1:18 Because most "New [City Name]" towns and cities were founded by Europeans. For example, New York was originally New Amsterdam because the Dutch had founded it, then the name was changed to York; an English name after the English conquered it from the Dutch.
Our weather reports (UK) goes into meltdown with any temperature above 15C. Everyone else is just lounging around on the grass enjoying the rarity that is a nice sunny day!
Easy to be comfortable when you have AC and don't just have rely on the weather deciding if you get air flow. AC in the UK is an open window and a prayer. Plus, the humidity is what kills us, hot or cold everything is always damp. >.
@@ThePurpleFantumto be fair, not everyone can afford AC, especially central heating and air. We never had ac when I was a kid. And shit, starting in late July all the way through August was 2 a day football practice. 1.5-3 hours each.
Correction on the reason why American English and British English are done differently. The reason why a lot of words are simplified has nothing to do with newspapers charging by the letter but has more to do with the spelling reformation with Noah Webster, the Brits had the same reformation but his name slips my mind atm. Essentially the issue at the time was words and places had a multitude of ways of being spelled across the nation that was resulting in a lot of confusion about what and where people were talking about so Noah Webster was working to make uniformity among spelling and grammar rules in the US (this happened in Britain as well). The dropping of the u for words like color, armor, honor, humor etc. had to do with trying to have words spelled as close as how they were phonetically pronounced or returning words to how they were originally spelled in the first place. Color, armor, honor etc. are all latin based words that are originally spelled without the u and the u for British English only showed up because of British nobility being obsessed with French culture in the early centuries of existence. Other words in American English are spelled differently for a variety of reasons like words that kept the -ise were kept because its origins were in old French while the words that were changed to an -ize was done to identify it as having Greek origins. Aluminum is spelled without the i because the discoverer of the element wanted to name it without the i but Britsh Academia of the time wanted to keep the latin bases while American Academia didn't really care. Words like spelled/spelt and dreamed/dreamt were changed in effort to maintain consistency in grammatical rules for past tense with American English favoring the -ed while British English favored the altered endings. tl;dr The guy claiming American English spelling difference came from newspapers charging by the letter was false and the difference came from a language reformation/uniformity under Noah Webster. edit: spelling second edit: Correction for paid and payed noted by commenter. Paid is past tense for paying debts and payed is a niche nautical term.
That is one of the main reasons. The other common issue is that America picked up words from British English, and continued to use them long after British English migrated to a different word or spelling. A classic example is 'Soccer', which was created at the University of Oxford. The word migrates to the US. US keeps on using it, England ends up deciding on using Football later. And then England memory holes that they were the ones who invented the word.
@@mamaliamalak7825 Correct, other examples of this with words Americans primarily use but are actual coined by Britain are airplane, Gasoline which was originally Cazoline coming from John Cassell(?), and why Autumn and Fall became a thing despite meaning the same thing in the context of seasons.
Update/clarification for some stuff. - The British equivalent to Noah Webster was Samual Johnson. His first dictionary to standardize the British English was published 1755. ( I could be possibly wrong though) - Certain words in American English words are different due to our long time neighbors to the south, Spain and later its successor Mexico. Examples of this coriander and cilantro, we originally used coriander as well but due to long time Spanish influence we ended up favoring cilantro instead. - Amusingly, American English also tends to be more grammatically strict. Examples are best shown in the use of collective nouns.
1000s... We basically, were 2 different people in Europe 11000 years ago, and the first thing we did when our people came to Europe, was War and trying to convert the other to each other's religions... The Farmers that came out of Turkey, and the Hunter Gatherers that came from modern day Russia. One had a belief in Gods of farmland and beer, the other had a belief in WAR, Fighting, Good MEAT, and not taking no for an answer. It's Ironic that both groups basically originate from Western Iran. Also fun fact, at one point in time there was only 1 nation in the world, and Iran was it's name, then suddenly Egypt became a thing. And in a historical blink of an eye, there were suddenly 192.
@@BlooMonkiMan yea pretty sure that'd be some mesopotamian city state actually, like Ur or some shit. (not per se Ur exactly, specifically, more like Ur)
@@cobraglatiator It's counted by earliest known organized government, but it's still disputed if Iran or Egypt was first. I'm pretty sure the reason Ur and the other Sumerian city-states isn't being counted here is because those civilizations are gone, while Iran and Egypt can kinda draw a line back to a government or governments that started like 5000 years ago. That doesn't make them the first to do it, just the oldest that still exist in some form. It's pretty disingenuous by OP to equate modern Egypt with ancient Egypt and ancient Persia with modern Iran, since a bunch of civilizations existed in those areas with vastly different cultures and languages. So yeah, you're right, it's the location where civilization probably started, but going as far as saying it's Egypt or Iran like OP did doesn't really make sense, it was Mesopotamia like you said. And it came from the Sumerians, and nobody knows exactly where they came from or if they had similar systems wherever that was. So while Iran definitively has an ancient history and maybe the longest that exists tracing it's roots back to the first civilization same as Egypt, it's far to complex of a history to make a claim about oldest country in general, only with some very narrow measurements can that claim be made. But it's kinda like saying the US has had civilization for thousands of years because we're counting the civilization of Native Americans. But yeah, they did (most likely) invent politics and government and writing and stuff over in that general area, and Iran's current culture is influenced still by what happened back then, as well as obviously making a template for the rest of the world, so it's a pretty huge achievement and understandably a point of cultural pride. But it's taking it too far when when saying Iran/Persia is the oldest country, because Susa and the Persian Empire are not exactly the same thing despite that it grew into that eventually, the city-state of Susa came over 2000 years before the Persian Empire which is roughly modern Iran. Besides, people have lived in that area for over a hundred thousand years, so making any claims of who is who and what became what is pretty irrelevant because it's likely that all people on Earth are related to the people from there.
See, this is the problem. When Americans say Europeans, they mean British. Meanwhile, when Europeans say Europeans, they think of everybody else but British, who are in the British category. Half of this things are just British things.
It's because British people are annoying with how they complain about how evil the U.S. is which is agonizingly hypocritical given that Britain owned like 90% of the world at one point, and did unbelievable horrible things throughout their history, but yeah, the U.S. is the spawn of Satan. Obviously.
But of course, they suck at geography and associate europeans to whites, so that's only Sweden, Germany, France and UK where they ancestors came from. They oftentimes forget Spain, Italy and other southern countries are in Europe because they don't consider these people white lol
Don't you mean English not British, don't drag the Scots, Irish and Welsh into it. Why does everyone think Britain has nothing but English people living in it?
@@ThePurpleFantum I mean British, not just English, because Americans also think of Scottish when they think of Europe. After all they had a great great great grandparent from there.
Rural towns in the US are usually plaza towns or intersection towns; they spiral out from a relatively major intersection which crowds a bunch of stuff right in the center, and then there are some satellite unincorporated communities surrounding them. I live in one and pass through three more on my way to work. The one I live in has three strip malls each with around seven small specialized businesses, two gas stations, two grocery stores (one independent, one chain), a library, a post office, a mechanic, a hardware/pawn/farm supply/gun store, a tire center, the local dump, a vets office, two clinics, and a sawmill. If you stand in the intersection you can see all of it at once because its all so tightly packed. It serves like ten outlying communities for anything not important enough to warrant going to the city. I can't say for certain why its so colorful, but probably because that was the style when everything was built and it never went downhill like a lot do.
Yeah, I commented that on the original video as well. I'd rather face a Wendigo then any European magical creature. At least with the Wendigo you know someone will get eaten. You don't have that luxury in Europe.
14:31 In fairness to the Brits, it's the humidity rather than the heat that kills them. Where I live in the US, it routinely goes above 38 °C, but humidity is near-zero. Humidity can often be more of a killer than temperature alone.
*Bruhs in Florida man* I was there when they had a "heat wave" and we even told the tour guide that it felt like outdoor AC. Funny how all the Britons were dying while my family and I were just straight chillin
7:49 The reason this is the case is because you can't get around without a car. It will take me 2 hours to get from one side of my city to the other with the bus over multiple different busses.
@@Finsternis.. Because in US culture the buss is for the poor, and being poor is a sin against capitalism. I did take the buss a few times when I was in the US, and they actually design them for poor people, terrible plastic seats and everything written in them is both in English and Spanish, because it's mainly used to move South American slave labor around to wherever they're currently serving. They're trains are nice though, but they have the same attitude towards those, if you're not flying you're poor and sinning against capitalism.
As an American, I can tell you that when we make fun of America, we're making fun of our government and failing economy. When Europeans make fun of America, it's usually in the form of "you Americans," which is directed at us, not our government. It's a lot easier to take personally.
either mocking our government or poking fun at our culture (often in the most american ways possible too lol) but yeah europeans when they poke fun at america it often feels individualized
The best part of the UEFA cup already happened, ut peaked with Germany's first game. I was making jokes about Scotland to my family as they were playing in Munich and got their arses served, but reality is funnier. The Scots were celebrating "their" one point (from an OG by Germany) with zero fucks given about losing like crazy, went on to have fun as if they'd won, and caused an unforseen alcohol shortage in Munich, capital of Bavaria, of all places. I heard some Scottish dude told our media he apparently traveled through the UK on foot, ferried over the channel, and then continued to go into Germany and through basically the whole country on foot only to see his national team lose and his summary of that whole experience boiled down to "Germany is great, the beer is cheap." Scotland fans just showed up, preceded to be the most stereotypically Scottish you could possibly be, (almost literally) drank all the beer and fucked off. I laughed a lot when I heard they drained the Bavarians dry. God bless Scotland.
The houses are just part of the issue. The materials and the composition of the town/city itself are also meant to conserve heat, too. So being in a place full of Brick and Tarmac is awful. Not too bad if you're living in a cottage in a rural area.
14:48 British and Nordics really suffer from heatwaves because of the humidity, it pretty much makes sweating ineffective as cooling mechanism. You sweating and cooling off in your Central European dry heat. We are not the same.
Heatwaves are bad for numerous reasons. Extreme humidity is one but another reason is infrastructure. We build our towns around conserving heat. We want the buildings to soak up and lock in warmth. We want the windows to not leak heat and to isolate noise. We make systems designed around regulating temperature that doesn't factor in the heat waves. So yeah. It's 20c outside? It's like 40 inside... and it's humid as fuck. And there's no respite in the shade because the roads and the pavements are all black and radiate heat at you like a motherfucker. So yeah. It's like people who prepare for regularly hot climates have an easier time or something, ain't it? :D I went to Greece as a teen and it was like 42c. I came home to 28c weather and it was sooooooo much worse.
I love how Americans and the Brits have a huge debate over chips bs French fries vs crisps, meanwhile Australia is here like that MR incredible meme going “CHIP IS CHIP”
to be fair with the city names, most of them were named by European colonists, so it was Europeans naming the cities "New" whatever city, not Americans
@@samirSch Turkey is literally in Europe. At least as much as Russia is. Istanbul and its Bosphorus strait are literally the one of the accepted geographical limits of Europe. There are millions of Turks living in Turkey who are also living in European soil. If Turkey is not European, neither is Russia, which has the largest amount of its mass also in Asia. And on top of that, culturally Turkey is much closer to Europe than to Asia or even the middle East. Its History is linked much more with Europe than with anywhere else, and in turn the Ottoman Empire has influenced Europe both in History and in culture much more than many current European nations.
@@JackDespero How much % of the people live west of the Bosphorus? Besides, turks are immigrants, they came from beyond the Caspian not long ago, there are very little "europeanity" in them. And its fine, euros are far from being special. But wanting to be recognized as european because a tiny tip with a few people living in it are in europe feels like turks are eurocentric and ashamed of their origins.
Europeans even went to war over this shit. Britain took New Amsterdam and renamed it after an English town. Imagine if it was still called New Amsterdam.
*Talks about America* - United States of America (All 50 States) - United States of America (Lower 48 States) *Talks about Europe* - Continental Europe including the entirety of Russia (may as well call it North Eurasia at this point) - Continental Europe including Russia up to the Urals - Continental Europe excluding Russia altogether - The European Union including the United Kingdom (both pre and post independance) - The European Union excluding the United Kingdom Funny enough, i've never seen anybody point this out in a meme/comic.
Because it doesn't make sense. Europe is not the same as the European Union. The same goes for "United States" not being only the American country. The only reason as to why people make fun of the second one is because of how egocentric the stereotypical "American" is (which you can see clearly in all of those memes about geography).
Scandinavian here: I microwave my tea if I’m only going to drink one cup. I’ve gone to physics class. The energy required to boil a cup using a kettle is greater than using a microwave. Simple as that.
18:40 It's because the US's "gun crime problem" isn't what people think it is. If you remove one particular demographic from the numbers, our stats drop down so low that almost all of Europe has more per capita "gun crime" than we do. It's never been the weapon. It's always been the people using them, and even considering the fact that we have more privately owned guns than all of Europe has people. Trust me, the official records of how many guns we own is wrong.
Got to love tyrant simping propaganda ALSO conflating.... self-terminations via guns as a "gun death" like it's the same as Jamal and Cletus getting in a gang shoot out. It also the same with "school shootings" if a gun goes off, it's a school shooting even if it's a misfire from an LEOs gun in the parking lot. Always check the meta-data, that shows the true intentions of the analysis.
A fine way to think of America/Canada vs Europe is as follows: In Europe, 1000 years is a long time and 100 miles is a long way. In America, 100 years is a long time and 1000 miles is a long way. Owning your own means of transportation is practically mandatory, ESPECIALLY outside of major metropolitan areas
27:05 Just in case anyone believe it. That is completely fake. In fact, the order is the opposite. Color is older than colour. French has always been the language of the nobility, especially in England, and adding extra letters without sound like in French was in vogue in the court (It is obviously much more complicated than just that, but as a funny summary). That is also why the animal is a pig, but the meat is pork. Or lamb and mouton. The meat names usually come from French, as the nobility were the ones eating the more meat and they use French words for that, while the animals were taken care by the commoners. In fact, so many quirks of English come from the fact that it is in theory a germanic language which common usage vocabulary has more French+Latin words than words from Germanic origin. The syntax is where the "Germanic" appears.
Not within English it isn't. Yes, we could say that "color" is older, but that is only if we leave the bounds of English, and look at Latin. Within English itself, the word is taken directly from Old French "colour", spelt with a u. It was not taken directly from Latin "color" at all.
The reason for the New (city name) naming convention is because we decided those names when we were still part of the British colonies. So York in Britain becomes New York in North America. So technically, the British made that choice. (Except New Mexico, I don't know exactly why we call it that).
The issue with the gun topic is that most Europeans don't actually know American laws, just what they hear on the news which mind you, is Highly politicized and polarized by both sides. A lot of people don't realize that most of the laws they want in place for gun control, ALREADY EXIST. You cannot buy a firearm if you have a criminal record, you cannot buy one if you are under 18 for a rifle/shotgun or under 21 for a handgun (reason being is because handguns are concealed carry weapons and you cannot spot them if someone is trying to hide them, whereas a rifle obviously isn't). Automatic weapons are ILLEGAL in the use for your average citizen, only people with an FFL may purchase them, and those are usually restricted to gun manufacturers. You cannot just buy one off the street (legally) you need to buy one from a federally licensed store and go through a background check which runs you through the FBI's database to check that there are no issues to you owning one. This can take anywhere from half an hour to a couple of days. There are plenty more examples but these are just a few to show how people want restrictions in place, that are already there and they don't even know it.
@@k96man well good on you for either learning them, or at least not claiming to be an expert based on third hand information. Don't get me wrong, there are still some things that could be changed or improved with them. But it's not nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
Just a quick note, FULLY automatic weapons are illegal for the average citizen, most handguns (Most modern guns actually) are automatic. Just definitions.
Actually civilians can own machine guns in the USA without a fll or sot. Depends on the year or if its a transferable auto sear. And that sear is considered a machine gun so plop it into a modern pdw an there machine gun legally obtained. Or just buy a smg,machinegun, pre 1986 I think is the year. Or get a fll,sot,etc these are ways to get a machine gun. Obviously they cost money.
Guns aren't as bad here as you'd think. There's 70 million gun owners in the US. If there were a problem eith guns the world as a whole would know. Gun safety is highly pushed by us gun owners. If you don't know what youre doing for the love of God do NOT touch it.
This. Literally this. Meanwhile, Europe is being overrun by so-called "Migrants" that gr@pe their women, bully them into taking part in Ramadan with them, and won't even let the local population criticize any of their incompatible practices without getting arrested. Oh, but at least Europeans don't have those super scary guns, right?
While some of these were technically "UK vs. US", they were hilarous and mostly true. The one about microwaving water seems to be very common. I've seen so many Americans reacting to electric kettles as if they were magical objects.
it's always vital to know where you are living. If you are born and raised in a country with higher base temperatures, you are pretty much used to it being hot so it does not affect you that much, when it's not out of the ordinary. Places like England have very mild temperatures so people up there are used to entirely different temperatures. I know someone from Cuba, who now lives in Denmark. He had trouble getting used to the cool weather and last i spoke to him he complained how hot it is in cuba, after visiting his parents there for a week. This post also reminded me that i should contact him again. It's been some time.
And then when it's 5c and raining on the regular and everyone's like "Don't go out there!! You'll catch a cold!" And we're just like: "It's fucking lovely outside, stop whining."
I almost died once trying to go to McDonald's in Russia during winter. Awesome experience felt like the guy in the climbing mount Everest movies when they almost all die and finally find civilization mere minutes before collapsing from hypothermia. Cathartic experience
Exactly. And besides, gun control only takes guns away from law abiding citizens, but the criminals will just say lmao XD and be the only ones left with guns.
Yeah, that is why the restrictions are put on the person, you need to get a mental check and a license in Europe among other things, just as if you want to get a car you need a driving license which requires health checks and tests too
@@zdub93 A lot of law abiding citizens can suddenly snap.. Been proven a million times. So I would rather John doesn't have a gun when he gets pissed at his neighbour..
wrong ! the difference is that in most other countries the government gives you permission to have rights where as in America the constitution says that rights come from God and the government is not a higher authority than God. Read the Canadian constitution/ bill of rights, on free speech it basically say you can talk unless the government does not want you to.
Regardless of gun control legislation, it's undeniably safer to own a gun than to not own one. Especially when you consider that criminals and the mentally ill don't care what the laws are and will obtain one anyway.
And besides, most criminals are opportunists, if happen apon "somebody that's strapped", they go away because getting shot hurts (understatement lmao). Also it's the inner cities that have this problem.
3:10 Fun Fact: it’s actually technically illegal to use the american flag design on your clothes. it’s not enforced, but it’s generally understood as a trademark of the national government. and unlike the copyright for steamboat willy, trademarks don’t end as long as you renew them
7:55 It's not true... Instead they will mock you and act that if you don't have a car and drivers license that you have pissed on their ancestors grave... Coming from a 39 year old man born, raised, and still living in California and never had a drivers license. Our Public Transport is complete ass in the majority of the USA though. Thankfully California has better than most Public Transport. 12:29 This may alarm you and you may need to sit down... The vast majority of Americans do NOT have teapot/kettles or things of that nature. We are also hella lazy and there is a reason there are microwave instructions for Pop Tarts.
"i'm in florida, i drove for 9 hours, and i'm still in florida" so there are good examples and bad examples. i live in portland on the west coast, i can drive south for 12 hours and be in sacramento. in places like california and florida, traffic is so terrible it is just like europeans imagine. but in a large portion of the USA, you can drive for hours at higher speeds than is the speed limit in most of europe, and you are still in the same state. from where i live it is 5 hours south to get to cali, 1 hour north to get to washington, and another 7 hours to get to canada. to get to mexico is like 20 hours. the speed limit and amount of traffic really distorts this one. you might notice that all those routes are north south, and it is cause stuff east of the rockies doesn't exist or matter. when europeans ask for directions to new york by car, the general answer is to say there are signs, but there will be more signs faster if you start driving east, and then go north. if you hit maine, back track, there will eventually be a sign. in LA you are closer to t-posing jesus in brazil or peru or w/e than new york. asking for directions to the statue of liberty in LA is asking for directions to the red square when you are in portugal, the distance is 30 Km different.
Well guns are highly regulated in America and you have to go though many background checks to buy one. I would say the majority of gun owners are responsible and won't do anything stupid. Yes there are unresponsible gun owners and I agree that they shouldn't own a gun but we have them so we can protect ourselves from anything that wishes to harm us. (No hate btw and it is understandable that people make the assumption that guns aren't regulated with all the news about gun violence)
So for any of my brits who think adding a U to everything is the correct spelling. You're using the french spelling. The original spelling for words like color didn't use a U, however when the french would translate french literature into english they spelt many words with an unnecessary U. As a result english writers would include the U in works intended for consumption outside of Britain. This can even be scene in Shakespeare's manuscripts, where he uses color and colour interchangibly, sometimes both variants in the same sentence. However he preominantly used the color spelling. Infact it didn't even become standard to use the colour spelling until the 19th century, and America didn't change it because they were across the ocean and couldn't give a shit about "literary fashion" as one called it.
No matter how controlled guns are, criminals will always get them. If everyone has access, everyone can protect themselves and decrease the likelihood of criminals using them. There are quite a few videos of cops being shot at and civilians helping them out and saving their lives.
19:00 Well, if we rule out one or two certain demographics, America has lower gun crimes per capita than most of Europe. But it's racist to point that out.
@@Ieam0309 If you exclude a certain demographic from Europe, about 90% of its violent crimes, including rape, especially committed against children, would just disappear.
American here, I usually boil tea in a kettle, but if it's gone cold it's going for a minute in the microwave, and when my old kettle broke it was the microwave or no tea at all.
@Unethical.Dodgson Yes, it is. Europeans went to America, settled it, and named the cities after their cities. Americans didn't just puff into existence. It's a development across generations
14:40 Kitsu: *Complaining about how Germany is hot due to England complaining about a 28 degrees (Celsius) heatwave hit them* Me (an Australian who still lives in Australia): Rookie Numbers *I say whilst wearing double layers of clothes (2 Pants, 2 Shirts plus a zip up jumper) during summer*
The real reason that spelling is different in the US and UK is that English spelling only started to become really standardized after the revolution; earlier dictionaries did exist but only Samuel Johnsons was widely accepted and even then was mostly focused on what was common in the UK. Since by that time common American spellings had already diverged (and in point of fact Samuel Johnson preferred traditional spellings like 'publick' instead of the more common 'public'), there was some movement from American lexicographers especially Noah Webster to publish their own dictionary reflecting the various dialects common across America.
00:17 as a German, i would still have to approve of this, even while awake. Calling soccer "soccer", instead of "football" should be legally punished though
Gun control, imo, would _only_ be semi-plausible in a culturally-homogeneous nation (see also: Japan). In nations that pride themselves on multiculturalism like the UK and US, where clashes of cultures are inevitable, it's only a question of time before violence breaks out. The US also borders a cartel-controlled nation, which means smuggling of weaponry and bad actors is inevitable. More often than not, people that would benefit from gun ownership in the inner cities are the ones most frequently victimized by violent offenders that legally cannot own a gun having access to them through the black market.
Meanwhile in South Africa, police knows legal gun owners follow the law so don't bother hampering them with pointless laws and regulations (the roughly 2 million of them) instead they focus their time on the illegal gun owners (estimated at almost 3.9 million)
@@NewTypeDilemma01 For some reason Europeans can't piece together that this is the reason it works there and not here.. Isn't that called confirmation bias?
@@dreymak4071 I mean, no, people know. The same way they know that implementing unuversal healthcare would fuck America for generations to come. But that doesn't make the current state of America any less baffling.
12:25. No, I do not microwave my tea. I have a digital scale to weigh the leaves, and use a digital kettle to get the correct temp for the type of tea leaves. Then, I shake my head at England for using the abominations known as Tea Bags.
19:11 ill agree, they are handled badly, no where in the constitution does it say I need a tax stamp for a suppresser and no where does it restrict what kind of arm I can own, abject bullshit.
The texas SpongeBob meme made me laugh, i remember the state shape because it looks like a downward arrow with a bite taken out of it, appropriate for America
31:36 it's actaually called "Barbe a papa" witch translate to daddy's beard, yes. it sounds way better than daddy's beard even though it's the same words.
As a Czech. I can confirm we do not ride on the left (but we do have steering wheel on the left side).. also, that map is from 1922 and that is Czechoslovakia which has split in 1992. (problem is I don't know if that is a real map or not). Anyway, I agree with Kitsu, Americans are stupid for not using a metric system (which is 101% easier to use and accurate) and for not controlling gun laws and everything else related to guns. I honestly fear to visit America for that. I just imagine that I will bring Kinder Suprise and a police will shoot me on the airport.
So the reason most of us U.S. people are against the gun control laws being so strict is that, a criminal will find a firearm no matter what. A civilian will not be able to defend themselves if the worst happens. We are also against tyrannical rule so if there was ever an overbearing government overstepping boundaries we would have a way to protect our way of life.
Seems Europeans haven't learned anything from WWII.. Also most European countries don't share a border with a cartel nation, the US does, plus most European nations are homogenized societies, the US is not, so there's a higher chance violence in some form breaks out.
I am confused, why everyone thinks gun control is about taking all guns from civilians? It should be about giving guns to only responsible people, teaching people to be more responsible and of course taking some crazy guns from them which they do not really need or owning them should be behind very strict rules and tests (or whatever) Also I do not think people with mere guns will be able to overthrown USA government with its crazy technology if its decide so, I think you idealize it too much. Few bombs here and there and it is done
At least that's what the gun companies and associations tell you. Funny how it's not that big of an issue with strict gun laws. Granted, they find other ways to murder people, but still.
So correction: Majority of the words Europeans say the US spell wrong actually originated with the British. They are the ones who spelled most of the words originally that came to the US only for the British to decide the French sound fancy and start incorporating some of their idiosyncrasies into the language and changing the words.
Brazilian here: In case of emergency (no stove and no electrical kettles around) we microwave water and then infuse our tea. Speaking of electrical kettles, did you guys know we have electrical shower heads for warming up water instead of a central gas heater in most homes?
Isn't it just talking about the distance between countries? Europe maybe bigger overall, but a lot of the countries are very small, and close together, driving an hour in Europe may get you into another country, in the US, driving an hour is barely enough to get you to the next city, let alone out of the state.
This is a comparison between a singular country, and one of the 7 continents on the entire planet. Europe is absolutely tiny for a continent. The fact it is even SOMEWHAT comparable is ludicrous
Continental Europe (a supposed continent) is BARELY larger than the US (a single country). There are 50 countries in Continental Europe, and they are on average smaller than our average states. Europe is small.
fun fact if america switched to free healthcare europe would lose theirs. the insane prices of medical supplies and medicine in america is to offset the fact that the pharmaceutical companies offer their products to european countries at a loss. these companies do this in america because as US based companies they have the ability to spend millions lobbying members of congress to keep the laws as such in fact if you do some digging you will find out that some of the US politicians most vocally in favor of free healthcare have major super-pack lobby groups funded by pharmaceutical companies and vote in opposition to what they publicly say they support ( ie bearny sanders, aoc, nanci palosi, etc.) these pharmaceutical companies then take under the table money from european leadership that is most likely european tax money. maybe europeans should, instead of laughing at americans for having to pay an arm and a leg for healthcare, be thanking us for doing it so they don't have to.
1:18 Because most "New [City Name]" towns and cities were founded by Europeans. For example, New York was originally New Amsterdam because the Dutch had founded it, then the name was changed to York; an English name after the English conquered it from the Dutch.
They were jewish dutch that were spelled from Brazil lol
England: Oh no! 28°C (82°F)
Kitsu: Oh no! 30-35°C (86-95°F)
Texas: Oh look, it's 45°C (113°F) aint even August yet.
Our weather reports (UK) goes into meltdown with any temperature above 15C. Everyone else is just lounging around on the grass enjoying the rarity that is a nice sunny day!
I was looking for a comment like this. 30-35 is perfect weather in America
Easy to be comfortable when you have AC and don't just have rely on the weather deciding if you get air flow. AC in the UK is an open window and a prayer. Plus, the humidity is what kills us, hot or cold everything is always damp. >.
Yeah, I'm clear up in the PNW and we're in the 100's starting tomorrow. Hell, even Alaska gets to the 90's.
@@ThePurpleFantumto be fair, not everyone can afford AC, especially central heating and air. We never had ac when I was a kid. And shit, starting in late July all the way through August was 2 a day football practice. 1.5-3 hours each.
Correction on the reason why American English and British English are done differently. The reason why a lot of words are simplified has nothing to do with newspapers charging by the letter but has more to do with the spelling reformation with Noah Webster, the Brits had the same reformation but his name slips my mind atm. Essentially the issue at the time was words and places had a multitude of ways of being spelled across the nation that was resulting in a lot of confusion about what and where people were talking about so Noah Webster was working to make uniformity among spelling and grammar rules in the US (this happened in Britain as well). The dropping of the u for words like color, armor, honor, humor etc. had to do with trying to have words spelled as close as how they were phonetically pronounced or returning words to how they were originally spelled in the first place. Color, armor, honor etc. are all latin based words that are originally spelled without the u and the u for British English only showed up because of British nobility being obsessed with French culture in the early centuries of existence. Other words in American English are spelled differently for a variety of reasons like words that kept the -ise were kept because its origins were in old French while the words that were changed to an -ize was done to identify it as having Greek origins. Aluminum is spelled without the i because the discoverer of the element wanted to name it without the i but Britsh Academia of the time wanted to keep the latin bases while American Academia didn't really care. Words like spelled/spelt and dreamed/dreamt were changed in effort to maintain consistency in grammatical rules for past tense with American English favoring the -ed while British English favored the altered endings.
tl;dr The guy claiming American English spelling difference came from newspapers charging by the letter was false and the difference came from a language reformation/uniformity under Noah Webster.
edit: spelling
second edit: Correction for paid and payed noted by commenter. Paid is past tense for paying debts and payed is a niche nautical term.
"Edit: Spelling" made me laugh for some reason
That is one of the main reasons. The other common issue is that America picked up words from British English, and continued to use them long after British English migrated to a different word or spelling. A classic example is 'Soccer', which was created at the University of Oxford. The word migrates to the US. US keeps on using it, England ends up deciding on using Football later. And then England memory holes that they were the ones who invented the word.
@@mamaliamalak7825 Correct, other examples of this with words Americans primarily use but are actual coined by Britain are airplane, Gasoline which was originally Cazoline coming from John Cassell(?), and why Autumn and Fall became a thing despite meaning the same thing in the context of seasons.
Huh, nice to know
Update/clarification for some stuff.
- The British equivalent to Noah Webster was Samual Johnson. His first dictionary to standardize the British English was published 1755. ( I could be possibly wrong though)
- Certain words in American English words are different due to our long time neighbors to the south, Spain and later its successor Mexico. Examples of this coriander and cilantro, we originally used coriander as well but due to long time Spanish influence we ended up favoring cilantro instead.
- Amusingly, American English also tends to be more grammatically strict. Examples are best shown in the use of collective nouns.
Europe suddenly putting 1000s of years of conflict behind when an Amerikan starts talking smack.
1000s... We basically, were 2 different people in Europe 11000 years ago, and the first thing we did when our people came to Europe, was War and trying to convert the other to each other's religions...
The Farmers that came out of Turkey, and the Hunter Gatherers that came from modern day Russia. One had a belief in Gods of farmland and beer, the other had a belief in WAR, Fighting, Good MEAT, and not taking no for an answer. It's Ironic that both groups basically originate from Western Iran. Also fun fact, at one point in time there was only 1 nation in the world, and Iran was it's name, then suddenly Egypt became a thing. And in a historical blink of an eye, there were suddenly 192.
@@livedandletdie >iran was the first country
source?
@@BlooMonkiMan yea pretty sure that'd be some mesopotamian city state actually, like Ur or some shit. (not per se Ur exactly, specifically, more like Ur)
then we say did you win 2 world wars back to back?
@@cobraglatiator It's counted by earliest known organized government, but it's still disputed if Iran or Egypt was first. I'm pretty sure the reason Ur and the other Sumerian city-states isn't being counted here is because those civilizations are gone, while Iran and Egypt can kinda draw a line back to a government or governments that started like 5000 years ago. That doesn't make them the first to do it, just the oldest that still exist in some form. It's pretty disingenuous by OP to equate modern Egypt with ancient Egypt and ancient Persia with modern Iran, since a bunch of civilizations existed in those areas with vastly different cultures and languages. So yeah, you're right, it's the location where civilization probably started, but going as far as saying it's Egypt or Iran like OP did doesn't really make sense, it was Mesopotamia like you said. And it came from the Sumerians, and nobody knows exactly where they came from or if they had similar systems wherever that was. So while Iran definitively has an ancient history and maybe the longest that exists tracing it's roots back to the first civilization same as Egypt, it's far to complex of a history to make a claim about oldest country in general, only with some very narrow measurements can that claim be made. But it's kinda like saying the US has had civilization for thousands of years because we're counting the civilization of Native Americans. But yeah, they did (most likely) invent politics and government and writing and stuff over in that general area, and Iran's current culture is influenced still by what happened back then, as well as obviously making a template for the rest of the world, so it's a pretty huge achievement and understandably a point of cultural pride. But it's taking it too far when when saying Iran/Persia is the oldest country, because Susa and the Persian Empire are not exactly the same thing despite that it grew into that eventually, the city-state of Susa came over 2000 years before the Persian Empire which is roughly modern Iran. Besides, people have lived in that area for over a hundred thousand years, so making any claims of who is who and what became what is pretty irrelevant because it's likely that all people on Earth are related to the people from there.
See, this is the problem.
When Americans say Europeans, they mean British.
Meanwhile, when Europeans say Europeans, they think of everybody else but British, who are in the British category.
Half of this things are just British things.
Not really no
It's because British people are annoying with how they complain about how evil the U.S. is which is agonizingly hypocritical given that Britain owned like 90% of the world at one point, and did unbelievable horrible things throughout their history, but yeah, the U.S. is the spawn of Satan. Obviously.
But of course, they suck at geography and associate europeans to whites, so that's only Sweden, Germany, France and UK where they ancestors came from.
They oftentimes forget Spain, Italy and other southern countries are in Europe because they don't consider these people white lol
Don't you mean English not British, don't drag the Scots, Irish and Welsh into it. Why does everyone think Britain has nothing but English people living in it?
@@ThePurpleFantum I mean British, not just English, because Americans also think of Scottish when they think of Europe. After all they had a great great great grandparent from there.
The problem with any kind of control is the one who is in control.
Yes.
"The Czech Republic doesn't drive on the left"
Kitsu that's Czechoslowakia.
Chechoslowakia doesnt exist since 1993
Rural towns in the US are usually plaza towns or intersection towns; they spiral out from a relatively major intersection which crowds a bunch of stuff right in the center, and then there are some satellite unincorporated communities surrounding them. I live in one and pass through three more on my way to work. The one I live in has three strip malls each with around seven small specialized businesses, two gas stations, two grocery stores (one independent, one chain), a library, a post office, a mechanic, a hardware/pawn/farm supply/gun store, a tire center, the local dump, a vets office, two clinics, and a sawmill. If you stand in the intersection you can see all of it at once because its all so tightly packed. It serves like ten outlying communities for anything not important enough to warrant going to the city.
I can't say for certain why its so colorful, but probably because that was the style when everything was built and it never went downhill like a lot do.
i don't think they've seen the darker cryptids we have in europe.
They've seen the Disney version of our mythical creatures lol
"Whatever you do, agree to nothing and never give your name."
"Okay."
"WHAT DID I JUST SAY!"
Yeah, I commented that on the original video as well. I'd rather face a Wendigo then any European magical creature. At least with the Wendigo you know someone will get eaten. You don't have that luxury in Europe.
Werewolves and vampires, some the scariest.
Go ahead and name them. I'll happily compare
14:31 In fairness to the Brits, it's the humidity rather than the heat that kills them. Where I live in the US, it routinely goes above 38 °C, but humidity is near-zero. Humidity can often be more of a killer than temperature alone.
Nah the real problem is the lack of AC
@@fluffydoggo its both really, along with the fact that we're not used to heat
Meanwhile on the east coast where it will hit 38+°C and be 80+% humidity to the point you can see the moisture in the air
*Bruhs in Florida man* I was there when they had a "heat wave" and we even told the tour guide that it felt like outdoor AC. Funny how all the Britons were dying while my family and I were just straight chillin
there are places like texas that see high both tho
7:49 The reason this is the case is because you can't get around without a car. It will take me 2 hours to get from one side of my city to the other with the bus over multiple different busses.
And thanks to cunts like Elon Musk... that's not changing soon.
That kind of does not explain the women calling the police on the guy.
@@Finsternis..
Because your not a bum that they will fuck.
@Finsternis.. Because a good chunk of American women are misandrists
@@Finsternis.. Because in US culture the buss is for the poor, and being poor is a sin against capitalism. I did take the buss a few times when I was in the US, and they actually design them for poor people, terrible plastic seats and everything written in them is both in English and Spanish, because it's mainly used to move South American slave labor around to wherever they're currently serving. They're trains are nice though, but they have the same attitude towards those, if you're not flying you're poor and sinning against capitalism.
Brazilian here: gun control made us all hostages
US stereotypes and Texas is accurate, which is one of the ways in which Texas is just American Bavaria.
>just American Bavaria
Way too accurate.
spottedt the german! xD
As an American, I can tell you that when we make fun of America, we're making fun of our government and failing economy. When Europeans make fun of America, it's usually in the form of "you Americans," which is directed at us, not our government. It's a lot easier to take personally.
either mocking our government or poking fun at our culture (often in the most american ways possible too lol)
but yeah europeans when they poke fun at america it often feels individualized
The best part of the UEFA cup already happened, ut peaked with Germany's first game.
I was making jokes about Scotland to my family as they were playing in Munich and got their arses served, but reality is funnier. The Scots were celebrating "their" one point (from an OG by Germany) with zero fucks given about losing like crazy, went on to have fun as if they'd won, and caused an unforseen alcohol shortage in Munich, capital of Bavaria, of all places. I heard some Scottish dude told our media he apparently traveled through the UK on foot, ferried over the channel, and then continued to go into Germany and through basically the whole country on foot only to see his national team lose and his summary of that whole experience boiled down to "Germany is great, the beer is cheap."
Scotland fans just showed up, preceded to be the most stereotypically Scottish you could possibly be, (almost literally) drank all the beer and fucked off.
I laughed a lot when I heard they drained the Bavarians dry. God bless Scotland.
In cologne the scots came in kilts equipped with bagpipes and were really chill.
You wouldn’t understand, British homes are 100% designed to keep the heat in, so that 28 degrees lasts a week inside the house.
True, it's horrid
The houses are just part of the issue. The materials and the composition of the town/city itself are also meant to conserve heat, too. So being in a place full of Brick and Tarmac is awful. Not too bad if you're living in a cottage in a rural area.
@@Unethical.FandubsGames Part of why I dream of one day living near the sea alongside the river
Just... use an air conditioner
"Designed". Ya. Sure.
14:48 British and Nordics really suffer from heatwaves because of the humidity, it pretty much makes sweating ineffective as cooling mechanism.
You sweating and cooling off in your Central European dry heat.
We are not the same.
Preach brother
+30C here in Finland and 8 hours after my cold shower and still not dry yet. I hate my life, haven't slept more than 10 hours in last 70+ hours
I rather take -30C than this. This is horrible beyond measure.
Heatwaves are bad for numerous reasons. Extreme humidity is one but another reason is infrastructure. We build our towns around conserving heat. We want the buildings to soak up and lock in warmth. We want the windows to not leak heat and to isolate noise. We make systems designed around regulating temperature that doesn't factor in the heat waves.
So yeah. It's 20c outside? It's like 40 inside... and it's humid as fuck. And there's no respite in the shade because the roads and the pavements are all black and radiate heat at you like a motherfucker.
So yeah. It's like people who prepare for regularly hot climates have an easier time or something, ain't it? :D
I went to Greece as a teen and it was like 42c. I came home to 28c weather and it was sooooooo much worse.
I didn't know that
I love how Americans and the Brits have a huge debate over chips bs French fries vs crisps, meanwhile Australia is here like that MR incredible meme going “CHIP IS CHIP”
Laughed hard at the heatwave comments. Me dealing with 44c without working air conditioning dreaming about 28c
If temperature were the only factor... that'd be lovely.
Jesus where do you live? lol sounds horrendous
“Yes, the rest of the world is extra”
Americans: yes and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t.
So Americans are 🤡? Got it! 😃
to be fair with the city names, most of them were named by European colonists, so it was Europeans naming the cities "New" whatever city, not Americans
30:10
People making the map: We will leave Turkey in the map, I bet they appreciate it.
Turkish people: WE ARE ALSO IN EUROPE YOU MF.
1/99 "europeans" who came from beyond the Caspian a few centuries ago, though.
@@samirSch Turkey is literally in Europe. At least as much as Russia is. Istanbul and its Bosphorus strait are literally the one of the accepted geographical limits of Europe.
There are millions of Turks living in Turkey who are also living in European soil.
If Turkey is not European, neither is Russia, which has the largest amount of its mass also in Asia.
And on top of that, culturally Turkey is much closer to Europe than to Asia or even the middle East. Its History is linked much more with Europe than with anywhere else, and in turn the Ottoman Empire has influenced Europe both in History and in culture much more than many current European nations.
@@JackDespero How much % of the people live west of the Bosphorus? Besides, turks are immigrants, they came from beyond the Caspian not long ago, there are very little "europeanity" in them. And its fine, euros are far from being special.
But wanting to be recognized as european because a tiny tip with a few people living in it are in europe feels like turks are eurocentric and ashamed of their origins.
To be fair with the city name thing, we didn't do it. You guys did and then you left.
To be fair, they didn't really leave, they raised the taxes on everything, and we kicked them out because of it, so they went to Australia and India
@SaberShadow002 some of them left (france and russia) others were shown the door (england and spain)
who's "you"
you're them
are you native american?
Europeans even went to war over this shit.
Britain took New Amsterdam and renamed it after an English town. Imagine if it was still called New Amsterdam.
*Talks about America*
- United States of America (All 50 States)
- United States of America (Lower 48 States)
*Talks about Europe*
- Continental Europe including the entirety of Russia (may as well call it North Eurasia at this point)
- Continental Europe including Russia up to the Urals
- Continental Europe excluding Russia altogether
- The European Union including the United Kingdom (both pre and post independance)
- The European Union excluding the United Kingdom
Funny enough, i've never seen anybody point this out in a meme/comic.
Because it doesn't make sense. Europe is not the same as the European Union. The same goes for "United States" not being only the American country.
The only reason as to why people make fun of the second one is because of how egocentric the stereotypical "American" is (which you can see clearly in all of those memes about geography).
Scandinavian here: I microwave my tea if I’m only going to drink one cup. I’ve gone to physics class. The energy required to boil a cup using a kettle is greater than using a microwave. Simple as that.
What it's like being English
English - **being older than 1 second**
The rest of the World - "WE FUCKING HATE YOU"
18:40
It's because the US's "gun crime problem" isn't what people think it is. If you remove one particular demographic from the numbers, our stats drop down so low that almost all of Europe has more per capita "gun crime" than we do.
It's never been the weapon. It's always been the people using them, and even considering the fact that we have more privately owned guns than all of Europe has people. Trust me, the official records of how many guns we own is wrong.
Got to love tyrant simping propaganda ALSO conflating.... self-terminations via guns as a "gun death" like it's the same as Jamal and Cletus getting in a gang shoot out. It also the same with "school shootings" if a gun goes off, it's a school shooting even if it's a misfire from an LEOs gun in the parking lot.
Always check the meta-data, that shows the true intentions of the analysis.
True story Americans own a lot more guns than the statistics say we do .
"It's football" says the man that doesn't understand the England invented the name "soccer" which comes from "Association Football". 😁
I have a much bigger issue with them calling armoured rugby "football".
A fine way to think of America/Canada vs Europe is as follows:
In Europe, 1000 years is a long time and 100 miles is a long way.
In America, 100 years is a long time and 1000 miles is a long way.
Owning your own means of transportation is practically mandatory, ESPECIALLY outside of major metropolitan areas
27:05 Just in case anyone believe it. That is completely fake.
In fact, the order is the opposite. Color is older than colour.
French has always been the language of the nobility, especially in England, and adding extra letters without sound like in French was in vogue in the court (It is obviously much more complicated than just that, but as a funny summary).
That is also why the animal is a pig, but the meat is pork. Or lamb and mouton. The meat names usually come from French, as the nobility were the ones eating the more meat and they use French words for that, while the animals were taken care by the commoners.
In fact, so many quirks of English come from the fact that it is in theory a germanic language which common usage vocabulary has more French+Latin words than words from Germanic origin. The syntax is where the "Germanic" appears.
Not within English it isn't. Yes, we could say that "color" is older, but that is only if we leave the bounds of English, and look at Latin. Within English itself, the word is taken directly from Old French "colour", spelt with a u. It was not taken directly from Latin "color" at all.
Americans: "There are two kinds of people, those who measure in metric, and those who landed on the moon."
Werner Von Braun: "Vot ze fuck?"
12:51 I put the tea bag in my mouth and chug hot water.
Also the Kinder Surprise is called a Kinder Joy in South-Afrika.
The reason for the New (city name) naming convention is because we decided those names when we were still part of the British colonies. So York in Britain becomes New York in North America. So technically, the British made that choice. (Except New Mexico, I don't know exactly why we call it that).
Because it, Texas, & California were actually Mexican colonies prior to the Mexican-American War. Just made sense to call it New Mexico.
Right, right. That makes sense.
32:00 In Greece, we call it "Old woman's hair" 🤣🤣🤣
The issue with the gun topic is that most Europeans don't actually know American laws, just what they hear on the news which mind you, is Highly politicized and polarized by both sides. A lot of people don't realize that most of the laws they want in place for gun control, ALREADY EXIST. You cannot buy a firearm if you have a criminal record, you cannot buy one if you are under 18 for a rifle/shotgun or under 21 for a handgun (reason being is because handguns are concealed carry weapons and you cannot spot them if someone is trying to hide them, whereas a rifle obviously isn't). Automatic weapons are ILLEGAL in the use for your average citizen, only people with an FFL may purchase them, and those are usually restricted to gun manufacturers. You cannot just buy one off the street (legally) you need to buy one from a federally licensed store and go through a background check which runs you through the FBI's database to check that there are no issues to you owning one. This can take anywhere from half an hour to a couple of days. There are plenty more examples but these are just a few to show how people want restrictions in place, that are already there and they don't even know it.
(I'm Canadian) I remember when I first realized I didn't actually know what America's gun laws were
It was like a Plato's cave moment
@@k96man well good on you for either learning them, or at least not claiming to be an expert based on third hand information. Don't get me wrong, there are still some things that could be changed or improved with them. But it's not nearly as bad as it's made out to be.
@@k96man thats me right nlw reading this comment
Just a quick note, FULLY automatic weapons are illegal for the average citizen, most handguns (Most modern guns actually) are automatic.
Just definitions.
Actually civilians can own machine guns in the USA without a fll or sot. Depends on the year or if its a transferable auto sear. And that sear is considered a machine gun so plop it into a modern pdw an there machine gun legally obtained. Or just buy a smg,machinegun, pre 1986 I think is the year. Or get a fll,sot,etc these are ways to get a machine gun. Obviously they cost money.
Guns aren't as bad here as you'd think. There's 70 million gun owners in the US. If there were a problem eith guns the world as a whole would know. Gun safety is highly pushed by us gun owners. If you don't know what youre doing for the love of God do NOT touch it.
This. Literally this. Meanwhile, Europe is being overrun by so-called "Migrants" that gr@pe their women, bully them into taking part in Ramadan with them, and won't even let the local population criticize any of their incompatible practices without getting arrested. Oh, but at least Europeans don't have those super scary guns, right?
Never let them take your guns. Ever. EVER.
A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
While some of these were technically "UK vs. US", they were hilarous and mostly true.
The one about microwaving water seems to be very common. I've seen so many Americans reacting to electric kettles as if they were magical objects.
as an American who started using an electric kettle about a year ago.... that is in fact magical because the tea does taste better and it shouldn't
@@josiahshaw1323 That's nice. Enjoy your tea without nuking water first. :)
i think the confusion about electric kettles has more to do with the kettle being electric instead of one you put on the stove
@@alaxbird4954 nah it’s an affront to the almighty microwave
@@josiahshaw1323 "Chef Mike" does it all, huh?
brits complainin about 28 degrees heat wave while we mediterennians casually endure 42 degrees
because we are humid making it much worse, we are used to cooler temperatures, our houses are built to keep in heat, we don't have ac
@@Moonlite_Kitsune we don't have AC in mediterrania. we are also very humid, and also have same type of concrete or brick houses. it ain't no excuse
it's always vital to know where you are living. If you are born and raised in a country with higher base temperatures, you are pretty much used to it being hot so it does not affect you that much, when it's not out of the ordinary. Places like England have very mild temperatures so people up there are used to entirely different temperatures. I know someone from Cuba, who now lives in Denmark. He had trouble getting used to the cool weather and last i spoke to him he complained how hot it is in cuba, after visiting his parents there for a week.
This post also reminded me that i should contact him again. It's been some time.
@@Desgaroth We as humans adapt, that's true.
And then when it's 5c and raining on the regular and everyone's like "Don't go out there!! You'll catch a cold!" And we're just like: "It's fucking lovely outside, stop whining."
Europeans: "Americans are so bad at geography!"
Americans: "Locate 5 American states on the map."
Europeans: "😱😱😱"
18:53 fun fact: America has ~124 guns per 100 people. Yes, we have more guns than people.
There should be more.
6:06 its called FOOTBALL
Anyone who tries to take my guns away is trying to get me robbed
Perpetual fear and anxiety. What a miserable way for a country to be
@@MW_Asura that’s the whole point, I’m not afraid
@@MW_AsuraI'll gladly have guns if it means Europeans get irrationally mad and comment dozens of times wasting their lifetime
@@MW_Asura Live in New York for a month and then tell me you'd feel safer without a gun. Go ahead, I dare you.
@@MW_Asura And by that, I mean the city
I almost died once trying to go to McDonald's in Russia during winter. Awesome experience felt like the guy in the climbing mount Everest movies when they almost all die and finally find civilization mere minutes before collapsing from hypothermia. Cathartic experience
To explain the NEW [City name] thing, America was filled with people from different countries and they were the ones who named those cities (mainly)
You guys going crazy over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, when it gets to around 106 around here and it’s normal
It's not the GUN it's the person using it
Exactly. And besides, gun control only takes guns away from law abiding citizens, but the criminals will just say lmao XD and be the only ones left with guns.
Yeah, that is why the restrictions are put on the person, you need to get a mental check and a license in Europe among other things, just as if you want to get a car you need a driving license which requires health checks and tests too
@@zdub93 A lot of law abiding citizens can suddenly snap.. Been proven a million times. So I would rather John doesn't have a gun when he gets pissed at his neighbour..
Yeah, but the USA gives guns to people who shouldn't have them.. That's the whole point of gun control. So only people who CAN be trusted, own guns.
wrong ! the difference is that in most other countries the government gives you permission to have rights where as in America the constitution says that rights come from God and the government is not a higher authority than God. Read the Canadian constitution/ bill of rights, on free speech it basically say you can talk unless the government does not want you to.
In the US are walls are made of sheetrock, which is basically cardboard strengthened with plaster.
0:29 wie call them pommes
12:40 all the tea in america is in the boston harbour RAAAAHHHH🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
waste any more tea and I'll personally feed all of you a bag of crisps and raw tea leaves
Regardless of gun control legislation, it's undeniably safer to own a gun than to not own one. Especially when you consider that criminals and the mentally ill don't care what the laws are and will obtain one anyway.
And besides, most criminals are opportunists, if happen apon "somebody that's strapped", they go away because getting shot hurts (understatement lmao). Also it's the inner cities that have this problem.
Kitsu telling us she doesn't know about humidity, while not telling us she knows about humidity.
As an American I don't drink tea.
3:10 Fun Fact: it’s actually technically illegal to use the american flag design on your clothes. it’s not enforced, but it’s generally understood as a trademark of the national government. and unlike the copyright for steamboat willy, trademarks don’t end as long as you renew them
7:55 It's not true... Instead they will mock you and act that if you don't have a car and drivers license that you have pissed on their ancestors grave... Coming from a 39 year old man born, raised, and still living in California and never had a drivers license. Our Public Transport is complete ass in the majority of the USA though. Thankfully California has better than most Public Transport.
12:29 This may alarm you and you may need to sit down... The vast majority of Americans do NOT have teapot/kettles or things of that nature. We are also hella lazy and there is a reason there are microwave instructions for Pop Tarts.
"i'm in florida, i drove for 9 hours, and i'm still in florida"
so there are good examples and bad examples.
i live in portland on the west coast, i can drive south for 12 hours and be in sacramento.
in places like california and florida, traffic is so terrible it is just like europeans imagine. but in a large portion of the USA, you can drive for hours at higher speeds than is the speed limit in most of europe, and you are still in the same state. from where i live it is 5 hours south to get to cali, 1 hour north to get to washington, and another 7 hours to get to canada. to get to mexico is like 20 hours.
the speed limit and amount of traffic really distorts this one.
you might notice that all those routes are north south, and it is cause stuff east of the rockies doesn't exist or matter. when europeans ask for directions to new york by car, the general answer is to say there are signs, but there will be more signs faster if you start driving east, and then go north. if you hit maine, back track, there will eventually be a sign. in LA you are closer to t-posing jesus in brazil or peru or w/e than new york. asking for directions to the statue of liberty in LA is asking for directions to the red square when you are in portugal, the distance is 30 Km different.
Well guns are highly regulated in America and you have to go though many background checks to buy one. I would say the majority of gun owners are responsible and won't do anything stupid. Yes there are unresponsible gun owners and I agree that they shouldn't own a gun but we have them so we can protect ourselves from anything that wishes to harm us. (No hate btw and it is understandable that people make the assumption that guns aren't regulated with all the news about gun violence)
People microwave tea unless you get a coffee maker that does tea. We don't use kettles. I have a thousand dollar espresso maker that handles my tea
okay that last part is unfathomably based
So for any of my brits who think adding a U to everything is the correct spelling. You're using the french spelling. The original spelling for words like color didn't use a U, however when the french would translate french literature into english they spelt many words with an unnecessary U. As a result english writers would include the U in works intended for consumption outside of Britain. This can even be scene in Shakespeare's manuscripts, where he uses color and colour interchangibly, sometimes both variants in the same sentence. However he preominantly used the color spelling. Infact it didn't even become standard to use the colour spelling until the 19th century, and America didn't change it because they were across the ocean and couldn't give a shit about "literary fashion" as one called it.
As for the car thing you got to remember Europe could fit into Mainland America alone
Finland uses bricks of butter.
How big is your butter that you call it a brick, and why would you need so much butter???
@@andrewwillcockson8120 They usually weigh 500g = 1,1 pounds. Dimentions are around 7,5cm x 13cm x 5cm (3in x 5,1in x 2in).
@@juhokaartoaho oh i was thinking something a lot bigger.
@@andrewwillcockson8120 I think it's mostly about just because of the similar ratio on dimentions and you can stack thwm like bricks.
No matter how controlled guns are, criminals will always get them. If everyone has access, everyone can protect themselves and decrease the likelihood of criminals using them.
There are quite a few videos of cops being shot at and civilians helping them out and saving their lives.
And then the cops shoot said civilian, for example Johnny Hurley.
@@AMReese
Yeah so good they have a gun to protect themselves from the governments PMC.
All of those city names were named by the Europeans who came here
Never mind who microwaves tea. Who drinks instant coffee!?
If no one else in the world plays the sport, then you're defacto the world champ
19:00 Well, if we rule out one or two certain demographics, America has lower gun crimes per capita than most of Europe. But it's racist to point that out.
Utter bullsht with or without those demographics.
@@MW_AsuraThe crime statistics don’t lie lol
Those demographics are a massive part of the population though, exluding them would be absurd.
@@Ieam0309 13% is huge? LOL
@@Ieam0309 If you exclude a certain demographic from Europe, about 90% of its violent crimes, including rape, especially committed against children, would just disappear.
American here, I usually boil tea in a kettle, but if it's gone cold it's going for a minute in the microwave, and when my old kettle broke it was the microwave or no tea at all.
Happy 4th of July, my fellow americans!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I will never stop microwaving my tea and i'm not sorry. I don't drink it enough to buy a kettle.
Me literally microwaving my tea at this instant: Oh sh*t 💀
0:55 fun fact, this map is actually wrong, there are 3 different countries, one being America two in Europe, that use Fahrenheit.
12:17 How have you not told me it tastes better warm? I thought that was a meme.
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Tbf, it was europeans who named them
And they stayed there... and became Americans... So no. It's not "fair" to say that.
@Unethical.Dodgson Yes, it is. Europeans went to America, settled it, and named the cities after their cities. Americans didn't just puff into existence. It's a development across generations
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Kitsu: *Complaining about how Germany is hot due to England complaining about a 28 degrees (Celsius) heatwave hit them*
Me (an Australian who still lives in Australia): Rookie Numbers *I say whilst wearing double layers of clothes (2 Pants, 2 Shirts plus a zip up jumper) during summer*
The real reason that spelling is different in the US and UK is that English spelling only started to become really standardized after the revolution; earlier dictionaries did exist but only Samuel Johnsons was widely accepted and even then was mostly focused on what was common in the UK. Since by that time common American spellings had already diverged (and in point of fact Samuel Johnson preferred traditional spellings like 'publick' instead of the more common 'public'), there was some movement from American lexicographers especially Noah Webster to publish their own dictionary reflecting the various dialects common across America.
We germans just have the § instead of the pound/hashtag key there.
00:17 as a German, i would still have to approve of this, even while awake.
Calling soccer "soccer", instead of "football" should be legally punished though
The ones who need to be legally punished are the one whining about it as well as needing a history lesson over the name.
12:22 - My father microwaves his black [ - one thicc tea spoon of coffee dust + 1 tea spoon of sugar] coffee kek
In Europe gun more control equals more gun safety.
In America more gun control equals less gun safety.
Gun control, imo, would _only_ be semi-plausible in a culturally-homogeneous nation (see also: Japan).
In nations that pride themselves on multiculturalism like the UK and US, where clashes of cultures are inevitable, it's only a question of time before violence breaks out. The US also borders a cartel-controlled nation, which means smuggling of weaponry and bad actors is inevitable. More often than not, people that would benefit from gun ownership in the inner cities are the ones most frequently victimized by violent offenders that legally cannot own a gun having access to them through the black market.
Meanwhile in South Africa, police knows legal gun owners follow the law so don't bother hampering them with pointless laws and regulations (the roughly 2 million of them) instead they focus their time on the illegal gun owners (estimated at almost 3.9 million)
@@NewTypeDilemma01 For some reason Europeans can't piece together that this is the reason it works there and not here.. Isn't that called confirmation bias?
@@dreymak4071 I mean, no, people know. The same way they know that implementing unuversal healthcare would fuck America for generations to come. But that doesn't make the current state of America any less baffling.
@@Ieam0309 So they know and... are stupid..? is that what you're getting at here? lol cause that wouldn't make them look any better.
12:25. No, I do not microwave my tea. I have a digital scale to weigh the leaves, and use a digital kettle to get the correct temp for the type of tea leaves. Then, I shake my head at England for using the abominations known as Tea Bags.
the amount of times your audio clipped got me bahahaha
19:11 ill agree, they are handled badly, no where in the constitution does it say I need a tax stamp for a suppresser and no where does it restrict what kind of arm I can own, abject bullshit.
The texas SpongeBob meme made me laugh, i remember the state shape because it looks like a downward arrow with a bite taken out of it, appropriate for America
20:00 Italy being mixed XD
Yep, that's their reputation. XD
The kinder surprise egg is banned in the US because it’s illegal to have non-edible objects inside of food
Ya also its a choking hazard.
@@happyjohn354 Well why don’t you just…. learn the difference between what’s food and what’s not 😂?
27:20 no, but yes. England taxed the US
1:34 whats funnier is that there are multiple copies of each name within the US, there are 20 cities named paris in the US
31:36 it's actaually called "Barbe a papa" witch translate to daddy's beard, yes.
it sounds way better than daddy's beard even though it's the same words.
17:50 -
Kinder surprise is illigal in the USA because it promotes gambalings, which is hilarious since AAA games are full of said "gambaling" LMAO
1:35 TO BE FAIR Alexandr the great made like ... 14 Alexandrias and one Bukefala (named after his horse Bukefal)
As a Czech. I can confirm we do not ride on the left (but we do have steering wheel on the left side).. also, that map is from 1922 and that is Czechoslovakia which has split in 1992. (problem is I don't know if that is a real map or not). Anyway, I agree with Kitsu, Americans are stupid for not using a metric system (which is 101% easier to use and accurate) and for not controlling gun laws and everything else related to guns. I honestly fear to visit America for that. I just imagine that I will bring Kinder Suprise and a police will shoot me on the airport.
2:39 Me a croat: PARKING!
So the reason most of us U.S. people are against the gun control laws being so strict is that, a criminal will find a firearm no matter what. A civilian will not be able to defend themselves if the worst happens. We are also against tyrannical rule so if there was ever an overbearing government overstepping boundaries we would have a way to protect our way of life.
Seems Europeans haven't learned anything from WWII..
Also most European countries don't share a border with a cartel nation, the US does, plus most European nations are homogenized societies, the US is not, so there's a higher chance violence in some form breaks out.
Shall not be infringed 🇺🇸
I am confused, why everyone thinks gun control is about taking all guns from civilians?
It should be about giving guns to only responsible people, teaching people to be more responsible and of course taking some crazy guns from them which they do not really need or owning them should be behind very strict rules and tests (or whatever)
Also I do not think people with mere guns will be able to overthrown USA government with its crazy technology if its decide so, I think you idealize it too much. Few bombs here and there and it is done
At least that's what the gun companies and associations tell you. Funny how it's not that big of an issue with strict gun laws. Granted, they find other ways to murder people, but still.
Imagine your life being in imminent danger and the cop is maybe 20 minutes away.
20:21 - plz notice how it says "1922" and not "2022" Thank you.
So correction: Majority of the words Europeans say the US spell wrong actually originated with the British. They are the ones who spelled most of the words originally that came to the US only for the British to decide the French sound fancy and start incorporating some of their idiosyncrasies into the language and changing the words.
TIL: europeans think america is texas and nothing else.
16:10 yes because a singular tumblr post really shows you what the entirety of America means when they say these phrases, yep... lol.
Brazilian here: In case of emergency (no stove and no electrical kettles around) we microwave water and then infuse our tea.
Speaking of electrical kettles, did you guys know we have electrical shower heads for warming up water instead of a central gas heater in most homes?
I don't get the "Europe is small" memes when continental Europe is bigger than the US?
Amcans aren't known for knowing geography after all
These memes are most likely about European Union, but not the whole European continent
Isn't it just talking about the distance between countries? Europe maybe bigger overall, but a lot of the countries are very small, and close together, driving an hour in Europe may get you into another country, in the US, driving an hour is barely enough to get you to the next city, let alone out of the state.
This is a comparison between a singular country, and one of the 7 continents on the entire planet. Europe is absolutely tiny for a continent. The fact it is even SOMEWHAT comparable is ludicrous
Continental Europe (a supposed continent) is BARELY larger than the US (a single country). There are 50 countries in Continental Europe, and they are on average smaller than our average states. Europe is small.
12:29 european after I forget about the tea so it is cold again... You will dirty your kettle if you put the tee in it.
fun fact if america switched to free healthcare europe would lose theirs. the insane prices of medical supplies and medicine in america is to offset the fact that the pharmaceutical companies offer their products to european countries at a loss.
these companies do this in america because as US based companies they have the ability to spend millions lobbying members of congress to keep the laws as such in fact if you do some digging you will find out that some of the US politicians most vocally in favor of free healthcare have major super-pack lobby groups funded by pharmaceutical companies and vote in opposition to what they publicly say they support ( ie bearny sanders, aoc, nanci palosi, etc.)
these pharmaceutical companies then take under the table money from european leadership that is most likely european tax money.
maybe europeans should, instead of laughing at americans for having to pay an arm and a leg for healthcare, be thanking us for doing it so they don't have to.