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One thing Europeans tend to forget about bicycles as transportation in the US is that for much of the year its way hotter here than it gets there. Most people don't want to use a bicycle for regular transportation because they don't want to need a shower when they get to work.
And the reverse too. I live in a northeastern state so riding a bicycle as transportation to work or for errands is feasible less than half the year (depending on how early spring is and how early winter arrives) because of snow, sleet, ice, cold or mud. Instead of needing a shower we would need to thaw out upon arriving at work. That is if you survived the journey - bicycle tires and ice are not a great combo. Even when the weather is in our favor there's not a huge amount of bicycle lanes to be found and riding on the road without a specified lane is really risking your life in many places. Then there's the distances - many places to get back and forth to your workplace you would have to bicycle several hours a day.
@@gabytheonedd2695look up vellomobiles.
The US makes excuses for everything
@@Demetri450 I live in Kansas, but I am starting to think of the US as the THEM.
@@Demetri450No, we have reasons for everything. And if that reason is just because we're American, that's reason enough.✌️
My state of Maine is extremely strict when it comes to vehicle inspections and they're every year. My motorcycle inspection is even more strict. All motorcycle inspections in Maine expire in June. They can only be done at motorcycle inspection stations. There's two about a half hour from me. It takes about 3-4hrs with travel. It's totally over regulated. Basically its more fees and taxes to the state. It depends what state you're in.
the bizarre thing about drive-through ATMs is that most have braille numbers embossed on the keys. As the machine is on the driver's side, the braille seems a bit worrisome.
It's due to Federal ADA requirements. Why bother to make separate keypads with and without braille when you can save money and just make them all have braille on it.
@6:17 Here in America we have drive-thru everything, even drive-thru donating...
okay with "beaters" there are several things to consider
1. most people buy what they can afford to get to work, average new car is over $45k and most people just don't make that much.
2. some people especially up north with snow have "winter beaters" that are cars they drive when the weather is bad that get trashed from salt on the roads and crashes resulting from icy roads
3. new or inexperienced drivers, i told my sisters when they started driving not to buy something to nice cause they were going to scratch, dent, wreck their first car so... sister number 4 has been driving for 10 years and still rubs up against things
4. some of us just like old cars and trucks. $35 for a window motor to make it go up/down is a hell of a lot cheaper than $400 a month payments
My brother was married in a drive-thru wedding in Las Vegas. The officiant was an Elvis impersonator. It didn't last.
I never understood why drive-thru ATMs have brail keys...
Most of those people holding up signs on street corners aren't homeless. They're what we call panhandlers, and they often have $200,000 homes because they make hundreds of dollars/day begging for money. They park their vehicles a block or two away from the corner they're working.
The "BEATERS" is for the most part not as bad as it would seem. Most states do have a safety inspection (every 2 years) just like she said Germany has. So while a car may look terrible all the important safety stuff like [brakes, lights, suspension, widows, steering components and what not] are in proper working order. Heck I personally drove one with a mangled front end for 2 years.
Spray oil is one of the greatest kitchen inventions ever. Makes it so easy to coat a pan or cookie sheet with oil without using way too much.
Correct, it’s not necessarily a fear of fat, it’s just a good way to have a film of oil covering the pan instead of a puddle in the middle.
@@Big_Tex I still use a Mexico brand oil called Mazola. Most people use spray oil just for baking. Pfft
I personally use spray oil to coat pans and cupcake pans to prevent any sticking because I as a USA born individual am entitled. I have not used spray butter but it would prevent toast crumbs in a tub of butter or a stick. Regardless I have never thought (Wow I should use the spray for everything so I don't get any fatter ).
I have seen spray duck fat.
[US Born/Citizen] I cook almost exclusively with (non-extra-virgin) Olive Oil. I had a very nice, re-fillable pump-sprayer.
Sadly, the thickness of the Olive Oil over-taxed the seals of the device.
But nonetheless: Buying a (use, then trash) aerosol can of spray oil just makes no sense, to me.
The trucks with dual wheels are usually used to pull trailers. Ranchers use them to pull large livestock trailers. Recreational vehicle owners use them to pull the large camping trailers.
Then there are those men that drive them to compensate for…something…
Those are mostly redneck Trump supporters. Why am I not surprised? 🤦♀️
There's also construction companies that use Dually's too
I have noticed that people say rednecks drive duallies. This is not really true. Rural people and people who need to haul trailers use duallies. No one drives duallies to make political statements, they are very pricey. It is about what you use the truck for. It has nothing to do with being a Trumper or not. A dually is an expensive choice if you don;t haul. If you have horses or other livestock or haul motorhomes or trailers full of recreational toys, you need a dually.
@@LandisLL you're not kidding about Duallys being expensive:
The cheapest ones I'd seen were about $35,000
@@karlsmith2570 Yeah and new ones that are base trim are starting at $50,000+. Top of line dually's are easily over $100,000
Not only are drive through ATM's convenient they're also safer.
A robber isnt likely to try and rob you when you're sitting in a running vehicle.
They've got a name for it now now they follow you home then the bad people get you. If you have enough gas and you think someone is following you better to go where your spouse is working or go to a friend's house you know is covered in immediate self defense. Pay attention to your surroundings at the drive-up ATM.
Depends on an idiot lol 🤣😂🤣
Well that says it all , in a hot summer day , from the get go ,I have always if not using the air conditioner in the car , close the passenger window ... And if any bad guys are around I am driving to the police station,and calling all my buds that r armed 😅
If you want to really hit them with the weirdness of drive through ATMs, point out that they all have Braille on the keys. Which is great for all those blind people driving around. I can picture a blind guy behind the wheel with a seeing eye dog running his ass off trying to keep up and still direct the driver.
@@Snipergoat1 You are so right, that is super funny and true.
Here in the U.S. before our drive-thru atms for many decades we had (and still have) drive-thru bank tellers. Just drive to one of the stalls, reach out your car window to the machine with a canister in it. Then you place anything you need to do at the bank in the canister and it gets sucked up in a pneumatic tube into the bank building. There is a bank teller in the building behind a window to the outside.They speak to you on an intercom system to relay your bank transaction with. They receive the pneumatic tube cansiter and return any deposit slips or cash back to you in the canister...Then they usually ask if there is anything else you need or to have a good day then you can just drive off. Pneumatic tubes have been around for many decades
Those tubes were the best as a kid! I loved putting the money and deposit slip in and popping it in the receptacle. It was always fun when it came back with a lollipop!
I've said this many times on many of these videos. If you aren't from the United States, don't think you are an expert and can just say falsehoods. Most states DO have inspections. Here in Pennsylvania the cars are subject to a safety inspection as well as emission inspections.
Some US states do have car inspections, and others don't. I grew up in Ohio (the same state Feli is in) and there are no inspections there. Now I live in Illinois, and we have to have our car inspected every 2 years. So for that one, I think it depends where you are in the US.
I live in Illinois. The emissions testing is only Chicago and the collar counties, maybe near Rockford or East St Louis, not sure. But there's no air team nonsense here in the sticks.
No you fucking dont. Ive lived in Illinois my whole life. 37 years. There are no inspections at all. NONE.
I live in New York State. We have to have a car inspection yearly.
In the 80's I was stationed in Hawaii and they had inspections every two years. Most military just bought island beaters, they passed inspection before we bought the car, but the car was so cheap that after two years you took it to the junk yard and sold it to them and bought yourself another island beater. By the time the second one gave out, you were changing duty stations and would buy a car at your next duty station. The reason you bought island beaters is because the air was so salty (living on an island) that a new car wouldn't last but 5 or 6 years before it rusted through. I had actually brought my '77 Honda Accord with me from California and the floor boards rusted through in 2 years.
I've lived all my life in Kansas and Colorado. No safety inspections, but parts of Colorado have emissions testing (mostly the Denver Metro area). The only actual state inspections in either states are VIN verification if you bring a car in from out of state to register. In CO you can get that done at car dealerships, in KS you do it at the DMV.
I still have flashbacks of walking up to the pencil sharpener in the middle of a test when it’s quiet. The anxiety 😂
you didn't have the small plastic mini personal ones?
Sometimes it didn’t even sharpen my pencil but I was to embarrass to keep sharpening it
Hahahaha… I remember that
I had a small one an it was one with a bin attached to with. At one point I had one with a closed top.
Still have and use one!
So, I'm going to comment on some of her observations. You must keep in mind that her experiences (and she made that clear) living in Ohio in the Midwest are different compared to living in say Los Angeles (where I grew up) to the South (where I lived in Louisiana for several years) to Texas which is unique, and well, Texas (where I lived and worked for many years) to the East Coast (where I currently live in the Mid-Atlantic region, Maryland).
- For the most part here in the US, bikes are for kids and maybe some teens. Except for a very small niche adult market, bicycles are just not a thing. We are a car culture and they are everything.
- Koozies are not a thing in almost all of the places I've lived. They tend to be regional and are not widespread across the country.
- Spray oil and butter are sort of common. Spray cheese not so much.
- Dualies is what we call trucks with dual wheels on the back. They're bigger trucks with bigger engines and are workhorses that are used for hauling heavy loads such as trailers etc. They are pretty common out West, the Midwest, or the South typically in rural areas where there are farms and ranches. They are not very common in urban or even suburban areas. Further, I've owned a pickup truck of one kind or another most of life (not now, I'm retired and don't need one) while living primarily in the suburbs. Why? Because they are so handy for hauling stuff, just sayin'...
- Beater cars: That's a State by State thing. Some States are kind of lax on this but many are pretty strict especially when it comes to emissions. For instance, where I live in Maryland you have to take your car in to government stations every two years for an emissions check and older beater cars just won't pass the test. This is pretty common in most East and West coast states.
Vintage cars are exempt, 1972 and older, there are rural areas that don't have inspections for obvious reasons. We don't where I live.
@@garycamara9955 I'm in WV, which is all pretty rural, and we have to pay for one or two year inspections, though they don't seem to check emissions. As I understand it, OH doesn't have an inspection at all but they do have two license plates where we only have one. I assume OH still only has one registration but I don't know.
Dualies are also big on cargo vans. Where I work we have about 15 of them bc they can carry and handle a lot more weight. Coozies are big here where I live in New England you see them everywhere. But the things nh a lot of people for get about them is that they are multi purpose. There not just to keep drinks from getting warm but they are also used to keep warm drinks stay warm. You see them a lot on golf courses to men’s softball fields to even in the fall with parents holding there coffees at soccer games. Emissions is different in every state. Some states like mass your car has to get like this whole process done to pass inspection this includes the emmisions. In ct they use an obd sensor to scan your car. In ct if your car is over 25 years old you don’t need emissions is I remember correctly.
For the most part, the law can require manufacturers to put safety/emissions equipment on new cars, and require owners to keep it working, but doesn't require any sort of equipment be added to existing cars. So if you have a car manufactured before seatbelts or emissions controls were required, you are usually exempt from inspection requirements.
At least, in my experience. The US isn't a unified legal system.
Where I am in Alabama the only place I see lots of bikes is downtown Birmingham on and around the college campus. We live in the foothills of the Appalachians so if you want to bike you better be able to bike small hills or small mountains in 100 degree tropical humidity. 😂 Not for the faint of heart. Not to mention you are likely to get run over by a car
In California, we have the heat (especially in the summer) and a huge number of bicyclists getting hit by cars. Even walking to lightrail from the main part of campus, you could be hit. It was better to wait the half hour or hour to catch the lightrail to avoid the incoming and outgoing traffic. It wasn't bad when one of the school's secruity was manning the cross walks but that was only for the first week or so of classes.
Reason for Dually Pickup Trucks is they can carry much heavier loads and tow heavier loads especially if your carrying or towing heavy machinery, building supplies and trailers plus the truck much more stability when your driving with these types of heavy and bulky loads because of the more robust rear axle. Also the wall mounted pencil sharpener does have a built in collecting receptacle that collects all the wooden fillings and the teachers usually will unloaded them at the end of the day so it cleaned out.
I live in SoCal.. So there is the beach just 20 miles from my house. The mountains 20 miles the other direction, and the desert in another direction. So having a Dually is handy. People use it to tow their boats, or campers. Even jet skies. And they use it to get up the mountains. Trucks like that are just a daily thing here, even though I live in a city!
The number one reason why American cities are designed the way they are is because our cities are young compared to yours in Europe. Therefore we were designing them around cars. Your cities were often designed around horses with a cart.
cities out west are designed more for cars. go to Boston and it is not really mad for cars
Horses with a cart. 😅😅😅
@GeneBateman1970 for real boston is my least favorite place to drive my work van through. Some of those streets
LA used to have the worlds largest streetcar system - before cars proliferated. American cities bulldozed themselves for cars.
On one hand, sometimes not even that, with some passageways wide enough for pedestrians only. On the other hand, even development that occurred after the advent of cars in Europe is less car-centric. Zoning laws were less about requiring large lot sizes for housing, making transit less practical, and less about requiring a lot of parking for buildings for common use by many people. ua-cam.com/video/imAGg5Lj8lc/v-deo.html
In places like Minnesota (where I grew up), Wisconsin, North Dakota, Maine, etc with very harsh winters, many people specifically own a beater car (winter beater) because they don’t want to crash or destroy their regular vehicle when the weather is severe and/or the roads are covered with salt.
My first thought, too, as a fellow Minnesotan
Wisconsin here….. before my dad passed away my parents both owned Dodge Caravans (my dad would always get the old one when my mom would get a new one) and in the winter long IN STATE trips or simple local one when the weather was bad was usually done in my father’s van, for the very reasons you mentioned
I am on the Iron Range in Northeastern Minnesota (or almost Canada), there's about 9 months of cold & icky weather with 3 months of kinda nice weather - bikes aren't practical transportation up here for most, especially when there's 10-30 miles between everything! I grew up exactly between between 2 towns - the towns are 4 miles apart & I gave always lived within 2 miles of my parents house & my grandparents house (across the street). I remember walking the 2 miles home from school (the bus took an hour because it went through the country first), but I haven't walked that far since I got my license at 16. There's paved bike trails between the communities that were built almost 30 years ago, but I have never been on them. I do have friends who ride fat tire bikes year-round (it's a bit weird to everyone else though). It gets -30°F & colder up here in the winter & not many people enjoy the cold vehicles at first, so definitely don't want to ride a bike! The next closest town is 10 miles away - it was 7 miles, but the mining company moved the road so they could mine under the old one so it's 3 miles longer now with no shortcut options with the active pit mining 24/7 between the highway & town. There's 5-10 miles or more between most small towns up here & some are 30 to 60 miles - that's too far for most people to ride a bike. Lots of households have multiple vehicles, both parents usually work in completely different directions & then teens have school, sports, jobs, etc to get to as well. Thankfully, I didn't have multiple teenagers to insure or maintain vehicles for!
@holly I am on the range as well 🙂
And don’t forget that when your winter beater gets too beat up, it becomes a demolition derby car at the county fair.
That's not a pencil sharpener, that's the wall mounted pencil eating monster.
Nom Nom Nom.😂
Hahaha 😅😅😅😅😅
1/2 a turn of the handle is about it needs if you are 1/2 way sharp
I had a buddy in high school who would jam his pen into the sharpener and just grind the H3ll out of it, just because. And yet, the damn thing would still work after. They are monsters!!
😂
Her last comment about damaged and junky looking vehicles on the road... She's in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their the winters are long, snowy, and icy. They use a lot of salt on their roads also. The combination of these things can make a 10 year old car look 50 years old. If she were in the desert southwest, she may be speaking of how the 50 year old cars there look almost new.
Thats why California cars are worth more money, they are rust free for the most part. Except for cars that livenear the ocean.
I love how foreigners say we have a lot of cars because our public transportation is so bad. I live out in the middle of nowhere so what are we supposed to do make public transit come 20 minutes outside of even a small city so I don't have to have a car? Lol
Well duh. She’s not talking about living in the sticks. Medium sized cities (like Cincinnati as she mentioned in the video) and even large cities (LA) don’t have good public transportation, it’s a problem.
But compared to England and even Europe we are huge
@bradleyshort1009 Even if we had public transportation I wouldn't be taking it. I lived in New York for 2 year and I can't even tell you how many times I saw some weirdo jerking off on the subway. No thanks I'm a big boy with 3 vehicles lol
@@BigMoore1232here in Seattle, there’s a lot of people smoking heroin and fentanyl on the buses here.
I feel your pain.
@janehopke878 Well even in the small town I live near here in Indiana I've seen fentanyl use. My cousin died of a heroin overdose in 2009 2 months after I got home from the marines. It's bad everywhere unfortunately. I'm glad I talked my fiance at the time(wife now) to move back to Indiana with me because New York just wasn't working for us.
Hi! Id like to comment on a few things as an American from NY :)
Its not like we dont like walking. We love walking. And bicycling. People take walks here all the time. But unless youre in a city where everything in condensed, the rest of America is just too big to simply "bike to work". Here in the suburbs, what is a 15 min car ride, is really close to a 4 hour walk up and down hills. So its simply not possible as our layout is not the same as Europe. Plus, for majority of the year in most of the US, its either too cold and snowing or too hot. So hell yeah we're taking the car lol. There also arent sidewalks on all roads so even if you live within walking distance to a shopping center or strip mall, you cant really walk back with arms full of bags on the side of a main road.
About mass transit in merica. We have busses out here in the burbs that can get us to places within our County. I think thats fair enough. America is just simply too wide and big to have an efficient system. We have great highways (like its 1 straight highway from NY to FL), and we usually just fly from state to state. Again, bigger than European countries.
Spray oil is great when you need just a bit to coat something but too much oil will make it too greasy. Like when cooking an omlette and you just want to coat the pan. We have "nonstick oil" as well :)
Drive thru ATM- also great when you have a sleeping baby in the car or a child in general. And when the weather is bad it also comes in handy!
And lastly, at least here in NY, if you drive a broken vehicle they will definitely pull you over/fine you/make you fix it in order to dismiss the fine. Even if a headlight bulb isnt working they can fine you. Broken vehicles as well since theyre a danger to the other vehicles on the road.
You guys are great!
My dad has a truck like that but he's in construction and we would tow a 28' boat on the weekends with it. Lots of people might drive one because they go camping or out in backcountry areas.
Trucks with dual rear wheels are rarely bought just to show off. The additional cost of purchasing is not pleasant. Dual rear wheel increase the cargo weight and make for a softer ride for the cargo. They are usually purchased by building contractors, farmers who haul heavy trailers and by people who own large RV's. The U.S.A. is large. The cost of public transportation is heavy. During the early 70s I lived in a suburb of Chicago and worked downtown Chicago. I travelled 40 miles one way to work every day. Public transportation came about 15 miles short. I left Chicago in 74 and have avoided living in cities since. Besides we like our independence.
I live in rural south Texas. There are high schoolers (usually male) and they have dually pickups just to show off. They build them to smoke heavy and huge tires. They are usually very loud and never do a hard days work. Sometimes they get driven in mud but never for work. Spoiled kids mostly.
The issue I have with people like Feli is they feel like they can speak for all of America. Imagine, if you have lived in Jersey for 6 years, and felt you were an authority of all things in Europe. Europe, arguably, is 20% bigger than America which means that every country is approximately the size of one American state.
They also engage in blatant misinformation and project a negative image of America to the rest of the world based on their very limited experience and misunderstandings. They speak from authority when most of the time they're clueless and ignorant.
I find her extremely arrogant and judgmental. She seems to think Germany is better. I suppose I’m biased because my father fought in world war 2 in Europe against Germany. So I didn’t grow up hearing glowing things about Germany.
@@debragodwin7408she blocked me from her site for bringing up that Germany is best known for starting World Wars as and exterminating Jews.
I find her very annoying.
She has been living in the USA for years, so no, she doesn't think Germany is better. She is describing differences, not judging one to be better or worse than the other. You should visit Germany. It's beautiful.
I live in rural southern NM. It would be a 30-40 mile round trip to get anywhere. I physically cannot ride a bike for that distance in 100 degree heat without actually dying lol
Not all the traffic light soliticitors are homeless or even poor. In my city a TV station followed a couple of men (perhaps exceptions to the rule) and both lived in decent $1200 a month apartments. One admitted he made $38,000 "panhandling" 6 hours a day at the busy interaction and with his disability that was less stressful than a full-time job. I was once at an intersection and feeling generous I was going to give the two fellows a couple of dollar bills. They suddenly abandoned my window and crossed the street to a guy in a white Ferrari convertible. I was nobody at that point and drove on.
yeah that’s true, a lot of them are crackheads and make like $100-200 a day to support their habit
Very true. Try offering them a job. You’ll see how fast they move away from you.
Very common here in the NW, I don't mind giving someone something to eat or water, but a lot of them just want drug money. That makes it hard to know who's legit and who's a sponge or drug addict.
I give out homeless packs instead of money because I don't want to pass by someone truly in need but I also don't want to support someones substance abuse problem.
It's so common it's been outlawed in many cities
Koozies also keep the bottle or can from sweating all over your hands or tables😂
The duel wheels help when pulling campers, boats and trailers.
No one I know has ever had a dually as we call them unless they did a lot of towing.
They reduce gas mileage and it obviously costs more for a new set of tires.
Not to mention wear items like brakes and suspension parts.
If You live on a ranch take care of horses, chickens, sheep etc your probably around dirt and move around hay to feed your cows so you need a truck to move hay and other things.
Sorry, but this German chicken is more than "nit picky". Actually she's offensive at times. I have given my last dollar to a homeless woman that came up to my car. She should be seen and heard in every country. Not just on a sidewalk. Americans do like to walk. Perhaps she doesn't truly understand the meaning of distance here, especially on a busy Saturday when 10 errands to run really is a thing. Drive thru ATM or pharmacies are a god sent for me and I suggest for the disabled as well. I sincerely enjoy your channel. Both of you are lovely and kind. I have been lucky to visit parts of Europe, sadly not England. Yet I came away from the experience feeling more blessed than ever to be an American.
Many states still have vehicle inspections and emissions test
Why don't these people talk about their own country but always comparing and whining about the USA. Tell us about your own country.
Spray butter is good for when you make popcorn the old fashion way. Buying a jar of kernels and using a popcorn popper. If you melt regular butter and then pour it on the popcorn, it just makes it soggy. So using spray butter it flavors the popcorn, but it doesn't saturate it.
In NY cars are inspected annually. What we call BEATERS, are very inexpensive cars that can get you around locally, but are so cheap to buy that you get rid of it and get a new one instead of fixing it when it breaks down.
Cycling in the US can also be very dangerous in the US. SOME urban areas have bicycle lanes but in many places cyclists share the road with cars! 😮
Dual rear wheels allow for heavier loads to be carried (campers or livestock box) or towed (trailer or 5th wheel RV)
You hit the nail on the head James nitpicky that's exactly what I was thinking.
Also we've had drive up ATMS here for over 30/35 years.
The spray and/or squeezable butter was invented and used mainly for corn-on-the-cob. It's easier and works better and is sinfully good. Spray cheese is so bad for u that I'd have to be paid to eat it. It is because of the fear of too much artery-clogging fat like she mentioned. 😊 The pencil sharpener outside twists off to empty out the shavings. Doolie trucks carry alot of weight in the beds so extra tires make that possible. It makes sense if u think about it. Most states DO have yearly inspections. Ohio, where I also live, doesn't. But West Virgina and Pennsylvania which border Ohio, do. It's a state thing not federal.
Spray butter if for cooking, not for toast. People spay butter in pans so that the food doesn't stick to the pan.
Here in the Midwest if you see someone riding a bike in street clothes that usually means their license is suspended or they can't afford a car.
I live in Chicago and this is decidedly NOT true. We have bike lanes on our streets. Biking is a pretty popular form of transportation here.
@@AmeerahMuhammad To be fair I live in the Quad Cities.
@@AmeerahMuhammad chicago is chicago…. Not the midwest ……
@@AmeerahMuhammad Chicago is not a great representation of the Midwest, you should know that if you live there.
I enjoy watching your channel, but I have one suggestion, when you are talking with each other, stop the video or rewind it to the time before you started talking. Your audience misses many parts of the video because you talk over it. I've also noticed in other videos that you ask questions that the video answers but since you were talking you didn't hear it.
A lot of people here drive cars to work because their places of work are so much further from where they live, and they also need to go over highways to get to their destinations. Things are much more spread out here in the States.
What most Europeans don't understand is that we have a lot more land so our infrastructure is more spread out and that why the focus is more on cars because everything is spread out more so public transportation doesn't make sense when everythidon't
They are not usually homeless people either. They can get big bucks in some areas.
I live in Pennsylvania and we are required to pass an annual auto inspection. That is one thing that varies by state.
There may be a reason she is in Cincinnati besides school and such, and I would imagine it is due to the very well established German culture in the City. Beautiful city btw.
spray butter/ oil is best for baking, to coat the pan. or for like a waffle maker
yeah, spray butter if for coating a pan, not for putting directly on food
@@LandisLLI've never used spray butter in cooking only for coating pans. Spray cheese is only for snacks.
if germany is so great why be here seems she complains more than anything
You can often go to a drive-thru ATM at 3AM on a Sunday if you just happen to need cash for....let's not go there.
We have car inspection every year in Pennsylvania.
Don't really like many of her comments. If she is presenting a odd object only in the USA., maybe research those items a bit more. Some opinions were so condescending to Americans. E.g.beat up cars, we drive instead of biking, and a couple of others. Wouldn't ever watch her channel.
Only about 1/3-1/4 of the People holding sign on the street are homeless. Some are just people that don't want a full time job and make a good living panhandling on the street.
We've had News Teams watching these folks (sometimes even bring kids along). When they leave, they're seen getting into nice Cars.
There are some that are having a tough time, but they get overshadowed by people just wanting a handout.
There are several things that are truly American: the Constitution, National Anthem, American flag, Presidential Election Day, and Income taxes every year.
Just about everything else is a stereotype that is either made for TV or just regional.
Many urban areas have rental bikes. Otherwise, bikes are yours for kids or hobbies or a preferred form of exercise/competition.
Dualies in the city means someone had a massive ego or they're coming into town from their rural home to pick up supplies. As for other truck owners, most people are going to have to haul large things that don't fit in or on a car. We do a lot of hinge repairs and projects ourselves. We also buy furniture and appliances that we take home rather than pay extra for delivery. Owning a truck just makes sense for a lot of people. We just have an SUV, but we also own a small tire behind trailer that lets us pile on bags of garden soil, peat moss, 2x4s, plywood, or any other garden needs without getting all that muck in the car. It's also handy for helping friends and family move!
Spray oil and butter are not only convenient but limit the amount used. Spray butter is great for popcorn.
Coozies began as promotional items. Giveaways that companies would use to get their brand out there. Once we saw how they do keep your drink cool for longer and decrease condensation, they started becoming more sought after. But they are not as nationally used as since think.
Laws are different in each state. But most have yearly safety inspections that check the essential elements for the safety of the car to ensure it's road worthy. Cracks in the windshield, mirrors, low tire tread, lights and blinkers, brakes, etc. Your car can be ugly beyond belief, but still legal to drive if it's deemed road safe. This inspection is required for getting your new tags for your license plate. Newer cars in my state can get a 2 year inspection and tags. Again, it's different in every state. California is extremely focused on testing emissions.
Again, avoid seeing America through the eyes of just one or two people. Our country is just too varied to stereotype! ❤
I know she lives in the US and has for awhile, but she's another one like Joel and Lia. She wants you to think she is complimenting America and American things, but in actuality, it's all backhanded compliments. I've watched her before and that's all there is from her. I don't know how she lives here with all her complaints.
I live in Houston, TX. If I rode my bike to work, I’d look like I went swimming with my clothes on by the time I got there, even if it was just a 15 minute bike ride. The heat and humidity is ridiculous.
I like watching you guys but your videos are really hard to follow. When you pause the video in mid-sentence and then talk between yourselves for minutes, then just re-start it all context is lost. I usually look up the videos afterwards to watch it uninterrupted. I definitely prefer when someone replays the last 5 or 10 seconds after pausing and reacting.
As a child of the 50's and 60's , i still remember the name of the manufacturing company Boston, on the pencil sharpener.
Car safety and/or emissions inspections are required in about half the states. I am in NY and both are required annually.
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What Felicia was saying about being able to drive at age 16, that's different depending on which state you're in:
Some states require you to be 17 before you're fully licensed to drive a car, while getting your learner's license at 16
My home state of Alabama you get a learner's license for a car at 15 and would be legally able to drive at 16 or getting a motorcycle learner's license at age 15 and a full motorcycle license at 16
In Hawaii, regardless of what mode of transportation it is, you have to 21 to have a driver's license
Here in Kansas you can get your learner's permit at 14 (which only allows you to drive with a licensed adult in the car) then a restricted license at 15 (you can drive by yourself to and from work and school) and regular license at 16 but if you are a farm kid you can get a permit to start driving by yourself (only for farm business and driving to and from school) at 14.
@@Zundfolge So, would that mean that if you were to get a motorcycle license, you'd be able to get the at 13??
@@karlsmith2570 Motorcycle license here is an additional endorsement on your regular drivers license, Except you can't get your learner's permit until 16 and then a regular motorcycle license at 17. However no license required for a moped.
@@Zundfolge ok, they have a similar thing here in Alabama, but you can get a motorcycle license at 15 after having a learner's license at 14, although there's certain restrictions, such as the motorcycle has to under 700cc's or lower
Spray oil/flour is like the best thing since sliced bread. It’s so much easier to evenly coat. I don’t miss having to grease and flour a baking pan and try to use too much. Or if it’s a bundt pan have to worry about missing the crevices.
Hi guys! In Texas you have to have your car inspected once a year.
Dualies have double rear wheels because they are typically super heavy duty pickups. A lot of people buy pickup trucks because you can get more bang for your buck vs cars. Probably more than half the trucks never haul anything. I've seen people waxing and buffing the cargo beds of their trucks. A girl I knew who had a pickup asked me to help her move some stuff. I thought she needed help loading it, but no. She wanted me to put her stuff in the trunk of my car and in the back seat so the bed of her truck wouldn't get scratched.
😳Have no clue what this lady is talking about. In the US you have to get your car inspected and it must be registered.😮
It really depends on the state as far as inspections go.
No inspections where I live in the US
County by county in my state. Some require it, some don't. You don't seem to have a clue, either.
Yea, it does matter by county. There's a base inspection in my town, but it's VERY rudimentary. Basically, will this vehicle be a danger to people on the road? it doesn't matter if it rides a little rough, but will pieces fly off of it and hurt someone?
In all my years of living here, I have never seen a drive-through ATM. The reason why Americans tend to drive more than Europeans is because the US is 18 times larger than France, the biggest country in Western Europe. It would be impractical/near impossible to commute to work by walking given the sheer distances between cities. We don't have the luxury of living in villages with narrow roads where everything is within walking distance. Americans don't have a deep dislike for walking. What a ridiculous comment. We walk for recreation and exercise. We drive when we need to conduct business, run errands, or get to a far off destination. Go to any city and you'll find plenty of people out jogging, taking a stroll, or bike riding. Public transportation is unreliable and takes too long for most of us to use daily to commute to work.
Most drive thru ATM’s are at Banks.
On another note we only use spray butter for cooking, you wouldn't want to spray it on your toast. As for spray cheese, nobody really eats that, it's just like one of those things everybody tried once and that's it.
Pencil sharpeners are actually becoming rare in middle and high school. It’s because of the digital revolution and every student has a laptop or tablet with them and traditional note taking is fading away. Even traditional books are not really used much as schools are transitioning to scanned digital books. You simply scan one barcode and boom the book is already on your computer ready to be used. Libraries are slowly becoming fully digital as physical books are becoming increasingly more rare and digital books just keep growing. The worksheets and tests are emailed now and it’s so quick. It’s like everything is so easy to do. Even classrooms have switched to a fully digital board with a computer screen built into the board it’s a projector without a projector. Not only that it’s easy to show subjects easily and notes are on the board via typing. Things have definitely changed since we were kids.
Well at least Elementary schools still have them.
They don't even teach how to write in longhand any more. Teachers are becoming lazy.
We have car inspections every year. I don't think she's up on some things.
The truck with the 4 wheels on the rear axle is called a "dooley" because of the "dual" tires on each side. Across the river in Kentucky (the girl was in Ohio), there are many horse farms and the ranch owners use large horse trailers to transport the horses to races, veterinarian, etc. The truck needs a larger engine to pull the trailer. The rear axle distributes the weight of the trailer evenly.
It's FEEL-ee from Germany. If you're going review someone and use their video for income take what...60 seconds...to learn about them please.
I honestly can’t see a reason to not have a drive thru atm. Much safer then a walk up 24 hours a day. It seems the UK is behind on that.
Exactly. Much easier to get mugged at a walkup
I know and the condescending attitude like it is because Americans don't like to walk.
There is a lot of hustlers at red light. Even seen a “crippled” in a wheelchair. He got up and put the chair in the car.
I've seen them go around out of sight and one guy will get up and the next shift will sit down and go back out to bum money. they had one guy in ft lauderdale get arrested for tax evasion because he was making over $30k and not reporting it.
Watch out - in American English, the word “rubber” has an _entirely_ different meaning (and you wouldn't find them in primary school drawers, or even secondary school)...
I just got my car inspected. That is an annual thing. And it has to be done the month before the month I bought it which is September. Cost me less than $14. The reason is so cheap is because these days, the car gathers 90% of the information they need. All they have to do is read the computer. I also pay property taxes on the car. The police do watch for cars that are unsafe on the road. And they will make you take it off the road until it's made safe.
Wow! It's $50 in my state!
0 $ in my state
No inspections here. Wouldnt fly bc our roads are trash. Nobody would bother getting their cars inspected when our roads tear them up.
I also live in the state she is in, the weather and environment are not good for bikes. In California we rode bikes more.
Spray butter is AMAZING for corn on the cob. However, my in laws use a genious idea for buttering corn cause they often have dinners with 20-40of us. So they put boiling water from cooking the corn into a large glass jar. They put a stick of butter in it and it melts at the top of the jar. We then use tons to dip the corn in the jar and it coats the whole cob with butter! Its amazing for cookouts.
To answer James' question about the pencil sharpener, the little wheel has various sized holes to accommodate smaller or larger pencils, the hole keeps the pencil mostly centered in the two grinders. The oval/egg shape bit is a hand-sized receptacle that catches the shavings. It twists off in the same way a lid might twist off a jar, you empty it, replace it. The picture in the thumbnail with the metal angle thing is the inside of this type of pencil sharpener. Most classrooms (at least that I've been in) most students have their own and the teacher will have small hand/pouchsized ones in addition to this group-use one.
I find spray oils very convenient and some are a mix of flour & oil for cake pans. The one thing I have learned after ruining some fry pans, is that a lot of nonstick manufacturers will say not to use them. It creates a gummy residue after a while and I hated not being able to take a brillo or scrubbie to them to get it off. (ruined the finish) So if using a nonstick pan now (they still are useful) I use canola or another oil in a spray bottle that I fill up. It seems better & healthier too. There are so many stories now about PFAS, Forever chemicals. My town here in North NJ just had to pay millions to add special filters for the town water supply. They are in so many products like Scotchgard, Teflon & other older or cheaper nonsticks, fireman's foam, microwave popcorn bags etc. I threw out my old favorite griddle that was nonstick. Newer ones stipulate in big letters "no PFAS"! Just be careful. Wiki has some info on the kind of things to avoid. Basically, anything used to keep oil or water or stains from seeping through. Not sure why the foam unless it's to stop a fuel spill from getting access to flammables.
Sorry for sounding paranoid or like a know-it-all. I had to recently learn all this & it is scary. They never break down & get into groundwater etc. And you have your baby (& yourselves) to think of.
Don't ever give money to homeless people. You'll only encourage them. If you must, give to a recognized charity, food bank, or soup kitchen.
Dual Rear Wheels (DRW) or Dually's are there to give the pickup truck more carrying/cargo/towing capacity. So an Ford, Chevy or Ram (Chrysler Corp) 3500 series (highest spec still available to the general public) single rear wheel may have a payload capacity of 3/4 of a ton and tow 8000 pounds, the dual wheeled version is often over a ton and with extra towing capacity of 10 or 12K pounds. Downside is the width of the truck, it often will not fit into a standard parking spot, some states mark ALL DRW or Dually's as commercial vehicles banning them from certain roads and the fuel hit and extra cost of replacing 2 more tires. Yeah so unless you need it, it only makes sense in some situations. Most DRW's are diesel powered or have HUGE V8 or V10 petrol (gasoline) engines getting mileage in the high single digits/low double digits per mile (8 to 14 MPG). Many have 40+ gallons of fuel carrying capacity. Oh and most DRW's ride rough as heck. In top spec, most Dually's cost close to $100K fully optioned out.
Sorry to disappoint but there is NO spray butter. Yes, the picture showed the word butter in large letters but if you looked at the small print ahead of it the full name shows as "I can't believe it's not butter." What it is is a butter flavored oil which is also available hydrogenated and whipped to make a spread (again with a very large BUTTER on the package). Marketing (noun) legal lying. It doesn't say butter, it says (font size=6) I can't believe it's not (font size=96) BUTTER. See, it says it's not butter.
What Feli calls spray cheese is a processed cheese spread. No one ever claimed it was real cheese. It's nothing more than a party gimmick. Americans don't think it's real cheese. Why can't Europeans seem to understand this? We have some of the best cheeses in the world right here in Wisconsin.
Yeah, Europeans tend to take Cheez Wiz way more serious than Americans do ... we know its not a substitute for a Brie or Stilton or Wensleydale any more than we think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a substitute for Moët & Chandon.
Why would you have rubbers in school. Y’all have a bunch of sec maniacs attending school.
You guys just kicked my OCD into fourth gear!!! I'm so used to seeing the guy on the left and the girl on the right!!! Lol This just doesn't seem right! Lol Love you guys! Great video!
dual wheel trucks are much more expensive than single wheel trucks. She's in OHIO, farm country. They may drive them in the CIty, but it's not because they like them. A Dually is only bought if you normally haul heavy loads above 20k pounds, they either have a 5th wheel or goose neck in the back of the truck to pull large trailers.
I'm not a fan of her arrogance. Just not an attractive demeanor. I was stationed in West Germany, East was not whole yet, from 1979 to 1982. There are so many things I thought were weird and strange, not better, in different cultures. I lived both on the economy and in American quarters. Played with a German rock band as well with the USArmy bands. It's just different. What do Germans do with the cars that cannot pass Tuff? They sell them to Americans to drive in Germany. Lol Yes. My first German car was a klunker. All I need to do is take it to the Air Base for US inspection. Put a large bottle of Jim Beam under the seat. And it passed everytime. I had to get a car because my wife was pregnant and in Germany, when a woman is showing, they do not have to transport her in taxi's. I thought that was not true till I got a call, my wife was in the Army working late, and she told me she'd grab a taxi to get home. I played a gig night before. She told me there were 3 empty taxi's and no one would take her. Yes, cultures are odd. I just excepted what I saw in the different countries I have traveled oddities that make this world interesting. Nothing better or worse. Lol Long rant. I hate arrogant kids. Lol🍻🌹♥️🤘
im sorry but 2 do to much talking when im trying to hear your guest talk!!!!!!!
A note about the "homeless" people, they aren't homeless. I have seen people making really good money standing outside of a Walmart. There are news reports where they hid and found some people getting into decent cars, and others calling up their drug dealer when they had enough money.
The guys at Walmart, I was stuck there waiting for my Daughter, and spent half an hour watching a guy get 9 people to give him money. Gussing at an average of $2 per car that would be $36 an hour, and this was about 15 years ago.
There are many different reasons why a person has a pickup with dual wheels on the back. I have never met anyone who had one because of vanity because they are butt ugly. They are gas guzzlers and they are for utilitarian use. Nobody buys one for the looks or to go on road trips without pulling or hauling something. The dual wheels allow the truck to have a heavier load and pull larger trailers because the trailer hitch is actually in the bed of the truck over the dual wheels. It is called a fifth wheel hitch. Ranchers and farmers use them to pull heavy livestock trailers. They are used in the construction industry to pull trailers with heavy equipment and materials. They are used to haul things to places where a large truck (lorry) can not get to. Sportsmen use them to haul large campers or large boats. Some new ones cost between $80,000 and $100,000 dollars. Google "dual pickup with gooseneck trailer" to see a picture
In LoUiSiAna a vehicle inspection is required for insurance purposes. To show that your vehicle has been inspected you have to purchase an inspection sticker, which is good for either one year or two years depending on how much you pay.
Not here in California , but cars last longer here. Its not unusual to find a reasonably rust free 30s car here.
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Same here in LoUiSiAna.
Most major cities have bikes for let, especially college towns and now e-bikes are popular along with e-scooters for let.
In the Dallas suburbs, lots of people bike - strictly for sport and exercise, not uncommon to be driving around after work and there’s a pack of cyclists decked out like it’s the Tour de France. Also people using the paved greenbelt trails, which we have quite a few. But no people don’t bike to work or to the grocery store. In my neighborhood, which is a high-density mixed use area, a few years ago rent-a-bike companies put bikes here. That was a thing for awhile, but the novelty wore off and the bikes parked in low areas got flooded in heavy rains, and that experiment ended in abject failure 🤣
I live in a small town on Alaska and even here there are people on the corners begging for money EVERYWHERE.
Most of them are there literally everyday all day, the same people
Lots of people are biking here in Atlanta since the public transportation isn't great. But we have a loop in the city that makes biking easy. Most of the major places are accessible on that one path. Also, you do need your car to pass inspections in several states, especially ones that are high in air pollution.
The purpose of duel rear wheels here is for safety and stability when towing. Normally, large trailers or large livestock trailers, ect.
I used to own a truck with dual rear wheels. I owned a landscaping company that had to haul soil, mowers, lumber and other things. My equipment trailer with the mowers and other tools for the company was 32 feet long and weighed 22,000 pounds (10,000 kg). The dual rear wheels made the truck more stable and better able to control the load. I live in Alaska and we have a lot of "beaters" on the road that look like they are falling apart but are mechanically sound. I have an old rusted pickup truck that I have a snow plow on just to keep my drive clear of snow and ice in winter. The truck is over 40 years old and is only used the plow snow. I keep it mechanically repaired but I don't give a crap what it looks like. The body has large holes rusted through but the frame and all safety equipment is in good condition. It is not practical to repair and or replace the 40 year old body panels when the truck is safe to use for the purpose of removing snow from the roadway and only leaves my property to go to the gas station for fuel and to drive to my mother's house to clear the snow from her driveway as well. The truck gets driven less than 250 miles per year and 95 percent of that is on my property. I still have the vehicle registered and insured for road use and keep the tires, brakes, and suspension repaired so as to not have a danger to others on the few occasions that I leave the property to maintain my mother's propertyas well. The truck is used only for snow removal and to haul firewood in winter and it is not practical to spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars for body work just for the truck to look nice. It is a work truck and serves the purpose i need it for.