British Guy Reacts to 10 Things I've Learned About America Since Moving Here (Lost In The Pond)

British Guy Reacts to 10 Things I've Learned About America Since Moving Here (Lost In The Pond)
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[@immy829]

"Americans are loud" I don't know about that. I always have to repeat myself because I speak quietly. 😂🤣

[@manxkin]

Fargo (the movie) is definitely worth watching. There's also a TV show Fargo that's good too.

[@newgrl]

I second this. Both Fargo the movie and the tv show are excellent. Oh ya... ya betcha.

[@rich_t]

Just be prepared for the wood chopper scene.😳😬🤐

[@hall911guy]

@@newgrl “You’re darn tootin’!” 😂

[@tlittle705]

Alot of that movie was filmed in St. Paul and Minneapolis area. Same with grumpy old men

[@tomjohnson5346]

We say ranch and you Brits will say raunch. Raunch is more like pornography than a house or cattle farm

[@TreyM1609]

Rented a house with 44 acres. A 2 bedroom 1 bath with a basement with all that wooded land around to hunt deer on, 550$ a month. Eastern Tennessee

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

AMTRAK is the only major commuter train in the US. But the history of train travel in the US changed when the automobile came into existence in the early 1900s. And over the next 90 years, many tracks were removed. There was a railroad crossing not a half mile from my house up until the early 90s. And then it was removed because the mine it was serving closed down.

[@nineboneable]

Laurence posted a video about losing his accent. In it, he showed a video clip from 2015 and he definitely had an American accent but something happened and in 2018/2019 he flipped and developed this hybrid British/American accent that he is now using. He does have experience in the theater so it wouldn't be hard for him to cultivate this hybrid accent. ;) As for Americans getting loud in restaurants or other social settings is that you are trying to be heard at your table over the loud people of the table next to you and then the table on the other side of you is also trying to be heard at their table over you and if you throw restaurant music into the mix, the conversations are going to get louder. The problems I have in hearing and understanding British people is they either talk softly and from the back of their throat or they leave out 75% of the consonants of the spoken words.

[@hall911guy]

This dude (Beesley) deserves a shitload more subs than he currently has. He has quality content and he’s consistent on putting out videos. He ain’t hard on the eyes, either. 😘😘 #Legend

[@abcxyz8116]

Atrocious.

[@jameshunt9208]

@@abcxyz8116 What is?

[@jamus1340]

Laurence has picked up many Americanisms mostly. I think his accent is still heavily English but I sometimes hear him pronouncing some words almost Midwestern.

[@SubFT]

He would not be confused for an American native with his accent as is. He's not Hugh Laurie doing Dr. House.

[@jbarton8508]

Fargo: worth watching? Answer: ONLY if you enjoy genius.

[@Blynat]

the show is amazing too.

[@Ira88881]

@@Blynat Didn’t care much for the latest season, though.

[@hah3456]

Horrible movie

[@principalmcvicker6530]

Fargo is a great movie! Highly recommend!

[@jlpack62]

We Americans don't say aluminium, because we don't spell the word with the ium suffix. We spell the word aluminum.

[@d34dR0d3n7]

Aluminum is the alloy used in manufacturing. Aluminium is the raw element on the periodic table that is mixed with small amounts of other metals to make Aluminum. Edit (after thinking during a cig): Basically, unless you're a chemist or working in metallurgy, Aluminum is always the correct word. /sorry Brits. I can also correct ya'll on the right car words too, if so desire. Now that this one is taken care of. :p

[@stonewall01]

Aluminum was the original term anyway. The person that named it later changed it by adding the -ium to make it the same as the other elements. By the time that happened however it had already made it in American dictionaries and scientific books as Aluminum and so it never changed.

[@d34dR0d3n7]

@@stonewall01 Words and their progression/adaption are so weird, lol. Etymology is such a fun field to get in to, even at the most basic level. I still stand by my reasoning on this topic; the original is the correct. /though, doesn't seem like your added details disagreed with my statement. I will stand by the Alloy v Element pronunciation, for now. I may actually do research tomorrow (too late tonight, vodka has a hold of me) for names and dates and shit. I'm kind of obsessing over this now, because I thought I knew what I said was right, but now want to trace it out...

[@intermenater]

Aluminum is the original the word. Just like soccer. And the pronunciation of "r". Brits changed it after the fact to sound posh. Look it up. Move ahead boys. There's a reason there are states more successful than England. You can't even leave the EU. Poor puppies. Stand on your feet.

[@brandonaston2261]

Yup, and Americans invented Aluminum so we can spell it however we want to. Technically the Brits changed it to be different and because they like adding letters to words.

[@mslafave5689]

I absolutely enjoy your insertions/commentaries! Keep them coming, please!

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

Cost of Living varies between urban and rural areas. In major cities, you'll pay several thousand dollars per month for rent for a tiny apartment, but in rural areas, you'll pay perhaps quite a bit less for a good sized house.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

That is true I live in rural Mississippi and I have a big house and several acres of land that cost me around 300,000 where if it was in a big city it would be easily be over a million dollars

[@RLKmedic0315]

In a small town right outside of Charlotte NC I have a 2649 sq ft house, 5 bedrooms, 1/2 acre lot for $1350/month. To be fair, that is a hell of a deal even for the area I am in, but it does demonstrate what you can get once you leave the big cities

[@garycamara9955]

2500 a month here in Rural Sonoma county for a house.

[@garycamara9955]

The average price of a house in Sonoma county is $500,000. A freind has a house on an acre with a small shop, its 1.9 million.

[@bdubson9082]

Fargo is in my top 10. It’s packed with great actors giving epic performances in a movie without excessive dialogue. Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand….I mean come on man , watch it.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

I almost feel like his accent is stronger now vs then. I think he is more animated and makes jokes more so his voice fluctuates more now and maybe that just makes the accent seem stronger.

[@thekevindeucey]

Fargo is amazing and Lawrence seems to have a Surrey-ish accent but I have no idea where he lived in England.

[@poohbearsmom2964]

About accents, Lawrence actually has a video about losing his accent. Also, the US probably has a greater variety of accents than the UK, but, they tend to be more dispersed. If you are in London, you’ll here a new accent every couple of blocks. There are not many places, if any in the US that you could say the same thing. If you haven’t checked out the Erik Singer series on North American accents, it would be a great reaction.

[@mlee-w664]

New York City, Philly, or Chicago are probably the best examples of a bunch of different accents within one city.

[@gwillis01]

Several years ago I saw an educational documentary about English around the world. The main point is that English is spoken in lots of countries but it does not sound the same in any two places. Jamacians, people from New Delhi, India, Australians, Americans, Irish, people from Bermuda, those in Edinburgh, and those in London all speak different varieties of English. Most people can tell the difference between English speakers of different countries.

[@Blondie42]

Laurence sounds exactly the same in this video as he did in his most recent one, here in 2022. For some the accent doesn't go away. I had a university professor who's from England, he never said where, and his accent was very subtle. He also didn't say how long he's lived here in the US. He casually mentioned that he's English and left it at that. A lady who lived and worked in a small town I used to live in had a very distinct English accent. She had lived here in the PNW, of the states for a long as I can remember and still had a lovely accent. I hope she's still around, but I've not been there in ages.

[@WhatDayIsItTrumpDay]

The Loudness thing most likely stems from just the very fact that we are taught from a young age to SPEAK UP when we want to be heard. In other words, don't mumble under your breath when you're trying to communicate with others. And our generalized American accent may also contribute to the loudness as well, since we tend to enunciate our words a bit better than you Brits, if I do say so myself. 😉😁 Not leaving out certain letter sounds, like T for example, does have an effect on the volume of our speach.

[@nancysexton4364]

What drives me crazy is how they put "Rs" at the end of words that end in "A." Like America is Ameicur, Canada is Canadur, etc. and then they don't pronounce the "R" at the end of words that actually do end in R. Also, lot of Brits pronounce words that start with "th" as an "f," which is really weird.

[@tunyaau9617]

As a midwesterner living in the south... do not count on better pronunciation. Especially when I lived in eastern North Carolina. They tend to jam words together and speak slowly which is a weird combination.

[@elizabethsmith4266]

@@tunyaau9617 I'm from the South, just because I don't speak like a person from the Midwest does not mean I mispronounced words and talk too slow. Maybe being from the Midwest, you talk too fast and mispronounce words. After all you're not from North Carolina.

[@tunyaau9617]

@@elizabethsmith4266 we each speak differently nothing wrong with either way. It was just a culture shock and a little hard to understand the accent when I first moved there. I had lived in the mountain west too but when I moved to NC it was sometimes difficult to understand the southern accent. Yes,sometimes I do talk too fast.

[@uwbadger79]

I think you made a comment (probably an oversight) about NY having extensive mass transit but places like Indiana and Chicago less so. Chicago (where I live) has a huge mass transit system - buses, subways and commuter railroads as well as being a hub for travel on Amtrak to most major regions of the country.

[@Kim-427]

I was going to comment that.I was going to say that he totally misunderstood or didnt hear what Lawrence said about Chicago transportation system.Sometimes I think our host is so anxious to interrupt the video so that he can give his view that he doesn't pay attention to whats being said by the person in the video.

[@glennmullins4086]

Fargo (1996 film) is definitely worth watching! Also see Fargo TV series (from past 3-4 years), seasons 1 & 2 are the best!

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

Fargo is a Cohen Bros. picture and well worth the watch ("Was that your Friend in the Wood Chipper"), it emphasizes the far northern accent of Minnesota, upper Michigan and the Dakotas. Chicago has an accent all it's own, the KZbin channel "Crime pays but Botany Doesn't" (I personally love this channel), gives you a real insight on not only the Chicago accent but it's attitude also. The southern accent(S) isn't one but many, with each southern state it's own kind of southern talk.

[@gotbeef1218]

If you're looking to see just how the unique accents across the country are, I highly recommend the series " Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED". It will help you out quite a bit for what to look out for on where people are from around the country

[@poohbearsmom2964]

I also recommend that series.

[@elkins4406]

That series is absolutely fantastic, and all three parts are out now, so there's no waiting! (I got very antsy waiting for part 3 to come out, because I did love that series.)

[@garygemmell3488]

Accents can definitely change. I'm a Mexican American from East Los Angeles. When I was 10 we moved to Michigan and when I was 15 we moved to North Carolina. When I was 16 my grandmother died on the last day of school and the family left the next day on a 72 hour road trip back to East LA for the funeral. My brother spent the summer there to help out gramps. He lived literally 6 feet from the school I went to kindergarten in 1966. Back then schools kept their playgrounds open with supervision after schools hours. You could check out a basketball, a table game, a kickball, etc.. One day my brother and I were playing basketball with some local Hispanics kids who kept giving us strange looks. Finally, one of them asked, "Where the hell are you guys from? You guys sound weird.". I explained that we were from East LA but had lived in Michigan and North Carolina. Our accents and vernacular were a combination of East LA, Michigan, and North Carolina. They , on the other hand, sounded perfectly normal to me because my ear had heard it for the first 10 years of my life.

[@rich_t]

Centre - center Tyre - tire Aeroplane - airplane Yoghurt - yogurt Manoeuvre - maneuver Just to name a few...

[@dcottrell6763]

been following you for awhile, i just love your youthful enthusiasm! thx for the reactions (from texas)

[@rydogg28]

Discovered your page a couple months ago. Like what you’re doing. Keep it up.

[@pedroguerrero3862]

As a new yorker, we do have a good train system but it's only in the city. Any place that is an hour or more, you got to have a car and that is true for both ny and nj as someone who regularly goes there. The further the location, the more likely your need a car because the rail line are only for specific cities like Buffalo.

[@jeffburdick869]

We've had winters here where it got to -35 C. A fun thing to do when it gets that cold is boil water, take it outside, and fling it into the air. It instantly turns to fog and rain.

[@garycamara9955]

I drove to Wyoming once, it took 18 hours at around 80 mph. It takes 8 hours to drive from just north of San Francisco to San Diego. It also takes about 3 hours from Santa Rosa, in Sonoma county, to Reno Nevada. Its also about 3 hours to Oregon from here. You can make it across the US in 3 days, if you drive straight through on the interstates.

[@jeffrichards1537]

I live in west Virginia and I've heard ground hogs called whistle pigs lmao. If you whistle they normally stand up and look around at what made the noise.

[@fsujavi16]

Fargo-both the movie and tv show- are ABSOLUTELY worth watching! I’m a huge fan of both and I’m not alone i think.

[@gmunden1]

I have a colleague from the Great Lakes area and the "Fargo/Scandinavian" influence is strong.

[@SubFT]

Just to be clear, there air two official spellings...aluminium, as used in most of the British Commonwealth nations, and aluminum, as pronounced in the US (and Canada, I am pretty sure). Each group pronounces the words as spelled. It's not that Americans are mispronouncing aluminium, they're pronouncing the word aluminum as spelled.

[@natdatil6830]

I've only encountered free refills once in the UK, and that was in an American themed restaurant in Corby. On a beverage related note, when you order "water" in the US, you're going to get tap water over ice. In the UK, many restaurants will bring out a bottle of Perrier and charge you £6.

[@CDceilingcat]

As somebody that was born and raised in Chicagoland (Metropolitan Chicago area, specifically Aurora) for the first 18 years of their life and has now lived in Wisconsin for almost 10 years I would say, in this video at least, he still has a very strong English sounding accent. That's including word choice when speaking in general. He uses terms/words that aren't typically used as often in conversation in the context that he uses them, at least in the Midwest. I think more than a couple instances of that would tip somebody off even if he did have a traditional Chicago or Midwest sounding accent that he isn't actually from the area. He does use some "Midwestern" terms and colloquialisms though like "pop". And from what I've read, very light reading, you have to almost intentionally try to lose your accent after a certain age once you move somewhere else. So like an American moving to Australia, apart from slang and colloquialisms and what not, would still very much sound American unless they were intentionally trying to sound Australian. So him being here for 10 years doesn't matter much unless he was trying to sound like the people that are here rather than how he learned to speak originally in England. Also would like to add, since you mentioned people talking about your accent, while it is much different than a stereotypical English accent that Americans think of, I don't have really any issues understanding anything you say.

[@deeluther4060]

Good Reaction Video Bro Keep them Coming

[@sherriemartin7809]

The first thing I ALWAYS do when watching upon pulling up your videos is to click LIKE. I know it will always be great!

[@geoffreysloan6220]

I love accents because it's a true stamp on where a person came from and what they experienced in life. As I've traveled the U.S. I've gotten better at identifying them but I'm still learning the many accents of the U.K. It's even harder when you've never been there. Most of my exposure has been different KZbinrs. But my best guess about Laurence's accent is London. Which doesn't help at all because I know London has many different neighborhood accents so my guess would be possibly east-side London for him, but I'm just throwing noodles at a wall and seeing what sticks.

[@davemick7216]

I lived off and on between Las Vegas, Nevada and the rural part of Riverside County, California (an extremely large county in Southern California) and the bus system is so vastly different. In Las Vegas there are buses running non- stop for the major streets, though less frequently during the late hours. And the part of California I live, they only run from about 5am-9pm, and there are far fewer routes, because everything is so spread out. It makes using public transportation much less feasible for work, etc.

[@diddiaskew3084]

From personal experience, it takes 3 days to get from Atlanta to Sacramento by bus. My mother decided we just had to take this trip to see America. We flew home.

[@nancyandrews398]

This is one of the first videos of Laurence's I saw back in the day. Yes, the channel was called Lost in the Pond then, but he didn't emphasize it. It was maybe only a little over a year ago that he made a video about changes to his channel where he would focus on the "lost in the pond" part, as he said he'd get lots of queries about what the channel name meant anyway. That was when he quit his day job to focus exclusively on youtube.

[@elkins4406]

Fargo is definitely worth seeing, provided that you aren't averse to a bit of violence. It's a great film, and that Scandinavian-influenced Minnesotan accent is just a bonus.

[@Adiscretefirm]

North Dakota

[@elkins4406]

@@Adiscretefirm The kidnappers are hired from Fargo, but most of the characters are Minnesotan, and most of the action takes place in that state.

[@lindacarroll6896]

Cost of living varies state to state and city to city. Food can cost more in a small city because it cost more to truck it there; but they may have the option of buying some items (produce and dairy) locally at a much cheaper price.

[@lane6866]

Laurence sounds like educated "actor" English to me. He may have a touch of his native regionalism but he sounds like someone who has taken voice and speech or diction classes at some point, but not to the extent of sounding overly affected or "posh". Much like many educated, actor or journalist Americans.

[@savemepunk3191]

Fargo "the film" is absolutely worth it... one of all-time favorite movies. There is also a television series based off of the film but I haven't seen it. From what I've heard it's just alright.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

I like the TV show. It’s kind of an anthology spin off of the movie. Each season is a different story with different people set in the same “universe“ as the movie but not really connected.

[@savemepunk3191]

@@JustMe-dc6ks I may check it out. As a fan of the film I'm sure I'll enjoy it. My buddy who knows my tastes better than anyone told me "I may be disappointed" and he's rarely wrong... but don't know until I judge it for myself... one more thing to add to my ever-growing list of things to watch lol

[@Jay_Scott_Raymond]

Note the air conditioner in the window behind him. He's commented before on that being more common in the US. That and window screens.

[@jerseydevs2000]

Knowing that Beesley is from Rotherham and Laurence is from Grimsby, they would definitely have different accents to someone from the UK. As an American, I would have thought their accents would have sounded a bit more similar. It's usually difficult for me to tell Northern English accents apart, except for really distinct accents like Geordie and Scouser. For me, there's no doubt Beesley's from Yorkshire but Laurence definitely has that middle-class affect on his accent, though those Northern English vowel sounds still come through occasionally.

[@lynntaylor9681]

I'd love it if you reacted to older Lost in the Pond videos. I didn't subscribe to his channel until 2019 so I missed a lot of his older videos. I've watched some of his older videos but not all of them. Also here in the US, we sometimes have different accents in the same state. I live in Wisconsin and my accent is different from Yoopers who live in northeastern WI. They sound more like Canadians while my accent is similar to those in Illinois and the rest of Wisconsin.

[@erickhill8707]

My little crapbox apartment (886 sq ft) runs almost 1100 a month in rural sw Washington state. The cost of living has gotten absurd since I was a kid (early 70's).

[@willrobinson4976]

He is from Southeast England area, near London.

[@elkins4406]

Really? Wow, I was off then. I was sure I was hearing some northern vowel sounds from Laurence, but then, like many Americans, I'm pretty poor at identifying accents.

[@davemick7216]

My step- mom was from England, but my dad was born and raised in California, USA and I remember her her specifically giving crap for how he pronounced "barn". She said it like, "ba'n". As if the "r" is silent. And would say he pronounced it, "baRRRn", over- emphasizing the "R"... I'm not sure which is correct, but I found it funny.

[@BillViets]

Bill Burr has the epitome of a Boston accent

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

Fargo very definitely is worth watching - both the movie and the TV series (originally on FX). Laurence goes into the pronunciation and spelling of aluminum/aluminium in one of his videos. The short version is that Sir Humphrey Davy, who first isolated the element, named it "alumium" (sic). Then he changed his mind and started calling it "aluminum." Other scientists decided that it should be "aluminium," because that's more like the names of other elements, like "sodium," "calcium," and "cadmium." Davy's second version of the name ("aluminum") stuck in the U.S., while most of the rest of the world went with the modified name "aluminium." BTW, there are four other elements whose names end in "-um" without the "i" - platinum, lanthanum, molybdenum, and tantalum. The shoe brand Nike is named for the Greek goddess of victory, and is properly pronounced with two syllables (just as it is in Greek). Americans do pronounce the name Adidas wrong - it was based on the name of the company founder, Adi Dassler.

[@JerryJohnson-sq3fk]

A few years ago, I was watching a nature documentary that had been made by the BBC. The British narrator pronounced "glacier" as glah-see-uh. In the US, we pronounce it glay-shur.

[@memsurs]

Lawrence is developing a strong midwestern american accent, which is the "traditional" american accent. You can hear more and more of the accent over time through his videos.

[@riada4996]

I believe the Midwest was gjvin that colloquial name during/after the Louisana purchase, which would be mostly accurate during that time period, because it would be relatively the middle of the western. I may be wrong though, because I can't remember which came first, the chicken or the egg, I mean that purchase or the gold rush. You tell me, lol.

[@N1120A]

You definitely need to see Fargo to understand that accent if you aren't from the States. Lawrence, like most Englishmen who move to the States, has seen his Northeastern English accent soften into a bit of a muddled RP as he's lived in the US. You can still hear some of his Northern tones, but it's definitely not as strong as it would be if he was still in England. P.S. You guys pronounce Adidas (the German pronunciation of the shortened Adi Dassler) correctly, where as we pronounce Nike (Greek goddess) correctly.

[@geoffsimpkins7650]

I am always amused when Europeans say Americans don’t travel. What they don’t understand the scope of country. Consider a road trip between Los Angeles and Chicago, Route 66. For a Londoner, they would need to drive PAST Moscow to rival the distance. For me, suburban LA, to Maine, which I have done, is akin to that Londoner driving to Jerusalem. Seattle for me is further than Gibraltar to him. The Londoner could be in Vienna sooner than I can even cross California’s northern border. So, while I do love foreign travel and have very many times, a USA road trip is more traveling than most Europeans do inside Europe.

[@Werewindle]

Cost of living is interesting. I almost got fired many years ago when I bitched about pay rates in my company. There were people in our offices in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey being paid twice as much as me for doing the same job. I just suggested we stop having offices up there and have tele-services to the midwest where both Lawrence and I live... It didn't go over well.

[@Deadcntr]

I believe that he has become more American. And I know that he has learned to communicate in American English when necessary. I believe he is from east central Britain. A lot of the pronunciations are learned from television advertisements and broadcast news.

[@gwillis01]

America is composed of many different levels of prosperity. In my opinion, there are dots of prosperity and dots of poverty in the U S. Sometimes the dots of prosperity are close together and sometimes they are far apart. There can be an enormous difference between the prosperity of two towns ten miles apart. Since America is a dog eat dog every man fending for himself strenuously type of place, it is thought that your prosperity is mostly due to your own efforts.

[@mikepaulus4766]

I lived in Hawaii for five years. The first year I just had a bus pass. I got a car after that, and I was much happier.

[@theblackbear211]

Lawrence's accent - I know that he's from Grimsby, but what kind of English accent he has I could not say. I can tell he is not, Scots, Irish, Welsh, or Cornish. His is not a Cockney accent, nor is it any variation that I would consider "Posh". Has it changed over time... I believe it has, but in the US, he is unmistakably "English".

[@anthonyorsini]

I always assumed his accent was southern, maybe London. He pronounces his ts etc and has that slightly posh sound we often associate with British English over here. I still think he has a noticeable British accent except on certain words here and there where he has picked up some Americanisms. And from what I gather you’re northern, maybe Manchester or something, where the letter T is often optional :). But I have zero problem understanding you so I don’t know why someone commented about whether you were even speaking English.

[@calvinwilliams6649]

I believe the reson its called the midwest is because of how america was established on the east coast and took over more territory westward to the pacific, so at some point the midwest was almost as west as america reached and I guess the name may have stuck from that period

[@brucegreenberg7573]

Beesley, another entertaining reaction video to Laurence! Would love if you would come to America again. Hey, think you said you’re from Jersey. So move to our New Jersey! Best, mate!

[@jeffburdick869]

11:19 Chicago has a massive mass transit system and more tourists than I even like to deal with. I avoid the tourist areas all summer.

[@BlueDebut]

Lets go Beesley!!!

[@dtwolfe63]

The video can't be that old, since he mentions that he has lived here for 10 years at that point. So it can't be much more than 3 years ago.

[@elizabethseals2001]

You are so pleasant. I love your videos. I live in Alabama. The cost of living isn't that much.

[@garycamara9955]

Lawrence has a pronounced british accent. Don't forget the distance here. The only practical place for mass transit is in major cities.

[@RiseOfThePhoenix30]

I wish there was a way we could see you react to Aerial America

[@melgjerde9180]

Beesley, where did you grow up? What city or town? Just curious. Thanks! Love your channel. I’m from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

Fargo is an excellent movie. Based on real events & horribly brutal. It is NOT for the kids! Even if it is brutal there are many comic moments. Well, you can get my fave movie list if you are interested. Fargo is full of local accent 'You betcha. Ofta'. LOL!! Below is a KZbin link to the way Minnesotans talk. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4fPf5-Vgb1nbas

[@mandystory4275]

I hope we are not giving Beesley a complex. He has an awesome accent.

[@tomjohnson5346]

Burr is from the Boston Mass. Area. Fargo is a great movie.

[@tankblack6758]

"Fargo" movie and TV a must...

[@BillViets]

Fargo is brilliant. Laurence is from Grimsby. Amazingly.

[@tazepat001]

Don't worry about people that don't like it when you pause. I'm here because I want to hear your feedback.

[@klausjackklaus]

I live in Toledo, Ohio which is extremely inexpensive. We have an oil refinery and nuclear reactor close by for utility costs and rent is extremely cheap. I pay $660 for a 850 sq ft (79 sq m) apt that includes natural gas (compressed methane) heating and water, my electricity is $0.0475 per kWh, my internet is $70 a month for 300/300 fiber, petrol prices (its gone up with demand but) are $0.793 (57.1p) a liter, vehicle registration is $50 flat per year, etc.

[@melissarose7327]

True story

[@tecianicole]

Bill Burr is from Boston. He is an American

[@brianlewis5692]

At the time the US 'Midwest' region got its name, the USA did not reach as far as California and the west coast as we see it today, so the 'Midwest' was back then actually the "mid west". The name just stuck.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

☝️ Thank you.

[@bsbaker6595]

Chicago has a very good elevated train system called The El.

[@chikidd24]

Chicago has the second largest transportation system in America!

[@islajadepierre9060]

Exactly. When he said Chicago wasn’t as “touristy” , I’m like…since when🧐 lol. We have so many El lines and Amtrak and the Metra.

[@adamlewis5700]

Free refills are slowly being phased out in most greater metropolitan areas. The only places I see that is rural diners or restaurants. Used to be at most fast food chains that have a soda fountain. I think it’s great they aren’t doing it anymore. No one needs to buy a 32 ounce pop, drink it with their meal and then fill it up again before leaving. That’s 64 oz of pop! For families on a budge it’s nice because you can buy one and let kids share which ive experiences personally when I was a kid. But still, seems like refills are slowly going away. Many Americans are realizing the obesity problem we have.

[@BTinSF]

A food thing that can come as a shock to Americans is ICE. People in Europe--not sure about the UK--drink soda/coke/pop without ice. I found that shocking when I first encountered it. You might argue that the melting ice dilutes the drink but having drunk my sodas all my life with ice, I actually prefer them slightly diluted with meting ice.

[@Nickanj]

Chicago is extremely touristy and has as good a transit system as New York City comparable to size. You need not own a car in Chicago. I loved it. :)

[@bradb3248]

Beesley, watching these has made you know more about America than many Americans.

[@Sonnie0325]

Totally recommend Fargo (movie & series)!

[@diddiaskew3084]

On the diversity of accents: I went to a hole-in-the-wall to get something to eat in Savannah. After I gave him my order, the man that the window looked at me for a while before saying: "You from North Georgia, aren't you?" Guilty as charged. Atlanta.

[@The.Bees.Knees.]

I work at Nike world headquarters. Phil Knight, one of the founders, pronounces it Ni-kee.

[@barkerjames1980]

Shoutout from WYOMING!

[@MatrixGodfather]

He sounds British to me but the way he forms words makes me think of how we do here in the Midwest. Maybe a bit Hoosier. But seriously, the Midwest is my favorite region in the States. I'm paying less for my mortgage in Columbus Ohio than people spend on rent in Harlem.

[@gregadkins2483]

We say Ni-key which is correct while Nike(like bike) is wrong. It is an American company named after the Greek (or Roman I cant remember) god. However, we say a-deed-ass which is wrong. It is a German company whose name we can't seem to get right. I try to pronounce it right, but I still get it wrong quite often.

[@rydout]

We Americans also get annoyed by waiters/tresses that check too much, however, we get quite irate at not enough.....

[@revtoyota]

Try dealing with -40f (-40c) to -65 F (-53c) in the winter. As for Aluminum you say it wrong according to the person who discovered it. Americans say it the correct way.

[@mslafave5689]

OMG yes! Fargo is worth watching! Is is a very dark comedy

[@chrishemry7]

When I was a kid, free refills were only offered for the largest drink size.

[@juniorjohnson9509]

Fargo - great movie.

[@Richard-zm6pt]

Lawrence's accent sounds northern English. I'm sure he has said where he is from, but I don't remember. Listen to his u sound.