Let's Talk About American Culture Shocks | An Irish Perspective

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  • @DianeJennings
    @DianeJennings 10 місяців тому +787

    Can’t wait! 😜

    • @TheFonzieCommunity
      @TheFonzieCommunity 10 місяців тому +17

      yes!!!!!!!! i love you both!!! can't wait!!!!!!!

    • @thBrilliantFool
      @thBrilliantFool 10 місяців тому +8

      @@BDUBZ49 as if she's the only Scottish UA-camr

    • @thBrilliantFool
      @thBrilliantFool 10 місяців тому +6

      @@BDUBZ49 anyway what do you have against anime and why would that disqualify her from joining?

    • @BDUBZ49
      @BDUBZ49 10 місяців тому

      @@thBrilliantFool Tammy used to do a lot of content about American culture, and had travelled to the US a couple times. Also, she had collaborated with Dianne in the past. That's why I thought of her. Let me ask you a question... what exactly is up your ass?

    • @MisterMsk
      @MisterMsk 10 місяців тому +5

      Never knew this is a cross over I needed. Can't wait.

  • @lartrak
    @lartrak 10 місяців тому +60

    Fun fact: my American family has a three volume set of genealogy books about them going back to the 1750s, just lists of people and stories, short biographies, etc. Like, giant hardcovers, the size of Encyclopedias. Kind of neat.

  • @jpwoelfling
    @jpwoelfling 10 місяців тому +208

    Diane is correct. The Saint Patrick's day parade in Dublin is a parade with 90% American high school and college bands. My High school band played and marched in the St. Patrick's day parade in 1975. We spent a week in Ireland. As a 16 yr old, it was amazing. One of the best memories of my life. My Irish mom was so proud.

    • @stubstoo6331
      @stubstoo6331 10 місяців тому +3

      That's great. My highschool band won the world championship in Scotland I believe it was three years ago. They always could play the bagpipes.

    • @pattiellis1613
      @pattiellis1613 10 місяців тому +5

      Father always told us that the Irish invented the bagpipes and gave it to the Scottish as a joke,lol. The joke was on the Irish because they learned to play the dang thing 🙄 😂😂😂❤ We're Scottish/Irish 😂❤

    • @LaCasaAcademy
      @LaCasaAcademy 10 місяців тому +2

      Yes, but so is the New Year's Day parade in London. American high school marching bands and cheer squads with a smattering of amateur-looking floats from the locals.

    • @susanmurray7654
      @susanmurray7654 10 місяців тому +1

      How great for the children!!!

    • @JanSolo555
      @JanSolo555 8 місяців тому

      @@pattiellis1613 Fun fact: Scots and Irish are almost genetically identical. Way back in history the Scots settled Ireland, which is why they all speak Gaelic.

  • @JanSolo555
    @JanSolo555 10 місяців тому +805

    The answer to why Americans are so interested in genealogy should be obvious. A vast majority of us know for sure that our ancestors didn’t come from here, so we want to know where. As an 80% genetically verified Scots/Irish American, that only applied to my Dad’s side. My Mom’s parents were both born in Ireland! Anyway, we are an immigrant nation, and a lot of us have no idea where our ancestors come from.

    • @judithcoloma613
      @judithcoloma613 10 місяців тому +109

      I'm going with the earlier quote from Bill Murrey in the film, "Stripes". "Most of us were thrown out of every decent country in Europe".

    • @jpwoelfling
      @jpwoelfling 10 місяців тому +45

      My dad was born and raised in Argentina to an unwed Chilean woman working in Buenos Aires. She married a German merchant marine sailor and they all immigrated to Brooklyn New York. My mom was born in America to Irish immigrants. so I am mixed. that Is why I only identify as an american.

    • @dreamsrmadeof
      @dreamsrmadeof 10 місяців тому +28

      Im a Heinz 57

    • @yogidevendrabiriyani1777
      @yogidevendrabiriyani1777 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@jpwoelflingso interesting!!!

    • @dreamsrmadeof
      @dreamsrmadeof 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Kim-427I have been asked that too, in Germany. I guess from your post that English are also curious about an American's ancestry as an American.

  • @RegularCupOfJoe
    @RegularCupOfJoe 10 місяців тому +432

    As an American, I have no stinking idea why the cubicle gaps are so big.

    • @alexv6324
      @alexv6324 10 місяців тому +45

      Agreed. I've always just assumed it was because it was just cheap and simple to put up.

    • @morewi
      @morewi 10 місяців тому +7

      I thought it was to pull you off you pass out

    • @thomaswilliams2273
      @thomaswilliams2273 10 місяців тому +41

      Emergency checks and an easier time mopping I would say are the reasons, but I don't think they qualify as excuses.

    • @MrSheckstr
      @MrSheckstr 10 місяців тому +32

      While the cubicle gaps might encourage the naughty people outside of the cubicle, they are there because of the naughty things people get up to INSIDE the cubicle

    • @RandomNonsense1985
      @RandomNonsense1985 10 місяців тому +53

      *Stalls, not cubicles.

  • @healerf18
    @healerf18 10 місяців тому +53

    LIved in Philadelphia for a while and saw their St. Patrick's Day parade a couple of times. Amazing. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics all marching with big smiles on their faces. Everyone's Irish for a day!

    • @richardmead5969
      @richardmead5969 10 місяців тому +2

      s it should be. do not diversify we are one. we are the USA. all ffor one and one for all. thanks Dumas

    • @Cricket2731
      @Cricket2731 10 місяців тому

      My late MIL, got constantly teased about be honarary Irish. Her b-day was March 17.

    • @justinmegibben4909
      @justinmegibben4909 10 місяців тому +7

      Because we see a lot of our immigrant struggles through the Irish concept of coming here through strife, being hated, working through it and being a citizen and still remembering where our family came from.

    • @TheBiggestMoronYouKnow
      @TheBiggestMoronYouKnow 5 місяців тому

      "Blacks"

  • @jimreilly917
    @jimreilly917 10 місяців тому +10

    They just like to pinch people 😂. Diane gets us Americans. My grandparents all came from Ireland about 100 years ago. I hoped this vid would happen.🇺🇸💚🇮🇪☘️

  • @razzberrylogic
    @razzberrylogic 10 місяців тому +146

    Oooooh Laurence, you met another UA-cam sensation
    It’s Diane Jennings in Chicago, on a work vacation
    She said she’s not a leprechaun, but there was hesitation
    I await the full video with great anticipation

    • @mikeh720
      @mikeh720 10 місяців тому +3

      nice to see you Razz! well done, as always. Cheers 🍻

    • @liberalsockpuppet4772
      @liberalsockpuppet4772 10 місяців тому +4

      Ever comment must start with "Ooooooh Lawrence!" I approve.

    • @gallowglass2630
      @gallowglass2630 10 місяців тому +2

      Leprechauns are all male you may ask how do they reproduce they don't as they are immortal spirits

    • @Three_Random_Words
      @Three_Random_Words 6 місяців тому

      Non-sequitur question: Why is he dressed as a Canadian?

  • @BDUBZ49
    @BDUBZ49 10 місяців тому +265

    MY WORLDS ARE COLLIDING!!!!

    • @wholeagain5099
      @wholeagain5099 10 місяців тому +9

      Same I use to love her on The Try Channel

    • @Gaeilgeoir
      @Gaeilgeoir 10 місяців тому +3

      💯%!

    • @Gaeilgeoir
      @Gaeilgeoir 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@wholeagain5099 Me too!

    • @BDUBZ49
      @BDUBZ49 10 місяців тому +9

      @@wholeagain5099 I think I remember her from there, but she's had her own channel for years now. (2 channels, actually).

    • @cisium1184
      @cisium1184 10 місяців тому +4

      GEORGE IS GETTIN' UPSET

  • @ElmoUnk1953
    @ElmoUnk1953 10 місяців тому +8

    8:48 “I wish I could say the same.” OMG Laughed Out Loud!!!
    🤣😂🤣

  • @jaysilver9193
    @jaysilver9193 10 місяців тому +61

    Lawrence, you're the only UA-cam sensation I can stand telling your audience to subscribe--because it's so funny how you do it. I love those "bossy" commands, and the "Do that now!" snarl always makes me laugh. 😆

    • @wendybutler1681
      @wendybutler1681 10 місяців тому

      Tongue firmly planted in his cheek! I love it, too!

    • @persephoneszeliga
      @persephoneszeliga 3 місяці тому

      Charlotte Dobre’s shout to subscribe at the end of each video is pretty good too.

  • @sadmanislam5111
    @sadmanislam5111 10 місяців тому +203

    As an Irish and British person I’m excited to hear what you both have to say. 🇮🇪🇬🇧

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 10 місяців тому +6

      Ditto… and German. And Norman French. And Scandinavian. And a TOUCH of Iberian. And can’t forget that sub Saharan African lol

    • @ericbarlow6772
      @ericbarlow6772 10 місяців тому +3

      Now just get Shawn in for a Scottish perspective on Saint Andrew’s Day. You can head to Alexandria, VA for that.

    • @rabbiezekielgoldberg2497
      @rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 10 місяців тому +2

      Are you Arab or Turkic too?

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 10 місяців тому +3

      @@Andy_Babb Three cheers for all of us mutts.
      We make it work.

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 10 місяців тому +1

      @@protorhinocerator142 Hip-Hip! 🍻 I can’t believe I forgot to add my 25% Italian lol But damn right, us muts gotta stick together!

  • @jasonremy1627
    @jasonremy1627 10 місяців тому +155

    Two of my favorite UA-camrs getting together! So excited.

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 10 місяців тому +2

      Favourite 😊

    • @vinsanity40k
      @vinsanity40k 10 місяців тому +1

      holy crossovers, batman 😄

  • @HarryMarsee-fw9ot
    @HarryMarsee-fw9ot 10 місяців тому +159

    A closed door in a bathroom stall means it is occupied. Prople who check look for feet.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 10 місяців тому +13

      I look to see if they're on the cell phone hogging up the toilet when I need to go.
      You can check emails literally anywhere. Get out of the stall.
      If it was up to me I would build Faraday cages around bathrooms so cellphones wouldn't work.

    • @catherineyoung3889
      @catherineyoung3889 10 місяців тому

      @@protorhinocerator142 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Moraenil
      @Moraenil 10 місяців тому +9

      Stalls aren't always occupied when the doors are closed. Some doors just close on their own, and kids often lock the doors closed and crawl out under the door. That's why we check for feet. We don't peer in through the gaps on the sides of the doors (unless we're spying on friends or something to joke with them, but only if we know the person). The gaps under the doors are bigger for safety issues. If someone has a heart attack, stroke, passes out, or something, the EMTs need to be able to get to them and can kinda crawl under to unlock the door to help the person in distress.

    • @Cricket2731
      @Cricket2731 10 місяців тому

      ​@@protorhinocerator142, Oh, yeah!

    • @Liethen
      @Liethen 10 місяців тому +4

      I lift myself over to look down or slide on the floor to look up at them when I ask if they are almost done.

  • @wadewilson524
    @wadewilson524 10 місяців тому +31

    Yup… the Irish accent is awesome. ❤ For the record, most of us just check for feet at the loo, as opposed to peeking in a gap. That’s intrusive and creepy here too!

    • @dash-x
      @dash-x 8 місяців тому +1

      In the states sometimes the gap is so wide you accidentally meet each others eye as you walk by and it’s super awkward for everyone. If you wind up meeting at the sink you just pretend it never happened and go on your day 😹

    • @Factsnotfox
      @Factsnotfox 8 місяців тому

      Yes, the British would probably be more popular if they sounded more Irish.

    • @TDC5
      @TDC5 2 місяці тому

      the gap their talking about is the one on the bottom. all stalls have a small gap where the door meets the frame and their all different. yes, sometimes that space is too much but you find that on both types of stalls from my experience.

  • @WgCdrLuddite
    @WgCdrLuddite 10 місяців тому +23

    Is "Get drunk and start fighting" the Irish equivalent to "Keep calm and carry on" ?

  • @thepeff
    @thepeff 10 місяців тому +22

    “Mind the gap!”
    UK: transit
    US: public toilets

  • @jasonmitchell43
    @jasonmitchell43 10 місяців тому +64

    Been rocking with Diane since the FACTS channel. Let's go!

  • @davidwillford3119
    @davidwillford3119 10 місяців тому +51

    That was fun. Loved the Editor Diane inserts.

  • @ashk7244
    @ashk7244 9 місяців тому +2

    Diane's "keep calm, carry on" at the end has a lot of "bless your heart" energy 😂.

  • @DonP_is_lostagain
    @DonP_is_lostagain 10 місяців тому +216

    Such fun! Our ancestry is important to us Americans because to paraphrase what Bill Murray in Stripes said, "We were kicked out of some of the best countries in the world!" 😆

    • @jamesanthony8438
      @jamesanthony8438 10 місяців тому +19

      "We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts." =)

    • @aclstudios
      @aclstudios 10 місяців тому +7

      No, that was Australians.

    • @KesSharann
      @KesSharann 10 місяців тому

      Americans love to tell other people to "go back where you came from" but are so proud of their ancestry they don't do it themselves... Like all colonizers, Americans like to be hypocrates.

    • @GeseppiOoodblast
      @GeseppiOoodblast 10 місяців тому +11

      Umm that's sounds a lot like america too.​@@aclstudios

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 10 місяців тому +5

      My brother did the deep dive ancestry thing on our family. Most of it only went back a few generations, but then I guess it hit a vein and it goes back to people like William the Conqueror and Catherine the Great.
      Makes me think maybe most of Europe is in some way descended from these two people. They probably had lots of children.
      No, there's nobody coming to my door holding a crown and asking me to get coronated. I'm sure there are over 10 million people ahead of me for line of succession.

  • @kuskesh_haramzadeh
    @kuskesh_haramzadeh 10 місяців тому +23

    I absolutely love her she's so charming and funny. I can see how you'd become acquainted

  • @LyleFrancisDelp
    @LyleFrancisDelp 10 місяців тому +45

    My two favorite UA-cam sensations!!!! All in one neat, well wrapped package.

  • @agresticumbra
    @agresticumbra 10 місяців тому +17

    Was subbed to Diane's channel a couple years before yours, Laurence, but don't feel dejected.

  • @Peter-oh3hc
    @Peter-oh3hc 10 місяців тому +27

    A very Irish looking woman I worked with in new York had two stories I liked. People would complain she didn't wear green on st. Patrick's day. "You need to wear green. I have this face"
    When she was young people would say "you have the map of Ireland on your face". She thought it meant that if you connected her freckles you would get the map of Ireland.

    • @nokomarie1963
      @nokomarie1963 10 місяців тому +1

      People say that to me at times. I don't have freckles, and I can't help wondering if it's an insult of some sort.

    • @Peter-oh3hc
      @Peter-oh3hc 10 місяців тому

      @@nokomarie1963 I don't know, but she was very pretty. I think it was always said as a compliment to her

    • @mickaleneduczech8373
      @mickaleneduczech8373 10 місяців тому +1

      I've had a few people look at me and say "Your name is Czech, but you're Irish!"

  • @octaviusmorlock
    @octaviusmorlock 10 місяців тому +70

    Two Semi/Full introverts talking?
    I hope people appreciate how incredible this is.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 10 місяців тому +9

      I almost couldn't believe it when I saw the thumbnail. I almost thought Lawrence was trolling us with click-bait.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 10 місяців тому +1

      Lawrence didn't want to give her enough room on the couch to sit down.
      YOU'RE IN MY HOME THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH

  • @foreststorm6858
    @foreststorm6858 10 місяців тому +30

    There are 31 million Irish Americans out there. Six times larger than the entire population of Ireland. My theory is that during the potato famine, all of the extroverts left for the United States leaving only the shy ones back home. It's already been 150 years and poor Ireland's population still hasn't reached pre-famine levels.

    • @justinmegibben4909
      @justinmegibben4909 10 місяців тому +10

      During the famine most of Ireland had to flee and is one of the reasons Irish ancestry is one of the most diverse in the world itself.

    • @mesechabe
      @mesechabe 10 місяців тому +1

      thanks for the intelligent response!

    • @Justice55339h
      @Justice55339h 10 місяців тому +2

      Americans are much more extroverted than Europeans in general

    • @Louis_Davout
      @Louis_Davout 8 місяців тому +1

      Don't forget the many immigrants that came from Ulster... Many, many years before the famine...

    • @Dreyno
      @Dreyno 7 місяців тому +1

      It’s because outward migration continued for more than a century afterwards. Since 1700 about 10 million Irish born people emigrated. Even today almost 1.5 million Irish people live outside of Ireland.

  • @FJA---
    @FJA--- 10 місяців тому +14

    Thanks for having Diane on the channel. I've watched her on the Facts Channel, Try Channel and her solo endeavors. Never miss an upload.

  • @PocketBrain
    @PocketBrain 10 місяців тому +3

    For the record, we don't like the toilet cubicle-gap, either. Those are due to cheap construction. The door should swing open if not latched, so no need to check; if door is closed, it's occupied.

  • @joegee2815
    @joegee2815 10 місяців тому +1

    6:46 the marching band with the Middletown NJ banner is the high school my 2 kids went to. So my children's school is now a featured youtube sensation in an Irish youtube sensations video included in the one and only Lawrence Brown the premiere youtube sensation.
    I couldn't be more proud.

  • @ljcl1859
    @ljcl1859 10 місяців тому +29

    The Irish immigrants in Boston particularly stuck to their own. Half of my grandmother's grandparent's were recent immigrants from Ireland and the other half had been in North America for a couple of generations. We had her DNA tested and she was 97% Irish, and 3% Scottish. Before the updates it had said she was 100% Irish. Conan O'Brien had talked about his results being 100% Irish and had a very funny discussion about what his Doctor said about that.

    • @sugakookie6303
      @sugakookie6303 10 місяців тому

      My maternal grandmother’s family was from Belfast, I always considered myself 1/4 Irish, did my DNA and found out I’m 86% English and Scottish with a little bit of Irish, Welsh and Swedish…

    • @MW_Asura
      @MW_Asura 10 місяців тому

      She could be 100% Irish and she still wouldn't be Irish.
      Also, there's no such as thing as someone being 100% of a single nation, that's genetically impossible (because you know, migration), so that's automatically false. Unless those people want to go on some r*cist and purist nonsense

    • @Louis_Davout
      @Louis_Davout 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@sugakookie6303Not surprising, considering Belfast is in Ulster...

  • @jocopowell
    @jocopowell 7 місяців тому +2

    "Snapped" As an American with a deep southern accent, that had me rolling.

  • @davedove67
    @davedove67 10 місяців тому +27

    Wow, not just my favorite Irish lass, but also my internet crush, Editor Diane!

  • @victormartin6608
    @victormartin6608 10 місяців тому +2

    I've been enjoying Diane's show for a couple of years now. She's awesome. 😊

  • @colej.banning2419
    @colej.banning2419 10 місяців тому +6

    Two of my favorite UA-camrs in this video. And also, you know, Lawrence.

  • @erichollar5503
    @erichollar5503 10 місяців тому +1

    So lovely to see an Irish person and a British person get on long enough to make a UA-cam video together.

    • @MW_Asura
      @MW_Asura 10 місяців тому +2

      This isn't the 19th century mate

    • @KonglomeratYT
      @KonglomeratYT 8 місяців тому

      @@MW_Asura Why specifically the 19th? I would have gone for the 20th, y'know? Where Ireland got its independence after WW1? And when it ostracized its own citizens that fought in WW2 for daring to help the brits? Though I wouldn't have isolated it to a century to begin with. That seems closed minded.

  • @jimgorycki4013
    @jimgorycki4013 10 місяців тому +48

    Amazing! Lost in the Pond meets Diane Jennings!

  • @harrytabb328
    @harrytabb328 10 місяців тому +14

    YES YES YESSSS!!!!!
    I was really hoping that you'd meet Lawrence while you were in Chicago!

  • @sharonsmith583
    @sharonsmith583 10 місяців тому +11

    My two favorite UA-camrs!!!!!! AND editor Diane!!

  • @richardelder6519
    @richardelder6519 9 місяців тому +1

    You're a Legend Lawrence! Absolute LEGEND!!🤩🤩OOHH LAWRENCE!😂🤣

  • @HansDelbruck53
    @HansDelbruck53 10 місяців тому +5

    Two UA-cam stars for the price one. You can't beat that deal on either side of the Pond.

  • @laurabuchanan3428
    @laurabuchanan3428 10 місяців тому +29

    I’ve never thought anything about the gaps. I’ve never encountered anyone putting their face up to the gap to peek in. It’s just kind of one of those accepted things where people give each other space and don’t peek!

    • @sukamayoutube2323
      @sukamayoutube2323 10 місяців тому +4

      I'm from England and when I went to university in Canada I was horrified by the gaps between to toilet doors. One time a child came and looked through at me, it gave me bad anxiety to use public toilets. I can't do no privacy.

    • @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
      @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@@sukamayoutube2323I'm an American in my 50s, and the gaps give me the heeby-jeebys too. It's a ridiculous and inexcusable design.

    • @inconnu4961
      @inconnu4961 9 місяців тому

      @@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER You're a sad excuse for an American, then! You are 50 something years old and havent gotten used to it by now?

    • @Factsnotfox
      @Factsnotfox 8 місяців тому

      Is this what "mind the gap" means?

  • @LairdKenneth
    @LairdKenneth 10 місяців тому +10

    Wow! Two of my favorite people online together! So cooool! And just so y'all don't worry, my family on all levels goes back to the American colonial era. So I'm a real bag of mixed nuts.

  • @Daehawk
    @Daehawk 10 місяців тому +1

    Im Irish in ancestory. My family left Ireland about 200 years or more ago. Still have the wooden family rocking chair from Ireland. Its no longer a rocker and the legs are only about 3" long now.

  • @rickwrites2612
    @rickwrites2612 10 місяців тому +50

    The big gap in toilet stalls was an anti-labor surveillance measure from taken by early American factories/workplaces. They didn't want to encourage workers to be comfortable staying in bathrooms any longer than it had to take, and more importantly they could tell if you were still in there and what youre doing.

    • @bluetoad2668
      @bluetoad2668 10 місяців тому +4

      Ford had no doors on the stalls apparently

    • @garryferrington811
      @garryferrington811 10 місяців тому +5

      I don't know if that's true, but it sure sounds right.

    • @Mike_Dubayou
      @Mike_Dubayou 9 місяців тому

      thats just not true. they are constructed as cheaply as possible. they've always been constructed as cheaply as possible, and close enough measured cuts are much cheaper than exact measurements. thats the reason......
      we also did land on the moon, vaccines dont give you autism, and 5g isnt going to give you cancer.

    • @SupremeGreatGrandmaster
      @SupremeGreatGrandmaster 9 місяців тому

      But why are gaps BETWEEN stalls?

    • @bluetoad2668
      @bluetoad2668 9 місяців тому +2

      @@SupremeGreatGrandmaster not sure what you mean. The gaps are around the doors to the stalls, top and bottom and sides. Such gaps are not typical in Europe, there is perhaps a 6" gap at the bottom of the door and maybe the top, for airflow maybe, but generally it would not be possible to easily see inside the stall.

  • @razzberrylogic
    @razzberrylogic 10 місяців тому +7

    I enjoyed the video very much, expectations exceeded
    This was an awesome collab, one that we needed
    Despite a few sassy remarks by Editor Diane
    I liked the ending, the middle and the way it began

  • @newbievonnewberson7390
    @newbievonnewberson7390 10 місяців тому +6

    One of her videos that cracked me up was Diane losing her mind in a Walmart. So many foreigners can't seem to handle choice...Walmart, Target, even regular grocery stores. I've actually seen them complain about there being "too many choices."

    • @jeannadriver9552
      @jeannadriver9552 10 місяців тому +1

      But there ARE too many choices - & I grew up here!!!!

  • @MrGadfly772
    @MrGadfly772 4 місяці тому +2

    I'm an American and I absolutely hate the big gap on public toilets.

  • @lane6866
    @lane6866 10 місяців тому +32

    If the real UA-cam sensations Arthur and Chewie meet, this could be one of the all time great You Tube videos.

  • @garnetbarkley7482
    @garnetbarkley7482 10 місяців тому +1

    Britbox is one of my favorite channels. I love mysteries and ‘cop’ shows. Death in Paradise is one of my favorites.

  • @vicioustwist
    @vicioustwist 7 місяців тому +3

    I marched in New York's St. Patrick Days back when Rudy Giuliani was Mayor.

  • @bpbp8597
    @bpbp8597 10 місяців тому +2

    Go & see the "World's Shortest St. Paddy's Day Parade", located in downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas. It's a must-see event!!!

    • @danbrodt977
      @danbrodt977 4 місяці тому +1

      Heh, I saw it last year. I said WTF! to my Uber driver. He just shrugged and said "World's shortest parade."

  • @jonadabtheunsightly
    @jonadabtheunsightly 10 місяців тому +25

    "Americans have more guns and more people, but we are the Fighting Irish..."
    Umm. I thought the Fighting Irish were from northern Indiana. That is what I have always been told.

    • @xheralt
      @xheralt 7 місяців тому +3

      Where do you think Notre Dame got the phrase from in the first place?

    • @jonadabtheunsightly
      @jonadabtheunsightly 7 місяців тому

      @@xheralt Well, they've had it since before naming consultants were a thing, so I'm guessing somebody in the school's early history just made it up. That's how it normally works.

  • @kevinfelton689
    @kevinfelton689 10 місяців тому +2

    I'm so glad that Editor Diane came along.

  • @GTX1123
    @GTX1123 8 місяців тому +4

    Per Americans wearing green on St. Patricks day, yrs ago a friend of mine who has 100% Anglo Saxon ancestry, decided to tease his co-worker who was Irish. When St. Patricks day rolled around he gleefully came into work that day wearing orange LOL. I'm talking orange pants, shirt and socks. His Irish co-worker glared at him and said "you lousy Prod" LOL
    (i.e. Protestant)

    • @dawnwheeler2649
      @dawnwheeler2649 5 місяців тому

      My father’s family are northern Irish’s Protestants with some English and Scottish thrown in. Any way he would tell me about his relatives were “Orangemen” and would march in the yearly parade which went through a catholic section and would get rocks thrown at them by the Catholics.

  • @frankb1
    @frankb1 10 місяців тому

    She is a lovely person inside and out.

  • @renroxhrd
    @renroxhrd 10 місяців тому +3

    Omg so excited! I love her channel too

  • @Nova7o9
    @Nova7o9 10 місяців тому +2

    We also hate the gaps. 😖 On my roadtrips to see family I know which rest stops I'll stop at because they have more private restroom stalls.

  • @magi2
    @magi2 10 місяців тому +3

    Love it ❤ I am what you call a Heinz 57., what that means is I am a . mixture of different cultures on my Dad's side my grandfather was Italian and Grandmother German. On my Mother's side my Grandfather was mostly Irish, Cherokee and Black Dutch. On my Grandmother's side mostly Scottish, Sioux and French

    • @nicolad8822
      @nicolad8822 10 місяців тому

      Have you actually done a DNA test? Only it seems most people who think have some native blood really don’t.

    • @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
      @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER 10 місяців тому

      ​@@nicolad8822There is no such thing as "native blood". All legal Americans born of legal American citizens, are equally native American.

  • @danmur15
    @danmur15 9 місяців тому

    2:52 i was trying to place why your accent sounded more like a cross between American and Irish accents than i was used to. As soon as you mentioned Canada, that was exactly why it sounded so familiar haha

  • @csurampower
    @csurampower 10 місяців тому +12

    "I'm not a leprechaun."
    That's what a leprechaun would say! Grab her, quick!

  • @jaxkommish
    @jaxkommish 10 місяців тому +2

    Diane should visit the best town - my hometown of Jacksonville Florida! Warm, sunny, and bright 90% of the days - even in February!

    • @fennglordd6365
      @fennglordd6365 10 місяців тому

      Come on to Titusville while you're at it. Watch the rockets launch from the Cape!

  • @lindaclark7868
    @lindaclark7868 10 місяців тому +53

    I love Diane Jennings!!!

  • @marshabass3393
    @marshabass3393 10 місяців тому +2

    You should visit Western North Carolina the mountains are stunning! Ashville is a big Art district!

    • @Mick_Ts_Chick
      @Mick_Ts_Chick 9 місяців тому

      As a North Carolinian I approve this message! 😊

  • @user-gk9lg5sp4y
    @user-gk9lg5sp4y 10 місяців тому +5

    Newfoundland Canadians have an accent that sounds very very close to an Irish accent to American ears. 😁

    • @amyshehi4731
      @amyshehi4731 10 місяців тому +1

      Lots of Irish there. I know a Newfie with an Irish accent.

  • @brinnshea
    @brinnshea 10 місяців тому +2

    This is a mind blowing colab! It makes so much sense now, but I hadn't ever dreamed of it before!

  • @jamesbmcauley
    @jamesbmcauley 10 місяців тому +43

    I find it charming when Europeans refer to our defense perimeters and flight distances as "personal space"😉

    • @dreadogastusf3548
      @dreadogastusf3548 10 місяців тому +3

      So true. And this is why a woman holding the door a bar, for the men, is not sexist. The guys go first to check for active or potential fights.

  • @elvinjonas5451
    @elvinjonas5451 10 місяців тому +1

    I hope Diane has a thick pair of mittens for the cold in Chicago. I live in Michigan and it's just as cold here in the winter.

  • @wcs792
    @wcs792 7 місяців тому +3

    Why would Irish Americans and Actual Irish fight each other when England is right there? Both groups historically love fighting the British.

  • @ltvanburen8555
    @ltvanburen8555 6 місяців тому

    Talk about culture shock, when my parents moved from Chicago to East Tennessee in the late 1950’s they saw a billboard advertising Kosher Ham.

  • @foshizol
    @foshizol 10 місяців тому +4

    I used to watch Diane all the time, but like a lot of UA-cam content creators from overseas she started just making fun of Americans (Like those Two Brits Joel and Lia, RIP)and relaying on old stereotypes. Then she got into reaction videos of stuff she was watching, and I was out.

    • @thBrilliantFool
      @thBrilliantFool 10 місяців тому +2

      I also unsubbed from her basically the same reason. I also noticed she would use her channel to grandstand her political opinions and criticize the US Constitution and so forth. Hopefully she's changed since then but I honestly don't even really care so much to find out. She seemed more polite and well behaved in this video at least. I like this channel much better and Laurence clearly has the good sense to keep his political opinions private while still saying what he likes and dislikes about America in a much more tasteful manner.

    • @BlindTom61
      @BlindTom61 8 місяців тому

      @@thBrilliantFool She still hates Irish-Americans.

  • @boroblueyes
    @boroblueyes 10 місяців тому +2

    I love the collaboration. You guys should attend the St. Patrick's celebration in Savannah.

  • @park.jasmin333
    @park.jasmin333 10 місяців тому +8

    I’m American and one time I was in a bar bathroom and for some reason, the gap in the door was GIANT. Like, you could fully see the person inside. 😂 The bathroom was packed too but every girl was drunk inside the bathroom and didn’t care or they just pretended like they didn’t notice. But for me, it was a nightmare. 😂

    • @GrlRock
      @GrlRock 10 місяців тому +1

      Sounds like a bad dream! 🤣

    • @park.jasmin333
      @park.jasmin333 10 місяців тому +1

      @@GrlRock Yessss 😂 It felt like it!

    • @GrlRock
      @GrlRock 10 місяців тому +1

      🤣@@park.jasmin333

  • @MichaelW969
    @MichaelW969 10 місяців тому +3

    Love the bonus guest. Thanks Editor Diane!

  • @spamlessaccount
    @spamlessaccount 10 місяців тому +5

    "The gap" - at least they don't have to rattle the door to see if it's free. That seems more invasive to me.

    • @jonc4403
      @jonc4403 10 місяців тому

      I don't care if they rattle the door as long as the lock holds. As an American, I want the gap outlawed!

  • @richd6362
    @richd6362 10 місяців тому +3

    Great video! I'm glad Diane brought Editor Diane with her.

  • @SecretSquirrelFun
    @SecretSquirrelFun 10 місяців тому +6

    There’s a wild story on Reddit where a young Irish guy studying in the United States was invited by a fellow student to have dinner with her family.
    The girl had said that her family was Irish etc.
    upon arriving at the home the young guy saw a giant Irish flag in the front yard along with various leprechaun statues.
    The girl’s father began asking where the young man’s “kin hailed from” in Ireland, and then the father proceeded to mispronounce Irish place names and also corrected the young man when he attempted to correctly pronounce the name/word.
    The father then proceeded to ask why the young man was speaking “that way” and to “stop being offensive” and making fun of “His (the father’s) culture”.
    The young man tried to explain that this WAS the way that he spoke normally and he wasn’t putting on any accent.
    The father continued to complain and things became tense.
    In the end, to keep the peace and because he was hungry and really wanted a nice home cooked meal, the young man decided to spend the entire evening putting on a pretend American accent. 😳
    This seemed to settle the father down 🤣
    Oh and I forgot to mention - None of these people had Ever been to Ireland 😳not once... ever.
    But apparently the father was Irish and he was also an expert - after all, he had a flag and leprechauns ... oh, and he knew where his “kin hailed from”🤣🤣
    I mean, obviously 🤣
    For reference, I think the story is in the “entitled people” subreddit - if your interested. It’s quite a hoot.

  • @toddyjean2307
    @toddyjean2307 10 місяців тому +1

    I have just discovered your channel and i must say that I’m loving the content - your deadpan delivery just kills me! Jolly good show mate { you’re influencing me already…}.

  • @cygnusx-3217
    @cygnusx-3217 10 місяців тому +3

    A couple years ago, I looked through Diane's archive and discovered that she hadn't done a single reaction to anything about Chicago. I requested that she react to Chicago's St. Patrick's Day parade and turning the river green. She rudely snapped at me saying she didn't believe it was interesting enough. Yeah, nice lady. 👎

    • @balancedactguy
      @balancedactguy 10 місяців тому +1

      Maybe "Editor Diane" had responded! 🤣🤣She has been polite to me before!

  • @jontastic
    @jontastic 10 місяців тому

    Love your channels. As others have said I’m about 80% English/Irish/Scottish, so I’m constantly fighting myself.

  • @virginiarobbins7539
    @virginiarobbins7539 10 місяців тому +1

    She's so funny sweet.. glad she could make it over

  • @seanstinchfield-mp2xm
    @seanstinchfield-mp2xm 5 місяців тому

    Texan here! Glad you loved our bbq Diane! Lawrence, you gotta visit Texas!

  • @JT-xs4br
    @JT-xs4br 12 днів тому

    Awesome video! Looking forward to going to Ireland this year!!

  • @mateobrynn5792
    @mateobrynn5792 10 місяців тому +5

    Yes!! Two of my all time faves! Looking forward to this!

  • @doncarlton4858
    @doncarlton4858 10 місяців тому

    In Chicago the pubs are called saloons. That's a pub with a full restaurant menu. Great food!

  • @deniseroe5891
    @deniseroe5891 10 місяців тому

    As a Texan, thanks for the shout out about our wonderful barbecue. Also, as a Texan of Irish extraction, and also most of Western Europe, I absolutely love the Irish and Scottish brogue . Enjoy the US.

  • @chrisk5651
    @chrisk5651 10 місяців тому

    I'm an Irish American from the New York area & I've never heard of the pinching thing!

  • @paulprovenzanotelejug7877
    @paulprovenzanotelejug7877 10 місяців тому

    Diane & Laurence in my Chicago!!! Why didn’t I get a lunch invite?!?!? Why can’t I hang?!?!? OK, I know I can’t, but I am sooooo happy !! 2of my fave UA-camrs!

  • @johnhernandez8223
    @johnhernandez8223 28 днів тому

    we like lawrence but we LOVE our Diane so much!!

  • @stephenriggs8177
    @stephenriggs8177 10 місяців тому +2

    Big fan of both channels. It was fun seeing you two together.

  • @jlovebirch
    @jlovebirch 10 місяців тому

    As a fan of Diane, it was mind blowing to see her turn up on this channel. Well done.

  • @PavelMosko
    @PavelMosko 8 місяців тому

    Wow I love both your channels. Cool to see you both together.

  • @guaposneeze
    @guaposneeze 10 місяців тому

    I've always had a huge celebrity crush on Editor Diane. Great to see her pop up.

  • @colleenmarin8907
    @colleenmarin8907 10 місяців тому

    I haven't seen Diane in quite awhile - what a pleasant surprise! I absolutely love her accent. The change in skin tone was striking, though. I don't think I've heard about the pinching thing

  • @O2life
    @O2life 10 місяців тому

    I always appreciate an episode in which Lawrence sounds like he's talking rather than ANNOUNCING the whole time.

  • @shogunn2517
    @shogunn2517 10 місяців тому

    The crossover episode I never knew my day needed. Thanks Lawrence, Diane... And Editor Diane.

  • @Greg87601
    @Greg87601 10 місяців тому

    Thank you having Diane Jjennings on your channel.

  • @scoobydoo5447
    @scoobydoo5447 10 місяців тому +1

    I’m born and raised in America, and yes, people can see you through the restroom stalls. None of us really seem to know either, why the gaps are so large.

  • @TBNTX
    @TBNTX 10 місяців тому

    It's nice to see you both together!

  • @patricknesbit2334
    @patricknesbit2334 10 місяців тому

    Awesome two beautiful people with even more beautiful accents! Love to see my country through other people's eyes! Always enjoy your comical presentation. Cheers to you and the lovely lass! May you both be doing well and have a most beautiful day! Fun fact I have brit, Scott, and Irish ancestors. All lovely people that live in lovely countries.