American Reacts to Brits, What's The DUMBEST Thing an American Has Said To You?

[@Westcountrynordic]

One that happened to me and never gets old. Is an American mother upset with me because I sold her 18 year old son a beer when the American legal age is 21. Despite trying to explain to her that the American age limit doesn't apply in the UK, she wasn't having it. In the end my manager kicked her out, the son was allowed to stay because he was nice and didn't give us any trouble. The next night he came back with some friends and after checking their ages I served them as well.

[@gardraiman7731]

😆😆 awesome

[@jeffreysouthgate9834]

well done, treat them as they treat you - behave, get nice back.

[@PaganPunk]

I've actually seen that in a pub in Essex too!! I couldn't believe how rude the mother was!....she just didn't get it! 😂

[@Trendkilla]

It's not ignorance that get's me. It's the pride in the ignorance.

[@dsmyify]

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

[@Hairnicks]

That's so funny. Love it.

[@danielreed5199]

It's the pride in the ignoramus that gets me... aka Trump voters :P

[@healingandgrowth-infp4677]

Its not the dumbness that bothers us so much its the haughty attitude with it the ignorant arrogance that bothers us the most

[@Gambit771]

Exactly.

[@RandyGardnerJr]

I’m from the US and it bothers me as well.

[@AIHumanEquality]

Americans do generally have a bad habit of lacking humility. I live next to them in Canada and the arrogance many of them have is astounding. Many don't even realize they're doing it which is the funny part.

[@JamesLast-pp2fn]

Right

[@colinp2238]

Before it retired, I was a CSA at Heathrow Airport. On this shift, I was on the immigration department directing passengers to the correct gates, British and EU (pre Brexit) to the left, rest of the world to the right. An American guy waltzed up to me and asked me where the "line" was for Americans. I told him that was the rest of the world. No, he argued, USA. So I replied that this is the UK. He continued arguing that in America, there are special lines for US domestic citizens. I realised that he had no idea where he was. I explained that over 200 years ago, America had a war to be independent from the British. Finally, it sank in. He then complained that the line was longer, well that's due to the fact that the rest of the world is far bigger than Europe.

[@sarahglover3286]

He'll be happy now, when I flew back into Heathrow a couple of months ago I saw the American flag (along with Swiss, Canadian and a few others) was on the same side as UK and EU! He can now fly to the UK and be in the (probably longer) queue!

[@annasaddiction5129]

I think one thing I saw in a reddit video like this was like USA inhabtiants discussing that their way of spelling the dat elike year months day was right and were arguing like "No one says 5th october, it's octobe(the) the 5th!" and one clever European just answered "Tell that to the " 4th of July!" 😂 😂

[@ivaneames4354]

If certain people want to "make America great again" , maybe they should start with the education system.

[@fayesouthall6604]

An American woman who had lived in the U.K. a couple of months asked me if we celebrated thanksgiving on the same day? I worry about education standards.

[@captgaming2134]

So I’m in the Royal marine reserves, we went to the US on a training exercise. Before we left, we were allowed to go around to the local shops and restaurants. One of the waitresses in the restaurant asked me where I learnt to speak English and I said I learnt in the UK, I’m British and she said oh you guys speak English over there as well, why you copying us. 😂😂

[@AdeleD79]

Jaysus wept 🙄

[@79BlackRose]

Cheese and rice! 😂

[@Silentauditor974]

Nothing can be added to that…. It’s tiring 😂

[@sarahglover3286]

Did you bother saying "You copied us!"

[@Bazroshan]

In his dictionary, it says that 'English' means 'Pertaining to America'. I wonder what 'American' means.

[@ddlee84]

The one that will always live with me was actually something my Aunt had said to her when she worked on Cruise ships in the 90s.....Which was. "Excuse me Miss, what time is the Midnight Buffet" She was in so much shock that she couldn't answer for a good 30 seconds....Also, the whole "passports not being ID" thing confuses the hell out of me.The purpose of a passport, it is to allow the person whos picture is on there(thus identifying them) to "pass" a border. Plus with all the checks you have to go through to even get one, its probably a lot more secure than a drivers licence is lol.

[@molybdomancer195]

I was a British tourist in Rome visiting the forum when I overheard a US tourist wonder out loud if the Italians had just found a few columns and built the rest of the ruins to be a tourist attraction. I had to hide behind one of said columns in order to have a giggle.

[@jamjardj1974]

😂

[@Jill-mh2wn]

Wait till you hear the suggestion that the whole of the UK is just a Harry Potter film set ! " Isn't it just CUTE!" 🤑🤑

[@markatchison5112]

I was talking to an African American on here and she thought Nigeria was a city in the country of Africa, the pain, oh the pain I went through trying to explain to her that Africa was a continent full of countries and Nigeria was a country and not a city was excruciating, I gave up because she got mad, how are you calling yourself AFRICAN American if you have no clue what Africa even is?

[@khymaaren]

Because that's the only term somebody hasn't found offensive yet.

[@amateurknight235]

You answered your own question

[@Wiiggz]

I was buying beer in a walgreens when I was visiting America, they asked me for id, so I showed my uk driving licence. They were convinced it was fake because my date of birth didn’t exist. I asked what she meant and she said there wasn’t 25 months in a year. I had to explain in the uk it’s day/month/year rather than month/day/year. She had to get her manager over and I also had to explain to him also. I did end up walking out with my beers 😂

[@LoveCats9220]

Pretty sure the only country that shows month-day-year is the USA. It’s confusing as a non-American trying to decide which format is being used lol

[@shanegallagher5287]

I live in scotland near Edinburgh, an American once said, isnt it great that they built the castle near the shops.

[@fayesouthall6604]

🤣🤣🤣

[@digidol52]

The guides at Edinburgh Castle like to say the most commonly asked question by Americans is "when do they fire the one o'clock gun?".

[@101steel4]

​@@digidol52or call it edin burrow

[@pauldurkee4764]

Working in travel information my colleague was asked by an American,I want a direct train from London to Ireland. My friend told him the train from Euston terminates at Holyhead,where you change for the ferry, he replied, why do I need to change, answer because you run out of dry land.😂

[@pauladix5666]

😂😂😂😂only in the USA 😂😂😂😂

[@jayeclements6452]

I'm MARRIED to an American. Fortunately he's one of the few who wasn't lounging on the couch when the smarts were being handed out but it can make for interesting comments when we're in the US. "Are you allowed to marry someone not American?" Us: Yes, of course. "Are you SURE that's allowed?" "Did you have to learn American to talk to each other?" "You married him so why aren't you American?" Us: Because I chose to continue to live in the UK and remain British. "Why? America is SO much better" Us: I haven't noticed one way that America is better . I could go on and on but generally Americans have almost no knowledge of anywhere more than 20 miles outside of their hometown and zero knowledge of the rest of the world. And they're PROUD of that!!!

[@trooperthatsall5250]

I am a proper wind up merchant, so we had a fire drill and we all evacuated out of the building and its very near the Mall in London. Anyway as I was standing around waiting to go back in a family of American tourists come wandering along and start talking to me about the people milling around and asking why. I go on to explain that, you know that us Brits are a very traditional people and we are following tradition by leaving the building at 3pm to allow all the tea ladies to move the tea trollies to the areas so we can have our tea at 3:30, afternoon tea, you must have heard of it. She was astounded and asked if I can take a picture of her with her family, her father got wind of it and started to ask questions about the scones and what we had on them, cream on top or the bottom, raspberry jam or strawberry. This young lady was completely blown away by my story. I did tell her in the end that we were on a fire drill and her father and mother, laughing thank me for the great story that they promised to tell everyone back home. ~Trooper

[@louloumacd4122]

I was in Staten Island ferry station. An American asked me where I was from. I said 'England.' She said 'New England?' I said 'no, actual England.' She said 'how did you get here?' 😂

[@boxtradums0073]

Should have said swam

[@AdamOBrien29]

Nearly every American I've encountered has said they're Irish, when shockingly they were American

[@101steel4]

Joe Biden being the worst. They even gave him an Irish name. Senile o' fool.

[@geoffreynolds8835]

😅😅😅😅

[@khymaaren]

That's one annoying thing that I don't hear from people of any other nationality but American: claim the nationality of their ancestors.... On my mother's side, some of the distant family is German. I wasn't born there, I've never even been to the country and I don't speak the language but from now on I'll claim that I am German.

[@sueKay]

Yeah they've nearly all told me they're Scottish, funny that 😂

[@101steel4]

@@khymaaren because in most countries the majority of people originated there. In America hardly anyone does.

[@catbevis1644]

I've said it before but... I used to live in Switzerland and belonged to an expats group online. An American woman joined the group as she was moving there in the near future, and asked if there were refrigerators in Switzerland or would she have to get one shipped in from the States? I also once had a conversation with MSN because typing the symbol for Euro currency would send their messenger into fits of webdings. I was literally in France, on a French computer with a separate key for "€". MSN's official response was that they didn't support "minority symbols". 341 million people live in countries that use the Euro, and many more people use the currency daily.

[@MsKaz1000]

just looked on my keyboard and we have the £ and the $ but not the Euro it is a British keyboard the Euro would make more sense than the dollar sign

[@catbevis1644]

@@MsKaz1000 Some UK keyboards you used to be able to press ctrl+alt+E to give the Euro sign, but increasingly that gives you an é.

[@MsKaz1000]

@@catbevis1644 é well I learnt something new now I can spell café correctly just checked if it means that I thought also coffee in Spanish

[@frankmitchell3594]

@@MsKaz1000 on my British keyboard it's alt gr+4

[@trevormillar1576]

You should have said that you don't need refrigerators in Switzerland, you just leave stuff outdoors in the snow.

[@reecep4016]

Well, a lady probably about 60 was in Amsterdam airport or train station can’t remember exactly. She was arguing with someone because she couldn’t understand them. She was shouting ‘ENGLISH DONT YALL SPEAK GOD DAMN ENGLISH’ so I said ‘hi can I help I speak English’ even though the Dutch lady was speaking English she just had an accent. Funny on its own as I was translating English to English. The American lady from I’d imagine the southwest with a proper country accent said ‘can you tell her I’m trying to buy this and to take my dollar’ I said it’s euros she storms off screaming ‘what time of damn country doesn’t take cash the dollar is the most powerful currency’ it was weird as fuck like some movie caricature come to life. I was high as shit as well as

[@anta3612]

I had a "conversation" the other day with an American on the topic of the US$. He seemed to be under the impression that one reason why English has become a global language is because the US$ is the world's principle reserve currency. I had just posted a comment on how London has been influential in Europe as the banking capital of Europe. He basically told me that I was ignorant because I failed to understand that it's the US$ that really runs the show (implying that the US is in charge of all European business and banks). I asked him (sarcastically) if he happened to be one of those tourists that insists on using US$ everywhere. He was not amused.

[@TheTwoFingeredBullFrog]

​@anta3612 But the US Dollar isn't the strongest currency, they're absolutely deluded.

[@anta3612]

@@TheTwoFingeredBullFrog Indeed. Some currencies are stronger because the economies of those countries (like some oil producing countries in the Middle East) are pegged to the US$. However, the GBP and the Euro are both stronger than the US$ and neither are pegged to the US$. His argument was irrelevant anyway (you don't need to know English to trade with US$) but was particularly irrelevant when it comes to the UK and the rest of Europe (our the conversation was mostly about the spread of English across Europe). Also, a number of currencies have been unpegging from the US$ with some pegging to the Euro. It seems, at least from what I understand, that the main reason for this is that those smaller countries are tired of US interference in their affairs (business and otherwise) and who can blame them?

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@anta3612 I know you're talking about currency but didn't you think to tell him that 'The British Empire' (the largest empire in human history), that once covered almost a quarter of the world's landmass and 23% of the world's population, brought English to the masses well before the US Dollar came into prominence.

[@anta3612]

@@Thurgosh_OG I did but he kept harping on that it was old news and not the reason why English is widespread today. I've had this discussion with Americans before and for some reason they don't see British historical influence as relevant (it doesn't fit their narrative). To me it seems they either don't get or dismiss as irrelevant any history other than their own. This particular American said that English has become a global language thanks exclusively to America. He quoted the usual: WWII, military presence even saying that NATO is the reason English is spoken across Europe🤣, business and of course the US$ as a reserve currency. Americans always find a way to claim complete credit for stuff and won't let historical facts get in the way.

[@commandershepard2490]

4th of July stuff happend to me too. Freiburg/Germany: Nice presummer evening at the Dreisam River. We were chillin out with some co-students from the universaty, playing some drinking games and had a great time. Suddenly one dude called us and said he would join with 2 of his american friends who are currently visiting germany. Dudes were totaly nice and caused no trouble at all.. until one of them asked when the "fuckin fireworks" begin. Everyone was confused what firework he meant and the other one became super angry, cause they thought we wanna insult them with not knowing what fuckin firework they are meaning. They felt SO INSULTED until i watched on my iPhone and saw it was the 4th of July. As soon as i figuered it out, i started to explain them, that the US AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY is not celebrated in Baden-Württemberg, Germany...... They understood it eventually but they ruined the good mood with their ignorant reaction.

[@manueltapia1859]

Yeah that kind of people tend to ruin a good day despite not being ones fault 😮, believe it happened to me because I speak spanish 😅 The best to you from northern México 😊

[@darcycarter7586]

1998 a yank in Auckland New Zealand ask me where the on-ramp for the bridge to Australia was? I said there wasn’t one. He was annoyed and said don’t lie to me! The bridge is right there! He pointed to the Auckland harbour bridge…. It’s a 2 hour flight to oz

[@cheryl71000]

In the 70s, my family was on holiday. We were driving on a country road , we came to a crossroads. My dad stopped as a car stopped in front of him, so he couldn't turn left or right. A guy got out and asked him the way to Berwick. My dad told him the way, and showed him on his map. The American then started arguing that my dad was totally wrong. And that was the wrong way. So my dad told him it was the right way, he continued to argue. My dad said he didn't care which way he went, as long as he moved his car so he could be on his way. Eventually after much huffing, the American allowed us to continue our journey. We had just come from Berwick after spending a weeks holiday there. My dad just could not believe it. Always remember it, I was ten at the time.

[@andybaker2456]

I'd just arrived in Charlotte, NC, on a direct flight from London. My aunt and uncle were supposed to be meeting me, but I couldn't find them. So I went to the information desk to see if they would put out an announcement for them. I explained the situation to the young lady at the desk, and she could obviously hear that I had an accent she didn't recognise, so she asked where I was from. I told her I was from London, England, and I could see that the cogs were turning in her brain as she processed that information. Eventually, she looked me in the eye and asked, "London? Do y'all speak French there?". 🤷‍♂️

[@English.not.British]

I remember the wife and I doing a helicopter trip through the Grand Canyon in 2016. As part of the trip we all landed in the middle of the canyon floor for a Champagne lunch (very nice it was to) On one of the other tables there was a guy shouting to everyone (without being asked 😂) that he's from Florida and asking "how have so many Foreigners even heard of Vegas?" 😂😂 When we got back to the tiny, private, in the middle of the desert airport to get our bus transfer back to our respective hotels the very same guy was demanding the tour group get him a hire car. When they explained that sorry sir, we are a tour group, this is a private airstrip in the desert we don't do car hire he got really angry and was shouting "I'm not getting on no damn bus, I want a hire car right now" literally everyone was rolling there eyes and laughing and we got on the bus (maybe he's still there 😂😂) We've had a few trips to the US over the years but he was by far and away the dumbest person I've ever met (never mind just the dumbest American) 100% true story 😂😂

[@04williamsl]

Wasn't there a US news reporter around the time Trump won his presidency who was like "and the people in England are celebrating his win by releasing fireworks tonight"... it was the 5th November🤦‍♀🤦‍♀ I also had one when I was in Rome. We were at a restaurant, there was an American couple on the table next to us. They ordered two different desserts, the woman took a bite of hers, said she didn't like it and asked the waiter to replace it with a chocolate cake instead. When the bill came, she was shocked at seeing the original dessert on the bill. My friend and I were in hysterics at the fact that she didn't realise that she'd have to pay for it when she'd ordered it and there was nothing wrong with it. She kept talking about such "poor service, you'd never have this problem back home" 🤣

[@elemar5]

Ignorant people shouldn't have been 'on' the table in the first place.

[@weirds0up]

The girl who messed with the guy saying pizza was banned in the UK, that would totally be me. There’s an old saying “ask a silly question, get a silly answer”

[@ncbentle9154]

Back in the late '70's I heard about a student whose application to Harvard (HARVARD!!!!) was turned away because the clerk told her they already had their quota of foreign students. The student was from New Mexico.

[@damonk666]

British person here, I've been asked if Wales is in England. If I know the Queen and have had tea with her. Then my personal favourite: 'do you speak English in the UK?'... Asked in English during a conversation... In English. To be fair two of those were asked by kids (unfortunately, it was the first two).

[@obamtl]

So, I’m walking down Oxford Street in London, and I see this African American woman mistreating the street cleaner, deliberately throwing rubbish in front of him and yelling at him, so I step in and ask her to shove it and act with the slightest modicum of human decency. She then yells back at me (I’m black British), “go back to your country”. I respond, “you are a guest right now in MY country”.

[@infin8ee]

Good on you for standing up to her. We need to put bullies in their place and stand up for the people who are being abused 👏

[@Llama_charmer]

Wow, "go back to your country", that is SO many layers of irony right there

[@TonySpike]

Wow ....i would have thought an African American wouldnt have even dared to say that in the first place ....nevermind to a Black British person

[@PaganPunk]

​@@TonySpikeyou'll be surprised! 😂

[@UncleASP]

Love the channel JT. In a bar in Germany years back, met some US newlyweds traveling the country on honeymoon. They asked if I knew where 'Ausfahrt' was. They thought it must be a huge city because they saw lots of signs for it on the highway. Ausfahrt means Exit.

[@alexfarman4580]

I'm English and my dad was taking us to the nurburgring and I asked my dad the same thing haha he couldn't stop laughing for about 5 minutes he eventually managed to tell me it means exit ill never forget that I was only 13 though.

[@TheNewcastlePilot]

Dumbest thing I've heard from your side of the pond was, "Why are they speaking American? I thought they spoke British in London??"

[@kevanwillis4571]

An American in Luxembourg was telling me he had got his hire car to 230 kph on the autoroute. I told him that if caught he would get a heavy fine. He said 'No we checked 230 is just a little over the speed limit.' He knew the car speedometer was in kph but for some reason thought the 130 signs on the highway were in mph, like in the U.S. He was driving at 143 mph in a 130 kph/ 80 mph limit. 63 mph over the limit!

[@zymelin21]

lucky for him the po-lice did not catch him. would have been an interresting court case.

[@Hogwartshouses1]

I went to Florida not that long ago and and American man easily in his late 50’s asked me where I was from as my Welsh accent is rather strong (so I’ve been told) and when I told him Wales he said oh what part of England is that? I said it’s the country next to England, he then started to argue with me saying his sons wife is Welsh and she is from england so I’m lying about where I’m from and should be ashamed, another one which always gets me is when an American will say their Welsh, Irish, Scottish but they mean their ancestors are from one of them but believe whole heartedly that they are from there but will say oh yeah I was born in America.

[@adelia988]

Yes winds me up so much, in that case I’m Egyptian, Nordic etc but I’m white born in England that’s just my dna. If Americans are so proud of being American why do they make out they are Irish, Scottish, Italian etc?

[@c.b.h1151]

I used to work in a little tourism shop in a historical town in the UK, we sold English, Scottish, Welsh flag pins. These two American women came in once and wanted to know what countries the flags were - I explained English, Scottish etc. She was like, ".....What? No, I asked you what COUNTRIES they are representing!" (she spoke louder at me like it would make me understand better). I just looked at her and slowly explained, "'Great Britain' is and island comprised of several different countries. Scotland, Wales..." etc. She just kept asking me over and over like I was stupid.

[@kevanwillis4571]

Working night security for a European film company, I would regularly get phone calls from Los Angeles at 2.30 A.M. and have Americans astounded that there was no one in the office at 5.30 P.M. Not once or twice but many times.😅

[@mskatonic7240]

What does it say about America that not only did they not know time zones were a thing, they expected someone to be there at 5.30pm. Most of us would have been out the door at that time of night.

[@spacefanatic]

The trouble with the USA is your education system. Your exams are so easy. You have multiple choice questions and even if you do not know the answer you can make a stab at it and possibly get the right answer by accident. In the UK you have to answer questions on a subject or write an essay so you have to learn about the subject.

[@janetench2866]

I was in Houston Texas and met a teacher at an event. I said I was from Canada - in British Columbia - and he said my English was so good for a South American. - a TEACHER!!!!

[@traceyanita3282]

I used to talk to a guy in Virginia. I was talking to his friend one day as he asked me to send him a picture of big Ben. I told him he'd have to get one off Google because I don't live in London. He said 'I thought you could see it everywhere' He thought no matter in the UK you were from you could see big Ben. Like it was some sort of beacon 😂 bless him. I've also been asked more times than I can count why we don't celebrate thanksgiving

[@101steel4]

I was asked by an American, if you can walk around Britain in a day, as it's so small.

[@traceyanita3282]

@@101steel4 yes, that's why we can all see big Ben from our kitchen window 😂

[@margaretnicol3423]

Did you tell him that no-one can see Big Ben unless you go inside the Elizabeth Tower? Big Ben is the name of the bell.

[@101steel4]

@@margaretnicol3423 you'd be there forever trying to explain that one.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@101steel4 Well it is Big Ben but it's not Big Ben. What you think of as Big Ben can be seen but not from a distance. If you go closer and enter the tower you'll see Big Ben but the tower is not Big Ben. It's the Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben. Not that it's a house. It's a tower. The tower contains Big Ben. You can see the tower from a distance if you're near to it in London but not from a distance if you're in the wrong part of London, i.e. all the rest of London. (Not confusing at all. 🤣)

[@VillianousKitty]

When I was in Spain on holiday the amount of Americans who couldn't wrap their head around the fact that not everyone knew English was wild 😅 also I got berated by one woman for drinking alcohol at 18yrs old even tho the legal age there is 16 💀😂

[@lizbignell7813]

Wow, ignorance AND bad manners!

[@manueltapia1859]

I'm surprised giving the fact most of the US young teens go here to México exclusevely to have a drink alcohol 😅

[@chipsthedog1]

So glad this was uploaded as the 9/11 warning piece is my absolute favourite and I have mentioned it in comments before and been accused of making it up and asked for a link which if I could not provide was obvious proof that I made it up but there's so many of these videos that I wasn't sure which one it was in. Better believe my petty dumb ass is going back to those six month old comment threads with a link to this video as my receipt. Thanks JT.

[@GrommyMcGromface]

I’m a Brit. When I went to Florida with my friend who’s from Nigeria (but he has an English accent) they didn’t believe there was black people in England.

[@dsmyify]

Visited an African country once with a British Born Chinese. Trying to explain to a female cop why a Chinese person had a UK passport; it just did not compute.

[@dinger40]

During the Gulf US Airmen were amased at seeing the Victor Bomber that was being used as a tanker aircraft, it was a weird looking thing, very futuristic/scifi like. The RAF lads had them convinced it was a new secret supersonic aircraft. It had been around since the 50's and was retired in 93.

[@indus3270]

I'm a bit late to the party, but I have a story like that, though technically the American in question wasn't talking to me specifically. I'm a Belgian who used to work in the European institutions in Brussels, most of which are mostly pretty much lumped together in a small quarter of the city, which in turn is obviously a very international area with many places to go out to. Me and a few friends/colleagues were hanging out in a local wannabe Irish pub, where we got acquainted with the American in question and a Finnish sailor, who was dressed in a sort of Disney-style pre-1900's kind of sailor's apparel, which he said was a traditional outfit (not sure if that's true, but I'll leave that in the middle, it's not important). Part of said traditional outfit was a black-white horizontally striped t-shirt, to which the American suddenly asked: "Why do you have horizontal stripes, instead of the typical black and white chessboard pattern like on the Finnish flag?" I started laughing, because I thought he was joking, but it turned out that the poor American somehow thought that the finish flag in racing was the same or derived from the Finnish national flag. It took me quite a few minutes to regain my breath before I was able to explain that there is absolutely no relation to the racing flag and the national flag of Finland, I literally almost choked laughing... Just to be clear: I don't think all Americans are dumb, most Americans I've met are quite knowledgeable and intelligent. I do think many Americans are quite ignorant, which is perfectly fine, since everyone's default point of view is ignorance, but the thing that sets Americans apart in their ignorance is the habit of of being loudly and proudly ignorant, infused with an innate inability to accept being incorrect. And that is what I believe to be the reason that the average American comes across as 'dumb'. That said, any intelligent person is able to say dumb things, ffor the record... ;-)

[@AlainnCorcaigh]

Americans actually come to Ireland expecting to see leprechauns

[@101steel4]

Or Joe Biden 😂

[@enormastitz42dcup]

@@101steel4 how much you want to bet that almost every single one of those Americans asking the questions is a tRump supporter....ALMOST GUARANTEED

[@cheryl71000]

Another one, but a pleasant American couple came up to me when I was serving in the WRNS. Women's royal naval service. I was a steward at Wimbledon during the tennis tournaments. My cap tally (a ribbon around my cap) stated where I served. Which was CinC. (Cincfleet) the American bloke came straight up to me and shook my hand stating Gee you are awful young to be a commander in chief!. I was nineteen years old, he was totally genuine , not taking the Mick. So I said thank you sir and smiled. When they went we had a good laugh thinking I was the commander in chief of the navy. But they were a lovely pleasant couple.

[@WilmaWalma]

The dumbest thing an American has said to me was at a hostel in London back in 2015. Two American girls asked me where I was from, and I said I'm from Sweden. And one of them said: "Oh wow, how does it feel to live in a communist country? Do you have internet over there or is it censored?" I honestly wasn't sure what to answer to that.

[@zymelin21]

my in-laws were from Tennessee, and they asked me the same question 53 years ago (I am danish), and my mother in law was a school teacher!!

[@2xploreuk50]

2 things. 1) when I told someone online I’m from London their response was “it’s really foggy there, huh?” I said “umm no….no it’s not”. They continued “are you sure? Because I’ve seen stuff in tv and it’s real foggy there” me: “was that like Bedknobs and Broomstick? Or Sherlock Holmes or something?” Them: “I dunno….I just know it’s real foggy in London” Me: “you realise London isn’t still in the 1800’s right?” Them: *appears offline* 😂 2) someone in a chat room (yeah, I’m that old 😂😂) was once CONVINCED that Yorkshire Pudding was made with blood. Them: “eww! Yorkshire pudding! That’s disgusting, it’s made with blood!” Me: “No love, that’s BLACK Pudding” Them: “NO! It’s YORKSHIRE Pudding!” Me: “I’m from England” Them: “So?” Me: “I’m probably more up to par with what English people eat lol” Them: “You’re English and don’t know that Yorkshire Pudding has blood in it?” Me: “That’s BLACK Pudding….not Yorkshire Pudding” Them: “NO! Yorkshire Puddings are made with blood! I’ve read about!! You don’t even know what you’re talking about!” Me: “Not only am I an Englishman who regularly eats both Yorkshire and Black pudding, my brother is a high profile chef! I THINK…I THINK!! That makes me a little more qualified on English food than you….just saying” Them: “you’re so stupid! It’s Yorkshi…” Me: “Yorkshire Pudding is literally the same fucking recipe as pancakes!!!! Look it up!!” Good times 😂😂😂

[@khymaaren]

It's cognitive bias. If someone who has never been outside is told first that the sky is green, later no-one will be able to correct them that it's actually blue. And when they finally go out, they will claim that the sky is the wrong colour.

[@2xploreuk50]

Isn’t it strange how our brains can do shit like that? Lol

[@DT-us3kd]

I was once accused (by a fellow, very young English person) of being racist because I was telling someone else about ‘The Black Country’ !!!!! You couldn’t make it up !!!

[@2xploreuk50]

@@DT-us3kdhahaha! Bless ‘em

[@CrowMaiden]

the amount of times I've heard of Americans thinking 'timezone' means 'time travel' and not just 'because they're further around the planet, the sun is in a different position'. like I've heard some dumb stuff in the UK, but Americans truly are something else.

[@kujouk]

So have I 🤣

[@marcwarren5985]

Im from Liverpool in England, i was in Florida and i got into a convo with a local tour guide about local wildlife in our local waters. She said they had dolphins and sharks..i said on a clear day from the river Mersey we can see Wales..(she thought i meant Whales). Bless her

[@MsSpiralmonkey]

To be fair it’s phonetically the same. We do have dolphins, sharks & whales here in the UK though, should have told her to try the Scottish coast.

[@spencerquimby4726]

Moved to Canada from California. While we were in the process of getting our residency we used to come up in the summers to maintain our status (time in country etc). I had numerous people at my American high school ask me things like "isn't it hard to move somewhere you don't speak the language?" Or "why do you need permission to live in Canada, can't you just like, move there?" Or "Wow, don't they eat like whale blubber and stuff". Yup, I messed with them. A lot. I hope it made them realize how silly they were but I doubt it. What really used to butter my bread was telling them Canada had beaten the US in a war (The War of 1812). They didn't know what to say to that 😂

[@lisadowsett6836]

There are dumb people all over the planet, the funniest I heard about was actually a Canadian. My boyfriend at the time was working as an electrician and doing some maintenance work on Westminster Abbey, when a Canadian tourist came up and asked him where Oliver Twist was buried, that was bad enough, but when he tried to explain that Oliver Twist was actually a book character and not a real person, they got super upset and insisted that the book was about a real boy (it absolutely wasn't) Charles Dickens is buried in Westminster Abbey, so I imagined him turning in his grave hahaha

[@richardhall6034]

That's like the American tourist information Canterbury cathedral asking were abouts Thomas the beckett was shot

[@MrKnowledge0014]

Yes there are stupid people all over the world, but most of them are or live in America.

[@mikekelly5869]

​@richardhall6034 what's a beckett?

[@Pumpherstonsmith]

Imagine if they had asked where David Copperfield was buried you could have said David Copprfield`s dead I didn`t know.

[@stevehaire6324]

I had someone ask me where Dracula was buried in Whitby. They were Welsh though.

[@sylviagreybe672]

I know Americans who think Canada is part if the USA, and other Americans who think North America means only the US. Oh and Americans who think they invented English, and have said the "your English is great" to people from literal England.

[@witsend236]

Following on from my last comment below..... I was working in the states and got an internal flight from Washington to Chicago. The pilot was South African. An American lady cabin crew was serving refreshments and arrived at my seat and ask me what I wanted, I replied a tea please. Hearing my accent she smiled and said ' are you from the same place as our pilot'? No I said he's South African and I am English. There's some 8,000 miles between the UK to SA, and 3,500 miles from the UK to New York. She smiled at me and said - so your from the same country yes? No mam - I said he lives over 50 miles away from my home town. Oh she said but you're close by. She was a lovely lady but not too bright.

[@sophieandwayne]

Sadly your education system is crap about history and geography.

[@101steel4]

Just seen a comment from an American on another video. "You can't even buy pepper spray to defend yourselves, even though crime is higher in the UK than the US.

[@khymaaren]

I bet they got some stern replies. :D

[@101steel4]

@@khymaaren it was from a school shooting video. Most of the morons still think guns are great 🙄

[@Klingon2468]

I was once asked by an American "How long is the flight from England to Scotland?" I said I didn't know I had only ever driven there, and from here (The Cotswolds, middle of England) you could drive it in about 4 or 5 hours, he looked at me as if he was thinking really hard and replied "Of course you have the channel tunnel". He had no idea that England and Scotland were one land mass. I think we are a bit hard on Americans, I don't think they are all stupid, I think the problem is the education system, children are only taught about America and American history. What I don't understand is are American children are not taught who they won there independence from and why we (as in the rest of the world) especially British people, why we don't celebrate independence day? I also get a bit annoyed when talking to Americans about how great there county is, well I say talking to them what I should say is talked at by Americans about how great they and there country is. I don't want to offend you JT, but this is usually my response. "If your country and is people are so great why do you not tell me about the Genocide of one race your ancestors committed, and then the enslavement of another race?" This usually gets 1 of 2 reactions, 1 they turn around and walk away. 2 they get very upset and attempt to start a fight defending there ancestors actions. Don't get me wrong most of the Americans I have met have been very nice (but a bit loud) I just get annoyed America is a fine country but not the great place some Americans think it is.

[@Llama_charmer]

Maybe he got it confused with Ireland?

[@DSP16569]

I really didn't know why 4th of July isn't a british national holiday. Ok in the UK it would be the "We get rid of these annoying Colonies"-Day but this would be a good reason for a Holiday. ;-)

[@Klingon2468]

@@Llama_charmer or just a confused person

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@Llama_charmer Even if they did, the Channel Tunnel won't help them get from England to Ireland either.

[@Llama_charmer]

@@Thurgosh_OG no ofcourse, i wad just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt

[@thatcedric]

Not had too much of that visiting the US from the UK. In California I was asked in a record store if we knew The Beatles. My friends and I pretended not to have heard of them. 😂

[@khymaaren]

Them and the Queen used to visit you all the time, I'm sure. Give Charles my best the next time he drops by for tea.

[@sueKay]

I worked in a tourist office for 3 years and I honestly could write a book. In saying that most Americans I've met have been lovely...but the ones who cause the "dumb" stereotypes... let's just say they're very memorable 😂

[@martinbonner2585]

From the UK, worked with a guy who lived and worked in Canada. He said he once drove across the border into America and got pulled over by the police, who said have you come from Mexico, no, but you have a mexican number plate, no it's a Montreal number plate, is that in Mexico, no Canada, where's Canada is that part of Mexico 😮😅😅😅

[@arnolddavies6734]

Do people there have any kind of geographical knowledge ? That’s incredibly stupid.🙄😂🙄😂

[@anta3612]

You're right about many Americans thinking that the whole world revolves around the US. The US is very influential in the world but this doesn't mean that those outside the US don't have anything else to think about or have any other interests besides keeping up with what's happening in America especially not on a micro/local level. I have friends in America that act astonished when I tell them that I haven't heard of the latest issues that happens to be a big deal in their area (written about in the local newspaper only). They begin conversations assuming I'm all clued up. Also, if I mention something that's happened here they start ranting about "socialism" (which, as far as I understand, clearly includes our government keeping us from accessing their news while feeding us fake news: it's fake because they don't hear our local news either).

[@CW1971]

I used to live near an American air base in the NW of England. We had some of those concrete marker posts for water in the border of our front garden. My American 'boyfriend' (we were 10yo) refused to come to my house because we had dead people buried in the front garden 😂.

[@tonycowin]

Burtonwood?

[@CW1971]

@@tonycowin thats the one! 😊

[@kevanwillis4571]

Two Americans in conversation. 'Dude, it was so funmy that Austrian guy using such a random American word "kaput". 'I think "kaput" is a German word, bro.' 'They use American words in Germany as well!' I drove American actors and musicians for a total of thirty years. I have plenty of instances. 😅

[@khymaaren]

Does any of them know Schadenfreude?

[@Llama_charmer]

You should write a book

[@Saint_Dan132]

I done this on my TikTok the other day. And one of the things I was asked years ago was by an American online and they asked if I had a television. And modern technology completely ignoring the fact I was on a laptop and the inventor of the television lives. In Glasgow.

[@fayesouthall6604]

I know it’s incredible

[@Saint_Dan132]

@@fayesouthall6604 👏🤔😋😀

[@Llama_charmer]

Nope we have internet and laptops but havent quite worked out how to build a telly yet, if you send us the schematics it would help alot

[@MsSpiralmonkey]

Also the inventor of the telephone was Scottish and the inventor of the internet is English.😐

[@Saint_Dan132]

@@MsSpiralmonkey 😁😁😁

[@PaganPunk]

I am British, But was asked on youtube by an American "Does Australia Actually Celebrate Christmas On 25th Dec, Even though its Summer there!!" 😂 ....She thought because the Summer/Winter Solstice was Different there So were the holidays! 😂....Took me Ages to Explain That Too! 🤦🏻‍♀️....And she wasn't the only one x

[@Novice9241]

I’m no American, but this reminds me of an English class I was attending. We were reading a paragraph where it was mentioned that January is the end of Summer holiday in some country in Africa. I was wondering ”How can it be Summer in January?” Then I remember how seasons work, ”Oh, right.” I was a 5th grader.

[@PaganPunk]

​@Novice9241 As a 5th Grader you can be Forgiven ❤ xx

[@101steel4]

My English cousin lived in Florida for over a decade, and was asked many times what language they speak in England. That was after he'd told them he wasn't Australian. Nearly everyone there, think English people have an Australian accent 🙄

[@dsmyify]

Does your cousin know the King?

[@gillcawthorn7572]

@@dsmyify 😂😂

[@101steel4]

@@dsmyify yes, the English and Australian one 😂

[@jenniebeann]

My partner had to go to Denver a lot for work and many people thought he was Australian, we're from Yorkshire. I think if you don't sound like royalty or Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, some Americans have trouble placing our accents.

[@sarahglover3286]

​@@jenniebeannNo everyone in the UK speaks either like the Queen or Dick Van Dyke, everyone knows that! 🤣 I'm from outside London and literally every town round here has a different accent!

[@lesleyjackson2750]

I used to work in a restaurant and we occasionally had American tourists come in. They where always so friendly and nice to serve. I did have one lady who asked me where was the best place to go to later that day to possibly spot a member of the royal family 😳 the restaurant was in Liverpool 🙈 maybe Jim Royal love 🤣

[@MichaelHill-we7vt]

visiting Hawaii for the very first time(I'm British, by the way) and I went into the shop in the hotel foyer to buy a cold drink and a snack....the young man serving me obviously noticed my accent(I'm from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, and have a quite noticeable Hampshire accent) and he said, "are you Australian?" I told him I was English, and he looked puzzled, "English?" he said..... "are you sure....................??"

[@dartmoordave]

Aldershot, Pompey lad. Had the same experience.

[@chrisstones1249]

One of the many things i like about you young man ,is that you can laugh at people taking the mickey out of u.s.a..you have a great sense of humour, priceless 👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@marlonthomas8042]

I’ve had the black People in England one I’ve also had someone ask me for American ID Luckily the manager wasn’t an idiot But I had to ask the woman serving “if I’m not American how or why would I have American ID?” She then asked me if I have and Florida ID for reference this was a liquor store near a sea port we had maybe 6 Americans working on my ship from a staff of about 1000 people

[@grycripps]

I'm English! First time I went to LA we were often asked about our accent. Are you Guy's Australian? We went to Disney Land and we got questions like, do you Guy's have helium balloons where you come from. So you Guy's drink dark warm beer where you come from? No we drink lager! Lager, what's lager? We walked past a motorbike and were asked if we had bikes like that where we come from? Do you Guy's play pool where you come from? Yes, we play pool and we also play snooker! Snooker, what's snooker? And so it went on and on. It became very apparent that the people we stayed with had no idea of any existence outside of LA. We have many American friends though and love them all!

[@FleXdaNorth]

An American once asked me if there was hot running water in my country (the uk lol).

[@khymaaren]

Did you tell them about the separate hot and cold taps?

[@susanlynch1966]

I went to Windsor Castle once,and an American tourist was complaining about it being under the flight path of Heathrow airport."Could they not have built the castle somewhere else?"she said. Jesus wept.

[@khymaaren]

Can you blame them? In the US, there are only a handful of buildings that are older than 200 years. Let alone 800...

[@patricialittle2406]

We were asked by an American couple where the snow was, we were in Ottawa in July sweating in the humidity. My Dad gave her directions to the Canadian north.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

AHH, you come from England! No, no, no - I am from Wales. 🙃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🤪

[@angeladormer6659]

America seems to think they are the only country in the world, please. Your first immigrants were English the fact that you now no longer speak the Kings English, but American English very different. I am an old English lady who when I was at school, nearly 60 years ago, were taught to speak properly and we were taught grammar. We were also taught about history and geography of the whole world.❤❤❤👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹🌹

[@101steel4]

I've had an American on another video, tell me the only reason people speak English around the world is because of America😂

[@jandex4838]

I've met quite a few American tourists, due to my high English proficiency and taking summer jobs with the local agency that organized site tours from the time I was in high school, but the one and only horror story I have was during my time at Uni, in our country's capitol, so, on my experience alone, the stereotypes of American tourists are really not all that true. But that one exception is all the explanation needed for how the stereotypes ever came about. So, I was in a small store really near to the main pedestrian zone of the city, and at the checkout there was this older gentlemen trying to pay for his purchases with USD$, and the hapless cashier who apparently barely spoke any English at all was failing to explain to him that they could not legally accept foreign currency, so I stepped up and very politely told the man just that, and offered to him for me to ask the cashier to hold his items to the side while he went out, walked for ~30m down that same street where there was a money exchange office/kiosk. The man absolutely exploded at both of us that he was not using 'no forrein' currency. I tried, politely, to explain that since he wasn't even on the same continent as USA, him and his money were by default foreign to the country we were in, but he just kept on throwing a tantrum for the next couple of minutes, not listening to anyone. Luckily he left after that, without purchasing anything, on his own.

[@1972dsrai]

It’s crazy how many UK city/town names they mispronounce when so many of them are town and city names in the US where they’ll pronounce them correctly.

[@witsend236]

The comment I always got as a Brit was - where are you from.... England, oh I know someone called Jones in England - do you know them?

[@DRK1785]

I got called German by an American, I'm from the UK but and I'm Scouse it's an accent the pretty much confuses most other countries, when I was younger I went travelling a lot and when people tried work out where I was from I would get German a lot or Irish which is close as our accent is mixed in with the Irish plus my Grandad was Irish but still not correct I had Australian no idea how, Danish, Norwegian etc the list was endless. Even after you tell them your British they still didn't believe me.😂

[@firavun8943]

That 4th of July took me out. omfg 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@weeeeee374]

Often i get asked if Britian is in England. I am like.....almost 😂

[@stuartmitchell3236]

I had the exact same reaction to the timezone and 9/11 one. That's dumb on a completely new level.

[@dsmyify]

Dumbest thing an American ever said to me was an airport security cop. He was checking my passport and he stopped at a visa for Egypt; from a previous holiday. The Egyptian visa has a picture of the Pyramids at Giza because that's why people go to Egypt; the most recognisable landmark of Egypt. The cop stopped at this visa, had a good look at it, thought it suspicious and then asked me, while pointing at the picture of the pyramids.... "Egypt huh, and why did you go there?"

[@thenerdytiger9306]

I'm from Wales and an American who i met in the uk(whilst i was speaking english) said: You know you should talk better american we did give you language My response was: wyt ti'n siarad cymraeg? (Do you speak welsh?)

[@stubatman3103]

I was chatting with dude from ohio on call of duty once about history he lost his mind saying the world doesn’t have 1000 years of history it was only invented 300 years ago 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@ruialmeida818]

Fun story - visiting the US for the first time, being Portuguese, although I have a thick English type accent. While having dinner, the waitress asked me if I was from London, to which I replied with a smile, 'no, I'm from Porto, Portugal - born and raised', to which I got the reply 'oh, you don't look like south american'... I stated, with a fake smile 'Portugal is in Europe, right next to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula'... Jeez, Americans really suck at Geography

[@arnolddavies6734]

Yeah, pathetic isn’t it ? I always feel as though you need to carry a world atlas with you, in case an American asks a stupid geography question.

[@EPICchuchu]

This reminds me of when I was a teenager playing games on Xbox live with a friend, we were speaking to an American about the same age and we convinced him that we light our homes with candles and lamps because we didn't have electricity. On Xbox live.

[@101steel4]

I had a similar one. An American asked me if Manchester was an island, as he couldn't understand their accent. When I asked what he meant, he said oh I thought Manchester must be an island way off the coast as they speak a different language.

[@johnking2740]

I love messing with Americans on the time zones, I live in New Zealand, so like we are about 16hrs ahead of the US so I tell them - "I can see the future - you're fucked".

[@JamJar93]

When I was in Florida, some women said to me where I was from I said Liverpool UK, she said I love the British accent but you don't sound British and I told her there are loads of accents and she said I thought there was only one English 😂

[@AdeleD79]

She'd get the shock of her life if she ever visited the UK then. A different accent in nearly every town/city/village lol

[@gillcawthorn7572]

Did you think to tell her that the American she spoke was with a regional accent? They never realise that it happens with them.

[@tonycowin]

The Scouse accent is the best British accent.

[@manueltapia1859]

Happens the same thing here in México, with a 32 states and a lot of municipalities (counties to US people) we have different accents, foods, handcrafts. Not all is like México City or Cancún haha 😅

[@AHVENAN]

Some of these stories literaly give me physical chills, that's just how insanely stupid they are! 🤣

[@adrianboardman162]

I spent time in Laughlin, and my phone was always confused because you literally cross the bridge, you're in Bullhead which is different by an hour.

[@tonycowin]

Theres even a whole musical called Oklahoma. 😂

[@ianpope6133]

There is an area of London called Blackfriars. Walking along the South bank of the river Thames I heard an American woman say - "and this is called Blackfriars bridge - even though it is painted red"

[@diane9656]

i love these 😂😂😂 i live in the English Lake District, my friends and i were sitting half way up a mountain and a tourist bus pulled up. An American guy ran over to us asking if we were waiting for the osprey to appear and what time it was due

[@ArrDee49]

Visiting the US many years ago, I was asked about my accent, where I was from. I replied that I was from Sydney (Australia). The bloke then asked me if I had to drive from there! My reply blew him away. "Nah mate, we didnt drive, we came by sea, it took 6 weeks!"

[@grahamparsons4635]

I'm from England, many years ago I had a holiday in Australia. I flew with North West . On the return journey I took off from Sydney approximately 10.30ish Saturday Morning. We had to stop in Honalolo for passport check because its the first state on the return trip. When we landeded it was 11pm Friday night (so yes went back in time. I joked will have to do this again when it's my birthday). O.M.G the look of confusion on the attendant as she was checking my luggage back in.😅😂

[@GumnutLaneJewellery]

Geeze, someone needs to do something about the American education system! They should be teaching kids that America is NOT "The world"

[@djwroodbwoy]

Yes, that's exactly what happened to me. I've been to America a few times. I was in New York about a year after 9/11. I had a conversation with a waiter. I said I urgently needed a coffee because I was a bit tired due to the time difference. He had a very thoughtful look on his face and asked why no one had warned us about the planes and almost got a little angry. I said, oh sorry, we must have forgotten. But I can tell you what's going to happen in the next 5 minutes. You'll probably end up in hospital with a broken nose. But there is one thing you can do to prevent that. He had his eyes wide open and asked me how? I grinned and answered - By not asking any more stupid questions. After a few seconds he started laughing and realized that his question was really stupid.

[@apodis4900]

My American friend from Tuscon was visiting us in the UK. We were in the Lake District, and we asked him if he wanted to carry on North and go to Scotland. He said he’d love to but he had left his passport at his Air B&B in London. We pissed ourselves laughing. Now it was more naive than dumb, so we let him off after explaining that no passport was needed for Scotland. 😅

[@Hairnicks]

That's hysterical and sadly true of many Americans who tend to live only with local knowledge of their own state. Thankfully I have met many who are worldly wise. Wrll, one or two.

[@derekcopland7507]

An American woman asked me where I was from. Scotland I said. What part of London is that? She asked 🤦