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as an american...most of us would date something like this 7/26/2022....or 7/26/22 ...or 7/8/2022 or 7/8/22 we would rarely put a...0...before month or day
And exactly how do you know that? Presumably if you did, you would only do so if you did not notice it, and if the recipient likewise did not notice it, how would either of you necessarily know?
@@brentwoodbay That would be understandable to be confusing to you, but America don't need to change anything to accommodate visitors. It's a top currency of the world, maybe others should take the time to learn about it. If I were going to Europe, I would take the time learn about the currency where I'm going.
@@willrobinson4976 Unlike the other way around, visitors arriving in the USA for the first time will know that US currency is all the same size and about the same colour, but that fore knowledge does not make it any easier to use! As Winston Churchill once famously said , "You can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing, after they've tried all the wrong things"!
They also got confuse with our coins, because they're silver looking. Every time I see one of their videos all I can think of is the movie, "Dumb and Dumber".
When my grandfather became almost completely blind, he used to just hand his wallet to the clerk at checkout. That was many years ago when credit cards were used infrequently and people were generally more trustworthy.
Yes, it's confusing when you come from Japan, Korea, Thailand, China, India, Australia, etc., etc when currency color and size are guides to the value. I had a Japanese visitor tip $100 bills once thinking they were $1. So yeah, it can be confusing at first.
Writing the month first is very logical. If you pick up a calendar the first thing written in bold letters is the month and then the boxes with the number dates and day of the week. When I do my weekly planner every page has the month in the header first.
The larger issue is that "6/29" is a direct abbreviation for "June twenty-ninth". Same order. The British order sounds hopelessly archaic and ridiculously formal to Americans. The last time an American said "the twenty-ninth day of June" they followed it up with "in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight," and if they wrote it down, they wrote the year as MCCCMXXXVIII. And they were probably wearing a huge powdered white wig in the George Washington style.
We never include a 0 before the single digit month, and rarely before single digit days (at least when writing it). When I worked international shipping and had to write a date on a pallet, abbreviated month, number date, full year...French sevens with the cross to alleviate confusion with a 1....things like that.
Ok, I am from the Pacific Northwest. About coffee on the go. There is nothing I like to do more on a weekend morning, is walk to the coffee shop, then leisurely walk back home, looking at all the gardens, what’s blooming, new cats coming up to say hello. Or later in the day, there is nothing like window shopping while sipping a coffee.
And I'm from the same region and I'd rather sit. I think it's just a random preference. I'm not sure why they even brought this up. But I suppose it's next to impossible to imagine living in a country 40 TIMES the size of your own, not knowing each state is sovereign with its own particular culture and even laws.
I find it weird that foreigners think it's "odd" that American's are friendly and say "hello, how are you doing today" and things like that. It's called being friendly. It must suck to live in other nations where people must be unfriendly and just not speak to you. So bizarre.
What Americans call "friendly", the rest of the world grow up seeing, in general, as "I want to hurt you or rob you if I speak to you and I don't know you in public" and you're not talking to someone on purpose in a business.
We find it werid that you are freindly . Its just diffrent cultures. What makes you think we don't talk to each other ? We are just more guarded that's all
@@hannahdyson7129 Ahhhh, The video that you obviously didn't bother to watch made me think that .... you know this video where it is clearly stated that you would not talk to someone in a coffee shop even though you see them every day for YEARS.... Actually watching the video before commenting might be something for you to look into... Thanks.
@@jwb52z9 So if a person working at the coffee shop say's, "Hi, how are you today", you assume they want to rob you.... got it! You must live in a strange and violent place.
As an American I can unterstand what Joel and Lia are saying. It's one thing to be polite and say "Good morning." or "How are you today?" It's something completely different for a complete stranger to be asking for my life story. Perhaps it's because I'm an introvert, or because I perfer to stay out of other people's drama, but I always feel strange after having a conversation with a stranger who basically tells me their life story for no reason. I had that happen when I'm working and all I could think of was "I'm just doing my job so I don't get in trouble with my boss. I don't exacly have time for a long conversation." I just want to go about my day and get home in a timely manner. It's not because I'm rude or anything. In fact I've had many strangers tell me that I'm a sweet girl and very polite simly because I say "Good morning" when someone meets my eyes.
Different sizes is much kinder to those who are visually impaired. It's almost impossible for blind folks to deal with American paper money without help.
If you watch "Lost in the Pond" videos Lawrence will tell you that at one time, England did their dates the same way we did, but later adopted the,Continental System. Whereas the USA, because we weren't connected to Europe, never saw the need to change.
Except the US military uses the DD/MM/YYYY format, stemming from our cooperation in WW2. Personally, I think this is one thing that Europe does that makes sense since it is in increasing units of time. Not that it's a huge deal either way. We just write it as we say it though. No one says the 14th day of December, 2023 rather December 14th, 2023.
When we are first taught currency we are encouraged to put our "notes" in order from highest to lowest (not everyone maintains this habit). My bills are arranged as $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 people rarely carry many "bills." I usually carry $20 cash, if my wallet is lost/stolen I lose less cash. Our coins are different sizes, thicknesses and the edges are different some smooth, with ridges etcetera, we can distinguish our coins by touch without looking at them. This also aids the blind to identify coins
Glad to know my bills must be arranged in a certain order. Drives me nuts! I carry higher bills until I reach my hotel. Breakdown money for doorman, bellhop, house keeping, or other hotel requests on my behalf. Most bills are kept in a safe.
@@michellewilliams8188 I stayed at a hotel 25 years or so ago, it was brand new, it had a safe in the closet, my laptop wouldn't fit in it, I tested setting a combination on it without closing the door, we got nickel and dime'd $10 for each night for touching the safe. Also stay away from a peek at pay per view movies, they track that too, in the older days if you "walked in the middle" of a program you got charged, if the credits started rolling you better tune elsewhere to avoid additional charges. A roadside motel my parents stayed at when they came to see me in 1983 or 84, had a extra coax going into the back of the television, they wanted to play a video shot that day, so we took one off, not knowing the office would have been OK if we told them first and left a licenseat the counter, within 5 minutes the police were at their door.. we didn't know they chosen a bad neighborhood to Inn at.
@@thatsJoetastic That's partly a generational difference. Usages like "quarter to three" and "half past six" are most common among people who remember (or even still use) analog clocks.
As an American who is underwhelmed with many aspects of my culture, I actually love chatting up a stranger and vice versa. You need to know when it's appropriate--not when someone is obviously busy or in a hurry, not when it'll look like you're hitting on someone's significant other. But it shows you care/take an interest in other people, especially if you're complimenting them or asking a question bc you're interested in what they're doing. It builds a sense of community and lets people know you care. I especially love doing it if I know I'm knowledgeable about something and can help, like at a grocery store or a plant nursery, bc I can be really helpful and save someone money or disappointment. Think of it as a compliment.
I think the casual aspect of chatting up serves a purpose here in the US. In dense areas, when we have to wait in line (on queue), which we hate, it relives pressure and awkwardness, helps you find the degree of separation (oh my roommates mom works there do you know her), and you do end up seeing the same people. It's a hurd thing so we know whom we might be able to work with if something bad suddenly happens. On the other side of that, there is an overbearing quality to so many Men in particular that is what can best be described as skeevey.
I have never in my life confused any bills for any other bills lol. We recognize the numbers and the pictures! Why would we confuse the color of bills when our bills have never had color?! It’s like asking someone who’s never had a dog what it’s like to not have a dog. They don’t know! They have a cat or a bird lol.
It’s sounds a bit childish to need color to identify bills. It reminds me of that kids clothing company that had colored tags so children could match their clothes. :).
I'm reminded of a child that just couldn't wrap her brain around the concept that my parents not having a dog is their normal state. she couldn't comprehend that a person might simply choose to not have one.
The colors are useful if you are paying for something with a small stack of one’s or fives, making it very obvious if a story 100 happened to be in the middle of them. Different sizes are even more helpful , especially for the visually impaired. Also, why not produce all US currency by consistent logic? I mean, why are coins different sizes? And why on earth is a nickel smaller than both a dime and a penny?
@@fordhouse8b our nickel is bigger and that has to do with what they used to be made of. A penny was 1 cent worth of copper, a nickel was 5 cents worth of nickel, and a dime was 10 cents worth of sterling silver. As for the color of notes; there are color differences, now, but each bill has a sufficiently different pattern that it is noticeable. Also, once a new pattern of bill is introduced, the old ones go out of circulation pretty fast, so any difference in pattern is more noticeable. We have them all the same size because multiple sizes would require replacement of every currency processing machine in the country.
@@fordhouse8b maybe for the visually impaired? ;). Or perhaps because coins tend to be in a jumble in a pocket or coin purse, so the various sizes do help everyone in that case. I personally enjoy the colorful euro notes but have never had a problem with the US ones either. I think these two Brits, though, are stretching a bit for video content! It seems others do as well. :)
I may forget your name... get lost driving every once in a while... lose track of a jacket. But I will never tip $50 instead of $5. That will not happen. 😆 Also, the only time we say the date the European way is the 4th of July.
The small talk myth. I just visited London and Norfolk. Small talk on the train, went shopping on high street Kensington with another solo woman I met at a lunch spot, had a 20 minute chat with a lady on a park bench. Had to send a Scottish man back to his wife while chatting on a tour. Young British single mom traveling with her son shared her life story with me while waiting for a bus. Young mom from Birmingham shared her refreshments and helped me with directions on the tube after festival (new friend that I would call if I went to the Commonwealth games next month). Met a retired Physician at another spot and had a long conversation about his career and retirement in the U.K. Any new best friends? No. Great shared acquaintance moments that simply bring a little joy to your day? ABSOLUTELY.
Probably they were so happy to see an American & finally have a friendly person to talk to - glad we are open & friendly to the friends we just haven’t met yet…
@@charlenefriesen5050 I'm J&L's parents age so maybe there are real generational differences? Time and life challenges, by themselves, can humble the spirit.
To your point about how we Americans write dates. You said that you go from smallest to biggest, but there are 12 months in a year and 365 days in a year (not to mention 30/31 days per month) so we are really the ones going from smallest to biggest. ❤️you 2!
I think she meant smallest to largest in the sense that a 'day' is smallest (24 hours), a month (28-31 days) is the next largest ,then a year is the largest at 365 days.
@@billhansen5973 Sure you can can play with numbers by hours or any way you like to make them appear to make sense. But logically and value wise Joel and Lia are correct the day would have to be the smallest value, then the month 2nd biggest (or medium) then the year would have to have the largest value to properly measure and calculate dates. Which is how computers store dates left to right the Year first then month then day, so that year has the largest value and the day has the smallest value (Ex Jan 2 2022 would be stored as 20220102 (year, month, day)). If it were stored the way Americans or Europeans use it, with the day or month first (or left) it would be un-usable for computers. Jan 1st of 2023 (01012023) would have lower value than than Jan 2 of 2022 (01022022 or 02012022). The only way it works mathematically is if the day is the smallest value, not the month. But for human reader this all completely irrelevant, people are not using the dates logically. They are merely using it in the order in which they were taught to display and read them. Month first or day first is not better than the other, its just different.
Brits not starting conversations with strangers. I vaguely remember hearing a joke years ago based on the idea. I think it went something like: Did you hear about the British couple who've been married 40 years but never spoken to each other? They're still waiting for someone to introduce them.
As an American who grew up in the 70s, we always said half past, quarter past, quarter of 7 (of, not to). But as digital became the norm everyone just started saying 7:15/7:30/7:45. Hope this helps!!
I always say quarter to, not quarter of. I grew up in the '80s and '90s. Also say quarter after and half past. But I'm just as likely to say 3:15, 3:30, or 3:45.
Couple of notes:,We Americans don't get to choose the color our money bc basically the government prints the money... we just live with it. think talking to strangers is a cultural thing probably from the south especially the rural South where everybody knows everybody. It might have just spread when people moved to the cities but I'm just guessing...
Challenge for Joel and Lia. Open the calendar app on your phone and go to the 7th. When you think “the 7th of which month?”, you’ll know why Americans put the month first … it’s the information you need first to use the calendar.
@@datura0000 When labeling with years for instance google docs folders, I would put October 2021, for physical documents categorize by the year first, then separate into months, and so on.
If only there were the number printed on US money to make it easy to quickly identify it... Oh wait... Seriously, it takes no longer to look at a number than it does a color.
With different colors, you only have to get the tiniest glimpse of a sliver of the edge of a bill in a stack to know it is a different denomination than the rest of the bills.
In retail transactions, the bills can be mistaken. Sometimes on purpose. Either party can make the mistake. It's why cashiers are trained to say the amount the customer is giving them. I was shortchanged by a cashier once, and told later that their till balanced. I was left wondering if that was done on purpose.
The designs on our various bank notes are *very* distinctive, there's very little chance of confusing a five with a twenty. Multicolored money only appears in America within the board game "Monopoly" and thus looks "phony" to us. "Monopoly money" is slang for "counterfeit money" and we mock foreign currency for resembling it.
It’s also got the numbers all over it, so the only way your going to accidentally tip $50 instead of $3 is if you literally don’t look at it at all. You’d have to just be blindly pulling out money and throwing it down.
Money in America is easy to tell apart, they all have different faces on and say the amount on each bill as well. The coins are different sizes and pennies are a different color from the rest of the coins.
When you've lived here all of your life you just learn how to tell the difference. I've never mistaken a $1 bill for a $50 bill. You look at the corner of the bill and it will easily tell you quickly the value of that bill. As far as coins, we have pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. From what I understand you have more coins there in the UK. As far as telling time here for 3:15 we was either say it just like that or quarter after 3:00. Then with 3:45 we would say quarter to 4:00. It's not very common here to refer to the half hour as half past 3:00. Usually if it's half past an hour you would just say 3:30.
I think the phrase she was thinking of was eg "ten of six" meaning 5.50. Here in the UK that phrase isn't used but rather you would say "ten to six" instead
@@NickLea oh okay gotcha. I would say it's pretty interchangeable here. Sometimes you would say 10 of 6 sometimes you would say 10 to 6:00. I would also say quarter of and quarter to interchangeably as well.
US currency is always good It can be 100 years old and it’s still good. It’s the same size because we use Intaglio Presses. They are engravings. The design is regulated by Congress. US currency has a distinct feel and is recognized world wide. It is very difficult to counterfeit and the two biggest sources of counterfeits were a Country in Asia and A Guy in South America. Takes about four weeks to make a dollar from start to finish.
The numbers on the paper money are on all 4 corners, front and back, plus written longhand in multiple places on the bills, including microprinting to deter counterfeiting. And there are very subtle color changes in the paper now. It still isn't vision-impaired-friendly, but sighted people don't have any problems.
Excatly. The coins are all different sizes, with the exception for the quarter ($0.25) and the dollar coin. The Susan B Antony dollar coins are silver and easily mixed up with a quarter. The Sacagawea dollar coins are gold colored, but almost quarter sized. Neither dollar coin caught on as in the US, people usually don't carry change anymore. It goes into the little cups and nooks in your car for the drive thru. Pennies are copper colored and are the only other coin in service that is not silver, besides the Sacagawea dollar. Of course even longtime American's can be tripped up by the $2 paper bill if they have never seen them before. Lots of stories of people thinking that they are fake, since they are rarely used.
In retail transactions, the bills can be mistaken. Sometimes on purpose. Either party can make the mistake. It's why cashiers are trained to say the amount the customer is giving them. I was shortchanged by a cashier once, and told later that their till balanced. I was left wondering if that was done on purpose.
As an American, when telling time I do say half past, quarter past etc as well as 2:15, 2:45... It may have to do with whether you learned to tell time on an analog or digital clock. What confused me when I was in England was the use of 24 hour time especially for arrival and departure times for transportation. I had to do some quick math in my head. Many of us here refer to that as "military time" because most civilians never use it. It's the time am or pm.
@@honeybeebgs2 As the other comment said, it's from "Mathematics", but the reasoning is that American and British English have a different way of thinking about collective nouns and pluralization. American English assumes that any noun ending in S is plural while British English doesn't.
@@Pottszy Thanks for explaining the origin of "maths". In my experience, it's one of those words that bothers a lot of Americans because to our ears it doesn't sound grammatically correct. I never thought about horseback riding but now that you mention it you make a good point. It really doesn't make sense.
@@honeybeebgs2 I have always understood why they say it that way, I can even understand their logic, but Maths is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. It's the one Britishism I just can't find cute & charming.
I think it due to the fact that everyone has cell phones now a days. So when someone asks what the time is, they expect a precise time. They want to know the exact minute. So if you say "It's approximately half past 3" they might prefer you tell them the exact minute.
😃 I'm commenting as I watch what is odd is that Europeans always say it's unusual that Americans talk to strangers but foreigners strike up random conversations with us when they are in America. I suppose when in America do as Americans do.
A mistake with cash? NEVER. There are differences in design as well as the portrait. We recognize the differences instantaneously. Nope - we use quarter past and quarter to also.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills: "That's $12.50 ... out of $20." And sometimes it's on purpose. It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10. Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money. And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
@@papamaniac2410 both ways of saying the 185th or 186th day of the year in the U.S. fall on Independence Day. Growing up in the midwest, we usually referred to Independence Day as 'the Fourth'. If you asked anyone what their plans were for 'the Fourth', you were not misunderstood.
Thank you for admitting it. It is so true. If someone makes a romantic (or even just a friendly) gesture toward another person and they are handsome, then they are so romantic and awesome. But if an ugly person did the exact same thing, then they are called creeps and jerks. This is what you call hypocrisy (as well as shallow).
@@ginnyjollykidd very true, but that is not what I was saying. I was talking about how differently ugly people and handsome people are treated whenever both happen to do the exact same thing. The ugly person is not treated the same as the handsome person. The attention of the handsome person is often welcomed, but the ugly person is shunned.
In fact, one came through my cashier line and tried to pick me up. Fortunately, 5 feet away, three of my managers were there to say stern words to this man. I am happy to say no one ever did that to me again. (He kissed my hand! Blecch!)
The MMDDYYYY date came from Britain and old newspapers from the 1800's prove it. The UK switched to the Euro system and the US kept the original British system. Just like the word "soccer" we Americans got it from y'all.
Never confused a 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 ,100. It's just automatic. Pull a bill from the wallet and instantly know what it is. Eyes are trained to zero in where to look to see the denomination instantly.
Incase anyone is curious, the way we say and write the date (Month/Day/Year) is the traditional British way that was adopted way back when our country was founded by former British citizens. The current way Brits write and say the date (Day/Month /Year) didn't become a thing until the early 1900s, when it was adopted from the way some European countries wrote and spoke the date. Due to British colonization, many countries around the world use the current British format of Day Month Year now.
If you want to be upset about the date/year writing system here in America, you need to take that up with the old Brits. We kept the original dating system from that time. So, in actuality you need to upset with yourselves!😜😂
In reality most people in the UK don't give a dam. It's just these two mainly The comments responding to this video are telling . Scolding these two while putting down entire countries because of two people . The arrogance . Christ .
@@hannahdyson7129 Hannah, of course, feels compelled to comment on every post. Sounds as though you don’t care for Americans - why watch, as their primary audience is American?
@@ImStuckInStockton some people say it that way, but many say it 29th of July (as in the 29th day of July). It's how I would say it, I don't think I've ever said it the other way round.
So if you have to write down an event on your calendar or in your phone's calendar, what information do you need first? The Month, so you can turn, or swipe, to the correct page.
@@jwb52z9 So if you’re handed a desk calendar (the type with one page per date) and are asked to jot something down for the 11th of March, you don’t first find the month? Certainly you don’t start with all the elevens and work your way up to March. Or is that an example of how ‘most of the world’ thinks differently?
Americans don't need Monopoly colours to tell their notes apart, we have these things called numbers that are big and bold on the note to tell us. Also, the portraits are a good clue as well.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills: "That's $12.50 ... out of $20." And sometimes it's on purpose. It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10. Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money. And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
The money one is pretty easy for the non-brain-damaged - if it has a "1" on it, it's worth one dollar. If it has a "5" on it it's a five, etc. I know, so CONFUSING, right?
When you grow up with green money, you quickly learn to look at the numbers -- and at which historical figure is pictured. We don't tend to confuse a $5 with a $20.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills: "That's $12.50 ... out of $20." And sometimes it's on purpose. It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10. Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money. And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
I can’t understand how any of you manage to have any friends, whatsoever. My goodness! To think, all these years I’ve been led to believe that you were all so nice & polite. I think that maybe you are, but it’s rather superficially nice & polite. I don’t think I’d like relying on someone else in order to meet other people. Can you even imagine just how many wonderful, loyal, & compassionate people you must miss out on meeting? You poor guys! Well, now I feel sorry for y’all !!
I think the writing of the date may have something to do with business filing systems. It makes more sense to file by month rather then file by day. I can’t imagine needing all the paperwork for January and having to look through day 1 - 31, instead of just grabbing one monthly folder. So, since business is broken down monthly…7/21/2022. My best guess, but I can see where it would be confusing internationally.
Not true Joel & Lia about the date thing. Canadians write the date the same way as Americans. Now that you guys spent a couple of weeks here, I would've thought you'd known that.
Americans have to be more careful than the rest of the world in terms of money. If you're not used to all money looking similar, a fast look won't tell you anything.
@@jwb52z9 Yep Agreed especially if you have U.S bills folded and you can't see the number. Whereas if the bills were different colors and sizes you would know what it is without needed to unfold it to know what it is.
When you sort by smallest to largest, they will sort 01-01-2022 01-02-2022 01-03-2022 You sort your way and you'll get 01-01-2022 02-01-2022 03-01-2022 Ours is in order, England's is not... IT MAKES SENSE 😀
Americans don't become friends with strangers. Just because a waiter was chatting you up dosen't mean anything. If he did it to you then most likely that is the way he talks to women but he isn't expecting you to go on a date.
Americans think that it is weird that you would feel strange customizing your food in a restaurant that you are paying for. In America, we are big on individuality, and have been since our country was founded. For the most part, customer service is big in the US unlike in Europe.
The way we write out date is the way we say them. Today is July 21, 2022. So we automatically would go with 7-21-22. It’s my understanding that in other countries they would say today’s date as 21 July 2022. That just sounds off to me.
I think Americans want to talk to everyone, especially foreigners, because we are by nature very curious. When you realize that we are living on a whole big continent, we want to know what it is like in Europe, etc. I ate dinner with an Irish woman for five nights before she finally spoke to me. She had one question -- “Why are Americans so successful?”
Also, the month is only ever gonna go up to 12, the day of the month will go as high as 31, so often times the number itself goes smallest to biggest from left to right
Does British military or hospitals use half past or quarter 'til when telling time? The hour hand denotes the hour while the minute hand denotes the minutes. For example, 5:15pm is 1515 In military time. Military time is the most accurate form of telling time. Civilians would say 5:15, 5:15pm, 5:15 in the afternoon, 15 passed 5, a quarter passed/after 5. Some may even say 45 'til 6. These are all in common usage here. Whether a "digital" clock or an analog clock, each number denotes a measure of hour and minutes. For minutes, 1=5 minutes, 7=35 minutes,11=55 minutes. When taught as a child you learn this. To say it is incorrect to say the hour followed by minutes is incorrect is a little ignorant on your part. Wear a watch. This way you won't have to ask an American for the time which obviously causes both your heads to spin.
Why do Brit’s always say the rest of the world ? They confuse Brits. It doesn’t mean it confuses any other random countries citizens that visit or move here . I have met Thais or Chinese that don’t have the same problems as say a Brit who comes here. Why does the UK represent the whole world outside the US?
@@jwb52z9 yea - I lived in Asia and worked with many Brit’s and Europeans - they don’t represent anyone but the UK- but they always state they represent the world. That’s like me as an American going to the UK say the rest of the world thinks it’s funny you say tube instead of subway - sure in the UK - Americans might think it’s funny sounding but it doenst mean Japanese do etc etc .
As a Brit who's kinda a picky eater, I love customising my meals when I eat out, if I can order a meal without onions or tomatoes, I will just be so happy. For me at least, onions can ruin a meal. That's why subway is one of my favourite places to eat out.
i think the food customising trend began due to food allergies or dietary needs. As a person with food allergies it would suck to find something that looks delicious but I can't eat simply because of one ingredient that i could take out myself if I were to make the food. There are also a lot of people in America that have dietary restrictions due to health promblems like having to eat foods with reduced or no sodium or having to eat less acidic foods (like tomatoes). In some cases the problematic items can't simply be picked off by the person (those with shrimp or peanut allergies may understand what i mean) if the food even touched something like that it could cause sometimes severe reactions to the customer.
@@bkm2797 So the colors are on newer bills/notes. We don’t get rid of older notes in circulation in the us, which is what i think Joel was insinuating when he reminded Lia to use her old 20 pound notes (is that true that the UK gets rid of older notes?). So u will most likely still see bills that are only shades of green if their from about 2005 or earlier.
@@hannahdyson7129 More of the same… ridiculed if they stood in front of me with a $10 and asked how much it was? Come on - from your other comments, it would appear you’re very easily embarrassed or are looking for something to complain about. Jesus.
I'm 58 and agree, but I do understand the 'half' and 'quarter' usage . It sounds so stupid, but as a child I would hear my mother say 'be there at a quarter past 5, and I would think 5:25, because I based it on our coinage. It all has to do with how one is raised
No offense but I can see why Americans think the Brit’s are snobs. Chatting up with others are just a way of being friendly. I do it all the time. My husband use to ask me if I knew the the person and I tell him no just talking and being friendly. I’ve worked in the public for over 40 years so just a habit to talk to strangers.
It's not just British people, but when it is British people, it's the British who grew up in more populated cities and towns. Most Europeans think talking to strangers is very strange. If you smile at a stranger in Germany, for example, they are trained to think you want to rob or hurt them and they'll walk the other way to get away from you in most cases.
Joel, you must try a tomato sandwich, season it how you like. Best Southern style is white bread, mayo, tomato, salt and pepper. Also, the BLT is a must.
For dates, you say (for example) "the 22nd of July", whereas we say "July 22nd". The verbal form in US is more compact, so maybe that's why we write the numbers month-first
@@jefflewis4Most Americans will say July 4th as "The Forth of July". But not use that form when saying any other day of the year. This is because the day is synonymous with America's Independence Day. Saying this date, and only this date, in the slightly more formal way to indicate it is more important than all other days of the year.
The notes have numbers on them. We don’t make mistakes. The numeric value is repeated in both numeric and spelled out form between six and eight times on each side of the bill or note.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills: "That's $12.50 ... out of $20." And sometimes it's on purpose. It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10. Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money. And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
I’m an American and in reguards to the money color . . . . I’m color impaired!!!! I LOOK at the F’in number on it!! A one has a 1, a ten dollar bill has a 10, a twenty has 20, a fifty has Grant and a 50 etc., etc. On the time issue. Older folks used to say half past or quarter til etc. but younger ones never learned to read an anolog clock ⏰ only digital that reads out 3:45 instead of quarter til.
Why does it matter? We are not European, we are a different country hence we do things differently. Who cares if you're confused. There are plenty of people all over the world (from other countries) who understand every country is different. We should celebrate differences. This is yet another video that if you look at your past videos is just regurgitated.
@@jwb52z9 this channel had a lot of potential as a travel vlog. It's disappointing as a viewer to see the path of negativity that they've been on recently. I still tune in hoping that their content will improve, but I'm starting to tune out. The ever decreasing views show that others are doing just that, tuning out.
Fun? Its really not fun to watch the same exact videos from these two. They are patronizing and condescending. I watched hoping for something fun, but apparently your idea and my idea of fun are very different. Have fun watching the same videos on the same topics over and over again from these two. Have loads of fun being critical of everything, I for one have found channels that do the same thing, but happen to do it with a sense of humor. This channel is mean spirited.
I didn’t find this insulting - but I like the American way to talk to strangers. We just don’t want to waste time and I have made great friends this way.
Money - we just look at our bills (notes to you) they have big denomination numbers on all four corners, front and back and the denomination is spelled out on both the front and back, and they all have different portraits and pictures. And the different denominations ARE different colors - have been for several years now - except for the one and two dollar bills, they're still plain. And the coins a) aren't all silver-colored and b) are different sizes and have different edge textures so even the blind can differentiate between them. And on how we write the date, that's so that everyone in the world has something to hate about us. We think of it as a public service. You're welcome. 🙂
I like how we Americans write the date, one if follows a Calendar with month on top then date but also for computer organizations if day first then files of different months are all together while it you put month first then it’s easy to find what you need cause it’s organized better
As for the dating system: exactly HOW does it mean anything to me to know that it's "the 29th" unless I first know what the flaming f--- it's "the 29th" OF ?!? FIRST establish the month, then refine that by establishing the particular day OF that month which it happens to be. 🧐
When people ask when your birthday is, they prefer to know the month first, because it is easier to remember that way. And if you are planning something far in advance, it's probably best to say the month first, so you can turn your calendar to that month. It's harder to remember dates all the time. But easier to remember the month. People also like to know the month because they want to know your horoscope.
I find it odd that you all don’t speak to strangers. When standing in line it passes time and then you’re happy because you’ve had a pleasant encounter. One of my closest friends started as my barista.
The reason we put the month first is because that's how you would say it. We would say today is July Twenty-Firsts. Therefore, 07/21. In the US, we very often use quarter past, half past, or quarter to. Don't know why you think we don't. What throws us is when you say something like "It's half seven". Is that half past seven? or is it 6:30?
I can't get over the idea that their money expires. Money doesn't lose value in the US, even if they stop producing a certain style/design of a bill/note.
I was also shocked to learn that a British note I had left from a previous trip to the UK was worthless. I guess when there’s a change, the government notifies the public they have until “X” date to spend the money or exchange it for a new note. I’ve seen it in other countries as well, but for an American it is really different that what was once legal tender is no longer legal.
We've had the "plastic money" here in Canada for a decade. One unexpected benefit is that they're thinner than paper notes. "Who cares?", you might ask. Well, it means if you've got a lot of notes, they actually take up less space in your wallet, purse, or pocket. Plus you never have to worry about them being destroyed if you accidentally put them through the washing machine :)
Lol 😂 the money thing is killing me 😂😂😂 if your a born American you wouldn’t “ accidentally “ give a $50 tip instead of $5 🙄🙄🙄 plus they all have different presidents on them and all our coins are different sizes and Pennie’s are copper in Color it’s easy for us 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙋🏻♂🙋🏻♂🙋🏻♂👍👍👍 Good try ha!!
Though to be fair, it used to difficult to differentiate between quarters and old Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. The old dollar coins were the same silverish color, and even with their unique shape, it was hard to tell them apart from quarters when you'd be sifting through your pocket or change purse.
While a Sci-fi, Stranger Things is starting on US in the 70s. The digital clock wasn't on the market till the 80s. So before digital clocks we used traditional face clocks, hence we would be taught to say 15 minutes after the hour, or 15 minutes to the hour. Some Americans would say it however their parents taught them, plus the public education system.
I feel like we put the month first because there are 12 different 6ths, so we want to specify which month first, but really, either way makes sense. As for strangers talking to you, I totally agree with you, it's really anoying.
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You'd talk more to people if y'all would remove the stick.
@@alfredsantella6477 Today July 21,2022. 07/21/2022
Lia you're thinking of when we say it's fifteen to three or fifteen til three
@@cartier2312 absolutely
as an american...most of us would date something like this 7/26/2022....or 7/26/22 ...or 7/8/2022 or 7/8/22 we would rarely put a...0...before month or day
In all my 45 years as an American i have never given someone the wrong Cash, it literally takes ONE second to recognize what amount it is.
True but I've gotten shorted on my change at bars and restaurants.
After 45 years, you should be used to it! Arrive in the country for the first time, and your money is really confusing!
And exactly how do you know that? Presumably if you did, you would only do so if you did not notice it, and if the recipient likewise did not notice it, how would either of you necessarily know?
@@brentwoodbay That would be understandable to be confusing to you, but America don't need to change anything to accommodate visitors. It's a top currency of the world, maybe others should take the time to learn about it. If I were going to Europe, I would take the time learn about the currency where I'm going.
@@willrobinson4976 Unlike the other way around, visitors arriving in the USA for the first time will know that US currency is all the same size and about the same colour, but that fore knowledge does not make it any easier to use! As Winston Churchill once famously said , "You can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing, after they've tried all the wrong things"!
Plus, who has mistaken a $50 dollar bill for a $1, no one ever.
no one!!! 👍
Foreigners who haven't got used to the new currency . I wouldn't feel confident asking someone from help judging by these comments .
They also got confuse with our coins, because they're silver looking. Every time I see one of their videos all I can think of is the movie, "Dumb and Dumber".
When my grandfather became almost completely blind, he used to just hand his wallet to the clerk at checkout. That was many years ago when credit cards were used infrequently and people were generally more trustworthy.
Yes, it's confusing when you come from Japan, Korea, Thailand, China, India, Australia, etc., etc when currency color and size are guides to the value. I had a Japanese visitor tip $100 bills once thinking they were $1. So yeah, it can be confusing at first.
Writing the month first is very logical. If you pick up a calendar the first thing written in bold letters is the month and then the boxes with the number dates and day of the week. When I do my weekly planner every page has the month in the header first.
The larger issue is that "6/29" is a direct abbreviation for "June twenty-ninth". Same order. The British order sounds hopelessly archaic and ridiculously formal to Americans. The last time an American said "the twenty-ninth day of June" they followed it up with "in the Year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight," and if they wrote it down, they wrote the year as MCCCMXXXVIII. And they were probably wearing a huge powdered white wig in the George Washington style.
Yup.
Our way is our way...it's correct for us! Date, time.
We never include a 0 before the single digit month, and rarely before single digit days (at least when writing it). When I worked international shipping and had to write a date on a pallet, abbreviated month, number date, full year...French sevens with the cross to alleviate confusion with a 1....things like that.
@@marklar7551 actually, I do use the leading 0 in the dates.
Ok, I am from the Pacific Northwest. About coffee on the go. There is nothing I like to do more on a weekend morning, is walk to the coffee shop, then leisurely walk back home, looking at all the gardens, what’s blooming, new cats coming up to say hello. Or later in the day, there is nothing like window shopping while sipping a coffee.
And I'm from the same region and I'd rather sit. I think it's just a random preference. I'm not sure why they even brought this up. But I suppose it's next to impossible to imagine living in a country 40 TIMES the size of your own, not knowing each state is sovereign with its own particular culture and even laws.
I find it weird that foreigners think it's "odd" that American's are friendly and say "hello, how are you doing today" and things like that. It's called being friendly. It must suck to live in other nations where people must be unfriendly and just not speak to you. So bizarre.
What Americans call "friendly", the rest of the world grow up seeing, in general, as "I want to hurt you or rob you if I speak to you and I don't know you in public" and you're not talking to someone on purpose in a business.
We find it werid that you are freindly . Its just diffrent cultures.
What makes you think we don't talk to each other ? We are just more guarded that's all
@@hannahdyson7129 Ahhhh, The video that you obviously didn't bother to watch made me think that .... you know this video where it is clearly stated that you would not talk to someone in a coffee shop even though you see them every day for YEARS.... Actually watching the video before commenting might be something for you to look into... Thanks.
@@jwb52z9 So if a person working at the coffee shop say's, "Hi, how are you today", you assume they want to rob you.... got it! You must live in a strange and violent place.
As an American I can unterstand what Joel and Lia are saying. It's one thing to be polite and say "Good morning." or "How are you today?" It's something completely different for a complete stranger to be asking for my life story. Perhaps it's because I'm an introvert, or because I perfer to stay out of other people's drama, but I always feel strange after having a conversation with a stranger who basically tells me their life story for no reason. I had that happen when I'm working and all I could think of was "I'm just doing my job so I don't get in trouble with my boss. I don't exacly have time for a long conversation." I just want to go about my day and get home in a timely manner. It's not because I'm rude or anything. In fact I've had many strangers tell me that I'm a sweet girl and very polite simly because I say "Good morning" when someone meets my eyes.
I hate the idea of different size paper bills. I could deal with different colors...but different sizes really would make it harder to handle bills.
Omg same
I think different sizes would be great especially for visually impaired and blind people.
@@ne4ru I was coming here to say that! My Mom and Son are visually impaired and that would be helpful to them.
@@ne4ru I actually thought about that earlier today.
Different sizes is much kinder to those who are visually impaired. It's almost impossible for blind folks to deal with American paper money without help.
If you watch "Lost in the Pond" videos Lawrence will tell you that at one time, England did their dates the same way we did, but later adopted the,Continental System. Whereas the USA, because we weren't connected to Europe, never saw the need to change.
Except the US military uses the DD/MM/YYYY format, stemming from our cooperation in WW2. Personally, I think this is one thing that Europe does that makes sense since it is in increasing units of time. Not that it's a huge deal either way. We just write it as we say it though. No one says the 14th day of December, 2023 rather December 14th, 2023.
When we are first taught currency we are encouraged to put our "notes" in order from highest to lowest (not everyone maintains this habit). My bills are arranged as $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 people rarely carry many "bills." I usually carry $20 cash, if my wallet is lost/stolen I lose less cash. Our coins are different sizes, thicknesses and the edges are different some smooth, with ridges etcetera, we can distinguish our coins by touch without looking at them. This also aids the blind to identify coins
We say Quarter to 3 for 2:45 pm. Sorry we both tell time the same way lol
Glad to know my bills must be arranged in a certain order. Drives me nuts! I carry higher bills until I reach my hotel. Breakdown money for doorman, bellhop, house keeping, or other hotel requests on my behalf. Most bills are kept in a safe.
@@michellewilliams8188 I stayed at a hotel 25 years or so ago, it was brand new, it had a safe in the closet, my laptop wouldn't fit in it, I tested setting a combination on it without closing the door, we got nickel and dime'd $10 for each night for touching the safe. Also stay away from a peek at pay per view movies, they track that too, in the older days if you "walked in the middle" of a program you got charged, if the credits started rolling you better tune elsewhere to avoid additional charges.
A roadside motel my parents stayed at when they came to see me in 1983 or 84, had a extra coax going into the back of the television, they wanted to play a video shot that day, so we took one off, not knowing the office would have been OK if we told them first and left a licenseat the counter, within 5 minutes the police were at their door.. we didn't know they chosen a bad neighborhood to Inn at.
@@thatsJoetastic That's partly a generational difference. Usages like "quarter to three" and "half past six" are most common among people who remember (or even still use) analog clocks.
I never carry cash these days because I may end up spending it. I have never (not once) given the wrong note.
As an American who is underwhelmed with many aspects of my culture, I actually love chatting up a stranger and vice versa. You need to know when it's appropriate--not when someone is obviously busy or in a hurry, not when it'll look like you're hitting on someone's significant other. But it shows you care/take an interest in other people, especially if you're complimenting them or asking a question bc you're interested in what they're doing. It builds a sense of community and lets people know you care. I especially love doing it if I know I'm knowledgeable about something and can help, like at a grocery store or a plant nursery, bc I can be really helpful and save someone money or disappointment. Think of it as a compliment.
@@angelagraves865 hahahahaha, audacity meaning what, exactly??
I think the casual aspect of chatting up serves a purpose here in the US. In dense areas, when we have to wait in line (on queue), which we hate, it relives pressure and awkwardness, helps you find the degree of separation (oh my roommates mom works there do you know her), and you do end up seeing the same people. It's a hurd thing so we know whom we might be able to work with if something bad suddenly happens.
On the other side of that, there is an overbearing quality to so many Men in particular that is what can best be described as skeevey.
Same. My dad said I could make friends with a glass of water. 😆
I have never in my life confused any bills for any other bills lol. We recognize the numbers and the pictures! Why would we confuse the color of bills when our bills have never had color?! It’s like asking someone who’s never had a dog what it’s like to not have a dog. They don’t know! They have a cat or a bird lol.
It’s sounds a bit childish to need color to identify bills. It reminds me of that kids clothing company that had colored tags so children could match their clothes. :).
I'm reminded of a child that just couldn't wrap her brain around the concept that my parents not having a dog is their normal state. she couldn't comprehend that a person might simply choose to not have one.
The colors are useful if you are paying for something with a small stack of one’s or fives, making it very obvious if a story 100 happened to be in the middle of them. Different sizes are even more helpful , especially for the visually impaired. Also, why not produce all US currency by consistent logic? I mean, why are coins different sizes? And why on earth is a nickel smaller than both a dime and a penny?
@@fordhouse8b our nickel is bigger and that has to do with what they used to be made of. A penny was 1 cent worth of copper, a nickel was 5 cents worth of nickel, and a dime was 10 cents worth of sterling silver. As for the color of notes; there are color differences, now, but each bill has a sufficiently different pattern that it is noticeable. Also, once a new pattern of bill is introduced, the old ones go out of circulation pretty fast, so any difference in pattern is more noticeable. We have them all the same size because multiple sizes would require replacement of every currency processing machine in the country.
@@fordhouse8b maybe for the visually impaired? ;). Or perhaps because coins tend to be in a jumble in a pocket or coin purse, so the various sizes do help everyone in that case. I personally enjoy the colorful euro notes but have never had a problem with the US ones either. I think these two Brits, though, are stretching a bit for video content! It seems others do as well. :)
I may forget your name... get lost driving every once in a while... lose track of a jacket. But I will never tip $50 instead of $5. That will not happen. 😆
Also, the only time we say the date the European way is the 4th of July.
The small talk myth. I just visited London and Norfolk. Small talk on the train, went shopping on high street Kensington with another solo woman I met at a lunch spot, had a 20 minute chat with a lady on a park bench. Had to send a Scottish man back to his wife while chatting on a tour. Young British single mom traveling with her son shared her life story with me while waiting for a bus. Young mom from Birmingham shared her refreshments and helped me with directions on the tube after festival (new friend that I would call if I went to the Commonwealth games next month). Met a retired Physician at another spot and had a long conversation about his career and retirement in the U.K. Any new best friends? No. Great shared acquaintance moments that simply bring a little joy to your day? ABSOLUTELY.
Probably they were so happy to see an American & finally have a friendly person to talk to - glad we are open & friendly to the friends we just haven’t met yet…
@@charlenefriesen5050 I'm J&L's parents age so maybe there are real generational differences? Time and life challenges, by themselves, can humble the spirit.
To your point about how we Americans write dates. You said that you go from smallest to biggest, but there are 12 months in a year and 365 days in a year (not to mention 30/31 days per month) so we are really the ones going from smallest to biggest.
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I think she meant smallest to largest in the sense that a 'day' is smallest (24 hours), a month (28-31 days) is the next largest ,then a year is the largest at 365 days.
@@jefflewis4 if you measured your month & year in hours, that would make sense.
@@billhansen5973 Sure you can can play with numbers by hours or any way you like to make them appear to make sense. But logically and value wise Joel and Lia are correct the day would have to be the smallest value, then the month 2nd biggest (or medium) then the year would have to have the largest value to properly measure and calculate dates.
Which is how computers store dates left to right the Year first then month then day, so that year has the largest value and the day has the smallest value (Ex Jan 2 2022 would be stored as 20220102 (year, month, day)).
If it were stored the way Americans or Europeans use it, with the day or month first (or left) it would be un-usable for computers. Jan 1st of 2023 (01012023) would have lower value than than Jan 2 of 2022 (01022022 or 02012022). The only way it works mathematically is if the day is the smallest value, not the month. But for human reader this all completely irrelevant, people are not using the dates logically. They are merely using it in the order in which they were taught to display and read them. Month first or day first is not better than the other, its just different.
@@jefflewis4 I think it is how we say are dates. For example, I go on vacation on Jan. 1, 2023. The month first than the day.
Multiple days make up a month, multiple months make up a year.
Brits not starting conversations with strangers. I vaguely remember hearing a joke years ago based on the idea. I think it went something like: Did you hear about the British couple who've been married 40 years but never spoken to each other? They're still waiting for someone to introduce them.
As an American who grew up in the 70s, we always said half past, quarter past, quarter of 7 (of, not to). But as digital became the norm everyone just started saying 7:15/7:30/7:45. Hope this helps!!
I always say quarter to, not quarter of. I grew up in the '80s and '90s. Also say quarter after and half past. But I'm just as likely to say 3:15, 3:30, or 3:45.
I grew up in the 70s and never said half past 5, it was always 5:30. The others were fluid, depending on how you felt.
Thanks for saying this. I also grew up in the 60s & 70s, and say quarter after or to.
Couple of notes:,We Americans don't get to choose the color our money bc basically the government prints the money... we just live with it. think talking to strangers is a cultural thing probably from the south especially the rural South where everybody knows everybody. It might have just spread when people moved to the cities but I'm just guessing...
Challenge for Joel and Lia. Open the calendar app on your phone and go to the 7th. When you think “the 7th of which month?”, you’ll know why Americans put the month first … it’s the information you need first to use the calendar.
Same way: "October of which year?" but, still, year is not written first.
@@datura0000 When labeling with years for instance google docs folders, I would put October 2021, for physical documents categorize by the year first, then separate into months, and so on.
If only there were the number printed on US money to make it easy to quickly identify it... Oh wait... Seriously, it takes no longer to look at a number than it does a color.
Strange how they think everything we do is wrong, and everything they do is the correct way. All they do is bitch about America.
With different colors, you only have to get the tiniest glimpse of a sliver of the edge of a bill in a stack to know it is a different denomination than the rest of the bills.
Not to mention whose portrait it bears!
In retail transactions, the bills can be mistaken. Sometimes on purpose. Either party can make the mistake. It's why cashiers are trained to say the amount the customer is giving them.
I was shortchanged by a cashier once, and told later that their till balanced. I was left wondering if that was done on purpose.
The designs on our various bank notes are *very* distinctive, there's very little chance of confusing a five with a twenty. Multicolored money only appears in America within the board game "Monopoly" and thus looks "phony" to us. "Monopoly money" is slang for "counterfeit money" and we mock foreign currency for resembling it.
Never had any issue with bank notes here in America.
Our bills are different colors tho. The $10 bill is clearly much more golden than a $20.
It’s also got the numbers all over it, so the only way your going to accidentally tip $50 instead of $3 is if you literally don’t look at it at all. You’d have to just be blindly pulling out money and throwing it down.
Classy . You mock other people's currency .
@@twinkstar7738 Also, a 50 is probably nice and crisp while our lower blils are "soft" and wrinkly :)
Money in America is easy to tell apart, they all have different faces on and say the amount on each bill as well. The coins are different sizes and pennies are a different color from the rest of the coins.
Not a penny it is a one cent coin it has never been a penny.
@@tomcherry7029 what do you mean?
@@magentawave5595 the US doesn't have a penny it is a 1 cent coin it is even marked as a one cent. Always has been
@@tomcherry7029 Silliness. Everyone I know calls the coin a ‘penny’, not a ‘one cent’ coin.
@@pacmanc8103 you have never heard the term "not one red cent"? Or collected coins in a coin book?
When you've lived here all of your life you just learn how to tell the difference. I've never mistaken a $1 bill for a $50 bill. You look at the corner of the bill and it will easily tell you quickly the value of that bill. As far as coins, we have pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. From what I understand you have more coins there in the UK.
As far as telling time here for 3:15 we was either say it just like that or quarter after 3:00. Then with 3:45 we would say quarter to 4:00. It's not very common here to refer to the half hour as half past 3:00. Usually if it's half past an hour you would just say 3:30.
I think the phrase she was thinking of was eg "ten of six" meaning 5.50. Here in the UK that phrase isn't used but rather you would say "ten to six" instead
@@NickLea oh okay gotcha. I would say it's pretty interchangeable here. Sometimes you would say 10 of 6 sometimes you would say 10 to 6:00. I would also say quarter of and quarter to interchangeably as well.
Ten after, 20 'til stuff like that.
US currency is always good It can be 100 years old and it’s still good. It’s the same size because we use Intaglio Presses. They are engravings. The design is regulated by Congress. US currency has a distinct feel and is recognized world wide. It is very difficult to counterfeit and the two biggest sources of counterfeits were a Country in Asia and A Guy in South America. Takes about four weeks to make a dollar from start to finish.
When I was in the UK, I saw plenty of people walking around with a to-go cups of coffee. And this wasn't in London. It was in a northern town.
I think they are stuck in the 1950s.
As someone from a Northern town what where you thinking ?! Go somewhere worth visting !
@@hannahdyson7129 Haha, I was in Nottingham for work! I had a great time! Was a lovely city!
Your eyes were decieved.
Apparently, their Prince walks around with a peg, whatever that is. 🙄 🤴
@@jernbek1 That's the Midlands . Your point still stands .
The numbers on the paper money are on all 4 corners, front and back, plus written longhand in multiple places on the bills, including microprinting to deter counterfeiting. And there are very subtle color changes in the paper now. It still isn't vision-impaired-friendly, but sighted people don't have any problems.
A) those tiny yellow characters, and that plastic strip weaved in top to bottom
It kind of helps to have completely different people featured on them as well. You'd never hand over Ben Franklin if you only need George.
Excatly. The coins are all different sizes, with the exception for the quarter ($0.25) and the dollar coin. The Susan B Antony dollar coins are silver and easily mixed up with a quarter. The Sacagawea dollar coins are gold colored, but almost quarter sized. Neither dollar coin caught on as in the US, people usually don't carry change anymore. It goes into the little cups and nooks in your car for the drive thru. Pennies are copper colored and are the only other coin in service that is not silver, besides the Sacagawea dollar.
Of course even longtime American's can be tripped up by the $2 paper bill if they have never seen them before. Lots of stories of people thinking that they are fake, since they are rarely used.
In retail transactions, the bills can be mistaken. Sometimes on purpose. Either party can make the mistake. It's why cashiers are trained to say the amount the customer is giving them.
I was shortchanged by a cashier once, and told later that their till balanced. I was left wondering if that was done on purpose.
As an American, when telling time I do say half past, quarter past etc as well as 2:15, 2:45... It may have to do with whether you learned to tell time on an analog or digital clock. What confused me when I was in England was the use of 24 hour time especially for arrival and departure times for transportation. I had to do some quick math in my head. Many of us here refer to that as "military time" because most civilians never use it. It's the time am or pm.
It is odd to me how in England the add the letter S to the end of the word Math.
@@honeybeebgs2 As the other comment said, it's from "Mathematics", but the reasoning is that American and British English have a different way of thinking about collective nouns and pluralization. American English assumes that any noun ending in S is plural while British English doesn't.
@@Pottszy Thanks for explaining the origin of "maths". In my experience, it's one of those words that bothers a lot of Americans because to our ears it doesn't sound grammatically correct. I never thought about horseback riding but now that you mention it you make a good point. It really doesn't make sense.
@@honeybeebgs2 I have always understood why they say it that way, I can even understand their logic, but Maths is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. It's the one Britishism I just can't find cute & charming.
I think it due to the fact that everyone has cell phones now a days. So when someone asks what the time is, they expect a precise time. They want to know the exact minute. So if you say "It's approximately half past 3" they might prefer you tell them the exact minute.
The walking around with coffee is only in cities with extensive public transit. Most places, there is a reason why cars have cupholders.
I guess I'm unusual in that I don't ever eat or drink in my car -- especially while driving. People should be focused on the task of driving.
@@kylecain6685 I never eat in the car either. For a long drive I'll usually bring a bottle of water. That's all.
@@kylecain6685 I guess so
As a person with OCD it drives me crazy that the € note comes in various sizes and doesn’t fit nicely into my wallet
Me, too!
Trust me we don't make $3 to $50 tipping mistakes we calculate our tip. LMAO I have never mistakenly overtipped with the wrong bill 😃😃
😃 I'm commenting as I watch what is odd is that Europeans always say it's unusual that Americans talk to strangers but foreigners strike up random conversations with us when they are in America. I suppose when in America do as Americans do.
Americans don't need different color money. We just look at the amount on the bill. It's simple.
@@Pottszy There are not many people walking around blind. Americans want to use cash, we don't want the new world order, cashless society.
@@Pottszy I'm 62 years old and never saw one blind person walking around. I'm sure they exist but it's uncommon.
@@Pottszy I have nothing against different colored money, but we don't really need it. There is a reason why our money is green.
A mistake with cash? NEVER. There are differences in design as well as the portrait. We recognize the differences instantaneously.
Nope - we use quarter past and quarter to also.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills:
"That's $12.50 ... out of $20."
And sometimes it's on purpose.
It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10.
Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money.
And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
Joel is correct. I NEVER say the “29th of June.” Always “June 29th.”
I think most Americans only ever say the day then the month when saying 4th of July and even then, everyone still says it as July 4th as well.
@@fsujavi16 4th of July is a holiday, July 4th is just a date.
@@papamaniac2410 July 4th and Independence Day are the same holiday.
@@papamaniac2410 both ways of saying the 185th or 186th day of the year in the U.S. fall on Independence Day. Growing up in the midwest, we usually referred to Independence Day as 'the Fourth'. If you asked anyone what their plans were for 'the Fourth', you were not misunderstood.
@@papamaniac2410 Oh wow. You're right. I never thought of that.
Thank you for admitting it. It is so true. If someone makes a romantic (or even just a friendly) gesture toward another person and they are handsome, then they are so romantic and awesome. But if an ugly person did the exact same thing, then they are called creeps and jerks. This is what you call hypocrisy (as well as shallow).
No, creepy people are also handsome and beautiful, too.
@@ginnyjollykidd very true, but that is not what I was saying. I was talking about how differently ugly people and handsome people are treated whenever both happen to do the exact same thing. The ugly person is not treated the same as the handsome person. The attention of the handsome person is often welcomed, but the ugly person is shunned.
In fact, one came through my cashier line and tried to pick me up. Fortunately, 5 feet away, three of my managers were there to say stern words to this man. I am happy to say no one ever did that to me again. (He kissed my hand! Blecch!)
@@ginnyjollykidd I bet if he were handsome you would have gone out with him.
I'd say Ted Bundy was pretty creepy, and yet easy on the eyes.
The MMDDYYYY date came from Britain and old newspapers from the 1800's prove it. The UK switched to the Euro system and the US kept the original British system. Just like the word "soccer" we Americans got it from y'all.
Never confused a 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 ,100. It's just automatic. Pull a bill from the wallet and instantly know what it is. Eyes are trained to zero in where to look to see the denomination instantly.
Incase anyone is curious, the way we say and write the date (Month/Day/Year) is the traditional British way that was adopted way back when our country was founded by former British citizens. The current way Brits write and say the date (Day/Month /Year) didn't become a thing until the early 1900s, when it was adopted from the way some European countries wrote and spoke the date. Due to British colonization, many countries around the world use the current British format of Day Month Year now.
Damn straight
You think everyone has mistakenly tipped $50 when they intended to tip $3? Dream on. No one has ever done that.
Speaking of Quid - which never has an s at the end: neither does math!
not true, we do use, quarter to, quarter after or half past we also would say 11:15, 11:30 or 11:45
In stranger things 11 said “3, 1, 5” because she didn’t know what time was… so Mike made it easier to understand. We don’t say that.
Here in the south (NC, SC) natives always smile at each other when passing and/or say ‘hey’.
The actual month of June starts before the actual day of 29 happens so writing the month first makes TOTAL sense.
Except the year 2022 starts before June and the 29th.
@@pacmanc8103 but you usually already know what year it is anyways. If you want the heat include do year/month/day
@@TheAmericanCatholic That’s an assumption. The same can be said for knowing what month it is, I believe.
If you want to be upset about the date/year writing system here in America, you need to take that up with the old Brits. We kept the original dating system from that time. So, in actuality you need to upset with yourselves!😜😂
I think we should blame ourselves for having more sense because the American format is how you say it in a sentence. July 21st, 2022 - 07/21/22.
In reality most people in the UK don't give a dam. It's just these two mainly
The comments responding to this video are telling . Scolding these two while putting down entire countries because of two people .
The arrogance . Christ .
@@hannahdyson7129 Hannah, of course, feels compelled to comment on every post. Sounds as though you don’t care for Americans - why watch, as their primary audience is American?
@@ImStuckInStockton some people say it that way, but many say it 29th of July (as in the 29th day of July). It's how I would say it, I don't think I've ever said it the other way round.
So if you have to write down an event on your calendar or in your phone's calendar, what information do you need first? The Month, so you can turn, or swipe, to the correct page.
That's not how most of the world thinks, though!
@@jwb52z9 So if you’re handed a desk calendar (the type with one page per date) and are asked to jot something down for the 11th of March, you don’t first find the month? Certainly you don’t start with all the elevens and work your way up to March. Or is that an example of how ‘most of the world’ thinks differently?
Americans don't need Monopoly colours to tell their notes apart, we have these things called numbers that are big and bold on the note to tell us. Also, the portraits are a good clue as well.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills:
"That's $12.50 ... out of $20."
And sometimes it's on purpose.
It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10.
Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money.
And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
The money one is pretty easy for the non-brain-damaged - if it has a "1" on it, it's worth one dollar. If it has a "5" on it it's a five, etc. I know, so CONFUSING, right?
What about the sight impaired? Quicker for them to identify colour than numbers.
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We do say quarter to, quarter past & half past all the time but not exclusively.
While in the US do as the Americans do
Our money is not confusing at all. We don't have a problem with it
When you grow up with green money, you quickly learn to look at the numbers -- and at which historical figure is pictured. We don't tend to confuse a $5 with a $20.
We think in terms of "June 6th." Direct. Like the language. Not "the 6th of June," which is indirect, seems a translation for a romance language.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills:
"That's $12.50 ... out of $20."
And sometimes it's on purpose.
It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10.
Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money.
And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
I can’t understand how any of you manage to have any friends, whatsoever. My goodness! To think, all these years I’ve been led to believe that you were all so nice & polite. I think that maybe you are, but it’s rather superficially nice & polite. I don’t think I’d like relying on someone else in order to meet other people. Can you even imagine just how many wonderful, loyal, & compassionate people you must miss out on meeting? You poor guys! Well, now I feel sorry for y’all !!
I think the writing of the date may have something to do with business filing systems. It makes more sense to file by month rather then file by day. I can’t imagine needing all the paperwork for January and having to look through day 1 - 31, instead of just grabbing one monthly folder. So, since business is broken down monthly…7/21/2022. My best guess, but I can see where it would be confusing internationally.
I think in that case it makes even more sense to use the system that for example Japanese use - yyyy/mm/dd… to file by year, then by month…
Yes most multinational businesses I consult for use ISO 8601 or yyyy-mm-dd
Not true Joel & Lia about the date thing. Canadians write the date the same way as Americans. Now that you guys spent a couple of weeks here, I would've thought you'd known that.
Don't worry if I ever have the pleasure of meeting you two, I will remember not to flash any shiney objects in front of you so you wont get confused.
Are these two really as moronic as they come across on u tube, all they want to do is bash America.
I guess us americans can see different shades of green better and also most 10s look completely different
Americans have to be more careful than the rest of the world in terms of money. If you're not used to all money looking similar, a fast look won't tell you anything.
@@jwb52z9 Yep Agreed especially if you have U.S bills folded and you can't see the number. Whereas if the bills were different colors and sizes you would know what it is without needed to unfold it to know what it is.
When you sort by smallest to largest, they will sort
01-01-2022
01-02-2022
01-03-2022
You sort your way and you'll get
01-01-2022
02-01-2022
03-01-2022
Ours is in order, England's is not...
IT MAKES SENSE 😀
Pennys are copper color
All our bills have the denomination on them.Don’t need colors
Americans don't become friends with strangers. Just because a waiter was chatting you up dosen't mean anything. If he did it to you then most likely that is the way he talks to women but he isn't expecting you to go on a date.
Americans think that it is weird that you would feel strange customizing your food in a restaurant that you are paying for. In America, we are big on individuality, and have been since our country was founded. For the most part, customer service is big in the US unlike in Europe.
The way we write out date is the way we say them. Today is July 21, 2022. So we automatically would go with 7-21-22. It’s my understanding that in other countries they would say today’s date as 21 July 2022. That just sounds off to me.
I think Americans want to talk to everyone, especially foreigners, because we are by nature very curious. When you realize that we are living on a whole big continent, we want to know what it is like in Europe, etc. I ate dinner with an Irish woman for five nights before she finally spoke to me. She had one question -- “Why are Americans so successful?”
Also, the month is only ever gonna go up to 12, the day of the month will go as high as 31, so often times the number itself goes smallest to biggest from left to right
Does British military or hospitals use half past or quarter 'til when telling time? The hour hand denotes the hour while the minute hand denotes the minutes. For example, 5:15pm is 1515 In military time. Military time is the most accurate form of telling time. Civilians would say 5:15, 5:15pm, 5:15 in the afternoon, 15 passed 5, a quarter passed/after 5. Some may even say 45 'til 6. These are all in common usage here. Whether a "digital" clock or an analog clock, each number denotes a measure of hour and minutes. For minutes, 1=5 minutes, 7=35 minutes,11=55 minutes. When taught as a child you learn this. To say it is incorrect to say the hour followed by minutes is incorrect is a little ignorant on your part. Wear a watch. This way you won't have to ask an American for the time which obviously causes both your heads to spin.
The British carry four different sized wallets from what I understand. It's all very civilized.
Easy way to determine what the denomination of a US bill is? READ!!
Every bill has it WRITTEN on it: $1, $5, $10, etc. it’s easy
They should be called " Those Two Nit-Brits".
In the US we just look at the number on the money.
Why do Brit’s always say the rest of the world ? They confuse Brits. It doesn’t mean it confuses any other random countries citizens that visit or move here . I have met Thais or Chinese that don’t have the same problems as say a Brit who comes here. Why does the UK represent the whole world outside the US?
It's because THEY ARE BRITISH. Their videos are about British and US differences in many cases.
@@jwb52z9 yea - I lived in Asia and worked with many Brit’s and Europeans - they don’t represent anyone but the UK- but they always state they represent the world. That’s like me as an American going to the UK say the rest of the world thinks it’s funny you say tube instead of subway - sure in the UK - Americans might think it’s funny sounding but it doenst mean Japanese do etc etc .
Its just these two . They don't even represent Britain or Brits .
Half the stuff they say " triggers " Brits is farcial .
Every friend was once a stranger.
As a Brit who's kinda a picky eater, I love customising my meals when I eat out, if I can order a meal without onions or tomatoes, I will just be so happy. For me at least, onions can ruin a meal. That's why subway is one of my favourite places to eat out.
Order custom at fast food because they have to make it fresh.
My wife always orders fajitas without peppers ! ( a MAJOR part of the recipe!)
i think the food customising trend began due to food allergies or dietary needs. As a person with food allergies it would suck to find something that looks delicious but I can't eat simply because of one ingredient that i could take out myself if I were to make the food. There are also a lot of people in America that have dietary restrictions due to health promblems like having to eat foods with reduced or no sodium or having to eat less acidic foods (like tomatoes). In some cases the problematic items can't simply be picked off by the person (those with shrimp or peanut allergies may understand what i mean) if the food even touched something like that it could cause sometimes severe reactions to the customer.
New U.S bills are different colors. They're not bright, bold colors like in other countries but enough to tell the difference. It's not that hard.
Really, I didn't notice any difference. Next time I go to get cash I'll take a closer look.
@@bkm2797 So the colors are on newer bills/notes. We don’t get rid of older notes in circulation in the us, which is what i think Joel was insinuating when he reminded Lia to use her old 20 pound notes (is that true that the UK gets rid of older notes?). So u will most likely still see bills that are only shades of green if their from about 2005 or earlier.
For foreigners it is at first . But comments like this will ensure they don't ask for help as they will be ridiculed
@@fsujavi16 Thanks, we learn something new everyday. Cheers
@@hannahdyson7129 More of the same… ridiculed if they stood in front of me with a $10 and asked how much it was? Come on - from your other comments, it would appear you’re very easily embarrassed or are looking for something to complain about. Jesus.
We don’t need the colors we can read numbers and we know the Presidents and Hamilton 🤷🏽♀️
I'm 57, American, and I associate people using "half" and "quarter" time references with my parents' generation and older.
I'm 58 and agree, but I do understand the 'half' and 'quarter' usage . It sounds so stupid, but as a child I would hear my mother say 'be there at a quarter past 5, and I would think 5:25, because I based it on our coinage. It all has to do with how one is raised
Never rarely ever do we 🇺🇸 make tipping mistakes.
No offense but I can see why Americans think the Brit’s are snobs. Chatting up with others are just a way of being friendly. I do it all the time. My husband use to ask me if I knew the the person and I tell him no just talking and being friendly. I’ve worked in the public for over 40 years so just a habit to talk to strangers.
It's not just British people, but when it is British people, it's the British who grew up in more populated cities and towns. Most Europeans think talking to strangers is very strange. If you smile at a stranger in Germany, for example, they are trained to think you want to rob or hurt them and they'll walk the other way to get away from you in most cases.
You think these two represent the British public?
It's not just us who find it odd
Joel, you must try a tomato sandwich, season it how you like. Best Southern style is white bread, mayo, tomato, salt and pepper. Also, the BLT is a must.
I'm a hand talker as well. My Grandmother used to say that if she tied my hands together, I'd go mute 😂. Love the tangents, great episode 💖
Lol at the cash thing. I pay with cash less than once a month, and I never use coins. The only reason I carry cash at all is for emergencies.
For dates, you say (for example) "the 22nd of July", whereas we say "July 22nd". The verbal form in US is more compact, so maybe that's why we write the numbers month-first
Interesting though Americans do often say one particular date the same way the Brits do. Many Americans do say 4th of July instead of July 4th.
@@jefflewis4Most Americans will say July 4th as "The Forth of July". But not use that form when saying any other day of the year.
This is because the day is synonymous with America's Independence Day. Saying this date, and only this date, in the slightly more formal way to indicate it is more important than all other days of the year.
Except we always say 4th of July :)
The notes have numbers on them. We don’t make mistakes. The numeric value is repeated in both numeric and spelled out form between six and eight times on each side of the bill or note.
Mixing up bills is common and normal. It's why one of the first things you learn in retail is to always say what amount the customer hands you. Either person could mistake the bills:
"That's $12.50 ... out of $20."
And sometimes it's on purpose.
It's a common occurrence for a customer to claim, for example, they handed a 20 and was given change for a 10.
Or, a customer might hand over a 10 thinking it's a 20 and the cashier will have to ask for more money.
And con artists use the similar-looking bills to their advantage, in various settings even outside of retail
I’m an American and in reguards to the money color . . . . I’m color impaired!!!! I LOOK at the F’in number on it!! A one has a 1, a ten dollar bill has a 10, a twenty has 20, a fifty has Grant and a 50 etc., etc.
On the time issue. Older folks used to say half past or quarter til etc. but younger ones never learned to read an anolog clock ⏰ only digital that reads out 3:45 instead of quarter til.
Unless you're color blind, color and size are much faster for the brain to recognize than reading a number.
I look at the value on my money so I rarely pull the wrong one. I have never in my life given someone a $50 when it should be a $5
Why does it matter? We are not European, we are a different country hence we do things differently. Who cares if you're confused. There are plenty of people all over the world (from other countries) who understand every country is different. We should celebrate differences. This is yet another video that if you look at your past videos is just regurgitated.
Why did you bother to watch this video if you think this way? These videos are for FUN to compare cultures and nations!
@@jwb52z9 this channel had a lot of potential as a travel vlog. It's disappointing as a viewer to see the path of negativity that they've been on recently. I still tune in hoping that their content will improve, but I'm starting to tune out. The ever decreasing views show that others are doing just that, tuning out.
Fun? Its really not fun to watch the same exact videos from these two. They are patronizing and condescending. I watched hoping for something fun, but apparently your idea and my idea of fun are very different. Have fun watching the same videos on the same topics over and over again from these two. Have loads of fun being critical of everything, I for one have found channels that do the same thing, but happen to do it with a sense of humor. This channel is mean spirited.
I didn’t find this insulting - but I like the American way to talk to strangers. We just don’t want to waste time and I have made great friends this way.
Money - we just look at our bills (notes to you) they have big denomination numbers on all four corners, front and back and the denomination is spelled out on both the front and back, and they all have different portraits and pictures. And the different denominations ARE different colors - have been for several years now - except for the one and two dollar bills, they're still plain. And the coins a) aren't all silver-colored and b) are different sizes and have different edge textures so even the blind can differentiate between them.
And on how we write the date, that's so that everyone in the world has something to hate about us. We think of it as a public service. You're welcome. 🙂
11:15 yeah they would
Yes I would
Actually no he would say “ quarter after”
Haven’t you guys realized that the US has a different culture, and practices?
Haven't you realised that their whole channel is based on this schtick? 😂😂😂
I like how we Americans write the date, one if follows a Calendar with month on top then date but also for computer organizations if day first then files of different months are all together while it you put month first then it’s easy to find what you need cause it’s organized better
As for the dating system: exactly HOW does it mean anything to me to know that it's "the 29th" unless I first know what the flaming f--- it's "the 29th" OF ?!?
FIRST establish the month, then refine that by establishing the particular day OF that month which it happens to be. 🧐
Other nations assume you know the month you're already in now.
When people ask when your birthday is, they prefer to know the month first, because it is easier to remember that way. And if you are planning something far in advance, it's probably best to say the month first, so you can turn your calendar to that month. It's harder to remember dates all the time. But easier to remember the month. People also like to know the month because they want to know your horoscope.
@@jwb52z9 what if you're not referring to the month you are already in now ?
@@jwb52z9 Yes, because nobody ever refers to any time or day outside of the present month.
I find it odd that you all don’t speak to strangers. When standing in line it passes time and then you’re happy because you’ve had a pleasant encounter. One of my closest friends started as my barista.
I think maybe they're starting to hurt for content.
The reason we put the month first is because that's how you would say it. We would say today is July Twenty-Firsts. Therefore, 07/21.
In the US, we very often use quarter past, half past, or quarter to. Don't know why you think we don't. What throws us is when you say something like "It's half seven". Is that half past seven? or is it 6:30?
I can't get over the idea that their money expires. Money doesn't lose value in the US, even if they stop producing a certain style/design of a bill/note.
I was also shocked to learn that a British note I had left from a previous trip to the UK was worthless. I guess when there’s a change, the government notifies the public they have until “X” date to spend the money or exchange it for a new note. I’ve seen it in other countries as well, but for an American it is really different that what was once legal tender is no longer legal.
We simply organize our money my amount.
It's actually faster than having to look for colors or weird sizes!
We've had the "plastic money" here in Canada for a decade. One unexpected benefit is that they're thinner than paper notes. "Who cares?", you might ask. Well, it means if you've got a lot of notes, they actually take up less space in your wallet, purse, or pocket. Plus you never have to worry about them being destroyed if you accidentally put them through the washing machine :)
When I wash my money it just comes out nice and clean. If it makes it to the dryer it's nice and crisp 😉
US bills are woven cloth, if they get destroyed in the wash they’re probably counterfeit hahah
A stranger is just a friend that you haven't met, yet.
Lol 😂 the money thing is killing me 😂😂😂 if your a born American you wouldn’t “ accidentally “ give a $50 tip instead of $5 🙄🙄🙄 plus they all have different presidents on them and all our coins are different sizes and Pennie’s are copper in Color it’s easy for us 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙋🏻♂🙋🏻♂🙋🏻♂👍👍👍 Good try ha!!
Though to be fair, it used to difficult to differentiate between quarters and old Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. The old dollar coins were the same silverish color, and even with their unique shape, it was hard to tell them apart from quarters when you'd be sifting through your pocket or change purse.
Benjamin Franklin was not a president, neither was Hamilton
@@Liamshavingfun they get the idea! Ha! 🥴🥴🥴🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@Liamshavingfun Good thing they looked different from Lincoln, Washington, and the rest of the gang, though, yeah?
And then there’s those numbers written on the bills. That’s always a good tip-off.
While a Sci-fi, Stranger Things is starting on US in the 70s. The digital clock wasn't on the market till the 80s. So before digital clocks we used traditional face clocks, hence we would be taught to say 15 minutes after the hour, or 15 minutes to the hour. Some Americans would say it however their parents taught them, plus the public education system.
I feel like we put the month first because there are 12 different 6ths, so we want to specify which month first, but really, either way makes sense.
As for strangers talking to you, I totally agree with you, it's really anoying.
It is really fun to talk to strangers. It just makes the day better. Yes it is weird.