Americans scare me

[@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.

[@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

[@TheWorkersNewspaper]

I’m born in Asians but is I Americans?

[@lisabowell143]

What??​@@TheWorkersNewspaper

[@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.

[@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

[@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.’

[@Sinkozai]

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

[@RandomCommentMakerPerson]

​@@patsytyler2199god I hate that word

[@Artrysa]

@@RandomCommentMakerPerson The?

[@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 ...

[@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.

[@nightraven-cd2nf]

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

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

Yeah the Pilgrim Fathers had to invent a totally new language when they sailed to America. From England.

[@tonywimble9161]

Are you really suprised?

[@ianarnott2978]

It would blow their minds if told how many words originated from Latin, French, German etc.

[@kaecatlady]

Not a surprise; many of the Americans who believe this also insist that their Jesus spoke English.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

@@kaecatlady madness

[@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

[@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.

[@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 😂

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@RNS_Aurelius]

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

[@abzinhoo]

Hm

[@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

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Mostly to distance themselves from France after the Normandic takeover.

[@steffent.6477]

@@Duchess_Van_Hoof They spoke french in the english nobility for centuries after the normans took over^^

[@michaelrunnels7660]

That commenter was obviously a college student.

[@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.

[@mig_kite]

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

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@mig_kite 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

[@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.

[@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 🙂

[@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

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Well they are "the new world".

[@zedeyejoe]

Go out of the cities and USA is very 1950s

[@Zayany-Malik]

​@zedeyejoe and they think UK is old like brother, i can't go 10 miles in my homeland of London without seeing tech or modern houses, and WE USED TO OWN THE STATES- [I know my geography and yes i am british]

[@chronic2023]

😂 My brother, who is an otherwise intelligent American (relatively speaking), has only been to Jamaica and that was in the late 1970s. He made a comment one day about the US having the most modern cities in the world. I was like, "What?...You need to get out and travel," and then rattled off a list of cities that beat anything in the US.

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@aren-u4t]

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

[@GnarledStaff]

Many Americans do not know the difference between socialism and communism. There are vested interests that spend billions of dollars making sure that stays a point of misinformation and contention. They actually convinced people that single payer healthcare meant “death panels” would determine who loved and died, as if corporate health insurance boards of executives did not already exist.

[@crazylizard1889]

An American woman was baffled about so many countries not paying (or paying very little) for baby deliveries. She said how do I get this? They played with her and asked what she thought of state healthcare. She said it was bullshit. She shouldn't be trusted to have a baby😅

[@cragraven8949]

If healthcare isn't run to a socialist-style plan, then you end up with the system America has, where people go bankrupt affording care for serious conditions. Socialism isn't the answer for many things, but it works for health care, where profit shouldn't be put above patient care.

[@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.

[@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?

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@Fuckpeople999]

You might hate it, but they are German just cause they live in America doesn’t change their genes, those “Americans” are in fact your people

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

Yeah I'm German too! My ancestors came over with Hengist

[@grelllestrange]

The last sentence is literally the most German thing to say 😂

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@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.

[@KaliqueClawthorne]

Recently watched a video from a polish girl reading posts in a Facebook group gor americans with some form of polish heritage. This was so unhinged. And how polish people who live in poland were called uneducated, unevolved, uncivilised and that they are not polish when they don't dance polka and aren't catholic. Meanwhile they did discuss polish words while using them wrong. The KZbinr talked about Something she called Atlantis theory. Like - for these Americans the "true Poland" is like Atlantis. Something that needs to be rediscovered

[@stewartbristow846]

Obviously never been to Cork.

[@AsterFoz]

​@@KaliqueClawthorne i need to watch this!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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"

[@alemgas]

​@@leopavlov7165RUSSIA

[@Pr1ZM0]

Nahhh...

[@ak5659]

​@@leopavlov7165--- As an American I can confirm this is common enough that it's not a surprise.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@staomruel]

'That's where Peter Pan's from, right?' A New Yorker's reply to my sisters telling them they're from The Netherlands.

[@FFM0594]

Ah yes, The Nether-Netherlands.

[@TheRuthCory]

Living in the Netherlands, this is gold 😂 think this is my new favourite comment.

[@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)

[@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

[@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.

[@cy-one]

*"and stopping them from polishing their projects for years is an important skill."* ... aaaand then you get events like CloudStrike. Of course there's a middle ground, but considering how we get more or less weekly data leaks, exploitables, plane parts falling from the sky and other stuff, I think a bit more polish wouldn't go amiss.

[@hallieharvey4073]

PMs are probably not getting hired at that amount tho that’s just the minimum required hourly payment if you are not a tipped employee if you are tipped it’s 2.13 in my state but if you don’t make enough tips to meet the 7.25 an hr min then the company has to cover the rest. All that aside you aren’t hiring a PM for under 18 or 20 in my state depending on the city

[@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.

[@daddymuggle]

Or do they?

[@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 😃

[@HaveanOreshnik]

@@billster7424 dude just get over it

[@HaveanOreshnik]

Here, I give you a Russian handshake

[@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.

[@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

[@charlescurren674]

You mentioned an Americans confusion with Rome - Well having completed my first transatlantic E/W crossing in 1984 we arrived in Saint Thomas, USVI. The yacht was registered in London and so the name and port "London" was on the transom in large letters. Having just arrived and tied up to the dock I was giving her a washdown, So along comes an American with a Texas "drawl". I was on deck and he asked me with considerable pride "your from London, Texas!" to which I replied, "No she's registered in London, England". There was a look of surprise on his face and after a pause he responded " you have a London in England?" I just looked at the owner, (also from Texas) who I had been conversing with and said "you better tell him because If I do he's going to walk away feeling rather insulted" - unfortunately, this degree of ignorance wasn't unusual on various topics.

[@kaecatlady]

@charlescurren674, we have people here in the US who wonder what language people who live in New Mexico speak--and whether or not they needed a passport to enter the United States. New Mexico, for the record, is America's 47th state, and was admitted to the Union in 1912.

[@katrineroberts4084]

So ignorant. They even complain that no one speaks American but their own stupid language.

[@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

[@JaneStephen-m1m]

​@@steffenjensen422she should be charged in the UK too. This is what travel insurance is for, the NHS is not a free world service.

[@M0UAW_IO83]

Texan relative came to the UK, unfortunately while here he had a medical 'incident' and a hospital stay, he got charged just under £3K for the stay and treatment, his wife to this day still claims that the NHS is communist and that's why the US insurance based system is far better.

[@hckyroxs8019]

@@JaneStephen-m1m you get charged a pretty hefty NHS charge up front when you get a visa so yes, she would have already paid for it. For example, I got charged £3000 for my 5 yr visa as part of my application and the price is now like £5000 for the same visa.

[@hckyroxs8019]

@@M0UAW_IO83honestly with a lot of people you might as well be talking to a brick wall, even experience doesn’t open their eyes to the truth.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@averagejoe605]

despite our higher smarts, canada isn't too far ahead of the USA i believe.

[@AsterFoz]

...and a 16 y.o. kid from my (european) family hearing a conversation about usa asked what is a cheque... we are so back in time that we don't have cheques! we have instant bank transfers and blik but not cheques so we have to be cavemen, right?

[@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.

[@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

[@Traitorman..Proverbs26.11]

@@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_

[@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.

[@idwj]

"Not all americans, but always an american."

[@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.

[@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?)

[@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

[@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.

[@bladonski]

Something I think about a lot is that when Canada made drunk driving illegal there were actual protests against it. And it happened in recent enough times for there to be recordings of it in FULL COLOUR.

[@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. 😂

[@gabrielesolletico6542]

Oh, that happens a lot in Italy too. It's like "Civis romanus sum". They think they're so powerfull that police officers from a foreign Country won't arrest them, even if they're in that Country, because they would be too terrified that 'MMMmurica would com with the Army to save them...

[@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]

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

[@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]

😂

[@Vailque]

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

[@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!

[@patriciamillin-j3s]

@@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

[@Mtlkat77]

@@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.

[@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.

[@siimplykittxie8469]

Is that why Portugal started exploring the world early?

[@FFM0594]

Yeah, but only the upper class who can actually afford clogs, you rich bastard!

[@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.

[@Arbiter1414]

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.

[@Arbiter1414]

@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 😍

[@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.

[@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?

[@siimplykittxie8469]

​@@SnannyYTUh, the city of South India?

[@gabrielesolletico6542]

NO.

[@timmsw20]

What about sprouts?

[@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

[@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.

[@katherinebrilowski]

This has the same vibe as “and everyone clapped”

[@sarumano884]

The woman had probably been a pain in the arse to each and every other passenger. Some Americans do offend other Americans, and some Americans can even accept that foreign people do things differently.

[@largol33t1]

To be fair, it's doesn't surprise me that she thinks there are Wal Marts there. Wal Mart is a MASSIVE brand. It has 10,000 stores in 23 countries. But she sure is full of herself to say "Do things the American way." I'd firmly tell her to shut up and go home. I'm SO sick of karens like her embarrassing people from the US.

[@Jens-Viper-Nobel]

@@largol33t1 She knew, but opted to not believe it. One of the people in line were aquainted with her husband, and by extension to her. She told me that the purser had painstakingly tried to inform her that neither scandinavian countries had any Walmarts when she approached him to give her directions for it. She did not embarras the population of the US. She embarrased herself. In fact, the other Americans witnessing the incident all contributed to keeping the embarrasment to her by their laughter and outright calling her out on her stupidity and disrespect. So even if she had directed embarrasment at Americans in generel, it was immediately countered by many other Americans showing respect and even condoning my (unintended) declassification of the USA. But Even though I didn't want to come down on Americans in generel, I do not regret or make excuses for shutting her up in the harsch manner I did. It was designed and aimed at her personally though using a generel term. And the other Americans were all understanding that and not taking offence, but rather cheering me on for it. So your population did not embarras itself in the incident. They showed themselves to be nice people with intelligence and in support of a Dane telling her off.

[@Jens-Viper-Nobel]

@@sarumano884 I rather suspect she had. She certainly managed to antagonize the purser on the ship (see my reply to largol33t1) and those who witnessed the incident. The latter also aquitted themselves extremely well like you say in your last sentence.

[@mrhanekoma86]

Alright, I thought I couldn’t possibly be more embarrassed to be from the states, but that bit about hand tossed, brick oven, real Italian Pizza being inferior to our fast food chain pizza crap, has sent me over the edge. I’m going to Canada. 🇨🇦

[@Donkeyearsa]

You are aware that in Italy that pizza is thought of as peasant food and looked down on, right?

[@illuminoti8525]

@@Donkeyearsa then call me a peasent cuz that Margherita shit slaps

[@catsandcrafts171]

You have a genuinely beautiful country, with a lot of wide open space - no need to flee to Canada, just go somewhere amazing and build a house away from the crazies :D Seriously, as a Brit who's travelled a little bit of the US, I'm in awe of the natural landscape, just in dismay at *some* of the citizens. (Having said that, it's the same here, we have massive factions of idiots and we just have to put up with them!)

[@mrhanekoma86]

@@Donkeyearsa It’s considered that here too.

[@filipbruzzolo8747]

@@Donkeyearsa what the fuck you talking about?

[@signebrummerstedt9205]

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

[@Nakor29]

I'm european, but as I'm working in the IT sector let me tell you: The Internet was indeed invented in the USA. In the beginning they called it Arpanet and it connected some universities there, then as it began to spread to other nations, it became an "inter(national) net(work)" and thus the Internet. It was still mostly used to connect scientific institutes over the world including CERN. What you're referring to as Internet is instead the "World Wide Web", that's not the whole internet, but just a rather important part of it. What they invented at CERN was HTML the markup language that makes up this page and basically all other pages you visit using a browser, that would enable him and his collegues to more comfortably share documents organized with html and transferred via the http protocol over the preexisting internet connections. So you could say that Tim Berners-Lee USED the Internet to invent the World Wide Web at CERN and that's a very important achievement. The actual Internet though is the network underneath and around all that. A network not only used to display html pages but that also supports emails, instant messanger protocolls, file transfer protocols and much much more.

[@Nakor29]

Regarding the WIfi: I really like Australia and would like to learn more about how Wifi was invented there. According to the sources, which I was able to find so far, a technology similar to Wifi was first patented in the 1940s in Austria (not Australia) but was never really used outside of connecting musical instruments. Then later in 1969 the University of Hawaii also developed a technology quite like it called the "Aloha-Net" to connect different locations on multiple islands with each other and was successfull in connecting the computers on those islands through a broadcasting network with their main computer on Oahu. But again the technology not really spread that much. Only in 1988 the company Lucent (obviously based in New Jersey, USA) became aware of that technology and started to bring that to market under the name "WaveLan". Couldn't find anything about Australias involvement... so did you misstype and meant Austria? Otherwise I'd be very excited if you could give me some sources about the australian version. (Seriously. It's always cool to have something to read about Australia)

[@signebrummerstedt9205]

@@Nakor29 honestly my source is having been on exchange in Australia and having a bunch of Australians tell me proudly. That said I did a quick google search, the Wikipedia page for WiFi tells how it was patented from an Australian company originally called WLAN. Wikipedia provides sources, where you can probably find more information. I also found an official Australian website mentioning it: www.naa.gov.au/visit-us/events-and-exhibitions/disrupt-persist-invent/wi-fi

[@peterwiles2727]

You’re thinking of the World Wide Web and not the internet

[@Bramfly]

No Bluetooth and WiFi are Dutch inventions

[@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

[@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?

[@daniela_to]

That last one has a point tho. I've noticed that the English speak English when Americans are present. One day, I'll sneak up to an English person when there are no Americans nearby and we'll have a nice conversation in Bulgarian.

[@nickyjones88]

Well now you've ruined it havent you!! We'll have to switch over to Romanian! God damn it Daniela 🙄

[@pitmatix1457]

Oh we speak English but Chaucerian era English. This is why we still keep old spellings like "night".

[@juliaw151]

Idk about you, but I speak piglatin when no Americans are around.

[@stegothedino]

there you go, revealing all our secrets!

[@jamesknight2198]

@@pitmatix1457 knight

[@SerOtter]

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 .

[@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 🎈😭😭😭🇺🇸

[@carolinegrant7788]

I lived in Edinburgh & was once asked by an American tourist if the castle was permanent or if they just put it up every year for the tattool. It was built in the 11th Century! Disney has a lot to answer for.

[@neilbradley5011]

Alot of americans think Disney built all the castles in the world.That is why Meghan Markle really left the UK when she found out she wasn't going to be a Disney style princess with the pwer to do what the hell she wanted.Harry must have been desperate for sex to marry her.

[@laurencecheyne593]

Frankie Boyle says that American tourists think that Edinburgh Castle is a school because there's gunfire there every day.

[@largol33t1]

To be fair, there are NO structures in the US that old. We don't seem to do anything to preserve much of our past and Scotland dates back hundreds of years. The US is literally "new" compared to other countries. Therefore there are two issues: the country hasn't been around long enough to have any old buildings (well, to me a 200 year old building isn't old. I've walked across bridges that were used by Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great!). There is almost nothing older than 200-something years. And second, a lot of people in the US don't seem to care about preserving the past. The sad fact is more and more are being indoctrinated by the despicable "schools" to hate our history. Those "teachers" say EVERYTHING is racist, racist, racist 24/7. I'm not even white and it offends me that history is being sanitized in schools just to push a leftist ideology. Tragically, it is working and that's why so many teens today don't know ONE thing about the world outside. Teachers only care about pushing their political views onto students. They even go on social media to brag about how great it is that they are ruining children's lives by politically indoctrinating them. It really IS happening. I wouldn't be surprised if the United States actually falls during my lifetime. It's that bad.

[@zymelin21]

@@largol33t1 you may have had your wish about the US falling since nov. 5th 2024!

[@ellie.b.e.]

I’m an American-born escapee (left in 2016 for what should be obvious reasons) who opted to attend grad school at a world class university in South Africa. Two things: my local post office in the States didn’t believe me that South Africa was a country when I went to mail in my application. And, the sheer quantity of stupid remarks I get about running water, home appliances, personal safety, and most shockingly the country/continent question still astounds me. Many of us do know and live in the real world. But those that don’t do certainly seem to outdo us in loud, endless ignorance 😅.

[@najrenchelf2751]

...where in the world was that local post office? I hope it wasn't in a big city - because that's _bad_ 😂

[@ellie.b.e.]

@@najrenchelf2751 😂 😂 Good point. Alameda, an island just across the Bay from San Francisco, just off Oakland. Big enough they ought to have known better.

[@Miggy19779]

To be fair, much as I find the USA distasteful, SA is objectively far worse. But not knowing it is even a country, facepalm.

[@oremfrien]

Are you still in South Africa? How are people dealing with the rampant ANC corruption and rolling brownouts?

[@ellie.b.e.]

@oremfrien I wrapped up last month and I'm no longer in SA, no. Nor have i returned to the USA. But to answer your question, mostly the loadshedding and corruption are the cause of both South Africa's typical cynical humour and a rising drive to see political change. Interestingly, it's the ANC's historical ties to Russia/former soviet leadership that has people talking at the moment. The pressing issue seems to be not so much internal corruption as what role SA will play on the international stage.

[@MajoradeMayhem]

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

[@FFM0594]

Nah, gives us hours of mirth and loads of opportunities for divilment.

[@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

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Americans. Possibly the nicest people in the world. Also the most self-obsessed. I had an American girlfriend for over a decade, and it was a breeze for someone like me who could not do small-talk as you'd ask her just one question about her day or life and you were sorted for an hour. All I needed to do was nod and make noises of approval or sympathy at the right times. Zero input from me needed for a night in front of the TV. Wonderful woman. _Totally_ full of herself.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Why on earth would you waste your time with someone that self obsessed? That says as much about you as it does about her to be honest. What a relationship.

[@judsdragon]

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 probably gave good sex id say lol

[@SkycometAnimeVamp]

I never thought I’d hear us described as nice lmao.

[@mookiestewart3776]

@@SkycometAnimeVamp American people at the individual level are widely considered very friendly and outgoing by most other nations

[@LH_Vagrant]

@@SkycometAnimeVamp I think it's a matter of choice of words vs intent. Kind of how southern ladies will tell you to piss off and die by saying they'll pray for you. As an outsider they may appear nice, while an insider could identify them as really being salty hags.

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

As an American, these people not only exist, but believe every word they type. Which is why I am glad I'm living in Europe! :)

[@dmgroberts5471]

All the best Americans I've ever met always either wanted to or had moved somewhere else. It's like anyone over there with intelligence and character just looks around one day and thinks, "well, this is so _not_ what everyone has been telling me it was since birth."

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

@@dmgroberts5471 Actually there are good, intelligent ones there, but you won't hear from them in comment's sections or interviewed on television, you tube, etc. The good ol' silent majority. They are so disenfranchised they hardly vote or even watch the news anymore they just keep their heads down and bury their heads in the sand and carry on.

[@SpiritmanProductions]

Congratulations on your escape. ;-)

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

@@SpiritmanProductions I feel very upset that it is this bad "back home". And it gets worse all the time. I've got nieces and nephews growing up in it. Wearing bullet-proof backpacks. I don't feel like celebrating. :(

[@SpiritmanProductions]

@@charlotteinnocent8752 I'm sorry.

[@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.

[@sem49]

@@marcusm663 ok but where are your sources on the world map one, that one seems way too exaggerated edit: it turns out you said in a different reply. i stand corrected

[@Gabryal77]

@@JustaTechSavvyGuy. Yes you have, it's just that it's hard to tell when someone is dumb, when you yourself are dumb

[@marcusm663]

@@sem49 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3PanmCHhdhge5o

[@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!

[@richardhockey8442]

the 'employer' hiring Austrian interns in Austria: the same old assumption that US law trumps any any other countries laws in that country (bonus points for realizing other countries actually do have their own laws and constitution)

[@foobar1500]

One thing is to see this behaviour from an individual or a small shop, but quite baffling from companies who probably pay their lawyers alone hundreds of millions per annum. I've seen it, several times. Thankfully reminding them that breaking the law or other generally binding agreements is a sure way to get them in much more trouble than it's worth (even if they are capable of willing ignorance of existence of local legislation) has worked with these people. Getting in that trouble as an employer is particularly bad idea in certain parts of Europe, not some sort of a sport every corporate entity is expected to participate. Then again: who would they expect to actually get hired in a Western European country by offering jobs below minimum wage? Do they think people just flock to work for an US employer because it would be considered prestigious?

[@kathydurow6814]

Even US tax law is different. Most places if you are a citizen but live outside the country, only the income you earn in the country is taxed. Not the USA. If you're a citizen they say you're taxed on all your income, worldwide, then take off the tax you've paid in your country of residence. Even if you only inherited the citizenship & have never set foot in the USA.

[@Cornu341]

​@@kathydurow6814might be a good idea for all countries to adopt. Would massively reduce the numbers for tax fraud and flight. Either you renounce your citizenship and all obligations and benefits from it or you pay your share to your country. Not sure about a good rule when you have more than one citizenship, perhaps mutual deduction from lowest to highest tax bracket.

[@kathydurow6814]

@Cornu341 But you forget that this applies to companies, too. This is why many companies will base some of their operations in low-tax countries so they can divert revenue elsewhere. E.g. a supply arm in one country (so it is a "citizen" of that country) but the HQ for the group somewhere else. Governments are waking up to this & trying to capture tax on local revenue rather than having it move offshore. In the US much the same is done with state income taxes, I believe. Revenue is the money you receive from goods & services. But most companies are levied income tax on profits (revenue less expenses/deductions). And to make things more complex, some countries want to look through a whole group of controlled companies & possibly others don't. They might have what is called "transfer pricing" rules. Etc. Let's just say international tax is fairly complex & possibly easy-ish to manipulate if you know what you're doing and don't mind paying a small fortune in tax accountants & lawyers fees.

[@petrmaly9087]

He had a good point and was right in his assumption that he doesn't have to pay them. First, look up how "internship" works. Second, look up how minimum wage in Austria works. If it's educational internship in Austria, there are no requirements for minimum wage.

[@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

[@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.

[@karenglenn6707]

Same for me. My great grandfather was born in Glasgow in 1873. So ok, I am an Aussie with some Scottish heritage but I don’t think of myself as that either. Amazing how they take this heritage and make it current while many have never even visited that original country. It really is a joke 😂

[@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.

[@Scuttlerofwhimsey]

Do not get started on "irish americans" George. We've been able to contain them in Templebar for now but if we keep addressing them they might spill out into the rest of the country

[@SnoozerPodcast]

And they say that they’re great great grandpas friend was Irish so that means they are irish

[@cremebrulee2484]

Scottish Americans are quite similar. We’ve kept them confined to Loch Ness and Edinburgh… for now.

[@ieatleadpaintchips]

We should legalize selective euthanasia just so we can rid the world of plastic paddies.

[@giulianopisciottano8302]

​@@cremebrulee2484Italian Americans are similar we keep them contained in America by making them think that Italy isn't a safe country to travel to

[@Cau_No]

@@giulianopisciottano8302 Tell them that the Mafia is still in control? For my country it is easy. Guess how we keep the German-Americans away …

[@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.

[@SkycometAnimeVamp]

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

[@SkycometAnimeVamp]

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

[@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.

[@axell964]

@@shinobirecords2018 Here is germany pepper spray is...lets call half legal. You are allowed to carry it, but only use it to defend vs animals and not against humans.

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

We don't sing our National Anthem at school every day. It is sometimes sung at important school assemblies. What we do every day that shoots right past too patriotic to outright creepy, is say a pledge of allegiance to our flag. Everyone in the school stands up and places their right hand over their heart and speaks the pledge. It's creepy AF. Technically you can just sit there while it's happening, which I did starting in 9th grade, but almost everyone does it for 12 years of their lives. It started in the 1950s and every few years some school tries to force a kid to say it, and has to be sued in court. No exaggeration, over 70 years our courts have had to remind our schools no less than 30 times that they can't in fact force a child to swear allegiance to a flag that is meant to stand for personal freedom.

[@andersholt4653]

Out of respect, you should always stand up when ANY national anthem is played, but you keep your hands by your side.

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

@andersholt4653 I have to be honest. Obviously, I don't like the pledge. I also think it's weird for my countrymen to chastize people when they don't cover their heart or salute during the anthem. But...I totally get mad patriotic during almost any performance of 'The Star Spangled Banner;'. I ALWAYS stand, and I usually cover my heart as well. I don't know if it's conditioning or down to the gripping nature of our anthem, but there it is. I don't want people being pressured into reacting like I do, but I shouldn't pretend I don't totally buy in to the 'Merica!' vibes whenever I hear our anthem.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

@@t3tsuyaguy1The star spangled banner is the anthem hate to break it to you

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

@@enriqueperezarce5485 ...I know that...which should be abundantly obvious from my content...go back to elementary school guy🤡

[@JBofBrisbane]

The Pledge has been around since the aftermath of the Civil War, but it was only in the 1950s that "one nation, indivisible" became "one nation under God, indivisible" (which is actually against your Constitutional separation of church and state).

[@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.

[@thunderchild1083]

Getting a tip here in England is a sign of good and friendly service not a necessity, no one living here expects a tip

[@Vittrich]

I guess most waiters expects a round up like 36,80€ to 40€, its at least what i do if the service was decent. It may not be 2,50€/h in Austria, but restaurant staff still gets paid one of the lowest wages out of all professions and when my best friend worked as a waiter, his monthly salary was 1400€ after taxes and insurance, which were literally living expenses in Innsbruck, so he had to rely on the tips to make a good living, which were, to be fair, very good and around 60% of his salary in an avg month, almost double in November and December.

[@isoceptic]

I used to have an American friend, and once they needed an ambulance so I called one. He then said "Wait, I thought you were broke?" America is the best country my ass.

[@RouxHarbour]

The first one made me think of a recent encounter at IKEA where I live in Norway. I asked the people in front of me if they were standing in queue to pay or if they were waiting for an item to be ready first, in Norwegian obviously. They looked confused and politely just motioned for me to pass them to the pay station. And then I heard them speaking in French. And I realised that they must be tourists. Everyone here will speak to anyone in Norwegian as the default, unless they already know the person doesn't speak it, regardless of what they look like. Obviously. It's our country's native language. And everything here is in Norwegian. xD So for the guy in the story to think people must think he looks mega German?? and that's why they spoke German to him?? is pretty funny. He's literally in a country where German is the main language and surprised people wouldn't try to guess his heritage and speak English with him automatically?? xD

[@hunchbackaudio]

I’m Dutch but I have some family in Norway. So we attended my cousins wedding in a pretty rural part of Norway and some Dutch folks that just happened to stay in the same hotel at us, spoke to us in English because they figured we must be Norwegian, because we’re obviously dressed for the wedding ceremony. We replied in English so they wouldn’t feel embarrassed we overheard all their conversations so far. But in the grocery store Norwegians switch so fast to English when they found out you’re foreign. English is a great intermediate.

[@Dan1877]

Americans discovering the outside world never fails to amuse me

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

Well their is no reason to go outside, also it’s very expensive and hard for Americans to go explore, also doesn’t help that most Americans go to American dominated websites. Hence the “ignorance”. So it’s basically a lite version of isolation for Americans, unless your me a Mexican-American who knows a lot about different countries

[@toucan221]

OMG the whole video and everyone's comments have got almost rolling on the floor in laughter, Thank you America !!! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣❤❤

[@TwinkleBombastic]

As an american, I don't know most of the African countrie's locations. But I know Africa is a contenaint and I don't know much of South-Eastern Europe. I know my damn geography unlike the dumbass' that run my fucking country. I am 20 years old and it never fails to ammuse me how fucking BRAIN DEAD our country of "freedom" really is.

[@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! 😄

[@dcrot9109]

Karl Benz, from Germany, created the first true automobile in *1885/1886.*...... ........ In 1896 The Quadricycle was Henry Ford's first attempt to build a gasoline-powered automobile

[@pamelamitchell8789]

I saw an American program , it was tracing a family's DNA. The family was convinced they were Irish, kids did Irish dancing lessons, celebrated St Patricks day, all sorts of ideas on what Irishness was. It turned out they had Scottish roots, no Irish! Hmmmm will it be kilts and bagpipes from now on?LOL

[@lucylane7397]

They get Irish and Scottish mixed up anyway look at the st patrics day parades with highland bagpipes and kilts

[@crazyt1483]

Easy mistake to make both beautiful countries with Gaelic roots. Full of people who talk strange but know their alcohol and hate the English

[@stickcultist]

A lot of Americans are descended from people who came originally from lowland Scotland and northern England but came to Ireland during the plantation of Ulster. These people later went on to leave and go to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some reason the idea of coming from Ireland stuck more than where they originally came from, so I think this is part of why Americans who think they're irish get scottish so much on DNA tests. Unfortunately, a big portion of my family are the exact type of people who make a big deal about how Irish they are. A couple years ago, my mom took a DNA test. Turns out she was around 50% scottish 20% english and only 30% irish. (At least more irish than english lol) People were pretty surprised, although I feel like it should've been obvious from the fact that my moms side is almost all Protestant and not Catholic

[@TEcho_Clips]

As an American, I fucking love watching people outside the the US react to how stupid we are and how legitimately dystopian our policies are

[@gedq]

What is chilling is how few of them there seem to be but how influential they are

[@ForOne814]

Your policies are nowhere near EU's levels of dystopian.

[@Alex-hv7tu]

@@ForOne814 how exactly are the EU's policies dystopian?

[@ForOne814]

@@Alex-hv7tu they are actively working towards people having less rights and freedoms. For example, they've forced Czechia to make their gun laws more restrictive, despite the people not wanting that there, and it causing no problems whatsoever for the Czechs.

[@requiemlul3140]

@@ForOne814 I dunno about gun laws in Czechia be more specific rn that doesn’t seem to bad.

[@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