50 Times People Just Had To Take A Screenshot Of Americans Being Unbelievably Dumb | American Reacts

[@Vie-vi]

I am European (French and Italian) long time ago I used to correct people (mostly Americans) about their “knowledge” concerning Europe. And then I remembered a Russian saying “Educating an idiot is like healing a dead body”

[@sjames1955]

You can't argue with crazy and you can't fix stupid

[@pv-mm2or]

@Vie-vi love the Russian saying, there is an English equivalent " when your efforts are akin to that of flagellating a deceased equine" (flogging a dead horse)

[@gerardflynn7382]

That's a good saying 👍

[@darshamuralidharan4694]

Im sooo stealing that 😂😂

[@EltaninMalfoy]

Here in Russia we also say "If you have to explain, you don't need to explain". It might sound confusing but in general it means exactly this: if you have to explain something THAT obvious, don't bother, it's a lost cause

[@JAW-i5z]

It's not just their ignorance, it's their arrogance.

[@flurb3285]

Both usually get along very well, you have to learn a minimum to realise you don t know sh1t ^^

[@forrestfyre7846]

I’m ignorant to the rest of the world at times, but I accept that, because it’s not my fault the US education system has failed all of us. If this country were a person, it’d be that one cocky asshole who can’t back up what they say and gets really angry when they’re humiliated.

[@MissPerpul]

New Zealander here, after Chch terrorist attack our PM decided to tighten gun laws. No big deal. And an American replied to a comment of mine saying to the effect that s/he couldn't understand why us Kiwi's werent fighting for our Second Amendment to bear arms - and then proceeded to call us stupid for not doing so 😂

[@chicago2024_official]

I get what you’re saying, but British people are the exact same.

[@RalphLotharBuchwitz]

And they are gullible and believe everything they are told. How poor Europe is, how much crime we have, that we struggle and the prices for goods and gas are high. That we have no freedom, etc...

[@Jesse_IDG]

She's worried about what non american brands put into their product? Meanwhile american brands: let's put some of the chemical used to make yoga mats into our bread to keep it fluffy...

[@ninemoonplanet]

Generic drugs are equal to the brand named ones, they must be because of the laws in various countries. Paracetamol MUST be as pure as any brand name.

[@randar1969]

And to make matters worse the USA also use loads of preservites in their bread so it doesn't spoil for 2 weeks (wonderbread). Meanwhile if don't freeze my EU made bread it get's mold after just 2 days on the kitchen sink. i tasted both sorry in this case EU bread is superior and taste much better. But then again you need local bakeries or small supermarkets in walking distance so you can restock with ease. That's the way our societies are different we don't have zoning laws for commercial buildings they are just in between residental buildings here and thus people on feet or bycicles are given more space to reach supermarkets and other commercial outlets such as bakery's butcher shops and in general way more small business owners in the EU. Even in my city in Amsterdam i can ask my 7 year old daughter to buy bread from a store about 100 feet from our home. Can't do that in the States even if it was just 100 feet away...

[@hinoron6528]

The FDA has had most of it's capability stripped away from it over the decades. It's a toothless department now. Drug companies can put whatever crap they want in the bottles and they'll most likely get away with it.

[@daveamies5031]

She was worried it wouldn't be toxic enough and her body that's used to all the toxic chemicals would not be able to handle medicines that are safe for human consumption, maybe she thinks the USA has already become the dystopian future portrayed in Crimes of the Future where people evolved to digest and crave plastic

[@jezza73]

Chlorinated chicken!! Yummy....FFS

[@nagranoth_]

wait... an _American_ is worried about chemicals in EU products? ROFL that's such a self own....

[@jezza73]

Good ole American chlorinated chicken. I say I say hold on there boy.

[@paulwalsh598]

It is not even a brand name paracetamol is the scientific name, Tylenol is a brand name.

[@Slaywraith]

@@paulwalsh598 - Also known as Acetaminophen, which you can buy it as here in NorAm as well. People just get hung up on BRANDS over here (I'm Canadian) and don't bother learning what is IN what they buy. I always buy generic Acetaminophen tablets (or Paracetamol, if you prefer) because I have had reactions to Branded pain med products ranging from uncomfortable to making the pain I took them for (headache) even worse because of the additives they put in them to make them "different".

[@Jila_Tana]

08:25 British English : Memorise, American English : Memorize As a Dutch, when I'm around superior Americans, I on purpose use the British spelling.

[@sylviahiesbock5112]

Me too, just can‘t help myself triggering their „foreign“ language skills 😂🤣

[@Lexduden]

No, I do not use pseudo-french spelling. metre but pronounce it meter No.

[@Gambit771]

English spelling. There is no 'British' English. Only English or English, English. Also the English spelling is correct and the murican ones are wrong. Doesn't matter how many use it, it is wrong. You wouldn't ever agree that 1+1=4 no matter how many told you it did, would you?

[@Gambit771]

​@@Lexdudenwhat? Metre is french, not English. It is a measurement unit from the French metric system. If only your comment was in the video.

[@Jila_Tana]

@@Gambit771 I agree, but it gets really hard when every spelling checker tells me I have it wrong. I know I have it right, however it is annoying to see red lines under assumed spelling errors.

[@youremymymymyLOVERRR]

an American guy once got mad at me for not giving him my number and said i was just bitter that we lost in the American-Mexican war in 1858, so i said i was Dutch and the guy looks me dead in the eye while saying, so what, dutchland is a province in Mexico in case you didnt know literally nothing of what he said made sense

[@pilarfernandez5621]

Lo mejor, mucho mejor, que he oído después de: España es una península de México 😂😂😂

[@pammelvaine8176]

You just can't help stupid.

[@thehellyousay]

it took you a frighteningly long time to work out that 1/3 is bigger than 1/4, but at least you got there.

[@dylancobalt7807]

He's American, not the brightest bulbs

[@ItsCharlieVest]

haha you're right though lol

[@ItsCharlieVest]

hey now lol

[@rennratteb.8614]

it´s simple: you have 2 cakes, put one in 3 pieces, the other one in four pieces, which pieces are bigger? 1/3 = 1:3= 0,33

[@flitsertheo]

@@rennratteb.8614 That's only true if you cut the cakes in identical pieces ... which may be a challenge for the Muricans.

[@rastachech1375]

When you say "people think..." what you are trying to say is "Americans think..." Us, in the rest of the world, are very aware of the existence of other countries on peoples.

[@Otacatapetl]

@rastachech1375 They don't really understand the concept of "other countries". They think there's just this big thing out there called "not America". But what it is, they haven't a scooby.

[@Phiyedough]

I watch quite a few videos about aviation but some of the ones made in USA seem to ignore the fact that KZbin is international. This seems ironic given that aviation is the main means of travelling to other parts of the world.

[@somersetcace1]

In fairness, it's more like `some Americans.` We're a country of 340 million people. If even 0.5% of us are that ignorant, it's still 1.7 million people. You could profile 3 an hour, every hour of every day for an entire year, and not get through them all. Yet, it's still 0.5%. It's one of the main problems with political perspective. If you focus on the worst of the worst, then it appears as though that's all there is, even though it's actually a tiny percent of the whole. That's how politicians win elections.

[@markalexander3659]

Upon mentioning that I'm Spanish, I had an American tell me "No. Spanish is a LANGUAGE. You can't BE a language. You're probably Mexican" Um, I am from Spain. The country of Spain.

[@ketorolac4276]

They think everybody south of their border speak Spanish, have brown skin, use a big sombrero and sport a thick 'stache... They really do...

[@Onnarashi]

I love the irony of the 'Murican asking why the screenshots were in a European language, while writing in a European language (English, from England).

[@houseaccount3293]

The English no longer speak the dialect you are referring too as English, the dialect they speak of English is less than 200 years old. The English you are spoken of is now Spoken mainly in America and Canada. Which the most accurate English being in Ohio. To understand this better, Think Russian Slavic vs Serbian Slavic.

[@maddyc2412]

​@@houseaccount3293It's English buddy, it doesn't matter how it's changed in the various countries that also speak it now.

[@patriciamillin-j3s]

@@houseaccount3293English originated in England, that makes it a European language. All languages change and evolve over the centuries, including American English. Please don’t tell me, that people with a southern twang speak real English 😂

[@sillyjellyfish2421]

Also let's not forget - you may have an american accent, but with the exception of few letters here and there, the text is 100% eligible to british as well as american, ausralian, or canadian english speakers. Same gramatic rules, same vocabulary. A new yorker speaking with a floridian and a texan would have more troubles understanding each other despite speaking "american", than americans have troubles with reading text messages of british origin

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@houseaccount3293 The dialect spoken in the Black Country for example is NOT - and never has been - the same as those spoken in Surrey or Somerset or Glasgow. Which one of the MANY different dialects is the one in Ohio related to?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

"why don't they help with the problems in their own country first" coming from a person in a country where 99.3% of the population are immigrants that are otherwise very proud of their country of origin. But not when it comes to charity it seems.

[@randar1969]

Their decendents of immigrants and a large group of them are hating immigrants. I guess they somewhat know what happened to the original population and now are terribly afraid new arrivals will do to them what they did to the local indian tribes.

[@tinawitte420]

source(s)?

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Yeah so proud the majority don’t have culture. The paradox and irony when America was and still is colonized. The «country» was founded on colonialism, theft of land, genocide of millions indigenous people the past 500+ years and on going, slavery, and racism, yet they have the nerve to tell others: «This is America, speak English», when America don’t have an official language. America was never European to begin with, and nor is the majority of these so called native English speakers English let alone British🤣🤣🤣👀🤡

[@nordstern2664]

@@tinawitte420 need no. America is made by immigrants. Only the few less remaining native americans are not immigrants. All others are. Because america was populated by native americans until europe discovered it and many europeans from all countries in europe went to america and populated it. For charity reasons i was writing a long text. But at the end i deleted it, because of the possibility of a shitstorm from "proud" americans, seeing military strengh more worth than the own living conditions or the living conditions of the neighboors, friends and other americans. So only a few words: health insurance, labour laws, social stability laws, unemployment laws, etc. I do not know what the americans are learning in school. But what most of the problems americans do not understand we are learning in school and so its general knowledge for us. And even sometimes it even seems that european schools do educate american history more acurate than american schools. And as i am not an american or native speaking britain, i am not writing without mistakes and i will never.

[@eh1702]

At least once a month, I get called dumb online because Americans are unaware that other English-speaking countries didn’t have the USA’s 19th century spelling reform.

[@Phiyedough]

We also don't use the politically incorrect word "dumb" to describe someone ignorant or of low intelligence.

[@eh1702]

@@Phiyedough Who is this “we” you speak for? It’s always amusing to see what anshibboleth the expression “politically correct/incorrect” is. Nobody EVER uses that expression except right-wing people trying to police language.

[@Gambit771]

​@@eh1702So you're annoying you are rightwing because you are trying to police language. You do know that the phrase 'politically correct' came from lefties?

[@Gambit771]

​@@eh1702So you must be right-wing given you are policing people's speech and 'politically correct is a left term.

[@DAYBROK3]

@@Gambit771 tell someone you are an american without using the word american. a country with the lowest reading comprehension of the industrialised nations. i prefer stupid i.e. on in a stupior, but you will take offense at that. explaining a point is not policing usage. 🤔🤨😒🤦‍♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@arctic_haze]

The problem with the Americans is that their all experience and knowledge is about America so they cannot even imagine how other counties work.

[@ninemoonplanet]

If you watch or see the US media coverage there's little or no coverage of anything outside of the USA, especially during their interminable "election cycle" which never seems to end.

[@baramuth71]

The reason is that you have not learned it or are not prepared to think outside the box. Because for a lot of people, the edge of their plate is huge. Those who are able to inform themselves usually do so within the USA due to time constraints (vacation). That's why people know next to nothing about other countries or continents. But this is due to the system in the USA.

[@mehallica666]

@@baramuth71 With the entirety of human knowledge LITERALLY at ones fingertips, the ignorance can only be wilful. There are no excuses.

[@HaraldSeiwert]

are there other countries??? 😳 (the US American would ask)

[@baramuth71]

@@HaraldSeiwert to what extent other countries ?

[@Chuckf66]

I appreciate it when Americans try to educate themselves and have enough self-awareness to realise that there's a whole world outside of their borders. It's when they double down and insist that they're correct (when obviously wrong) that we lose all respect.

[@ializarg]

Water freezes at 0º Celsius. Water boils at 100º Celsius.

[@thehellyousay]

easy peasy, lemon squeezy

[@vredeling]

As atmospheric pressure decreases, water boils at lower temperatures. At the peak of Mount Everest you can boil water at about 68celsius. In lab circumstances way lower.

[@GnosticAtheist]

Yes, in most scenarios where most people live, but the pressure always changes no matter where you are, so its not entirely static.

[@EliseVeltmanvanReekum]

​@@vredelingand that is not the case for Fahrenheit?

[@afriquelesud]

In a vacuum at sea level, that is. It differs with altitude. There are places up in the mountains where that same water boils at 43°C, but it won't boil an egg.

[@Erulin68]

Got to love "Congress set the world drinking age 21" Yup, your Congress is not gonna decide when our kids are legally allowed to drink. For beer it's 16 here, anything harder 18.

[@arctic_haze]

In Sand Diego it is as easy as taking the trolley (tram) to the border and enjoy the 18 year drinking limit in Tijuana.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

drinking age is 14 in my country, when parents are around! :)

[@arctic_haze]

@@JohnHazelwood58 France?

[@MrPagan777]

Drinking age here is 5, if it's in the home.

[@Ace-Of-Spades---]

​@@JohnHazelwood58 Germany? 😁

[@stephenhodgson3506]

0:56 'Two types of Nations: Those who use metric and those who went to the moon' Really???? Wernher von Braun who built the Saturn V was German and only used metric as did most scientists even back then. They had to do conversions into imperial for some American companies to be able to build some components.

[@ninemoonplanet]

Long before I understood the metric system, I knew scientists used it. I am "conversant" in both.

[@solaccursio]

I didn't know that Liberia and Myanmar went to the Moon 😂😂

[@RobertTaylor-gz2fu]

Millions of Brits & Canadians use both systems.

[@matthijsmaris8703]

NASA uses the mertic system

[@carrot708]

"The scientists who took us to the moon used farenheit" No, they used Kelvin. They're scientists

[@clivebrealey6795]

The only 'pro' of a two party system? It's better than a one party system.😉

[@reduande]

In the end all types of democracy end up oligarchy or dictature. Bc good times create weak people...

[@tinawitte420]

the pro and con of a one party system? it doesn't spend all the time fighting the opposition but instead focuses on actually getting stuff done.

[@reduande]

@@tinawitte420 Problem is, only evil don't doubt... There were only a few cases in history this worked for the people. Legenary statesmen...

[@LeSarthois]

Fun fact : this makes North Korea superior to the USA because they have a 3 party system. (this is a joke, alright? not the 3 party but the "better" part)

[@hinoron6528]

I hope you're not holding up the USA as an example to prove that point?

[@svenpedersen9140]

07:11. Paracetamol is not a brand name btw, it is just the medecine. They are a lot of brand names in the world for it.

[@danceswithcritters]

More commonly called acetaminophen in North America, same compound.

[@jeanmartin963]

Actually there are 2 different problems. First the one of the video, Tylenol is a brand. And then the chemical name is different in Europe and USA, it is either Paracetamol or acetaminophen. Same compound but 2 names. Same thing for adrenaline which is called epinephrine in the USA, because some moron allowed some guy to have a trademark on the generical name adrenaline.

[@Erulin68]

The Liberian flag is so close the US one because the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society beginning in 1822. It became an independent nation-the Republic of Liberia-after declaring independence in 1847. The ACS was founded by a group of wealthy white people in 1816 to deal with the “problem” of the growing number of free blacks in the United States by resettling them in Liberia, land which the ACS had bought. Liber(ia) - Liber(ty) that's how it got its name. Know your own history, my dear friend. 😊

[@ianjardine7324]

Damned good point all the POC complaining about the fake racism in America should ask why their ancestors decided to stay when there was free transport back to Africa on the table.

[@johan.ohgren]

The africans really had a bad few centuries back there.

[@allenmontrasio8962]

And while we're on the subject, the capital city of Liberia is Monrovia, so named after James Monroe.

[@hinoron6528]

Quite a few flags based on the old British East India company flag and logo. It's like having the Golden Arches for a flag and tucked under one loop, you have 50 French fries to represent states. (Or would that be a bit too on-the-nose for USA?)

[@glenmale1748]

Somebody knows their history. Kudos to you.

[@Otacatapetl]

We use the word "American" as an insult these days.

[@flitsertheo]

Only "these days" ? Muricans have been upsetting us since 1776.

[@Otacatapetl]

@flitsertheo Trying to, you mean. The loss of the American colonies was a big deal to them, but merely one small episode to us. Yeah, we lost them, but look at what else we had. US independence isn't even mentioned in our schools more than in passing; with over 1,000 years of history (and that's just England alone), they just don't have the time.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Which is slightly unfair to all those Americans NOT living in the US

[@MrMaxEdelstahl]

@@Otacatapetl - more like “American conditions” I think?

[@flitsertheo]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou Not really, you can take the American out of the USA but you can' t take the USA out of the American.

[@mn4169]

Brit who has lived in Sweden for 40 years, still thinks that Americans need to look at the world, not just their world.

[@oldskolacura9798]

As an American I fully agree. That's the problem here. I will admit most Americans only think about our part of the world and the rest to them just don't exist or seem that important to us.

[@patriciamillin-j3s]

Realise/realize, recognise/recognize, memorise/memorize -> British English/American English. Sad that we Brits know that, but Americans don’t.

[@Thunderworks]

And these words are french.

[@trevorcook4439]

Australia sides with UK. The US is the odd ones out. Dictated by Webster and his dictionary.

[@pleegjepleegje]

​@@Thunderworks🎯

[@jayandreas1131]

To be fair, it’s not the only thing they don’t know.

[@eivindkaisen6838]

In British English, the -ise suffix while in the US the -ize is almost universal. However, the Oxford English Dictionary prefers -ize.

[@BlackAcePlays]

"......" "What are those signs?" 🤣

[@Lexduden]

Yeah, but to be fair I find them confusing at times, and I know them well.

[@73cidalia]

Well, at some point back in time, Native Americans migrated from Asia, so they're not wrong. Ultimately, all humans came from one continent.

[@gchecosse]

3:37 last I checked English was a European language, or was the OP thinking it should be in Navajo or Tibetan?

[@Onnarashi]

My thoughts exactly! I've seen Americans say things like this before. I watched a video where an American girl, while speaking English, complained about not knowing any European languages. You're literally speaking one!

[@seanosborne3343]

I think the most stupid thing I've ever heard from a Brit was when a lady was being interviewed in the street about Brexit, and all that. She exploded, and said she was sick to death of hearing about the "bloody Irish and their bloody border." Unfortunately she was left floundering in her pignorance: it would have taken only a few seconds for the interviewer to explain to her who was responsible for the Irish border. The British, basically! So don't be too hard on your compatriots. Mind you, it can be very entertaining when your hear them in Ireland instructing the locals in how to pronounce Irish placenames.

[@Moamanly]

Do you realise that the Irish Border was actually a real issue during the Brexit debacle? Maybe she wasn't the stupid one after all?

[@thectyptid00]

I wonder what was the thought proses of the guy who commented about Queen. Like, yes, Americans, who are obsessed with democracy and don't have monarchy, would deffinetly name their band that

[@wolf1066]

An American band would be called "President AR15 Freedom Eagle", not "Queen".

[@ser132]

@@wolf1066 or just Presidents of the United States of America

[@wolf1066]

@@ser132 Yeah, I'm familiar with that cover band. I was just riffing on how the USA seems to need to shove "freedom" and guns into everything - because "they're the only country that has freedoms".

[@mavadelo]

The Weekend: Canadian, Daft Punk: French, Coldplay, Gorillaz, the Rolling StoneS. Pink Floyd, Muse:: English. Well... he is only 80% wrong

[@helenemalenfant5435]

As a Canadian, who also loves many British bands, I started reading the list and immediately burst out laughing 😂

[@RobertTaylor-gz2fu]

I also doubt that Kanye West is widely admired outside the US.

[@arnodobler1096]

liberian and liberals is the best imao

[@raystewart3648]

I can not believe that some of these even went over your American head as well, lol

[@vtbn53]

Apparently Yanks can give it but can't take it.

[@TheRealRedAce]

Always been that way.

[@EnglishRalph]

It’s almost certain that the German fellah speaks a more recognisable (note the spelling) version of our language, than the American who was criticising them!

[@steffent.6477]

We learn the british spelling in germany in school. After a few years of internet browsing it often gets mixed with the american spellings^^

[@MonsieurNarlan]

For the paracetamol, it's not a brand, it's a name of the molecule (it has other names like acétaminophène). Doliprane however is a brand of paracetamol in France (and there are some more). You can either buy generic (brandless) paracetamol or Doliprane, but the branded medication would be more expensive (unless prescribed by your doctor of course - it would be free). To be fair with the American, even in France, some people were suspicious of the quality of brand less medications). When the molecules patent expire, any laboratory can produce it, so people were worried, but to sold it, they still have to pass a quality test and meet the old patents requirement.

[@lucas-prado]

In this case, he wasn't afraid of the generic brand, but of the fact that it wasn't from his country because, supposedly, only American chemicals are trustworthy.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

But Big Ben literally has NUMBERS on it's four dials, going from I to XII [1 - 12 for the ignorant]. We learned to use these numbers IN PRIMARY SCHOOL - around age 8 from memory - and I grew up in NZ. One of these days i'm going to get a clock with arabic numerals on the dial, see how many can't tell the time then.

[@KaiHenningsen]

D'you mean Indian numerals?

[@antonijaume8498]

​@@KaiHenningsenEuropeans got them from Arabs, Arabs call them Hindu numbers.

[@gaetanoroccuzzo]

Arab numbers are the ones we commonly use. I to XII are Roman numbers...

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

@@gaetanoroccuzzo If most in the US thought they were arabic numerals they'd stop using them. I honestly can't see how people don't know how to read simple Roman numerals, so so simple and easy - or maybe that's just me. But we actually had to use them for basic arithmetic when we were learning [and we were about 8 so it was fairly basic still] to drive home what was what. And even if you can't, it honestly staggers me that they can't work out the time simply from the position of the hands.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou I've always had trouble with analog clocks, and I was very happy when digital ones became more and more common. Roman numbers, on the other hand, are fine, even in MMXXIV.

[@vahvahdisco]

4:13 - That American knows nothing about music ! The Weeknd are CANADIAN, Daft Punk are FRENCH (from Paris) ie EUROPE, Gorrilaz are BRITISH (also EUROPE), Coldplay are BRITISH - from London (EUROPE again !), The Rolling Stones are BRITISH - also from London, which just happens to be in EUROPE (there’s a connection forming here), Pink Floyd are BRITISH - from London - oh look, it‘s in EUROPE and Muse are BRITISH (!) - from Teignmouth (Devon) EUROPE ! So of all the bands/singers mentioned on their list, 2 are AMERICAN and 7 are not and of those 7, 5 are BRITISH ! What was he saying about American music ?………🤔😂🤣

[@karenchristinewise7833]

Munster is one of the four provinces of the island of Ireland. As Gaeilge or in Irish, it is An Mhumain. There are currently thirty two counties on the island of Ireland that are in the four Provinces of Ulster, Munster, Connaught and Leinster. Our English is spelled the English way too.

[@davidcolin6519]

A significant problem here is the problem that Americans don't think of themselves as "American" because they are so often required to define their "Americanness". You can't just be American, you have to be Native American, Hispanic American African American, Irish American, Swedish American etc. Not only does this ensure that most Americans think they're (something else) American, but it also ensures that they think others from their "native" land will be impressed when they go to that country. But the worst thing about it is that it continues to ensure that America remains really, really racist.

[@ninemoonplanet]

Rarely do other populations hyphenate the ethnicity. People who are First Nations people don't call themselves anything but that. There are "French Canadians" only because they speak French as their first (home) language. Otherwise, we're Canadian. This hyphenated identity reduces the full equal status of people.

[@olgahein4384]

Me as a german got so confused here for a second. Because we have the letter 'ü' that english keybords lack, they often write it just as 'u'. And in Germany, there is the citiy named 'Münster' and 'Münster' is also german for 'minster' (a type of cathedral), which are all over the place. I was like 'What, what now, which one? The city or the church? And why, neither has anything to do with Ireland?' and then i kept reading lol.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@olgahein4384 I'm in Münster. But there is also a German place called Munster with an u instead of an ü, you know. I think it's slightly more northern - PLZ starts with a 2, not a 4. They have a tank museum, which seems appropriate as a neighbor of a Truppenübungsplatz (military training area). (Back when the Brits still had significant troops in Germany, quite a number were here in Münster.)

[@TheRealRedAce]

One of the four provinces of The Irish REPUBLIC. The island has five, equivalent to the ancient five kingdoms, and has had five for centuries.

[@Zuzzanna]

OMG 🤣 try slicing up a pizza in four and another in three and see which slices are the biggest. 🤦‍♀

[@barrysmithers5816]

Just wanted to shout out both having the original linked in the description and also leaving it partway and saying that if you want to see the rest, watch the original. Great way of potentially diverting some traffic back to someone else's effort. ⭐

[@QuentinRichardson-supersnail]

"…forgot to study her vocab because they spelled meomrized wrong." A) memoriSed is the BRITISH SPELLING. We kinda invented the language - that's why it's called ENGLish from ENGLand. B) when describing a verb… memorized… it is normal to use an ADVERB. Therefore …they spelled memorized wrongLY. …forgot to study GRAMMAR.

[@Moamanly]

...or 'spelt' memorised wrongly.😄

[@linda3589]

Spelled and spelt are both past sense for spell. Again depending where you live

[@Slaywraith]

@@linda3589 - "Spelt" is VERY rarely used today in reference to spelling though (I had to look this up very recently, so bear with me). "Spelled" is the most commonly used term. Some people, mostly in agriculture, would think of wheat if you used 'Spelt" (if they actually knew of the grain type to begin with). Most would just try to correct you, or mock you. I'm old enough (close enough to 50 to see it looming on the horizon, and Canadian as well) to remember using both terms enough to be confused nowadays when needing the term (hence having to look it up).

[@PlasmaMongoose]

1:03 The American flag they placed on the moon in '69 has at the very least bleached white or worse the flag itself has disintegrated due to the radiation, but China has placed its flag on the far side of the moon in 2024.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Better still, they have just discovered how to produce water from luna soil - or more accurately how to persuade luna soil to give up it's water - which is a HUGE advance for those hoping to colonise space some time in the future. It means future colonies might hopefully be able to pproduce their own water on the moon, Mars or Saturn.

[@mehallica666]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou They'll have a job on Saturn! One of it's moons perhaps.

[@LeSarthois]

Also, the Soviet Union dropped Soviet "pennants" made of metal when crashing their Luna probes on the Moon. The first one crashed in 1959, but given the speed, there's probably nothing but a crater. The first confirmed success was in 1966 with Luna 9. OF course, it was a probe, without humans, but technically, the Soviets were the first to drop their nation symbols on the Moon. And being made of metal, they are probably still mostly intact, unless they got obliterated by a meteorite.

[@Lazmanarus]

Which is NOT the "dark" side, it still gets sunlight half of every month.

[@PlasmaMongoose]

@@Lazmanarus I know, which is why I called it the far side of the Moon.

[@jamesbrinner3678]

8:27 Memorised is English. Memorized is American

[@Lil.Mrs.C]

Dude, in UK and other countries that use their spelling, they use ise. But Mercans use ize. In Australia, because of all the fluencing, we are just confuzed.

[@ninemoonplanet]

🇨🇦 confusion is a national sport in some countries, it seems. 🤫😉

[@ulrikesextro4187]

Confusion is my second name.

[@TheRealRedAce]

Americanz get a lot wrong.

[@glenmale1748]

No confusion here. S is never transposed to Z. Ever.

[@markalexander3659]

7:30 - the laws around safety and what can be put in medications and foods are MUCH STRICTER in Europe than in the U.S.

[@karenmcglynn4931]

How in God's name do they tie their own shoe laces?

[@flitsertheo]

Be sure they buy shoes with laces pre-tied.

[@schwaelmsche1311]

That is why Croks are so Popular these days.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Velcro my friend, VELCRO though I've also seen elastic laces so you don't need to tie them, just put them on ready tied. Here they're the shoes that children have when they first to go school because it's easier for them to put them on after PE

[@olgahein4384]

@@MayYourGodGoWithYou Yep, that swiss guy who invented it had a patent and became filthy rich from selling velcro shoes in the US lol.

[@AnnaChristina-l6o]

I was about to say there are shoes without laces and as annoying as my laces currently are, I can't even be mad at an invention like this 😭 😂

[@chiisuigintou]

In Belgium, there's no drinking age, only an age on which you can buy a drink, which is 16yo. Heavy liqueur however, like rum, Wodka and such is 18yo however. Smoking and age of consent is also 16yo btw.

[@mellchiril]

You're smarter than the average American, Charlie. Even just by attempting to learn about the rest of the world you've already placed yourself way above any one of these comments in the video you watched. I always giggle a little when I hear Americans talk about their freedom. When kids have to go through metal detectors to get into school there's something not entirely right imho.

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

And it is Max Martin that done the song that the American artist sing, and he is Swedish

[@olgahein4384]

Max Martin done all the songs that american artists sing since forever.

[@maxthecat14]

Ok, I know I am being picky, but if we are criticising Americans, we have to be correct. It's Max Martin that did the song, and not Max Martin that done the song. ( I agree about Max Martin though)

[@markalexander3659]

It's that unique combination of ignorance and arrogance.

[@Slaywraith]

Definition of an American: Arrogance and Ignorance, wrapped in a Flag and waving a Gun, while loudly proclaiming they are the most important thing in the World. (I know there are good, sensible, kind, and decent Americans, but LORD! The image they project to the rest of the world as a country?!? And I say this as one of their closest neighbors and trading partners!!)

[@Madonnalitta1]

"What are those signs?" 😂 Amazing.

[@onlyfoes]

"I'm a Celt" 😂 this some ancestry cosplaying at finest

[@Iwantalloftheinformation]

What defines native depends on how far you go back into the geologic past. Life on this planet emerged when the continents were is very different positions and shape. Technically all life is native to Pangea, or the Ocean.

[@mjc8281]

Right, pretty much no one is "native" to anywhere. I think the reason "native American" bugs the kind of people that dislike its usage is generally people want to use it to include themselves and exclude anyone who isn't like them.

[@jopes4855]

These are funny to watch, though, don't worry. These kind of people can be found in every country 😀

[@paullow3377]

True, but I guess many of them are not as expressive as Americans.

[@RankinMsP]

And Project 2025 wants to shut down the Dept of Education 😮

[@SeraphArmaros]

We've already had decades of gutting our education system that has led to a significant portion of our population being this dumb, they just want to catch the rest of the population up to them.

[@AnnaChristina-l6o]

*what's left of it. I mean they want to get rid off child labour laws too, so I for once would not be surprised if more Kids then still do, work a field, a mine than going to school.

[@justbeeeb2061]

Many medical products that have the same main effective ingredients in the USA and the Europe have different additives and bulking agents compared to each other, so allergies, intolerances, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Kron's disease; other inflammatory bowel diseases, and more can be effected. Example: Lactose is used as a bulking agent in many products, because without it is almost impossible to swallow the couple grains of salt sized stuff that actually does the work. In other medications other stuff is used for this purpose. So I think that being worries about differences in usa meds and europe meds is warranted.

[@SilverionX]

As always, it's not about intelligence, it's about education and attitude. Intelligence is our greatest advantage as a species, that's not going down in a few hundred or even thousand years.

[@reggy_h]

Yes intelligence hasn't changed for many thousands of years. We still don't know how the pyramids were built (not aliens). The Egyptians didn't go to college and probably not school either.

[@TonboIV]

3:19 "Why are these screenshots always in some European language" You mean like...English? The European language that you're typing in?

[@somersetcace1]

The burger size did me in! `What are those signs?` It's bad enough they don't know basic fractions, but not even a lesser/greater sign?

[@pennyroyalt2542]

I'm from the UK, and a middle aged woman. This is ridiculously worrying. Seriously worrying!

[@canadianclaude]

Not that hard, quarter pounder means you need 4 to make a pound. One third pounder means you need 3 to make a pound. So 3 burgers to a pound should be bigger than 4 burgers to a pound. That's something I learned in fifth grade.

[@AIHumanEquality]

Fun Fact: America was not always a two party system. The original system was often 4 candidates running against each other.

[@minibeech03]

its actually hilarious of young people dont know how to read analog clocks anymore. They actually stopped teaching it in school, even in Canada. Like my 8 year old niece can read one but some of the 18 year olds ive worked with need you to read it for them.

[@richardcooley9730]

Your Irish American is so Irish they don't know the Irish national anthem "from the four provinces of Ireland"

[@John-jw8rx]

Memorised is the English spelling.

[@BGZEXE]

Its hard to argue with their ignorance lol

[@markalexander3659]

7:17 - just posting this on the off-chance it may help someone. The actual name of the drug ("Tylenol" in the US, "Paracetamol" in most of Europe) is "Acetaminophen". Ask for that if you're abroad and they don't know what you mean when you answer what you'd normally call it.

[@corwyncorey3703]

Stuff like these are only a few of the reasons ii call them Duh'Muricans. The *main* reason, however is that I have *met* quite a few. Not all, certainly. Not even a statistically valid sample size. Anecdotal at best. But the fact that in so *many* cases I'd then have to *explain* those terms, *and* why they matter makes me comfortable with my position.

[@minibeech03]

about gas prices, i find funny how often americans complain about them because they have some of the cheapest gas prices in the world.

[@Rachel_M_]

I am convinced some people learnt how to write without learning how to read. I'm not sure how, but they can't be reading their comments before they post them.

[@vickywilliams8320]

My sister doing a crossword. I'M stuck. Alright what have you got? 3 letters, large monkey, a, something e. Shut up sis.

[@Muck006]

2:40 TECHNICALLY it is TRUE that "water doesnt NECESSARILY boil at 100°C" ... because AIR PRESSURE affects that temperature. The channel "Periodic Videos" has a video where they walk up to the base camp at Mount Everest ... and boil water ever few hundred meters of elevation.

[@Chuckf66]

Fun fact - the USA, Liberia & Burma/Myanmar are the only places still using imperial measurements.

[@TukikoTroy]

Seriously, you had to sit there for several seconds to work out that 1/3 is bigger than 1/4?!

[@afriquelesud]

Lacking RAM & CPU. Was using Windows, that other dumb thing.

[@ulrikesextro4187]

The ticker below telling sth about 5/4 people was funny.😅

[@erraldstyler]

its because of corporate america. advertising and shit, its literally brainwashing

[@terryparker1694]

NASA used metric for the Apollo missions. Fact. And the Soviet Union landed rovers and planted their flag on the Moon first.

[@Preyfr60]

Tylenol is a brand. Paracetamol is the usual name of "N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide, N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanamide" the moleculewhich makes Tylenol. Like Dafalgan, Eferalgan, Doliprane in France.

[@FreshO2]

English literally came from England And Americans thinking US English is the standard on all 195 countries 😂

[@jasperzanovich2504]

1:20 There is a reason to not have many small parties, the fear is that if the senate is too fractured they won't get anything done. That is why we got the 5% hurdle in germany. That means if a party doesn't get at least 5% of votes they won't be eligible to take part. I am not sure I share that fear but two parties is definetly not enough. 2:10 But quarter-pounder sounds much better. 5:05 I didn't know that but one could have guessed if they just looked at their names. To be accurate they are americans with armenian roots. At any rate Armenia needs that money more than the biggest economy of the world.6:00 On one hand those are numbers, on the other hand you can read a clock which has no numbers at all.

[@KaiHenningsen]

A current land with many small parties is Israel. Small religious or otherwise extremist parties have an inordinate amount of influence because they are needed for coalitions. I'm not sure about right now, but I believe for quite a long time Italy had similar problems. And even with the 5% hurdle in Germany, the FDP is rather well known for having more influence than their vote numbers would suggest, though I think I'm willing to accept that in trade for not having a two-party system.

[@Bramfly]

Same rule in the Netherlands

[@pandaradio8431]

I paused at 00:28 to make this comment. In my experience you are way above the many Americans I have met (and those were Americans I met in Europe so ...) You are aware of "foreign" ways of doing things and at least have a look at them instead of ignoring anything foreign. many things would not be practical in the USA and there are many valid reasons to do it your way. On the the other hand that works both ways. for instance commute on a bicycle which is common in the Netherlands... that would be highly impractical in any case where you would live more than 10 miles away.

[@flitsertheo]

The Dutch consider and handle their bicycles as a weapon. Americans can relate to that.

[@silverado5306]

I think in the post about the Native Americans, he is trying to say that they were not there forever, and that they arrived 10,000 years ago crossing the Bering Strait.

[@barvdw]

That would seem to be a very generous interpretation...

[@pleegjepleegje]

😂Yep, that has to be the right interpretation of the post. If you go back far enough in time, we all come from Africa. Perhaps this person considers all Americans to be African American.

[@silverado5306]

@@pleegjepleegje Exact. We are all colonizers, just at different times in history.

[@tempsitch5632]

Yeah, that one was correct.

[@ninemoonplanet]

First Nations people have been in the Americas, plural, for over 14,000 years. Long before the pyramids were built. Not all came across the Bering Strait either.

[@dinamoon9709]

I feel like I’m becoming dumber as well while reading this all, it’s all so shocking and confusing in it’s stupidity that in the middle of the video I started to think “Maybe it’s Me who doesn’t know something??? It can’t be THIS bad????”

[@4455thor]

In Denmark you have to be 16 to buy beer! And you can drink openly in a park. It may not be a good idea (beers may elevate your level of being some kind of dumb) but no-one throw you in jail for drinking in public.

[@carinaejag]

And a lot of the pop music performed by American artists is written by a Swedish person.

[@victorialira]

Coldplay are Brittish

[@ruthfischer7615]

@@victorialira My guess is that was a hit at Max Martin. Who is Swedish.

[@berlindude75]

If you cut one ("1") pizza into three ("3") equal pieces instead of four ("4") -- so one divided by three (1/3) or four (1/4) -- then in which of these two cases do you get a bigger piece? In the first instance you get one third (1/3) of the whole pizza and in the second only one fourth (1/4) or -- as a different term for it -- one quarter.

[@DasTamii]

Fun fact: they still used the metric system for the moon landing, cause it’s more accurate.

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

Americans wouldn't like the realisation that Jesus was not an American but a brown Palestinian Jew and 'Christianity' wasn't invented until well after his death, and was celebrated in Eastern Africa before most of Europe. The substitution of a 'z' for an 's' in some words is peculiarly an American trait, actual English uses just the 's', you don't spell 'cause' with a 'z', I believe.

[@n0namesowhatblerp362]

4:04 Look up Max Martin - he is swedish and responsible for the most american hit songs since the 90s. American artists - swedish producers and writers

[@Saranda4787]

"Responsible" makes it sound like a bad thing.

[@di4se]

2"09' 'What are those(s?) signs "?" At this point, I do believe he is trolling.

[@QuotidianStupidity]

2feet and 9 inches

[@Minderz]

"I don't know enough to know". That my friend is wisdom. Especially the type that seems to missing from a lot of US citizens. A lot of people like to clown on USA, but in general they are intelligent and educated (with some glaring holes in education of course, but all nations have that). It's just that they lack the trait to acknowledge when they don't know something and instead decide to assume they know and state it confidently. Thus leading to hilarity for everyone else.

[@karsten27027]

Everybody is a foreigner almost everywhere.

[@petermaardananders6803]

Quite a lot of Americans and Brits can not do a proper meters (m)/grams(gr)/Herz(Hz) conversion to Kilo-meters(Km)/Kilo-grams(Kg)/Kilo-Herz(KHz) nor the opposite, because they don't understand the prefix Kilo literally means 1000 (1 Km is 1000 m and 1 m is 0.001 Km). And get these conversions wrong by a factor 1000 so bloody often it is really laughable, can they even understand how to convert inches to yards to Miles (land-miles or nautical-miles?) and the opposite. The imperial system is so confusing/inconsistent, but the metric system is consistent and easy, almost everyone already uses the decimal system so how difficult would it be to completely adapt to the metric system?!

[@Hodoss]

7:15 Europe is the main exporter of Packaged Medicaments in the world, some 80% of market share. US is the N°1 importer, mostly from Europe. So getting medication in the US, it might well be from Europe, although rebranded and with jacked up price.

[@tinatovar7548]

I'm American native Chippewa

[@Notwoke90]

23 million americans think chocolate milk comes of brown cows 😂

[@Phena5372]

That's so scary

[@anouk6644]

8:30 It’s both correct depending from which country you are. Memorised with an s is British English (also used in Australia and New Zealand), memorized with a z is American English.

[@baronmeduse]

Perversely the OED and Chambers (two of England's most used and respected dictionaries) both give preference to 'z' over s' and include sections explaining why. With words like memorise they give 'memorize' first then 'memorise' as the alternative. Yet the majority of British people just ignore it, including all through education.

[@babalonkie]

@@baronmeduse A American (William Chester Minor) adjusted words for "Better pronunciation"... "Memorise" is a Irish word... and there are no Z's in traditional Irish.

[@baronmeduse]

@@babalonkie Irish isn't English. 'Memorise' comes directly from the French spelling 'memoriser'

[@babalonkie]

@baronmeduse "Irish isn't English" Correct, but Irish will forever be closer in culture and importance to the UK than American. Always. "'Memorise' comes directly from the French spelling 'memoriser'" And yet the oldest documented usage of the word "Memorise" on paper is in Ireland... Not France and not England and predates "Memorized". Even the OED states this. OED has been officially separated from the English language and is not in anyway considered "official". With it officially getting a separate designation in literature, Recognised by the HM government, UK National Curriculum, linguists and philologist's worldwide. "British English" = Official. OED English = Unofficial. Both are officially defined separately. British English = Acceptance of our Irish brothers and sisters who were and still are part of united countries... ize/izer = ise/iser.

[@Thunderworks]

​​​@@babalonkieMemory comes from french word "memoire". And memorise, according to Etymonline: "The variation of ize and ise began in Old French and Middle English, perhaps aided by a few words (such as surprise, see below) where the ending is French or Latin, not Greek. With the classical revival, English partially reverted to the correct Greek -z- spelling from late 16c. But the 1694 edition of the authoritative French Academy dictionary standardized the spellings as s, which influenced English."

[@silkejantz]

Charlie's face at 5:57 - priceless!!!!

[@JayeEllis]

1/3 is 33%. 1/4 is 25%. Does that help?

[@flitsertheo]

Translate in burgers please.

[@JayeEllis]

@@flitsertheo You have two burgers. Cut one in 3 and one in 4. Which has bigger pieces?

[@deadzio]

​@@JayeEllishot dog

[@flitsertheo]

@@JayeEllis It depends on which burger is the largest.

[@JayeEllis]

@@flitsertheo Fair point. Let's assume two 1lb burgers, being cut into even pieces.

[@minibeech03]

tylenol is actually acetaminophen but yeah name brands call it different things. Some of the cheapers no name brands will just call it acetaminophen. People still buy tylenol despite it costing over twice the price sometimes. Exact same ingredients.

[@nekogod]

I mean, that is true. Homo Sapiens are only truly native to Africa, everywhere else we're found we migrated there. I think that's why in lots of places those people are called first nations or indigenous rather than native.

[@francoo.m.]

Roman numbers are strange lines : i'm dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Kentckb]

Yes 1/3 is bigger than 1/4. The original comment was saying the 1/3 burger FAILED because they thought the quarter pounder was bigger. I laughed my ass off when you were agreeing to the math but you forgot what the original comment was trying to point out. LOL