Hi Jibby. Don't take too much notice of these people - America is a newly settled country compared to most of the rest of the world whose civilisations have developed over countless millenia. Of-course the US does things differently. In time, it'll all change for the better (if people believe it even needs to change for the better).

I think no matter what the people are like and believe in, they still only have two parties to vote on and so, while you may want something completely in the middle, you're just not given the choice to vote for it. You have to pick Democrat or Republican, I think change should start there because you're only one party away from a dictatorship ;)

When there's L' and D' it means there's an article or a preposition that ends with a vowel before a word that starts with a vowel (Lo Amore becomes L'Amore) and it's easier to pronounce

A shame to miss the north west of Western Australia. The Kimberley region is spectacularly beautiful along with the amazing Ningaloo Reef where you can swim with whale sharks. Very best wishes to you. 🇦🇺

Thing is, most cultures over the mellenia have absorbed other cultures. The test of good intregration is intermarriage and acceptance. It is only now we are calling it cultural appropriation in a negative way :{ We should just learn and appreciate what each of us has.

Since 2000's, Eurovision is sadly more about geopolitics no more about songs... For example, Belarus always gives 12 points for Russia no matter Russian's song, is good or bad. Everyone knows Eurovision does not represent anything anymore because politics entered the game.

Theres no singular british accent.....so you have to be more precise which british accent do you believe its closer to?

youtubes naughty didnt get a notification for this video 🤣....keep up the good work mate

Since apples originate in Kazachstan, I would even say that apple pie very likely predates the British empire too, so don't feel too bad about it...

Also Canadian Thanksgiving celebrations are traced back to 1578. The American celebrations to 1621.

The maneskin are very fantastick

Its funny when Americans think anything basic is somehow invented in the USA. I've heard them telling people all sorts of foods being invented in the US. Its not just apple pie.

The king between George lV and Victoria is William lV. He was called the "Sailor King"......a name also given to George V and George Vl for links and service to the Royal Navy.

We sing this at the proms and Rugby matches - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmWUn4t3dtNqZ5Ysi=S1ZIiE3B4dsnb2JF

It's as american as apple pie. NOPE

It's the British way to say everything is fine when the meal or service is dreadful. Most of us just don't go there again and perhaps give a bad review.

With regards to the claim that the American accent sounds like the old English accent, it’s more to do pronunciation. English used to have the rhotic R and short A that are used in much of the US today. Some areas of the U.K. have also retained that pronunciation. Places like Boston have the more modern British pronunciation using the non-rhotic R and the long A.

What about 6 things American think they invented first but Are Actually British , The computer , jet aircraft , the aircraft , generators , or as one KZbinr once said isaac newton invented gravity , I think gravity was about before newton .

The accent being the same in America and ye olde England seems odd to me. If you listen to recordings of common British people who grew up before TV and radio, the regional accents are way stronger, and sometimes almost impossible to comprehend in the same place today. Modern UK English (no matter where its from) and Modern US English (no matter where its from) seem much closer to each other than either is to a 1900 Norfolk, UK accent for instance. There was a good archive of these accents on the British Library website but they got hit with ransomware and its still all encrypted because the Government wouldn't pay.

I've always found the expression "as American as apple pie" quite funny. So many cultures have apple pie (including my own, Sweden) and have made apple pie since long before the US was a country. Yet the expression is all the more fitting since it simultaneously illustrates (i) how the US is really an immigrant country/melting pot at heart and (ii) the peculiarly myopic and sequestered nature of US culture. Americans can really say it with unironic patriotism. I mean come on, you really think nobody thought of putting apples in a pie before 1776??

Your heart definitely wasn’t in Italian 😂

Limmy did a good riff on the America Christmas thing you joked about here. watch?v=5eKpzMUPVvw

*Number 1: The United States of America*

Conner, I think its time to diversify you pie repertoire. I'd start with the misleading but utterly delicious mince pie ( traditionally eaten at and near Christmas, although I could happily scoff them all year) and follow up with the magnificent array of savoury pies from the UK

Brits would NOT use WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE like the Americans use ketchup/A1 !! We use it as an ingredient to make other sauces or in a BLOODY MARY cocktail. What about the American National Anthem tune....BRITISH !! Halloween, like Christmas and Easter, is NOT a holiday !! It's a celebration !

The “American pastime” of baseball is also British. We have both Welsh and British codes of baseball to this day, that evolved from rounders. And we also have the American code. All very similar but with differences. And the “father of baseball” is a Yorkshireman, called Harry Wright, from Sheffield, who was very much involved in the first professional club, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. A player on his team was Albert Spalding, who went on to fake the Doubleday myth, to claim the sport was created in America, even though he knew Wright personally, had travelled to the UK with him and seen British codes first hand… but that wouldn’t help him sell his wares, would it?

Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Annual event in the Royal Albert Hall

8:53 L' is an article like "the" is english, others articles are lo, la, le, gli, i etc. Italians replace the final letter of a word with an apostrophe when the following word starts with a vowel or an h, so that the word sounds more natural when we pronounce it. For example: la + amica → la'amica → l'amica. the (female) friend. lo + amico → lo'amico → l'amico. the (male) friend.

Great advert for a product now ruined, thanks America!

The accent thing is demonstrably false. Yorkshire, for example, has a clear accent and hundreds of words that are Norse origin and very close to modern Icelandic/Danish/Norwegian/Swedish words, and accents. Yet the Norse/Viking controlled areas of Britain predate USA by hundreds of years, yet America doesn’t have the Yorkshire/Norse accent and language.

I witnessed the Order of the Garter, as an RAF member of staff of the Constable of the Tower, within the inner sanctum of the castle. Will live with me forever.

I heard that about the original American accent being more posh than the posh English accent. Hello from Australia. 😊

Apple pie originated somewhere Europe but I can't remember where.

From the Dad's Army film (1971): Captain Mainwaring: "I knew they'd never get through the Maginot Line." Sgt Wilson: "They didn't. They went round the side of it." Captain Mainwaring: "They what?!!" Sgt Wilson: "They went round the side!!" Captain Mainwaring: "That's a typical shabby Nazi trick. You see the kind of people we are up against Wilson?!" Sgt Wilson: "Most unreliable, sir."

Just found you. Great Video! Greetings from Germany

You should try and do some more Aussie stuff :)

Apples were brought to England by the Romans about 2000 years ago. I’m sure apple pies were being made all over Europe where apples grow long before America was even found

Hiya! Loved your commentary which was informed, thoughtful and curious :) An interesting wombat fact, well two facts....that hard plate on their lower back can crush a dingoes/dogs against the roof of their burrow. Wombats also raise their young in pouches (with a difference) that face backwards. This is to prevent branches and debris harming the young as they are so low to the ground. Early settlers were alarmed at seeing the strange two headed animal wandering around!

What he forgot to mention is that samhain in the Celtic world was probably brought there by the Vikings as it is very similar to their harvest fest. Over here in Sweden my father did carve lanterns with face on it and put candles in it in the early 50's . Then being told it was an ancient tradition. When I grew up in the early 70's it was almoste gone

Dont forget Count Dracula (from Transylvania (Romania)) 🙂. So ..... think twice before visiting !! Don't forget the garlic 🙂 Your enthusiasm is contagious, I hope you'll get the opportunity to discover more of Europe (in person).

That looks like Dutch apple pie, not British.

Apples originated in Kazakhstan, so apple pie is from central Asia.

The French monk Dom Perignon is thought to have invented champagne in 1697. But 30 years earlier, an English scientist discovered winemakers on this side of the Channel had long been adding sparkle to their tipple.20 May 2017

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Other comments will love to disagree with me but if you consider the effects of a receeding global flood you would expect those kinds of rock formations to appear. Forget the religious side of it and ponder just the effects such a scenario would produce. Even Uluru when I googled it the explanation started with "the whole area became covered in sea."

Portuguese Navy (not Portuguese Marines) since XII th century (officially 1317), the oldest continuously serving navy in the world.... 🙂

Because you have to press the clutch to change gear.

Almost everything in America ... is not american.

Apple pie may come from Timbuktu for all i know but it definitely isn't American 😉

Your language is also British. The amount of times I hear Americans say "Do you speak american?" Like American is even a language... It's a bastardised version of English...