Americans scare me

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[@GeorgeM]

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[@terrariums.]

oh my god george you have fallen off the deep end

[@freyaDH]

Why do the best videos have raid shadow legends sponsosors

[@txrxw]

no

[@cadanvr]

what if I don't want to

[@AlexLead]

I'm sorry mandem but your impeccable advertising skills are not good enough to get me to install raid shadow legends.

[@alanwolf313]

As a Portuguese I can confirm I've never seen water running here. It has no legs after all

[@theomacer3094]

In America we have a guaranteed right to clean water as long as it's coming out of a watergun

[@thegaelicgladiator665]

Yeah when i was over in Portugal i was drinking from the river in Lisbon i wish Europe wasn't a third world country XD

[@whimai412]

Ahhhhaaaahaha such a good pun sir XD

[@jameskilgour387]

​@@theomacer3094 or if you're putting it on golf courses and exorbitantly large lawns. Just as long as you aren't poor and / or from Flint, MI

[@flumpyofdoom]

​@@theomacer3094 The mental image of everyone in America spraying each other in the face when they are thirsty, with a water gun is hilariously magnificent to me.

[@Nintentoad125]

We should all have the right to bear arms. What are we supposed to do without arms? Use our legs?

[@SnowMexicann]

bear arms are a bit excessive though, I say human arms should be the limit

[@ChrisCSunshine]

And where are the Bears supposed to get arms from?

[@archieb1306]

I think lizard arms are cooler

[@Oismyurl]

The big questions is can bears bear bear arms?

[@shambles.2653]

This thread is unbearable

[@MajoradeMayhem]

I hate it when Americans on the Net get pissy and insist that "Black British" people be called "African-American." No. They are not African and they are not American. They are Brits who are black.

[@kassandraofodyssey6475]

It’s like Americans insisting someone from Honduras is “Mexican-American” because they “look Mexican” like JUST USE THEIR NATIONALITY FFS

[@TheWorkersNewspaper1994]

I’m born in Asians but is I Americans?

[@lisabowell143]

What??​@@TheWorkersNewspaper1994

[@refulgent_fanta]

Do people even use the term "Black British", or a variation of? Because I lived for three years in the UK and I never once heard anything like that.

[@domdouse3575]

Just shows how ignorant Americans are about the rest of the world.

[@marklivingstone3710]

Best put down I’ve heard in ages, an American was heckling an Australian comedian on stage. He kept listing all the things in Australia that are dangerous like snakes, spiders, jelly fish, crocs, sharks……and how dumb you’d have to be to live there. He then asked was there anywhere you can go in Australia where there wasn’t something trying to kill you? The comedian responded: ‘yeah, school.’

[@axelthorpe7708]

UNDER RATED COMMENT. PUT THE FKER IN HIS PLACE

[@Jakeio-w9j]

Americans think we all live in the outback, that their is no cities (Expept ofc Sydney the Capital) and we get bitten by snakes everyday

[@patsytyler2199]

The audience should have given the comedian a standing ovation

[@bennybadfish]

George saying these common sense things like “ambulances should be free” and “you should pay your workers a livable wage” would make him a far left socialist in America. Our country is fucked.

[@esmeecampbell7396]

That makes him a far left Socialist anywhere. There's no such thing as free, someone somewhere has to pay for it... Ambulance cover is like one of the most basic things that ALL health insurance covers. And most health insurance is less per month than average taxpayer NHS contributions. AND they get better healthcare treatment, wait times etc AND they can opt out for years if they want to risk it, saving themselves thousands.

[@bennybadfish]

@@esmeecampbell7396 Don’t care. make healthcare free. Tax everyone, I do not care. Make billionaires give 90% of their earnings if you have to.

[@lordjzargo7940]

​@@esmeecampbell7396 still prevents millions from getting healthcare

[@x288.]

lol goofy man

[@lygames9766]

I agree that our country is fucked.

[@ChokyoDK]

Some people in the US defend billionaires not paying taxes while not being able to afford using an ambulance. Absolute insanity.

[@Cadian-8th-4676]

I love how the American government has a privatised health care system while also having backwards systems that damage the free market

[@ciaranhoward4282]

What do you expect from that country 😂

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

It's amazing that they will continue to defend why they think america is #1 or even the immature 'we own you all', no they don't, USA doesn't own anything, since the Iraq War, america has been a weak joke that Brazil, China, Iraq, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia are considering distance from the USD

[@Alpha49642]

And in the same breath will decry poor people not paying taxes.

[@abzinhoo]

Hm

[@fifi23o5]

The most American trait I can think of: they have to have an opinion on everything, especially on the subjects they have absolutely no idea about.

[@patriziamares6757]

Like the lady I saw in a video who claimed that a dozen equals 50

[@mexa_t6534]

Yeah, the phrases “I don’t know enough to have an opinion” or simply “I don’t have an opinion” don’t seem to exist in a lot if USamerican’s vocabulary

[@TraitorFelon.14.3]

@@mexa_t6534 What can you expect from a nation who, in their dictionary, states that “I couldn’t care less” has the same meaning as “I could care less”?

[@jonson856]

A few friends of mine went to the US for a year (school exchange something), and they came back with the same impression on Americans. 😂

[@yottaforce]

Well, in their defense, it's hard not to have an opinion about _anything_

[@hckyroxs8019]

I'm a Canadian living in Scotland that had an American friend who broke her ankle while in the UK. She went to the emergency room here in Scotland at 11pm and was seen that night and her ankle was set; she was asked to come back the next day to see if she would need surgery on it though. Well, the next day she was going back to the States to visit family so she said no, she couldn't do that and went home. She then got it checked out in the States to which they found out yes, she did need surgery and she stayed extra to get it done while she was there. She to this day thinks the NHS tried to screw her over and is incompetent when no, they just asked her to come back the next day when the proper doctor was in to check it out but she had time constraints that ironically stopped her from having the surgery for free. Still pisses me off she actually believes this "America is best" bullshit.

[@steffenjensen422]

She probably paid a boatload of money for that surgery too

[@georgercop]

"Is Mediterranean a slur to Italians?" "Yeah, it's basically their sea-word"

[@Flintlockon]

Nice!😆

[@giovannipeggio5071]

it is, in fact, a slur for us. It should be called mare nostrum

[@Flintlockon]

@@giovannipeggio5071 Only if you are a Roman legionaire speaking classical Latin or you are a member of Mussolini's Fascist party.

[@giovannipeggio5071]

@@Flintlockon quid vult? Estne tu quoque romanus? Noster mare es mediterraneum. If you don't understand, it's s joke

[@Flintlockon]

@@giovannipeggio5071 God Bless you. In today's world it's hard for satire and i am certain you sympathize. ;) my mistake.

[@Asguard82]

Years ago I was talking on ICQ with a guy from Texas and I said I am Australian. His response: “Where in the US is Australia?” “It’s not, we are a seperate country” “But you speak American” I still remember it so many years later

[@ktipuss]

And the capital city of Australia is Vienna......

[@jamesknight2198]

@@ktipuss and there are kangaroos in austria

[@fishofgold6553]

Was he drunk?

[@Nobby76]

I remember ICQ. the only app that showed you typing and deleting the letters if you made a mistake. You could never talk shit about someone and delete it coz they saw everything. back in those days i usedto hang about in IRC channels all the time and experienced so much american dumb-assery it was astounding.

[@johnhough4445]

... and almost like a native, no? I love it ...

[@sithguitarist698]

Americans watched Game of Thrones and thought it was a documentary about Europe.

[@neilbradley5011]

Some of them watched LOTR and The Hobbit and thought it was UK.

[@J-alCapone]

​@@neilbradley5011 wish it was 😂

[@Canalcoholic]

Game of Thrones was heavily based on the English Wars of the Roses. The houses of Lancaster and York became Lanister and Stark.

[@silvertalisman9061]

@@neilbradley5011 Tolkien was inspired by wales when making middle earth.

[@themonstergummitier1844]

​@@J-alCapone Me too, I want a direwolf of my own! 😄

[@Frohds14]

In the spring I had American Airbnb guests, both in their 50s, in my small half-timbered house below a German castle that Americans often visit. My 510-year-old house is furnished in a very traditional way - I am an historian - and in the kitchen I have not only induction plates but also a rustic wood stove, cupper pans and kettles. (and a big American fridge btw.) I heat with a modern heat pump with underwall heating (and cooling) and additional pellet stove and therefore have two stoves in the apartment. In addition - for decorative purposes - also old candlesticks and oil lamps. I explained everything to my guests, how everything works. Among other things, I explained to them that the house is a smart home and that everything is controlled via Amazon Echo, which of course also understands English. Only my Alexa is no longer called Alexa (because of the half-deaf neighbour who yelles at his Alexa and activates mine, too) but "Trina". Well... They gave me a scathing review. They told: I would have left out the fact that "there was no electricity in the house", they would have "had climb steep stairs by candlelight", "cook breakfast on a wood stove", and not be able to charge their cell phones (there are stations in every room). Former guests argued with them "that's not true". And then they presented photographic evidence. "The entire village hasn't been connected to the electricity supply at all, there are not any cables on the roofs, a few modern houses have obviously installed solar systems. Not even telephone lines have been laid". It didn't even occur to them that all of our lines have been underground at least for 30 years, because they don't know that from their Midwest US-twon because of their old infrastructure there. Another excitement was that "drinking water in Germany has to be disinfected using a device called Soda Stream". And "this Trina-maid never showed up. We had to light the candles and lamps oureselves."

[@arnodobler1096]

Oh Gott 😂

[@janrautenstrauch4729]

Tja, vielleicht wird es an der Zeit, dass man seine Gäste auch bewerten darf.

[@vermis8344]

"Drinking water in Germany has to be disinfected using a device called Soda Stream." I had trouble typing that sentence out because I was laughing so hard.

[@gerardflynn3899]

You will need diagrams for Americans, most of them can't read.

[@deepti1709]

I would love to visit your house and be a guest there.. if for nothing but to enjoy the house and the way you have decorated it. Can you please share the airBnB link?

[@krashd]

I remember hearing a story about an old couple who visited the UK and were surprised by 'how many African-Americans live here', when someone corrected the lady with "they are black Brits, not African Americans" she allegedly replied with "I know, but we call them African Americans back home" as if that was the correct term for black people everywhere...

[@dmgroberts5471]

British Black people tend to _really_ hate being called that. Especially if their family is _Caribbean._

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

​@Glasdia No, none of them realize it's a continent. It's the *country* of Africa.

[@harrynac6017]

​@@bazzfromthebackground3696Indeed. Someone told me there are no refugees in South Africa, because you can't flee to your own country.

[@jamesblackwell2067]

we just call them "english" over here, its only america that does the "irish-american", "african american" etc etc thing; your gov wants you all to be separate so they can control you easier (and also pit you against each other for political gain). ever noticed how in america, no one is just "american"? even the anglo saxons (britons) that built your country are "white-americans", its by design

[@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

Someone once described Nelson Mandela as African American Let that sink in

[@AholeAtheist]

"I can't in good conscience pay someone $20 per hour." Sir, you seem to be under the impression you have a good conscience when you do not.

[@ssjcrafter8842]

they can't in good conscience pay someone 20$ *because* they don't have a good conscience.

[@josefstalin9678]

A large part of the state I live in wants to join another state because of its politics and for that very same reason, the state they want to join has no state minimum wage, unlike my state. In my state the minimum wage is like 12$ an hour but in the other its the same as the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Like, as if $12 an hour is somehow too much

[@hrma6313]

If he can't pay 20 bucks, his business is worth shit, he'd be better going back to his beloved Murica and pay people 7$

[@petrmaly9087]

It literally says "internship" in the description, so he can pay US minimum wage or he doesn't have to pay anything. Internships are generally unpaid. Also, technically Austrian minimum wage is $0 as Austria doesn't have any legal limit for minimum wage, it is determined by collective bargaining.

[@wolf1066]

Whatever they're paying anyone, you can rest assured that they're not doing it in good conscience.

[@HeyLaserLips]

I went to NYC in 2003, and yeah, granted it was 20 years ago now I'll still never forget this interaction. I was in a shop and the woman behind the counter caught on to my accent. She asked me if I was from the UK and I said yes. She then asked "How did you get over here?". I was a bit confused and said "By plane?". She suddenly gasped as said "You have AIRPORTS now??" with compete sincerity. I was thinking inside: err, yeah? Heathrow is one of the largest and busiest in the world? xD

[@B-A-L]

Should have told her London also had the world's first international airport and then wait for her to ask 'but where did the planes fly to?'

[@furlosifurfox5794]

should of just told her you walked XD

[@robertcarroll5036]

Wow, England has airports now?

[@mreggs3731]

should have said you drove there

[@andreasfischer9158]

No, we don’t. Each apartment comes with its own runway.

[@themanonguitar3398]

I love that the US Department of Defense doesn't know that the "Angel of Death" was the nickname given to Josef Mengele, a Nazi war criminal.

[@HadridarMatramen]

Yes, but he was neither the only, nor the first to gain such a nickname. I love Louis Antoine Saint-Just (1767-1794), but people who didn't like him or what the French Revolution was doing, did nickname him "the archangel of death". Might have been a post-humous nickname, I don't remember that. But no, the Americans are certainly NOT in any way original...

[@ScottishVagabond]

It's also the common parlance for serial killers who kill in the process of carrying out their roll as a doctor, nurse or other carer, utilizing their power, access to drugs and professional cover to literally get away with murder.

[@Saufs0ldat]

Just like the rest of the world doesn't have to comply with American sensibilities, Americans don't have to care about 70 year old German cultural references.

[@ceroman_]

As someone who lives in Ireland, I've passed american tourists saying "wow I didn't know these people had electricity"

[@EmyN]

No way

[@louisrelf5903]

Lost for words

[@lobodesade6780]

I remember I used to live in Michigan for a time, and one time I was asked where my accent was from, so I replied "I'm Irish, but my accent is from Dublin", so then I got the response "is Dublin in Ireland? And do you know a girl called Margret from Cork?".

[@PhilosophicalTramp-lu2mi]

I'm German and my wife is Japanese. Once in a Berlin pub, we got chatting to an American couple next to us. When they learned where we were from, they asked us whether we had met during WWII. For reference, we are both 26

[@CountScarlioni]

I swear, there is a swathe of Irish Americans who have grown up hearing hand-me-down tales of the "old country" and can't comprehend that the nation continued to evolve and advance over the 150 years since their last _actual_ Irish ancestor departed. I remember an old episode of Star Trek where its set in the 24th century and they come across some Irish colonists in space. They depict them as all rustic wearing threadbare suits, living with their livestock running amok. eating potatoes, saying stuff like "Oh Begorrah to be sure!" Absolute max cringe. I think that was not only what US TV makers thought Ireland was like, but worse, thought Ireland in the future would be like!

[@dangibbo8275]

refusing to believe america exists is my coping method

[@anthonylong9067]

Being american myself, we have the same thought process as you.

[@redsphinx113]

it just HAS to be a meme. There simply cannot be a country as fucking dumb as this.

[@Selickrip55]

Then your insane 😂

[@SirPanikalot778]

​@@Selickrip55 *You're

[@Ebbagull]

​@@SirPanikalot778 Oh, wow! That actually works! When I thought of the US as a fictional nightmare world, like Westeros or something, that actually made it a little bit easier to breathe 😅 Thanks for the new coping mechanism!

[@adalindenau5035]

I can't help but thank America for making me appreciate that my own country is at least somewhat civilised

[@fancimaski]

ikr

[@JonasGutenwald-yj8th]

Can’t help but thank Europe for making the US look fucking awesome

[@neilbradley5011]

Me too.Here in the UK if you are in an accident ,the ambulance to Casualty is free,the triage is free,the X-ray is free,the plaster work if needed is free as are all the medications,the time of the Doctors and nurses is free and when you go home the outpatients clinic is free. In the USA you would end up with a debt so large it woudl have been cheaper to die in the accident.

[@mreggs3731]

@@neilbradley5011in Australia, you don't pay for surgery, you pay for the tax on the surgery.

[@alexisbaz8746]

Even in My country we can call an ambulance and going to the hospital witouth geting debt for Life..., oh right, we have an American fanboy Anarco capitalist now..., he say's there is no money for free Universities, healtcare, medicine and Denge vagones but we have to Buy some old Fighters Jets..., I Guess he would be an acercate American with that lógic.

[@pkscarr]

excerpt from a chat I had on a discord server with an american about the rest of the world finding the pledging of allegiance thing weird and slightly cult-ish: them: "it's not indoctrination, its a show of how much we appreciate our country and the freedom we have" us: "so, what would happen if you didn't want to take part?" them: "oh you'd probably get detention and people wouldn't be happy" us: "so you recite a mantra in a large group where any deviation will be cracked down on and result in being socially shunned until you reconform?" them: "yes? I guess so?" us: "yeah this seriously sounds like some dodgy indoctrination cult s**t i'm sorry"

[@The_Trident_Master]

I don’t find it weird at all. It’s your country, you should be patriotic

[@jeremypnet]

@@The_Trident_Masterreciting the pledge of allegiance every day is not patriotism, especially if you get punished for not taking part.

[@astr0jack440]

One of my friends was born in the US and moved over to the UK, some of the stories he told us about American schools are insane. Seriously metal detectors?

[@FrostyShadowYT]

@@The_Trident_Master patriotism shouldn't be forced. If you want to be patriotic, good for you but don't force others to participate in it.

[@coal1235]

@@jeremypnet you don’t get punished if you don’t participate lol, in my school no one really even says it, we just put our hand on our chest until it’s done, it depends on the school or teacher tbh

[@JorneDeSmedt]

"Is there a Rome in Italy?" And suddenly it became clear, why some of them think Jesus was American.

[@slate613]

Some people here also don't believe that Georgia is also a country in Eastern Europe. . . Saw a tiktok where a girl from Egypt was told by an American that nothing exists outside the US. . .

[@lordpugsie9091]

Fun fact: There's a Rome in every continent except for Antarctica (for obvious reasons)

[@mreggs3731]

@@lordpugsie9091what about Oceania?

[@lordpugsie9091]

@@mreggs3731 what part of "every continent except for Antarctica", did you not understand?

[@cliveadams7629]

They probably think the hunchback of Notre Dame happened in Indiana.

[@milkemoments1366]

As an American, I can confirm that it's impossible to ask another American where they're from and have them answer "America" They'll always go on about their great great great grandparents

[@graceydez6199]

And in England our Jamaican populations say they are British and our African brothers also say they are British. There is no hyphen here.

[@barbaram5769]

It's so weird to me. I am half Scottish, in that my Dad was born and raised in Scotland and is Scottish. I was born and raised in England and have always said that I'm English. I won't even consider myself a certain nationality based on my own father; I can't imagine tracing back my 4x great grandparents to see if I can make a claim to seem slightly more interesting than someone else in the room. Wild stuff.

[@gazblackheart4596]

I believe it probably has a lot to do with our countries history in that people were heavily segregated not just black people but the irish, the italians and so on. So we were raised to say we are where our ancestors are from because thats how our family was identified and treated, based on where we came from. There was racism towards pretty much every type of person back then so we learned to identify with our groups based on that and it just carried on through the generations and became more of a quirky thing instead of a racial thing.

[@squiggle.64]

⁠@@barbaram5769 My mum is also half Scottish half English, her dad is Scottish and mum English and she’s lived in England her whole life. She has always said shes English because thats where she was born and raised, why would she bother saying she’s Scottish when she’s never lived there. I guess that makes me 25% Scottish but I have always lived in England and never in my life even considered calling myself Scottish, let alone introduced myself with it😭

[@maxdavis7722]

@@gazblackheart4596 still stupid to consider yourself another nationality, especially when so many Americans seem so proud to be American but desperate to identify as anything else.

[@BBTurning]

George you should try being Irish when an American is here. My daughter and her friend were speaking Irish at a coffee shop (it is a compulsory language to learn in school) when an American woman (not a young woman) asked my daughter what language they were speaking to which my daughter answered Irish, to which the American lady promptly told them that they were not speaking Irish that they were speaking "Celtic which is the Scottish language and that she would now because her Grandfather came from Ireland". Can you imagine going to a country and telling two Native speakers that they were not speaking their own language ????. For a people who are so over the top proud of their country why are Americans embarrased to actually be just American instead of Irish American or Italian American etc, the one thing you will never hear though is British/English American, they stay well clear of that due to their history and not wanting to be associated with the "other side" in the war of Independance, that is a direct quote from an American. Shay

[@keepdancingmaria]

My great grandfather emigrated from England. I guess that makes me English American, lol.

[@alfresco8442]

I realised the same thing a while back....anything other than English American. Yet when you look at the most common surnames in the USA (which must bear at least some vague relationship to the proportion of people who emigrated there) then you get:- Smith - 2,442,977. Johnson - 1,932,812. Williams - 1,625,252. Brown - 1,437,026. Jones - 1,425,470. Garcia - 1,166,120. Miller - 1,161,437. Davis - 1,116,357. All very Irish and Scottish. 😄 I believe there are a disproportionate number of Johnsons because many immigration officers couldn't be bothered to spell Johansson properly at Ellis Island when they were processing people. All three of my names are Scottish and my dad fought in a Highland regiment during the war, but I was born in Liverpool, so I'm English. They really ought to get over themselves.

[@ImperiumRomanum476]

​@@keepdancingmariaIt's really telling that so many here would rather associate themselves with the nationality of someone they never met than be an American.

[@keepdancingmaria]

@@ImperiumRomanum476 I wonder if it is a way to avoid being the melting pot we pretend we like being? I just don't know. On my mom's side I am English and Irish. On my father's side I am English, Scottish, and Cherokee. Call me whatever you want to. I'm just me, an American trying to survive our runaway capitalism. And I don't think this is due to genetic heritage. I think it is because life is fucking hard for everyone right now.

[@oldfogey4679]

Turning if ur not native american it's culturally rude insensitive to call yourself american! So people define their ethnicity via their favorite immigration history!

[@overpower3382]

For some reason, some Americans think that just because Europe is old and has a history, it isn't modern. They think of their country as being the new, flashy, modern country and everywhere else is old and as unmodern as they were in premodern times.

[@taistelusammakko5088]

Which is terribly ironic coming from a people who cant drink tap water

[@cambs0181]

As a Brit, I went and spent some time in Berlin. I knew a little bit of German from my school days. I went into a bar and ordered a beer and some food in what was broken German, the Germans at the bar sniggered a bit. Even though they got me a beer for trying, I still felt a little embarrassed seeing as most Germans can speak good English. Then as if by a miracle from God, some American tourists turned up in the bar and with all the "EXCUSE ME SIR!" and talking to them in very slow English, my shame of ignorance all but vanished.

[@lisaty5937]

As a German, I am sorry that you felt embarrassed. Most of us (in my experience, anyway) appreciate people trying to make an effort, particularly as we are aware that our language is pretty difficult to learn. And of course I wasn't there, but I do hope that the sniggering was mostly because it probably sounded cute 😊

[@MsAli0]

While living in Germany, I was told by a German it was appreciated that we tried, but apparently we Brits sound Polish. 😅

[@deathtrooper7760]

@@MsAli0 well beter than sounding like an american with a hot potato or 1 kilo of gum in there mouth

[@gingerdude]

​@@MsAli0you Brits sound very cute when you speak German.😌 Sincerely, a German

[@janslavik5284]

@@gingerdude Well now I'm curious, have you ever encountered a Czech person speaking German? I imagine we must have a pretty strong accent, but I can't imagine how it would sound to native Germans 🙂

[@darthplagueis13]

As someone who has never been to Portugal before, I can confirm that they don't have running water. They are a very relaxed people and therefore prefer walking water.

[@unicorntulkas]

As a German I can confirm that we don't have running water but at least it sparkles.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

I have never been to America before but I can confirm that 67% of US municipalities put fluoride, which is a NEUROTOXIN, into their drinking water. On purpose. Im pretty sure its one of the major reasons they all have brain damage.

[@009AZZA009]

Good one 😂Quite accurate as well, I miss the slow life there

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@009AZZA009 If portuguese people are so relaxed then why are all your football players absolute savage cavedwellers who try to litrrally kill their opponents on the field. do you have a national selection where you pick the eleven most aggressive men in portugal and send them to the cup?

[@pedrosilvaproductions]

@@unicorntulkas When I went to Germany it was something so weird to me, since it's way more common to drink sparkling water than to drink plain water in many places. Even at restaurants if I ask for water they give me sparkling water

[@viciousyeen6644]

I met some friendly US tourists in a hostel in Poland, they asked me how we live under Hitler. Like, they genuinely thought he was still alive. They also asked me if I came to Poland by boat or by plane… my car, Susan. I took my car…

[@HS-lv6wc]

As an American, I would like to apologize for them. Sorry you had to put up with those.

[@leopavlov7165]

They know surprisingly little on the topic for "patriotic" citizens of the country that "won WW2"

[@ericdpeerik3928]

Americans, your right to bear arms will already be honoured on the plane over. It's customary that Americans, who conseal carry, mark themselves by wearing a terry cloth as a bracelet. These Americans are known as Terry Wrists. Once you go through the security gates and the metal detector goes of, just show them what weapon you brought and say loudly and clearly "I'm a Terry Wrist" three times. And Bob's your uncle, mate.

[@sexysoup631]

this advice is the bomb

[@fancimaski]

This is comedy gold

[@Rocco049]

That took me a second to get lmao that’s so good

[@paprikagames]

🤣

[@theunderstatement6842]

my mind has been blown

[@stucorbett]

I'm a Canadian who visits America often. Thanks to me, there's countless Americans who believe Canada still doesn't have the internet, that the gravity is slightly less here and that I paid for my vacations from working in the Parsley Mines which is also our greatest export.

[@Cornu341]

You had me at parsley mines 😂

[@evanwhite2845]

Up in them there Canadaland

[@tacfoley4443]

I guess you must be from Beesee, but over in Albirda we have egg mines instead.

[@garethbull2226]

Why not try telling them maple syrup grows on trees in Canada.

[@petegarnett7731]

@@garethbull2226 It leaves the "new" flag a bit sticky though.

[@veedubbya]

An American tourist visiting Spain was surprised to discover that the locals spoke Mexican.

[@Nothin-but-the-blues]

So, the locals are all drug dealers and rapists?

[@xXevilsmilesXx]

😂

[@Vexatious_Humanoid]

Ah yes, ‘Mexican’.

[@ruairimcm4131]

😂

[@tourniqut]

To be fair the language should be called mexican most speakers are mexican and modern "spanish" is more like nahuatl(aztec) than medieval spanish

[@x_hibernia]

Jesus that one got me, "why do English people speak English and not some other European language", the brain rot is real with that one

[@marcusm663]

USA - One in seven think Chocolate milk comes from brown cows. USA - One in five cannot locate the US on a world map. USA - One in twelve think they would beat a Grizzly bear in a bare handed fight.

[@JustaTechSavvyGuy.]

Probably kids, I've lived here my entire life, and I have never met anyone that dumb. 😅

[@marcusm663]

​@@JustaTechSavvyGuy. Chocolate milk was from a national survey by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy. Map was a study by Yale university. Bear is YouGov's rumble in the jungle survey. All are easily verifiable.

[@oldfrittenfett1276]

As I went to University here in Germany, we had a lot of exchange students from the USA. Sometimes their behaviour was quite strange. Like "how is it that everybody could just enter the University, no armed guards, metal detectors etc.". Or when they fell from the bike because they never learned how to do it and refused to go to the doctor when their leg or arm was clearly not okay because they thought "they couldn't afford this much debt now". And when they were treated for free because of their health insurance for foreigners that is mandatory for exchange students, they felt like they were treated like that "because they were American".

[@ludicrous6380]

@@nodak81 But you do put children into cages.

[@beautifullEternal]

@@nodak81no Jews in ovens, just black people hanging from trees

[@fishofgold6553]

@@nodak81 😆🤣 WHOA. That's fucked! 🤣

[@gamesandglory1648]

@@fishofgold6553 Random crazy American mothers do this surprisingly often as well, I've seen like at least ten stories about this, with like half of them being in texas or florida for some reason

[@fishofgold6553]

@@gamesandglory1648 I recently heard of a Russian so-called "mother" who did it too. But I did not actually read the article. Just the headline.

[@MrSaemichlaus]

The real question is ... if everyone has the right to bear arms, what do the bears do without their arms?

[@EyeonthePrize247]

Asking the real questions.

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

This is an important question. The poor, armless bears. lol

[@toucan221]

OMG Brilliant !!! I was just waiting for something like that! I have been laughing away at this video and everybody's comments, and yes the bears are definitely armless, thanks Buddy. 😂😂🤣🤣❤

[@pierremainstone-mitchell8290]

My wife just added - "If everyone has the right to bear arms what do they do when it's cold?"

[@Tjalve70]

Bears don't need arms. They have 4 legs.

[@IsaacMuntz]

It's always funny and baffling to hear americans say that other country's Healthcare systems are somewhat *"socialistic"* and their ridiculously expensive healthcare which most americans themselves can't afford is somehow *"the only right one"* because *"merica"* Any sane person would look at the american cost of medical bills would instantly cringe 😬

[@gozza7199]

They have fallen for Nationalistic propaganda. Wrap anything in the Stars & Stripes makes it right. Daily singing the National Anthem in schools, at sporting events between club teams before the game starts, reenforces Nationalism.

[@user-fq5pk7lj8b]

the us is the only developed nation in the world that does not have free healthcare

[@wardrobewings8000]

7:50 you get what you pay for. I can't imagine how badly hiring someone who agreed to work for $7.25/h as a project manager would end up. For all the jokes and badmouthing PMs get, herding a group of programmers into one direction and stopping them from polishing their projects for *years* is an important skill. Also, I LOVE when Americans try to apply their abhorrent laws and attitudes towards employees in EU countries. One of my previous places of employment got bought out by a US corporation. They flew in their own managers to "straighten out" the situation. The first thing the goofer assigned to my department wanted to do was eliminate 20+ days of vacation time and the rule that once per year you need to take off two weeks in one go. AKA stuff that is mandated by law in my country. We politely informed him that this is illegal and he could eat his own entrails before we give up those rights. They wasted *so* *much* money and time searching for workarounds. I left before they gave up, mostly because "imported" managers created a toxic atmosphere and I care way more for my mental health than some corpo-drones' egos.

[@MuchWhittering]

"Europe is like stepping back in time 30 years." I have it on good authority that America didn't get chip and pin until at least a decade after everyone else had already stopped caring about it.

[@shadenox8164]

@Johan dahlin Your money is owned by the state already dumbass. Who do you think backs it?

[@ethanwallis5678]

@user-lr9mo9my6j standard American reply

[@baronmeduse]

@Johan dahlin We have chip, PIN and also cash! You do realise that even if you have cash it is still ultimately the property of the state?

[@sjs9698]

@@baronmeduse i suspect they've never considered who makes the cash, or guarantees it's value :p

[@OzixiThrill]

@@sjs9698 Come now, mate. You can't seriously expect much from people for whom elementary algebra is a university course.

[@SebHaarfagre]

5:19 I'm from Norway and to me USA is 30-50 years back in time. Everyone drives petrol cars, houses are poorly built in general, people have old appliances and walk inside with shoes on. Wall to wall carpets are common, cities are dirty and littered, the middle class is nowhere nearly as prevalent and there's so much poverty and poor education, the health system is medieval, there's a culture of letting themselves be extorted by the system, but also a culture of only having lunatics speak up (on purpose?) and thus making everyone else even more conservative as a reaction. It's a two-party system which never evolved to make rational sense, the basic/foundational educational system is not only sub-par but also not free?!? There's extreme crime reoccurrence rates, methods of dealing with people is in general barbaric, psychology and rationalism is leaving you wanting, racism is institutionalised not (just) through genuine hatred but through subsidies and constant media bombardment reminding everyone to "take extra good care" of "them", reminding people *EVERY DAY* that people should be treated *DIFFERENT* just because of the *TINT* of their skin, people don't learn history _at all_ nor geography, there's a "sue" culture instead of "altruism" culture, volunteerism is pathetic per-capita and polarization is intrinsic. So yeah Now, there's uncountable US Americans that are fantastic human beings, a lot of people wanting to change things for the better, and a lot of things not so backwards, but if that guy wanted a response, this is it.

[@SebHaarfagre]

Forgot to mention the absolute non-existent infrastructure (except car roads). And *FOOD?!* *LOL* Images in my mind goes to some long lost tribe in the middle of the Amazon, being met by people with laser pulse rifle, then saying "They don't even have proper bows"

[@gamesandglory1648]

the "sue" culture is also largely because of crappy-nonexistent labour laws

[@jamiebrooks457]

This isn't normal? Can I move to Norway?

[@jmckendry84]

I understand everything except the dig about carpets. What's wrong with carpets (except in bathrooms)?

[@sweetcherry7759]

👏👏👏 Well said!

[@neon55]

One of my American friends was surprised when he heard we can buy pineapples around here too. Also, when another friend (from UK) said theyre going to Portugal for vacation, americans reaction was "Why? You have a death wish?" He had no idea where Portugal is.

[@vermis8344]

Well speaking as a UK...er... I hear Portugal can be quite sunny and warm, so your friend's reaction wasn't entirely inaccurate.

[@kinagrill]

sounds like they expected it to be some middle-eastern 'death to the unbelievers' place that Portugal.

[@Marewig]

Did they mistake it for Tortuga, somehow? As in 'isn't that the main pirate town in Pirates of the Carribbean?' I know, I'm probably reaching. I just can't help but try to find some plausible explanation.

[@nightraven-cd2nf]

i am honestly astounded by the Americans that think that English is a language that originated in America

[@Kenosos]

Americans have broken my ability to detect sarcasm, so many things they say that would be sarcastic in any other country but they are dead serious.

[@najrenchelf2751]

I think that is actually the most dangerous part of this - especially in text form on the interwebs...

[@Stevehboy]

Exactly that’s why I can’t take them seriously anymore

[@sorejack]

to this day i think the existence of q was some brit trolling americans to see how much bull theyd believe. turns out alot. only a brit would call him q.

[@josefstalin9678]

I kinda like that honestly. Its funny saying something completely outlandish and watching someone from somewhere else try to decide if I'm being genuine or sarcastic. Its like the aussies with drop bears

[@rosiefay7283]

Poe's Law was born out of a similar remark about what creationists say, but GeorgeM marvellously shows how many Americans it applies to.

[@johnlochness]

I once had an American tourist staying at my B&B say she didn’t want to go to London because of the plague. No, really!!!!

[@juliaw151]

What... 🤦‍♀️ ive heard it all now.

[@gillcawthorn7572]

[@gennaroliguori376]

when you think you have heard it all and then you tell me this.. wtf is wrong with americans..? omg..

[@martinacocca4225]

Do they just think time stops whenever they decide to close their history books?

[@yippee8570]

Do you think someone had trolled her and she never figured it out and thought that there was really plague in London?

[@AVGFurri]

12:08 "We save nations not destroy them." *The Middle East:* Am I a joke to you?

[@TheManfio]

Why go so far? They literally committed genocide on the *natives* of their own country...

[@razorburn645]

Philippines and Puerto Rico....

[@renatoathaydes3162]

@@TheManfio In their heads, they were saving the natives.

[@hudalovestodraw3249]

I guess Palestine doesn't exist to them

[@richgerow3472]

Native Americans: "Are we a joke to you?"

[@Brokengooseneck]

As a German who’s been to America a lot, getting the comment „oh yea! I’m german too! My great great grandparents lived there!” Frustrates me so much. Also somebody was arguing with me that Greece wasn’t real??? Their argument was: „but it’s called ANCIENT Greece for a reason🙄“ oh I’m sorry I wasn’t aware that that discredited the existence of modern Greece😭🤚 (also sorry about my English it sucks😭)

[@kinagrill]

clear signs of a culture that ain't even close to be mature, makes sense when you remember America wasn't settled and truly became 'muhrica' until, what... late 1700s or some such iirc?

[@juliabarrow-hemmings6624]

Your English is perfectly good, better than a lot of Americans you see online... And certainly better than my German :P The fact my only living German relative, that I know of, uses Sütterlinschrift does not help in that regard to be fair on my part.

[@tobyk.4911]

"My husband is from England... so my question is: Do people in England have refrigerators?" - why is she asking reddit when her husband can answer the question ??

[@jcanonmercadotube]

Maybe her husband´s grand grand grand grand grand grand grand daddy was from England, so he is English

[@kurolotus4851]

Or she is that type of wife who asks her english husband: "Honey, do you have refrigerators back in England?" "Yes darling, we have refrigerators😒". "Ok...🤨 ".😂😂😂

[@DiragonProductions]

or the person who posted the question was joking.

[@klaaspekala6804]

Maybe they don´t talk a lot in their marriage. Been there. 🤣

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Maybe she thought her husband was one of the few privileged Englishmen to have a fridge - probably related to the Royal Family.

[@triccele]

The "right to bear arms thing" is dangerously true. I'm Chilean, here a gringo fired a gun because he was "standing his ground". He went to jail.

[@TheRealAxolotlAnimates]

yeah, i mean, if the americans takes all the bear arms, what are the bears gunna use?

[@bladerunner3314]

@@TheRealAxolotlAnimates Time to arm the bears!

[@TheRealAxolotlAnimates]

@@bladerunner3314 rearm the bears, u mean

[@bladerunner3314]

@@TheRealAxolotlAnimates A Minigun for every bear arm taken!!!

[@TheRealAxolotlAnimates]

@@bladerunner3314 yep

[@Liggliluff]

(8:25) What I don't get is how they think being a person from different European countries would be rare in Europe where we have the right to cross the borders without checks, and work in different countries without needing approval. Having people with mixed background is not rare.

[@RichDoes..]

as a 10 yr old visiting America for the first time, I was asked if we had televisions by a 15 yr old at my cousins school... I politely explained we invented them.....

[@orangemiffy7194]

"why do brits speak english which is american???" *meanwhile our country literally being called England*

[@osheridan]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿: 👁 👄 👁

[@neilcampbell2222]

It's American cultural misappropriation. They should learn a native American language

[@louisrelf5903]

That is fucking terrifying.

[@n7creed629]

This. I literally don’t understand how any American doesn’t know their own history, and/or can’t think for a half second. I’ve seen videos of random Americans being asked this in the street and omg… so many have this answer… Im a Brit

[@B4MBI72]

Most English under the age of 20 cant speak English doh blud

[@petersmythe6462]

"doctors aren't skilled enough to heal a broken leg" This is like... at least 400 years out of date.

[@more-reasons6655]

This is the issue with the US education system. They teach world history till about 1776, then only teach US history from then. So people seem to believe the rest of the world stopped developing when the US was formed

[@shadenox8164]

@@more-reasons6655 I mean, they also tend to teach American exceptionalism so people end up believing the US does everything better even if outcomes in other countries are better.

[@OzixiThrill]

I'd say somewhere closer to 70000 years out of date. We've had evidence of broken femurs healing dating back about that far. Yes, those are pre-historic times. That's how old healing a broken leg properly is.

[@dmgroberts5471]

@@more-reasons6655 I don't think the US education system teaches world history. Not in any meaningful way.

[@petersmythe6462]

​@@OzixiThrill We have evidence of healed femurs even in early hominids and in wild wolves, however, healing in the sense of not dying vs medical treatment are two different things.

[@AlexBell1991]

I once had an American trying to lecture me on how to correctly spell the city "Leeds" because she's an English teacher. She was adamant that it was spelt as "Leads". She got the the piss taken out of her when I posted a Wikipedia page for city.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

She'd have loved Strathaven or Milngavie...to name but two.

[@Zartren]

Someone once told me that the European history stopped when America became independent, meaning that they are stuck in the past and that, of course, modern amenities like running water, electricity and good Internet have yet to reach Europe... Yeah, American education might be a tad too centered on itself.

[@TurtleOverdose]

I got yelled at in a grocery store talking to the cashier by an american for talking norwegian... in Norway... cashier told him to shut up or get the fuck out, great fun. 10/10 would recommend

[@badwulff]

Uh... did he just randomly teleport somewhere from the US and believe he was still there, or somehow drunkenly made his way through the Atlantic? Did he wake up after, like, a walking coma, without having realized people were speaking another language?

[@Martin-lm8xp]

Dude, you have american tourists complaining about ppl speaking spanish in Spain, because they think that they are immigrants from South American. Or americans who moved to another country and complain that they need to learn local language, because english (or "america") is not the official language. It's like for some Americans it was a new thing to discover that there are countries outside US. @@Cattystyle69

[@Yeeyeeenation]

Yeah, that didn’t happen

[@ElfinHat96]

The audacity

[@kinagrill]

Hilarious part is that America doesn't even have a national language. no english is not their national language, no language is.

[@icba9292]

I went to Florida too to visit the theme parks, and when they open the parks and sing the national anthem it honestly feels like some sort of North Korean regime, theyre kind of brainwashed.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

At this point if they're singing the anthem for a theme park, it looks like they're making a mockery of anthem. Might as well sing it on the toilet.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

It's called heterotopia. They're faking realism so hard they loop back around and it looks fake as shit. It is actually designed, not so much for brainwashing but, so you don't look into anything. It gives the safe comfortable appearance on the outside so you don't try to dig too deep.

[@NessieNice]

Seriously? We have to sing national anthem here as well but only at school during Monday's flag rising ceremony, independence day ceremony, and when winning international competition (right when the medal/trophy being passed on the podium usually). Otherwise no one in their right mind would sing or even play it, and we are still very patriotic

[@icba9292]

@@NessieNice Thats what i saw, this was back in 2012, it could be different now, but i doubt it as its still being brought up in discussions

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

Nah, North Korea is less indoctrinated

[@MayDenless5739]

And then some people wonder why us Canadians hate being mistaken for Americans 😂

[@jamesguitar7384]

Brit here . Actually you are North American but , jokes aside , what else can you call someone from the USA ?

[@CohenTocher]

@@jamesguitar7384 U.S citizen

[@jamesguitar7384]

@@CohenTocher Yes , I see your point but it doesn't exactly trip off the tongue though, does it ? 😊

[@CohenTocher]

@@jamesguitar7384 it does for me 😁

[@jamesguitar7384]

@@CohenTocher Could they not just reintroduce Yank ? Difficult though . I'm a British citizen but I can get away with Brit .

[@waynebernitt2806]

America is the poster child for Dunning Kruger effect.

[@dekute_official]

As an american, i am so so so sorry for other people in this country

[@Tvtardy]

Why tf do you have to say that every country has dumb people 💀 sad asf

[@billster7424]

As an American, I am so sorry to the rest of the comment section for having to read these dumb apology comments. Why is it whenever Memeulous makes these videos there are these people everywhere suddenly?

[@dekute_official]

@Billster bro I was just trying to say something fun 😃

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

@@billster7424 dude just get over it

[@КГБКолДжорджКостанца]

Here, I give you a Russian handshake

[@Gbjj_]

American: Is this what we have instead of insulin and debt-free college? George: Yeah it is, but think about how many Middle-Eastern children you can blow up with that! I'm dying XD

[@lydiamichaels1976]

Palestians specifically

[@tauruscommunist9532]

​@@lydiamichaels1976 not really, most of the middle east has been blown up by them at some point

[@lydiamichaels1976]

@@tauruscommunist9532 I know. Specifically was the wrong word I used. I was just adding about Palestine

[@dwaynewrighton8547]

Not as much as those middle Eastern kids

[@questionmaker5666]

@@lydiamichaels1976 That's Israel, not the US (whom have blown up almost everywhere else in the ME)

[@Polyphemus.]

8:00 - "I can't, _in good conscience,_ pay the interns $20." I'm not sure they know how to use that phrase properly! Is it somehow immoral or against their personal values to pay someone a better wage?

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Exactly. I'm a bit puzzled that no-one else seems to have mentioned this.

[@staomruel]

Think about it, if $7.20 is minimum wage there, $20,- for an intern wouldn't sit well with their regular employees. They're still greedy bastards, though.

[@nojuszvinklys8825]

did you know that brussels waffels were renamed to Belgian waffles because americans didnt know where brussels was?

[@SnannyYT]

Do they even know where belgium is?

[@petersmythe6462]

As an American who leaves my phone set to metric and 24 hour time, I can confirm that committing war crimes is my passion in life.

[@pitmatix1457]

If someone tries to steal your phone they might see "military time" and think they've accidentally fucked with a Navy Seal or something so that's useful.

[@B4MBI72]

Can't you get like burned at the stake for using metric in America?

[@EndellionQT]

Ha↗Ha↘Ha↗Ha↘Ha↗Ha↘ (If you know it you know it)

[@davidebic]

​@@EndellionQT My pfp nods

[@Raztiana]

Do you also use celsius or kelvin? I've been told that fahrenheit is more accurate and logical than the others. I don't know if he actually understand the words he was using.

[@soledieairvideos5974]

As an American I laughed so hard. We may be stupid but can’t deny we’re great content for it.

[@livinghypocrite5289]

So that was the goal from that certain ex president of yours. Make America great content again!

[@patriciamillin1977]

@@livinghypocrite5289To be fair, Americans who can laugh at this content are generally not Trump supporters.

[@philiprice7875]

Amercians are the greatest people God ever put on this flat Earth

[@cameronliddell9533]

@@philiprice7875 gereatest stupidity, greatest self entitlment, greatest idiots, greatest war monger... ok yeah i can see where you get greatest from

[@whitestar7641]

Eh, depends upon where you look, all the Americans I have ever known are at least average intelligence. Met far more that are above average though because my mind is more advanced in development and aging than a lot of my peers. So it is actually really funny to hear this, I never thought there were people this stupid on the face of the Earth, not just in America.

[@lamsmiley1944]

It’s so ironic that they say that Europe is like stepping back in time. I felt the same way when going to the USA.

[@Lemonz1989]

I remember some Americans (and other nationalities) coming to my country in Europe to protest, and one started yelling “I’M AMERICAN, I’M AMERICAN, I’M AMERICAN” when police arrested him. It was on the news and everyone watching, including the police arresting them were like “so???” When he was put in the police car, he yelled that he hadn’t been read is “Miranda rights.” Like, bish, your nationality is irrelevant and this isn’t America. Your rights will be provided to you when you are at the police station before being questioned or upon receiving a ticket. 😂

[@isaacfreiberg7609]

As an american who travels internationally a decent amount and is on the internet a lot, I would like to proudly announce that at least 3 people in this country aren't as idiotic as stereotypes say. At least three.

[@RuyVuusen]

Who are the other two?

[@balls9420]

@@RuyVuusen A man from Kentucky who fries chicken and a man called Mcdonald.

[@micheleedwin4004]

Nice sarcasm

[@richallenxbox1976]

Yebbut 3 people out of several Million, not really a good proportion is it?

[@primm_slimm_the_femboy]

@@richallenxbox1976 hey I mean at least they have a bad proportion then no proportion

[@Dobcool]

The sad part is they actually did complain about having to wear a seatbelt and many didn't when they first became a thing

[@James_Randal]

And then dumbasses started dying so... It worked.

[@basementdwellercosplay]

Some still complain about it

[@idreamed_adream]

My grandmother still doesn't wear hers and she's been in more accidents than anyone else I know.

[@windsorSJ]

Let's be honest here. The same was true when seat belts were made compulsory in the UK a lot of people rebelled against it. Same when crash helmets while riding a motor bike was made compulsory. You always get the freedom lovers whining if a law is introduced that they don't like.

[@ieatleadpaintchips]

You used to be able to buy cars with seatbelts removed for an increased price, and when they stopped doing that people started just cutting them out themselves.

[@Jens-Viper-Nobel]

After 9/11, the western world guarded all it's port facilities for some time. I was a military guy guarding one of them. American tourists still arrived in huge cruise liners, and we had to deal with them all. Some lady disembarked a ship, and when reaching me, she asked where to find the nearest Walmart. I of course had to tell her that we don't have Walmarts in Denmark. To which she replied rather disgustedly why we didn't do things the American way, and that she thought we were a civilized country. All the passengers in line, including a man obviously being with her rolled their eyes at that statement. But despite this, I got a little pissed and shot back. "Yes, Ma'm. We are a civilized country. I suspect that is exactly why we DON'T do things the American way." Oh boy. Her reaction made me think of Puff, the magic Dragon the way she huffed and puffed in indignation. But the people waiting in line were all good. They were either trying to hide a smirky grin with their hands or trying to cough up a frog that had suddenly invaded their throats or laughing outright. And some guy further back shouted "OUCH. THAT's gotta hurt, lady." And everybody was jamming dollar bills into my hands or pockets while passing me and grinning and winking their eyes, along with some remarks like "way to go, soldier." or "Oh, I just loved how you shut her up." and the like. I made a veritable fortune that day despite not even trying to.

[@QuantumKid]

I was born in the US and have lived in the UK all my life. It's great because I have the right to make fun of everyone.

[@schenanigans]

As an American who lived in Germany for a couple years, I just told everyone I was Canadian because I was too embarrassed to be associated with Americans who ABSOLUTELY act like this IRL over there

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

So a polite american that just waited a bit and asked nicely to not be a colony anymoer :D

[@krashd]

"Me, American? I don't know what yur talkin' aboaawt!"

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

So what Lisa did when the family arrived in Australia is real?

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@HappyBeezerStudios Well...colonial Canadians fought pretty well not to be annexed by the USA in 1812, so they're pretty tough behind that polite exterior.

[@dhans9662]

I'm an American who wants to move to Germany one day, definitely writing this down because of the mostly well deserved xenophobia my country's people get

[@mysteriousmeat770]

As an American I can confirm that there are people like this and it hurts me

[@Tvtardy]

Almost like there are stupid people in every country in the world? No no no nvm 🤦‍♂️ silly me

[@lydiamichaels1976]

this is a result of the your society and the mentality it teaches. It's bred into all of u from a young age cuz you grew up there so every american has parts of them that is like this just at different degrees/levels. American society has a lot of arrogance abt anywhere or anything that is non-american and the whole world knows it. The root to all the things non-americans don't like abt the US is simply the arrogance

[@Redshirtgaming96]

As a texan I agree

[@lalayastill610]

don't worry, we all have our own eccentrics

[@Me-td5rg]

Hmmm how many do you reckon- like if you were to meet 100 people how many would be like this Because I kinda assumed that this kinda stupidity was only a small bit of the population because every country has stupid people lol (some more than others tho, apparently American education is shit?)

[@MajoradeMayhem]

If I were Irish I would be so pissed off by all these thousands of Americans insisting they are Irish.

[@idwj]

"Not all americans, but always an american."

[@robwebster1098]

I realized years ago that most Americans who criticize anything outside of the US will never go outside of the US

[@razorburn645]

Hell they probably won't even leave their home state.

[@michealwhite1091]

@@razorburn645 Their home county you mean

[@The_Trident_Master]

I’m lucky enough to have been to multiple European countries and about 40 states

[@ogwijiisbae8076]

I’ve generally had an American friend complain that they can’t take there gun to UK because they said they didn’t feel safe without it

[@anthonylong9067]

I mean have you been to smethwick in Birmingham? Let’s be fair

[@ogwijiisbae8076]

@@anthonylong9067 they were staying in a hotel in surrey

[@anthonylong9067]

@@ogwijiisbae8076 oh ffs 🤦‍♂️. As a yank who spent a half year in Birmingham, we do not claim that person.

[@jessica5470]

I work in transport and overheard loads of Americans saying they were scared of the cops asking for ID, the cops in my work place are the nicest happiest cops you'll ever meet, all I thought was "your cops carry guns and you're scared of ours just asking ID?" The scariest thing they carry is a tazer and they can't get away with shooting willy nilly here, I think it's the ignorance that grinds my gears

[@lorddarlo6194]

​@@anthonylong9067 If you stayed in Birmingham you would know it has nice parts even Smethwick you would also know that Smethwick borders the nice areas and rough areas like the arse end of Handsworth and Winson Green you will also know it is mostly Gangs and most average Smethwick people wouldn't get stabbed.

[@signebrummerstedt9205]

Not only was the internet invented at CERN (Switzerland), WiFi was invented in Australia. So internet is very much not American :D

[@richallenxbox1976]

Almost 25 years ago I was diagnosed as Autistic, it'll be 25 years in October, I was using Google at the time to research the condition, some American guy found my Blog (I wasn't as savvy back then and didn't know to set it to private) and told the world without my permission that I'm Autistic, some of the resulting comments were literally unrepeatable in civilised conversation, particularly from Americans and I've mostly hated them ever since.

[@dianyucu]

I get that, they are shocking not going to lie.

[@lazykbys]

I'm a Japanese guy who grew up as a kid in America. I don't recall singing the national anthem every day, but we did recite the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. I recall analyzing the words and wondering how it applied to me, a Japanese citizen. I also remember seeing a public service announcement on TV about the importance of the pledge and how it should be taken seriously. Those years of swearing false oaths made me the cynic I am today. :)

[@OWnIshiiTrolling]

I went to elementary school there, but am not american. I noticed how unhinged the pledge is, and secretly crossed my fingers every morning when I said it (in my culture, crossing your fingers is what kids do when they lie to "get away with it"). Who in their right mind pledges their allegiance to a piece of fabric? oO

[@lazykbys]

It was the bit about "one nation under God" that did it for me. Not my nation, not my god.

[@Kat-mu8wq]

As a Scottish atheist, I am not welcome in America. I have been told "be Christian or stay out" so I stayed out. I'm now 30 years old and never been shot. Hurrah for me. 😂

[@donuts564]

as a German, even hearing about the pledge always gives me goosebumps. Following your country just because it's "your" country isn't just stupid, it's extremely dangerous.

[@OWnIshiiTrolling]

@@donuts564 It's basically a personal cult, but with a flag. Since flags can't die, it really is dangerous.

[@tanithrosenbaum]

The "I'd rather be lied to and keep my conservative views" guy scares me the most. That means they obviously KNOW their "conservative views" are based on lies, but they're rather keep them because, why exactly? I really don't get what they're getting out of that, what advantage they think they have from that.

[@JH-lo9ut]

The driving force behind conservatism, is not having to feel bad for being privilegied.

[@error-try-again-later]

Because it's better than admitting the lib'ruls might have been right about some stuff 💀

[@tanithrosenbaum]

@@error-try-again-later Insane. Just insane.

[@apacheattackhelicopter8410]

No liberal views are the ones fed by lies

[@awddfg]

most sensible white american

[@StevensonFabian]

1885: British pottery manufacturer Thomas Twyford built the first one-piece ceramic toilet using the flush-out siphon design by J. G. Jennings.

[@yellowmonkee0]

I'm from Portugal. I can confirm we do not have running water. Every day, early in the morning, I ride my donkey to the pond and get our days worth of water. Also we all wear clogs.

[@Cyberlisk]

Kinda ironic when people from the country that still uses medieval style measurements thinks they're more developed than the rest of the world.

[@stischer47]

Hm, and which country put a man on the moon over 50 years ago and no one else has? Oh yes, the country that uses "medieval style measurements".

[@beefyblom]

@@stischer47 NASA primarily used the metric system for the moon landings, and completely stopped using the US customary system in any capacity in the '90s.

[@EperkeDashh]

​@@beefyblomthey also crashed a rocket because of a coversion error between the two systems

[@yann1922]

​@@stischer47Like I've seen someone say somewhere "The only reason the US haven't put another man on the moon is because they have run out of Germans to make the rockets" You did it 50 years ago, but everything close to science will use the metric system, even back then

[@JohnSmith-fq3rg]

​@@beefyblomBecause the european contractors they had to work with for political reasons kept fucking up the conversions and got people killed. The europeans were too stupid to figure out the conversions so we had to fully standardize all forms of measurement so selfcentered amd ignorant europeans didn't was millions of dollars because hans can't figure out what an inch is.

[@NoZoDE]

14:34 my dad once told me a story. He was in the US with his ex wife (not my mother). She broke her foot over there and they went to a hospital. The doctor said it wasn't anything big and she should just rest her foot for a few days. They were charged 800$ back then. The foot later swoll and they went back to Germany where the doctor couldn't believe his eyes. The foot was broken in 2 places and the ankle was just demolished. He said that even a 5 year old could point that out.

[@plumjet09]

There was a kid at my school who broke his arm and then his mom got mad at the teacher for not telling her. The kid never told the teacher or anyone besides his mom that his arm hurt a lot.

[@YeahNo]

My mum had an accident up north, they flew her over a 1000 miles by air ambulance to the capital city for surgery. Flight and surgery cost? $0. ‘Cause we don’t live in America. 🤷‍♀️

[@paprikagames]

americans arent advanced in medical stuff only in fucking shit up with big guns

[@OsmondNaylor]

One of my sisters was a nurse. A fellow nurse had relatives in America and she was encouraged to go out to work there, the money was far better. She was out there less than a year and hurried back to our NHS because the nurses in that hospital did not do much more than wipe aching brows and hand out the odd minor pill. One day she walked into a ward where the male patient was having a heart attack. She pressed the emergency bell and proceeded to massage the man until help arrived. She was severely reprimanded for doing something ‘medical’. “ By the way, where did you learn that? “. The consultant was very surprised that such an act was basic training and that many non medical people are trained simply to save a life if possible.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

@@OsmondNaylor In Germany you have to do a 1st aid course before you can get your driving licence. It was taught on that course.

[@mrsary7868]

It's funny, my actual great grandad (just one great) was Irish and I have never thought to consider myself Irish in any way for a second because I'm English.

[@katerinagiannioudi401]

Right to "bear arms" is 100% American. In Europe we have strict gun laws. Where I live, pepper spray and tasers are also banned!

[@shinobirecords2018]

Pepper spray is a touch too far. Ever since I was almost mugged I can't leave my home without it.

[@katerinagiannioudi401]

@@shinobirecords2018 Some countries in Europe allow it for over 18, some require a permit and some have banned it all together.

[@Sapsipper65_what-do-heellll]

I burst out laughing when “is Mediterranean a slur to Italians” I’m sorry but what was he cooking

[@cynister7384]

He was smoking some marinara

[@Sapsipper65_what-do-heellll]

@@cynister7384oh yea they were probably smoking some marinara, tastes pretty good but it’s hard to snort always comes in large portions too

[@dmgroberts5471]

Meth.

[@EuroScot2023]

I noticed someone else here gave the perfect reply -"No, that's their sea word."

[@giovannipeggio5071]

Italian here, Mediterranean is a slur for us. It should be called mare nostrum, we do not accept any other name for it

[@Shazzadut1]

I worked at the Sydney Opera House as a theatre usher. The best two questions I had from Americans were: ‘How do they open the roof to play tennis in here?’ And ‘How many feet above sea level are we here?’ . Now If you’ve ever been to the SOH or even seen a picture of it, it sits right on the harbour. I mean right on the harbour, which is fed by the Pacific Ocean. In fact it draws in sea water for use in the air conditioning. The basement floors are actually below sea water…. And if you look out the huge glass windows you can actually see the water below you. So when I answered his question I just looked out the window then said ‘oh about 100 feet…’. Americans by and large are not worldly. They think America is the world, because they’re not taught about the rest of the world in school. But sometimes they are just plain dumb.

[@Balotovi]

Maybe I'm stupid in this regard and know too little about Sydney or tennis, but where does the first question even come from? What does the Opera House (supposedly) have to do with tennis?

[@josefstalin9678]

As someone who lives in a pacific coastal state, I too have heard things like that and I too have reacted in probably the same way you did. Whoever that was likely didn't live near an ocean

[@Real_MisterSir]

@@Balotovi They've probably seen the Australian Open and thought the Opera House was a stadium or something, idk.. But the lack of intelligence you'd need to have to believe an Opera house would also be a makeshift Tennis court.... Darwinism where you at, I got some candidates.

[@fredhughes4115]

"The rest of the world". Hell, Americans often know nothing about Canada - you know, that ginormous country that sits on the 5,000 km long northern border that they have. You'd think that it would be hard to miss.

[@yourmom2189]

As a person from the US, I can confirm that most of us are complete morons.

[@isiajahhhahahababblvjylvjy1034]

I think the "Do you have refrigerators in England" person is actually asking if houses come with a fridge installed inside and just phrased it weirdly.

[@uwee4188]

I guess she was used to the big dubble door fridges and in many Homes in Europe the Fridge is part of the Kitchen Furniture and the Door on the outside has the same colour as the rest of the Kitchen so when they see YT Video and expect a big bulcy box and cant see them they think we have no fridge

[@_-Rin-_]

14:28 i can count on my hand the amount of times i've seen a policfe officer on duty, the fact that amerikan schools have them is just insane to me

[@Arbiter-xw3ng]

Honestly stunned George was half right on Henry Ford, didn't invent the car, but did invent its mass production with the ford model T

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

There’s a few who are attributed to making it as well. I just had my ASE exams this past week and one of them stated “Tech A says Henry Ford invented the car, Tech B says Karl Benz contributed to making the car.” Ofc Tech B was right, which honestly justifies him thinking that, it’s such a common misconception that even the ASE dudes HAVE to put it in their test.

[@Arbiter-xw3ng]

@Ice Wolf I had to do history coursework for year 12 on America in the 1920s so I heard about it then

[@peepeetrain8755]

was the assembly line? or was that someone else?

[@renfcook]

@@peepeetrain8755yep, the moving assembly line

[@OliviaRodgers-vu3gl]

igcse history 😍

[@KindaHellish2595]

My mum told me this story couple of years ago. I live in Scotland and the strangest experience I’ve heard that involved an American was when this lady came into a Costa got a coffee and after she finished it. I kid u not, raised her had, snapped her fingers and said “where’s my free coffee?” We don’t do free re-fills in the UK, well it’s incredibly uncommon. The barista turned round and gave her a stare of pure annoyance because of how rude she was and said we don’t do free coffee in here, let’s just say she was very confused and shut up quickly

[@Captain_John_Price]

The barista should have told her to fuck off

[@auraluna7679]

Well, I guess she was ashamed after that. In cases like that the reaction after being corrected is more important in my opinion. Mistakes like that can happen.

[@jonharrison3114]

I don’t think that was that big a deal they made a genuine mistake

[@TheeEnglishKnight]

she SNAPPED HER FINGERS???? @@jonharrison3114

[@leopold7562]

The barista could've just wrung out the dishcloths into a cup, that's pretty much how Americans like coffee. I've been to the USA twice and I swear finding decent coffee is an absolute nightmare

[@hyzenthlay7151]

Will my right to have a drink at 18, jaywalk to the nearest hospital and puke it up on the floor whilst getting free healthcare be honoured in the US?

[@andrewrawlings5220]

Terry Pratchett was right that 'The Irish' get more "Irish" the further they get from Ireland. There's no-one more proudly "Irish" than a guy who was born in America who has never seen Ireland.

[@tcjdv]

I'm (reluctantly) an American, and I can confirm there are many people like this here. My stepfather, who I consider a reasonably intelligent person otherwise, said "I know the US has its problems, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. No other country has the freedoms we do. Well, I guess the UK comes close." I couldn't believe he said that. I had to literally bite my tongue to keep from laughing in his face. And the thing that kills me is that he's fairly well-traveled, so I don't know how he could sit there and talk like every other country is some undemocratic backwater. Not to mention holding up the UK as number 2. I guess he hadn't looked at the global freedom index lately.

[@ForOne814]

UK? Seriously? That low-quality parody of Airstrip One? Man, imagine thinking it comes even close to Murica in terms of freedom.

[@alangarde2928]

The sad thing is, the narrative is pushed onto people at almost indoctrination levels. I'm sure the whole thing of 'American has freedom, everywhere else doesn't' is pounded into people at a young age just to stop them looking at other countries and asking why can't we do that?

[@krashd]

@@ForOne814 You'd be surprised, the US is so low in the freedom index that it's next to a lot of countries you wouldn't imagine it being next to.

[@ForOne814]

@@krashd I really don't care about indexes that have no relation to reality.

[@Matthew-us1fu]

Timothy. What is freedom? Actually theres two received indexes and both show the US below the UK and Canada, most European countries. This bubble needs popping balloon 🎈😭😭😭🇺🇸

[@hungrehsden3808]

I remember once being in a game server with two Irish players (born in Ireland, live in Ireland, etc). Someone approached them and then began talking about the IRA, and then some weird weird shit about Ireland and that. Turns out he also still thought Ireland hadn't changed since 500AD and was surprised that Ireland was a modern country with modern technology.

[@reachandler3655]

The fact they're using a game server didn't give him a clue? 😂

[@krashd]

Supposedly Irish-Americans are very ignorant of the current cordial relations between the UK and Ireland and seem to believe that the English want to destroy Ireland and so it's their duty to hate the English for life. I've heard of Brits being made to feel unwelcome in Irish bars in the US despite the fact an Englishman can walk into just about any pub in Dublin and he'll be treated like everyone else and likely leave having made some new friends.

[@AnnekeOosterink]

@@reachandler3655 Perhaps they'd stumbled in via faerie magick, you never know with those.... europeans.

[@darkadmiral106]

​@@reachandler3655 No, he was most likely American, thinking is NOT their strength

[@Redshirtgaming96]

@@darkadmiral106 It’s quite rare to see one of us thinking as an American

[@themightybob]

No wonder aliens only invade that place😂

[@eh1702]

In the USA in the 1960s, when seatbelts looked like being made mandatory for fitting in new cars, their manufacturers ran an actual ad campaign against it - “vox pop” type staged “interviews” of Americans declaring how they would “rather be thrown clear” in a crash, and saying they would have a better chance of survival that way. As if it would be offered on a menu of crash options. This propaganda campaign didn’t manage to succeed in keeping seatbelts out of cars, but it was so successful culturally that even today a lot of young American kids regurgitate this completely made-up nonsense about “being thrown clear”. It seldom happens that non-seatbelted people get thrown right out of a car crash but, when they do, it’s usually through the windscreen &/or into traffic, and it’s usually fatal.

[@genealogy.obsessed]

As an Australian genealogist, the USA is that dream that you wake up from and think "That was the most illogical dream I've ever had; what on earth possessed my brain to make that up?"

[@ViridianFlow]

​@user-lr9mo9my6jDo Americans often treat people who lie on their visa applications nicely? He committed a crime and then cried about having any consequences because he's famous.

[@genealogy.obsessed]

@Johan dahlin Yeah that makes a whole country bad

[@XMysticHerox]

I mean Australia is not that far off from the US. The entire english speaking world isn't. Probably has something to do with monolingualism.

[@SkycometFallen]

Don’t feel bad. I’ve lived in America all my life and I still don’t understand what our deal is

[@SkycometFallen]

@Johan dahlin sit down skippy, you’re making us all look bad.

[@Sanquinity]

The "the internet is American" line is totally believable. I've had a guy tell me "reddit is American, so your opinion on here doesn't count" on reddit before. And yes technically reddit is based in America, but its still a world- wide social platform.

[@dmgroberts5471]

I've been called "unpatriotic" for disagreeing with an American online. Err, I'm _very_ patriotic, thank-you-very-much, I'm just from another country.

[@jamesblackwell2067]

the world wide web was invented by an english guy, so technically, everything on it, and every website belongs to us!

[@juliaw151]

The Internet is an American invention, the world wide Web is British.

[@martinrolecek8837]

But internet was invented by British guy working in Switzerland for Swiss company CERN. USA didn't even started looking in to it until almost 8years later In all honesty USA copied around 99% of stuff they claim to be American invention/innovation

[@dyread]

I watched a youtube video of European people talking about what they thought about Americans and someone in the comment section got really mad that Europeans were being asked about Americans because youtube is American.

[@ericisprobablyfullofshit7797]

I had this buddy called Ali from Gambia, and one day we were hanging out at a Café here in Nashville when my friend Reggie came by to say hey. I introduced him to Ali, and when he heard his accent Reggie, who is African American, said, "Alright, a fellow African." When he'd walked away Ali gave me this look, and it was priceless. He didn’t have to say a word. "Yeah, he's African the same way that you're European. Not at all!" Yeah, your people may have come from Africa and Europe respectively, but you're both American." 😅