It's not even legal to make you pay for public restrooms (except for restaurants) but they do it anyways because money. But wtf, America really has a lot to fix with its health care system
It’s kinda sad that the ‘things that Americans don’t understand about Europe’ are all trivial things, but the ‘things that Europeans don’t understand about America’ are to do with basic lack of support from their government for their citizens.
@@hendrix808 Germany has many more smokers than, for example, Ireland. There are even more restaurants where you are allowed to smoke. There is a smoking problem in Germany. I say that maybe because I do not smoke.
So to sum up these 2 videos: Americans - "Your food's a bit weird." Europeans - "Your entire political, economic, and social systems are corrupt and falling apart."
Americans: “Why should I pay for a bathroom I need for normal bodily functions? Why should I pay for ketchup?” Also Americans: “Healthcare you need to stay alive? Pay for that.”
Miraj Rahman-Blake ketchup is free in England and Spain which are the countries I lived on and also toilets are free on both countries. Don’t know where they got that. Only in Italy (where I went on holidays) they make you pay for ketchup but not public bathrooms
Lmao maybe you need to pay for that cuz otherwise doctors wouldn't get paid? 😅 They dedicate their entire life learning new stuff. Imagine how many doctors are out there. You can't just expect the government to pay everything for you 😂😂😂
Temp Xx You do realise the government’s money mostly comes from taxes, right? Universal healthcare is only redistribution of wealth. Also, it avoids people in the medical field ramping up the prices just because they can.
Evan... we have screens in doors in Italy and other Mediterranean countries. The uk doesn’t have a particularly big issue with mosquitoes and hornets so it makes sense people don’t have screens
I was thinking about the same thing. And also, as an Italian coming from the alpine region and living in Germany, I really don´t feel the need for bug screens. I´m fine with spiders and other bugs going around my house. When I was a child, we had a typical species of south European scorpions going around the old part of the house too. It never bothered me. The thing about birds flying in is absurd, it never happened to us, despite living at the edge of the forests that grow wild on the mountain sides(full of birds) and keeping our windows open basically 24/7 during the summer.
@@ChiaraVet I once accidentally stepped on a scorpion in the mountains in Tuscany when I was crossing a room to open the shutters. Luckily it didn't sting me but I hadn't seen what it was until I opened the shutters! I wasn't that bothered by it though, but in mountainous regions you are generally much safer from mosquitos and midges if you're away from the valleys. I have a hankering to return now, such a beautiful place
Eh, not everywhere. I'm from Rome and I haven't seen them much. TBF once it starts to be mosquito season it means it's also AC time, so this somehow compensate. It's true that they are not unheard of though, I expecially remember them in renting houses/bungalow close to the beach.
Yeah, makes no sense, same goes for air conditioning and if you have a shitty dryer it means you bought a shitty one. It's not like you can't buy screens, air conditioning and good dryers anywhere in Europe. Not once in my life I was saying to myself 'Oh, if I only would live in the US, then I could buy screens for my windows, air conditioning and one of those good dryers. :( '
@@This_new_handle_system_sucks The post what they dont understand about europeans, meaning they dont understand why we dont have them, even if we could, they find the culture strange, as a SE-asian i also found the lack of windows screens weird
@@This_new_handle_system_sucks But in America if your dryer doesn't get your clothes completely dry, it's broken. In Germany, it's normal. Mine just stops at a certain point and says, "Dry enough" and then I'm forced to hang everything.
The restaurants closing between meal times is largely because they actually have to pay the workers decently, so it gets quite expensive to be open for the 2 people who might randomly want dinner at 4pm
willdbeast i think it’s also because of siesta. Many european countries close from around 12-16 because it gets so hot. Idk much about it since I’m from northern Europe but I looked it up and it seems to be the case in Malta as well as other southern European countries
Hey this I think is important in the med, but I think Europe in general has more coffee culture and restaurants are more about socialising than just getting food. People will go to a restaurant for maybe 2 hours (another thing Americans don’t understand), whereas if you wanted to just grab a bite to eat or catch up quickly in the afternoon, you would go to a cafe
@@TheVortexGaming Honestly I don't know. It definitely isn't every place that's like that (some are excellent with fast service etc, though free refills aren't that common to be fair) but there are a lot of places that are that bad. I know I've sometimes waited >30 mins for a damn sandwich which is ridiculous. It amazes me these places are still in business because I'd never go back to somewhere with that lack of service.
@@TheVortexGaming The mean staff I think is just a cultural thing, and quite frankly I found the incessant in your face service kind of annoying when I went to America. Also, I guess servers aren't so pressured to be super nice if you're not begging for tips. At restaurants I've genuinely never not been offered condiments, it's genuinely just some fast food places. And I don't mean to be rude, but why would you expect free refills? Drinking like 36 Oz of coke just isn't a thing in Europe, it just doesn't happen. Also, there's a drinking culture, I would say it's 'unusual' to not have a beer or a wine with a restaurant meal, hence there's just no demand for refills. And finally, on the slowness, as I said in my other reply I just don't think Americans understand the eating culture. Europeans would genuinely be annoyed if their meal arrived in less than 20 minutes. Your experience was admittedly excessive. But I'm not exaggerating that if you go to even a big corporate chain place (somewhere like olive garden in the USA perhaps) and its very busy, they will say you've got the table for only 2 hours as if that's major inconvenience. Restaurants just aren't about getting food quick, if you want a sandwich quickly you go to a cafe. I don't mean to sound rude, just explaining that Europe is very different culturally and isn't trying to be American
@@TheVortexGaming because it's meant to be a leasurly activity. Refills cost money so you pay for it. Why charge it to the rest. In most of Europe (or southernish) you can get water for free if that's what you want. But if you want a "US" soda then pay and if you want another pay again. No need to give it away. Plus it's good for your health
Also the energy waste from air con is awful, it heats up the areas too, because air cons produce tons of warm air. All in all, awful for pollution and waste, thank god Europe doesn't use them
I like the Taste of pure salt. Otherwise i hate ketchup and Mayonnaise and prefer garlich Sauce. In german Knoblauchsoße. But there are very few good places with it.
@@pascalheinrich3990 Same but I love Andalouse and although lots of places have good andalouse, lots of places have the Devos Lemens one and that one tastes weirdly sweet. As for Knoblauchsoße they almost never have it sadly.
Lol same, also depending on the fries it can influence what I do with them (e.g. ketchup, Mayo, salt, pepper,etc) BUT I would like to point out that chips and eggs is better than fries any day
I eat them without anything or just a pinch of mustard, that's the best way to eat fries. Ketchup is an abomination of cuisine, and mayonnaise doesn't go along with fries at all imo
The reason why A/c isn't that big in the UK, is that until recently it really didn't get too hot. It has genuinely gotten much hotter in the summer now, with there being a hotter and hotter heatwave every year. So now our houses are designed to keep heat in in the winter, not keep heat out in the summer
yeah I've definitely noticed it's snowed a lot less and got warmer a lot more commonly. I was looking at photos the other day and there was one from 2011 when it had dumped it down with snow and I was shocked because I realised it hasn't done that in YEARS. It's snowed once this year overnight and it didn't even settle for too long, it was all gone by like 11am. However if you actually look at the weather over the summer (I do because I'm really into geography) online then British summers still aren't anything to get excited about haha, but when it gets HOT it really does get HOT.
Most summers in the UK get hot, but the key difference is that the hot periods are short lived compared to to long dry hot or long humid hot periods in the US. It just doesn't make sense to have air con in the UK as it would only be used for a couple of days here and there in the summer.
It's also not even accurate. It is for some places like some small french cities on a tuesday (many things including most restaurants closed for a majority of the time), but in pretty much all other places in Europe I've been so far, even if you missed the opening times of one restaurant, you're guaranteed to find another restaurant in the vicinity where you can get food no problem. It's just that yes, not everything is open all the time because workers need their breaks too. Shocker!
@@magiv4205 exactly! and if you're in the hotter countries (italy, france, spain idk) they have their siesta, and if you did 4% of research before travelling you will know this and just plan accordingly? coz no aircon in old buildings for us because.. why would we
The restaurants closing is really only a thing in southern Europe. Probably because it can get fucking hot there at times and people need a rest. But if you travel north of zwitserland you can basically get food whenever you want.
I love how what Americans can't stand about Europe are things like no screens, no AC, no free ketchup, more expensive gas, paying for public toilets etc. While what Europeans don't understand about the US are things like no paid maternity leave, pledging to the flag, extremely expensive education, choosing between debt or death and such. Fun
Like how the french where powerless to stop the French Monarchy? Or how starving Russians where powerless to change things in their country? You may not like certain rules or regulations but apparently you can live with it. Powerless to stop it? Enough examples in history that normal civilians take the initiative to change the country for the better.
This Reddit thread is so exclusionary to literally 3/4ths of Europe. In Eastern Europe and in some of the South (no idea about the North though) people don't drink sparkling water, you don't pay for public restrooms, ketcup is free at most fast food establishments, tap water is free at restaurants, and lemonade (sparkling or not) is VERY much a thing, and I don't mean tonic water or sprite, like legit lemonade. It's interesting how as a European I cannot relate to 80% of these things. But yes, in countries like Germany and the UK (which does NOT sum up Europe) these things do really apply. To make an American analogy, it's as if Europeans would complaing about not being able to understand "American people's" accent. Like, that doesn't say anything, it's dumb and probably could apply to a very very small amount of places in the US.
Exactly this. Coming from portugal, I can't relate to most of this, although having been to central and northern Europe I see where they're coming from. I guess we're like american europeans lol
As far as I know, everything you just said except for the real lemonade thing (really depends where you go) apply to the UK too. Tap water is free, almost nobody drinks sparkling water. There’s free public toilets everywhere and you usually get a little basket thing with ketchup and mayo, or if you go to a pub they’ve got some other stuff in there like tartar sauce. I feel like a lot of these really only apply to Central Europe lol
Again, nearly every American just says “Europe” without acknowledging that there’s more than just one country in Europe and they are all different with different laws and cultures. So like with the ketchup packet thing , maybe in Italy you have to pay , but in Ireland for example , you don’t and you could literally go up to an employee and you’d get like 4 packets for free.
if you have no issue generalizing all 50 states, that are spread across roughly 3 million square miles, and most of the 300 million people within those states, then don’t complain about americans making similar generalizations about europe. edit: for clarification, since y’all seem to think i’m trying to say europe and america are the same. what i’m saying is, similar generalizations can be made about the two, because they are both large areas with many different laws, governments, cultures, and languages. we can’t expect such generalizations to be accurate.
@@wasabi42 still, there are way more differences between the nation-states of Europe, than there are between the 50 "states" of the US. I mean, c'mon, you can see how generalizing in europe across the whole continent creates a very distorted image of what reality is. You might get away with going for "southern/northern" or "east/west" Europe, but only somewhat and still on a limited and much more local basis. TL;DNR Europe is differenter than USA in culture and habits
wasabi okay maybe i did generalize about the U.S a bit , but you all basically have the same culture and speak the same language (maybe different dialects but still speaking English). In Europe the culture can vary a lot and the same with the languages , unlike in the states. Also the U.S is ONE country. Europe is a continent , not a country.
if u sub to me pewdiepie will give u money its true no, it's more like: Europe: hey America, just trying to help, if you do this your life we'll be better, of course you don't need to do that, btw we also have problems so feel free to tell us America: REEEEEEE, I am the greatest country in the world and no one else has freedom (insert eagle screeching noise), YOU ARE ALL COMMUNIST
@stockart whiteman Yeah idk, most people here in Portugal hate ac, its super dry and makes you sick, we just keep everything closed or use fans. I actually have window screens in my house but they are a little bit useless because we tend to keep windows closed because it's so hot.
But also coming from a nation that has to pay an extortionate amount for the natural body function of having a baby... including paying for "skin-to-skin contact" with your own child! They get upset at paying to pee, but not so upset at paying to touch your own newborn.
@@nataliedunn5239 and paying to pee is probably like 50 cents to one euro... What does it cost to hold your own baby which you had to work so hard for to give birth to, a hundred dollars?
Seriously, there's an american who went to Italy, one of the best countries to eat, and they went to Burger King? What's the problem with you americans?
I think when Americans say "we can say anything we want" they're talking about legally but when they hold curse words to such extremes, it's more about politeness
Ah, but in Europe it's the government which dictates what can and cannot be said in public. In America it's the Corporations. It's ok to be controlled by Corporations.
Americans: if it doesn't come with the apartment, then I have to live without. European: buys a 5 Euro bug screen, installs it. American: travels to experience new cultures and customs Also American: complains about everything that isn't done exactly like in the USA
We actually get quite a lot of American tourists where I live and they genuinely get annoyed when people greet them in French instead of English, and get mad when people don't understand them. For info I live in Quebec, the only province in Canada where the first official language is French instead of English
The last part is so annoyingly true. I lived in Japan for a year in college, and the amount of Americans complaining that things were different from the USA was astounding. I'd just sit there thinking: "So, why did you voluntarily come to Japan if you didn't want to experience their culture?" FFS it pissed me so damn much.
“Even as a kid there were loads of ads for buying air conditioning units” European houses tend to be a biiiit older than from the nineties. Just a bit. Also we isolate our houses a lot more than in America, meaning that often the house will be able to keep cold/warm better than in the US.
Exatamundo, what Muricans consider to being a house would only be a garden shed constrution wise in most European countries. And there is no progression in building technics, after a storm they rebuild it the same way and expect a different result. You may start thinking why everything is gone but the brick chimney is still standing. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Yeah the construction standards for structures people live in are really strict in the UK and have been for a long time. Ever wonder why lots of houses are really old? Its because they're built out of solid stuff - bricks, thick beams of wood and tiles. When I was in the US, everything seemed to be built out of like wooden siding - like that's the whole outside of the house! Its just wood! Then a tornado comes through and the whole thing looks like a pile of matchsticks. Also one more thing. Why is there a city sized dam of water in your toilets? Who needs that? Just... why?!
*a house in insulated not isolated ;) I built my house (in Belgium) 4 years ago. The insulation does keep the heat out for longer. But once the house is warm when the weather is hot for more than a couple of days it becomes really hard to get the heat out again. I open a lot of window at night to create a draught but then I get bugs because not all windows have screens. Haha. The ventilation system helps extract heat at night, but it’s not a huge difference. I am now looking at retrofitting AC. Hot summer so seem to be a more regular occurrence than when I was a kid. Or I’m just getting older and complain about the heat more.. :)
Last year I went to greece and noticed that one air conditioning unit was around 600 euros. There were even ads on TV. A few weeks later I needed something from a DIY store and checked the prices for a unit because I was curious (in Switzerland). It was aorund 4000 swiss francs. I've never seen any advertisement for it.
@@F100cTomas Metric? I don't know. We left England in the late 1700's but kept the Imperial system, then the world switched to Metric less than a century later, leaving the USA, Liberia and Myanmar back in the 1700's. Good president? That's implying that any candidate in the past 40-50 years has been better than the other. Public transport? The USA is a huge place and we have a potent driving culture. Public transportation would not be feasible in rural (non town or city) areas which harbor about 19% of the country's population in around 97% of the country's land. Alcohol? Yep. The 21 year age limit is stupid. Many of us drank underage anyways. It's like the stupid handgun age law, people just get stuff illegally so why not just make it 18, the same age that you're considered an adult capable of making rational decisions by the legal system? Ecology? You should visit some of our national parks. That's one of not very many things we've done right!
Refills aren't free because the drink costs money & isn't 70% ice. Also we pay our waiting staff. Ketchup is paid for because it's not free & we pay our servers. Relieving ourselves is paid for because soap isn't free & we pay our cleaners. We hear of how ridiculous tips are in the States & realise those tips pay for the refills & ketchup & soap & the parts of the wage which should be paid another way
@Rita Roork and in Germany (for example) waiters and waitresses are not dependent on large tips cause they are being paid enough and the tips are a nice little extra
One thing on the price of petrol/gas here: yes, it’s expensive because it’s taxed heavily but that keeps a lot of old and inefficient cars off the road. That’s really awesome for air quality and using more efficient public transport.
Non of my local transport is efficient, most of it is breaking down and no heating in the winter because the bus drivers have it all to themselves. It’s actually cheaper to travel by car into town than a return bus fare. No waiting for a late bus that may or may not make it.
Exactly. And the fuel consumption of typical European cars is 30-35% lower than the consumption of a typical American car. When I was in California in the fall of 2018 I spent $96 (86 EUR) on fuel for 1100 km driven (always refuelling at the cheapest station based on Gasbuddy). The consumption of the Focus 2.0 was around 9,4L/100km. With my mum's Kia Stonic 1.4 with a consumption of around 7L/100km and the prevailing prices in our part of Europe at that time, it would have cost around 100 EUR to drive the same distance. With my former Yaris 1.3 (6,4L/100km) even less, around 90 EUR..
If the minimum wage for waiters is some $2.50 (excluding tips) in many places in the US - sure, why not? Just hire more sla....workers that can take additional shifts. If there's no customers - well, it's them not getting any tips.
It honestly depends on what public restroom that you go to. Some companies do keep their restrooms very clean. Friend since the one that is owned by the Choctaw Nation always kept very clean. And even the one known as The Flying J also is extremely clean. But yeah most really small gas stations are extremely dirty. But guess what we used to also have to pay for toilets at one point. And they actually weren't that much better then the fruit stall if there even was one. Betta stopped making people pay for it because either there was too large of a gap for people to crawl underneath or people would just put something in there to stop it from shutting. But yeah there is no point in really us to pay for toilets when they weren't much better than free ones anyway.
Yeah like 99% of paid toilets in Germany (for example) are soooo much cleaner than places where you don’t pay... also it’s like 1€, so it’s not that big a deal
Elia Fernandes because why would you eat some delicious food from varying cultures when you can rupture you ass with a taco that’s made from shitty processed meat and block out the actual people who make the best fajitas and salsas and all other things
ive googled it and i still dont get them lol do they have holes in them to let the air through? it might be too early in the morning but i really dont see the point in them looking at how the look on google images
ok and the thing about eveything being closed on sundays and restaurants being closed outside normal eating times it's because we believe that working people deserve a break :)
except the normal grocery stores in my country at least are OPEN on Sunday. Also being closed outside regular eating times is far more frequent in Southern European countries from what I've experienced.
@@suonatar1 its partially the reason they have very different working hours in general and a different way of life they start the day later and also finish it later, you will be hard pressed to find a restaurant open at 19:00 in Spain since their regular meal time starts at around 20:00
@@suonatar1 Yeah, no. As a Spanish person, people don't usually have siestas unless you are a kid, a jubilee or you work at night or too early in the morning. However, we use that time to disconnect or to eat if you work during eating hours (from 1pm to 4pm, more or less)
I understand why it's free in like... A mall, but not a subway station. But when I go to the mall and the restroom is technically free, but you can put some change in a box to help them keep the bathrooms nice and clean? You bet I'll be putting some change in that box.
@@annas.6536 I've never actually seen bathroom in a mall you need to pay for, or a restaurant you're client of. Sometimes publicly owned restrooms are paid, but those mostly center around tourist areas and the trope doesn't apply to all countries in Europe either. In Poland nowadays with some (mostly rural) exceptions restrooms are free. In a lot of other countries idea is that if you're a client you also get restroom for free... the only time you really do need to pay for one is when you barge into some restaurant and just want to piss.
Add it to my damn bill then. Pretty sure if every customer had to pay like 5 cents extra they'd be more than covered. What I don't like is when I seriously gotta go but there's a gate in my way I gotta fiddle with.
MsFluffy99 actually most restaurants give you coupon of same value like the toilet price. So its essentially free but only of you go and buy something.
They are weird in that way. It's totally fine that they and not the employer are paying the waiters but the people in the toilets.... the company should pay them, it's an outrage.... culture war, this is communism squared!!!!! Worst thing since happy holidays xD
For a lot of these, people see something in ONE place and assume it's the same for the entire continent. I live in France, travelled through Germany, Benelux, Italy, England. There are a lots of free public toilets, I've never seen a fast food where you have to pay extra for ketchup, there are a lot of grocery stores open on sunday mornings (even is small towns), and bakeries are often open on sundays. In a lot of places they put ice in drinks, and I absolutely hate it too. The number of smokers have plummeted in recent years, they are a minority now. There are a lots of difference between each of the 50 states in the US. Europe is made up of almost as many countries, with different cultures, languages and customs.
Yup. A Swede over here. All major grocery stores are open on Sundays. In fact, quite a few of them have as their thing that they are open the same hours every day of the week. Unless it is a major holiday and even then you can get lucky.
Stores including (once all, now most) groceries being forced to stay closed on Sundays is due to the influence of the Church in politics in the German-speaking countries (and the successful framing as a form of "employee protection"). It's one of only a handful of holdovers from the days of having a state religion, but I always find it baffling that even countries with way more diehard religious populations don't have this sort of inane religious patronizing going on.
When my country belongs to those where all shops are closed on sunday, you have to pay for the toilet and sauces at fast food places.... greetings from Austria
I like how most of these concerns are pretty insignificant, whereas the concerns from the video about what Europeans don't understand about the US are serious things like taxes, having to pay for an ambulance, etc... Sad :((
Compared to the USA version we got off so easy. It's just superficial things rather than full-time working people with insurance going bankrupt through a single incident.
I got pretty annoyed because some points seemed so stupid to me, like the sparkling water one. You literally have no disadvantage if you don’t like it, there’s still water available everywhere! So unnecessary to be mad about
Haha, that’s good. Never thought of it that way. Although I wonder where these strange differences come from. For example, a volume can be measured in Gallons, but an imperial gallon is smaller than a US gallon.
Few remarks: 1) A/C exists and is popular in most southern Europe (Spain, Italy, south of France) because those are relatively warm places for a long time. In the North however, A/C was not necessarily needed because it was never too warm. Only recently is it getting actually hot in London or Amsterdam. But 1- those houses are not necessarily built with A/C in mind, so it might be difficult to get it there and 2- A/C is now known to be environmentally unfriendly, so there is a huge stigma nowadays in acquiring A/C (basically, unless you have it for years, people will judge you for having A/C) 2) Paying for bathrooms is different from country to country. I remember in France it was free, but most of the times disgusting. Whereas here in the Netherlands, it's clean, but quite expensive (0.7€ God!). 3) Paying for condiments is also different from country to country. When I was living in France, ketchup, mayo, bread, tap water... were free (I didn't know how lucky I was back then), but here in the Netherlands, that's not at all the case. However, the prices without condiments in the Netherlands are substantially cheaper that the normal price in France. This leads to surreal conversations with friends deciding whether they want fries with or without mayo and ketchup, whereas in France it was clear from the beginning. I do feel that 1- it allows one to control their budget better and 2- it avoids waste if someone doesn't like ketchup/mayo. 4) Finally, the smoking... As someone who was born and grew up in Algeria (North Africa), allow me to laugh in Algerian. When I came to PARIS, I was surprised by HOW LITTLE people smoked. I was shocked that there was a special store for cigarettes and they didn't sell them for people looking too young. So I guess... it's all relative
5) Screen windows. They are definitely a thing in Finland, especially at the summer cottages, but also in cities. I live in a flat in one of the major cities and all the windows have window screens. Mosquitoes are a serious nuisance here!
Mohamed Amine Hadji And nordic countries are actually the least smoking countries in the world americans just think europe is just one ”country” and they dont realise each country has way different cultures and laws
With the warmth, it's gotten worse in my country, Estonia. It's May and I'm dying in my room(it's 9°C but it's still pretty unbearable here), since our houses don't have A/C. Plus Northern countries build their houses to keep warmth in.
To be fair there's hardly any differentiation between Mediterranean region and the 'West' so I'm not surprised something like that goes under radar. They're basically talking about New York and Florida without acknowledging the difference, why would they even bring up the state that's 90% cornfields?
Well, if you're going on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe, you're going to see the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and so on. Not Latvia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. Not saying those contries don't have anything to offer, but...that's just how it is. They are places you're going to see on your 3rd or 4th visit. I'm European, and I've never been to Bulgaria or Romania, despite travelling plenty in and outside the EU.
@@crazydragy4233 why not the east can't give you that once in a lifetime experience? So much ancient history and culture, old castles, great ski or beach resorts, tons of things to see. Same as the west
The contradiction in “it’s like going to Italy and saying you don’t like pizza” and “they don’t have AMERICAN lemonade”. Because it’s not America maybe?
funfact: many other european countries understand under lemonade also a sort of lemon juice as well, we dont understand why it isnt the same in the UK either
@@Emil-lf3no Because the suffix -ade means that it's fizzy. We also have orangeade (unbranded fanta), limeade, cherryade etc. American lemonade is more of a juice like orange juice or apple juice (though 10x more unhealthy) but obviously it can't be called that since it would get confused with pure lemon juice
@@louisa1514 The suffix -ade means a drink made from that fruit. It does not mean fizzy and is not generally understood like that outside of the UK and possibly some Commonwealth countries (Australia).
lincselo - In the meantime, I’m supposed to hand out cash to just about everyone I come into contact with in the US. The US tip culture is bizarre. Yet somehow it’s the consumers fault they’re not being payed enough.
@@HesselFolkertsma don't forget paying hundreds of dollars for being brought to the hospital on a vehicle specifically made to bring people to the hospital
I mean that’s literally the validation many use for why we pay for healthcare (we get better care because we pay for it and there’s less wait time, people can’t “abuse the system”) - it definitely doesn’t work out that way and is fucked now, but that was the initial goal I think
'they don't have ice in their drinks'. Well, almost every restaurant I have ever been to over here in Europe (Jersey, England and France) has either just put ice in my drink or asked if I would like ice in my drink. Also if they don't offer ice to you, you can just ask if they have any ice.
Ice is generally the default option because it's cheaper for pubs and restaurants as the glass is half ice, half alcohol, juice, etc.. Always had to ask for no ice in my experience
For me they usually ask if it’s in a pub or a restaurant and if it’s not then they’ll give you a can or bottle so you can’t get ice I don’t like ice in drinks it gets in the way
Exactly. Years ago Europe try to use less oil to made Arabian countries to sell for lower prises. It went wrong - all the rest of the oil was bought by the USA because they have no need to spare oil - their cars needs so much more than the Europian ones. And oil was still for the high price. And yes, Europe has an ecologic taxes on products as fuel.
@@drakulkacz6489 USA didn’t buy it. They started a war and claimed the oil as war gains. They pay private American companies to extract the oil but they straight up stole the oil.
@@mothturtle7897 It is. It's not good for health, either. I've been to Chicago in the height of summer, one constantly switches between burning oven and cold fridge temperature and after a few days everyone has an air conditioning cold.
I mean, this is the thing. Widespread use of air-conditioning increases emissions of CO2. Heatwaves are only an issue for a few weeks of the year in Europe - let's not accelerate climate change and make it an issue for our whole summer?
I think it recycles air around. If your colleague has a cold, you and twelve others have colds. At least that's more or less what I was told in the 80s.
Things Europeans don't understand: guns, crazy expensive medical care, the government brainwashing kids about the flag, thinking that the amount of freedom they have is not the same in other countries... Things Americans don't understand: mhhh...but!!! mosquitoes inside!!! air conditioning!!!! ketchup for me fries!!!
Americans are brainwashed to think "If my freedoms are not enumerated on paper as much as humanly possible, they aren't protected and defined permanently".
"She has a machine that turns tap water into sparkling water" Its name is SodaStream and it is freaking amazing. Don't come for the SodaStream! Me and my roommates have three of them bc everyone brought one from home when we moved in
I don't understand why so many people hate sparkling water. I personally love the bubbles! No one likes flat soda, you gotta have the bubbles, so why not the same with water?
I can explain the window screens! In the 1900s there was a malaria epidemic in North America, carried by mosquitoes which exist all over the continent. Window screens started being used as a prevention measure, along with spraying DDT, draining ponds and fields, and renovating buildings to eliminate cracks. Malaria was eradicated from the US and Canada in the 1950s. We kept the screens because, like you said, it’s nice to not have bugs and birds in your house.
That’s interesting! We do actually have screens in Europe. But they’re often not fitted as standard. We’ll usually place them on bedroom windows and one or two downstairs windows we use a lot, for example the ones that lead to a terras.
I live in Denmark and my family have door and window screens. They live in the country, where there are insects. I live in Denmarks 4th biggest city, my windows were open ALL summer and I saw one insect that summer vacation (6 weeks). So that is why I don't have them myself. But they are in stores.
The most important thing I learned from these videos was that I am so damn glad I live in Europe and not the US. I mean I can live with not being able to do grocerie shopping on sundays if this means I will never have to experience a school shooting.
@@sshadyh I never said it’s common. But just because you never experienced it doesn’t mean the risk isn’t higher in the US. For example I am from Germany and the risk of experiencing a mass shooting is ten times higher in the US than in Germany and let’s not start comparing school shootings.
@@adoppelnax i’m not saying the risk isn’t higher but the chance of it happening is still so low it’s not something to worry about at all just like being eaten by a shark or something like that
I feel like smoking culture in the U.K. is associated with drinking alcohol. Lots of people, myself included oops, tend to only smoke when you’re socialising and drinking alcohol
This is how it was in the US up until maybe the 90s-early 2000s. Now, nobody really smokes in social settings and many bars do not allow smoking inside.
@@giannasansonetti7462 oh, you cant smoke inside any building in England, but pubs tend to have beer gardens so people can smoke, or people will stand out the front smoking
yeah, I get that, but also I see SO MANY 20 year olds smoking on my university campus in the uk while I've never seen a single young person smoke a cigarette at home in the US (juuls yeah, but never cigarettes) also I think a lot of places in the States have a law where you can't smoke 10 feet from a business whereas there's nothing like that in Europe and people just walk down the streets smoking everywhere
@@strawberrybonbon5943 there are still a lot of states that allow people to smoke in restaurants and bars, but they're mainly southern states, so I wouldn't know how it is there. But here in the northeast, nobody really smokes inside and the only people who actually smoke are smokers, it's not really a social thing anymore.
fun fact: Lemonades (or for some called Sodas) are from Europe. The Romans had a lemonade like drink and the "modern" version can be tarcked back to Spain a few centuries ago
So many "problems" are just huge generalizations... One example: Problem getting food between meal times - I live in Slovakia and restaurants operate all day. More countries I visited with the same arrangement: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece. I would say, this problem is more: "I could not be bothered to search on Google"
There are differences beetween north and south Europe countries. I would say, there is more differences now between north and south than east and west (I meas UE countries only)
I found that if you are in a tourist city yes they are open all day but in Germany, Munich where I was resident they closed some stores after meal time and opened later.
The UK also doesn’t have set meal times! Countries that do are usually Mediterranean countries who traditionally take siestas after lunch due to the heat, so nobody’s eating at that time. It’s a very widely known thing and it really is just a quick google search and you’ll get an easy answer. The only thing the UK has that is similar is that shops aren’t open after 4 on a Sunday. I’ve seen people complain about it online more times than I can count. All you need to do is find out about it, either by researching the country you’re visiting BEFORE you visit, or just asking around when you’re there, and then plan accordingly. It’s not hard and it really is just a quick google search.
Add Spain to that. Here bars and restaurants are open practically all day. Also, I heard that bars in the US don't let minors in? A friend of mine has relatives in the states and they were shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that we could enter and order a glass of water. Like they don't only serve alcohol Karen, they sell snacks and sugary drinks too!
American problems: lack of human rights and going bankrupt for trying to acquire those human rights European problems: sometimes restaurants charge for ketchup and people get in trouble for being racist :(
ok, as an Austrian person I'm offended about the water thing :'D whenever you order water here, you get asked if you want it sparkling or not. if you get sparkling water, it's your fault. Easy as that. also ice cubes are not necessary and like you said, only dilute the drink, it's just an american thing..I don't need half of my cup to be ice cubes?? the drinks are cooled, so why do you even need ice cubes? also if you so desperately want them, just ask... that's the nice thing here. you get what you want, as long as you just say it.
I've never understood wanting ice. I only use it if I'm having a drink that hasn't been in the fridge. Can't understand why sparkling water exists though, it is pretty vile.
as a Polish person I am offended too:D and I think you are right:) Ice cubes in gargantuic amounts in EVERY single glass of juice in US restaurants is soooo American:) completely unnecessary in winter time, for example.
I swear to god every beverage I've had in the US was like 80% ice... At least they have free refills, which is great, but if you don't drink fast enough the ice starts to melt and your beverage gets all watery.
In Switzerland we drink our water pretty much exclusively from the water tap (we pur it into glasses first of course), because it‘s extremely clean and basically free (about 2 Fr. [Swiss currency] per 1000 Liters I think). In my experience, it‘s rather Germany that‘s drinking sparkling water (from bottles), even though the tap water is great there as well (my parents are from Germany, but it might not be like that in the entire country). Also, Soda water is stupid ;-)
I fucking LOVE sparkilng water. I never got the thing with everyone having a problem with that. BUT there is a line with that. when i went to sweden, their MEDIUM water was probably 80% water 20% gas. It was a mf bomb
"the server apologised (needlessly as it wasn't her fault)" Like, if you've ever wondered why we think Americans lack empathy, this is it right here. It's incredibly mundane, the cashier is just sympathising, but the American sees it as her taking blame. Biggest culture difference right here.
@@avatarjiyuna3159 I like them and eat them without sauce. But I also heard, that the quality varies from country to country and McDonalds' fries in Austria are solely made from Austrian potatoes. We have the strictest food safety laws in the world.
That was me 😂 I like Chipotle but the idea of putting it in the same category as good Mexican food had me speechless, especially since I grew up near the border
One of my best Mexican food meals was in Scotland. There are way more Mexican restaurants in the US, but it's still easy to find good Mexican food in the UK.
"why dont windows have screens" because its usually not warm enough to open a window and if it is hot its better to close the window to keep the warmth out because our houses are isolated to keep warmth inside (Same goes for the airco- we usually dont have warm enough wether except if you live in spain or warmer countries)
Italian here. We have air conditioning in malls, grocery stores, offices, bars and public places in general. Many people don't have air conditioning at home, but it varies around regions. It's more common in hotter regions and in big cities, it's less common in northern regions, mountainous or rural areas especially where there are single houses made of very thick concrete, which is isolating the inside. The worst thing for me is that schools and often also universities DO NOT have air conditioning, but consider that due to the climate here, schools have a huge summer break, the year starts around September 15th and ends around June 10th
That's not how it works though. When it's hot out, you keep your windows open all night while its cool out to cool out the house, then close them during the heat of the day. At night is when all the bugs and moths can fly in a screenless window because they're attracted to light, and chances are you'll still have a light on after dark. Not having screens on the windows makes no sense in this situation.
its actually not that much modern AC's have a pretty damn good efficiency. So during winter AC's are actually better heaters for the environment than many old-school heaters.
To be fair, at least for me, I never really thought of it as american lemonade, I just thought of it as lemonade. I find it kind of surprising to hear that Europe doesn't have it, or at least, it's not the same, and is basically soda instead. Lemonade in the us is pretty big, and it's hard to go any time at all in the summer without drinking it or coming across it.
About ACs... I was in the US on holiday, and everything went to hot outside to cold inside and I got really sick from that constant temperature change... I don't like it
@@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569 Not if the difference is so drastic that you get sick from it. Sure, it can be nice with a little AC, but when it goes from 40 degrees Celsius outside to 18 degrees inside, that is just ridiculous.
American here i feel the same. Dont get me wrong I love some AC on those hot 100 F days but sometimes in summer they turn the AC up so much that i get goosebumps inside. Its such a waste of energy
@@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569 I think that's called the worst to do :D You get wet by sweating and then going to an ice cold place. I don't like ACs on the buses either. It's super hot outside and then you sit down and from a few cm they pour very cold air on your head.
Yh literally, when he was talking about the lack of air conditioning, I was like.... when is it warm enough in england for aircon???? As soon as it gets warm enough that I want aircon I start freaking out, and this happens like once a year
That’s why every summer we have a run on mobile airco units, so we can cool our bedroom for a week and then store it in the attic and forget about it :)
Funny you should say that, I live in Ireland and every single place I've ever worked had AC. It's pretty standard in offices and large shops these days. In winter it replaces heating, which is a shite idea, but it is what it is.
Yes I studied in Italy and loved it because compared Chicago, where my university was, basically no places had public bathrooms. I was totally happy to pay a small fee so it was clean and easy to find. I didn’t have to go to 8 places trying to find a bathroom.
Quite frankly, depends on what type of establishment you go to in the US. Some have some really exceptional restrooms, others, not so much. I think most of them I've been to have been pretty clean, far better than those public restrooms in Paris (near the Louvre). Those were quite awful.
One thing I hated when I was in Texas was how cold it was inside always everywhere! I get it it’s hot outside but now when I go to the mall I have to wear jeans and a sweatshirt so I don’t freeze and then I go outside and die because of the heat
As a Texan I can confirm, very true. My family’s house is kept at an astounding 68°F or 20°C and I die a little bit every day. It should not be cooler inside my house than it is on a warm winter day.
It's actually pretty dangerous for your health. There have been cases of people in Europe setting their A/C in cars to 20C while it was 35 or more outside and getting a heart attack once stepping out again.
It's funny how Americans always refer to Europe as if it is one country with one culture. Even in the USA there can be vast differences between different states. Imagine making a blanket statement about all of the USA based on Alaska, Hawaii or any other state, you just can't do that.
Americans just generally dont know much about the outside world lol. The 50 states are basically all the "countries" they pay attention to. They even forget Canada exists.
@@slenderfoxx3797 Well it's because Americans are mostly just travelling around the US, so they are just learning that in school, and we as Europeans are just so close (geographically and politically), that we learn more about Europe. So if a American can't fill out a Europe map, can a European fill out a map of the US states?
Mostly because U.S. states themselves are as big as European countries and are usually more diverse too. So when we look at Europe we usually just pay attention to the more popular places.
Americans are not stupid. Europe created the "European Union" so you could be a collective group for certain things like travel, rules and regulations of food, trade etc. Most Americans have ancestry from a particular European country. Do you REALLY think we don't know Greece is a different country than Italy which in turn is a different country from France or Spain or Germany, etc. European smugness and the overwhelming need to belittle America and Americans is a real character flaw.
Some of those pickpocket signs are actually put up by the pickpockets as it is a good way for one of thier spotters to notice where people keep valuables. Nearly everyone who sees the signs pats the pocket they are in or checks the place they have valuables but then forgets about it after that.
Watching this just made me realise how European I am. I hate a/c, I love sparkling water, I understand paying to go to the loo as sort of paying respect to the cleaning services... Ah well. I guess I wouldn't say no to American lemonade and Mexican food though.
Come to Italy, we have lemonsoda (sparkling lemonade), good food, and, if Italian cuisine isn't enough, Mexican restaurants too (there are two in my hometown of 100k people, for example)
I don't get the paying everywhere to go to the toilet while it was free a few years ago. Now I even have to pay to go to the toilet at the movies, seriously I paid for the ticket, bought overpriced drinks and popcorn and still have to fucking pay to pee?!? I think it's ridiculous, and at gas stations it was like 50 cents but you got a 50 cents voucher, now you pay 70 and still get a 50 cents voucher. No, I like the US more when it comes to public restrooms unless I have to take a shit since I gladly pay to be able to shit without someone being able to see me through huge gaps in the panels. xD
You gotta love that a people thinks paying 20p for going to the toilet 'is just wrong' but paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for basic health care isn't. It's called 'spending a penny', after all. ;)
I'm German and laughed so hard when you were talking about the soda stream and different types of sparkling water levels 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 I grew up with medium sparkling water, kinda like tap water (cause I'm a poor student) but when I'm really thirsty only the really sparkly one satisfies me
I'm German and I really don't like sparkling water.. so whenever I'm in a restaurant or at a friend's I have to specify that I want still water otherwise I'll have to sit through and sip this sparkling water I don't enjoy..
@@s.w.9887 I am Asian and when i went to Germany i was shocked, I didn't order Sprite why give me this? I didn't get used to it and ended up always buying the normal water
@@abovelunar3488 I’ve lived in Suriname growing up, but recently in the country I’m living now it’s becoming hotter in the summers but it the wind is still kinda cold so I still just open a window, in Suriname I wouldn’t do that cause it would just make the house hotter.
Actually we used to pay for toilets at one point. But people realize that it was stupid because people would find a way into the stall anyway. Cuz usually there is either too big of a gap below the door that people could crawl underneath or people woodwedge something between the door so that it would shut and people could go use the bathroom. That's why they quit doing it because it was a waste of money. That's also the reason why we have Private health care because it's fueled by greed.
I think this can be applied to all Europe: The screens on the windows depend on the area you are in. For example I study in milan and sometimes they don't have them (probably because there are less insects in cities) but when I go back to my village we do because otherwise you would be covered in mosquitos and flys😂 + *IN SOME CASES* it could also depend on the average temperature. If you go to some parts of northern Europe or also in northern parts of different countries (I saw examples of this in Sweden, England, the Netherlands and also Northern Italy) it's possible they don't have them because it's colder during most days of the year so *in some areas* there could be less insects compared to areas in which you have mostly high temperature. (Ok I edited the second point so it's a little more specific) IF YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FIRST POINT THAN TO THE SECOND ONE BECAUSE THE SECOND ONE DOESN'T ALWAYS APPLY TO YOU.
I grew up above the 64th parallel in Sweden. You literally can't find a home that doesn't have bug nets if you go outside of the cities. Most of the time they are in a removable frame that hook up to your windows latches.
I live in city so my windows didnt have screens when i moved in. Not problem with other bugs, but somehow wasp find their way up to 3 floor window. So had to but up screen for them.
ye i'm in belgium and in my new house we have screens (at least in my room) and you can barely see anything through it nor take it out and i'm so annoyedd
I'm from The Netherlands and my parents just really hate insects so I've grown up with screens my entire life. We can unhook them in the winter if we want
😂 Try visiting countryside in north during summertime. Some days you can't even go outside without being bombarded with mosquitos. Even birds fly thousands of kilomerers from Europe and Africa to have baby birds in northen Europe, because there is plenty of nutritious food to feed growing family.
that and for most of the year it's not hot enough to bother and for the few day/weeks that it is it's not worth the expense of fitting and using it, though it does depend where in Europe you are and this is probably going to change due to climate change raising average temps
@Rita Roork Yeah i can feel that. In Hungary it usually gets around 110 farenheit (40 °C) in July for about 2-3 weeks and then i wish we would have something more than a fan in the house but well. :) Other than that i don't miss it too much.
Paying for bathrooms makes sense to me, because somehow the bathrooms need to be cleaned, that cleaning should be done by people and those people should be paid.
Public toilets in the UK used to be free but cuts to council services and the cost of upkeep / repairing vandalism meant that many public conveniences have been shut over the past 20 years. Charging a fee is a way of keeping some of them open while having a smaller impact on the council's budget.
yes! i'm from germany and i always wondered why so many people apparently don't know window screens cause we always put them in during summer because of mosquitoes and bugs..
Yeah I think they don’t have them because you have to buy them yourself and they aren’t there when you rent or buy a place. Also I think Hotels and like Airbnb’s don’t have them because they simply don’t care and people don’t stay too long.
And you can get it, in England at least. It's probably called Victorian style lemonade or still lemonade. Icetea, however, almost impossible. Liptons in the shops, but rarely in pubs/restaurants
@@niveusnimbus We have ice-tea in Belgium but it's not American ice-tea. It's like soda company owned ice-tea and some restaurant have their own home-made recipies. Both are less sweet and less caloric than the American version. Asian style is also available in some Asian restaurants and it's unsweetened sometimes.
9:10 that "eating times" thing is probably specific to Malta and other Mediterranian countries. During midday many of the shops close and they have siesta. It's a cultural thing that I think stems from the fact that it is really too hot to do anything. When I was in Italy they closed many shops and bars at around 2 and didn't reopen until like 7 or 8pm but then they would go on until 3am.
Actually our shops are open from 9 am till 12:30 pm and then again from 15 pm to 19 pm, they're also open on sundays (most of the ones in cities). Exeptionally they stay open till 24 pm during summer in touristic places.
Some of the restaurants in Germany do this as well. You can come for lunch or dinner and that's it. Sometimes these restaurants also offer breakfast, but only if they're tied to a hotel.
It works like that in France too but it's just because we're not used to eat at odd times. During the afternoon in the summer you can get a drink, an ice cream, a pancake or something. But probably not a full meal
@@juliee593 i always found that bad ... many places in the USA operate 24hrs a day ... having worked rhe overnight shift in the USA i could always get a meal for lunch near by ... though in the EU i had to be sure to bring something from home that didn't require cooking
It's pretty alright in Glasgow, sometimes a little dirty on some of the more popular buses and trains but almost always on time and have regular schedules. But in the more rural areas and in the countryside it sucks a lot haha. So as long as you stay in the big cities it's fine
I’m not sure how to explain to you that even in places where you consider the public transport to be bad, it’s still way better than in the vast majority of the USA.
We don't need air conditioning in the UK. The two days a year its warm I'll open my damn windows for air flow. I'm not paying for a product I would use twice a year.
@@silverstring4046 There's also not much of a need for those either. In the UK (can't speak for everywhere but definitely the area I live) we don't really get that many bugs other than flies and even then they rarely fly through the open windows. Although in Scotland you might see people with midge netting but certainly not in southern England.
@@matts1603 Oh okay. Here in the U.S. it doesn't really matter where you live, it's usually just the norm. I live in Texas so I kinda need it if I decide to keep my windows open. But even when I went to Hawaii in an area where they weren't really needed I saw them on everyhouse and even some stores.
Oh wow, I guess you didn't get those weeks of 35+ degrees last summer (actually went over 40 for 2 days). Everyone was grumpy and frazzled, especially families with small children. This sort of thinking worked 10 years ago but not anymore. I'm getting A/C installed soon and would kill for some netting on my windows, if only they weren't so rubbishly built that it's impossible to do.
@@funkyfranx personally just to add, I am in no way in a position to speak for the entirety of my region but in Yorkshire I could easily deal with the heat using a decent size fan and some bottles of water from the fridge
I’m so surprised the concept of “ground floor” vs “1st floor” and etc, wasn’t brought up. That’s one of the simple things that always manages to trip me up when I travel.
I'm from India. First time in the USA, checked into hotel, room was on first floor, dragged our heavy luggage a across carpet to elevator, got to "first floor". Only to realize, our room number was not there. We had to go back down, drag across carpet again and found our rooms.
In Italy we got lots of rules about food, especially about what’s healthy and what’s not.. We have to pay for ketchup, because it’s not consider “healthy food” . So by paying it, people are more likely to buy less or even none of it.
Sidenote: window/door screens are way more common in Southern Europe than in Northern Europe, since it's way hotter in summer, so you need to keep your windows open. Same goes for air conditioning. Also. Paying for the bathroom is insane for Europeans too, usually there is a tip you can choose to give to the cleaners, at least in Italy.
On the price of gas: i remember my science teacher in secondary school telling us that gasoline should cost about 5€/l to correctly reflect both its production cost and its environmental cost (thats about 20 bucks a gallon, for my fellow americans). We always thought of him as a bit of an eco-nut, but he's probably not far off.
He's absolutely right, I know that in my country (Portugal) we have a high tax on gas due to its environmental impact. And every few years the government considers increasing it as a way to incentive consumers to use alternative transportation, either public or electric cars.
You see that wouldn't fly in America or the Americas in general due to so many different factors but mostly because how large the countries are and the necessity of owning trucks in most rural communities for example where I live if gas was $20 per gallon most tradesmen couldn't afford to keep working because how expensive traveling to work and hauling material would be.
Evan: I have a friend that has a machine in her kitchen that turns the tap water into sparkling water. the only thing i have to say about that as a fellow Austrian citizen: Sodastream rocks!
The thing I'm more surprised by is the sheer amount of sparkling apple juice in Germany. And EVERYBODY seems to love it. To me, apple juice has always been a kid's drink. The sparkling apple juice is not that bad though, but it takes some getting used to.
@@TheGalacticGrizzly sparkling water is really good for your digestive system. My ex has gastritis and drinks 2 liters of that stuff a day because its really good for you.
I'm danish. My childhood neighbors were/are germans and they had a soda stream. I was to shy to say no to sparkling even though I hate it, so I have the WORST memories with sparkling water :P I don't understand how people like that. We have soda streams in Denmark too, but I don't think any of my friends own one (except for the german neighbours). Maybe half of danish people like sparkling water, if I have to guess.
And that's not even fully true! Here in Italy most restaurants give sauce packets for free. The only ones that don't are, ironically, McDonald's and other American fast food chains
The healthcare is actually really good. You just have to pay for it when you actually use it. In that sense it is like the ketchup. In actuality, Americans also pay for ketchup, but the payment is spread out over everyone's meal bill. Also, Europeans also pay for their healthcare, it is just spread out over everyone's taxes.
in ireland a lot of restaurants have these little holders filled with packets of mayo, ketchup, brown sauce, vinegar etc so not even the ketchup problem in a lot of places
Americans: imagine paying for body functions
Europeans: imagine paying to give birth 🙃
EXACTLY OH MY GOD I REMEMBER FINDING OUT IT COSTS TO GIVE BIRTH AND HAVE SKIN ON SKIN CONTACT THATS INSANE AND GROSS
you can hold in a pee but not a baby
the amount you end up paying to pee across you’re lifetime is probably equal to that of giving birth in the US
It's not even legal to make you pay for public restrooms (except for restaurants) but they do it anyways because money. But wtf, America really has a lot to fix with its health care system
@@NayNay97xoxo Come on 😂🤦♀️
Take a little Autobahn trip, compare the free toilets to the paid ones. You're not paying for having a piss, your paying 50 cents to not get cholera.
Every year, my family drives through Germany on vacation. No matter how desperate, we'd never use one of those free shacks.
EXACTLY
yeah, maybe it is because americans don't understand that we actually pay the people cleaning the toilets more than 2$ per hour...
The toilets even in rural France I've always found to be quite good. Guess my 40 € doesn't go to nothing
We dont pay shit to shit. And we dont got explosive amounts of cholera. Thats a sanitation problem that needs to be fixed
It’s kinda sad that the ‘things that Americans don’t understand about Europe’ are all trivial things, but the ‘things that Europeans don’t understand about America’ are to do with basic lack of support from their government for their citizens.
I dunno if air conditioning is TRIVIAL since Europeans seem to just complain all the time during summer lol
@@dapperdabber13 it is trivial. Just buy one lol
@@dapperdabber13 I mean, it's trivial compared to a lack of free healthcare?
@@dapperdabber13 Complaining's free, sooo ... we win? 😂
@@Rialagma well then if you can just buy one don't fuckin complain about it XD
"In France and Spain they smoke so much"
My man, you'll have an unpleasant surprise if you visit eastern Europe.
At least we're slowly cutting down on alchohol. That's something, right?
@@crazydragy4233 But are we really? XD
@@weronikaciejka6730 xdd, I saw some charts, it seems like we are, at least some places + beer's apparently getting more popular?
So true xD everything eastward from Germany (including Germany) is probably one of the last areas where smoking is a pretty normal thing
@@hendrix808 Germany has many more smokers than, for example, Ireland. There are even more restaurants where you are allowed to smoke. There is a smoking problem in Germany. I say that maybe because I do not smoke.
If you come to Italy and go to eat at a Burger King, you deserve the worst possible experience they have to offer
😂😂😂
Or go to a mexican restaurant in Slovenia
@@Epinardscaramel what about if you're slovakian
But the problem is Italian food is not good!
iafozzac And the restaurants are SO expensive!
So to sum up these 2 videos:
Americans - "Your food's a bit weird."
Europeans - "Your entire political, economic, and social systems are corrupt and falling apart."
the same is true of european political and social systems
@@jack2719 no country in Europe has a debt that's 7 times their annual makings
Americans have even weirder food tho like who the fuck wants to eat chocolate bacon or chicken on a scone it's fucking weird
You mean to tell me I have to pay upwards to 50 cents for toilet use or a sauce packet? UNACCEPTABLE!
*pays $1500 for an ambulance*
I guess cooked Moosehead is a bit weird too. (is it Canadian or Alaskian?)
Americans: “Why should I pay for a bathroom I need for normal bodily functions? Why should I pay for ketchup?”
Also Americans: “Healthcare you need to stay alive? Pay for that.”
Haha logic
Miraj Rahman-Blake ketchup is free in England and Spain which are the countries I lived on and also toilets are free on both countries. Don’t know where they got that. Only in Italy (where I went on holidays) they make you pay for ketchup but not public bathrooms
Harvir Singh As an Italian who lives in England, both often make you pay for public bathrooms. Most restaurants also make you pay for condiments
Lmao maybe you need to pay for that cuz otherwise doctors wouldn't get paid? 😅 They dedicate their entire life learning new stuff. Imagine how many doctors are out there. You can't just expect the government to pay everything for you 😂😂😂
Temp Xx You do realise the government’s money mostly comes from taxes, right? Universal healthcare is only redistribution of wealth. Also, it avoids people in the medical field ramping up the prices just because they can.
Evan... we have screens in doors in Italy and other Mediterranean countries. The uk doesn’t have a particularly big issue with mosquitoes and hornets so it makes sense people don’t have screens
Same for croatia, serbia etc 🙂
I was thinking about the same thing. And also, as an Italian coming from the alpine region and living in Germany, I really don´t feel the need for bug screens. I´m fine with spiders and other bugs going around my house. When I was a child, we had a typical species of south European scorpions going around the old part of the house too. It never bothered me. The thing about birds flying in is absurd, it never happened to us, despite living at the edge of the forests that grow wild on the mountain sides(full of birds) and keeping our windows open basically 24/7 during the summer.
@@ChiaraVet I once accidentally stepped on a scorpion in the mountains in Tuscany when I was crossing a room to open the shutters. Luckily it didn't sting me but I hadn't seen what it was until I opened the shutters! I wasn't that bothered by it though, but in mountainous regions you are generally much safer from mosquitos and midges if you're away from the valleys. I have a hankering to return now, such a beautiful place
Im in the uk never seen an hornet and no mosquitos in this area so thats why we dont need screens.
Eh, not everywhere. I'm from Rome and I haven't seen them much. TBF once it starts to be mosquito season it means it's also AC time, so this somehow compensate.
It's true that they are not unheard of though, I expecially remember them in renting houses/bungalow close to the beach.
"we should make a movement to put screens in doors" yea the movement is you to the shop
let me yell you this comment SENT ME
I agree they are quit common in shops... in all grocery stores you can buy them and just have to build them in...
Yeah, makes no sense, same goes for air conditioning and if you have a shitty dryer it means you bought a shitty one. It's not like you can't buy screens, air conditioning and good dryers anywhere in Europe. Not once in my life I was saying to myself 'Oh, if I only would live in the US, then I could buy screens for my windows, air conditioning and one of those good dryers. :( '
@@This_new_handle_system_sucks The post what they dont understand about europeans, meaning they dont understand why we dont have them, even if we could, they find the culture strange, as a SE-asian i also found the lack of windows screens weird
@@This_new_handle_system_sucks But in America if your dryer doesn't get your clothes completely dry, it's broken. In Germany, it's normal. Mine just stops at a certain point and says, "Dry enough" and then I'm forced to hang everything.
The restaurants closing between meal times is largely because they actually have to pay the workers decently, so it gets quite expensive to be open for the 2 people who might randomly want dinner at 4pm
willdbeast i think it’s also because of siesta. Many european countries close from around 12-16 because it gets so hot. Idk much about it since I’m from northern Europe but I looked it up and it seems to be the case in Malta as well as other southern European countries
Hey this I think is important in the med, but I think Europe in general has more coffee culture and restaurants are more about socialising than just getting food. People will go to a restaurant for maybe 2 hours (another thing Americans don’t understand), whereas if you wanted to just grab a bite to eat or catch up quickly in the afternoon, you would go to a cafe
@@TheVortexGaming Honestly I don't know. It definitely isn't every place that's like that (some are excellent with fast service etc, though free refills aren't that common to be fair) but there are a lot of places that are that bad. I know I've sometimes waited >30 mins for a damn sandwich which is ridiculous. It amazes me these places are still in business because I'd never go back to somewhere with that lack of service.
@@TheVortexGaming The mean staff I think is just a cultural thing, and quite frankly I found the incessant in your face service kind of annoying when I went to America. Also, I guess servers aren't so pressured to be super nice if you're not begging for tips.
At restaurants I've genuinely never not been offered condiments, it's genuinely just some fast food places. And I don't mean to be rude, but why would you expect free refills? Drinking like 36 Oz of coke just isn't a thing in Europe, it just doesn't happen. Also, there's a drinking culture, I would say it's 'unusual' to not have a beer or a wine with a restaurant meal, hence there's just no demand for refills.
And finally, on the slowness, as I said in my other reply I just don't think Americans understand the eating culture. Europeans would genuinely be annoyed if their meal arrived in less than 20 minutes. Your experience was admittedly excessive. But I'm not exaggerating that if you go to even a big corporate chain place (somewhere like olive garden in the USA perhaps) and its very busy, they will say you've got the table for only 2 hours as if that's major inconvenience. Restaurants just aren't about getting food quick, if you want a sandwich quickly you go to a cafe.
I don't mean to sound rude, just explaining that Europe is very different culturally and isn't trying to be American
@@TheVortexGaming because it's meant to be a leasurly activity. Refills cost money so you pay for it. Why charge it to the rest. In most of Europe (or southernish) you can get water for free if that's what you want. But if you want a "US" soda then pay and if you want another pay again. No need to give it away. Plus it's good for your health
Americans: Its always cold and raining in England.
Also Americans: Why is there no air conditioning in England!
Radiators and fireplaces op xD
We need air conditioning for 2 weeks a year
Yeah they wouldn't get used 90% of the time. It would be a waste of money.
also also americans: why are there so few tumblr dryers in England!
Also the energy waste from air con is awful, it heats up the areas too, because air cons produce tons of warm air. All in all, awful for pollution and waste, thank god Europe doesn't use them
@@huwfylt why is a dryer bad?
"Who eats fries dry?"
*raises hand* A lot fucken less messy that way
I like the Taste of pure salt. Otherwise i hate ketchup and Mayonnaise and prefer garlich Sauce. In german Knoblauchsoße. But there are very few good places with it.
@@pascalheinrich3990 Same but I love Andalouse and although lots of places have good andalouse, lots of places have the Devos Lemens one and that one tastes weirdly sweet. As for Knoblauchsoße they almost never have it sadly.
Lol same, also depending on the fries it can influence what I do with them (e.g. ketchup, Mayo, salt, pepper,etc) BUT I would like to point out that chips and eggs is better than fries any day
I eat them without anything or just a pinch of mustard, that's the best way to eat fries. Ketchup is an abomination of cuisine, and mayonnaise doesn't go along with fries at all imo
I eat them dry if they are from fast foods like McDonald or KFC...
But at home I add salt with mix sweet and hot pepper and dip them on mayonase :).
The reason why A/c isn't that big in the UK, is that until recently it really didn't get too hot. It has genuinely gotten much hotter in the summer now, with there being a hotter and hotter heatwave every year. So now our houses are designed to keep heat in in the winter, not keep heat out in the summer
Same in Germany, our winters were so cold (not so cold like in Russia, but still) until recently.
yeah I've definitely noticed it's snowed a lot less and got warmer a lot more commonly. I was looking at photos the other day and there was one from 2011 when it had dumped it down with snow and I was shocked because I realised it hasn't done that in YEARS. It's snowed once this year overnight and it didn't even settle for too long, it was all gone by like 11am. However if you actually look at the weather over the summer (I do because I'm really into geography) online then British summers still aren't anything to get excited about haha, but when it gets HOT it really does get HOT.
Same in Finland. I would maybe use it for one week in the whole year 😂
Most summers in the UK get hot, but the key difference is that the hot periods are short lived compared to to long dry hot or long humid hot periods in the US. It just doesn't make sense to have air con in the UK as it would only be used for a couple of days here and there in the summer.
Plus theyre awful for the environment
"you can't get any meals in a restaurant outside of meal times"
Sometimes I forget that Americans work their service industry 24/7 for minimum wage...
It's also not even accurate. It is for some places like some small french cities on a tuesday (many things including most restaurants closed for a majority of the time), but in pretty much all other places in Europe I've been so far, even if you missed the opening times of one restaurant, you're guaranteed to find another restaurant in the vicinity where you can get food no problem. It's just that yes, not everything is open all the time because workers need their breaks too. Shocker!
@@magiv4205 exactly! and if you're in the hotter countries (italy, france, spain idk) they have their siesta, and if you did 4% of research before travelling you will know this and just plan accordingly? coz no aircon in old buildings for us because.. why would we
@@lisa_vxng yeah, it's a dumb thing to complain about really.
@Martina but still like, some midday closures? From what I experienced in Italy at least
The restaurants closing is really only a thing in southern Europe. Probably because it can get fucking hot there at times and people need a rest.
But if you travel north of zwitserland you can basically get food whenever you want.
I love how what Americans can't stand about Europe are things like no screens, no AC, no free ketchup, more expensive gas, paying for public toilets etc.
While what Europeans don't understand about the US are things like no paid maternity leave, pledging to the flag, extremely expensive education, choosing between debt or death and such. Fun
@Bun Bun Yes, you could stop it. How else do you think change ever happens?
Like how the french where powerless to stop the French Monarchy? Or how starving Russians where powerless to change things in their country? You may not like certain rules or regulations but apparently you can live with it. Powerless to stop it? Enough examples in history that normal civilians take the initiative to change the country for the better.
The American ones have actual explanations, mainly money and corrupt politicians. There's no reason you can't put a screen on a window in Britain.
@@danielprudhoe647 Ok give us a suggestion how to. It's not my fault that boomers keep voting for bad people. Should we kill them off?
@@aclstudios Sometimes revolution is the only answer unfortunately. Pretty sure you murdered us Brits to get your independence so.....
This Reddit thread is so exclusionary to literally 3/4ths of Europe. In Eastern Europe and in some of the South (no idea about the North though) people don't drink sparkling water, you don't pay for public restrooms, ketcup is free at most fast food establishments, tap water is free at restaurants, and lemonade (sparkling or not) is VERY much a thing, and I don't mean tonic water or sprite, like legit lemonade. It's interesting how as a European I cannot relate to 80% of these things. But yes, in countries like Germany and the UK (which does NOT sum up Europe) these things do really apply.
To make an American analogy, it's as if Europeans would complaing about not being able to understand "American people's" accent. Like, that doesn't say anything, it's dumb and probably could apply to a very very small amount of places in the US.
Seriously. It pisses me off that when people hear "Europe" the think UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, maybe Russia.
Exactly this. Coming from portugal, I can't relate to most of this, although having been to central and northern Europe I see where they're coming from. I guess we're like american europeans lol
I live in Britain I haven't heard of most of this stuff
This is maybe the most important comment in the whole comment section. I liked it three times.
As far as I know, everything you just said except for the real lemonade thing (really depends where you go) apply to the UK too. Tap water is free, almost nobody drinks sparkling water. There’s free public toilets everywhere and you usually get a little basket thing with ketchup and mayo, or if you go to a pub they’ve got some other stuff in there like tartar sauce.
I feel like a lot of these really only apply to Central Europe lol
Again, nearly every American just says “Europe” without acknowledging that there’s more than just one country in Europe and they are all different with different laws and cultures. So like with the ketchup packet thing , maybe in Italy you have to pay , but in Ireland for example , you don’t and you could literally go up to an employee and you’d get like 4 packets for free.
Yeah its not even one country like the US. I mean, we all speak different languages and nothing alike
if you have no issue generalizing all 50 states, that are spread across roughly 3 million square miles, and most of the 300 million people within those states, then don’t complain about americans making similar generalizations about europe.
edit: for clarification, since y’all seem to think i’m trying to say europe and america are the same. what i’m saying is, similar generalizations can be made about the two, because they are both large areas with many different laws, governments, cultures, and languages. we can’t expect such generalizations to be accurate.
wasabi good one
@@wasabi42 still, there are way more differences between the nation-states of Europe, than there are between the 50 "states" of the US. I mean, c'mon, you can see how generalizing in europe across the whole continent creates a very distorted image of what reality is. You might get away with going for "southern/northern" or "east/west" Europe, but only somewhat and still on a limited and much more local basis.
TL;DNR Europe is differenter than USA in culture and habits
wasabi okay maybe i did generalize about the U.S a bit , but you all basically have the same culture and speak the same language (maybe different dialects but still speaking English). In Europe the culture can vary a lot and the same with the languages , unlike in the states. Also the U.S is ONE country. Europe is a continent , not a country.
Europe:"We have healthcare"
US: "We don't to pay for ketchup"
Europe:Strange flex but ok,whatever makes you happy.
Funnily enough, Im European and dont pay for ketchup
Your argument is invalid mwahaha
Jokes on you. I hate anything labelled as 'ketchup
europe: my country is perfect
US: no here are a lot of things that are not perfect
europe: tHat doEst cOunT
if u sub to me pewdiepie will give u money its true no, it's more like:
Europe: hey America, just trying to help, if you do this your life we'll be better, of course you don't need to do that, btw we also have problems so feel free to tell us
America: REEEEEEE, I am the greatest country in the world and no one else has freedom (insert eagle screeching noise), YOU ARE ALL COMMUNIST
Most of this is "european countries don't have typical American stuff"
Ugh yes, that's kinda the point.
i mean fly screens aren’t just an american thing, they’re all over switzerland too
@@itsfinnickbitch63 I think there are enough people in Europe who have them but there not in hotels etc mostly
@stockart whiteman Yeah idk, most people here in Portugal hate ac, its super dry and makes you sick, we just keep everything closed or use fans. I actually have window screens in my house but they are a little bit useless because we tend to keep windows closed because it's so hot.
It's Finnick Bitch!! We got them here too
The best part was "Europe don't have American lemonade"
Yeah, you could guess why. Will someone complain about the lack of American cheese too?
“Natural body function. Ya gotta do it? Pay.”
Allow me to introduce you to periods.
But also coming from a nation that has to pay an extortionate amount for the natural body function of having a baby... including paying for "skin-to-skin contact" with your own child! They get upset at paying to pee, but not so upset at paying to touch your own newborn.
And ya know FOOD
Heat in the winter to not die from hypothermia *cries in canadian*
Allow me to introduce taking a shit
@@nataliedunn5239 and paying to pee is probably like 50 cents to one euro... What does it cost to hold your own baby which you had to work so hard for to give birth to, a hundred dollars?
"Europe is too population dense"
*laughs in Finnish*
Laughs in greek lol
laughs in portuguese
Cries in Dutch
@@ivo2302 cries in Randstad:)
laughs in sweden
Seriously, there's an american who went to Italy, one of the best countries to eat, and they went to Burger King? What's the problem with you americans?
fast food addiction. Personally I hardly eat the stuff. It's not satisfying.
Yeah, that's just their fault
Eh, Italy is overrated when it comes to food
@@tuub1281 As a Greek myself, I can guarantee that it's not overrated at all.
@@LeoDeStino I can confirm it is overrated, and this is coming from a Dutchman.
America is so contradictory like "omg I can't say anything I want" but will hold curse words as the devil
I think when Americans say "we can say anything we want" they're talking about legally but when they hold curse words to such extremes, it's more about politeness
most people in America don't do that it depends on what state you're from and your upbringing.
Ah, but in Europe it's the government which dictates what can and cannot be said in public. In America it's the Corporations. It's ok to be controlled by Corporations.
@@ghostpepper9769 No I'm referring to censorship in media.
@@ghostpepper9769 Curse words, see the original comment in this thread.
Americans: if it doesn't come with the apartment, then I have to live without.
European: buys a 5 Euro bug screen, installs it.
American: travels to experience new cultures and customs
Also American: complains about everything that isn't done exactly like in the USA
I guess they learned from their politicians... expects everyone to be like them. Hates everyone who don't wanna be like them.
Hey. We just want to be driven around and look out the window.
We actually get quite a lot of American tourists where I live and they genuinely get annoyed when people greet them in French instead of English, and get mad when people don't understand them. For info I live in Quebec, the only province in Canada where the first official language is French instead of English
The last part is so annoyingly true. I lived in Japan for a year in college, and the amount of Americans complaining that things were different from the USA was astounding. I'd just sit there thinking: "So, why did you voluntarily come to Japan if you didn't want to experience their culture?" FFS it pissed me so damn much.
Hahaha that's funny 😂 why go to a different country if not to experience a culture that is completely different from your own?
“Even as a kid there were loads of ads for buying air conditioning units”
European houses tend to be a biiiit older than from the nineties. Just a bit.
Also we isolate our houses a lot more than in America, meaning that often the house will be able to keep cold/warm better than in the US.
Exatamundo, what Muricans consider to being a house would only be a garden shed constrution wise in most European countries.
And there is no progression in building technics, after a storm they rebuild it the same way and expect a different result.
You may start thinking why everything is gone but the brick chimney is still standing.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Yeah the construction standards for structures people live in are really strict in the UK and have been for a long time. Ever wonder why lots of houses are really old? Its because they're built out of solid stuff - bricks, thick beams of wood and tiles. When I was in the US, everything seemed to be built out of like wooden siding - like that's the whole outside of the house! Its just wood! Then a tornado comes through and the whole thing looks like a pile of matchsticks.
Also one more thing. Why is there a city sized dam of water in your toilets? Who needs that? Just... why?!
*a house in insulated not isolated ;) I built my house (in Belgium) 4 years ago. The insulation does keep the heat out for longer. But once the house is warm when the weather is hot for more than a couple of days it becomes really hard to get the heat out again. I open a lot of window at night to create a draught but then I get bugs because not all windows have screens. Haha. The ventilation system helps extract heat at night, but it’s not a huge difference. I am now looking at retrofitting AC. Hot summer so seem to be a more regular occurrence than when I was a kid. Or I’m just getting older and complain about the heat more.. :)
Last year I went to greece and noticed that one air conditioning unit was around 600 euros. There were even ads on TV. A few weeks later I needed something from a DIY store and checked the prices for a unit because I was curious (in Switzerland). It was aorund 4000 swiss francs. I've never seen any advertisement for it.
@@chrishoggett1375 i remember some days in the summer ware it was baking outside, probally thahts why i got myself a mobile airco back then :p
Americans: WHY ARENT TOILETS AND KETCHUP AND REFILLS FREE
Europeans: why isnt healthcare or school free?
@@F100cTomas
Metric? I don't know. We left England in the late 1700's but kept the Imperial system, then the world switched to Metric less than a century later, leaving the USA, Liberia and Myanmar back in the 1700's.
Good president? That's implying that any candidate in the past 40-50 years has been better than the other.
Public transport? The USA is a huge place and we have a potent driving culture. Public transportation would not be feasible in rural (non town or city) areas which harbor about 19% of the country's population in around 97% of the country's land.
Alcohol? Yep. The 21 year age limit is stupid. Many of us drank underage anyways. It's like the stupid handgun age law, people just get stuff illegally so why not just make it 18, the same age that you're considered an adult capable of making rational decisions by the legal system?
Ecology? You should visit some of our national parks. That's one of not very many things we've done right!
@Ynnel?! wow it sounds like u did a lot of google searches im impressed
Refills aren't free because the drink costs money & isn't 70% ice. Also we pay our waiting staff. Ketchup is paid for because it's not free & we pay our servers. Relieving ourselves is paid for because soap isn't free & we pay our cleaners. We hear of how ridiculous tips are in the States & realise those tips pay for the refills & ketchup & soap & the parts of the wage which should be paid another way
@Rita Roork “The US has the beat healthcare in the world (over 90% have insurance that pays for everything)
What are you smoking, and can I have some?
@Rita Roork and in Germany (for example) waiters and waitresses are not dependent on large tips cause they are being paid enough and the tips are a nice little extra
One thing on the price of petrol/gas here: yes, it’s expensive because it’s taxed heavily but that keeps a lot of old and inefficient cars off the road.
That’s really awesome for air quality and using more efficient public transport.
Non of my local transport is efficient, most of it is breaking down and no heating in the winter because the bus drivers have it all to themselves. It’s actually cheaper to travel by car into town than a return bus fare. No waiting for a late bus that may or may not make it.
Exactly. And the fuel consumption of typical European cars is 30-35% lower than the consumption of a typical American car. When I was in California in the fall of 2018 I spent $96 (86 EUR) on fuel for 1100 km driven (always refuelling at the cheapest station based on Gasbuddy). The consumption of the Focus 2.0 was around 9,4L/100km. With my mum's Kia Stonic 1.4 with a consumption of around 7L/100km and the prevailing prices in our part of Europe at that time, it would have cost around 100 EUR to drive the same distance. With my former Yaris 1.3 (6,4L/100km) even less, around 90 EUR..
@@missinglink6676 that can be right in smaller places but usually in all cities with more than 200 K ppl their is good public transportation
@@missinglink6676 But at least there is public transport. In the US even large towns or small cities don't have public transport
Well the main reason is, there is just not as much oil in europe as there is in the US :D
“From 14 to 17 they chill”. Yeah, like should they work 24h a day?
If the minimum wage for waiters is some $2.50 (excluding tips) in many places in the US - sure, why not? Just hire more sla....workers that can take additional shifts. If there's no customers - well, it's them not getting any tips.
They don't even chill. They clean and prepare. Often they also eat before the dinner rush.
Do you work until dawn?
@@kikialeaki1850 r/whoooosh
The joke IS implying that they work all the way from 17h to 14h
@@Jay-nh6um thanks, but I’d rather Amedeo answer me since there doesn’t actually seem to be a joke present. Or, at least, not that joke.
Why we pay for toilettes? We pay for someone to keep it somewhat clean, I've been to a public toilette in the us..never again..
It honestly depends on what public restroom that you go to. Some companies do keep their restrooms very clean. Friend since the one that is owned by the Choctaw Nation always kept very clean. And even the one known as The Flying J also is extremely clean. But yeah most really small gas stations are extremely dirty. But guess what we used to also have to pay for toilets at one point. And they actually weren't that much better then the fruit stall if there even was one. Betta stopped making people pay for it because either there was too large of a gap for people to crawl underneath or people would just put something in there to stop it from shutting. But yeah there is no point in really us to pay for toilets when they weren't much better than free ones anyway.
Yeah like 99% of paid toilets in Germany (for example) are soooo much cleaner than places where you don’t pay... also it’s like 1€, so it’s not that big a deal
And drug abuse inside
@@federicacucchetti3792 more like 75 Cents and you get a Coupon for 25 cents
Fettroyales Phyto true that, best part of the experience lmao
Imagine crying over Mexican food when you have Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, French, etc, etc...
And don't forget all the Turkish places. There is no life without Döner kebab.
Elia Fernandes because why would you eat some delicious food from varying cultures when you can rupture you ass with a taco that’s made from shitty processed meat and block out the actual people who make the best fajitas and salsas and all other things
Also, at least in Spain, we do have good Mexican restaurants. And I do mean MEXICAN restaurant, not whatever crap Taco Bell is
Also, no good Mexican food in the US either. Go to Mexico first, and go back to those us burritos if you can
Mexican food and particularly Tex-Mex is NOTHING like those cuisines.
This started well when I had to google “window screens”..
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OMG SAME
I hate window screens, so happy we don't have them in Europe
ive googled it and i still dont get them lol do they have holes in them to let the air through? it might be too early in the morning but i really dont see the point in them looking at how the look on google images
@@ayrts01 It is a mesh that goes on your window so that when you open your window air can get through, but bug and stuff can't.
Here in America, you don't need to be sneaky to pickpocket someone, you just need an AR-15.
which you can buy at the next supermarket
I mean, that's a bit bulky and obvious to carry around, which is why handguns tend to be used instead.
@@Neion8 But it's got a scary name! A S S A U L T R I F L E D:
I bet that'll work in most other places as well.
ok and the thing about eveything being closed on sundays and restaurants being closed outside normal eating times it's because we believe that working people deserve a break :)
except the normal grocery stores in my country at least are OPEN on Sunday. Also being closed outside regular eating times is far more frequent in Southern European countries from what I've experienced.
@@triplesharigan I think it's because the temperature is higher in the south, so they have siesta around noon to avoid heat stroke.
@@suonatar1 its partially the reason they have very different working hours in general and a different way of life they start the day later and also finish it later, you will be hard pressed to find a restaurant open at 19:00 in Spain since their regular meal time starts at around 20:00
@@suonatar1 Yeah, no. As a Spanish person, people don't usually have siestas unless you are a kid, a jubilee or you work at night or too early in the morning. However, we use that time to disconnect or to eat if you work during eating hours (from 1pm to 4pm, more or less)
In the south it’s because GoD ReStEd On SuNdAy So ThEy ShOuLd As WeLl
Why would I pay for using a bathroom? Because someone owns and runs the damn place and has to pay the water bill, the cleaning service and so on.
I understand why it's free in like... A mall, but not a subway station. But when I go to the mall and the restroom is technically free, but you can put some change in a box to help them keep the bathrooms nice and clean? You bet I'll be putting some change in that box.
@@annas.6536 I've never actually seen bathroom in a mall you need to pay for, or a restaurant you're client of. Sometimes publicly owned restrooms are paid, but those mostly center around tourist areas and the trope doesn't apply to all countries in Europe either. In Poland nowadays with some (mostly rural) exceptions restrooms are free. In a lot of other countries idea is that if you're a client you also get restroom for free... the only time you really do need to pay for one is when you barge into some restaurant and just want to piss.
Add it to my damn bill then. Pretty sure if every customer had to pay like 5 cents extra they'd be more than covered. What I don't like is when I seriously gotta go but there's a gate in my way I gotta fiddle with.
MsFluffy99 actually most restaurants give you coupon of same value like the toilet price. So its essentially free but only of you go and buy something.
They are weird in that way. It's totally fine that they and not the employer are paying the waiters but the people in the toilets.... the company should pay them, it's an outrage.... culture war, this is communism squared!!!!! Worst thing since happy holidays xD
For a lot of these, people see something in ONE place and assume it's the same for the entire continent. I live in France, travelled through Germany, Benelux, Italy, England. There are a lots of free public toilets, I've never seen a fast food where you have to pay extra for ketchup, there are a lot of grocery stores open on sunday mornings (even is small towns), and bakeries are often open on sundays. In a lot of places they put ice in drinks, and I absolutely hate it too. The number of smokers have plummeted in recent years, they are a minority now.
There are a lots of difference between each of the 50 states in the US. Europe is made up of almost as many countries, with different cultures, languages and customs.
Yup. A Swede over here. All major grocery stores are open on Sundays. In fact, quite a few of them have as their thing that they are open the same hours every day of the week. Unless it is a major holiday and even then you can get lucky.
@@Ikajo Exactly, the same goes in Finland and I suspect most other nordic countries too.
Stores including (once all, now most) groceries being forced to stay closed on Sundays is due to the influence of the Church in politics in the German-speaking countries (and the successful framing as a form of "employee protection"). It's one of only a handful of holdovers from the days of having a state religion, but I always find it baffling that even countries with way more diehard religious populations don't have this sort of inane religious patronizing going on.
Major stores here open 6 hours on a sunday, most businesses are closed sundays, little shops tend to open close to normal
When my country belongs to those where all shops are closed on sunday, you have to pay for the toilet and sauces at fast food places.... greetings from Austria
I like how most of these concerns are pretty insignificant, whereas the concerns from the video about what Europeans don't understand about the US are serious things like taxes, having to pay for an ambulance, etc... Sad :((
Compared to the USA version we got off so easy. It's just superficial things rather than full-time working people with insurance going bankrupt through a single incident.
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There’s a reason Evan moved
I got pretty annoyed because some points seemed so stupid to me, like the sparkling water one. You literally have no disadvantage if you don’t like it, there’s still water available everywhere! So unnecessary to be mad about
I'm sure Americans would criticise our politics and public services if they understood or cared about them enough to learn.
The longer I live in the US, the more I consider leaving.
Americans: we kicked out the Brits but we keep the Imperial System.
Rest of the world: Let's go Metric.
TBH that's the Brit's fault, they captured the ship that was bringing the metric measurement standards to the US. :)
Haha, that’s good. Never thought of it that way. Although I wonder where these strange differences come from. For example, a volume can be measured in Gallons, but an imperial gallon is smaller than a US gallon.
@@chrishoggett1375 Other way round (I think): imperial gallon is 8pints and a US gallon is, I believe, 6 :)
An American colleague once exclaimed to me, "you use the metric system in Britain? Why?"
She didn't know that imperial came from Britain.
America use US Customary Units
Few remarks:
1) A/C exists and is popular in most southern Europe (Spain, Italy, south of France) because those are relatively warm places for a long time. In the North however, A/C was not necessarily needed because it was never too warm. Only recently is it getting actually hot in London or Amsterdam. But 1- those houses are not necessarily built with A/C in mind, so it might be difficult to get it there and 2- A/C is now known to be environmentally unfriendly, so there is a huge stigma nowadays in acquiring A/C (basically, unless you have it for years, people will judge you for having A/C)
2) Paying for bathrooms is different from country to country. I remember in France it was free, but most of the times disgusting. Whereas here in the Netherlands, it's clean, but quite expensive (0.7€ God!).
3) Paying for condiments is also different from country to country. When I was living in France, ketchup, mayo, bread, tap water... were free (I didn't know how lucky I was back then), but here in the Netherlands, that's not at all the case. However, the prices without condiments in the Netherlands are substantially cheaper that the normal price in France. This leads to surreal conversations with friends deciding whether they want fries with or without mayo and ketchup, whereas in France it was clear from the beginning. I do feel that 1- it allows one to control their budget better and 2- it avoids waste if someone doesn't like ketchup/mayo.
4) Finally, the smoking... As someone who was born and grew up in Algeria (North Africa), allow me to laugh in Algerian. When I came to PARIS, I was surprised by HOW LITTLE people smoked. I was shocked that there was a special store for cigarettes and they didn't sell them for people looking too young. So I guess... it's all relative
5) Screen windows. They are definitely a thing in Finland, especially at the summer cottages, but also in cities. I live in a flat in one of the major cities and all the windows have window screens. Mosquitoes are a serious nuisance here!
In Spain we have AC, free toilets, window screens, at least in my region Andalucia
Mohamed Amine Hadji And nordic countries are actually the least smoking countries in the world americans just think europe is just one ”country” and they dont realise each country has way different cultures and laws
With the warmth, it's gotten worse in my country, Estonia. It's May and I'm dying in my room(it's 9°C but it's still pretty unbearable here), since our houses don't have A/C. Plus Northern countries build their houses to keep warmth in.
@@ohtuulijes yea but Finnland isnot europe pepegaclap
Xd
Weird how Europe is just western Europe and no acknowledgement of eastern Europe and their quirks and political instability
To be fair there's hardly any differentiation between Mediterranean region and the 'West' so I'm not surprised something like that goes under radar. They're basically talking about New York and Florida without acknowledging the difference, why would they even bring up the state that's 90% cornfields?
Well, if you're going on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Europe, you're going to see the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and so on. Not Latvia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. Not saying those contries don't have anything to offer, but...that's just how it is. They are places you're going to see on your 3rd or 4th visit. I'm European, and I've never been to Bulgaria or Romania, despite travelling plenty in and outside the EU.
@@crazydragy4233 why not the east can't give you that once in a lifetime experience? So much ancient history and culture, old castles, great ski or beach resorts, tons of things to see. Same as the west
@@andreyageorgieva4796 You're replying to the wrong comment, bud.
Do you wanna really get into that mess? That's probably way too much to unpack for such a channel
The contradiction in “it’s like going to Italy and saying you don’t like pizza” and “they don’t have AMERICAN lemonade”. Because it’s not America maybe?
funfact: many other european countries understand under lemonade also a sort of lemon juice as well, we dont understand why it isnt the same in the UK either
so "american lemonade" is sugar, lemon juice and water? i grew up on that in eastern europe wtf
@@Emil-lf3no
Because the suffix -ade means that it's fizzy. We also have orangeade (unbranded fanta), limeade, cherryade etc.
American lemonade is more of a juice like orange juice or apple juice (though 10x more unhealthy) but obviously it can't be called that since it would get confused with pure lemon juice
@@louisa1514 The suffix -ade means a drink made from that fruit. It does not mean fizzy and is not generally understood like that outside of the UK and possibly some Commonwealth countries (Australia).
@@louisa1514 yeah that's absolutely just an UK/ Commonwealth thing not European thing lol
So basically, the Americans problem with Europe is that here you have to pay for stuff, in order to acknowledge it's value, and don't waste it.
lincselo - In the meantime, I’m supposed to hand out cash to just about everyone I come into contact with in the US. The US tip culture is bizarre. Yet somehow it’s the consumers fault they’re not being payed enough.
@@HesselFolkertsma don't forget paying hundreds of dollars for being brought to the hospital on a vehicle specifically made to bring people to the hospital
I mean that’s literally the validation many use for why we pay for healthcare (we get better care because we pay for it and there’s less wait time, people can’t “abuse the system”) - it definitely doesn’t work out that way and is fucked now, but that was the initial goal I think
lizard4343 good in theory, horrible in practise! You’re paying much more for the same or sometimes worse healthcare than most European countries.
@@HesselFolkertsma yes,i mean insulin is 300$ in US but in Romania isless than 100 RON where i see them.
'they don't have ice in their drinks'. Well, almost every restaurant I have ever been to over here in Europe (Jersey, England and France) has either just put ice in my drink or asked if I would like ice in my drink. Also if they don't offer ice to you, you can just ask if they have any ice.
Yeah that’s what I thought
Ice is generally the default option because it's cheaper for pubs and restaurants as the glass is half ice, half alcohol, juice, etc.. Always had to ask for no ice in my experience
For me they usually ask if it’s in a pub or a restaurant and if it’s not then they’ll give you a can or bottle so you can’t get ice
I don’t like ice in drinks it gets in the way
I alwats get given ice and i hate ice, i keep forgetting to ask for no ice
Living in Scotland I always ask restaurants not to put ice in my drink it's that common that if I don't they'll just automatically put some in.
"US has loads of sources of gasoline"
Yeah, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria...
Exactly. Years ago Europe try to use less oil to made Arabian countries to sell for lower prises. It went wrong - all the rest of the oil was bought by the USA because they have no need to spare oil - their cars needs so much more than the Europian ones. And oil was still for the high price. And yes, Europe has an ecologic taxes on products as fuel.
@@drakulkacz6489 USA didn’t buy it. They started a war and claimed the oil as war gains. They pay private American companies to extract the oil but they straight up stole the oil.
The USA does actually produce a lot of oil and natural gas.
@@brykuand bomb countries to the floor when they even think to export even a little bit less to them
@@bryku then why do they invade smaller countries with less military force to steal their oil
I’m British but can’t lie the window screens actually seem like kind of a good idea
Yeah, I will admit that the window screens sound awesome.
I agree ☺️
In lots of country's it's very normal ;)
you can just buy them around the summer
Except they wouldn't work in my room under the roof :(
Sometimes I wish there wish there was more air conditioning in the uk, but only for about a week per year. Not sure it’s worth the energy it would use
The environmental impact must be huge.
@@mothturtle7897 It is. It's not good for health, either. I've been to Chicago in the height of summer, one constantly switches between burning oven and cold fridge temperature and after a few days everyone has an air conditioning cold.
I mean, this is the thing. Widespread use of air-conditioning increases emissions of CO2.
Heatwaves are only an issue for a few weeks of the year in Europe - let's not accelerate climate change and make it an issue for our whole summer?
Well, if we would cool it down to 12°C (or something something °F) like American shops do, we would need it all the time in Europe;)
I think it recycles air around. If your colleague has a cold, you and twelve others have colds. At least that's more or less what I was told in the 80s.
Things Europeans don't understand: guns, crazy expensive medical care, the government brainwashing kids about the flag, thinking that the amount of freedom they have is not the same in other countries...
Things Americans don't understand: mhhh...but!!! mosquitoes inside!!! air conditioning!!!! ketchup for me fries!!!
Americans are brainwashed to think "If my freedoms are not enumerated on paper as much as humanly possible, they aren't protected and defined permanently".
If your rights aren’t written down/placed into law there is no protection from them being taken away.
What do we have to be jealous about? Free ketchup?
To be fair, I DO want free ketchup, but I'd rather be NOT BROKE after having an accident.
C J oooh sorry therapist
@C J I think you don't get it, we look at you because you're the laughing stock of the world
"She has a machine that turns tap water into sparkling water"
Its name is SodaStream and it is freaking amazing. Don't come for the SodaStream! Me and my roommates have three of them bc everyone brought one from home when we moved in
I don't understand why so many people hate sparkling water. I personally love the bubbles! No one likes flat soda, you gotta have the bubbles, so why not the same with water?
And it's much cheaper than always buying water.
@@thana7179 How is sparkling water cheaper. It's the same water but with the added cost of the sparkle machine
I know it's off topic, but I wanted to say hi to fellow Monbebe/Weniee ❤️
@@vilkku792 It's cheaper than buying bottled water, is what they meant. We're talking about using tap water with the Sodastream here.
I can explain the window screens! In the 1900s there was a malaria epidemic in North America, carried by mosquitoes which exist all over the continent. Window screens started being used as a prevention measure, along with spraying DDT, draining ponds and fields, and renovating buildings to eliminate cracks. Malaria was eradicated from the US and Canada in the 1950s. We kept the screens because, like you said, it’s nice to not have bugs and birds in your house.
I am Dutch and here we do have screens behind windows
That’s interesting! We do actually have screens in Europe. But they’re often not fitted as standard. We’ll usually place them on bedroom windows and one or two downstairs windows we use a lot, for example the ones that lead to a terras.
@@tieman3790 that is very uncommon though
I live in Denmark and my family have door and window screens. They live in the country, where there are insects. I live in Denmarks 4th biggest city, my windows were open ALL summer and I saw one insect that summer vacation (6 weeks). So that is why I don't have them myself. But they are in stores.
Lmao 😂 😂 I don’t have screens and literally never in my life has a bird flown into my house WHAT 😂
The most important thing I learned from these videos was that I am so damn glad I live in Europe and not the US. I mean I can live with not being able to do grocerie shopping on sundays if this means I will never have to experience a school shooting.
And have healthcare and more comprehensive education
this is such a poor take, just because it happens does not mean it’s common at all i’m american and i’ve never experienced it
@@sshadyh I never said it’s common. But just because you never experienced it doesn’t mean the risk isn’t higher in the US. For example I am from Germany and the risk of experiencing a mass shooting is ten times higher in the US than in Germany and let’s not start comparing school shootings.
I live in europe and supermarkets are open on sundays in my country
So it really depends
@@adoppelnax i’m not saying the risk isn’t higher but the chance of it happening is still so low it’s not something to worry about at all just like being eaten by a shark or something like that
I feel like smoking culture in the U.K. is associated with drinking alcohol. Lots of people, myself included oops, tend to only smoke when you’re socialising and drinking alcohol
It's literally a term because it happens so often "social smokers / smoking"
This is how it was in the US up until maybe the 90s-early 2000s. Now, nobody really smokes in social settings and many bars do not allow smoking inside.
@@giannasansonetti7462 oh, you cant smoke inside any building in England, but pubs tend to have beer gardens so people can smoke, or people will stand out the front smoking
yeah, I get that, but also I see SO MANY 20 year olds smoking on my university campus in the uk while I've never seen a single young person smoke a cigarette at home in the US (juuls yeah, but never cigarettes)
also I think a lot of places in the States have a law where you can't smoke 10 feet from a business whereas there's nothing like that in Europe and people just walk down the streets smoking everywhere
@@strawberrybonbon5943 there are still a lot of states that allow people to smoke in restaurants and bars, but they're mainly southern states, so I wouldn't know how it is there. But here in the northeast, nobody really smokes inside and the only people who actually smoke are smokers, it's not really a social thing anymore.
fun fact:
Lemonades (or for some called Sodas) are from Europe.
The Romans had a lemonade like drink and the "modern" version can be tarcked back to Spain a few centuries ago
I've never seen a restaurant in the UK where you have to pay for ketchup
Yeah same I can't ever recall being ask asked to pay for tomato ketchup.
He was referring to fast food restaurants I'm sure..'proper going out' places don't charge extra for condiments.
Not even the dodgy fried chicken shops make you pay for ketchup 🧐
Lynn Hamps I was referring to both types
@@lynnhamps7052 I've never been charged in a fast food joint either (at least not in the UK). Not once.
So many "problems" are just huge generalizations...
One example: Problem getting food between meal times - I live in Slovakia and restaurants operate all day.
More countries I visited with the same arrangement: Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Greece.
I would say, this problem is more: "I could not be bothered to search on Google"
There are differences beetween north and south Europe countries. I would say, there is more differences now between north and south than east and west (I meas UE countries only)
I found that if you are in a tourist city yes they are open all day but in Germany, Munich where I was resident they closed some stores after meal time and opened later.
@@yogurLAPIZ it really depends on what kind of restaurant you go to
The UK also doesn’t have set meal times! Countries that do are usually Mediterranean countries who traditionally take siestas after lunch due to the heat, so nobody’s eating at that time. It’s a very widely known thing and it really is just a quick google search and you’ll get an easy answer.
The only thing the UK has that is similar is that shops aren’t open after 4 on a Sunday. I’ve seen people complain about it online more times than I can count. All you need to do is find out about it, either by researching the country you’re visiting BEFORE you visit, or just asking around when you’re there, and then plan accordingly. It’s not hard and it really is just a quick google search.
Add Spain to that. Here bars and restaurants are open practically all day. Also, I heard that bars in the US don't let minors in? A friend of mine has relatives in the states and they were shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that we could enter and order a glass of water. Like they don't only serve alcohol Karen, they sell snacks and sugary drinks too!
American problems: lack of human rights and going bankrupt for trying to acquire those human rights
European problems: sometimes restaurants charge for ketchup and people get in trouble for being racist :(
Getting in trouble for being racist is not a problem so...
@@sisuguillam5109 that is my point.
@@giannasansonetti7462 Thought so 🥰 Have a lovely weekend and stay safe!
You could write a whole book just listing off the problems in america. Lol
@@slenderfoxx3797 aren't people doing that already? But there is always room for a new one!
The US is just mad that Europe has found a non-body-poisoning way of enjoying a sparkly drink that isn’t alcoholic...
ok, as an Austrian person I'm offended about the water thing :'D whenever you order water here, you get asked if you want it sparkling or not. if you get sparkling water, it's your fault. Easy as that. also ice cubes are not necessary and like you said, only dilute the drink, it's just an american thing..I don't need half of my cup to be ice cubes?? the drinks are cooled, so why do you even need ice cubes? also if you so desperately want them, just ask...
that's the nice thing here. you get what you want, as long as you just say it.
I've never understood wanting ice. I only use it if I'm having a drink that hasn't been in the fridge. Can't understand why sparkling water exists though, it is pretty vile.
as a Polish person I am offended too:D and I think you are right:) Ice cubes in gargantuic amounts in EVERY single glass of juice in US restaurants is soooo American:) completely unnecessary in winter time, for example.
I swear to god every beverage I've had in the US was like 80% ice... At least they have free refills, which is great, but if you don't drink fast enough the ice starts to melt and your beverage gets all watery.
In Switzerland we drink our water pretty much exclusively from the water tap (we pur it into glasses first of course), because it‘s extremely clean and basically free (about 2 Fr. [Swiss currency] per 1000 Liters I think). In my experience, it‘s rather Germany that‘s drinking sparkling water (from bottles), even though the tap water is great there as well (my parents are from Germany, but it might not be like that in the entire country). Also, Soda water is stupid ;-)
I fucking LOVE sparkilng water. I never got the thing with everyone having a problem with that. BUT there is a line with that. when i went to sweden, their MEDIUM water was probably 80% water 20% gas. It was a mf bomb
"the server apologised (needlessly as it wasn't her fault)"
Like, if you've ever wondered why we think Americans lack empathy, this is it right here. It's incredibly mundane, the cashier is just sympathising, but the American sees it as her taking blame. Biggest culture difference right here.
This ! So much this!
And sometimes it’s so fake. They say I’m sorry because they’re supposed to and don’t want to get sued. Not because they mean it.
Guess it's an extension of how litigious everything is?
@@epiccollision omg this so much!!!!
"Who eats fries dry? A monster?" Why you gonna attack me like that bro.
Thank you finally found this comment.
And it also changes the flavour. I just don't get it when ppl are exclusively eating with sauces, are your fries bad?
@knigoholik
Have you EATEN chips from McD? It's fricking disgusting.
@@avatarjiyuna3159 Tbh I can't remember the last time I ate there. :) Lucky me it's not the cheapest here and we're still mainly preparing our meals.
@@avatarjiyuna3159 I like them and eat them without sauce. But I also heard, that the quality varies from country to country and McDonalds' fries in Austria are solely made from Austrian potatoes. We have the strictest food safety laws in the world.
Evan: "Good Mexican places... Chipotle"
Me: Scrolling the comment section for furious Mexican people
I'm mexican and I'm not furious, because I have no idea what Chipotle is
i missed that part LMAO but calling chipotle mexican... they gonna catch some hands from me
That was me 😂 I like Chipotle but the idea of putting it in the same category as good Mexican food had me speechless, especially since I grew up near the border
One of my best Mexican food meals was in Scotland. There are way more Mexican restaurants in the US, but it's still easy to find good Mexican food in the UK.
"why dont windows have screens" because its usually not warm enough to open a window and if it is hot its better to close the window to keep the warmth out because our houses are isolated to keep warmth inside
(Same goes for the airco- we usually dont have warm enough wether except if you live in spain or warmer countries)
But the countries that need it like spain or italy do most have airco
Italian here. We have air conditioning in malls, grocery stores, offices, bars and public places in general. Many people don't have air conditioning at home, but it varies around regions. It's more common in hotter regions and in big cities, it's less common in northern regions, mountainous or rural areas especially where there are single houses made of very thick concrete, which is isolating the inside.
The worst thing for me is that schools and often also universities DO NOT have air conditioning, but consider that due to the climate here, schools have a huge summer break, the year starts around September 15th and ends around June 10th
My windows have been open since April.
That's not how it works though. When it's hot out, you keep your windows open all night while its cool out to cool out the house, then close them during the heat of the day. At night is when all the bugs and moths can fly in a screenless window because they're attracted to light, and chances are you'll still have a light on after dark. Not having screens on the windows makes no sense in this situation.
Also, you don't even need it in all of Spain, just inland and south
Also: AC needs a lot of power, so better for the environment not to AC every single building.
its actually not that much modern AC's have a pretty damn good efficiency. So during winter AC's are actually better heaters for the environment than many old-school heaters.
jones1234567891011 also in a lot of places it doesn’t or didn’t used to get so hot, so no need for it
Also it does this fun thing when while it makes insides colder in actually makes the outsides even *hotter*
jones1234567891011 In a state like Texas, AC is mandatory when your dealing with 100+ Temperatures every single day during the summer.
@@tannerwilson4843 I mean in Greece we use ACS a lot..too hot to not use it
‘Natural body function, you gotta do it’
Like healthcare...?
I agree
Evan Edinger
Oh my god
I am shoooketh
No
@@silverstring4046 you plan getting sick? What unique being you are. I don't know anybody who can.
@@Lillith. No. I have insurance that covers anything I need is all. It's much cheaper than Socialized healthcare too, and it does a better job.
2:35 "Why do you have to pay for basic body functions" Is the perfect descriptions for American Healthcare
"No American lemonade" well maybe because you are not in America? Shocking thought, I know.
To be fair, at least for me, I never really thought of it as american lemonade, I just thought of it as lemonade. I find it kind of surprising to hear that Europe doesn't have it, or at least, it's not the same, and is basically soda instead. Lemonade in the us is pretty big, and it's hard to go any time at all in the summer without drinking it or coming across it.
@@jsk-art Weird thing is that we have lemonade, even in somewhere shit like Wetherspoons, so I have no clue where he's been going
Jay Katara yeah same...it’s weird to think of somewhere without lemonade. it’s such a big part of summer in the US
I didn't know lemonade was different in the US ngl, we have lemonade but it's generally carbonated like sprite
Beep Boop lemonade in the US is basically really sweet lemon juice, but we do have lemon flavoured sparkling water
About ACs... I was in the US on holiday, and everything went to hot outside to cold inside and I got really sick from that constant temperature change... I don't like it
dont u like when ur sweating and then u get inside where it is noice and cold
@@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569 Not if the difference is so drastic that you get sick from it. Sure, it can be nice with a little AC, but when it goes from 40 degrees Celsius outside to 18 degrees inside, that is just ridiculous.
American here i feel the same. Dont get me wrong I love some AC on those hot 100 F days but sometimes in summer they turn the AC up so much that i get goosebumps inside. Its such a waste of energy
@@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569 I think that's called the worst to do :D You get wet by sweating and then going to an ice cold place. I don't like ACs on the buses either. It's super hot outside and then you sit down and from a few cm they pour very cold air on your head.
@@avacurtis2729 when you said 100 F I was like damn you’re burning mate and then I remembered the imperial system.
4:28 In the uk and Ireland having air conditioning would be utterly useless
We Brits only find use of the aircon for like an odd hour or 2 a year if we got lucky with the weather
I'm from the UK and when it is sunny I freak out
Yh literally, when he was talking about the lack of air conditioning, I was like.... when is it warm enough in england for aircon???? As soon as it gets warm enough that I want aircon I start freaking out, and this happens like once a year
That’s why every summer we have a run on mobile airco units, so we can cool our bedroom for a week and then store it in the attic and forget about it :)
Funny you should say that, I live in Ireland and every single place I've ever worked had AC. It's pretty standard in offices and large shops these days. In winter it replaces heating, which is a shite idea, but it is what it is.
2:28 we pay for a toilet for the privacy and luxury of a nice toilet rather than a stall that's grimy and you can see in.
Also the toilets probably are cleaned by workers that earn enough to actually survive.
Yes I studied in Italy and loved it because compared Chicago, where my university was, basically no places had public bathrooms. I was totally happy to pay a small fee so it was clean and easy to find. I didn’t have to go to 8 places trying to find a bathroom.
I'm a Brit who lives in Singapore. All the toilets here are free and most are sparkling clean. You can have both......
Quite frankly, depends on what type of establishment you go to in the US. Some have some really exceptional restrooms, others, not so much. I think most of them I've been to have been pretty clean, far better than those public restrooms in Paris (near the Louvre). Those were quite awful.
One thing I hated when I was in Texas was how cold it was inside always everywhere! I get it it’s hot outside but now when I go to the mall I have to wear jeans and a sweatshirt so I don’t freeze and then I go outside and die because of the heat
Right? I'm still not sure if my one-night-stand in the US always had his flat that cold or if it was just to get me under his blanket more easily
As a Texan I can confirm, very true. My family’s house is kept at an astounding 68°F or 20°C and I die a little bit every day. It should not be cooler inside my house than it is on a warm winter day.
Americans are used to it, for the most part, except for the very thin people.
It's always fun to walk out of a building and get hit in the face with that thick wall of humid warmth.
It's actually pretty dangerous for your health. There have been cases of people in Europe setting their A/C in cars to 20C while it was 35 or more outside and getting a heart attack once stepping out again.
It's funny how Americans always refer to Europe as if it is one country with one culture. Even in the USA there can be vast differences between different states. Imagine making a blanket statement about all of the USA based on Alaska, Hawaii or any other state, you just can't do that.
Americans just generally dont know much about the outside world lol. The 50 states are basically all the "countries" they pay attention to. They even forget Canada exists.
Lol Europeans do generalize the US all the time
@@slenderfoxx3797 Well it's because Americans are mostly just travelling around the US, so they are just learning that in school, and we as Europeans are just so close (geographically and politically), that we learn more about Europe. So if a American can't fill out a Europe map, can a European fill out a map of the US states?
Mostly because U.S. states themselves are as big as European countries and are usually more diverse too. So when we look at Europe we usually just pay attention to the more popular places.
Americans are not stupid. Europe created the "European Union" so you could be a collective group for certain things like travel, rules and regulations of food, trade etc. Most Americans have ancestry from a particular European country. Do you REALLY think we don't know Greece is a different country than Italy which in turn is a different country from France or Spain or Germany, etc. European smugness and the overwhelming need to belittle America and Americans is a real character flaw.
As a European, YES about the window screens. I need those in my life.
Seán's Mobile me until I travelled to the US in a rented appartment these things where god’s sent
You can get one. I just have some mesh taped to my window lol. Works fine, but now I can't stick my head out the window :/
I don't need them though. My windows don't open.
It's not that hard to get one, I bought one really cheap last summer and just glued it to my window.
y'all don't have them in like department stores or anything?
Some of those pickpocket signs are actually put up by the pickpockets as it is a good way for one of thier spotters to notice where people keep valuables. Nearly everyone who sees the signs pats the pocket they are in or checks the place they have valuables but then forgets about it after that.
Watching this just made me realise how European I am. I hate a/c, I love sparkling water, I understand paying to go to the loo as sort of paying respect to the cleaning services... Ah well. I guess I wouldn't say no to American lemonade and Mexican food though.
Come to Italy, we have lemonsoda (sparkling lemonade), good food, and, if Italian cuisine isn't enough, Mexican restaurants too (there are two in my hometown of 100k people, for example)
@@iafozzac haha i'm in Italy often, fortunately! Hope to be back soon!
@@iafozzac Lemon soda is love, lemon soda is life
But Lurisia lemonade is better :P
I don't get the paying everywhere to go to the toilet while it was free a few years ago. Now I even have to pay to go to the toilet at the movies, seriously I paid for the ticket, bought overpriced drinks and popcorn and still have to fucking pay to pee?!? I think it's ridiculous, and at gas stations it was like 50 cents but you got a 50 cents voucher, now you pay 70 and still get a 50 cents voucher. No, I like the US more when it comes to public restrooms unless I have to take a shit since I gladly pay to be able to shit without someone being able to see me through huge gaps in the panels. xD
Lemonade is just lemon juice, water and sugar...
We have that in Portugal.
It's not "American"...
You gotta love that a people thinks paying 20p for going to the toilet 'is just wrong' but paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for basic health care isn't. It's called 'spending a penny', after all. ;)
The people that are saying that are fairly Young. Because we actually used to have to pay for toilets.
@Rita Roork Don't worry, you don't have to live in Europe. So you can stop spamming everywhere how much better the US is.
I'm German and laughed so hard when you were talking about the soda stream and different types of sparkling water levels 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄 I grew up with medium sparkling water, kinda like tap water (cause I'm a poor student) but when I'm really thirsty only the really sparkly one satisfies me
I'm German and I really don't like sparkling water.. so whenever I'm in a restaurant or at a friend's I have to specify that I want still water otherwise I'll have to sit through and sip this sparkling water I don't enjoy..
Sasa Oldbarn there’s nothing like being really thirsty and then having that cold „classic“ as it is called I believe sparkling water 👌🏻
Weirdly, i hate sparkling water but i do enjoy fizzy soda!
I'm German and tried water without carbon acid several times, but didn't manage to get used to it. 😅
@@s.w.9887 I am Asian and when i went to Germany i was shocked, I didn't order Sprite why give me this? I didn't get used to it and ended up always buying the normal water
Europe not having air-conditioning: open a window
Americans: it’s still hot
Me: no it’s just ‘hot’ because it’s usually extremely colder
I can tell you've never lived somewhere where its 94 (34 c) degrees and humid in the summer
Recently it’s becoming hotter in the country I live, but the air is not humid. But I grew up in Suriname so I have.
@@abovelunar3488 I’ve lived in Suriname growing up, but recently in the country I’m living now it’s becoming hotter in the summers but it the wind is still kinda cold so I still just open a window, in Suriname I wouldn’t do that cause it would just make the house hotter.
Sorry, but even the UK is way too hot for me to deal with without A/C. I could never visit in a warm month knowing there's no A/C.
Imagine paying for toilets
Americans: pay for health care
Actually we used to pay for toilets at one point. But people realize that it was stupid because people would find a way into the stall anyway. Cuz usually there is either too big of a gap below the door that people could crawl underneath or people woodwedge something between the door so that it would shut and people could go use the bathroom. That's why they quit doing it because it was a waste of money. That's also the reason why we have Private health care because it's fueled by greed.
and tips
I think this can be applied to all Europe:
The screens on the windows depend on the area you are in. For example I study in milan and sometimes they don't have them (probably because there are less insects in cities) but when I go back to my village we do because otherwise you would be covered in mosquitos and flys😂
+ *IN SOME CASES* it could also depend on the average temperature. If you go to some parts of northern Europe or also in northern parts of different countries (I saw examples of this in Sweden, England, the Netherlands and also Northern Italy) it's possible they don't have them because it's colder during most days of the year so *in some areas* there could be less insects compared to areas in which you have mostly high temperature.
(Ok I edited the second point so it's a little more specific)
IF YOU LIVE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FIRST POINT THAN TO THE SECOND ONE BECAUSE THE SECOND ONE DOESN'T ALWAYS APPLY TO YOU.
I grew up above the 64th parallel in Sweden. You literally can't find a home that doesn't have bug nets if you go outside of the cities. Most of the time they are in a removable frame that hook up to your windows latches.
I live in city so my windows didnt have screens when i moved in. Not problem with other bugs, but somehow wasp find their way up to 3 floor window. So had to but up screen for them.
ye i'm in belgium and in my new house we have screens (at least in my room) and you can barely see anything through it nor take it out and i'm so annoyedd
I'm from The Netherlands and my parents just really hate insects so I've grown up with screens my entire life. We can unhook them in the winter if we want
😂 Try visiting countryside in north during summertime. Some days you can't even go outside without being bombarded with mosquitos.
Even birds fly thousands of kilomerers from Europe and Africa to have baby birds in northen Europe, because there is plenty of nutritious food to feed growing family.
I think we don't have screens because we generally don't have that many bugs
In Italy we have loads of bugs (especially during the summer) but we don't have screens (some people may have mosquito nets but they are rubbish)
@@JustACrayFangirl ohh okay, sorry I should have clarified that I think this is why we don't have screens in the UK
@Emily hmm I guess I've never really had that experience here, what part of the UK are you from?
Whaaaat I live in Paris and in the summe rit’s just one big bug cloud
@Emily those bleeding thunder bugs are absolute buggers! Maybe it's more we don't really get bugs that are going to kill you?..
USA logic: Everything must be free except for medical assistance to not die and education to have better opportunities in life.
“Ice is the least sanitary thing in the restaurant” this is true for America but in Europe it’s not
Trust me it is. Except if you're from a protestant country, in that case it's the frickin bathroom.
what?
Air condition uses a lot of electricity, we want to be eco friendly.
Yeah, eco friendly to stop global warming
that and for most of the year it's not hot enough to bother and for the few day/weeks that it is it's not worth the expense of fitting and using it, though it does depend where in Europe you are and this is probably going to change due to climate change raising average temps
@Rita Roork Yeah i can feel that. In Hungary it usually gets around 110 farenheit (40 °C) in July for about 2-3 weeks and then i wish we would have something more than a fan in the house but well. :)
Other than that i don't miss it too much.
@@F100cTomas we can’t stop global warming my guy
Paying for bathrooms makes sense to me, because somehow the bathrooms need to be cleaned, that cleaning should be done by people and those people should be paid.
Unless you're in the USA, then you don't pay them and hope they are being tipped by someone who needs to feel good by being generous
Cleaners of a train station are paid so this argument doesn’t quite work.
Over here they absolutely do not get cleaned. Public bathrooms are usually unusable. Just a scame all around.
@@evan but what about other places besides train stations?
Public toilets in the UK used to be free but cuts to council services and the cost of upkeep / repairing vandalism meant that many public conveniences have been shut over the past 20 years. Charging a fee is a way of keeping some of them open while having a smaller impact on the council's budget.
Love that almost all of these boil down to the American phrase “the customer is always right”
Idk about the rest of Europe, but in the netherlands most people I know do have screens... not for birds though but for mosquitos and such
yes! i'm from germany and i always wondered why so many people apparently don't know window screens cause we always put them in during summer because of mosquitoes and bugs..
same here in Italyyy
same in switzerland
same in Spain
Yeah I think they don’t have them because you have to buy them yourself and they aren’t there when you rent or buy a place. Also I think Hotels and like Airbnb’s don’t have them because they simply don’t care and people don’t stay too long.
American lemonade? Ahh you mean citrus diabetes
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahaha
And you can get it, in England at least. It's probably called Victorian style lemonade or still lemonade. Icetea, however, almost impossible. Liptons in the shops, but rarely in pubs/restaurants
Evan Edinger I’m pretty sure “cloudy lemonade” or something like San Pellegrino Lemon is like what you’re looking for
@@niveusnimbus We have ice-tea in Belgium but it's not American ice-tea. It's like soda company owned ice-tea and some restaurant have their own home-made recipies. Both are less sweet and less caloric than the American version. Asian style is also available in some Asian restaurants and it's unsweetened sometimes.
9:10 that "eating times" thing is probably specific to Malta and other Mediterranian countries. During midday many of the shops close and they have siesta. It's a cultural thing that I think stems from the fact that it is really too hot to do anything. When I was in Italy they closed many shops and bars at around 2 and didn't reopen until like 7 or 8pm but then they would go on until 3am.
Actually our shops are open from 9 am till 12:30 pm and then again from 15 pm to 19 pm, they're also open on sundays (most of the ones in cities). Exeptionally they stay open till 24 pm during summer in touristic places.
@@andreatitti6413 just a tip, you don't use pm with times from 13 to 24, pm and am is just 1-12
Some of the restaurants in Germany do this as well. You can come for lunch or dinner and that's it. Sometimes these restaurants also offer breakfast, but only if they're tied to a hotel.
It works like that in France too but it's just because we're not used to eat at odd times. During the afternoon in the summer you can get a drink, an ice cream, a pancake or something. But probably not a full meal
@@juliee593 i always found that bad ... many places in the USA operate 24hrs a day ... having worked rhe overnight shift in the USA i could always get a meal for lunch near by ... though in the EU i had to be sure to bring something from home that didn't require cooking
"public transports pretty great"
Ah I see you've not left London
Die Deutsche Bahn would like to know your location
@@Gabi-vt4ex North West England
It's pretty alright in Glasgow, sometimes a little dirty on some of the more popular buses and trains but almost always on time and have regular schedules. But in the more rural areas and in the countryside it sucks a lot haha. So as long as you stay in the big cities it's fine
I’m from the north east England and transport is so good ngl, I can go anywhere with a little amount of money
I’m not sure how to explain to you that even in places where you consider the public transport to be bad, it’s still way better than in the vast majority of the USA.
We don't need air conditioning in the UK. The two days a year its warm I'll open my damn windows for air flow. I'm not paying for a product I would use twice a year.
If you're going to have your windows open, do you at least invest into window screens?
@@silverstring4046 There's also not much of a need for those either. In the UK (can't speak for everywhere but definitely the area I live) we don't really get that many bugs other than flies and even then they rarely fly through the open windows. Although in Scotland you might see people with midge netting but certainly not in southern England.
@@matts1603 Oh okay. Here in the U.S. it doesn't really matter where you live, it's usually just the norm. I live in Texas so I kinda need it if I decide to keep my windows open. But even when I went to Hawaii in an area where they weren't really needed I saw them on everyhouse and even some stores.
Oh wow, I guess you didn't get those weeks of 35+ degrees last summer (actually went over 40 for 2 days). Everyone was grumpy and frazzled, especially families with small children. This sort of thinking worked 10 years ago but not anymore. I'm getting A/C installed soon and would kill for some netting on my windows, if only they weren't so rubbishly built that it's impossible to do.
@@funkyfranx personally just to add, I am in no way in a position to speak for the entirety of my region but in Yorkshire I could easily deal with the heat using a decent size fan and some bottles of water from the fridge
I’m so surprised the concept of “ground floor” vs “1st floor” and etc, wasn’t brought up. That’s one of the simple things that always manages to trip me up when I travel.
Omg yeah I hate that
I'm from India. First time in the USA, checked into hotel, room was on first floor, dragged our heavy luggage a across carpet to elevator, got to "first floor". Only to realize, our room number was not there. We had to go back down, drag across carpet again and found our rooms.
So annoying
@@evan tbh i think Americans r right when it comes to floors it's just easier
I’m used to it but it’s honestly still stupid
In Italy we got lots of rules about food, especially about what’s healthy and what’s not..
We have to pay for ketchup, because it’s not consider “healthy food” .
So by paying it, people are more likely to buy less or even none of it.
Sidenote: window/door screens are way more common in Southern Europe than in Northern Europe, since it's way hotter in summer, so you need to keep your windows open. Same goes for air conditioning.
Also. Paying for the bathroom is insane for Europeans too, usually there is a tip you can choose to give to the cleaners, at least in Italy.
On the price of gas: i remember my science teacher in secondary school telling us that gasoline should cost about 5€/l to correctly reflect both its production cost and its environmental cost (thats about 20 bucks a gallon, for my fellow americans). We always thought of him as a bit of an eco-nut, but he's probably not far off.
He's absolutely right, I know that in my country (Portugal) we have a high tax on gas due to its environmental impact. And every few years the government considers increasing it as a way to incentive consumers to use alternative transportation, either public or electric cars.
You see that wouldn't fly in America or the Americas in general due to so many different factors but mostly because how large the countries are and the necessity of owning trucks in most rural communities for example where I live if gas was $20 per gallon most tradesmen couldn't afford to keep working because how expensive traveling to work and hauling material would be.
The paying for the toilet thing is only in like big cities and train stations
I’ve never actually seen that
i was in windermere yesterday, and I had to pay 50p
When I was in a McDonalds in austria you had to pay
Riley Banks when I was in turkey you had to pay for in a the shopping centre
Leah Maslin yeah and sometimes even if you buy food there, you still have to pay 😂
If you have to pay to use it then it should be spotless
Evan: I have a friend that has a machine in her kitchen that turns the tap water into sparkling water. the only thing i have to say about that as a fellow Austrian citizen: Sodastream rocks!
As a European, I will always choose to use the restroom that costs 70ct and is clean over the free restroom that is dirty and disgusting.
Ive lived in England my entire life and never paid for a sauce packet every McDonalds ive been to has a ketchup pump
I think it's mostly in tourist areas. the same for the pay to pee toilets, at least in Denmark
Evan: "You have a problem. It's not good."
Me, a Czech: "But it's sparkling water... It's amazing..."
Same.
Yep I‘m Swiss and sparkling water is the best thing ever
The thing I'm more surprised by is the sheer amount of sparkling apple juice in Germany. And EVERYBODY seems to love it. To me, apple juice has always been a kid's drink.
The sparkling apple juice is not that bad though, but it takes some getting used to.
@@TheGalacticGrizzly sparkling water is really good for your digestive system.
My ex has gastritis and drinks 2 liters of that stuff a day because its really good for you.
I'm danish. My childhood neighbors were/are germans and they had a soda stream. I was to shy to say no to sparkling even though I hate it, so I have the WORST memories with sparkling water :P I don't understand how people like that. We have soda streams in Denmark too, but I don't think any of my friends own one (except for the german neighbours). Maybe half of danish people like sparkling water, if I have to guess.
American problems: bad healthcare
European problems: you have to pay for ketchup
And that's not even fully true! Here in Italy most restaurants give sauce packets for free. The only ones that don't are, ironically, McDonald's and other American fast food chains
American healthcare isn't bad, it's expensive.
The healthcare is actually really good. You just have to pay for it when you actually use it. In that sense it is like the ketchup.
In actuality, Americans also pay for ketchup, but the payment is spread out over everyone's meal bill.
Also, Europeans also pay for their healthcare, it is just spread out over everyone's taxes.
in ireland a lot of restaurants have these little holders filled with packets of mayo, ketchup, brown sauce, vinegar etc so not even the ketchup problem in a lot of places
8:00 I was not just drinking my sparkling water peacefully only to be called out like that, damn