American Reacts to More Dumb Stuff Americans Have Said to Foreigners
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- American Reacts to More Dumb Stuff Americans Have Said to Foreigners
In this video I react to more dumb stuff that Americans have said to foreigners.
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I convinced a couple of my American friends that our Thanksgiving in Britain is on the 4th of July. They didn't get it.
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😂 How dare you... just kidding that's funny! I would have laughed.
@@writerbill1 To be fair, my in-laws took me to the 2012 4th of July event in B'ham, AL (Roll Tide). I commented on how apt it was they celebrated this with what was essentially an Artillery barrage. They were a bit miffed...especially when I declared, sadly in a monotone wishful manner, it wasn't Royal Artillery.
Who said irony was dead....
I am stealing this for future use
It may pay some of these people to remember the old saying, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"only America has proper houses" coming from an American is rich, when in comparison to central Europe a lot of the houses in America are just fortified woodshacks. Beard, you are the best 😂
Yes, I think most american houses are not up to european standards. No solid walls, no insulation, no double glass windows... pretty much cardboard houses.
Our house was built in 1999 and I'm STILL finding things I need to fix. Junk, total junk. We have friends who have moved to Europe and tell us there is no comparison.
Americans think everything as about them and they are the only free country.. news flash your not free you haven't invented everything and you're all brain washed.
I believe that is something all houses around the world have in common.
If you have a house there will always be something to fix.
Was in Conwy, North Wales and overhead a mature American couple saying the place was too nice to put refugees after hearing some locals speaking Welsh. It was loud enough for pretty much everyone at the pub to hear.
To be fair to the Americans here the US actually DOES put war refugees in prisoner cells so small they're basically human cages so at least now you understand why they feel that way about refugees, whatever language they speak.
They really are a good substitute for what Modern ancient Romans would have been as in no matter how white you obviously are and how much you dress like them, if you don't live where they live or speak the same language they will automatically think your country is horrible and you deserve to be 'civilised'.
Hopefully through conquest so help them American Jesus with M16s and Hellfire missiles!
Well, that was actually the truth.
I once visited my brother, who lives in Arizona. Now, whilst sitting in a restaurant, we were talking in French and Dutch, as you do with family. Dude in the booth next to us asked where we were from. I answered, we're from Belgium. To which he said, "aah isn't that the capital of Europe??"..... And this was last year, in 2022
I mean at least he didn't tell you to speak english or go back to your country lol
Ha ha , I thought that was Britain. Only joking, great story.
come on..Americans, don't care about what other countries do, they have all they need, so don't knock
With the EU being run from Brussels and so on, I can see why they might have that element of confusion to a degree....
@@adamcieslickitrue but europe isn’t a country
There is maybe a connection between the stupidity of the average american and the relatively low pay of teachers in the US and the fact that they aren't held in high regard by the average american citizen. In the UK the teaching profession has a high social status and education isn't limited by how rich your parents are. As with many things in the US, the dollar needs to be taken out of the equation.
"We expect you to be stupid. DON'T abuse the privilege."
Great movie line, that seems appropriate here.
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I´ve had an American tell me that Auckland, New Zealand, is at the other end of the Sydney harbour bridge.
Well Sydney has the Harbour Bridge, and Auckland has the Harbour Bridge, therefore it's the same bridge and it spans the entire Tasman Sea.
Australian who lives in NZ here. I've heard that one too, and facepalmed.
@@Luubelaar yeah! It’s like the Rainbow Bridge in Thor 😂
I've mentioned before I was asked by an American what our first language is here in... England.
More recently I have been asked: Do you have apples in England? And Do you have skating rinks in England?
These questions were pitched by fully grown adults.
Were they from Southern USA states?
Lived in the US, worked with Americans for years, great folks. However while at university an American girl asked me if we had the moon in the UK, I politely replied that we did.
In fact, every time they get a New Moon in the US, it's because we in the UK have it. But don't worry, when there's a Full Moon in the US that means we've given it back. 😉
Yeah The Doctor takes care of the Moon. He brings one every few years on the back of the TARDIS and replaces it.
Well my reply would have been.
"Umm, " No we don't have a moon." "It's only in America."
I'll bet money she would believe it. 🤣🤣🤣
A friend of mine from way back was trying to meet me in a pub and she'd got lost. I live in York (England). She's from California somewhere. She called me up and said she was next to the 'castle'. Well, we don't have a castle but we do have the keep from a Norman castle on a big old mound, so I asked a few other questions 'Can you see a hotel' etc. and thought she was there. Gave her directions. She calls back after about half an still lost.
Problem was, initially she was next to The Minster, our world famous cathedral finished in 1472 way after the last castle was built any around. I'm not including those stately homes looking things, I'm looking at you Windsor Castle.
Just how on Earth could anyone think that a building with 128 stained glass windows, some of them HUGE and all visible from the outside was a castle? How could that POSSIBLY be a defensive structure?
Finally, I will say, I an easily imagine a British girl saying this too, I sit and read there so I hear plenty of that, but I think the fact that she had no frame of reference was a contributing factor.
If the container has a chicken breathing fire, chances are the product is spicy hot 😂🤣
Wow, these are just ridiculous. Again, I'm another US American who can't fathom the stupidity of people. Do they have houses in other countries?! No, house building is a national secret that we refuse to share 🤦♂🤦♂😂
30 yrs ago while backpacking in Israel I realized that all the international backpackers consider Americans to be very arrogant and loud . I personally can attest to how loud Americans speak . In the narrow streets of the old city of Jerusalem I would hear the Americans up ahead in the crowds before I could see them ! They just spoke loud !!!
I met an American couple in Ballater which is in the Highlands of Scotland, they were touring the United Kingdom, I asked them how they were enjoying their time in Scotland, they replied that they were enjoying the countryside and the wonderful scenery, mountains and suchlike, they also said they found the people there so friendly, and they loved England. I said indeed England was great and I had been myself a few times, but this was Scotland. I was greeted with a quizzical look of confusion!
England and Britain are used to refer to the UK interchangeably.
@@esonon5210 I agree they often are, but to do so is wrong.
Great Britain (sometimes just referred to as ‘Britain’)
Great Britain is not a country; it’s a landmass. It is known as ‘Great’ because it is the largest island in the British Isles, and houses the countries of England, Scotland and Wales within its shores.
The name Britain derives from the Roman word Britannia, but there are two conflicting arguments about why the ‘Great’ was stuck on the front of it. The first is that it is used to distinguish Britain from its similar sounding, but much smaller French neighbour, Brittany. The second reason is due to the ego of a certain King James I, who wanted to make it abundantly clear that he wasn’t just the king of the old Roman Britain (which only included England and some of Wales), but of the entire island; thus he referred to himself as King of Great Britain.
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-UK-Great-Britain-Whats-the-Difference/
@@Mucklegipe You may be right but people don't care about that.
@Paul Mcdonnell yes they are
@Paul Mcdonnell earth
In the 90´s my oldest brother was for a school exchange in Troy, Illinois. There was kind of a Q&A at class with my brother and the other Germans, that were put into the same class. The most memorable question: "Do you have refrigerators in Germany?"
That is a bit like asking a Japanese person, whether or not there are video games in Japan. The same with other Germans. Always those questions for refrigerators in our country.
Were meant to evolve as the species moves forward, but I feel some are:
A) Devolving the species
B) Dead weight
C) A great advert for euthanasia
Hey this is both funny and depressing- I had my own experience of this. I’m a Londoner have an RP British accent but when I visited Chicago I went to a coffee shop asked for a coffee.
The guy behind the counter asked me where I learned to speak English….
..perhaps the accent, how many accents do we have in Britain?..can you understand all of them?
@@johnchallener RP is the quintessential accent Americans think of in terms of British people!
@@johnchallener Maybe also bit of cockney a la Dick Van Dyke!!
@@catkin567 Exactly!
@@catkin567 or anything from the FAB4....
Hello Beard! I`ve got hundreds of these kind of questions asked about me and Finland and Europe in general. But when you live and work in the US almost 15 years all over the place, it is inevitable. The usual "suspects", polar bears on the streets, penguins, igloos, cars, road, school, Wolves, where did your learn English, etc...But when I really wanted to "shock" them, I told that we go naked to the Sauna, even with strangers and women!!!!! I could tell from their reaction, that I was way more "dangerous" than a murderer. 😅🤩😍
A few years back I was talking with an older American woman, in England. I mentioned that I was going to the swimming pool with friends. She asked if we took turns. I wasn't sure what she meant, it turned out that she thought that males and females would not be allowed to swim together. I told her that men and women would swim together in the pool. Then she said "What, even black men?"....
@@peterjf7723 Maybe she wanted also to go, if there are "black men" in Speedoes🤣🤩
Yes my dad was another Brit who was asked by a man outside Houston at a Service Satation, he asked where my dad was from.. where did he get the hire-car..
"Where did you get the car from ? Did you drive all the way from England?"...
My dad was as kind as he could be..
"No" he said "I flew over the Atlantic ocean from London Heathrow and I got the car from Houston Airport"...
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@9:30 re: eating dog. The funny thing about this question is that I probably have eaten dog, but not intentionally and not in Asia. I lived in a very poor African nation back in the 80s and it was fairly well understood in the expat community that whatever protein was listed on the menu in local restaurants was a best-case scenario. Locals, including restaurants and grocers, would sell and serve whatever they could get away with labelling as beef or pork. This included bats, stray dogs, antelope, wild boars, and other things.
The two animals that tended to not be sold to foreigners were goat, which were too valuable for milk, and snake, which actually were a local delicacy.
Everyone loves pet dogs. The people who eat them do so because they are starving and don't have access to other proteins.
I’m from Scotland and my sister had an American pen pal back in the 60’s. This pen pal asked if we had tv and if we travelled around in stagecoaches! Lol
To think a Scot invented the tv too !
@@mirvids5036 Aye, Sir John Logie Baird!
Keeping people ignorant and arrogant is how the government keeps people from asking "wait why my country sucks?" That's not just an American thing. Maybe it's just more apparent there, with Internet. I for one welcome any question, even the silliest, if it's in good faith and proper attitude. It shows curiosity and the last thing I want is to repress this behaviour.
The dumbing down of TV hasn’t helped any. There used to be some great documentaries and educational programs on TV but now it’s mostly reality shows. Watching stupid people doing stupid stuff isn’t going to do much apart from make you stupid too.
It really does - frankly - astound me that so many people have an information resource in their pockets. What do they do with it? They just use it to order the next pizza!! How many encyclopedias can you fit into your pocket??
That last story jogged a memory. Me and my US ex-girlfriend where chatting online to some US people, and the topic of marriage came up. I said that it's not that common to marry in Sweden, my sister took 17 years to get married and my dad took almost 30 to marry his SO (he was married to my mom before that). But if things got serious enough and she really wanted to, I'd be okay with marrying.
She told me later that people had been sending messages to her asking why she was dating me when I obviously didn't want to commit. Complete strangers had the audacity to question our relationship and even try and break us up, behind my back! I can rarely remember a time when I was angrier at stranger than that.
It took your dad 30.years to gey married?
And I thought WE had long church services!
We are Scottish, the number of times we have been asked what is the main road in Scotland when we used to go to the US on holiday, or do we know so and so he will be about 90 now!😳🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️, an American who was coming over to stay with us thought there would be a house, then miles of space and then another house and so on! Other Americans coming over were told by their friends to bring penicillin over with them in case the were ill over here! And they were asked how will you do your washing or shopping. And that is only a few of the things we have been asked. And don’t get us started on being asked if we are English! The deep intake of breath from my OH should have told them. Americans seem to think England runs from John O Groats to London.
My favourite was told to Me by the late Sgt Tam Mackay in Edinburgh, He was regularly asked what time does the One O'clock gun go off? His response; whenever I remember!
👍❤️🏴!
Love it! 😂
Wouldnt worry too much. Many years some American guys were dropping a radar off at work in northern England. The female in our group asked them if they had a royal family. One of our guys told her they had the same one but got rid of them after having a tea party. She replied that she isnt that stupid to believe that story.
As an Icelander ive heard quite a few odd questions in the US. No there are no Eskimos in Iceland, we dont live in igloos and yes we have roads and cars. But overall most all Americans ive interacted with have been great people.
There used to be a show in Canada called Talking To Americans with Rick Mercer where he’s pretending to be a reporter and got Mike Huckabee to congratulate Canada on the preservation of our national igloo. 😂
@@christinamann3640Don't forget when Mercer got Americans to sign the "End the annual Seal Hunt" in Toronto "pledge".
@@mish375😂😂😂😂
So I think these guys were American from the accent and a USA American flag cap. I'm from and live in York England, a historical city with Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Roman and Medieval things everywhere. Much of it just all around you woven into the modern city. I saw an older couple (maybe 60s or healthy 70s). She rested her hand on a slightly crumbling wall and said 'Just think honey, this was literally built by the vikings!'. Now I don't know exactly, but I reckon that brick wall was from er... the 70s! I don't know HOW she'd narrowed it down to the vikings in her head. She didn't sound stupid. And to be fair he politely corrected her saying 'I'm not sure if that's viking hon'. 😬
Great video 👍 I think the problem is the narrow education and news output and the lack of opportunity to travel abroad. Ultimate goal of a us citizen should be to get a passport and travel.
You know, I think that what seems to be lacking the most is a curious and enquiring mind.
I grew up in a time before the Internet and
smartphones but I loved to read. Reading opened new worlds for me, and now, with technology at our fingertips, everyone can explore their interests or find an answer at the tap of a finger.
There is no excuse to be ignorant. If you don't know, look it up, find out more.
I am 72, and there is still so much to learn.
The 'inter-racial couple' thing being such a 'controversy' in the US has always baffled me as a UK-er - I suppose it's been pretty common over here for so long we don't really think about it anymore (well, maybe some of the elderly generation still do - like 60+...) I remember once seeing a UA-cam video of what was described as a 'controversial' US life insurance commercial that was apparently causing a storm. I was watching it and waiting for the 'controversial moment,' even trying to guess what it might be - was it some dodgy sales patter used for promoting said life insurance? Was it something about the product that wasn't mentioned in the disclaimer stuff at the end but should have been? Does somebody get murdered in graphic detail at the end of the commercial and then some guy in a suit pops up and chortles "And THAT's why YOU need our life insurance!" Nope, for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. So when the commentator said afterwards that the 'controversial' thing was that IT SHOWED AN INTER-RACIAL COUPLE WITH A MIXED-RACE DAUGHTER I was like... "Are you effin' SERIOUS? THAT's the 'controversy?' Do these people GO OUTSIDE much?"
I'm 72. English. My great grandfather was a jumper from a US ship. Escaped slave. He married the daughter of the barge worker family who pulled him out the Thames. It's n 10:03 ot a new thing .its just the Yanks imported the hate WWII and Hollywood movies. My grandad never had any problems, or my mum, a grant winning private school girl. She became a teacher.
I am 79. I have NEVER had an issue with interracial marriages. I was brought up to believe that people were just people and if you didn’t like them it should be based on who they were not what colour.
While a student in the US we had one of those meetings where we all have to say who we are and where we come from. So I said I was from England (my fellow Brits said, in turn just to confuse everyone, they were from the UK, Great Britain and Wales!) and an American girl replied brightly, "Oh, I met someone from France last month"!
I just want to say one thing and that is: I LOVE your laugh Eclectic Beard, I can´t not laugh when you laugh even worse if I´m already laughing because of the video.. 😂🤣
One 0fthe most funny things was in Windsor, an American couple was outside side on the road near the Castle , Heathrow Airport is quite nearby, and the aircraft fly low. The American woman said to her husband,'Why did they build the castle so near to the airport' 😢.
I sent a friend of mine in the USA a photo of my local pub she showed it to her grown up daughter who promptly said ohhh wow they have asphalt roads in England.
problem is some ppl see colour not a person, its not just usa it goes on everywhere
Hi Mate , I once was asked by an American in London England , If I knew the Queen , And I had to say that "Yes I have Tea with her every Weekend ! " ? he actualy beleived me too ! lmao.😂🙂
@Paul Mcdonnell Many years ago , I used to drive Embassy Limosuines for the Crown , Need I say More !😕
I've had so many awesome moments with Americans, but I've also seen the idiots. The only woman to get kicked out of a church in my city was American. She was screaming blue murder over the exhibition that displayed the art from local schools. She called every church staff member and clergy every name under the Sun before she was arrested LOL
This is why we foreigners love you! lol We don't want to dislike Americans but the air of superiority, that quite often goes hand in hand with stupidity can be a little hard to take.
In saying that, my favourite channels are of American reactors who I've come to love and would invite them to stay if they were to visit Australia.
I told an American that in England we have left & right handed pencils.
Hello Alan. During my 3 month trip to US, back in the 90s, I was several times mistaken for Irish by apparently proud Irish-Americans, who had never heard a Yorkshire accent and had been listening to me speaking to my friend as we would at home, not how we would speak English to anyone else in order to be understood. It was sort of a let down for them to have to say that we were English, though we assured them that my friend had celtic roots as his forenames are James Stewart.
"so, we have some idiots over here..."
that must be an understatement...
-but hey, you don't need to be ashamed, unfortunately they are found all over the world.
True...idiocy has no borders...just look at Vlad the inhaler....
The rest of the world doesn't keep telling everyone they're the best and greatest at everything past , present and future !
Its what keeps the National IQ Quotient figure down.
Back in the early 1980s I was wanting to trace my family tree in England, Scotland and Ireland (I'm an Australian born "bitza"). I enrolled in a short course to learn how. The lecturer warned the class that if we managed to contact any living relatives we should expect them to have no interest in us as those that remain there tended to have a horizon of about 5 - 8 miles. With the development of the internet this attitude has changed in the UK.
I've found very similar to be the case with "Muricans" in general even today, if it isn't on their doorstep they know little or nothing about it. Present company obviously excluded. You, sir, are astoundingly well educated about the world compared to most of your countrymen.
I was born in Liverpool, in 1960, and before I was 7 years old I knew thousands of place names around the world, and lot's of global history, i sat on the floor and watched the moon landing on black and white tv at primary school, , I knew about uluru, and how the colonists changed the name, i think your generalisation about people from these islands is at best misinformed, your lecturer in my opinion was unqualified to inform others , yes many of the u.s. people have been indoctrinated from birth almost, to be insular and have a strange concept of freedom and patriotism, but Alan and many others are informing others through their work, using a sort of triangulation concept I would say that Liverpool is more or less central in the three nations of your ancestors, you might be interested in the history of the city and how vast amounts of it's people will never see themselves as english or british, for my part since i was a kid, I have always been more interested in learning about other peoples and cultures e.t.c. because our city has always been so diverse through immigration, Cornwall in england is a similar example of a people who see themselves as independent, If I could respond to your lecturer, talking about no interest in relatives, and a horizon of 5-8 miles. I would endeavour to disprove that theory.
that’s just a shitty take, we dont care because you aren’t really related to us, at all, and aren’t Scottish in any way shape or form your just a fuckin stranger ahahaha
I was told in a chat room that the internet belongs to merica therefore freedom of speech. Their code for being vile without consequences.Don’t worry mate being dumb is international.
The style of education is different. UK uses research and essays to create an enquiring and questioning thought process. USA learn facts for multiple choice questions.
I'm always saying that good education system should focus less on making students remember information, and more on teaching them to obtain information and learn by themselves. Because to be smart and competent, people should learn their entire life.
My parents hosted girls frome Ohio ho did a European tour with ther school. I had a discussion for half a hour to explain that Belgium is not the capital of Brussels. I gave up out because I was tired of it. I'm a bourn and raised Belgium btw
4:07. The wisest words ever said to the world's youth. You are on your phone all day so just Google it. When I was young if I wanted to know why Hitler only had one ball I had to go to the encyclopedia section in the local library. The world is at your fingertips kids. Use it. Rant over. Great video EB
Yup, when i was at school it was a race to the public library every night to get the relevant books first so you could get home early for a change. now kids just get their phones out and it's all there for them.
Perhaps not the best example considering Hitler only having one ball is a myth.
@@mrfomo217 Not according to German historians who say he had “right-side cryptorchidism”, or an undescended right testicle.
@@Westcountrynordic Yes, a German historian claims that he had an un-descended right ball. The Soviets on the other hand said he missed his left ball. Some say he lost one ball at the battle of the Somme, others say it was from birth. However, the first claim to Hitler's 'mono-balled persuasion' comes from British propaganda starting in 1939. Quite the coincidence. Add to that that his childhood family doctor denied the claims of cryptochidism, and the medical records found after the war, which were quite extensive due to his borderline hypochondria, makes no mention of any testicular problems of any sort.
Hey Hitler may have only had one ball, but poor old Goebbels had no balls at all ; D
It still amazes me that Americans will ask Brits if we celebrate independence day... I've been asked far too many times!
I certainly do. As a certain pub landlord pointed out, "They think of it as a victory, we call it a lucky escape"
My first two incidents meeting Americans.
1) We had a mutual friend. We were both invited over. Friend went to get some food, leaving us alone. He turns to me and goes, "You're British right? You know you'd have less Knife crime if you legalised gun ownership right?"
I said, "My god you're right. How did I never figure that out?"
He missed my Sarcasm and went on to ramble about guns until the friend came back.
2) Same mutual friend as before, likewise there was a moment we were left alone together.
He legit says, "You're British right? Because I was watching some British porn some time ago and want to find the actress, she has red hair do you know her name?"
What?
I told him I couldn't possibly name a random red headed porn star from a British porn video, and so he went on to describe the porn to me, in the hopes I'd know it.
What he didn't intend to do however, was start the story by letting it slip he was watching it with his grandmother.
well i was asked if i spoke european. so....uhm...i guess german counts? i do speak a little icelandic too, and a little italian XD The moment i said that i dont speak any slavic languages though i had to explain that slavic countries...are also...in europe
Eddie Izzard had someone in L.A come up to him and ask him to talk British to his kids...🙄👀
It’s just the lack of world view that astonishes me here. So many things are based on often dead wrong stereotypes. Just such a shame there doesn’t seem to be a broad interest in the rest of the world from these people.
You really are a glutton for punishment sir 😂
I totally agree, OMG to come up with these dumb questions shows that they're clearly Not the sharpest tool in the toolbox. 🤣🤣😂😂
I'm Scottish. I Lived in America for 1 year. I felt like I had super powers, I was fairly average in terms of humour back home but a witty Sarcastic Genius there. 🤣. It was Very Creepy seeing all the US flags everywhere, singing national anthem at school etc. Having to pay to see a Doctor was crazy to me. About a third less holidays per year. No free Universities.... Oh and Guns everywhere.😮 I did Have a great time Overall. The people and friends I met were awesome ...and the landscape is stunning.....and you also have better Fridges than us. 😄Love sent to the Bearded Dude.
All the American people I have personally met have been wonderful people but woefully ignorant about anything outside of America.
Love your respect and honesty. Nice background. Hugs from Italy and Belgium 🇮🇹🇧🇪
Working in a travel agency, a tourist was going to be travelling to Brussels. They asked me where I can find a Belgian Phrasebook.... I said we're all out, but there's a special offer on Dutch or French ones.....😭😂😂😂
Happy New year sir!
There are a couple of Scouse phrase books out there too...
@@eamonnclabby7067 Even the English would have trouble with thatone🙂
As a Canadian I have travelled to many of the States. I wear the Canadian Flag on my Hat and Left shoudler so I get ask some strange questions. The oddest was: " Where did you leave your dogs and dog sled?"
Re your comment on looking things up before you open your mouth i.e. do some research, reminded me of a story I read in the local paper in Townsville, north Queensland. The staff at the local tourist info centre had compiled a list of the dumb questions that tourist had asked and the paper printed them out in an article.
Apparently, a couple from the USA had walked in and asked, "How far is it to the Great Barrier Reef and can we walk there?" My first thought was how the hell can you go to all the time and expense of traveling to a country on the other side of the planet and not do a little bit of research first?"
By the way, it's 142 kilometres ( 88 miles ) from Townsville to the reef. I hope they were strong swimmers! 😁
The guy with the girl who asked about "aren't you used to this heat", ok so she took off a blazer, to me that sounds like a reasonably high up kind of job, so usually you have to have an education to back you, yet he asked what is posbily one of the dumbest questions I've ever heard.
06:49 "When I was 14 we emigrated from Ireland to America" Big mistake! 🤣Alan, I love your reaction videos and your realistic and accurate view of the world.
You're spot on there. It never ends well if you begin a sentence with "...I didn't know that... had...." - if you didn't know it, don't show that you didn't, just pretend you did and you'll look far less ignorant. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
THESE WERE SO FUNNY I LAUGHED ALL THE WAY THROUGH 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣BETTER THAN WATCHING A COMEDY........
I think it works like this... you dont need to learn it if you can just look it up. So people retain nothing and are getting dumber because information is more available than ever before. Kinda sad really.
_"are you NORTH korean?"_ ... such questions are not exclusive to americans, but it happened to me too:
when i was on holidays in italy (in the early 1980s) and met an austrian(!) elementary school teacher(!), we talked about different subjects, and when she heard that i was from Berlin, she asked me *_"east or west?"_*
a bit later she almost wouldn't believe me that their capital vienna right after the war was also divided between the four main allies (watch the movie "the third man" from 1949 which may only be fiction, but set in the realworld situation of that time)
Hi Alan, I hope you and the family are all well and that it's not too late to wish you all a happy New year
My dad was raised in the Carpathians and it would freeze a yard deep in the winter. He enjoyed ice skating and skiing. I can't STAND winter!! I loathe and detest cold with a passion! UURGH! As far as I'm concerned, winter just means one thing. The threat of extinction.
My Aussie friend went to the states on a student exchange and in front of the class the teacher asked if Australians had refrigerators in their homes. He belowed back " we invented the dam thing" He had fun telling them that the kangaroos are so big, we train them and sit in their pouches as they hop us to school.
Yeh as usual I'm totally with you, especially on that last one, there's a reason I carry,especially now I'm on my mobility scooter,plus I've got an all metal walking stick....👀👊🏻🤷♂️😂
Like you, its hard for me to understand how people have avoided knowledge and how they actually survive from day to day without ridicule. Should be a govt investigation into these possible aliens from another planet
It’s a good job breathing is a natural reflex 😂😂
As a brit I've been asked by Americans 'are you a member of the Royal family?' 🤣 🤣
It happens back in the day.. not just an american thing.... i was born in the uk with indian parents and back in the 90s i used to get '' where are you from... originally''.. all the time... i would say london and they would say no .. originally... it would piss me off so much.. doesnt happen so much if ever now
@Paul Mcdonnell you could have just said if you look like one you will be asked but instead you had to full racist with the ''if you smell like one'' comment? what does that even mean(although i think i know what you are alluding to but i hope its not that).. and racism again with assuming my parents dont speak english... they both do.. quite perfectly actually....
lol paul mcdonnell deleted his stupid racist comment lololol
@@jaynadiah5498 You must admit over the years we have had many different ethnicities entering our country, not all have integrated well.I have met ladies who came to the UK had 4 or 5 children, who are adults with children of their own. Who cannot speak English. Some try but it is socially restricting for them. There are others from the same continent different ethnicities and religions who have integrated very well, I attend a Friendship club once a week , there are several different ethnicities who attend. We have a lovely time getting to know about our differences and similarities, especially what mother's tell their children. Language barriers are so restricting. The problem is we are all elderly, so a bit late for most of us to try and learn another language, let's hope in the future that barrier will disappear.😊
11:58 I resemble that remark. 50+ years & still trying to figure out when to breath safely.
I get told frequently that I speak very good English. I'm ethically Filipino but I was born and raised in Missouri. It's the only language I know. I better speak decent English
I COULD COMMENT,BUT I WON'T, other than say I was in conversation,here in Thailand,with a young American who said " America is the greatest etc,etc" I replied "I'm half American by birth,so unbiased, but why is America the greatest...." He had no answer!
As someone with darker skin coming from my father's side in the summer I do sometimes go on like: man couldn't I have gotten some not-able-to-feel-hot-weather-genes or something?
But sadly either the German side from my mum canceled that out or it just doesn't exist (though I have heard of people from hotter countries being allergic to snow so...)
But in general let's just say it is not a 'thing' 😂😂😂
As an Aussie i find it funny when Americans ask me what the weather is like in Australia and say Australia is the same size as mainland US so i cann't say what it's like in Darwin it's hot while at the same time in Melbourne it' cold .
As an Asian American, born and raised in Milwaukee, WI and now residing in Anchorage, AK, I still get surprised looks whenever I speak English. They'll always comment "wow, you speak so fluent. You have no accent at all." Another favorite of mines is when they ask where I'm from. When I reply back that I was born in WI, they'll always say oh no, we don't mean that, we mean where are your ancestors from? 🤦♂️ anyways great reaction. Got yourself a new sub
Re: the girl who was asked, "what are you? Where are you from" etc. Here in the UK a long serving Royal aid was recently fired for pursuing this line of questioning to a Black female guest at a Royal function.
The intention was probably 'Where are your parents from', but even so may not be necessary to ask. What are you.. is possibly pandering to gender identity trends and can be seen as an insult to conservative people who dont follow that line of thinking
One of my favourite ENGLISH! Sayings! Engaging gob (mouth) before brain! Just about sums it up. Lol!
I'd say the average US American is still very insular. The questions they asked weren't so much dumb as enquiring. Our late Queen's Lady in Waiting got herself in big trouble late last year by being just so enquiring. Google it
Years ago on radio.blsck cab driver told how he talked.loud.obnoxious fare.(american) got talked into believing john waynes.tomb was st back .of westminster.abbey ,he went to find it we laughed lots.
I really enjoyed your videos and comments
I mean he easily could ask her if she particpates in selling or going to that festival a) No assumption where her ancestry was from. b) Maybe some people (but they wouldn't be that dumb) would know an organizer or someone who does sell sth there actually. c) Curiousitiy satisfied.
heres mine, (added note we're talking through mic on the computer)
Dope: Where are you from?
Me: UK
Dope: no your not.... where are you really from?
Me: England
Dope: so Maine
Me: No Old England.... old Britannia.... United Kingdom
Dope: you dont sound british.... where are you really from?
Me: *hangs up* O_O
A lot of the Americans on this video refer to themselves as 'Brown'....We would get called Racist if we refered to Mixed Race people as Brown.
depends what the mix is. met a ginger half irish mongolian once. didnt know orange was a race....(and i mean naturally not president trump orange)
@@riverraven7359 I saw an Asian Indian with Ginger hair once, I couldn't believe it.
No you wouldn't be called racist, not if brown is how they refer to themselves 🙄 get a grip.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 Yes you would, Brown is not said, When have you ever heard the Media use the word Brown to describe someone?
Over here, A ton.
Thanks Mr E.B.
Man lov this Guys laugh, allways puts me in a good moood soooo infectious ..No - 'Phone Jacker' Reaction or - "Face Jacker" yet 🤞🤞🤞🤞sooooon..
I have to download the last live I did, I reacted to a phone jacker clip during the live with a buddy from the UK.
Ta Got it✌So u understand Phonejacker the Comedian rings genuine randon people with diffrent hilarious characters n the public think hes being serious.Facejacker he dresses up, again funny as funk Characters and the public have no clue he's messing about with them,worth a watch.Phonejacker
Link
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Thank you very much 💖🇫🇮
The one by the Asian girl from India is so funny because the British didn’t give India coffee, they introduced the tea plant to India, and this was because there were problems getting tea from China for various reasons…so basically decided to grow tea in India instead. And someone please correct me but I’m pretty sure that India had “paved” roads long before any British person ever set foot there! This is why this American history teacher was “dumb”.
Google Maps Streetview also can literally show you what some place looks like. Like, half a minute of googling, max.
The question if someone is from North Korea is indeed the dumbest thing ever. As she said, it's highly, HIGHLY, unlikely to ever meet anyone from North Korea. It's a factually closed off to the outside state. They will not allow their people to travel or freely migrate to other nations, especially not their enemy nations. There are some North Korean refugees who escaped in South Korea, but they usually remain in South Korea. I wonder if the US would even allow them to migrate to the USA for the risk of being part of NK's intelligence. Just drop that stupid question once and for all ffs
Not a comment. Just Happy New Year Alan. All the best for 2023.
Well put, seconded.....
Apparently a major complaint against Americans by Europeans is that we're very loud, and very friendly.
I don't know why but apparently Europeans are very rude to eachother.
Respect from Montreal !
Was in NYC bus terminal last year going back to Montreal as I'm canadian and got a guy from Virginia who I talked with while waiting the bus and when I told him I was Canadian he asked me no kiiding if I was riding a moose to go to work and if I had a pet moose like for real mate . Also he was liike OMG that must be so far for you coming from Canada . Just said yeah about 5h
The British learned about tea drinking from the Indian subcontinent.
There's a Bandung Street Food festival in a hotel where these americans stayed.. on the buffet there's bakso (meatball soup with noodles), and lots of them that the americans than claimed as chinese food, thai, italian, french.. so then they asked, "why all these chinese food and is that intestant?.. why are these other countries food but absolutely not one of american food?..".. the waiter then suggest them to the regular menu on the restaurant in the hotel to order choices of pizza... we're more surprised when they said, "There you go.. see?.. why do you always makes things hard on yourself.. we don't want to raise our voice but you guys always ask for it.." .. with that, from wanted to confront them, we're back to our seat.. our mood change from disgusted to pity...