Canadian and long time viewer of J.J. He is like one of two people I’ve ever heard with a ridiculously strong accent like that. Most mainland English Canadians sound pretty close to the generic American accent with a few different quirks here and there. When it comes to J.J. Though, he has explained long ago that his accent is genuine, he grew up with it. I remember when I first stumbled onto his content I thought it was an act but I’ve since learned it just how he talks.
The food was very accurate but other than that it isn’t very accurate for me. I go to an extremely small school so my class is a pretty tight group and we all go and do things together. it’s not like having different groups as it is portrayed in movies and shows. It’s more of a bunch of people with different interest who’s personalities mesh perfectly together. I could see how there are clichés and cliques in larger schools but in mine it’s more like a group of siblings together for 8 hours a day.
Am from Germany and went in Germany to school (finished my Abitur around 2016) We didn’t exactly have had a cafeteria to eat lunch in till my last three years there, though we had a bistro/little kitchen the Oberstufen students (the two or three highest grades learning for Abitur) could use during their free hours to either warm something from home up or heat up for example a frozen pizza from a nearby grocery store in the oven. As for sloppy joes: no, we never had those. Just regular burgers on burger days or some type of pasta with that sauce
“Ultra strict parenting makes better students.” And also makes children grow up to despise or avoid their parents. *shrug My parents were both strict disciplinarians-I would like nothing more than to be left alone from them as an adult.
Nop this woman is wrong and committing a survivor bias. Yes it does produce "better students" but how about the ones that don't become better or end up with some trauma where because if youre not the best then you think youre the worst and cannot take even handle receiving a B+ grade. That is abuse in the longterm
My son is 19 now but when he was 5, in kindergarten, his school (in Ohio, USA) pressured me so hard to get him an ADHD diagnosis and on pills to the point they tried to make appointments for him with another dr (BEHIND MY BACK) when his pediatrician, the one he had since birth and who specializes in ADD/ADHD, disagreed with their assessment. The pill pushing school admins was a real thing. I hope it has changed since then!!
@@jewsco ok. It was my lived experience but go off on how you know my life stranger on the internet. Oh look I can eye roll emoji too 🙄 Get a life lol 🤣
Man thats crazy, here in norway i had the reverse personally, being constantly denied until my brother got his diagnosis at 26, since adhd has potentional genetic links i finally got tested and got diagnosed at 20, meaning i was into university when i started. But rather that the school hooking me on what is essentially amphetamines at a young age if it had been the case i didnt need them.
I lived this as a kid. Except my mother (parents are divorced) put me on a whole assortment of drugs and diagnoses ADD/ADHD/OCD/ODD/DEPRESSION/BIPOLAR TYPE 2 until I almost died. I collapsed on the bus to school got sent to a hospital and they did a blood test found out my liver way failing at age 16 they checked the perceptions said it was lethal dosages. They cut my off cold turkey. The last 10 years I haven't been on any drugs and every facet of life has been better for being off of them. Only one good thing about it. It made me never want to do any "recreational" drugs.
The "Tiger Mum" is a very widely known trope over here (Australia) but probably related to us being in Asia. The typical tiger mum is Asian and forces her kids to do piano or violin, Chinese classes on weekends and have have a tutor for most subjects. An "A" is the only acceptable grade, and you can expect to get nagged for laziness or carelessness if you come home with 98% on a Maths test. "Sport" may be limited to Tennis or Ballet, rather than any variant of football, with basketball being somewhat acceptable. Boyfriends and girlfriends are also banned. It's push push push all the way until you get your degree, in Law or Medicine, of course.
@@Jliske2 Sure .. Australia is it's own continent, separate from Asia .. but its in the same broad section of the globe. Lots of Asian people in Australia and lots of Australians up in Asia, so many shared and ideas and concepts. We are far closer to Asia than Europe, so even though we have majority Euro ancestry, we are heavily influenced by Asia.
I agree. It does bring up imagry of the nerd culture, the BASIC program on the character's chest. If you've ever played the RPG Shadowrun, this character fits right in. The crowd of two I was part of in a class of 110.
@@DavidJamesHenry He lies about it a lot you mean. No one says aboot unless they're messing with Americans or making fun of stereotyes. Plus if it truly was a genuine part of his accent, it would apply to every word with a similar sound. It doesn't. He says aboot and occasionally aroond but he never says foond or soond or prood. This is how you know it's put on. Fake.
@@campbellsoup93 He has had this same accent even when he was in high school. You can find the old clips where he argued against the monarchy as a young lad. He still said "aboot". You are so insistent that it doesn't exist, and why? You're not JJ. You can't speak for him. There's absolutely no evidence he's lying.
So speaking in somewhat defense of High School athletics, I always believed it helped gave students an outlet as well as helped build teamwork and leadership skills. I also grew up in a small town with only one school so it did help build a sense of identity and community among the school and town, so I may have a more I guess positive outlook at these things.
There would be so many nfl players today that are in jail or on the streets if they didn't have football or basketball as an outlet and distraction to keep them away from gang life and drugs. I even know people personally in high-school that admit they would be gang banging right now if they didn't have football and a tight strict schedule to force them away from it
Have the game, love the game. A great video. The accent varies in strength across Canada, and in the Maritimes instead of going 'oot n aboot', they tend to say 'oat in a boat'.
There are several regional abouts in Canada. He has the full blown aboot, then there's the abaoot,near where I grew up in North Dakota, and one that's barely distinguishable from the American about. All depends on where you live. I still have a fairly Canadian abaoot mixed in with all my other partial accents.
I’m 30 now but when I was in elementary school the teachers thought I had ADHD. My mother worked as a teachers assistant for special needs students and diagnosed me as being a small child with a lot of energy and she was right. What the teachers(and my mother didn’t know was I would sometimes eat a spoonful of sugar from a container my mother kept) I couldn’t imagine what would’ve happened if they gave me drugs for something I didn’t have.
To my knowledge sugar doesn't actually make you hyperactive. I think because it is only reported/observed in cases where placebo effect would apply. Of course sugars do provide energy specifically glucose relating to cellular respiration and ATP production but that's not enough to make you equivalent to somebody with ADHD. As somebody with ADHD I wouldn't say a lot of caffeine is a similar experience. You probably were just an energetic kid during the time when ADHD was becoming common knowledge and people didn't have a great understanding of it beyond high energy students. This last bit is defiantly overanalyzing but assuming you were consuming one standard spoon of sucrose (table sugar) - a standard spoon is effectively equivalent to a tablespoon and that can hold ~12.5 grams of sucrose. Meaning each tablespoon of sucrose (at a conversion of 17 kilojoules per gram of sucrose) you would produce 212.5 kilojoules of energy. Rule of thumb is 4 kilojoules per hour per kilogram of body weight assuming you were 11 at the time you would likely be around 36 kilograms meaning each hour you would need a minimum of 144 kilojoules to live. I would guess that the sugar affected your energy levels minimally
26:20 Of course they're a Canadian thing too (we're cultural cousins after all), the reality herein is that in a sloppy joe you have essentially a hamburger, the logic therein is why crush the ground beef when you can leave it intact, dress it up with cheese, bacon vegetables and an appropriate style and amount of condiment. To many I suspect that would be a better option than to simply grind up the patty into mince meat, drench it in low grade tomato sauce so that you have this soggy thing that drips all over your clothing.
Sloppy joes were often recycles burgers. Whatever patties were left over or about to expire were broken up and used in slippy joes, lasagna, or the like.
@Mr. Terry History My Public schools in NYC had "Glee clubs." It's basically the same as Choir, to generalize as i'm pretty sure depending on how well funded a school is it can do as simple as the club singing in front of the school to something with more production on the wealthier funded schools. The main music teacher generally is in charge of what these kids would sing and practice either takes place close to the end of the school day and even after school.
I had an IEP in grade school, I also took Ritalin for ADHD. I think these plans and pharmaceuticals can be useful for a small percentage of people but as of now they are overutilized, and parents don't have the time or energy to take kids to soccer practice three times a week the way they used to. Teachers are in such short supply that they can't take the time to focus on any one child, even if they did the teacher would be accused of having an inappropriate relationship with students. When I was 14 I played hockey, this was in the mid 2000's, and I invited my English teacher to one of my games as thanks for helping get my grade up; she taught at least 5 classes all with 30 students but she showed up for me. Teachers are some of the most important people in our society, more important than police, than, politicians, than the president.
I live in Indonesia, I remember my elementary school teacher asked us to look for crickets because we were going to dissect them but we didn't do it, because the ethical dilemma, crickets would be more difficult to dissect than frogs, and it would be gross to do it without proper kit/tool I don't think our school really ready for it at that time
My father, as a boy, was put on huge doses of riddlin. The doctor joked the highest dose in the state of Iowa. Dad pushed back hard on my school, trying to put me on drugs. The teacher said she had her own son on the meds and my dad told her "I'm not going to sedate my child into a stuppor to make him easy to teach, if he's screwing around discipline him, and if you want to dope up your kid it's your bussiness." He made a teacher cry that day. I mellowed out over the next couple of years and seemed to prove his point.
32:40. Yeah I remember motorheads. The thing is though Motorheads might have died out or became less popular after 2000 when kids became more techy and with the rise of the internet along with vehicles becoming far more techy and digitized themselves. I mean unless you are poor and rural, most young kids today do not know their way around a vehicle like they did in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. In Canada at least alot of our young mechanics come from small towns or are children of immigrants or immigrants themselves where said mechanical cultures still exist.
Im from southern Ontario which is pretty much its own country that the rest of Canada hates, and I dont say aboot, but I can tell you their are definitely people who say it.
When I was in high school in the late 90s, they were putting less emphasis on the SATs and elite universites and more emphasis on the ACTs and state universities. Of course, we still had to take both. We did the whole frog disection thing in freshman biology. I got told off for frankensteining mine back together, lol. There was also an AP anatomy class and they dissected cats.
Actually, I went to Purgatory High, Hell High was our rivals. Go Not-Saints! JJ does some really good videos. I've learned quite a bit aboot Canada through them.
From Finland. We discected various fish in school. Aborre, vendace and minnows. Also teacher once brought already removed organs of a pig to our class in a carry-on freezer. Heart, liver, lungs, brain and digestive tract. Good memories
2:27 there absolutely are people for whom the accent really comes off like that, but it really varies from person to person. You can barely detect it when I say about.
All my schools in So-Cal - no lockers, no cafeteria, no indoor classes. Well, my high school backbthen did have one building with one ro of indoor classes, so we had one real hallway. Since I've graduated, they added a multi-level building, which possibly have lockers in them. The other high school with a similar building was featured in Veronica Mars and in the show there are lockers, but I'm not convinced those weren't just added by the props crew. 😄 Edit: Oh, and the frog dissection, yes, we did that for biology, as well as worm and pig dissection. I didn't continue to physiology class though because in that one you had to do a cat dissection.
I was on ADHD meds from age 11-17. I definitely needed them, as evidenced by my needing to go back on them at 25, but I was over prescribed. My dosage was too high as a kid and teen. We have an issue with over prescribing and misdiagnosing but, ADHD can be debilitating and I can't imagine how my life would've been without the help of those meds. I've noticed the diagnostic criteria change for ADHD over the years and I think that is the start of making our diagnoses and prescriptions more accurate.
When I went to HS in the '70s, the school choirs were collectively called "Glee Club." That wasn't necessarily the official name, but may have been a leftover term from years before.
I went to American high school in the mid-to-late 2010s. Let's see which of these tropes I've encountered... I had been prescribed Adderall by my doctor, and it did help, but it was decided that the side effects weren't worth it. ADHD is a very real issue, and I've heard from a lot of people who agree that there were a lot of problems that could have been avoided if they'd been diagnosed and treated earlier. I did study hard for the SAT, and it really wasn't that difficult for me. I got a good grade on it, which got me a lot of attention from colleges. I never encountered a glee club until I went to a Public Ivy university (a less exclusive college outside the Ivy League considered on par with its schools), and that uni's glee club had become a general all-men's choir. The quality of the cafeteria food varied depending on the item, but Sloppy Joes were never served. Rectangular pizza was available, and I actually liked it. Then again, I liked a local pizza place a lot of people I knew hated. I took a biology class in high school, but it didn't involve dissection. I did take a dissection lab in my middle school era, though. There were, of course, memelord students. I was not one of them, but I did know the memes. The motorheads mostly went to the technical high school on the other side of town. One of my younger brothers was one of those motorheads.
I disected frogs in middle school and yes it did seperate the weak from the strong. When one group cut into a frog and a bunch of eggs slid out half the class ran out.
2:15 If you watch videos by a woman named Shannon Q, or a minor celebrity chef named Sam the Cooking Guy you can hear the "aboot" and "soory". It's a rare accent but it's also prevalent, weirdly.
Regarding "Advisor Adderall's" - What you are describing where it is "illegal" is only partially true and only recent (2004 "Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act"). These stereotypes predate that and schools were REQUIRING students to take these medications even over the objections of their parents. I myself experienced this in the 80s with an abusive teacher (not even my teacher at that point) who requested I be put on it, and my parents were unsuccessful fighting it, finally taking me out of the public school system to avoid it. The stereotype is the students perspective of it, but in the late 90s it was an outrage among many parents that their children were being forced to take these drugs in order to pacify them in failing, underfunded school systems. What you two are describing is the modern condition where it's realized that schools forcing parents to overmedicate their children was only part of the problem. The school system's abuse of Adderol has roots going back to the 70s and possibly 60s. "Zachaton" is actually too old for him, not too young. The art style for the lettering is clearly referencing the 1983-1985 TV series/toy sales vehicle "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" with a large portion of it specifically "Man-At-Arms", a central supporting character from the cartoon. The clothing/armor and the glowing staff/mace are lifted straight from him, the beard, technology and trophy are added, though the top of the trophy is referencing the staff of "Skeletor", the villain of the series.
The one highschool cliché I could relate to a little bit is the desire for a girl above my caste. I was a loner(ish) dork kid and Erin was a nice, popular star of the track team girl next door kid. There was no Hollywood ending to the story though. I'm still a loner dork, and I have no idea what she is doing. A fantasy high school would have been cool. I'd have been head of the mage club, and we'd get into a rivalry with the necromancy goth kid club. Rituals would be performed and chaos would reign!
I never took the SAT or ACT. The school only provided the 'practice' version and I never bothered to inquire about the real thing after that. I just took a placement test at a community College and started there, transferring from to a 4 year. Also I was never allowed to participate in dissection. The administration felt 'it was an unnecessary addition to my curriculum considering my corcumstances'. I think they just didn't have to balls to give the blind student sharp implements.
At 2:35 Some western Canadians do have weird "Canadianisms" in their accents. Sure Vancouver is essentially Seattle north however many folk from Vancouver are really from British Columbia's interior (unless you're Asian) and then the western Canadian dialect kicks in.
now that you mention it... i dont think ive ever seen a sloppy joe on a menu outside of school... i actually kindof like em now but thats cause i cook for myself now and can make them actually be good, not bad when the sauce actually has flavor and the bun is toasted. now i just have to try making meatloaf some time... i never liked that as a kid but my dad apparently did.
I was born in 67 in the UK and grew up through their education system. I also interned for a year at a US high school during my MSW in NYS, so I've seen a little of this but only as an outsider. It's interesting what they seem to have done with the game, and interesting to hear you two talk about the sources for those tropes. Some of the things from the game (eg frog dissection) absolutely existed in that education system back then (I don't know about now of course). Some of them were definitely not part of the school system. For instance, we used to have 2 course cooked meals with meat, veg, starch and desert not just sloppy joes, bad pizza or hot pockets. Of course, I won't say the meals tasted GOOD, there's a reason why we were all singing a song about how bad school dinners were, but compared to "just feed them the cheapest shit we can put on a plate" it was healthy. High school sports were not usually school vs school where I grew up, but then the most popular sport in the UK (football/soccer) has professional teams recruiting talented kids to their junior teams starting in some cases with the under-11s. Mind, you I suspect that having footy games against the nearest other school might have been better than inter-school fights we had instead where probably 20-30 kids from each school (within walking distance) would occasionally meet on a field between to beat the crap out of each other. Then there were things that were common in the high school and middle school I went to which might or might not have been a common part of more general educational experiences even in the UK. Things which, when I've mentioned them to friends and relatives (married 2 american women) from the USA just didn't exist at all here. Usually these were pain based. We had a "game"/punishment where if someone upset the group the rest of the group would line up against a wall, making a tunnel with their arms, then the punished person would have to run through that tunnel while the group chanted "into the valley" (the title of the Skids song) and kicked them as hard as possible while they ran. If you were lucky, nobody waited at the far end to shove you back in. Or the card game "Scabby Queen" which was basically Old Maid but after losing the loser had to cut the cards and get that many raps across the knuckles with the deck from every other player who could basically use whatever tactics they liked to make it hurt and tear skin. I suspect there might be overall about as much similar as different between our two school systems, and that those similarities and differences would shock many.
I'll be honest, I never wanted to dissect a frog in high school because 1) I thought it would be traumatizing, and 2) I like frogs (especially thanks to playing Frogger a lot)
my experience with my schools mental health team was pretty negative but by the end of high school i was pretty sure they wernt going to screw anyone else as badly again i got recommended therapy at 6 due to poor communicative abilities and violent outbursts and at 7 started my nonstop trip that lasted until i quit my meds cold turkey at 15 but by the end id been on four meds abilify risperdone and two others i cant remember while not being diagnosed with anything and a lot of the pressure to dope me up came from my school district they also sent me to an intermediate school district school at 8 that specialized in teaching and containing violent schizophrenics and bipolar sufferers and the resulting black mark on my record has prevented me from going to collage despite the fact i graduated with above average grades once i got to the actual high school from freshman and in the end i still have never been diagnosed but my teachers at the specialist school believed i had aspergers and most of my family and friends think thats the most likely case
I’ve seen some things he’s put out that reflect popular myths or wishful thinking about American history rather than uncomfortable truths. Generally good stuff, but as with anything on UA-cam, trust but verify.
No sloppy Joe's over in the Netherlands. Also school lunches arent a big thing here. A few might have them but kids are expected to bring their own lunch or buy something at the cafetaria or a local store during their break
Mr. terry i love your a politicly perspective on things I'm personally a republican but i still really like the a political perspective I'm also in highschool. i wish you were my teacher.
I remember that I failed 2nd semester of 10th grade biology because I refused to dissect any animal. I had to repeat the semester in the 12th grade to graduate. I still didn't touch or do it but the teacher gave me credit by allowing me to take all notes and complete the final report paper for the 4 person group. I hope the policy has changed by now. I graduated in 1993.
I think the last card is a reference to computer nerds so like kids who build computers and build computer programs but they also hit the gym a lot and somehow ended up being hot. I major in computer science and software engineering and it's weird how many buff hot guys are in my classes
I was diagnosed with adhd around 9yo, but wasn’t medicated until I found out about it 10 years later. In my opinion I wish I could have been medicated earlier instead of putting up with arguing about sitting still and not paying attention.
The frustrating thing about the term "tiger mom" is that it was originally used in social psychology to refer to the Southeast Asian parenting style, but that is almost the complete opposite of mainstream usage. A true tiger mom is someone who lets their children have a high degree of freedom but fiercely defends them when they get in trouble. The idea is that children need to learn by being allowed to make their own mistakes, but at the same time they need some degree of structure, protection, and direction imposed by parents and society. So they don't have total freedom in the way some American and European children do, but it's not total control either. It's a hybrid system that is unique to Eastern culture and doesn't translate well to Western cultures because Eastern cultures tend to be less individualistic and more community-minded to begin with. So the "freedom but with direction" system works well because children in those cultures don't expect the same types of freedom that Western people are used to. The modern American tiger mom is basically just a more aggressive variant of a helicopter mom and seems to be based on immigrant stereotypes.
No sloppy joes in germany, not that I know anyway. The meat looks like "Hackfleisch" Hacked Meat, it's pretty common uh, food stuff. Low quality school/ hospital food might be a world wide phenomenon.
Speaking as an Anglo-Italian, the greatest American high school cliches is the locker Lockers, in Italy at least don’t exist, nor would we have a use for them. Could someone explain to me the use of a locker?
When I was in High School (1981-1985), lockers were used to keep your school books. Instead of being assigned to a classroom, you rented them from the school and you took them home to do homework. Each class had it's own textbook. Typical school workload was 5-7 classes. Physical education was paired with a health class that had a textbook. English classes also had speech class (public speaking), literature classes (multiple books read over the span of a year which you had to describe themes, and subtext of stories), and creative writing. Math, hard sciences, elective trades classes (carpentry, automotive mechanics, mostly), business law, economics all had separate texts. My high school was in a collective of area school and had a "career center" where you could study skilled labor of several stripes. Culinary arts, data processing, advanced automotive mechanics, diesel mechanics, HVAC, child care, accounting, plumbing, and a few others that escape me at the moment. But the absolute crush of subjects and the weight of texts and moving from one room to another for subjects being taught made a locker necessary to store the texts not in immediate use.
"Nobody likes sloppy joes" ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I mean, I wouldn't want to eat sloppy joes every day, but once in a while it just hits the spot, y'know? Kind of like the McRib. I had to dissect a digital frog in high school in the early 2000s. I had no ethical issues with dissecting a frog, I just couldn't walk into the lab with the frogs ready for dissection without throwing up from the formaldehyde fumes.
as for the whole "are we over prescribing ADHD meds thing,it is definitly a thing that happened, but i absoltly needed medication to get through school smoothly. that said, had the system been diffrent, i probably wouln't have needed any.
You can make a good sloppy joe. Its just when you have to mass produce them, its impossible to make them stay good. It you toast the bun and eat them immediatly as you make them, they are good. I add hot sauce.
Schools running sports teams always seemed weird to me as an Icelander, here they are completely seperate with "Clubs" running all teams in all sports and all ages from toddlers with their parents up to old geezers who want to stay active
As A filipino who thru several doctor visits and screenings with doctors Diagnose with ADHD and Dylexia from my experience in Asian Education culture alot of parents pretty much deny any Learning Diabilitys since they and alot of Asian parents dont want to recognise their childen may be diffrent from others with even children with autism can hidden from society by their family because of shame and the education system is so competitionalize and purely merit base that failure can mean getting kickout of school or be socially ostracize both by your classmates , Teachers and even your extended family so children kind of put alot of their effort in passing exams projects and other things that can give you a good grade I know people in Highschool as young as 14 taking Energy Drinks and other we call nitro substances to keep up especially me when i was studying I was never given any consideration for my metal handicaps had to keep up with other students so when is still was not finish taking notes or answering test teachers would just move on or take my test paper and I was even labeled the idiot of my class so did not make any friends it the same in my University to the point I had a bad case of a caffaine Addiction even a base case of Alcohol dependecy when I finish college was able to recover and been sober for last 4years and been only drinking one coffee a day but it really can put into perspective why their are stories of people having metal breakdowns and suicide in their educational years
Interesting, my situation is somewhat opposite of you. I was diagnose of ADHD and a speech problem. My parents accepted my condition, and went on to find ways to lower my disability. They still enroll me in a regular school but then they enroll me in those therapy program for special needs. Thanks to the medication I graduated from the special school, but for the regular people I'm still somewhat a problematic child, but my parents accept it. In high school it takes an interesting turn. In bridging( summer class before a regular highschool student) I really enjoy studying especially math. Then the regular class start, my math grade goes down(mostly because my my ego on my grades in summer) and slowly not in the mood to do reading. But my mom accept in because she thought that I'm culture shock because I move in a small school in elementary to a big school in high school. If not because of the pandemic my college will be decent. Now I'm having a hard time adjusting.
@@hannahapor9966 interesting for me it was more of History class and history in general its my subject of choice every other subject was I only did what I had to pass I never went to summer school since we did not have that much here i was able to cope with my disorder by using music or listening to other things like youtube even lofi before it kind of becmae its own thing while doing work to keep my mind from wandering while doing stuff by habit like if I am doing bookeeping I would have like headphones or airpods on me to make myself focus on the numbers my former employers would conplain about me being always in my airpods or headphones when doing work but that what help me focus like giving someone who those not have a good control of their hands a stress ball to help them but finally got a company that those not care what you do while working as long as we meet requirements and deadlines so they dont really bother me when I have airpods since they know I understood the memo but yeah maybe your younger then me this was around before 2015 during my Highschool days so maybe people can accept it easier then before which to me is good it may still take a while for it to be formally recognise here
In 7th and 8th grade we dissected 4 animals, a frog (seems standard), a fish, a bird and a rat. Comparisons were then drawn out and we learned the intricate differances of amphibians, actinopterygii (most fish), avians and mammals, of note was that the rats dissected were always female so that we could observe mammalian reproductive systems. This was in Sweden and while I am born there I have lived in 19 countries during my almost five decades of life and hold three passports, so yes - I'm a swede but consider myself more a citizen of the world these days. Cultural and psycological differences are very interesting and startling realizations can be made once you start traveling a lot.
I liked high school I had no problems with it but at my school we didn’t really have groups or clicks. Like there weren’t any jocks or nerds (I went to an all boys school so no girls obviously). Everyone was just cool with each other. Idk if there was any bullying but I didn’t see any and I definitely wasn’t bullied. At lunch some guys would just play basketball or try to climb this big ass fence in the parking lot and just do goofy shit that got them in trouble (my school was also Catholic). I had a good time. Seeing some of the stuff these dudes would do was hilarious. Some guys would skip class to go outside to a food truck and bring food into class, some guys would just fall asleep and seeing the teacher wake them up was always hilarious, a few guys would try to bring weed to school so if a kid spelled like dryer sheets, chances are he had some and so on. Back in my senior year in my religion class (we call it Theology), our teacher was running late to class. So instead of waiting for him in silence, this one dude went up to the teacher’s computer, goes onto UA-cam & plays the Anaconda music video by Nicki Manaj at full volume. After 30 seconds the teacher comes in all pissed off, asking the class who played the video, not knowing what the hell do with us. That was absolutely hilarious. The only thing I didn’t like about high school was the work but I mean who likes doing work anyway? You don’t remember that shit, you remember the funny things, the weird and the awesome stuff. And honestly I’m not a religious person, I never was, but being at an all boys school is so much better than being at a Co-Ed school. A lot of guys are different when girls are involved. Take them away and you truly let out who these guys are. And from what I was told, our sister school which is an all girls school, they have a similar opinion. Since there are no guys, the girls can truly be who they are. I had a blast in high school and I wish other people had a similar experience but not all high schools are created equally
Sloppy Joes exist in Japan... because I make them. I literally just ate one. I love them. Hell, Guga Foods even did a video on them. There's a huge difference between the ones you get at school and ones you make yourself.
My mom was a teacher and I grew up with the joke that even teachers hated the SAT. She also had to give her first grade students standardize tests at the start of the year. Given that she taught at the school that had the most lower income recently immigrated students. Some of them hadnt learned english and just were at a disadvantage and the school was seen as the "worst" school in the system. So yeah therr are other issues with it.
Disecting frogs ?!? We didn't do that in my Canadian high school. We disected rats instead... Perhaps because they were more readily available in our school's cafeteria... (Okay, the "rats in the cafeteria" part was a joke. But we DID disect rats instead of frogs.)
@@savannahthefangirlyt8884 Yeah... I remember disecting a beef's eye, as well as a pig's heart in 8th grade, also. The rat was in 10th grade, and to this day, it is still the most awful smell I ever smelt.
Late to the game, but as far as I can tell, JJ isn’t purposely saying “aboot” - he pronounces similarly spelled words with that “oo” sound. About, around, found, etc. Cool video and reaction.
My father started school in a one room schoolhouse. J.J does appear to have that strong accent, and it's apparently not a joke. I can say however it's not a common thing up here, at least where I come from anyway. Words like sorry, eh, and the way i pronounce bagel will give me away when i vist america, and the more brittish way I spell words, etc. Other than that, the two countries are very similar. If my son's grades drop, i will deal with it. Parent teacher interviews? So long as he keeps his grades up, and the teacher doesn't request one, why would i waste both our time? Last year he ended with a 99% in math, and so far this year is lowest grade is 93%, and he knows more about certain things than I do. So, I don't see the need to interfere, and waste the teachers time.
JJ has being saying "aboot" like that for years, so I think it's legit, I've never heard it be that pronounced though (I'm from the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario).
We actually quietly celebrated when they brought back the square "cardboard" pizza in schools after having really doughy, soggy triangle pizzas for years.
Weird. In the Philippines, elementary is Grades 1 to 6. Then it's high school after that. lol No, sloppy joes aren't a thing where I'm from. And not all schools here have cafeterias, probably because they can't afford it and there's no space for it. Canteens are more common, where you just buy snacks, but if the school can provide meals, you can buy some. I think you gotta provide your own rice tho, or just buy rice outside the campus if the school allows students outside at lunch. Not all schools have canteens tho. I made this sound complicated but my point is that not all schools are the same. lol
so i actly have adhd but my treament when i was in school was presured by the school and i as the student and the person these things were happening to was not given a say in it and thats where i have issiues with how schools haddle issiues
I was a student in a somewhat affluent high school not too long ago and I didn't really pay attention to any of my fellow students taking ADHD pills or not (I certainly didn't). At least the school didn't actively promote it from what I can remember (or that it was a super confidential thing only discussed between students, parents, and school nurses, which is possible).
If you want a child to have add or adhd or anything like that, they can have it and get medicine for it without anyone blinking twice and that is definitely a huge problem
Canadian and long time viewer of J.J. He is like one of two people I’ve ever heard with a ridiculously strong accent like that. Most mainland English Canadians sound pretty close to the generic American accent with a few different quirks here and there. When it comes to J.J. Though, he has explained long ago that his accent is genuine, he grew up with it. I remember when I first stumbled onto his content I thought it was an act but I’ve since learned it just how he talks.
Grew up in California but as a teen I got to know a couple of Canadian native girls that had an "aboot" that was almost as strong as JJs lol
It’s so cool to see one of my favorite UA-camrs having his videos reacted to. That has to be a good sign that a channel is getting more popular.
Do you feel these clichés are accurate?
As a senior I’m simultaneously excited to leave, scared to leave, wanting to leave, and not wanting to leave
@@shanehughes8425 Next year I’m a senior but I am already feeling the pressure
The food was very accurate but other than that it isn’t very accurate for me. I go to an extremely small school so my class is a pretty tight group and we all go and do things together. it’s not like having different groups as it is portrayed in movies and shows. It’s more of a bunch of people with different interest who’s personalities mesh perfectly together. I could see how there are clichés and cliques in larger schools but in mine it’s more like a group of siblings together for 8 hours a day.
@@shanehughes8425 That sounds like Heaven….
Am from Germany and went in Germany to school (finished my Abitur around 2016)
We didn’t exactly have had a cafeteria to eat lunch in till my last three years there, though we had a bistro/little kitchen the Oberstufen students (the two or three highest grades learning for Abitur) could use during their free hours to either warm something from home up or heat up for example a frozen pizza from a nearby grocery store in the oven.
As for sloppy joes: no, we never had those. Just regular burgers on burger days or some type of pasta with that sauce
“Ultra strict parenting makes better students.”
And also makes children grow up to despise or avoid their parents. *shrug
My parents were both strict disciplinarians-I would like nothing more than to be left alone from them as an adult.
Lol with me it’s the opposite my parents are quite relaxed about my school and I’m a straight A student
Ultra strict parenting is basically abuse I think. Like, you can be strict but don't take it too far.
@@UnknownAI3 But now you're a drug addict. Thats how parenting works.
Nop this woman is wrong and committing a survivor bias. Yes it does produce "better students" but how about the ones that don't become better or end up with some trauma where because if youre not the best then you think youre the worst and cannot take even handle receiving a B+ grade. That is abuse in the longterm
Can confirm but that can be the opposite
My son is 19 now but when he was 5, in kindergarten, his school (in Ohio, USA) pressured me so hard to get him an ADHD diagnosis and on pills to the point they tried to make appointments for him with another dr (BEHIND MY BACK) when his pediatrician, the one he had since birth and who specializes in ADD/ADHD, disagreed with their assessment. The pill pushing school admins was a real thing. I hope it has changed since then!!
Ohio plz dont invade we beg you
I have never heard about this or seen it anywhere but if you say so 🙄
@@jewsco ok. It was my lived experience but go off on how you know my life stranger on the internet. Oh look I can eye roll emoji too 🙄 Get a life lol 🤣
Man thats crazy, here in norway i had the reverse personally, being constantly denied until my brother got his diagnosis at 26, since adhd has potentional genetic links i finally got tested and got diagnosed at 20, meaning i was into university when i started.
But rather that the school hooking me on what is essentially amphetamines at a young age if it had been the case i didnt need them.
I lived this as a kid. Except my mother (parents are divorced) put me on a whole assortment of drugs and diagnoses ADD/ADHD/OCD/ODD/DEPRESSION/BIPOLAR TYPE 2 until I almost died. I collapsed on the bus to school got sent to a hospital and they did a blood test found out my liver way failing at age 16 they checked the perceptions said it was lethal dosages. They cut my off cold turkey. The last 10 years I haven't been on any drugs and every facet of life has been better for being off of them. Only one good thing about it. It made me never want to do any "recreational" drugs.
The "Tiger Mum" is a very widely known trope over here (Australia) but probably related to us being in Asia. The typical tiger mum is Asian and forces her kids to do piano or violin, Chinese classes on weekends and have have a tutor for most subjects. An "A" is the only acceptable grade, and you can expect to get nagged for laziness or carelessness if you come home with 98% on a Maths test. "Sport" may be limited to Tennis or Ballet, rather than any variant of football, with basketball being somewhat acceptable. Boyfriends and girlfriends are also banned.
It's push push push all the way until you get your degree, in Law or Medicine, of course.
i assume you mean *near* Asia, since Australia is not considered part of Asia.
@@Jliske2 Sure .. Australia is it's own continent, separate from Asia .. but its in the same broad section of the globe. Lots of Asian people in Australia and lots of Australians up in Asia, so many shared and ideas and concepts. We are far closer to Asia than Europe, so even though we have majority Euro ancestry, we are heavily influenced by Asia.
@@CAbbott71 yup! i knew there is a LOT of cultural exchange between them due to proximity
I believe that the last card represents the nerd culture. The ones who played D&D, the computer whiz, the crowd I was a part of.
I agree. It does bring up imagry of the nerd culture, the BASIC program on the character's chest.
If you've ever played the RPG Shadowrun, this character fits right in.
The crowd of two I was part of in a class of 110.
I just started my senior year in high school, this was an interesting analysis on high school life
JJ's "aboot" is part of his genuine accent, he was bullied for it by his Canadian peers when he was young
No. It's not.
@@campbellsoup93 yes. It is. If you watch his videos, he mentions this a lot.
@@DavidJamesHenry He lies about it a lot you mean. No one says aboot unless they're messing with Americans or making fun of stereotyes.
Plus if it truly was a genuine part of his accent, it would apply to every word with a similar sound. It doesn't. He says aboot and occasionally aroond but he never says foond or soond or prood. This is how you know it's put on. Fake.
@@campbellsoup93 He has had this same accent even when he was in high school. You can find the old clips where he argued against the monarchy as a young lad. He still said "aboot". You are so insistent that it doesn't exist, and why? You're not JJ. You can't speak for him. There's absolutely no evidence he's lying.
So speaking in somewhat defense of High School athletics, I always believed it helped gave students an outlet as well as helped build teamwork and leadership skills. I also grew up in a small town with only one school so it did help build a sense of identity and community among the school and town, so I may have a more I guess positive outlook at these things.
There would be so many nfl players today that are in jail or on the streets if they didn't have football or basketball as an outlet and distraction to keep them away from gang life and drugs. I even know people personally in high-school that admit they would be gang banging right now if they didn't have football and a tight strict schedule to force them away from it
Have the game, love the game. A great video.
The accent varies in strength across Canada, and in the Maritimes instead of going 'oot n aboot', they tend to say 'oat in a boat'.
There are several regional abouts in Canada. He has the full blown aboot, then there's the abaoot,near where I grew up in North Dakota, and one that's barely distinguishable from the American about. All depends on where you live. I still have a fairly Canadian abaoot mixed in with all my other partial accents.
Keep making videos a bout JJ I love his videos!
I’m 30 now but when I was in elementary school the teachers thought I had ADHD. My mother worked as a teachers assistant for special needs students and diagnosed me as being a small child with a lot of energy and she was right. What the teachers(and my mother didn’t know was I would sometimes eat a spoonful of sugar from a container my mother kept) I couldn’t imagine what would’ve happened if they gave me drugs for something I didn’t have.
To my knowledge sugar doesn't actually make you hyperactive. I think because it is only reported/observed in cases where placebo effect would apply. Of course sugars do provide energy specifically glucose relating to cellular respiration and ATP production but that's not enough to make you equivalent to somebody with ADHD. As somebody with ADHD I wouldn't say a lot of caffeine is a similar experience. You probably were just an energetic kid during the time when ADHD was becoming common knowledge and people didn't have a great understanding of it beyond high energy students.
This last bit is defiantly overanalyzing but assuming you were consuming one standard spoon of sucrose (table sugar) - a standard spoon is effectively equivalent to a tablespoon and that can hold ~12.5 grams of sucrose. Meaning each tablespoon of sucrose (at a conversion of 17 kilojoules per gram of sucrose) you would produce 212.5 kilojoules of energy. Rule of thumb is 4 kilojoules per hour per kilogram of body weight assuming you were 11 at the time you would likely be around 36 kilograms meaning each hour you would need a minimum of 144 kilojoules to live. I would guess that the sugar affected your energy levels minimally
26:20 Of course they're a Canadian thing too (we're cultural cousins after all), the reality herein is that in a sloppy joe you have essentially a hamburger, the logic therein is why crush the ground beef when you can leave it intact, dress it up with cheese, bacon vegetables and an appropriate style and amount of condiment. To many I suspect that would be a better option than to simply grind up the patty into mince meat, drench it in low grade tomato sauce so that you have this soggy thing that drips all over your clothing.
Sloppy joes were often recycles burgers. Whatever patties were left over or about to expire were broken up and used in slippy joes, lasagna, or the like.
@Mr. Terry History My Public schools in NYC had "Glee clubs." It's basically the same as Choir, to generalize as i'm pretty sure depending on how well funded a school is it can do as simple as the club singing in front of the school to something with more production on the wealthier funded schools.
The main music teacher generally is in charge of what these kids would sing and practice either takes place close to the end of the school day and even after school.
Hey, JJ rocks! You should definitely watch more of his stuff.
I had an IEP in grade school, I also took Ritalin for ADHD. I think these plans and pharmaceuticals can be useful for a small percentage of people but as of now they are overutilized, and parents don't have the time or energy to take kids to soccer practice three times a week the way they used to. Teachers are in such short supply that they can't take the time to focus on any one child, even if they did the teacher would be accused of having an inappropriate relationship with students. When I was 14 I played hockey, this was in the mid 2000's, and I invited my English teacher to one of my games as thanks for helping get my grade up; she taught at least 5 classes all with 30 students but she showed up for me. Teachers are some of the most important people in our society, more important than police, than, politicians, than the president.
I live in Indonesia, I remember my elementary school teacher asked us to look for crickets because we were going to dissect them but we didn't do it, because the ethical dilemma, crickets would be more difficult to dissect than frogs, and it would be gross to do it without proper kit/tool I don't think our school really ready for it at that time
2:31, the aboot is actually pretty rare nowadays but it does exist.
My father, as a boy, was put on huge doses of riddlin. The doctor joked the highest dose in the state of Iowa. Dad pushed back hard on my school, trying to put me on drugs. The teacher said she had her own son on the meds and my dad told her "I'm not going to sedate my child into a stuppor to make him easy to teach, if he's screwing around discipline him, and if you want to dope up your kid it's your bussiness." He made a teacher cry that day. I mellowed out over the next couple of years and seemed to prove his point.
32:40. Yeah I remember motorheads. The thing is though Motorheads might have died out or became less popular after 2000 when kids became more techy and with the rise of the internet along with vehicles becoming far more techy and digitized themselves. I mean unless you are poor and rural, most young kids today do not know their way around a vehicle like they did in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. In Canada at least alot of our young mechanics come from small towns or are children of immigrants or immigrants themselves where said mechanical cultures still exist.
Im from southern Ontario which is pretty much its own country that the rest of Canada hates, and I dont say aboot, but I can tell you their are definitely people who say it.
I thought the “eh” thing was a joke, then we had a Canadian postdoc in our lab who did exactly that. Must be a regional thing, though.
I thought the rest of Canada hated Quebec?
When I was in high school in the late 90s, they were putting less emphasis on the SATs and elite universites and more emphasis on the ACTs and state universities. Of course, we still had to take both.
We did the whole frog disection thing in freshman biology. I got told off for frankensteining mine back together, lol. There was also an AP anatomy class and they dissected cats.
Actually, I went to Purgatory High, Hell High was our rivals. Go Not-Saints!
JJ does some really good videos. I've learned quite a bit aboot Canada through them.
From Finland. We discected various fish in school. Aborre, vendace and minnows. Also teacher once brought already removed organs of a pig to our class in a carry-on freezer. Heart, liver, lungs, brain and digestive tract.
Good memories
I love JJ! Great channel.
2:27 there absolutely are people for whom the accent really comes off like that, but it really varies from person to person. You can barely detect it when I say about.
We didn't do frogs, we had fetal pigs cause theyre closer to people
All my schools in So-Cal - no lockers, no cafeteria, no indoor classes. Well, my high school backbthen did have one building with one ro of indoor classes, so we had one real hallway. Since I've graduated, they added a multi-level building, which possibly have lockers in them. The other high school with a similar building was featured in Veronica Mars and in the show there are lockers, but I'm not convinced those weren't just added by the props crew. 😄
Edit: Oh, and the frog dissection, yes, we did that for biology, as well as worm and pig dissection. I didn't continue to physiology class though because in that one you had to do a cat dissection.
I was on ADHD meds from age 11-17. I definitely needed them, as evidenced by my needing to go back on them at 25, but I was over prescribed. My dosage was too high as a kid and teen. We have an issue with over prescribing and misdiagnosing but, ADHD can be debilitating and I can't imagine how my life would've been without the help of those meds. I've noticed the diagnostic criteria change for ADHD over the years and I think that is the start of making our diagnoses and prescriptions more accurate.
Hey just a nerd
When I went to HS in the '70s, the school choirs were collectively called "Glee Club." That wasn't necessarily the official name, but may have been a leftover term from years before.
I've watched JJ both on YT and as a news pundit for quite a while. He does genuinely speak like that.
Year book not free in my school $60 and going up. :(
I went to American high school in the mid-to-late 2010s. Let's see which of these tropes I've encountered...
I had been prescribed Adderall by my doctor, and it did help, but it was decided that the side effects weren't worth it. ADHD is a very real issue, and I've heard from a lot of people who agree that there were a lot of problems that could have been avoided if they'd been diagnosed and treated earlier.
I did study hard for the SAT, and it really wasn't that difficult for me. I got a good grade on it, which got me a lot of attention from colleges.
I never encountered a glee club until I went to a Public Ivy university (a less exclusive college outside the Ivy League considered on par with its schools), and that uni's glee club had become a general all-men's choir.
The quality of the cafeteria food varied depending on the item, but Sloppy Joes were never served. Rectangular pizza was available, and I actually liked it. Then again, I liked a local pizza place a lot of people I knew hated.
I took a biology class in high school, but it didn't involve dissection. I did take a dissection lab in my middle school era, though.
There were, of course, memelord students. I was not one of them, but I did know the memes.
The motorheads mostly went to the technical high school on the other side of town. One of my younger brothers was one of those motorheads.
Sport is very important in school. It teaches teamwork, discipline, strategy, hard work, and health.
I disected frogs in middle school and yes it did seperate the weak from the strong. When one group cut into a frog and a bunch of eggs slid out half the class ran out.
2:15
If you watch videos by a woman named Shannon Q, or a minor celebrity chef named Sam the Cooking Guy you can hear the "aboot" and "soory". It's a rare accent but it's also prevalent, weirdly.
Regarding "Advisor Adderall's" - What you are describing where it is "illegal" is only partially true and only recent (2004 "Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act"). These stereotypes predate that and schools were REQUIRING students to take these medications even over the objections of their parents. I myself experienced this in the 80s with an abusive teacher (not even my teacher at that point) who requested I be put on it, and my parents were unsuccessful fighting it, finally taking me out of the public school system to avoid it. The stereotype is the students perspective of it, but in the late 90s it was an outrage among many parents that their children were being forced to take these drugs in order to pacify them in failing, underfunded school systems. What you two are describing is the modern condition where it's realized that schools forcing parents to overmedicate their children was only part of the problem. The school system's abuse of Adderol has roots going back to the 70s and possibly 60s.
"Zachaton" is actually too old for him, not too young. The art style for the lettering is clearly referencing the 1983-1985 TV series/toy sales vehicle "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" with a large portion of it specifically "Man-At-Arms", a central supporting character from the cartoon. The clothing/armor and the glowing staff/mace are lifted straight from him, the beard, technology and trophy are added, though the top of the trophy is referencing the staff of "Skeletor", the villain of the series.
I'm glad you explained the Zachaton, cause for some reason I thought it was a Warhammer 40k reference.
The one highschool cliché I could relate to a little bit is the desire for a girl above my caste. I was a loner(ish) dork kid and Erin was a nice, popular star of the track team girl next door kid. There was no Hollywood ending to the story though. I'm still a loner dork, and I have no idea what she is doing.
A fantasy high school would have been cool. I'd have been head of the mage club, and we'd get into a rivalry with the necromancy goth kid club. Rituals would be performed and chaos would reign!
I never took the SAT or ACT. The school only provided the 'practice' version and I never bothered to inquire about the real thing after that. I just took a placement test at a community College and started there, transferring from to a 4 year.
Also I was never allowed to participate in dissection. The administration felt 'it was an unnecessary addition to my curriculum considering my corcumstances'. I think they just didn't have to balls to give the blind student sharp implements.
I friggin' love sloppy joes. Don't have 'em often, but every now and then I pick up a can of Manwich.
At 2:35 Some western Canadians do have weird "Canadianisms" in their accents. Sure Vancouver is essentially Seattle north however many folk from Vancouver are really from British Columbia's interior (unless you're Asian) and then the western Canadian dialect kicks in.
now that you mention it... i dont think ive ever seen a sloppy joe on a menu outside of school...
i actually kindof like em now but thats cause i cook for myself now and can make them actually be good, not bad when the sauce actually has flavor and the bun is toasted.
now i just have to try making meatloaf some time... i never liked that as a kid but my dad apparently did.
I was born in 67 in the UK and grew up through their education system. I also interned for a year at a US high school during my MSW in NYS, so I've seen a little of this but only as an outsider. It's interesting what they seem to have done with the game, and interesting to hear you two talk about the sources for those tropes.
Some of the things from the game (eg frog dissection) absolutely existed in that education system back then (I don't know about now of course).
Some of them were definitely not part of the school system. For instance, we used to have 2 course cooked meals with meat, veg, starch and desert not just sloppy joes, bad pizza or hot pockets. Of course, I won't say the meals tasted GOOD, there's a reason why we were all singing a song about how bad school dinners were, but compared to "just feed them the cheapest shit we can put on a plate" it was healthy.
High school sports were not usually school vs school where I grew up, but then the most popular sport in the UK (football/soccer) has professional teams recruiting talented kids to their junior teams starting in some cases with the under-11s. Mind, you I suspect that having footy games against the nearest other school might have been better than inter-school fights we had instead where probably 20-30 kids from each school (within walking distance) would occasionally meet on a field between to beat the crap out of each other.
Then there were things that were common in the high school and middle school I went to which might or might not have been a common part of more general educational experiences even in the UK. Things which, when I've mentioned them to friends and relatives (married 2 american women) from the USA just didn't exist at all here. Usually these were pain based. We had a "game"/punishment where if someone upset the group the rest of the group would line up against a wall, making a tunnel with their arms, then the punished person would have to run through that tunnel while the group chanted "into the valley" (the title of the Skids song) and kicked them as hard as possible while they ran. If you were lucky, nobody waited at the far end to shove you back in. Or the card game "Scabby Queen" which was basically Old Maid but after losing the loser had to cut the cards and get that many raps across the knuckles with the deck from every other player who could basically use whatever tactics they liked to make it hurt and tear skin.
I suspect there might be overall about as much similar as different between our two school systems, and that those similarities and differences would shock many.
I'll be honest, I never wanted to dissect a frog in high school because 1) I thought it would be traumatizing, and 2) I like frogs (especially thanks to playing Frogger a lot)
I didn't even know the term "Sloppy Joe" until I watched Sonic mention them
my experience with my schools mental health team was pretty negative but by the end of high school i was pretty sure they wernt going to screw anyone else as badly again i got recommended therapy at 6 due to poor communicative abilities and violent outbursts and at 7 started my nonstop trip that lasted until i quit my meds cold turkey at 15 but by the end id been on four meds abilify risperdone and two others i cant remember while not being diagnosed with anything and a lot of the pressure to dope me up came from my school district they also sent me to an intermediate school district school at 8 that specialized in teaching and containing violent schizophrenics and bipolar sufferers and the resulting black mark on my record has prevented me from going to collage despite the fact i graduated with above average grades once i got to the actual high school from freshman and in the end i still have never been diagnosed but my teachers at the specialist school believed i had aspergers and most of my family and friends think thats the most likely case
Very cool that you're coving JJ's content. He makes really good stuff :)
I’ve seen some things he’s put out that reflect popular myths or wishful thinking about American history rather than uncomfortable truths.
Generally good stuff, but as with anything on UA-cam, trust but verify.
No sloppy Joe's over in the Netherlands. Also school lunches arent a big thing here. A few might have them but kids are expected to bring their own lunch or buy something at the cafetaria or a local store during their break
Mr. terry i love your a politicly perspective on things I'm personally a republican but i still really like the a political perspective
I'm also in highschool. i wish you were my teacher.
I remember that I failed 2nd semester of 10th grade biology because I refused to dissect any animal. I had to repeat the semester in the 12th grade to graduate. I still didn't touch or do it but the teacher gave me credit by allowing me to take all notes and complete the final report paper for the 4 person group. I hope the policy has changed by now. I graduated in 1993.
In school I had to dissect a cow's heart with a group, some also did chicken legs.
I think the last card is a reference to computer nerds so like kids who build computers and build computer programs but they also hit the gym a lot and somehow ended up being hot. I major in computer science and software engineering and it's weird how many buff hot guys are in my classes
Mr Terry needs to react to horrible histories!
I was diagnosed with adhd around 9yo, but wasn’t medicated until I found out about it 10 years later. In my opinion I wish I could have been medicated earlier instead of putting up with arguing about sitting still and not paying attention.
9:17 Personally, I only started noticing it as an adult. As a kid, I guess I thought that’s how teenagers looked in America.
In small classes we actually have combined classes (Slovenia)
In re: aboot, he does similar things like aroond. Lots of rounded vowels as well, which is typical of Canadian accents I’ve heard.
It exists but it’s actually rare.
But not soond or foond.
Which is how you know it's fake.
The frustrating thing about the term "tiger mom" is that it was originally used in social psychology to refer to the Southeast Asian parenting style, but that is almost the complete opposite of mainstream usage. A true tiger mom is someone who lets their children have a high degree of freedom but fiercely defends them when they get in trouble. The idea is that children need to learn by being allowed to make their own mistakes, but at the same time they need some degree of structure, protection, and direction imposed by parents and society.
So they don't have total freedom in the way some American and European children do, but it's not total control either. It's a hybrid system that is unique to Eastern culture and doesn't translate well to Western cultures because Eastern cultures tend to be less individualistic and more community-minded to begin with. So the "freedom but with direction" system works well because children in those cultures don't expect the same types of freedom that Western people are used to.
The modern American tiger mom is basically just a more aggressive variant of a helicopter mom and seems to be based on immigrant stereotypes.
You should react to McCullough’s video about which country has the least bad history
No sloppy joes in germany, not that I know anyway. The meat looks like "Hackfleisch" Hacked Meat, it's pretty common uh, food stuff.
Low quality school/ hospital food might be a world wide phenomenon.
Speaking as an Anglo-Italian, the greatest American high school cliches is the locker
Lockers, in Italy at least don’t exist, nor would we have a use for them.
Could someone explain to me the use of a locker?
When I was in High School (1981-1985), lockers were used to keep your school books. Instead of being assigned to a classroom, you rented them from the school and you took them home to do homework. Each class had it's own textbook. Typical school workload was 5-7 classes. Physical education was paired with a health class that had a textbook.
English classes also had speech class (public speaking), literature classes (multiple books read over the span of a year which you had to describe themes, and subtext of stories), and creative writing.
Math, hard sciences, elective trades classes (carpentry, automotive mechanics, mostly), business law, economics all had separate texts.
My high school was in a collective of area school and had a "career center" where you could study skilled labor of several stripes. Culinary arts, data processing, advanced automotive mechanics, diesel mechanics, HVAC, child care, accounting, plumbing, and a few others that escape me at the moment.
But the absolute crush of subjects and the weight of texts and moving from one room to another for subjects being taught made a locker necessary to store the texts not in immediate use.
"Nobody likes sloppy joes" ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
I mean, I wouldn't want to eat sloppy joes every day, but once in a while it just hits the spot, y'know? Kind of like the McRib.
I had to dissect a digital frog in high school in the early 2000s. I had no ethical issues with dissecting a frog, I just couldn't walk into the lab with the frogs ready for dissection without throwing up from the formaldehyde fumes.
Can we have more J.J.?
He first said "... About..aboot...." Then strong aboot. So, definitely put on.
French Canadian here, aboot is only a thing with tourists and recent arrivals ...
as for the whole "are we over prescribing ADHD meds thing,it is definitly a thing that happened, but i absoltly needed medication to get through school smoothly. that said, had the system been diffrent, i probably wouln't have needed any.
You can make a good sloppy joe. Its just when you have to mass produce them, its impossible to make them stay good. It you toast the bun and eat them immediatly as you make them, they are good. I add hot sauce.
Jeez, talk about worlds collide lol. Great content Mr. Terry
Schools running sports teams always seemed weird to me as an Icelander, here they are completely seperate with "Clubs" running all teams in all sports and all ages from toddlers with their parents up to old geezers who want to stay active
As A filipino who thru several doctor visits and screenings with doctors Diagnose with ADHD and Dylexia from my experience in Asian Education culture alot of parents pretty much deny any Learning Diabilitys since they and alot of Asian parents dont want to recognise their childen may be diffrent from others with even children with autism can hidden from society by their family because of shame and the education system is so competitionalize and purely merit base that failure can mean getting kickout of school or be socially ostracize both by your classmates , Teachers and even your extended family so children kind of put alot of their effort in passing exams projects and other things that can give you a good grade I know people in Highschool as young as 14 taking Energy Drinks and other we call nitro substances to keep up especially me when i was studying I was never given any consideration for my metal handicaps had to keep up with other students so when is still was not finish taking notes or answering test teachers would just move on or take my test paper and I was even labeled the idiot of my class so did not make any friends it the same in my University to the point I had a bad case of a caffaine Addiction even a base case of Alcohol dependecy when I finish college was able to recover and been sober for last 4years and been only drinking one coffee a day but it really can put into perspective why their are stories of people having metal breakdowns and suicide in their educational years
Interesting, my situation is somewhat opposite of you. I was diagnose of ADHD and a speech problem. My parents accepted my condition, and went on to find ways to lower my disability. They still enroll me in a regular school but then they enroll me in those therapy program for special needs. Thanks to the medication I graduated from the special school, but for the regular people I'm still somewhat a problematic child, but my parents accept it. In high school it takes an interesting turn. In bridging( summer class before a regular highschool student) I really enjoy studying especially math. Then the regular class start, my math grade goes down(mostly because my my ego on my grades in summer) and slowly not in the mood to do reading. But my mom accept in because she thought that I'm culture shock because I move in a small school in elementary to a big school in high school. If not because of the pandemic my college will be decent. Now I'm having a hard time adjusting.
@@hannahapor9966 interesting for me it was more of History class and history in general its my subject of choice every other subject was I only did what I had to pass I never went to summer school since we did not have that much here i was able to cope with my disorder by using music or listening to other things like youtube even lofi before it kind of becmae its own thing while doing work to keep my mind from wandering while doing stuff by habit like if I am doing bookeeping I would have like headphones or airpods on me to make myself focus on the numbers my former employers would conplain about me being always in my airpods or headphones when doing work but that what help me focus like giving someone who those not have a good control of their hands a stress ball to help them but finally got a company that those not care what you do while working as long as we meet requirements and deadlines so they dont really bother me when I have airpods since they know I understood the memo but yeah maybe your younger then me this was around before 2015 during my Highschool days so maybe people can accept it easier then before which to me is good it may still take a while for it to be formally recognise here
In 7th and 8th grade we dissected 4 animals, a frog (seems standard), a fish, a bird and a rat. Comparisons were then drawn out and we learned the intricate differances of amphibians, actinopterygii (most fish), avians and mammals, of note was that the rats dissected were always female so that we could observe mammalian reproductive systems. This was in Sweden and while I am born there I have lived in 19 countries during my almost five decades of life and hold three passports, so yes - I'm a swede but consider myself more a citizen of the world these days. Cultural and psycological differences are very interesting and startling realizations can be made once you start traveling a lot.
100 frogs for 500 dollums??!!!
oh man i gotta start exporting frogs to us and canada then
Usually it's not that strong. But there definitely are people (like JJ) who have strong accents.
I liked high school I had no problems with it but at my school we didn’t really have groups or clicks. Like there weren’t any jocks or nerds (I went to an all boys school so no girls obviously). Everyone was just cool with each other. Idk if there was any bullying but I didn’t see any and I definitely wasn’t bullied. At lunch some guys would just play basketball or try to climb this big ass fence in the parking lot and just do goofy shit that got them in trouble (my school was also Catholic). I had a good time. Seeing some of the stuff these dudes would do was hilarious. Some guys would skip class to go outside to a food truck and bring food into class, some guys would just fall asleep and seeing the teacher wake them up was always hilarious, a few guys would try to bring weed to school so if a kid spelled like dryer sheets, chances are he had some and so on. Back in my senior year in my religion class (we call it Theology), our teacher was running late to class. So instead of waiting for him in silence, this one dude went up to the teacher’s computer, goes onto UA-cam & plays the Anaconda music video by Nicki Manaj at full volume. After 30 seconds the teacher comes in all pissed off, asking the class who played the video, not knowing what the hell do with us. That was absolutely hilarious. The only thing I didn’t like about high school was the work but I mean who likes doing work anyway? You don’t remember that shit, you remember the funny things, the weird and the awesome stuff. And honestly I’m not a religious person, I never was, but being at an all boys school is so much better than being at a Co-Ed school. A lot of guys are different when girls are involved. Take them away and you truly let out who these guys are. And from what I was told, our sister school which is an all girls school, they have a similar opinion. Since there are no guys, the girls can truly be who they are. I had a blast in high school and I wish other people had a similar experience but not all high schools are created equally
I didn‘t go to hell high, i went to school hella high
Sloppy Joes exist in Japan... because I make them. I literally just ate one. I love them. Hell, Guga Foods even did a video on them. There's a huge difference between the ones you get at school and ones you make yourself.
At 23:28 No you wouldn't have heard of the Glee Club because these clubs died out in the 1940s or well before your parents went to High School.
Fun fact: This Scandinavian didn't have to dissect any frogs; We used herrings instead. 100% true.
My mom was a teacher and I grew up with the joke that even teachers hated the SAT. She also had to give her first grade students standardize tests at the start of the year. Given that she taught at the school that had the most lower income recently immigrated students. Some of them hadnt learned english and just were at a disadvantage and the school was seen as the "worst" school in the system. So yeah therr are other issues with it.
His accent is very strong. He's the only person I know that has that accent, and I've spent my entire 43 years of life here in Canada.
Disecting frogs ?!? We didn't do that in my Canadian high school. We disected rats instead... Perhaps because they were more readily available in our school's cafeteria...
(Okay, the "rats in the cafeteria" part was a joke. But we DID disect rats instead of frogs.)
Back in eighth grade, I dissected a sheep’s eye, I don’t remember having to dissect a frog though
@@savannahthefangirlyt8884 Yeah... I remember disecting a beef's eye, as well as a pig's heart in 8th grade, also. The rat was in 10th grade, and to this day, it is still the most awful smell I ever smelt.
Late to the game, but as far as I can tell, JJ isn’t purposely saying “aboot” - he pronounces similarly spelled words with that “oo” sound. About, around, found, etc. Cool video and reaction.
My father started school in a one room schoolhouse. J.J does appear to have that strong accent, and it's apparently not a joke. I can say however it's not a common thing up here, at least where I come from anyway. Words like sorry, eh, and the way i pronounce bagel will give me away when i vist america, and the more brittish way I spell words, etc. Other than that, the two countries are very similar.
If my son's grades drop, i will deal with it. Parent teacher interviews? So long as he keeps his grades up, and the teacher doesn't request one, why would i waste both our time? Last year he ended with a 99% in math, and so far this year is lowest grade is 93%, and he knows more about certain things than I do. So, I don't see the need to interfere, and waste the teachers time.
I love JJ so much
sloppy joes are not a thing in malaysia but the cantin at my shcool sell chicken burger high quality one at that
Mr Terry, thank you for watching so we don't have to. JJ is Canada's Prager U without the class or connections.
JJ has being saying "aboot" like that for years, so I think it's legit, I've never heard it be that pronounced though (I'm from the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario).
We actually quietly celebrated when they brought back the square "cardboard" pizza in schools after having really doughy, soggy triangle pizzas for years.
Weird. In the Philippines, elementary is Grades 1 to 6. Then it's high school after that. lol
No, sloppy joes aren't a thing where I'm from. And not all schools here have cafeterias, probably because they can't afford it and there's no space for it. Canteens are more common, where you just buy snacks, but if the school can provide meals, you can buy some. I think you gotta provide your own rice tho, or just buy rice outside the campus if the school allows students outside at lunch. Not all schools have canteens tho. I made this sound complicated but my point is that not all schools are the same. lol
I dissected a cat in high school and a pig in college…would much rather have dissected a frog
That aboot is a play on he knows he does it
"Aboot" isn't common in Canada these days, but that _is_ JJ's authentic accent
last year we couldn't dissect a frog because of covid
so i actly have adhd but my treament when i was in school was presured by the school and i as the student and the person these things were happening to was not given a say in it and thats where i have issiues with how schools haddle issiues
the "aboot" sounds pretty natural
I was a student in a somewhat affluent high school not too long ago and I didn't really pay attention to any of my fellow students taking ADHD pills or not (I certainly didn't). At least the school didn't actively promote it from what I can remember (or that it was a super confidential thing only discussed between students, parents, and school nurses, which is possible).
Yes!!! J.J. makes such good videos!!!!
If you want a child to have add or adhd or anything like that, they can have it and get medicine for it without anyone blinking twice and that is definitely a huge problem