). And these people STILL don't know how to drive.
As an American, I am blown away by the fact that other countries actually care to educate young drivers. I didn't take drivers ed until I was 17, which is highly unusual as most kids take it at 14 or 15. My mom has driving related anxiety so she never took me out to practice in parking lots or anything. Most of the kids in my class had been driving since they were 10ish (I grew up in a semi-rural area with lots of back lands). My drivers ed teacher got mad at my mom for never having had me drive before and yelled at me for being scared about being behind the wheel for the first time. Not everyone has parents that can or will teach their kids so it really sucks that kids in America who don't get that early teaching end up so far behind and the system doesn't care. Like bruh, was i supposed to get my blind father to teach me instead??
Yeah over here even if you've been driving for years, you gotta do your mandatory hour in the practice parking lot + different types of drives like a night drive & in the rain with an instructor. Also you need to go through a safety training + a track specifically made to simulate dangerous conditions within 2 years of getting your license so you don't end up panicking when you slip on the ice irl
As a European, it baffles me that the government would trust your parents - random people with no qualification whatsoever! - to teach you how to drive and how to abide traffic laws. How is anyone gonna ensure that your parents are actually teaching you the correct rules? Your parents may have had their drivers licenses for 20 years or som but that doesn't mean they actually know traffic law or all the other things you learn in drivers ed in Europe. Drivers ed here also includes a mandatory first aid class, it teaches you about cars, how to recognize defects in cars and what to do in different potentially dangerous driving situations. Not to mention our driving instructors are repeatedly tested to make sure they know all the current laws and also usually know how to drive not only cars but also large trucks, motorcycles etc.
Well, looking at road fatalities I can confidently say. I rather pay more and have saver roads. And I mean massively... USA has almost 12.9 (per 100k population). Italy and France are at 5, UK is at 2.9. Numbers don't lie.
@@Aghul I used to be a driving instructor in the UK. Unlearning something is 13 times harder than learning so I spent a lot of my time correcting the BS that parents taught their kids. You'd think I'd like it because it was an earner for me...but it was irritating more than anything, in a job where irritation is a huge factor in whether or not you stick with it.
The american system sounds insane! How can they let kids operate heavy machinery at the age of 16??? With no official driving instruction, in the middle of real traffic and real pedestrians. I would not want to drive a car in the middle of american drivers.
On the first story, it is actually ilegal for a restaurant business in Spain not to offer free water (tap that is) to anyone. It still occasionally happens (specially if they don’t have access to a tap) but yh this guy was just scammed into paying
Ahh, a good ol' glass of council pop. We called it that in Birmingham too. If you got a bit of Robinsons or Ribena in it then you were lucky, now eat your fish finger sandwich because we're gonna sit down and watch Michael fucking Schumacher win again.
You'd be smart not to drink the tap water in a lot of US states. Maybe this is where their obsession with water comes from? Perhaps they ignore public drinking fountains in European countries for the same reason?
@@Itcouldbebunnies I can't find it online as a common phrase that fellow Dutchies use, but my dad also called it 'Pomp du Champagne'; champagne from the water pump. Don't know where he got that from though :')
I live in Northern Ireland, once had to help a bunch of Americans in a Tesco in Belfast city centre by explaining that we called acetaminophen paracetamol , it's the same stuff and it's safe, and then explain what the £ and p meant on the price labels .The first one I get ,it's weird that it has a different name, but I cannot fathom travelling that far without even looking into how the currency worked , and it's not even that different to the US , they were thrilled to hear that tax was already included though. I do hope they survived the rest of their travels, it's like watching a nature documentary with baby animals struggling alone in the world for the first time.
i’m a server in the us - my hourly pay is $2.15 an hour, and i’m usually only on for 4/5 hours a night and a few nights a week because i’m a university student. we survive on tips - if we aren’t tipped, we don’t eat. it’s such a BS system, but it’s unfortunately something i depend on to live.
@@phoenixflamegames1 you understand that we live in a capitalist hellscape and most employers over here want to pay their people as little as they have to, so when they have a position where they can literally get away with paying them $2 an hour, they're not gonna do more than that? Every time a pushback has happened to try and make the US a no-tip country, the restaurants that supposedly try it all magically go under and the experiment fails, which then leads to "Oh well we can't do that!". There are literally organisations over here that exist for the sole purpose of keeping us a tipping country. The people with the money who are the ones who own the restaurants like it like that. Places around here are take-away only during certain hours just to cut down on having to pay servers, but the "tip" during those hours becomes a mandatory fee that goes to the restaurant and not the staff. It IS bs. It is so much bs.
Mate, I've worked in a McDonald's in Europe. I made like 7 euro and change/hour (without taxes, I mean) and it's not a lot... How the heck they do expect for you to be able to afford a home and eat with that pay?!
As an American I'm... exceedingly embarrassed. I'd like to apologize to the world for any ignorant actions and statements of my fellow countrymen/women.
Don't worry, every country has a population of idiots. Ours are very noticeable but also the world enjoys putting us under the microscope. Most of us are good people who are victims of a government set up for corporations.
Don't worry my kind fella!Every part and every country in the world have this tipe of peoples.We in Hungary have drunks mostly(day and night),entitled peopels too,we have our politicans who are a liiitle interesting sort to say,and today I saw a woman and a man beating each othet on the tram station on brought daylight...So...don't worry sweetheart.Have a nice day❤
As a human, allow me to sincerely apologize for all of history 🙏 If it helps, literally every single American I ever met was brilliant and wonderful, and the nutjobs who live their lives on social media all hold the Crazystan passport, regardless of birth.
We definitely have this kind of people in France too, there are uneducated people in every part of the world unfortunately… The one thing that seems American specific is the food debate. I was astonished when I realised that the reason so many Americans said that bread was “bad” for you is because it sort of is in the US. Frankly, any food that doesn’t go bad for weeks seems highly sus to me 😅 wouldn’t eat it either tbh.
Fun Fact about Germany: We recently got this cool new ticket which allows you to use all public transportation aside from fast trains for 49€ a month. No limit on amount of trips or region, as long as its within Germany. So, cars here are ACTUALLY an alternative.
God, I love the D-Ticket, especially since it's part of my student ticket, cause I can just hop into a train, and couple hours later I can eat dinner with my family
@@lostinmymind8147 yes, I know, I travel with them every day, to and from work, and they're always on time. I genuinely have no idea what people are on about.
No doubt, the person who claimed there was no freedom in Europe might be upset to learn that ten European countries are ranked higher than the US for freedom.
A relative once pointed out that a driving license is on the same level as a weapon license, given how much damage several tons of fast-moving steel can do to a squishy human being. So, sad as it may be, I'm not surprised that a certain category of Americans considers "just watch your parents, then sit down behind the wheel and do it yourself" a perfectly valid approach. After all, why should they be more careful with a vehicle than with the things that are purposefully designed for harming others?
yeah. I'm terrified of driving, and don't, because I genuinely don't trust myself with what is essentially a weapon of mass destruction. You fall asleep at the wheel for one second, and you could drive into a crowd of people and suddenly you've killed a 10 people
A number of states do require a bit more although unfortunately not all. Most assume that you will learn to drive during your high school years so high schools will typically have a course from several weeks to an entire quarter of the academic year covering the classroom info (rules of the road, etc). After completion, you take the written test which qualifies you for a learner's permit. Then most high schools will have driving practice. Some states require a certain minimum number of hours with a trained instructor (school) and another minimum with other licensed adults (usually parents). [In Illinois , we had to keep a log of the hours driven with our son.] Even after the road test is passed and the license is issued, many states put additional requirements on drivers until they reach 21 or some other benchmark. It's still not as rigorous as a German license but, if you count the tax dollars going into the school system for driver education services, it's not as cheap as the person commenting believed either.
I think the primary issue is that you lot have absolutely MONSTROUS vehicles, even when they aren’t needed, especially SUVs and Utes. The trouble is, a big heavy SUV that’s got a bonnet about as high as the top of an average adult’s shoulders and weighs something like two proper tonnes and is almost entirely made of heavy metals, (4.000 kilos) is going to do a damn sight more damage to a pedestrian than a low, little hatchback with fibreglass body panels, adequate brakes, and bonnet around waist height. Worst case scenario, the person rolls over the car, but that’s a massive deal safer than going under one. That, and your licences of the basic class are so laid back that you can practically drive a full on lorry without formal training! Up to a 4500 class, which is, mind you, at that point a commercial vehicle! That’s the trouble: not vehicles as a concept, but the fact that yank tanks are just so big, heavy, and hard.
As an American, I’d like to inform Sir Cliccy that here in America insanity isn’t just a common occurrence, that shit is BAKED INTO OUR DNA!!!!! And we get off on the reactions of non-Americans to our madness
I met an American (I'm canadian) online and the first time we video called eachother to hang out the first thing I seen was the confederate flag and multiple firearms and ammunition not properly stored away safely. Dude was gun obsessed and it was very consurning lol
"To a layman all British accents sound the same" Bro. I have lived in the UK all my life. I am a brit. If I spend a day or so travelling to another part of the country, I can run in to people with accents so broad and far removed from my own that I struggle to understand them. My husband has to explain what his dad says to me because I can't understand him...
As a kid I dreamt to live in America but growing up and learning more english made me fucking hate it damn So much delusional takes come from America (no hate to American people just an unfortunate tendency with delusional people being from there often)
American who tries very hard not to be identified as one of "those Americans" when I travel. We experience a fair amount of these weird/xenophobic/nationalistic "our country is the best cuz 'Murica," type behaviors, but I always forget how bad that looks to the rest of the world until I'm outside the US. I can assure you we're not all like this, though! Some of us just try to be normal!
I wouldn't worry too much about being judged when abroad. I think most people appreciate that it's the ones that never leave their own country that have the arrogant attitude.
As long as you’re a decent human being and the person in front of you is too, everything should be fine. We have those prejudiced people too and they treat any foreigner like crap 🙄 And let’s not forget that differences in culture have their impacts too. We, the French, are seen as rude for many things that just aren’t culturally received as rude by anyone here.
Generally I find that ppl judge on what you actually do or how you actually behave. Not on what country your from. Plenty of assholes all over the globe, not all or even most are american. They just happe to be the loudest and most insistent which makes them stand out more. Now, if you were covered in American flags and acting insulted that nobody speaks English while travelling to a country that doesn't primarily speak english then you get the eye rolls and the "damn American tourist" sigh. (Yes I've seen that happen. And not just from Americans. I will never understand why anyone from any country goes to a foreign place without attempting to learn some basic phrases and words while fully expecting everyone to bow down to their inability to speak at other language then their own. Even if you butcher pronunciation or grammer most will appreciate the effort and probably try to correct you only as a way of helping you improve. I've literally ended up having entire language lessons that way because someone saw that I was trying and was willing to help me expand my vocabulary. Course, gotta have a sense of humor too. To proposition an idea for the evening is much different then to *proposition* some evening entertainment. Wrong verb changes the whole meaning, never trust the english to Swedish dictionary. At least everyone had a laugh.
But to be fair, there are a lot of misconceptions about the US. “Where are you from?” “Minnesota.” “Oh, America?” “Yeah. It’s in north.. next to Canada.” “Why do Americans say which state they’re from instead of just “America”?” “Oh. Well, they all have their own laws and culture. Slang, accents, traffic laws, taxes, liquor sales can all change the instant you cross a border.” “Really?!” “Yeah. Think about how huge America is. Things are gonna change. What the state produces is going to affect the economy, the weather… mini countries.”
I'm an American and find the fact that we basically _have_ to tip because no one is paid fairly completely bonkers. Apparently, it would cause the collapse of the country if we paid people properly.
I dont think it would collapse. If the US would restructure their system to that of an European democracy, i believe it would work. The only thing that would collapse is the constant looting performed by the ultra rich. Their utopia would collapse.
(35:00) That is also illegal in Sweden. You can't have fees directly tied to products or services be added afterwards. The price must list the full non-optional cost for that item. If 20 % tip is mandatory, then it's not optional, and must be included. This is why VAT/GST has to be included in the prices too.
Also the "Iraq first, then France" bumper sticker is likely from when Americans were mad France redused to join them for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They even called french fries freedom fries for a while because of it... it was a special time
I remember that time. All Americans were mad at France because it didn’t want to get along with the invasion of Iraq and now ask any American and see how hard it is to find one who still thinks it was a good idea. Most say they were against all along. Turns out the French were right after all but I have never seen Americans apologize for all the insults they hurled at the French back then.
Not to defend ultra patriotism, the war in Iraq or anything else but... Why did we go to Veitnam again? Oh yeah, they pushed the French out of the country. Why were two American Naval vessels of the coast of Veitnam to be hit by missiles? Cause France requested our aid... I don't think they get to claim moral high ground on an unwinnable 20 year war that roped other nations into it.
A big part of why getting a license has to be cheaper in America is because the public transportation system is absolute dogshit, and the country is not built for functioning without personal transportation. I had a European GF who told me that she could just walk to her local grocery store, or take a bus to places further away, where as when I lost my license due to seizures, I had to either walk 5km to and from the nearest grocery store or hire a taxi.
I can confirm what your girlfriend said. I live in one of the biggest cities in my country. I don't own a car, I don't need to. We have a good transportation system, and I can get everywhere within an hour or so. And for groceries, I need 5minutes on foot, and I'm in the store :)
Do you know why your transportation system is so bad? It wasn't once upon a time in a lot of places. But than it was privitized and guess who bought it? The car industry. The result is actualy very predictable.
I guess you would have to walk long distances in some part of the country here too. But in any city with more than 2000 habitants there is a grocery store accessible by foot or public transport of some kind thankfully.
My friend was taught by her mom that you could go whatever speed you wanted in the "slow lane" on the freeway. Cue her driving us on our way to see friends... At 40mph. No license. We convinced her to take lessons (which she didn't know was a thing) and get her license. She's a great friend, and I'm relieved we found out before she could have gotten in an accident. Parents passing their misconceptions can be dangerous, especially when it comes to driving. It's wild.
@@iasomnium919A lot of people think you can just go however fast you want on country roads or smaller highways. Pulling out of my driveway there's a huge curve where you can't see oncoming traffic until it's right up on you. Normally this wouldn't be a problem if people obeyed the speed limit and went 35MPH, but instead they explode around that corner going 60MPH all the damn time. I've had multiple near-accidents pulling out of the driveway where people just Magically appear on top of me because they're going too fast. Couple cases of road rage too where they honk their horns, yell, and follow me as if it's my fault.
I'm used to driving mopeds, and comfortable driving small cars. I ride with my brother on long trips for work where he drives 6+ hours from hotel to hotel for the next job site... He drives a Tahoe, with a lift kit and massive tires. Big is an understatement when my 5' 8" ass self has to climb in to it. I am in no way comfortable with the idea of driving it. Everyone around me: "Just get in and you'll learn quickly, its not that bad. The best place to learn is on the highway'
There was actually an interesting experiment where they put three men who all believed they were Jesus together in a room to see what would happen. Conclusion: they all continued to believe they were the true Jesus but they also all came to believe that the other two were crazy.
Interesting, putting three people with the same delusion in the same room didn’t make those people realize that they were in fact delusional. You can’t make someone gain insight into their own situation if they don’t have that capacity to begin with.
28:30 As an American teenager with sensitive hearing AND noise-canceling headphones, there is nothing strong enough to drown out the half-yelling and music blasting of your peers.
Almost everything in the US has more sugar, food dyes, and high fructose corn syrup. Our peanut butter by default has sugar. Everyone lost their minds when a kids cereal removed the artificial coloring. We might have a slight problem
Honestly, there's a certain level of which I agree to and then there's a certain level to which I don't agree to. The fear-mongering of chemicals is what has led to massive problems in India with Monsanto... Had hippies taken five f****** seconds to learn What a GMO was Monsanto wouldn't have had the power to do what they did to India and this whole fear-mongering of GMOs food when is ridiculous. We could feed the world and be more prepared for global warming if we actually took the time to understand science instead of being afraid of words because they're big and we don't know what they mean. Also high fructose corn syrup is not the devil it's made out to be. It's just a mix glucose and fructose... It's f****** sugar made from cornstarch... You know what it's called in the UK in Europe glucose-fructose syrup (GFS) or isoglucose...
There are literally a lot of American products that can't be sold or have to be changed to be exported to europe because of the insane sugar content, but hey I understand food companies were allowed to essentially design the recommended nutrition in the US for some years so maybe that's why. Eating something with a lot of sugar is still bad, natural doesn't mean healthy, everything in the right quantities We do in fact already produce enough food to feed everyone, problem is it's badly distributed and most ends in the trash
@@welza001you are aware Monsanto has committed several crimes and their plans with gmo's was to control the market by selling all the seed, I am not against gmo's, god knows we need them but Monsanto and it's parent company bayer are dodgy at best and borderlin evil at worst, they are the guys that hid that their pesticide was toxic along with a lot of other things, I'd wager there was a deeper reason for that protest than gmo evil
@@welza001glucose fructose sirup is linked to diaabetes, while all carbohydrates are turned into glucose in our body, the version in which we consume it has an impact pn how fast our BG levels, and in response our insulin levels rise after consumption. Glucose-Fructose-Sirup is especcially problematic, because it can cause the BG levels rise so fast, that has two negative effects: 1. it creates a rush for the brain, with the potential for addiction, 2. the regulation response by releasing insulin is very fast, too and usually leads to an immediate decline of BG into the levels, were hunger sets in. Which means, that while you consumed high amounts of energy, you are energy starved right away. Because the energy was stored away in fat right from the start. This makes that sirup particularly unhealthy among carbohydrates.
@@welza001 It's not really scaremongering about "chemicals" in general but "Chemicals that have been banned for being too unhealthy in other countries while still beibg used in the USA because of lower costs increasibg profits" A very specific kind of chemicals
About the "heritage" thing: I still remember how much the normally very restrained Chancellor Angela Merkel laughed when Donald Trump told her he has german blood, too!
Yes because yuros, germ*ns in particular, are extremely racist and very into race-purity and the second someone leaves Europa they're immediately solely American to them. His grandfather was literally a German immigrant.
He claims he's Scottish too. His mom did immigrate from Scotland so he has more of a claim but I'd be amazed if he knows anything about Scotland other than golf
The UK introduced a Sugar Tax on soft drinks in 2018. So manufactures reformulated their contents to reduce the sugar content, to keep their prices down.
7:05 the stuff about Americans trying to make a “gotcha” moment using universal healthcare… As an American, I fucking want that healthcare! Like seriously, some Americans be very insane istg 😭
Wait till you find out the USA spends similar amount of people's tax on Medicare as some 'socialist' countries do too. But then we don't also pay for private health insurance. In Australia 3% of my income is Medicare levy. The USA Medicare is done in the form of payroll tax and is around 2-3% aswell. I remember looking awhile back and there is some places actually less overall too. We have a split system where after a certain income you do need private cover instead of government Medicare which to me seems a fair compromise. Also, treatment being free or nearly free means people have better health outcomes and more likely to have improved productivity and work more/longer which brings in more taxes to offset it too. I offered to help American friends move here in the past but sadly we are pretty big trip away lol.
My (Finnish) grandma fell at home, broke her back and went to hospital for few weeks (in an ambulance), then to rehabilitation center for few more. I pay granny’s bills, it was well under 600,- total. I happened to talk to an elderly American gentleman who was in quite similar circumstances, his bill was nearly 30 000,-. And more was to come, because his insurance wanted to send him back home without any aftercare support, poor guy couldn’t even walk! He expected to fall soon again at home and have another round with similar bill. I felt awful. While my grandma was sent home with a free walker, bathroom aid accessories, showering chair, different handles to grab on, two-way emergency button etc. We also had food service and nurse coming in 3 times a day, occupational therapist came once a week, podiatry nurse once a month... The aftercare was about 500,- per month and some of that got reimbursed by our social security. For 30k granny could’ve stayed in hospital for several years! In the ER! I cant help but feel like our government thinks more of us, I feel like Im not as disposable as a Finnish citizen. And that is really sad! Everyone should have the basic safety nets, they create so much stability and give unparalleled peace of mind. I want that for you too, especially after I read somewhere that Americans end up paying more for their healthcare than we who subsidize it with our taxes. Someone’s gotta feed them poor, struggling insurance companies.. so wrong. Ps. My latest doctor’s visit was 24€, my dentist was less than 30€ (simple filling with heart-friendly numbing agent). Root canals are about 50€. My mental healthcare is completely free, as are all labs, x-rays and other tests. We pay for our moderately priced meds, but after certain limit (about 500€/year) they are 2,50€ each. Life sustaining meds like insulin is partially paid by social security, I think it’s 75%. Just thought Id give you something to compare to.
@@jake8748 yep. We pay about the same percentage, to cover only a fraction of the population, for a lower standard of care. It would save money to switch to a single payer system, but so many people don't want that "because then people will get care I don't approve of". Like oh, you mean *like insurance?* To make that point more insane, it was said by my spawn points while I was recovering from a surgery they didn't approve of...that I had on their insurance. 🤦
Offt USA with freecare nope, wayyy to many people and you lot like like ypur freedom, a public healthcare is the goverment acutaly haveing a reason to care about health, so no becuse you all complian in the first round of corn starch tax.
True story: American here. Back in around 1950, my grandmother lived on a family farm. In order to haul cattle feed and other heavy supplies as part of her chores, her father let her drive his old truck at the age of 10. He would even let her go pick up the supplies from the farmer's market on her own, so this ten-year-old girl would drive the two mile trip on her own sometimes. So yes, we really did put literal kids behind the wheel, and I'm fairly confident some people today (definitely in Texas or Kansas) do the same thing, even if it's not strictly legal or smart.
I've seen that happen in Europe too. On roads that have next to no traffic, and at slow speeds, so it isn't really that dangerous so long as the child knows where the break is.
@@gernottiefenbrunner172 No, it still isn't safe. Children's brains aren't as developed and their bodies are smaller than what the seat was designed for. If they get into a dangerous situation, slamming on the breaks isn't a great solution, and kids are more likely to panic and get scared and shut down.
As someone who grew up in Kansas, this is still happening. There’s a farm a few miles from where I grew up on a really curvy road (you could hardly see around most of the turns), constantly I would see these kids that I knew were 13 and under manning these big tractors or the family trucks. They also managed to get to the (below 300 pop.) town pool without an adult… There have also always been so many children going up and down our streets on dirt bikes, four wheelers, or go karts. Not that bad, definitely better than a straight up truck or *tractor*, but it’s still concerning to see someone I know is like nine zipping down the 20mph road without a helmet on and not stopping at a turn. (There’s all of 3 stop signs in this town, literally just at the highway, but there are unspoken rules that those not on Main, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th stop for traffic.)
I'm from Indiana. Farm kids absolutely still drive beater trucks around the farms. They don't go on the roads but definitely all over their property. If your parents were more well off, you'd drive a 4 wheeler around. Somehow that was considered safer
If anyone is curious, the whole "I'm part ____" is leftover from a largely defunct system. And it is significantly less common now than it used to be. Being a country of immigrants from all over the world, identifying each other by nationalities and regions is how you found your community and helped determine where you settled your family on the new continent. We still have German Clubs (my local German club is 130 years old), Danish Brotherhoods, Italian Clubs etc etc. Other countries don't do this because all their people are right there and have been right there for centuries. Don't mean to be snarky or rude in any way. I've seen this be a head scratcher for a long time and thought sharing our perspective might help.
You're not being snarky or rude, and I don't think anyone has a problem with someone considering themselves an Italian American or smth, it's the people who think and ancestor coming from there nearly 200 years ago means they're just like someone who was born and raised in Italy that makes it annoying. ...then again I'm from such a small and unknown country, that if someone claims they're Lithuanian, cause their great grandma was one, we immediately agree and try to stuff them full of our national potato dishes 😁
it is pretty common to do this in Germany, too. But I am convinced, that this is a Nazi left over, during that time you had to bring evidence all your grand-parents were in fact german AND none-jewish and not part of any of the other ethnic groups in Germany that were hunted down. In fact it is a pretty modern development, from the last two decades, that children born to immigrants CAN get the german citizenship as a birth right under certain circumstances. Befor that you had to have at least one parent with citizenship, or be a member of the reckognised ethnic groups that are condidered german decendants based on historical reasons for that. Anyone else had to undergo a lengthy test to gain citizenship. And people in Germany often still refer to those citizens" with mixed or enterily none-german ancestry as "passport germans", meaning they are not actually German. Yeah, Germany is very racist...
Yeah it's so weird, in my country (the Netherlands) most cities even have free water taps outside in the city centre to refill your water bottle. Tap water in restaurants is free. If you don't ask for tap water you might get brand water tho.
I tell my immigrant bff's kid the same thing. The culture of their parents is important, but they are definitely Canadian, and it shows when they visit their family overseas.
I totally get if 9ne feels strong bonds if one got raised with as much of the cukture as they could teach while so far from home , but still one is differently socialised
@@SingingSealRianaYeah my dad is from Slovakia and I was taught the language growing up and I visit family every summer etc. but I was born in America. Though my family and friends in Slovakia sometimes tell me I’m Slovak but had to move 😂
I'm supposedly (I'm adopted, so it's just what my mom said the social worker told her) half Italian half Irish. I'm not sure I believe that because I was born in the US where basically no one is 100% Italian or Irish
I'm just second generation immigrant but even I see the difference when visiting the country my parents were born. How someone can claim being from a nation like 4-5 generations ago is beyond my logic.
As someone who resides in Canada I am often subjected to hearing about America. It's like having a wild show right next door that's interesting to watch but something you don't want to be involved in.
It's bad enough that the same crazy conservative values are invading our Country. Creeping in from our southern border. Even the sickness of climate denial.
@@annekekramer3835Hell, there are 7 grocery stores just 8-ish minutes away at most on foot in my town, and in a car its only like a minute away (with no traffic.)
I’m pretty sure Europe’s convinced everyone in America is stupid because they only meet tourists who can afford to fly over there. Otherwise they interact with people who are upvoted on the internet. That said I’m sure we, Americans are not really the best educated or smartest people in the world.
The organization that brought the accusation about her is controlled by a Russian oligarch. She beat a previously unbeaten Russian boxer, so the invention that she "failed a gender test" to DQ her and restore the Russian's record. She's also got a mid/avg record and isn't known to be a particularly hard striker so all the accusations re "hardest hit ever!!!" And "dominating sport" stuff is completely false
The Taiwanese woman whose name escapes me at this point went through the same experience. We need to ban Russia and China entirely from the IOC and both Games until they fucking act right
32:23 I'm the first person who will defend Marie Antonette from the allegations that she was the worst, but I will not say that ANY member (adult) of the French nobility was innocent. They were aristocrats who lived off the produce and work of their people and ignored the rest of the population. Maybe their children were innocent, but only the children. Yes, Marie Antoinette was first a victim and ostracised and then made an escape goat, but she lived a blissfully ignorant life in the privilege that came with marrying Louis XVI. And Louis was (apparently) more interested in crafting locks than in governing France. But both Marie and Louis were given a country already in shambles. And the nobility were the ones that used most of the money anyway.
And on top of that Marie Antoinette was thrusted into the French monarchical system as soon as she was born (her mother essentially sold her into the royal family of France) she in no way deserved to be villainised in the way she was
@@pd4165 ? I mean maybe that's another meaning, but a "scapegoat" is a person / thing / etc which is unfairly blamed or held responsible for something, usually purposefully. It's an old biblical term from a ritual where a goat had peoples sins symbolically placed on it as a form of absolution.
@@pd4165 You do know that you are talking about a "Judas Goat" and not a "scapegoat". Scapegoat was coined by Tyndale in 1530 ""goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement as a symbolic bearer of the sins of the people,". Thus someone blamed for the actions of others. But yes, in English "escape goat" is not a phrase.
Also: Marie Antoinette was a staunch supporter of monarchist absolutism and utterly opposed the revolution. The flight to Verennes, which if successful would have had Louis XVI flee to Austria and wage war on his own country, was her idea.
24:45 In the US, the baseline 'expected' tip is 15% and most restaurants have a notice that if you come in with a large group (usually 8 or more people) they will automatically ring you up for an 18% tip to the waiter.
Bald eagles sound so cute and goofy. You don't expect that kind of chirping from such a big bird. National bird shouldve been a turkey, though. They have a kind and humble shape
25:00 In America, the reason that we pretty much tip even if it wasn't good service is because waiters/waitresses are allowed to be paid under minimum wage and so most people feel real bad if they don't tip. It's stupid and an archaic thing from the great depression and it needs to change.
Isn't it only allowed to be under minimum wagge IF the difference is covered by the tips? And whether or not this is actually how it works the best thing to do imo would still be to simply not tip and pressure the goddamn government to change this backwards system that way.
I was told by a coworker that if you can’t afford to tip, you shouldn’t eat out. I told them that it’s not my job to pay them. Like yeah it sucks as I’ve had that type of job before but not everyone can afford to tip and everyone has the right to treat themselves to a fancy meal if they can't
@@AroWolfArts not tipping wouldn't change anything since it only hurts the employees and not the restaurant. The "tip" should be included with the price of the food. Restaurants can afford it but they choose not too because it saves them money. I also don't know the all of the facts about how they are able to pay less than minimum, just that they can.
@@PanicSilently the "tip" should be apart of the cost of the food, not a separate interaction so, yes if you can't afford to tip you shouldn't be eating out.
US road deaths per capita/per billion vehicle Km driven: 12.9/6.9. Germany: 3.7/4.2. It is almost as if having stricter rules on driving stops people dying.
Click is soo right, I love this channel because of the stupid low stakes arguments and hills people chose to die on none of it matters and that's why it's so funny
The observation that waitors in the USA gets their income from tips, and not from their employer, is baffling to me. What hinders a restuarant owner from just putting up a sign outside, stating that anyone can come in and serve the tables, if they pay the owner a small cut of the tips recieved?
That, plus hearing that many department stores in the forbid their cashiers from sitting for the WHOLE WORKING DAY (apparently they consider sitting down while serving someone rude???), made me realize, that while we once had something to live up to in USA, most things are actually better here. Not all, sure, but most. (I'd rather have an overpriced private healthcare system than the dumpster fire that killed my dad)
Nothing stops them, except, that this means they have no controlle over the quality of the service, in addition it would be easy for frauds cashing in on that, by pocketing the payment for the food in addition to the tip.
@@GusBriedprivate healthcare is not only over prized, it is also worse when compared to other systems. Your dad would not have been saved by maing the healthcare system private. It is more likely, he would have died just the same AND you were covered with the debts for his medical bills for the rest of your live. Because this is what happens in the USA.
Not everywhere, some states require waiters to be paid minimum wage plus tips, but others do not. I grew up in a tourist town so most waiters were paid 1-2$ per hour and depended on tips to live. (also that town had a lower minimum wage than the state mandate for some reason so good luck living on 7$ an hour!)
Unfortunately, despite Germans having such strict ways of getting a driver's license, many of us STILL SUCK at driving. Every area in Germany has one town in it known for producing crappy drivers. Because our numberplates contain letters telling you what town it's from, people KNOW immediately when a car is from doofus-driving-ville
Hahah yeah it's like that here too, there's always the one county that's known for it's stupid reckless drivers and you see on the license plate and just know. There's also a certain state that we'll definitely watch out if we see it on a tag.
exept for people like me. who made their dirver's licence in one town, got their car registered in a copletely different town (even in a diferent Bundesland) and then moved with that car after you didn't have to change the plate any more when registering the car in a new city. my licence plate confuses people where I drive. they have no idea where it's from. and it's usefull. because when I drive a route I don't know and have to change lanes way too late because I didn't see early enough that I have to turn right or somehting... people have pity. because my licence plate says I'm from some obscure small town and don't know how to drive in a big city when I've been living and driving in that big city for over 5 years now. I love my obscure small town licence plate.
Here in southeastern(ish) Bavaria, we actually have the idiom: "Gott schütze uns vor Wasser und Schnee, und vor dem Kennzeichen EBE." (translated: God beware of water and snow and the license plate EBE).
Don't feel bad. Traffic related death rates, per 100K population "Just get in the car and drive" - United states: 12.7 "Professional driving lessons" - Germany: 3.7
I don't plan to ever set foot in USA for a multitude of reasons, but in a theoretical situation where I somehow ended up in USA I probably would just survive on grocery food and not touch any kind of diner/café/etc with waitstaff. I do not remember enough math from school to confidentially add any percentages, I need the full price written out in plain numbers on the menu.
Well when I arrived there at first it was pretty annoying to me. One thing eventually to not bother about it is just add half of the price listed to see if I could afford it. Because it is a simple calculus and yes, it would be way more that what I would be paying in the end, but if I could pay for a price that had such raise, anything else underneath is was going to be fine.
the norwegian flag one is so common it’s absurd. I was one omegle a few years ago and this guy had the norwegian flag on his ceiling and i asked him “you’re norwegian?” he kept saying “what?” so i was like “that’s the norwegian flag” he then proceeded to argue with me that i was wrong and it was the confederate flag. This has happened multiple times 😭💀
Just think Norwegian flag have christian cross sympol on which is common for all nordic flags. The confederate flag might be red but it have a X sympol on it.
Regarding the passanger train lines, keep in mind that NONE of them in the US are high speed rail. I saw there is a cross country line that takes like a week. Which sounds like a nice travel vacation, but it not really conducive for actual travel.
Listening to this at the Paris train station waiting for my ~4h long trip back to Amsterdam for a whopping 35€. Lol I'm 100% convinced that if Americans actually realized how fucked they are, they would have themselves a french style change of government.
20:38 Technically, you can say that the internet began in the US with the ARPANET. However, there were many people from many countries who have made it what it is today. Notably, the World Wide Web was invented by a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, while working for CERN in Switzerland.
As a Canadian we don't drink water, we drink drink maple syrup, and we don't don't eat food (other than poutine) we eat maple leaves, hockey sticks(and pucks), and ice
My mother's cousing is named Bjørn. When visiting the states some years ago i had his name written down next to his number so I could call him about something arbitrary, someone saw the ø and went off about it being connected to white supremacists. Had to interrupt them with, "I'm Danish, it's a fucking letter."
Funnily it is also how in some administrative paper, in the US mind you, they differentiate between O and 0. When the font is too simplified, the letters are all in CAPS and the two looks too similar, they cross the 0 to indicate is it the number and not the letter O...
12:38 "Hey, that's fake news! I'm not an _immigrant;_ immigrants come _into_ the country! I'm an _emigrant,_ because I'm moving _away_ from the country!" /s
It's like when all of the British expatriots were surprised when they were deported back to Britain because they didn't realize that "expatriate" is just a pretentious word that the British made up for "immigrant from Britain".
That's a real issue in the US: long commutes. The average American worker spends like $7500/year getting to and from work, eating up hundreds of hours of their lives.
That reminds me working with a Chinese gentleman, where they write the date from largest to smallest. It was especially confusing in the early and mid 2000s to arrange the items by date.
Same here. When I do my accounting, I have to triple check everything when the day number is under 12, because from one bill to another it varies. I even have a sheet with reminder of which store use the dd/mm/yy and which one use mm/dd/yy and also the one that put the year first. Though the later is less problematic.
However if they don't make the amount of claimed tips, the employer is required to pay their wages to make up the difference. A slow week is still letting servers get paid. But in the end it's a gamble. You get the tips, but they're required to be claimed on your taxes making your paycheck less. And if you don't get tips, you get minimum wage. It's a trash system.
@@wdf70 It's really cute if you think that actually happens. Employers just say "oh they made enough" and no one does any checking. I've never worked for a single restaurant that ever actually supplemented income if you didn't make enough tips.
@@wdf70 agreed, however, most servers understand that they are paid by being tipped and the wage just covers taxes. Our income mainly comes from tips and far exceeds minimum wage
6:17 it’s actually very common (mostly in the south) for parents to let their 8-13 year old child drive all kinds of vehicles (cars, trucks, ATV, i’ve even seen motorcycles) . Usually not on main streets or highways, but often in empty parking lots and neighborhoods. And when is comes to “just pay attention and you’ll learn.” They mean when you’re inside of the car. Sit in the front passenger seat, and pay attention to what the driver is doing. Horrible way to learn, teaches you almost nothing, also puts pressure on 14-16 year old kids to immediately know how to drive.
Oh yeah no when I lived in Virginia (around the ages of 9-12) my mum would sometimes have me drive the truck on the farm. Me and my brother would also regularly drive the ATV around and I drove the ride-on lawnmower. Now in the northeast I had around 30 hours of theory instruction and we have to have I think 24ish hours of observed driving to get a license.
I remember a family member going off about how how we needed to cut off all the immigrants into Canada, and I was like "YOU are literally an immigrant, you're from England." To her credit that shut her up and she hasn't said anything like it since (to me at least) but she couldn't figure it out on her own.
@@alimbis Because Canada is where she lives. It'd be kinda stupid to see a British-Canadian advocating for Anti-Immigration in America. Like, what about Canada says "Can't be Racist"?
legit, unless you’re indigenous you’re probably an immigrant or descended from immigrants. also those “pesky” immigrants are the people keeping our healthcare system afloat because of gatekeeping from our medical schools and the underfunding of hospitals(especially rural ones) by our incompetent government.
"they all sound like the same language" In response to a picture of the west country!? The west country accent is _famously_ incomprehensible to speakers of most other forms of English. I dare the American who posted that comment to have an conversation with an average 70-year-old man from a west country village and attempt to understand anything he says.
Italian dialects often ARE actually different languages. Only thing in common is they all vaguely resemble Latin, except for Sardinian. That's just alien. Piemontese is more like French than actual Italian. And they also vary between provinces. You're all amateurs 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheSleepyowletOr the blonde guy from Brave, one of Merida's potential suitors. The MacGuffin guy. He had a Doric dialect from Scotland. I didn't understand a word he said 😂 but after watching the movie 100 times (it's one of my favorite Disney/Pixar movies) I can kinda understand him now. Would I be able to understand someone speaking to me with a Doric dialect in person? Ha! Nope.
11:00 as a Swede living in Houston: yes that intersection is insane. All the distances here between everything is vast and it is literally impossible to get around without a car. On top of that, there are barely any sidewalks and no bike lanes, and driving speeds even in neighborhoods are really fast, so walking or biking is basically a deathwish. The amount of daily exercise I get has greatly declined since moving here.
It's terrible. It's also part of the reason why America has such a big obesity problem. In Europe, you can walk or bike everywhere if you want and not everyone has a car because you don't need one in the cities. I'm not sure about in the small towns. In the US it's pretty much required to have a car. It's also because of all the additives in our food, the ingredients that other countries have banned, the fact that fast food is cheap, and many other factors.
Had an American friend who pretty much got their license in a box of cornflakes, then was able to use it as "proof" to get a driver's license in Germany. Rode in the car with her once. Feared for my life. Offered to drive us instead but she wasn't sure her insurance was okay enough for that... She didn't know how to use the clutch, the car screeched the whole way, I tried explaining the how but she wouldn't listen. She complained about having issues with spatial awareness and how everything was so tiny and stressful to manoeuvre through- in a fucking i10 😭 Eventually she stopped driving because she was afraid of it and just made her bf drive her everywhere
That's less her being dumb than you might think. Most people here drive automatics, and the roads in Europe, at least where I've been, are WAY smaller than what I'm used to in the States. Scarily so.
From the other side of the pond, US cars and roads seem enormous so it makes perfect sense that the opposite would be true. The issue lies in the fact that it’s waaaaay easier to go from narrow roads to big roads than the other way around 😂
Not to be that guy, (context: I am American and a non-driver for personal reasons) but have you seen the size of the SUVs and pickups that are all over the place in America? Genuinely terrifying.
6:50 The funny thing is that driving schools are privatised in germany and not state funded, that's why they're so expensive. If they were covered as education then you'd probably only have to pay a fraction of it
On the subject of the title... For much of the US's history, being 1% black meant you were legally black, so they didn't have to give you all those pesky rights you would get otherwise, such as the ability to vote. Somehow the lawmakers never thought about how that also meant that being white was incredibly fragile, and they believed it would be overwhelmed by any amount of other ancestry.
This is BS - you can't tell if someone is 1% black without a DNA test (only available in the last few years)....and WTF would that mean anyway? We're all descended from Africans (sub saharans) so it's just a case of how far back you're looking. And there are people who can prove their ethnicity that look like they come from another so if an outsider doesn't know then they will treat you according to their discriminatory taste.
@@AIHumanEquality I've read that in Texas you were legally black if you had 1/8 or more black blood. Compared to 1% this would often be feasible to verify using birth records. But practically speaking the legal definition would be ignored and people would just go on looks.
@@eDoc2020 1/8 would mean you have a lineage 8 times back that had a black relative. That's relatively easy to track even with older documents methods.
16:19 - because the US employees don't have any *_legally protected rights_* and their employers can insist they work at any time of day or night while in most of the rest of the world employers can't get away with that shit.
@@Ramtamtama You mean people can't *_admit_* that they fired the staff for being black, disabled or pregnant... which means the corpo filth have to make up another excuse for firing them.
@@Acedragoncakeeater yep. One of my partners co-workers got fired for being 5 minutes late...on her last shift before maternity leave. Aka they didn't want to have to pay her insurance for a few weeks if she wasn't working.
I come from Germany. We don't have internet/electricity or clean water. I regularly wash my laundry in the nearby river and take a horse-drawn carriage to the nearest market. We only drink beer and wine because clean water is too expensive. Sometimes we have to slaughter our pets in winter because we don't have enough to eat....
American: "we can choose what we want. Not what the governmemt thinks is best for us." European: "We just choose a government that does what we want it to."
13:45 My parents went so far down that rabbithole, that when they were watching the Olympics they would judge if a woman is trans by seeing if she has an adams apple. To this day they won't believe me when I try to convince them that the athlete wasn't trans, even with sources. Reason? "Their sources say something entirely different!" I'm so tired of this drama man-
1:25 the funny thing about this is that lots of Americans never drink water. The reason is, from my understanding, that water quality is inconsistent so water in a lot of cities “tastes bad” because of crap water quality.
The sad thing is that some of the stuff they put in city water to stop any dangerous substances from actually coming into contact with & dissolving into the water causes a buildup of sediment near the exit points during non-use & the way to fix it is literally just letting your faucet run for 10-15 seconds before you get your drink. But bottled water is also getting kind of hilarious to justify its own existence. My dollar store now sells regular spring water, sparkling water, flavored water, electrolyte water, caffeinated water & probiotic water. I was just looking at that last one, going "OK, if you put bacteria in the frigging water, what the hell is it surviving on until it gets into your digestive system?!?!?"
As someone that moved around and is very taste based, this is true. Texas water tastes a little sour due to limestone, NY got extra fluoride, Michigan is literally and I mean no joke, literally undrinkable, and Kentucky water tastes like hose water.
22:50 This show exists in Germany, Europe^^ It's one of the shows the public media produce online. (the Group of YT-channels affiliated with "funk", financed by the taxpayer) Also apparently unhealthy and unnecessarily sugared food = freedom (to get a fatty liver) Getting fat, without knowing why, is freedom :) The only "free people" are free to put crap in your food.
The thing about driver's license in Germany, apparently there was some data revealed recently that up to 50% of all folks performing the driver's test fail it for various reasons, in some German cities that is. Either because of impatience towards other drivers, lack of discipline, or sometimes even lack of being able to read comprehensively, or understanding German as well. So yeah, with how many stupid drivers we see on the street these days, let us remind ourselves that at least in Germany, it could be twice as many people (of the younger generation) than there already are driving around.
People often fail here in Ireland for the same reason [not the reading comprehension part but the other issues [and the younger the drive often the worse they are]. Unfortunately impatience on the roads is becoming more and more common as is the ''me first, stuff you'' syndrome.
the price problem of the driver lessons is not mainly because people fail but because you have to drive a certain amount of hours and take some special courses which is just driving during night and some other scenarios( they charge more for the special courses) . At last there still the thing that you a Guy from TUV that comes to your practical exam. the exam or to be exact that the guy evaluates you cost 250 euros without the usage fee for the car and Gasoline. I paid 5k for my licence in Germany and friend of mine who did his in France paid 2k so yeah a ''small'' diff.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYouDo you have any substantiation for this claim? Because I have a hard time to believe that impatience while driving is truly rising.
I aced the theory test first try with 0 mistakes but then proceeded to fail the practical exam 4 times. It was mostly just because of being to anxious and nervous and Im very glad I got the additional guidance I needed to feel comfortable in a car. I cant Imagine being American and just being thrown into the deep end.
On the one hand, I support their noble efforts. On the other hand, Americans desperately need to travel and experience first world countries more often.
@@Thrakir well to be fair, cross atlantic travel is eeeexpensive, for europeans as well as Americans. I've only been to the US once, and that was a work trip
When you drink a sugary drink in europe like coke or fanta and its allready so sugary that its thicker than water would be i cant imagine what double the amount of sugar would be like😂
In the US cars are essentially to getting around. Creating barriers to getting a license is quite literally restricting someone’s ability to travel in the vast majority of this country. That’s why those Americans are freaking out at such high barriers because they care forgetting that most of those countries with higher barriers also provide other ways of getting around that lacking a drivers license isn’t as restricting. Also the only kids learning to driver under the age of 15 are kids in real rural America. In farm land it is more of the norm that the child start learning as soon as their feet can press the pedals
Barriers are such a matter of perspective. I would freak out too if my freedom of movement came at such a high cost, but it doesn’t, it’s “just” my ability to drive a car. As soon as there are other ways to move around it’s not a reason to really freak out anymore.
8:15 it is patronizing. I'm part of this "Polish haritage" group on fb which is full of Americans of Polish descent. One time, they literally said they know Poland better than Poles bc their ancestors "left Poland before communism" 🤣
The international labor laws thing reminds me of Musk's current fight with Brazil. Like, dude. If your company operates in a country, its operations there are beholden to that country's laws. Doesn't matter if you're not based in that country.
I think he also said that posts on the social network formerly known as Twitter are covered under the First Amendment and therefore can't be used as evidence in British courts. He's wrong, and SNFKAT posts are used as evidence in British courts.
@@Ramtamtama Even in US courts, the first amendment doesn't mean that the posts can't be used as evidence. The guy is a complete idiot. I'm baffled as to how people try to play him up as such a genius. He just made some good investments with daddy's money, that's all. And apparently whoever was on his staff doing steering him away from his bad ideas got fired or whatever because he's just been a crap show the past few years.
I talked yesterday with an Australian that grew up in Nebraska. She said finding out how the rest of the world saw/ thought about the US and how most countries perceive them as a laughing stock most of the time was absolutely eye opening to her (if not mindblowing surprise). So basically, US Americans really don’t know that the rest of the world doesn’t see them as the greatest country ever after all…
they can laugh but the us has won the most nobel prizes .it has invented the majority of things thaat make life better.its also the place literaly millions are trying to get into legally and otherwise
@claudiameier666 part of the reason for that is there a lot more Americans with a lot more resources than a lot of other countries. That doesn’t mean non-Americans are less smart. And just because America is better than a lot of places people emigrate from it doesn’t mean it’s all that great.
Don’t forget, it’s also wayyyy bigger. The US holds 411 iirc, whereas UK has 137 and Germany 115. But there are way more than double the amount of people in the US than these two countries combined 🤷♀️
At one point I work for a telecommunications company with locations across the US, one state found out our minimum wage. All the employees demanded that they receive a higher wage because of it. They won.
@@kelleyg4894 Agreed, and I'd like to know which year we're talking about before I look for the month. Now we can all agree ISO 8601 is the best and only option.
@@kelleyg4894why do you read the date one part at a time💀😅 it’s not even like it’s a long sequence of numbers for which i could get reading in parts🤔 why don’t you just read the date and month both before you start going through your calendar? It’s just 4 numbers at most😂
1:52 fun fact, most olive oil comes from Spain. I think they were saying it sarcastically. Clearly Americans don't know what drink water fountains are.
I live less than a mile from where I work, and it's not safe for me to walk/bike. I would love to. Our cities are just not built around "walking". It contributes not only to our car culture, but our obesity rates (plus the ridiculous amounts of sugar), our homelessness (need a car to get to work. No car, no work, no money), etc. It's frustrating. We have a long way to go as a society, and it's difficult with so many people, but with all that said, I love the diversity of this country.
You're right. I'm Italian. For the last 30 years I've been sharing a single car with my husband with no problems, and I live in a small village in the countryside. Essential services are all within walking distance, for everything else I have a bigger town like 6 miles away that I could easily reach by bike if I wanted. People living in proper cities can count on public transportation, many don't even own a car. Living in a "cramped" country has its advantages 😉
16:29 it's because European countries actually enforce their labor laws and dont rely on the citizens suing the company for rights violations. And just like that minimum wage bozo you have to follow the laws for the place where the employee resides regardless of where the company is. Since there's no law in the US that says you cant schedule meetings outside of normal working hours, as long as everyone is getting paid to be there, then it's fine.
American here! My parents officially started letting me drive (in isolated or private areas) when I was 14. At 16 I took weekend classes and trained with a professional. Then took a written test (common sense and road law, etc.) Then I took a drivers test. (Edit- then I had a provisional license until 18, which mostly meant I couldn’t drive after about midnight.) We do not just Set people on the roads Unless you wait until you’re 18, can skip everything but the tests, in which case, yes, we do!
The real reason it was dumb for JK to go after that boxer is that JK could get her ass handed to her. Personally I try to avoid antagonizing people who could very obviously take me in a fight. It's called self preservation and it's worked for almost half a century for me!
I saw a tv drama , where the lead character's son , aged around 12-13 , was dressed in Navy whites, similar to the Village people. Her brother , the boys uncle , told her " well , he cant swing a punch. Just make sure he can run real fast" . Running real fast has worked for me. My brothers took care of the problem later :)
The reason why it was dumb for JKR to go after that boxer is because it’s morally wrong and it can be illegal. What JKR did was harassment, bullying, AND libel.
I think the one post talking about all the riots, rebellions, earthquakes and what not during summer in Europe just wanted to troll Americans to let them avoid coming here :D
when did you rizz last time
when i only drank beer and olive oil for 2 months straight
Your dad/j
when I got a bf I used my sigma rizz for that
This weekend
Never :D
As a Norwegian we don't drink water, we drink crude oil, and we don't eat food, we eat phosphate rocks. :)
I guess you mean mead
I thought it was fish and oil and fish oil.
Huh? I always thought you all drank mead from your rivers.
As a Quebecois from Canada, we don't drink water but maple syrup
As a French we only drink champagne, wine and pastis.
"Europeans do not drink water" meanwhile in Italy there are fontaines of drinkable water in the streets and in France every bar and restaurant are forced BY THE LAW to give you tape water for free if you ask
Tape water? Is that water that has a tapeworm in it? ,🤔
In Finland you can safely drink tap water all across the country. We have even signs in the airport toilets that you can fill up your water bottle strigh from a tap.
THIS!!! I loved the fountains all over Milano when I visited there, & I live in NE Scotland where our fresh water is still drinkable (but we're still raging at our water companies for polluting our seas so there's that). Anyway, all you have to do is ask for a free water & you will get one
@@elaineb7065 ikr saved my life in roma, it's crazy how fresh water is drinkable in your country the only time I dared to drink fresh water was in the mountains otherwise I will not take that risk I heard enough stories about turista 💀
It's probably a joke about the no ice in drinks 😆
As a German, I hate it when every summer Riot-Flood-Earthquake-Typhoon-Rebellion-Thieves-Scammer-Season hits... Only thing to do is to drown my sorrows in Beer and Olive Oil
You are lucky, I can only afford sunflower oil.
Yeah as a German, i can never pay any mind to all those news we get about some new devastating catastrophe that hit America, like Hurricane Catherina or something, because I'm so busy with the Riot-Flood-Earthquake-Typhoon-Rebellion-Thieves season.
If we can afford it this year we'll do a vacation to some calm, peaceful place, like westeros or something.
😂
@@Phiyedough As an American I refuse to believe that sunflower oil exists over in Europe that is an American plant /j
Is it just me or was this year's Riot-Flood-Earthquake-Typhoon-Rebellion-Thieves-Scammer season especially tough? 😔😔
The American 1% is so accurate. I am 50% German, have a German passport and i am fluent in German. But I did not grow up in Germany, so I never really considered myself German. Seeing Americans insist on their 8% German-ness is valid is so strange to me…
Yeah. I have an ancestor of RIGHT NOW, not 100 years ago, who is Russian, I grew up with some Russian tv and food and I speak some Russian, but I don't consider myself Russian.
I feel like it's only braggable if it's around 25% or more honestly. Any less than that and I mean, it's cool and that's valid but there's no substance to the brag. Unless you can tell stories about the family you're talking about, maybe place that brag on the bottom shelf.
@@anonomous8649 Yeah, I'd consider that the cutoff as well because if your grandparent was from the culture, they might have passed something down to you - foods, traditions, etc. you might have at least some actual connection to it. Anyone older than that and the connection is either fully gone or vaguely passed down through other non-natives.
Jeez, you have German passport. you know German language. Germany basically accepted you as one of them. Mixed heritage can be pain in the ass in terms of self identification, that's correct
If you have a german passport you are german
Thats the only requirement to be german, there are no other ones
I love how click will randomly pull out guns and swords
In America he probably would have been SWAT-ed.
Love you pfp
I love how we are not threatened by Clicky even a bit, he is so wholesome and cuddly, like a big fuzzy land shark 😻
He's slowly going insane, one day he'll start to crucify a plushie and we'll all think it's normal
@@El_chara Wait that's not normal?
The saddest part about the Houston intersection is that the population is most likely not zero. The homeless rate in the states is terrible.
😂 I mean that is baseless speculation, but I see your point.
The problem is some politicians try to pass laws to help the homeless then the voters say, “I am not paying anymore taxes. They are already way too high.”
That person’s legislation gets block by populists or conservatives, and that person loses their next election
And repeat.
@@mitchconner403 I’m not sure why it’s baseless or funny. I volunteer with the homeless population in my Texas city and I see where they sleep. You can’t drive anywhere without seeing encampments under overpasses.
@@mitchconner403 I agree it's speculation, but it's not baseless. Drive around any major city and you will find homeless people under the freeway ramps. It is relatively safe, people will leave you alone and unless there is an accident, it's pretty quiet except freeway noise.
@@LadyCaspar 🤣 you misunderstood me
To be more specific, I intend to say, “that is baseless speculation for that SPECIFIC intersection, but I see your point“.
I probably shouldn’t have used the word “baseless”. I don’t think it was a big deal. 😂
I just found it funny that you looked at a satellite image of a random bridge in Texas, and you were like,
“Yup that intersection has a high probability of having an unhoused person”, which could be said about nearly any public property.
When the post literally had nothing to do with the issue of homelessness, which is what I found funny
The post and discussion was just comparing the population density of two different areas 🤣.
Therefore, me laugh, and acknowledge the seriousness of the homeless issue. To have the cake and eat it.
And yes everyone, I know unhoused people live under freeway ramps.
I live in Seattle
@@mitchconner403 i got u. I was homeless myself at one point and I work with some of the most amazing people so it’s a touchy subject for me.
Fun fact: The bald eagle sound that everyone is familiar with is actually a Red-tailed hawk. This is because filmakers used to dub over bald eagles with red-tailed hawks due to bald eagles not sounding "magestic" enough.
Bald eagles are surprisingly anticlimactic aren't they?
When it comes to the voice department that is.
@@mimixe I prefer the sound of the Scottish National animal myself.
Yup. Bald Eagles voices are really confusing. They are beautiful birds and wonderful in flight. But....yikes! That noise!
@@ilpoomatili9549 yeah. They sound like seagulls with a slightly squeakier voice.
And this basically sums up everything about America tbh
37:35 you're forgetting that vampires are native to the Europe, and people need that garlic scent as a natural protection!
Hush 🤫 don’t remind the Americans that Transylvania is real! 😅
@@mihaelaparvu7585I would like to apologize on behalf of my country as a whole. The amount of downright insane people in this union is astounding.
the tipping culture in the US is because the businesses get away with underpaying their staff and expect the customers to pay wages. Weird
You can't blame them when the government exempts them from minimum wage laws. It's like slavery, if it was legal they would be keeping slaves too.
Don't the customers pay the wages in all restaurants?
What pisses me off in the US is being given a price that is just a baseline for what the ultimate cost is.
I went to pay for fathers day meal last weekend and the staff just give the total. Exactly what the menu said the price would be. Wasn't even a check or anything to write a tip on.
Seems stupid that the person serving me has their income affected by my ignorance of tipping normalcy or custom. The company should be the one paying the staff the value of their work and the revenue it brings the company, not the customers generosity or ability to give determining their wages.
Also if im tipping someone for good service, it's cash on the side so they aren't taxed or anything on it. It's a gift not income.
It's mind-blowing because I've seen plenty of Southern American restaurant owners ranting online about socialism--yet rely on it to maintain their business. because they wont pay over federal minimum wage ... $5/hour here is the usual rate to pay a server and they rely solely on tips to survive.
That's true, but it's still the culture, and it's important to respect the culture wherever you visit, including the USA
The Demi Lovato thing was edited and taken out of context. Demi had posted their DNA test results and the 1% African was listed at the end after several other ethnicities. Someone took that last line and edited it together with a picture of Demi visiting an African indigenous tribe and wearing their traditional clothing out of respect.
Thank you for clarifying 😊
Oh ok
What having too much free time does to a person with an obsession I guess😅
Makes it a lot better, but still pretty silly. Maybe because we're all too used to Americans being obsessed with personal genetics and too many claiming to be XYZ when they're just Americans. 😂
Fun fact - all humans share 1% genetics with a fruit fly 🪰 🤷
As an American, I wish it cost $2k, and 48 hrs of active training. Driving here is terrifying, no one knows how to drive, but we're forced to by how awful our city planning is. I was terrified how easy it was for my dumb 16-year-old self to be allowed to drive a two ton mini van at 70 mph.
People take driving for granted here, and it makes it more dangerous for all of us😅
"a two ton mini van" is this an oxymoron? Or is it the pervasive format of American cars?
A car with two tons is NOT a minivan, for goodness sake.
I've seen Americans drive. I don't want to be anywhere near them when they're on the Autobahn.
I got my license at 17 out of pity- I failed my test, but I lived right off a highway so I couldn't set foot outside my yard without a car
this is why the usa has like 5× the number of traffic fatalities than many countries in western europe
Like about 15 yrs ago Texas made driver's Ed a requirement for getting a driver's license or a parent can get at home course(basically homeschool driver's ed). And these people STILL don't know how to drive.
As a finnish person we dont have water, just ice that we have to lick but its so cold our tongues just get stuck
As an American, I am blown away by the fact that other countries actually care to educate young drivers. I didn't take drivers ed until I was 17, which is highly unusual as most kids take it at 14 or 15. My mom has driving related anxiety so she never took me out to practice in parking lots or anything. Most of the kids in my class had been driving since they were 10ish (I grew up in a semi-rural area with lots of back lands). My drivers ed teacher got mad at my mom for never having had me drive before and yelled at me for being scared about being behind the wheel for the first time. Not everyone has parents that can or will teach their kids so it really sucks that kids in America who don't get that early teaching end up so far behind and the system doesn't care. Like bruh, was i supposed to get my blind father to teach me instead??
Yeah over here even if you've been driving for years, you gotta do your mandatory hour in the practice parking lot + different types of drives like a night drive & in the rain with an instructor. Also you need to go through a safety training + a track specifically made to simulate dangerous conditions within 2 years of getting your license so you don't end up panicking when you slip on the ice irl
As a European, it baffles me that the government would trust your parents - random people with no qualification whatsoever! - to teach you how to drive and how to abide traffic laws. How is anyone gonna ensure that your parents are actually teaching you the correct rules? Your parents may have had their drivers licenses for 20 years or som but that doesn't mean they actually know traffic law or all the other things you learn in drivers ed in Europe.
Drivers ed here also includes a mandatory first aid class, it teaches you about cars, how to recognize defects in cars and what to do in different potentially dangerous driving situations. Not to mention our driving instructors are repeatedly tested to make sure they know all the current laws and also usually know how to drive not only cars but also large trucks, motorcycles etc.
Well, looking at road fatalities I can confidently say. I rather pay more and have saver roads. And I mean massively... USA has almost 12.9 (per 100k population). Italy and France are at 5, UK is at 2.9. Numbers don't lie.
@@Aghul I used to be a driving instructor in the UK.
Unlearning something is 13 times harder than learning so I spent a lot of my time correcting the BS that parents taught their kids.
You'd think I'd like it because it was an earner for me...but it was irritating more than anything, in a job where irritation is a huge factor in whether or not you stick with it.
The american system sounds insane! How can they let kids operate heavy machinery at the age of 16??? With no official driving instruction, in the middle of real traffic and real pedestrians. I would not want to drive a car in the middle of american drivers.
On the first story, it is actually ilegal for a restaurant business in Spain not to offer free water (tap that is) to anyone. It still occasionally happens (specially if they don’t have access to a tap) but yh this guy was just scammed into paying
Same in the UK and probably most of Europe
Well yeah, but I also live in Spain yet I smtimes get charged for water in *international* food chains. It happens rarely, and it’s not more than 1€
@@awesomekalin55 Yeah, germany is the odd one out here - restaurants in germany can offer free water if they want to, but they do not have to.
Yeah, same here in the UK. It's illegal for an establishment to serve alcohol without offering free tap water
That is because alcohol causes dehydration so there would be an actual possibility of killing someone @@UnwiseOwl1453
Nottinghamshire lass here; can confirm we DO drink water here, it comes from a tap in the kitchen and is generally called 'council/corporation pop'
In Holland we call it "gemeentepils" (municipality lager)😁
Ahh, a good ol' glass of council pop. We called it that in Birmingham too. If you got a bit of Robinsons or Ribena in it then you were lucky, now eat your fish finger sandwich because we're gonna sit down and watch Michael fucking Schumacher win again.
You'd be smart not to drink the tap water in a lot of US states. Maybe this is where their obsession with water comes from? Perhaps they ignore public drinking fountains in European countries for the same reason?
@@ojrmk1 do you still get PTSD when Germany play Italy?
@@Itcouldbebunnies I can't find it online as a common phrase that fellow Dutchies use, but my dad also called it 'Pomp du Champagne'; champagne from the water pump. Don't know where he got that from though :')
I live in Northern Ireland, once had to help a bunch of Americans in a Tesco in Belfast city centre by explaining that we called acetaminophen paracetamol , it's the same stuff and it's safe, and then explain what the £ and p meant on the price labels .The first one I get ,it's weird that it has a different name, but I cannot fathom travelling that far without even looking into how the currency worked , and it's not even that different to the US , they were thrilled to hear that tax was already included though. I do hope they survived the rest of their travels, it's like watching a nature documentary with baby animals struggling alone in the world for the first time.
i’m a server in the us - my hourly pay is $2.15 an hour, and i’m usually only on for 4/5 hours a night and a few nights a week because i’m a university student. we survive on tips - if we aren’t tipped, we don’t eat. it’s such a BS system, but it’s unfortunately something i depend on to live.
but other than that. god, it’s embarassing to be an american 😭
Would it be better for you , if you were paid $7 an hour with no tips? or $10 an hour? or $13 ? all with no tips. Just a guaranteed basic wage.
That is such BS. Why is the customer paying for your wage?!
@@phoenixflamegames1 you understand that we live in a capitalist hellscape and most employers over here want to pay their people as little as they have to, so when they have a position where they can literally get away with paying them $2 an hour, they're not gonna do more than that? Every time a pushback has happened to try and make the US a no-tip country, the restaurants that supposedly try it all magically go under and the experiment fails, which then leads to "Oh well we can't do that!". There are literally organisations over here that exist for the sole purpose of keeping us a tipping country. The people with the money who are the ones who own the restaurants like it like that. Places around here are take-away only during certain hours just to cut down on having to pay servers, but the "tip" during those hours becomes a mandatory fee that goes to the restaurant and not the staff.
It IS bs. It is so much bs.
Mate, I've worked in a McDonald's in Europe. I made like 7 euro and change/hour (without taxes, I mean) and it's not a lot...
How the heck they do expect for you to be able to afford a home and eat with that pay?!
As an American I'm... exceedingly embarrassed. I'd like to apologize to the world for any ignorant actions and statements of my fellow countrymen/women.
Don't worry, every country has a population of idiots. Ours are very noticeable but also the world enjoys putting us under the microscope. Most of us are good people who are victims of a government set up for corporations.
Don't worry my kind fella!Every part and every country in the world have this tipe of peoples.We in Hungary have drunks mostly(day and night),entitled peopels too,we have our politicans who are a liiitle interesting sort to say,and today I saw a woman and a man beating each othet on the tram station on brought daylight...So...don't worry sweetheart.Have a nice day❤
Of all the idiots around the world, american ones are my favorites.
As a human, allow me to sincerely apologize for all of history 🙏
If it helps, literally every single American I ever met was brilliant and wonderful, and the nutjobs who live their lives on social media all hold the Crazystan passport, regardless of birth.
We definitely have this kind of people in France too, there are uneducated people in every part of the world unfortunately…
The one thing that seems American specific is the food debate. I was astonished when I realised that the reason so many Americans said that bread was “bad” for you is because it sort of is in the US. Frankly, any food that doesn’t go bad for weeks seems highly sus to me 😅 wouldn’t eat it either tbh.
Fun Fact about Germany:
We recently got this cool new ticket which allows you to use all public transportation aside from fast trains for 49€ a month.
No limit on amount of trips or region, as long as its within Germany.
So, cars here are ACTUALLY an alternative.
God, I love the D-Ticket, especially since it's part of my student ticket, cause I can just hop into a train, and couple hours later I can eat dinner with my family
I loved being able to take the trains wherever I wanted to go when I was in Germany. I am always so jealous of the great rail system in Europe.
@@rajismyfavorite Same.
I mean that is if the train is even arriving 😅 deutsche bahn yknow? But the ticket really is great to get more people to use public transportation!
@@lostinmymind8147 yes, I know, I travel with them every day, to and from work, and they're always on time.
I genuinely have no idea what people are on about.
No doubt, the person who claimed there was no freedom in Europe might be upset to learn that ten European countries are ranked higher than the US for freedom.
How exactly do you measure freedom?
A relative once pointed out that a driving license is on the same level as a weapon license, given how much damage several tons of fast-moving steel can do to a squishy human being. So, sad as it may be, I'm not surprised that a certain category of Americans considers "just watch your parents, then sit down behind the wheel and do it yourself" a perfectly valid approach. After all, why should they be more careful with a vehicle than with the things that are purposefully designed for harming others?
Duuuude, you're totally right, this blows my mind, and Im def gonna use this comparison in the future
yeah. I'm terrified of driving, and don't, because I genuinely don't trust myself with what is essentially a weapon of mass destruction. You fall asleep at the wheel for one second, and you could drive into a crowd of people and suddenly you've killed a 10 people
It's so common. It's the way most people learn here
A number of states do require a bit more although unfortunately not all. Most assume that you will learn to drive during your high school years so high schools will typically have a course from several weeks to an entire quarter of the academic year covering the classroom info (rules of the road, etc). After completion, you take the written test which qualifies you for a learner's permit. Then most high schools will have driving practice. Some states require a certain minimum number of hours with a trained instructor (school) and another minimum with other licensed adults (usually parents). [In Illinois , we had to keep a log of the hours driven with our son.] Even after the road test is passed and the license is issued, many states put additional requirements on drivers until they reach 21 or some other benchmark.
It's still not as rigorous as a German license but, if you count the tax dollars going into the school system for driver education services, it's not as cheap as the person commenting believed either.
I think the primary issue is that you lot have absolutely MONSTROUS vehicles, even when they aren’t needed, especially SUVs and Utes. The trouble is, a big heavy SUV that’s got a bonnet about as high as the top of an average adult’s shoulders and weighs something like two proper tonnes and is almost entirely made of heavy metals, (4.000 kilos) is going to do a damn sight more damage to a pedestrian than a low, little hatchback with fibreglass body panels, adequate brakes, and bonnet around waist height. Worst case scenario, the person rolls over the car, but that’s a massive deal safer than going under one.
That, and your licences of the basic class are so laid back that you can practically drive a full on lorry without formal training! Up to a 4500 class, which is, mind you, at that point a commercial vehicle!
That’s the trouble: not vehicles as a concept, but the fact that yank tanks are just so big, heavy, and hard.
Click actually using brain rot is terrifying 💀💀
_Dies of fucking cringe_ (metaphorically)
@@speedstick8981 real lmao
your name is amazing
@@vixithespiderling tysm!
@@thegaychicken ofc!!!
As an American the intro is 100% accurate to how Americans normally interact with each other.
Yes, the lunacy of it is hilarious
The sheer madness of it can only be American
As an American, I’d like to inform Sir Cliccy that here in America insanity isn’t just a common occurrence, that shit is BAKED INTO OUR DNA!!!!! And we get off on the reactions of non-Americans to our madness
Hell yeah brotha!
*fires off rifle in celebratory salute and downs my cup*
Perfect way to start another freedom morning in 'Murica.
I met an American (I'm canadian) online and the first time we video called eachother to hang out the first thing I seen was the confederate flag and multiple firearms and ammunition not properly stored away safely. Dude was gun obsessed and it was very consurning lol
"To a layman all British accents sound the same"
Bro. I have lived in the UK all my life. I am a brit. If I spend a day or so travelling to another part of the country, I can run in to people with accents so broad and far removed from my own that I struggle to understand them. My husband has to explain what his dad says to me because I can't understand him...
“Non-Americans get your own internet” they proudly said on the world wide web, which was created by a British man at CERN in Switzerland 😂
As a kid I dreamt to live in America but growing up and learning more english made me fucking hate it damn
So much delusional takes come from America (no hate to American people just an unfortunate tendency with delusional people being from there often)
Lo and behold, the mentally deficiencies of the world
Americans think that anything which uses English or is in English is theirs 💀
@@StelFury Technically no single man made the internet or world wide web. It was an international collective effort.
@@AIHumanEqualityamerican spotted
American who tries very hard not to be identified as one of "those Americans" when I travel. We experience a fair amount of these weird/xenophobic/nationalistic "our country is the best cuz 'Murica," type behaviors, but I always forget how bad that looks to the rest of the world until I'm outside the US. I can assure you we're not all like this, though! Some of us just try to be normal!
I wouldn't worry too much about being judged when abroad. I think most people appreciate that it's the ones that never leave their own country that have the arrogant attitude.
I'd even say most of us are normal people. We just breed very loud idiots here
As long as you’re a decent human being and the person in front of you is too, everything should be fine. We have those prejudiced people too and they treat any foreigner like crap 🙄
And let’s not forget that differences in culture have their impacts too. We, the French, are seen as rude for many things that just aren’t culturally received as rude by anyone here.
Generally I find that ppl judge on what you actually do or how you actually behave. Not on what country your from. Plenty of assholes all over the globe, not all or even most are american. They just happe to be the loudest and most insistent which makes them stand out more.
Now, if you were covered in American flags and acting insulted that nobody speaks English while travelling to a country that doesn't primarily speak english then you get the eye rolls and the "damn American tourist" sigh. (Yes I've seen that happen. And not just from Americans. I will never understand why anyone from any country goes to a foreign place without attempting to learn some basic phrases and words while fully expecting everyone to bow down to their inability to speak at other language then their own. Even if you butcher pronunciation or grammer most will appreciate the effort and probably try to correct you only as a way of helping you improve. I've literally ended up having entire language lessons that way because someone saw that I was trying and was willing to help me expand my vocabulary. Course, gotta have a sense of humor too. To proposition an idea for the evening is much different then to *proposition* some evening entertainment. Wrong verb changes the whole meaning, never trust the english to Swedish dictionary. At least everyone had a laugh.
But to be fair, there are a lot of misconceptions about the US.
“Where are you from?”
“Minnesota.”
“Oh, America?”
“Yeah. It’s in north.. next to Canada.”
“Why do Americans say which state they’re from instead of just “America”?”
“Oh. Well, they all have their own laws and culture. Slang, accents, traffic laws, taxes, liquor sales can all change the instant you cross a border.”
“Really?!”
“Yeah. Think about how huge America is. Things are gonna change. What the state produces is going to affect the economy, the weather… mini countries.”
I'm an American and find the fact that we basically _have_ to tip because no one is paid fairly completely bonkers. Apparently, it would cause the collapse of the country if we paid people properly.
Personally, I'd say if the system can't handle to pay their workers, then the system is MEANT to collapse.
@@Aghul Right? People are so worried about fast food costing more that they don't realize the prices are going up anyway but wages are the same.
I dont think it would collapse. If the US would restructure their system to that of an European democracy, i believe it would work. The only thing that would collapse is the constant looting performed by the ultra rich. Their utopia would collapse.
(35:00) That is also illegal in Sweden.
You can't have fees directly tied to products or services be added afterwards. The price must list the full non-optional cost for that item. If 20 % tip is mandatory, then it's not optional, and must be included.
This is why VAT/GST has to be included in the prices too.
Also the "Iraq first, then France" bumper sticker is likely from when Americans were mad France redused to join them for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They even called french fries freedom fries for a while because of it... it was a special time
Do not forget, how they bought french wine to chuck it down the drain on the street 😂
Yeah that happened. It was really dumb too, french toast and French fries aren't really french. It was ultra patriotism on steroids.
I remember that time. All Americans were mad at France because it didn’t want to get along with the invasion of Iraq and now ask any American and see how hard it is to find one who still thinks it was a good idea. Most say they were against all along.
Turns out the French were right after all but I have never seen Americans apologize for all the insults they hurled at the French back then.
@@Dekubud I still say freedom fries ironically.
Not to defend ultra patriotism, the war in Iraq or anything else but... Why did we go to Veitnam again?
Oh yeah, they pushed the French out of the country.
Why were two American Naval vessels of the coast of Veitnam to be hit by missiles? Cause France requested our aid... I don't think they get to claim moral high ground on an unwinnable 20 year war that roped other nations into it.
A big part of why getting a license has to be cheaper in America is because the public transportation system is absolute dogshit, and the country is not built for functioning without personal transportation. I had a European GF who told me that she could just walk to her local grocery store, or take a bus to places further away, where as when I lost my license due to seizures, I had to either walk 5km to and from the nearest grocery store or hire a taxi.
Akthually
Cities in the US were bulldozed for the car, not built for the car
I can confirm what your girlfriend said.
I live in one of the biggest cities in my country. I don't own a car, I don't need to. We have a good transportation system, and I can get everywhere within an hour or so. And for groceries, I need 5minutes on foot, and I'm in the store :)
Can i steal your ciry rq? @@duszekanyzratak
Do you know why your transportation system is so bad?
It wasn't once upon a time in a lot of places.
But than it was privitized and guess who bought it?
The car industry.
The result is actualy very predictable.
I guess you would have to walk long distances in some part of the country here too. But in any city with more than 2000 habitants there is a grocery store accessible by foot or public transport of some kind thankfully.
"just get in the car and drive" is pretty much how driving is taught here in the US unfortunate
And it sometimes shows sadly
My friend was taught by her mom that you could go whatever speed you wanted in the "slow lane" on the freeway. Cue her driving us on our way to see friends... At 40mph. No license.
We convinced her to take lessons (which she didn't know was a thing) and get her license. She's a great friend, and I'm relieved we found out before she could have gotten in an accident. Parents passing their misconceptions can be dangerous, especially when it comes to driving. It's wild.
I live in the state of Louisiana. One of the worst states in the Union for drivers. People find their liscense in a cracker jack box, I swear
@@iasomnium919A lot of people think you can just go however fast you want on country roads or smaller highways. Pulling out of my driveway there's a huge curve where you can't see oncoming traffic until it's right up on you. Normally this wouldn't be a problem if people obeyed the speed limit and went 35MPH, but instead they explode around that corner going 60MPH all the damn time. I've had multiple near-accidents pulling out of the driveway where people just Magically appear on top of me because they're going too fast. Couple cases of road rage too where they honk their horns, yell, and follow me as if it's my fault.
I'm used to driving mopeds, and comfortable driving small cars.
I ride with my brother on long trips for work where he drives 6+ hours from hotel to hotel for the next job site... He drives a Tahoe, with a lift kit and massive tires. Big is an understatement when my 5' 8" ass self has to climb in to it.
I am in no way comfortable with the idea of driving it. Everyone around me: "Just get in and you'll learn quickly, its not that bad. The best place to learn is on the highway'
There was actually an interesting experiment where they put three men who all believed they were Jesus together in a room to see what would happen. Conclusion: they all continued to believe they were the true Jesus but they also all came to believe that the other two were crazy.
Interesting, putting three people with the same delusion in the same room didn’t make those people realize that they were in fact delusional. You can’t make someone gain insight into their own situation if they don’t have that capacity to begin with.
28:30 As an American teenager with sensitive hearing AND noise-canceling headphones, there is nothing strong enough to drown out the half-yelling and music blasting of your peers.
Almost everything in the US has more sugar, food dyes, and high fructose corn syrup. Our peanut butter by default has sugar. Everyone lost their minds when a kids cereal removed the artificial coloring. We might have a slight problem
Honestly, there's a certain level of which I agree to and then there's a certain level to which I don't agree to. The fear-mongering of chemicals is what has led to massive problems in India with Monsanto... Had hippies taken five f****** seconds to learn What a GMO was Monsanto wouldn't have had the power to do what they did to India and this whole fear-mongering of GMOs food when is ridiculous. We could feed the world and be more prepared for global warming if we actually took the time to understand science instead of being afraid of words because they're big and we don't know what they mean. Also high fructose corn syrup is not the devil it's made out to be. It's just a mix glucose and fructose... It's f****** sugar made from cornstarch... You know what it's called in the UK in Europe glucose-fructose syrup (GFS) or isoglucose...
There are literally a lot of American products that can't be sold or have to be changed to be exported to europe because of the insane sugar content, but hey I understand food companies were allowed to essentially design the recommended nutrition in the US for some years so maybe that's why.
Eating something with a lot of sugar is still bad, natural doesn't mean healthy, everything in the right quantities
We do in fact already produce enough food to feed everyone, problem is it's badly distributed and most ends in the trash
@@welza001you are aware Monsanto has committed several crimes and their plans with gmo's was to control the market by selling all the seed, I am not against gmo's, god knows we need them but Monsanto and it's parent company bayer are dodgy at best and borderlin evil at worst, they are the guys that hid that their pesticide was toxic along with a lot of other things, I'd wager there was a deeper reason for that protest than gmo evil
@@welza001glucose fructose sirup is linked to diaabetes, while all carbohydrates are turned into glucose in our body, the version in which we consume it has an impact pn how fast our BG levels, and in response our insulin levels rise after consumption. Glucose-Fructose-Sirup is especcially problematic, because it can cause the BG levels rise so fast, that has two negative effects: 1. it creates a rush for the brain, with the potential for addiction, 2. the regulation response by releasing insulin is very fast, too and usually leads to an immediate decline of BG into the levels, were hunger sets in. Which means, that while you consumed high amounts of energy, you are energy starved right away. Because the energy was stored away in fat right from the start.
This makes that sirup particularly unhealthy among carbohydrates.
@@welza001 It's not really scaremongering about "chemicals" in general but
"Chemicals that have been banned for being too unhealthy in other countries while still beibg used in the USA because of lower costs increasibg profits"
A very specific kind of chemicals
About the "heritage" thing: I still remember how much the normally very restrained Chancellor Angela Merkel laughed when Donald Trump told her he has german blood, too!
And then the media _did_ dig up some of his distant German relatives, and they wanted *nothing* to do with him! The entire thing was hilarious.
Yes because yuros, germ*ns in particular, are extremely racist and very into race-purity and the second someone leaves Europa they're immediately solely American to them. His grandfather was literally a German immigrant.
@@TheSleepyowlet I feel so bad for them. Imagine becoming known as Trumps relatives
He claims he's Scottish too. His mom did immigrate from Scotland so he has more of a claim but I'd be amazed if he knows anything about Scotland other than golf
I wish Germany had kept his family.
The UK introduced a Sugar Tax on soft drinks in 2018. So manufactures reformulated their contents to reduce the sugar content, to keep their prices down.
7:05 the stuff about Americans trying to make a “gotcha” moment using universal healthcare…
As an American, I fucking want that healthcare! Like seriously, some Americans be very insane istg 😭
Yeah I never understood that. Like are americans HAPPY that giving birth can send you bankrupt before you even get home?
Wait till you find out the USA spends similar amount of people's tax on Medicare as some 'socialist' countries do too. But then we don't also pay for private health insurance.
In Australia 3% of my income is Medicare levy. The USA Medicare is done in the form of payroll tax and is around 2-3% aswell. I remember looking awhile back and there is some places actually less overall too.
We have a split system where after a certain income you do need private cover instead of government Medicare which to me seems a fair compromise.
Also, treatment being free or nearly free means people have better health outcomes and more likely to have improved productivity and work more/longer which brings in more taxes to offset it too.
I offered to help American friends move here in the past but sadly we are pretty big trip away lol.
My (Finnish) grandma fell at home, broke her back and went to hospital for few weeks (in an ambulance), then to rehabilitation center for few more. I pay granny’s bills, it was well under 600,- total. I happened to talk to an elderly American gentleman who was in quite similar circumstances, his bill was nearly 30 000,-. And more was to come, because his insurance wanted to send him back home without any aftercare support, poor guy couldn’t even walk! He expected to fall soon again at home and have another round with similar bill. I felt awful. While my grandma was sent home with a free walker, bathroom aid accessories, showering chair, different handles to grab on, two-way emergency button etc. We also had food service and nurse coming in 3 times a day, occupational therapist came once a week, podiatry nurse once a month... The aftercare was about 500,- per month and some of that got reimbursed by our social security. For 30k granny could’ve stayed in hospital for several years! In the ER!
I cant help but feel like our government thinks more of us, I feel like Im not as disposable as a Finnish citizen. And that is really sad! Everyone should have the basic safety nets, they create so much stability and give unparalleled peace of mind. I want that for you too, especially after I read somewhere that Americans end up paying more for their healthcare than we who subsidize it with our taxes. Someone’s gotta feed them poor, struggling insurance companies.. so wrong.
Ps. My latest doctor’s visit was 24€, my dentist was less than 30€ (simple filling with heart-friendly numbing agent). Root canals are about 50€. My mental healthcare is completely free, as are all labs, x-rays and other tests. We pay for our moderately priced meds, but after certain limit (about 500€/year) they are 2,50€ each. Life sustaining meds like insulin is partially paid by social security, I think it’s 75%. Just thought Id give you something to compare to.
@@jake8748 yep. We pay about the same percentage, to cover only a fraction of the population, for a lower standard of care. It would save money to switch to a single payer system, but so many people don't want that "because then people will get care I don't approve of". Like oh, you mean *like insurance?* To make that point more insane, it was said by my spawn points while I was recovering from a surgery they didn't approve of...that I had on their insurance. 🤦
Offt USA with freecare nope, wayyy to many people and you lot like like ypur freedom, a public healthcare is the goverment acutaly haveing a reason to care about health, so no becuse you all complian in the first round of corn starch tax.
True story: American here. Back in around 1950, my grandmother lived on a family farm. In order to haul cattle feed and other heavy supplies as part of her chores, her father let her drive his old truck at the age of 10. He would even let her go pick up the supplies from the farmer's market on her own, so this ten-year-old girl would drive the two mile trip on her own sometimes.
So yes, we really did put literal kids behind the wheel, and I'm fairly confident some people today (definitely in Texas or Kansas) do the same thing, even if it's not strictly legal or smart.
I've seen that happen in Europe too. On roads that have next to no traffic, and at slow speeds, so it isn't really that dangerous so long as the child knows where the break is.
@@gernottiefenbrunner172 No, it still isn't safe. Children's brains aren't as developed and their bodies are smaller than what the seat was designed for. If they get into a dangerous situation, slamming on the breaks isn't a great solution, and kids are more likely to panic and get scared and shut down.
As someone who grew up in Kansas, this is still happening. There’s a farm a few miles from where I grew up on a really curvy road (you could hardly see around most of the turns), constantly I would see these kids that I knew were 13 and under manning these big tractors or the family trucks. They also managed to get to the (below 300 pop.) town pool without an adult…
There have also always been so many children going up and down our streets on dirt bikes, four wheelers, or go karts. Not that bad, definitely better than a straight up truck or *tractor*, but it’s still concerning to see someone I know is like nine zipping down the 20mph road without a helmet on and not stopping at a turn. (There’s all of 3 stop signs in this town, literally just at the highway, but there are unspoken rules that those not on Main, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th stop for traffic.)
I'm from Indiana. Farm kids absolutely still drive beater trucks around the farms. They don't go on the roads but definitely all over their property.
If your parents were more well off, you'd drive a 4 wheeler around. Somehow that was considered safer
wait that not normal? (yes I'm a Texan)
If anyone is curious, the whole "I'm part ____" is leftover from a largely defunct system. And it is significantly less common now than it used to be. Being a country of immigrants from all over the world, identifying each other by nationalities and regions is how you found your community and helped determine where you settled your family on the new continent. We still have German Clubs (my local German club is 130 years old), Danish Brotherhoods, Italian Clubs etc etc. Other countries don't do this because all their people are right there and have been right there for centuries.
Don't mean to be snarky or rude in any way. I've seen this be a head scratcher for a long time and thought sharing our perspective might help.
You're not being snarky or rude, and I don't think anyone has a problem with someone considering themselves an Italian American or smth, it's the people who think and ancestor coming from there nearly 200 years ago means they're just like someone who was born and raised in Italy that makes it annoying.
...then again I'm from such a small and unknown country, that if someone claims they're Lithuanian, cause their great grandma was one, we immediately agree and try to stuff them full of our national potato dishes 😁
@@GusBried I'm not Lithuanian but I do like potatoes 🥺
it is pretty common to do this in Germany, too. But I am convinced, that this is a Nazi left over, during that time you had to bring evidence all your grand-parents were in fact german AND none-jewish and not part of any of the other ethnic groups in Germany that were hunted down. In fact it is a pretty modern development, from the last two decades, that children born to immigrants CAN get the german citizenship as a birth right under certain circumstances. Befor that you had to have at least one parent with citizenship, or be a member of the reckognised ethnic groups that are condidered german decendants based on historical reasons for that. Anyone else had to undergo a lengthy test to gain citizenship.
And people in Germany often still refer to those citizens" with mixed or enterily none-german ancestry as "passport germans", meaning they are not actually German. Yeah, Germany is very racist...
@@GusBried As a potato speaker I would like some rekommandations for potato dishes.
I have Irish and Italian ancestry, but I'm very much American
“Almost impossible to get free water”
my bro. Europe is like the biggest tourist destination ever you think they won’t have free water 😭
Also, people live here. Allegedly.
@@qwormuli77 no didnt you hear no one in Europe is real the aliens made them to spy on us 😱😱😱
(saying this as an italian)
Yeah it's so weird, in my country (the Netherlands) most cities even have free water taps outside in the city centre to refill your water bottle. Tap water in restaurants is free. If you don't ask for tap water you might get brand water tho.
@@floreya67 yeah like I lived in Italy for a while and there were so many water taps at parks and other places
7:55 My last Italian ancestor was my paternal grandmother, that doesn't make me Italian. I was born in Canada, I'm Canadian.
I tell my immigrant bff's kid the same thing. The culture of their parents is important, but they are definitely Canadian, and it shows when they visit their family overseas.
I totally get if 9ne feels strong bonds if one got raised with as much of the cukture as they could teach while so far from home , but still one is differently socialised
@@SingingSealRianaYeah my dad is from Slovakia and I was taught the language growing up and I visit family every summer etc. but I was born in America. Though my family and friends in Slovakia sometimes tell me I’m Slovak but had to move 😂
I'm supposedly (I'm adopted, so it's just what my mom said the social worker told her) half Italian half Irish. I'm not sure I believe that because I was born in the US where basically no one is 100% Italian or Irish
I'm just second generation immigrant but even I see the difference when visiting the country my parents were born. How someone can claim being from a nation like 4-5 generations ago is beyond my logic.
As someone who resides in Canada I am often subjected to hearing about America. It's like having a wild show right next door that's interesting to watch but something you don't want to be involved in.
It's bad enough that the same crazy conservative values are invading our Country. Creeping in from our southern border. Even the sickness of climate denial.
Yup! They have WAY too many broken bottles flying and somebody just set a trashbin on fire! 😂
How was quarantine for Canada?
@@Funsheeps If you mean the lockdowns they were fine. They were implanted very smoothly and in a way that didn't impede greatly on daily lives.
That’s fair.
Can confirm, Italy is definitely NOT cramped. Just livable. 🤣
I would not like to spend 2 hours in my car just to buy groceries.
Can confirm. I already have 2 grocery stores within 1 km, 2 more within 3 km and 5 more within 15 km.
@@annekekramer3835Hell, there are 7 grocery stores just 8-ish minutes away at most on foot in my town, and in a car its only like a minute away (with no traffic.)
0:17 Germany 1943.
I'm an American, and I even shake my head at this shite. I'm ashamed to be part of this country more often than not.
I’m pretty sure Europe’s convinced everyone in America is stupid because they only meet tourists who can afford to fly over there. Otherwise they interact with people who are upvoted on the internet.
That said I’m sure we, Americans are not really the best educated or smartest people in the world.
Fucking same
@@heatherjohnson5345 Many do. Most Americans are normal people. It's the extreme ones that make the country look bad.
pretty sure we’re all ashamed to be americans 😭😭😭😭😭
Reason that I have a rez dog for company.
The boxer Imane Khelif is from Algeria. Accusing her to be transgender could be very dangerous for her
I hope she wins the lawsuit.
I wish more people would talk about this when they talk about Imane.
The organization that brought the accusation about her is controlled by a Russian oligarch. She beat a previously unbeaten Russian boxer, so the invention that she "failed a gender test" to DQ her and restore the Russian's record. She's also got a mid/avg record and isn't known to be a particularly hard striker so all the accusations re "hardest hit ever!!!" And "dominating sport" stuff is completely false
The Taiwanese woman whose name escapes me at this point went through the same experience. We need to ban Russia and China entirely from the IOC and both Games until they fucking act right
HE is inter6
32:23 I'm the first person who will defend Marie Antonette from the allegations that she was the worst, but I will not say that ANY member (adult) of the French nobility was innocent. They were aristocrats who lived off the produce and work of their people and ignored the rest of the population. Maybe their children were innocent, but only the children.
Yes, Marie Antoinette was first a victim and ostracised and then made an escape goat, but she lived a blissfully ignorant life in the privilege that came with marrying Louis XVI. And Louis was (apparently) more interested in crafting locks than in governing France.
But both Marie and Louis were given a country already in shambles. And the nobility were the ones that used most of the money anyway.
And on top of that Marie Antoinette was thrusted into the French monarchical system as soon as she was born (her mother essentially sold her into the royal family of France) she in no way deserved to be villainised in the way she was
I know I shouldn't be that guy but it's scapegoat. Although the mental image of an "escape goat" is funny.
@@pd4165 ? I mean maybe that's another meaning, but a "scapegoat" is a person / thing / etc which is unfairly blamed or held responsible for something, usually purposefully. It's an old biblical term from a ritual where a goat had peoples sins symbolically placed on it as a form of absolution.
@@pd4165 You do know that you are talking about a "Judas Goat" and not a "scapegoat". Scapegoat was coined by Tyndale in 1530 ""goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement as a symbolic bearer of the sins of the people,". Thus someone blamed for the actions of others.
But yes, in English "escape goat" is not a phrase.
Also: Marie Antoinette was a staunch supporter of monarchist absolutism and utterly opposed the revolution. The flight to Verennes, which if successful would have had Louis XVI flee to Austria and wage war on his own country, was her idea.
24:45 In the US, the baseline 'expected' tip is 15% and most restaurants have a notice that if you come in with a large group (usually 8 or more people) they will automatically ring you up for an 18% tip to the waiter.
The hawk instead of eagle sound hurts my heart. Poor eagles, being told "nah, you sound weird, we're dubbing you with a sexier sound."
The national bird was almost the Turkey.
@@foureyedelf6151 It was! And you can't replace turkey sounds with hawk screams. I mean, I guess you could. But it would be weird.
Bald eagles sound so cute and goofy. You don't expect that kind of chirping from such a big bird.
National bird shouldve been a turkey, though. They have a kind and humble shape
@@sensiblesentimental turkeys are friend shaped :D but they're kinda intimidating ngl x3
The hawk sounds scared my cat
25:00 In America, the reason that we pretty much tip even if it wasn't good service is because waiters/waitresses are allowed to be paid under minimum wage and so most people feel real bad if they don't tip. It's stupid and an archaic thing from the great depression and it needs to change.
I guess I should have continued watching a little longer lol
Isn't it only allowed to be under minimum wagge IF the difference is covered by the tips?
And whether or not this is actually how it works the best thing to do imo would still be to simply not tip and pressure the goddamn government to change this backwards system that way.
I was told by a coworker that if you can’t afford to tip, you shouldn’t eat out. I told them that it’s not my job to pay them. Like yeah it sucks as I’ve had that type of job before but not everyone can afford to tip and everyone has the right to treat themselves to a fancy meal if they can't
@@AroWolfArts not tipping wouldn't change anything since it only hurts the employees and not the restaurant. The "tip" should be included with the price of the food. Restaurants can afford it but they choose not too because it saves them money. I also don't know the all of the facts about how they are able to pay less than minimum, just that they can.
@@PanicSilently the "tip" should be apart of the cost of the food, not a separate interaction so, yes if you can't afford to tip you shouldn't be eating out.
US road deaths per capita/per billion vehicle Km driven: 12.9/6.9. Germany: 3.7/4.2.
It is almost as if having stricter rules on driving stops people dying.
Its more like proper driving education, instead of passing down bad driving habits from generation to generation, than stricter rules.
Click is soo right, I love this channel because of the stupid low stakes arguments and hills people chose to die on none of it matters and that's why it's so funny
The observation that waitors in the USA gets their income from tips, and not from their employer, is baffling to me.
What hinders a restuarant owner from just putting up a sign outside, stating that anyone can come in and serve the tables, if they pay the owner a small cut of the tips recieved?
That, plus hearing that many department stores in the forbid their cashiers from sitting for the WHOLE WORKING DAY (apparently they consider sitting down while serving someone rude???), made me realize, that while we once had something to live up to in USA, most things are actually better here. Not all, sure, but most. (I'd rather have an overpriced private healthcare system than the dumpster fire that killed my dad)
That's part of it tbh, not paying the waiters yourself reminds them that they're expendable
Nothing stops them, except, that this means they have no controlle over the quality of the service, in addition it would be easy for frauds cashing in on that, by pocketing the payment for the food in addition to the tip.
@@GusBriedprivate healthcare is not only over prized, it is also worse when compared to other systems. Your dad would not have been saved by maing the healthcare system private. It is more likely, he would have died just the same AND you were covered with the debts for his medical bills for the rest of your live. Because this is what happens in the USA.
Not everywhere, some states require waiters to be paid minimum wage plus tips, but others do not. I grew up in a tourist town so most waiters were paid 1-2$ per hour and depended on tips to live. (also that town had a lower minimum wage than the state mandate for some reason so good luck living on 7$ an hour!)
Unfortunately, despite Germans having such strict ways of getting a driver's license, many of us STILL SUCK at driving.
Every area in Germany has one town in it known for producing crappy drivers. Because our numberplates contain letters telling you what town it's from, people KNOW immediately when a car is from doofus-driving-ville
Hahah yeah it's like that here too, there's always the one county that's known for it's stupid reckless drivers and you see on the license plate and just know. There's also a certain state that we'll definitely watch out if we see it on a tag.
exept for people like me. who made their dirver's licence in one town, got their car registered in a copletely different town (even in a diferent Bundesland) and then moved with that car after you didn't have to change the plate any more when registering the car in a new city. my licence plate confuses people where I drive. they have no idea where it's from. and it's usefull. because when I drive a route I don't know and have to change lanes way too late because I didn't see early enough that I have to turn right or somehting... people have pity. because my licence plate says I'm from some obscure small town and don't know how to drive in a big city when I've been living and driving in that big city for over 5 years now. I love my obscure small town licence plate.
IMMER DIESE BERLINER
Here in southeastern(ish) Bavaria, we actually have the idiom: "Gott schütze uns vor Wasser und Schnee, und vor dem Kennzeichen EBE." (translated: God beware of water and snow and the license plate EBE).
Don't feel bad.
Traffic related death rates, per 100K population
"Just get in the car and drive" - United states: 12.7
"Professional driving lessons" - Germany: 3.7
I don't plan to ever set foot in USA for a multitude of reasons, but in a theoretical situation where I somehow ended up in USA I probably would just survive on grocery food and not touch any kind of diner/café/etc with waitstaff. I do not remember enough math from school to confidentially add any percentages, I need the full price written out in plain numbers on the menu.
Well when I arrived there at first it was pretty annoying to me. One thing eventually to not bother about it is just add half of the price listed to see if I could afford it. Because it is a simple calculus and yes, it would be way more that what I would be paying in the end, but if I could pay for a price that had such raise, anything else underneath is was going to be fine.
the norwegian flag one is so common it’s absurd. I was one omegle a few years ago and this guy had the norwegian flag on his ceiling and i asked him “you’re norwegian?” he kept saying “what?” so i was like “that’s the norwegian flag” he then proceeded to argue with me that i was wrong and it was the confederate flag. This has happened multiple times 😭💀
I literally don't even get it. The Norwegian flag is a t, the confederate has an x and stars. It's such an obvious difference
Just think Norwegian flag have christian cross sympol on which is common for all nordic flags. The confederate flag might be red but it have a X sympol on it.
Do you mean the Nordic Cross design?
Regarding the passanger train lines, keep in mind that NONE of them in the US are high speed rail. I saw there is a cross country line that takes like a week. Which sounds like a nice travel vacation, but it not really conducive for actual travel.
Listening to this at the Paris train station waiting for my ~4h long trip back to Amsterdam for a whopping 35€. Lol I'm 100% convinced that if Americans actually realized how fucked they are, they would have themselves a french style change of government.
20:38 Technically, you can say that the internet began in the US with the ARPANET. However, there were many people from many countries who have made it what it is today. Notably, the World Wide Web was invented by a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, while working for CERN in Switzerland.
As a Canadian we don't drink water, we drink drink maple syrup, and we don't don't eat food (other than poutine) we eat maple leaves, hockey sticks(and pucks), and ice
How dare you forget our poutine
@@Dr.FeelGood1346 Try re-reading that.
My mother's cousing is named Bjørn. When visiting the states some years ago i had his name written down next to his number so I could call him about something arbitrary, someone saw the ø and went off about it being connected to white supremacists. Had to interrupt them with, "I'm Danish, it's a fucking letter."
Funnily it is also how in some administrative paper, in the US mind you, they differentiate between O and 0. When the font is too simplified, the letters are all in CAPS and the two looks too similar, they cross the 0 to indicate is it the number and not the letter O...
12:38 "Hey, that's fake news! I'm not an _immigrant;_ immigrants come _into_ the country! I'm an _emigrant,_ because I'm moving _away_ from the country!" /s
It's like when all of the British expatriots were surprised when they were deported back to Britain because they didn't realize that "expatriate" is just a pretentious word that the British made up for "immigrant from Britain".
Emigrate from a country and then immigrate into a country .
That's a real issue in the US: long commutes. The average American worker spends like $7500/year getting to and from work, eating up hundreds of hours of their lives.
15:58 where I live, people often use BOTH forms of date listing, even on government websites
It's very confusing all the time
That reminds me working with a Chinese gentleman, where they write the date from largest to smallest. It was especially confusing in the early and mid 2000s to arrange the items by date.
Same here. When I do my accounting, I have to triple check everything when the day number is under 12, because from one bill to another it varies. I even have a sheet with reminder of which store use the dd/mm/yy and which one use mm/dd/yy and also the one that put the year first. Though the later is less problematic.
What about the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD? 😂
Employers in the US are allowed to pay servers less than regular minimum wage requiring them to depend on customers to make up the difference
However if they don't make the amount of claimed tips, the employer is required to pay their wages to make up the difference. A slow week is still letting servers get paid.
But in the end it's a gamble. You get the tips, but they're required to be claimed on your taxes making your paycheck less. And if you don't get tips, you get minimum wage.
It's a trash system.
@@wdf70 It's really cute if you think that actually happens. Employers just say "oh they made enough" and no one does any checking. I've never worked for a single restaurant that ever actually supplemented income if you didn't make enough tips.
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@@alias-majikAnd you didn't report your employer to the labor board?
@@wdf70 agreed, however, most servers understand that they are paid by being tipped and the wage just covers taxes. Our income mainly comes from tips and far exceeds minimum wage
6:17 it’s actually very common (mostly in the south) for parents to let their 8-13 year old child drive all kinds of vehicles (cars, trucks, ATV, i’ve even seen motorcycles) . Usually not on main streets or highways, but often in empty parking lots and neighborhoods.
And when is comes to “just pay attention and you’ll learn.” They mean when you’re inside of the car. Sit in the front passenger seat, and pay attention to what the driver is doing. Horrible way to learn, teaches you almost nothing, also puts pressure on 14-16 year old kids to immediately know how to drive.
100%
Oh yeah no when I lived in Virginia (around the ages of 9-12) my mum would sometimes have me drive the truck on the farm. Me and my brother would also regularly drive the ATV around and I drove the ride-on lawnmower. Now in the northeast I had around 30 hours of theory instruction and we have to have I think 24ish hours of observed driving to get a license.
I remember a family member going off about how how we needed to cut off all the immigrants into Canada, and I was like "YOU are literally an immigrant, you're from England."
To her credit that shut her up and she hasn't said anything like it since (to me at least) but she couldn't figure it out on her own.
She most likely meant 'brown people'. *sigh*
@@Caprabonenot sure why you would assume that when canada was specifically mentioned
@@alimbis Because Canada is where she lives. It'd be kinda stupid to see a British-Canadian advocating for Anti-Immigration in America. Like, what about Canada says "Can't be Racist"?
@@MD-rl9kr i misread as immigrants coming from canada
legit, unless you’re indigenous you’re probably an immigrant or descended from immigrants. also those “pesky” immigrants are the people keeping our healthcare system afloat because of gatekeeping from our medical schools and the underfunding of hospitals(especially rural ones) by our incompetent government.
the first one is actually right, as a british person i exclusively drink tea (do not ask how i make tea when there is allegedly no water)
"they all sound like the same language"
In response to a picture of the west country!? The west country accent is _famously_ incomprehensible to speakers of most other forms of English. I dare the American who posted that comment to have an conversation with an average 70-year-old man from a west country village and attempt to understand anything he says.
Same thing with Scouse. I had such a hard time understanding Lister in Red Dwarf, and his Scouse is toned down!
Yes, I suppose.
@@TheSleepyowletRED DWARF MENTION!!!!!! ♥️
Italian dialects often ARE actually different languages. Only thing in common is they all vaguely resemble Latin, except for Sardinian. That's just alien.
Piemontese is more like French than actual Italian. And they also vary between provinces.
You're all amateurs 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheSleepyowletOr the blonde guy from Brave, one of Merida's potential suitors. The MacGuffin guy. He had a Doric dialect from Scotland. I didn't understand a word he said 😂 but after watching the movie 100 times (it's one of my favorite Disney/Pixar movies) I can kinda understand him now. Would I be able to understand someone speaking to me with a Doric dialect in person? Ha! Nope.
11:00 as a Swede living in Houston: yes that intersection is insane. All the distances here between everything is vast and it is literally impossible to get around without a car. On top of that, there are barely any sidewalks and no bike lanes, and driving speeds even in neighborhoods are really fast, so walking or biking is basically a deathwish. The amount of daily exercise I get has greatly declined since moving here.
It's terrible. It's also part of the reason why America has such a big obesity problem. In Europe, you can walk or bike everywhere if you want and not everyone has a car because you don't need one in the cities. I'm not sure about in the small towns. In the US it's pretty much required to have a car.
It's also because of all the additives in our food, the ingredients that other countries have banned, the fact that fast food is cheap, and many other factors.
Had an American friend who pretty much got their license in a box of cornflakes, then was able to use it as "proof" to get a driver's license in Germany. Rode in the car with her once. Feared for my life. Offered to drive us instead but she wasn't sure her insurance was okay enough for that...
She didn't know how to use the clutch, the car screeched the whole way, I tried explaining the how but she wouldn't listen. She complained about having issues with spatial awareness and how everything was so tiny and stressful to manoeuvre through- in a fucking i10 😭
Eventually she stopped driving because she was afraid of it and just made her bf drive her everywhere
Safer for everyone else by the sounds of it. Including the boyfriend.
You don't get a lot of manual transmissions in the US. Not gonna say I feel the need for them, trying to learn stick was ... a formative memory... 😬
That's less her being dumb than you might think. Most people here drive automatics, and the roads in Europe, at least where I've been, are WAY smaller than what I'm used to in the States. Scarily so.
From the other side of the pond, US cars and roads seem enormous so it makes perfect sense that the opposite would be true. The issue lies in the fact that it’s waaaaay easier to go from narrow roads to big roads than the other way around 😂
Not to be that guy, (context: I am American and a non-driver for personal reasons) but have you seen the size of the SUVs and pickups that are all over the place in America? Genuinely terrifying.
There’s also tip out, usually 5% ish to the kitchen, if you don’t get a tip you’re paying to have served that table….its fucked
6:50 The funny thing is that driving schools are privatised in germany and not state funded, that's why they're so expensive. If they were covered as education then you'd probably only have to pay a fraction of it
On the subject of the title... For much of the US's history, being 1% black meant you were legally black, so they didn't have to give you all those pesky rights you would get otherwise, such as the ability to vote. Somehow the lawmakers never thought about how that also meant that being white was incredibly fragile, and they believed it would be overwhelmed by any amount of other ancestry.
ithink it's more of a "purity" and keeping the rights to a small group kinda thing....
This is BS - you can't tell if someone is 1% black without a DNA test (only available in the last few years)....and WTF would that mean anyway?
We're all descended from Africans (sub saharans) so it's just a case of how far back you're looking.
And there are people who can prove their ethnicity that look like they come from another so if an outsider doesn't know then they will treat you according to their discriminatory taste.
@@TheNeoVid This is not true for one very simple reason. They had no way to test that. Debunked instantly.
@@AIHumanEquality I've read that in Texas you were legally black if you had 1/8 or more black blood. Compared to 1% this would often be feasible to verify using birth records. But practically speaking the legal definition would be ignored and people would just go on looks.
@@eDoc2020 1/8 would mean you have a lineage 8 times back that had a black relative. That's relatively easy to track even with older documents methods.
16:19 - because the US employees don't have any *_legally protected rights_* and their employers can insist they work at any time of day or night while in most of the rest of the world employers can't get away with that shit.
They do have employment rights. They can't be fired for being black, disabled, or pregnant.
@@Ramtamtama You mean people can't *_admit_* that they fired the staff for being black, disabled or pregnant... which means the corpo filth have to make up another excuse for firing them.
@@RamtamtamaTrue but some employers can get around it by claiming they just “weren’t the right fit” for the company.
@@Acedragoncakeeater yep. One of my partners co-workers got fired for being 5 minutes late...on her last shift before maternity leave. Aka they didn't want to have to pay her insurance for a few weeks if she wasn't working.
Freedumb in action!
I come from Germany. We don't have internet/electricity or clean water. I regularly wash my laundry in the nearby river and take a horse-drawn carriage to the nearest market. We only drink beer and wine because clean water is too expensive. Sometimes we have to slaughter our pets in winter because we don't have enough to eat....
American: "we can choose what we want. Not what the governmemt thinks is best for us."
European: "We just choose a government that does what we want it to."
13:45
My parents went so far down that rabbithole, that when they were watching the Olympics they would judge if a woman is trans by seeing if she has an adams apple. To this day they won't believe me when I try to convince them that the athlete wasn't trans, even with sources. Reason? "Their sources say something entirely different!"
I'm so tired of this drama man-
1:25 the funny thing about this is that lots of Americans never drink water. The reason is, from my understanding, that water quality is inconsistent so water in a lot of cities “tastes bad” because of crap water quality.
The sad thing is that some of the stuff they put in city water to stop any dangerous substances from actually coming into contact with & dissolving into the water causes a buildup of sediment near the exit points during non-use & the way to fix it is literally just letting your faucet run for 10-15 seconds before you get your drink. But bottled water is also getting kind of hilarious to justify its own existence. My dollar store now sells regular spring water, sparkling water, flavored water, electrolyte water, caffeinated water & probiotic water. I was just looking at that last one, going "OK, if you put bacteria in the frigging water, what the hell is it surviving on until it gets into your digestive system?!?!?"
@@MrChristianDT PROBIOTIC WATER??!?!
Tastes bad is one thing, but a lot of American cities have tap water that is just not safe to drink. Rule of thumb, if it's cloudy, don't drink it.
@@NekoChanSenpai oh that too! But a lot of people don’t know enough about water safety to know the water isn’t safe but they do know it’s gross!
As someone that moved around and is very taste based, this is true. Texas water tastes a little sour due to limestone, NY got extra fluoride, Michigan is literally and I mean no joke, literally undrinkable, and Kentucky water tastes like hose water.
22:50 This show exists in Germany, Europe^^ It's one of the shows the public media produce online. (the Group of YT-channels affiliated with "funk", financed by the taxpayer)
Also apparently unhealthy and unnecessarily sugared food = freedom (to get a fatty liver)
Getting fat, without knowing why, is freedom :)
The only "free people" are free to put crap in your food.
The thing about driver's license in Germany, apparently there was some data revealed recently that up to 50% of all folks performing the driver's test fail it for various reasons, in some German cities that is. Either because of impatience towards other drivers, lack of discipline, or sometimes even lack of being able to read comprehensively, or understanding German as well. So yeah, with how many stupid drivers we see on the street these days, let us remind ourselves that at least in Germany, it could be twice as many people (of the younger generation) than there already are driving around.
People often fail here in Ireland for the same reason [not the reading comprehension part but the other issues [and the younger the drive often the worse they are]. Unfortunately impatience on the roads is becoming more and more common as is the ''me first, stuff you'' syndrome.
the price problem of the driver lessons is not mainly because people fail but because you have to drive a certain amount of hours and take some special courses which is just driving during night and some other scenarios( they charge more for the special courses) . At last there still the thing that you a Guy from TUV that comes to your practical exam. the exam or to be exact that the guy evaluates you cost 250 euros without the usage fee for the car and Gasoline. I paid 5k for my licence in Germany and friend of mine who did his in France paid 2k so yeah a ''small'' diff.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYouDo you have any substantiation for this claim? Because I have a hard time to believe that impatience while driving is truly rising.
@@nox986 in the US it's $30
I aced the theory test first try with 0 mistakes but then proceeded to fail the practical exam 4 times. It was mostly just because of being to anxious and nervous and Im very glad I got the additional guidance I needed to feel comfortable in a car.
I cant Imagine being American and just being thrown into the deep end.
That comment about vacationing in Europe was probably a European trying to keep Americans away 😂😂😂
On the one hand, I support their noble efforts. On the other hand, Americans desperately need to travel and experience first world countries more often.
@@zumazuma568right?
@@zumazuma568 unfortunately, our piss-poor workers' rights mean that no one has any money to travel
@@Thrakir well to be fair, cross atlantic travel is eeeexpensive, for europeans as well as Americans. I've only been to the US once, and that was a work trip
When you drink a sugary drink in europe like coke or fanta and its allready so sugary that its thicker than water would be i cant imagine what double the amount of sugar would be like😂
In the US cars are essentially to getting around. Creating barriers to getting a license is quite literally restricting someone’s ability to travel in the vast majority of this country. That’s why those Americans are freaking out at such high barriers because they care forgetting that most of those countries with higher barriers also provide other ways of getting around that lacking a drivers license isn’t as restricting.
Also the only kids learning to driver under the age of 15 are kids in real rural America. In farm land it is more of the norm that the child start learning as soon as their feet can press the pedals
Barriers are such a matter of perspective. I would freak out too if my freedom of movement came at such a high cost, but it doesn’t, it’s “just” my ability to drive a car. As soon as there are other ways to move around it’s not a reason to really freak out anymore.
in canada we have a crappy public transportation. we need vehicles.
8:15 it is patronizing. I'm part of this "Polish haritage" group on fb which is full of Americans of Polish descent. One time, they literally said they know Poland better than Poles bc their ancestors "left Poland before communism" 🤣
I feel like nothing can top the craziness of r/ShitAmericansSay intos
REAL
I can't wait until he finds out about r/ShitAmericansWear
The international labor laws thing reminds me of Musk's current fight with Brazil. Like, dude. If your company operates in a country, its operations there are beholden to that country's laws. Doesn't matter if you're not based in that country.
I think he also said that posts on the social network formerly known as Twitter are covered under the First Amendment and therefore can't be used as evidence in British courts. He's wrong, and SNFKAT posts are used as evidence in British courts.
@@Ramtamtama Even in US courts, the first amendment doesn't mean that the posts can't be used as evidence. The guy is a complete idiot. I'm baffled as to how people try to play him up as such a genius. He just made some good investments with daddy's money, that's all. And apparently whoever was on his staff doing steering him away from his bad ideas got fired or whatever because he's just been a crap show the past few years.
I talked yesterday with an Australian that grew up in Nebraska. She said finding out how the rest of the world saw/ thought about the US and how most countries perceive them as a laughing stock most of the time was absolutely eye opening to her (if not mindblowing surprise).
So basically, US Americans really don’t know that the rest of the world doesn’t see them as the greatest country ever after all…
they can laugh but the us has won the most nobel prizes .it has invented the majority of things thaat make life better.its also the place literaly millions are trying to get into legally and otherwise
@claudiameier666 part of the reason for that is there a lot more Americans with a lot more resources than a lot of other countries. That doesn’t mean non-Americans are less smart. And just because America is better than a lot of places people emigrate from it doesn’t mean it’s all that great.
Don’t forget, it’s also wayyyy bigger. The US holds 411 iirc, whereas UK has 137 and Germany 115. But there are way more than double the amount of people in the US than these two countries combined 🤷♀️
@@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339 yeah, if you measured by capita other places would have a much higher number.
@@claudiameier666 🤣🤣🤣
"...the occasional goat's bladder to INFILTRATE and play." Ah... the good old DYSLAXATIVE strikes again!
At one point I work for a telecommunications company with locations across the US, one state found out our minimum wage. All the employees demanded that they receive a higher wage because of it. They won.
Dates are either from smallest to biggest or biggest to smallest. Anything else is just plainly ridiculous.
Nah. Put the numbers in a blender and see what comes out.
I like knowing what month to flip to in my calendar before looking for the day.
@@SusirajantakaaThat's how the imperial system was made :)
@@kelleyg4894 Agreed, and I'd like to know which year we're talking about before I look for the month. Now we can all agree ISO 8601 is the best and only option.
@@kelleyg4894why do you read the date one part at a time💀😅 it’s not even like it’s a long sequence of numbers for which i could get reading in parts🤔 why don’t you just read the date and month both before you start going through your calendar? It’s just 4 numbers at most😂
0:28 It may not be a real gun, but the trigger discipline is appreciated.
1:52 fun fact, most olive oil comes from Spain.
I think they were saying it sarcastically. Clearly Americans don't know what drink water fountains are.
I live less than a mile from where I work, and it's not safe for me to walk/bike. I would love to. Our cities are just not built around "walking". It contributes not only to our car culture, but our obesity rates (plus the ridiculous amounts of sugar), our homelessness (need a car to get to work. No car, no work, no money), etc. It's frustrating.
We have a long way to go as a society, and it's difficult with so many people, but with all that said, I love the diversity of this country.
You're right. I'm Italian. For the last 30 years I've been sharing a single car with my husband with no problems, and I live in a small village in the countryside. Essential services are all within walking distance, for everything else I have a bigger town like 6 miles away that I could easily reach by bike if I wanted. People living in proper cities can count on public transportation, many don't even own a car.
Living in a "cramped" country has its advantages 😉
16:29 it's because European countries actually enforce their labor laws and dont rely on the citizens suing the company for rights violations. And just like that minimum wage bozo you have to follow the laws for the place where the employee resides regardless of where the company is. Since there's no law in the US that says you cant schedule meetings outside of normal working hours, as long as everyone is getting paid to be there, then it's fine.
American here! My parents officially started letting me drive (in isolated or private areas) when I was 14.
At 16 I took weekend classes and trained with a professional. Then took a written test (common sense and road law, etc.) Then I took a drivers test. (Edit- then I had a provisional license until 18, which mostly meant I couldn’t drive after about midnight.)
We do not just
Set people on the roads
Unless you wait until you’re 18, can skip everything but the tests, in which case, yes, we do!
12:16 Oh, no! He caught us🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻
19:06 Someone should tell that person Bohemia is a region in Czechia💀
I'm sure they only know what they've been told by their parents, and don't really understand.
The real reason it was dumb for JK to go after that boxer is that JK could get her ass handed to her. Personally I try to avoid antagonizing people who could very obviously take me in a fight. It's called self preservation and it's worked for almost half a century for me!
I saw a tv drama , where the lead character's son , aged around 12-13 , was dressed in Navy whites, similar to the Village people. Her brother , the boys uncle , told her " well , he cant swing a punch. Just make sure he can run real fast" . Running real fast has worked for me. My brothers took care of the problem later :)
No, the real reason it was dumb is because being a transphobic cunl is dumb.
The reason why it was dumb for JKR to go after that boxer is because it’s morally wrong and it can be illegal. What JKR did was harassment, bullying, AND libel.
I think the one post talking about all the riots, rebellions, earthquakes and what not during summer in Europe just wanted to troll Americans to let them avoid coming here :D
11:59 Ø is also just island in Danish. So it would be kind of awkward if it was used for something else