Things I Find WEIRD in the USA | GOOD and BAD
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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Mental State: I don't own near enough bikes.
I will have to figure out what's going on with this 360 line and stop using it for now. It's only showing up on the UA-cam video. Sorry again!
Weird.
It is interesting reflecting on the differences between the States and Europe.
There's plenty enough rules over here. HOA's sound a nightmare.
I'm liking the sound of smooth, well paved roads. Ours in the UK have never been so bad, so potholed.
Glad you got your back sorted. Cheers and take care
I get asked about it a lot, probably since 50% of people who watch are from the EU/Australia.
That there is! Thankfully here no stupid speed cameras everywhere. HOAs are literal manifested insanity imo.
The roads are a definite highlight. You'd love them.
Thanks , you two too!
I’m finally retired and living on social security and couldn’t agree more💯💯I always said that people here are so depressed and are medicated or self medicated because of the of lack of the amount of free time. The closer to big cities the more miserable it is. I have taken my bike to Luray, Virginia numerous times and love that area. Living in the Philadelphia burbs has gotten very crowded.
Congrats!! I always wonder will I even make it to retirement :D I couldn't agree more, the chase of money over everything has always confused me, what good is it to you to have it all and not be able to use it, and enjoy it? I know a lot of people think I'm mad but just feel there is a lot more to life than working for a big ol corporation and also thanking them for it. :D
Yeah I'm not a fan of cities, the more space around me the happier I am generally.
Ah nice, I must get back to Luray, really cool place.
My "philosophy" exactly .I work to finance the things the love to do . Very few people work in employment they love , but if you can find employment you don't mind doing and if you are not looking for excuses to skip work that is half the battle . I have been employed in the same job for 34 years and if some one was to ask me if I like my job my answer is no but bearable , it has provided me with a means to do the things I find important in my life and that is valuable .
That's exactly it. I have a job that currently doesn't stop me getting out of bed....my last job did for a bit hence why I'm not there now. Definitely my aim is the most bearable, highest paid with the most time off :D
You can never have enough bike pictures.
I agree. I took more today 😂
Photos of bikes are awesome. I love my 50mm 1-8 on full frame.
I concur. My favorite subject to photo. I think with the crop this lens works out around 50mm
Well said on every topic. Such a good channel. I subscribed and am currently binge watching every video from the beginning, when time allows. And yes, those HOA’s really suck.😂
Hahaha thanks, we'll have to agree to disagree on the good bit tho :D
I apologise in advance for the videos you'll be watching so :D
Yes, yes they bloody do :D
I totally agree with you on the HOAs. They're an abomination. Rules, rules, everywhere rules. Of course that's the source of the "it's impossible to not break the law" phrase. I like some rules to keep the jerks from hurting people, but it's sad we have to have them.
Yeah exactly. Like I'm fine with laws that make it possible to stop really bad people carrying on as they would love to. But otherwise I think people in general are over policed. I would hazard it hurts creativity and people being happy in general as it causes the thing where you're always half looking over your shoulder.
Definitely agree with you on HOA's. They are an attack on private property and freedom. I would never live where one exists. I have a tiny cabin surrounded by my own woods and wetlands. Nobody tells me what to do in my little Kingdom. Forget the garage, I work on my bikes in the living room.
As an independent contractor I only work about 10 days a month and the rest of the time is for riding and living.
Life is only as difficult as you make it. Just avoid the propaganda telling you how you're supposed to live and be free.
It's mad they're a thing. I'd never buy a house with one in a million years. Haha my wife might be upset if I started bringing bikes in to the living room again :D
I'm on a visa. The plan is very much to contract at some point asap. Not a fan of 5 days a week being mostly bored.
There is never enough pictures of bikes! I recently purchased a ruggedised compact camera, it is a bit better than a phone and also has an optical zoom.
I agree! :P I love taking photos of the Z :)
Oh yeah I remember you mentioning it. Something like that would be the job out and about tbh!
@@TheGorillaBiker I just need to remember to use it 🤣
@@HippoDrones man I always forget my camera 😂😂😂
Good vid. Moved from central London to N E Lincolnshire some 15 years ago (best thing we ever did, lucky to have been able to). The people here are really friendly and seem to have more time to be decent (obviously, there are exceptions). Maybe less hubbub = more chilled in general. Weird things in UK? Lots, but mainly me and my good lady 😂 Who'd want to be "normal" anyway!!! Cameras - I'm not a camera user, I'm forever being moaned at for not using my phone camera enough. I do regret not taking some photos of stuff, but I also like living the experience, not through the lens of a phone camera (extreme I know, and I think you have a good balance and a great record to look back on). Cheers, Andy.
Thanks :) Oh yeah London is nice for a visit but way way too busy for me, I'd be miserable there. I think the less stressed and busy people are the happier they are, which probably inherently makes them more friendly. I agree! Hahaha good weird is the best way to be :D
I am actually hilariously terrible at taking photos and recording when I should. For instance on my trip to the dragon etc, I was having too much fun.
That one spot may have been marked as nature reclamation. There are a lot of places we’ve worked over that required too much time, energy, and money to maintain so we just say “fine nature, have it back. You win”
That may be it, bloody odd spot to give up on as it's right beside a Greenway and a mad chunk of houses. Perfect spot to keep fighting back the tide 😂
Still, you are probably right.
Great video ,love the bike brother. 🍻 👏 ✌️
Thanks!
@19:57 There was a pair of nuclear bombs that were lost in 1961 near Goldsboro, NC, when the B-52 bomber that carried them broke apart in the air. The nukes were never found.
I've actually read about that one! Very cool.
They were found. They built a concrete slab over it and flooded the area 😉
@@fullmuntzing4246no, they extracted it, you bster
@@Jardanonym Extracted the trigger mechanism, not the whole thing. 40ft holes full of uranium are easier filled than excavated. Cheers
Regarding work-relax schedule: we all can learn from the people from Scandinavia...😀
Absolutely!
@@TheGorillaBiker I am living in Denmark and we got high taxes, but we are some of the happiest people in the world. We work 37 hours pr week og have 6 weeks holiday a year. We have free education and healthcare and it is a very safe country to live in. But this does count for all of Scandinavia.
I've been to Sweden and it's beautiful. But I won't ever go back to living anywhere that has 6+ months of bad weather again if I have a choice in the matter. I do want to visit Denmark one day!
Lived in a luxury condo with a HOA commissar on every floor. One yelled at me for taking pictures of my clean powder coated Harley frame on my balcony patio. I swore then I would never live under Communism again!
Hahaha I'd have introduced them to some flat tyres on a morningly basis. It'd be really terrible to have leaky valves eh 🫡
You should travel to the Pacific Northwest, m'dude! Bring Toaster! You think the stuff on the east coast is nice, I bet you'd love the stuff around northern California, Oregon and Washington. We have a rainforest in WA too! Fly over if you don't want to ride across the US, and rent a couple bikes few days. There's camping in the rainforest too.
I will forever encourage you to come this direction. We have some really awesome roads around here, and it is quite beautiful. Check out the Hoh Rainforest, or the High Steel Bridge in WA. There's also bioluminescent plankton that can be found in northern WA around the Puget Sound area, and pods of Orca as well.
I would love to! The biggest issue with travel over there is I utterly hate planes so would much rather ride or trailer, but then time and cost comes in to play! I'd love to tho, time and money sadly dominate that one more so than desire to go, we'd probably move over that way if not for visa ties.
@@TheGorillaBiker It's so worth it if you can find a way over this way. Heck if you want to chill for the trip, you could even catch a train. Time it right and you may see the full moon over the mountains in Montana which are absolutely stunning as well since the tracks depart from the main highways so everything is shroud in a deep blue-black except for where the moonlight hit the snow atop the trees and mountain peeks. Got a chance to catch that awesome view on a trip back from Maine to Washington state.
This country has so much to see. Wyoming has Devil's Tower which was featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. There's Niagara Falls. Georgia has the blue mountains I believe? California has the Redwood Forest. Etc. etc. Hopefully you and Toaster will be in the states for a while, and have an opportunity to explore it. It's a whole new experience on a motorcycle vs in a car, too.
Anyway I'll stop gushing over all the cool stuff here lol. Take care and thanks for another great video!
It’s not just you, HOAs are pretty foreign to most of us, too. Comically, the kinds of people you mentioned in your other point, the ones obsessed with making money, are usually the types who like HOA neighborhoods! 😂
Hahaha makes sense. Couldn't possibly take a breath and enjoy life for 5 minutes. Might miss a chance to earn another chunk of cash 😂
Hoa are insane, the rise is caused by cities and counties having weak laws - I grew up in a place with "broken window laws" they mandated property be maintained to a bare minimum and enforced it. IT WORKED.
Broken windows is also a law enforcement policy they used in new York I think where people were very strongly punished for the smallest crime. That one I would never support in a million years.
Maintaining properties to the minimum is fine. Once it's laid out properly and can't be abused.
Weirdest thing about Merika is a giant Irish lad riding around on a beautiful retro bike.
That's a good weird tho right? 😂😂
@@TheGorillaBiker Normal is boring. Weird is interesting. You are not boring.
Hurray. Weirdness forever.
Gotta buy a house in the country, with a few acres and freedom.
That'd be the eventual plan. Not currently on the cards sadly.
No man, fuck HOAs. Ours is a fucking nightmare. Don't like the grape vines showing IN OUR BACK YARD that is fenced off and 99% invisible to the public. But, we have a crazy extensive garden, and our grapes climb the fence because... They're grapes. Our HOA has fined us over $2,000, which I've paid because I'm not chopping my fucking garden down.
That's.....that's what I said? I think they're the most nonsensical thing I've ever seen.
Also that is absolutely insane.
@@TheGorillaBiker I know you said it, I was agreeing with the sentiment. I wish there was a way to opt out of the HOA, but a lot of communities sneak it into the contract when you sign for the house. I'm still trying to figure out why I'm required, legally, to pay them at the end of every year for badgering home owners.
@@TheGorillaBiker Did not mean to put "No" at the beginning of that comment lol. I can see why it seems like I was disagreeing now
Ahhhhhhhhh that makes a lot more sense now :D
Yeah. HOA's suck.
That they doooo
good friend 🟠
huh?