Americans seriously confuse me

[@jackovjacko3170]

Nobody here in America actually knows what communism is. You ask one of use as 9 time out of 10 you won’t get a real answer cuz we are not taught such things. This also applies to socialism, fascism, Stalinism, etc. Our education system doesn’t teach us much about politics so these buzzwords can be easily weaponized in propaganda and it’s sad.

[@user-blob]

It’s actually similar here in Britain. We proles are not educated on politics at all. Brits love to poor scorn on anyone we consider beneath us which, for some pathetic dumbos, is everyone. Make no mistake, the American education system is diabolical but take heart that we’re not much better over here.

[@duncanb79]

I'm from England where it seems to me that if you are not a Republican, then you are a Communist with the way Republicans talk.

[@Szriko]

Communism, socialism, all of that is leftist degens trying to be lazy. It's unamerican, and more, it's evil and directly spoken against by God and Jesus.

[@sugarnads]

All those words you used? Theyre all varieties of the same thing. Socialism in its various forms. Communism is a form of socialism.

[@Quilladraws]

I mean I did learn about those things once in school…a singular week in 6th grade. I couldn’t tell you a good answer, just a vague one. Definitely haven’t learned anything even related since.

[@smeckledorph]

I once had an argument with an American on a Team Fortress 2 cummunity server, about that being Dutch means you live in the Netherlands, not Germany. I tried to convince him for like half an hour but I couldn't do it. He just REFUSED to believe it. I get that most Americans don't know the difference between Germany and the Netherlands, but the fact that he wouldn't believe me, even after clarifying multiple times that I am Dutch myself and therefore know what I'm talking about is insane.

[@M4xXxIkInG]

brobably because the german word for beig german is being "deutsch" which has kinda similar pronounciation so he thought you were saying you are deutsch? because his buddy who teached it to him butchered the language? :D sometging like that could lead to this :D

[@Llama_charmer]

@@M4xXxIkInG Yeah that would be my guess too, though to be fair, the fact that he knows Deutschland relates to germany but not that its not the same thing as Dutch is a little odd.

[@oilslick7010]

To be fair I think we should officially cancel the whole 'Dutch' thing and use 'Netherlandish' and 'Netherlander' instead. Just like how Turkiye doesn't want to be called 'Turkey' anymore and Birma is now Myanmar. And then every time someone still uses the word 'Dutch' we scream at them to "STOP SAYING/SPELLING 'DEUTSCH' WRONG, YOU MORON!!!!"

[@smeckledorph]

@@M4xXxIkInG yeah I also explained that there is a difference between Deutch and Dutch but he still didn't believe me lol

[@paigemosher8697]

Also American. I apologize on behalf of him and his stupidity. Frankly, I'm ashamed to live in the same country as these people.

[@gabetalks9275]

American leftists: "Socialism is great. Just look at Europe. We should be like them." American conservatives: "Europe is not socialist. They're capitalists too." American leftists: "Oh, so that means we can be like them." American conservatives: "NOOOOO, THAT'S SOCIALISM!!!"

[@AnnaChristina-l6o]

European leftists: ? Now am actually curious 🤔

[@dfuher968]

Nope, American conservatives, what few are left, the rest having gone full far right fascists, also think, that Europe is socialist, hence why they feel a constant need to denigrate us and use us to fearmonger about, whatever new insane crap theyve come up with to get voters to vote against their own interests.

[@ultrakid8497]

Throughout my entire time on the Internet I've never heard someone say that. As an American

[@gabetalks9275]

@@ultrakid8497 You definitely haven't engaged with the political side of the internet much then. According to your average American conservative, literally any social safety net or anything public is considered "socialist," even though it's just the same basic Keynesian economics that built the post-war middle class.

[@Leon-bc8hm]

Right wingers never make sense.

[@DrShotput]

I've said this somewhere before, but the way Americans cling to the minority cultural influences of other cultures, especially prevalent with Ireland and other European nations, and simultaneously shit on them and have the whole 'America is the Greatest / Europe is Communist' mentality really baffles me

[@iris4547]

yeah theyre hyperfocused on such things like race. african-american, indian-american etc. dont think you find such racism in the rest of the world.

[@ethirium4389]

For real, it's like... It's almost cultural appropriation, they claim those cultural things as if they where exclusively "American-something", and they think it's fine because AMERICANS do it, but when the culture they claim to have heritage of do the exact same thing, then it's communism/ undeveloped.... It's so annoying.

[@glenndonuts]

@@iris4547 until you mention the Roma lmfao

[@LalaDepala_00]

​@@Kero-zc5tcAs a German I have never in my 43 years on earth met anyone who cared about the roma.

[@麒麟麦酒-u5w]

​@@Kero-zc5tc do you think somalians or iranians belong in northern europe? it starts being a problem when they come here and act like they own the place

[@OscarPharoah]

This video could not be more perfectly timed lmao

[@HarrisonPhillips-c1z]

Fr On the American Election day I'm from the UK right?And like whoever wins depends on how my. Life is going to be we are basically an American puppet we like them as humans beings but we have friendly Slander towards each other so it's fine I'm sure whoever wins won't be bad but will change my life slightly I'm also opressed by The labour party and I wish there was a different way to Have the workers rights implemented without opression it hear me out but There Is a way to change your nation Vote:Trump or Kamala

[@TheLugiaSong]

@@HarrisonPhillips-c1z the Labour party aren't ideal but they at least seem to be setting things on the right path so far and it is much better than the alternative. It is unfortunate for both countries we're stuck with only two practical voting options.

[@nickle_]

Literally 😭

[@Window873]

@@HarrisonPhillips-c1z Trump's vice refused to work with the UK becuase it was "full of asians and all that trash". He's an arsehole.

[@maruftalukdar1805]

@@TheLugiaSong better than being stuck on one practical voting option. Things can always get worse.

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

Regarding the tax, I did see an American who moved to Europe (Denmark), go through income and taxes, and because Americans had to pay for health insurance and save up for college for the children, they ended up having about the same amount of disposable income, and it was cheaper for them to live in Europe. Another woman spoke about her life in Germany, how their household income was lower, but still they had saved over $175000 in 5 years, because everything was cheaper in Germany, and subsidized childcare.

[@patverum9051]

In our small village in Lot province (southern France) that has 120 inhabitants there are 3 American couples, they moan and groan because of the tax they have to pay in the USA. All EC countries have a law on double taxation,so you pay in one country only...

[@dianabialaskahansen2972]

@@patverum9051 They should be able to deduct most or all, due to the tax treaties. Though France may have a lower income tax than the US, which influence it, because as I understand it, you deduct what you pay in taxes abroad.

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

​@dianabialaskahansen2972 The Americans in Denmark have the KZbin channel "Traveling Young" They go through it there.

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

The Americans in Denmark have the KZbin channel "Traveling Young" They go through it there.

[@bewing77]

Probably true for most. We moved to Sweden from Texas 9 years ago and we have a much better family economy now, with the added bonus of having less to worry about.

[@evenberg8499]

Referring to Europe as a country is priceless.😄

[@goobtube.1]

it's like calling antarctica a country ;-;

[@thebethversion3172]

England is my city

[@HarrisonPhillips-c1z]

Hear me out I'm a Geography fan but France is a concept

[@PokemonNerd265]

​@@HarrisonPhillips-c1z OK, if France is a concept, then what's Australia?

[@kiwigaming09]

​@@PokemonNerd265hell.

[@jenslorden6015]

I understand why Americans don't like our coffee. It's because we actually put coffee in our coffee and not just a ton of sugar.

[@marydavis5234]

Americans do not like coffee from other countries ,when they use instant coffee

[@nibroc06]

Coffee is just nasty in general

[@sammypie5501]

​@@nibroc06thats ur opinion

[@nibroc06]

@sammypie5501 it does smell good tho I'll give it that

[@uwetheiss970]

@@sammypie5501 And mine too.

[@IlSinistero]

Cities like Paris, London etc all look alike - that’s really rich hearing from an American 😄

[@serenabreeze6634]

Posting this on Election Day is diabolical

[@axxa2821]

For 96% of the world population it's not election day so i don't see the point 😉

[@KevinLuper99]

​@@axxa2821you're very smart and superior. We're all very proud of you and hope we can be just like you when we grow up. 🙄

[@lannik_0]

Oh...I found the american in the comments

[@blackcountryme]

No elections in the UK

[@LukeeBrand]

@@axxa2821the video “Americans seriously confuse me”. Covers “stupidity” of a small number of Americans, given it is election day in America, and the video is about Americans, the idea that “posting this on election day is diabolical” still stands. You are not, infact, smarter than anyone else.

[@tcheeez09]

"we save nations, not destroy them." The entire Middle East is crying right now.

[@vegeta002]

America hasn't "saved" anyone since WW2, and that was only because _they_ were attacked first (and after countries like the UK and France had already done most of the hard work).

[@alexander1055]

Yugoslavia

[@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108]

Haiti sends It's regards. To be fair, the screw up of Haiti was a collaborative between the US and France... Yeah, that doesn't make It sound any better.

[@mayraalejandragonzalezeraz5886]

And the victims of Hiroshima.

[@lanavandutch5591]

Multiple South American countries too.

[@BlackWater_49]

4:00 As a German who as been born and raised in Germany to German parents who have been born and raised in Germany to German parents (and so on) I have to tell you that if you have to state your "Germanness" in percent you've already lost...

[@hannesh.3024]

Einfach bullshit. They generally have a weird thing for saying stuff like "I am 1.24% Italien so I am Italien American". If you were born and raised in America by Americans AND you believe the propaganda you learn in the school, you can't really talk your way out of this😂

[@carinchenbienchen]

Aber er/sie/es isst doch deutsche Pasta

[@TheRealRedAce]

NO ONE has Celtic ancestry. Celt was a shared CULTURE, not a race. It reached across most of Europe from North Africa to Britain to what is now Turkey. It included MANY races and nationalities.

[@Gambit771]

Try telling the Irish that.

[@kawoshining]

@@Gambit771 do you mean the scottish?

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

Well, judging by contemporary descriptions of them, the Gauls at any rate were noticeable for their pale skin, blue eyes and commonly blond or reddish hair. That's a phenotype you can still find in Scotland and Ireland. And despite the Celts being of mixed ethnic origin, since Celtic is defined by language and culture, then you have Celtic ancestry if you are descended from people who are known to have spoken a Celtic language.

[@Montymasonsmyth3626]

Wales is Celtic too​@@kawoshining

[@Gambit771]

@@kawoshining No, the Irish are the ones that act like they are not only the most Celtic but invented it. As if it originated with them and like to ignore their recent Celtic revival means that everything Celtic about them is a modern interpretation and my through generations of handing down a culture.

[@Peejay1966]

Remember 47% tax will only be on someone's earnings over £150,000 (in Scotland, dunno about elsewhere). It's all stages, so it's 20% between £14,733 and £25,688, 21% between £25,689 and £43,662, and 42% between £43,663 and £150,000. No one loses 47% of their actual earnings, with no tax at all on the first £14,733. It seems many people don't understand how income tax systems work, though. Check out the top rates of income tax back in the 1950s and 60s!

[@ianmoseley9910]

Are they referring to income tax, or to total tax burden?

[@marcromain64]

Most countries have progressive taxing, based on the exact income or at least on income brackets. Not to mention (not only, but especially) Americans tend to mess mix up income tax with other taxes - funnily enough, including those that they themselves pay in the form of contributions, fees or other fixed costs after taxes and therefore perceive differently. But they still have to be paid.

[@ForaNakit]

@@ianmoseley9910 That refers to income tax. Other taxes ( social security, healthcare, etc.) are regulated differently in each country, but they probably add up to 40-50%, depending on where you live and how much you earn. However, if you add up everything in the US, I don't think it's much of a difference.

[@uwetheiss970]

@@ForaNakit If you include healthcare you have to pay more in the USA. That is why a lot of them don't have healthcare at all.

[@placedelechange]

In France, we are around 58% by default. This is a nightmare.

[@jonathannilsson8482]

Regarding difference between taxes. I could absolutely believe the straight up income tax is lower in the US (but I do believe they pay about the same as we do). But then you have to add all the stuff they have to pay separately from the income tax such as private health insurance, education etc which for most of us is included in the tax. They just don't consider these things tax.

[@natsukiilluna6324]

One could also argue that if you add all taxes they pay even without extra costs for health issues, they still come at around 42% tax average in the US (as far as I have found out😂😂😂)

[@dfuher968]

Yeah, I once years ago did the calculation in connection with my economics degree (Im an accountant). If u take their taxes, they have so many hidden taxes, that they actually pay a lot more than they think, but if u take just income taxes and add their health insurance, they already pay quite a bit more, than we do in Denmark, and they love to denigrate us for our high tax rate, ofc always citing the top marginal tax rate, coz they have no idea, what marginal tax rate means. FYI, currently the average Danish wage earner, which is most of us, pay around 40% in taxes total. And we get a LOT more than just free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare, whenever we need it. Everything else is just extra compared to the Americans, who tell us, we're being taxed into the ground and robbed of our freedom. They really are utterly deluded and have no idea, what freedom really is. Hence why we beat them on every index from the freedom index to best place to start a business to, yes, most economic freedom.

[@ADMICKEY]

​@@dfuher968no i don't?

[@juliusfucik4011]

If you do this for Germany you arrive at 70ish. Also, not every state has income tax, so you only pay federal tax. That is significant. Before WW1 everything the state did in the US was paid using the income from tarrifs.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

Interesting fact about the metric time thing, there actually WAS an attempt to decimalise time in France in the 1790s. They divided the day into 10 hours, each 100 minutes long, with each minute being 100 seconds long. It didn't catch on.

[@bobbyunicorn]

How would that work? They'd have to redefine a second else the 'metric day' would have been 27.77 hours

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

@@bobbyunicorn Yes, the metric seconds were slightly shorter.

[@staomruel]

Simpsons had an episode where they did this.

[@Lewtable]

It was part of a larger effort to "reimagine" the nation after the French Revolution, as the old forms of measurements were seen as part of the monarchial structure. They also tried to have a calendar with 12 months made up of 3 ten-day weeks.

[@lindildeev5721]

@@Lewtable Yeah, with new poetical names for the months: Germinal (starting the 21th of March), Floréal, Prairial, Thermidor, Messidor, Fructidor, Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, Nivose, Pluviose and Ventose.

[@Cowboy_Frog]

America banning kinder surprise eggs but not fully automatic weapons is insane.

[@cy-one]

I mean, you can't swallow a fully automatic weapon by accident as a kid. You get shot by it intentionally in school. Big difference!

[@shotosynthesis312]

​@@cy-one it's the thought that counts

[@LolUGotBusted]

@@shotosynthesis312 it's the thoughts and prayers that count*

[@GSimpsonOAM]

@@cy-one Having ready access to weapons mean large numbers of children in the US die each year from playing with guns left lying around. Look up the "gun violence archive"

[@frajatheone9264]

@@cy-one There are also a lof of home accidents with kids hurting themselves or people around

[@ArdmorWest.1]

2:04 wtf are they worried half of their food is already plastic

[@ZackShark1]

wtf thats disgusting eat copper like the rest of us???

[@JayeEllis]

Ever see an American taste chocolate from another country? They always wonder why theirs is so bad. I can make better chocolate in my kitchen.

[@theblackbaron4119]

​@@JayeEllis yeah all their heavily processed sugars and corn syrup based sweetness ruins everything. No wonder so many are diabetic. There's so much sugar in things you don't even expect.

[@blacksoldier430]

One time, I was walking near some of a tourist spot in mexico, then, an American couple reached me asking for directions, it took me by surprise to hear English so suddenly so I asked them "sorry what?" in Spanish. The guy went on a rant telling me I should speak English and If I don't know how to speak it then I should go back to my country. His wife I assume, told him that we were in fact in mexico, then, without saying a word, he grabbed her hand and just went off before I could say anything.

[@israsayed]

Man!! I hope they are still lost.

[@silviasanchez648]

I've experienced the same from Americans living in Germany. Badmouthing local businesses and neighbours because they only spoke German.

[@alis49281]

Actually, that's a common concept among those who don't know a foreign language. I'm German and my grandparents had a behavior, which was something between cringe, embarrassing and even dumb at times. They thought if they speak louder to foreign people, they'd understand German 😅. Very loud...

[@richardpj847]

@@alis49281traditional Brit abroad: ‘Two beers please’ … ‘TWO Beeros!’ … ‘I SAID TWO F’ING BEEROS’

[@JAmediaUK]

@@richardpj847 Yes, but we Brits do it properly by poking the foreigner in the chest with a finger when saying it. :-)

[@Feeeshsticksfn]

I saw you. I saw your face. You saw me outside of tesco. You start seizing and ran at me foaming at the mouth and ripped my eyes off. You thought you got me. You were wrong.

[@gone117-r8g]

yoo nice pfp

[@cameronhennigan810]

@@gone117-r8g i agree

[@qu1tttt]

@@gone117-r8gyo frr

[@AngriestSalt]

​@@gone117-r8g nobodies pfp is loading for me, must be my shitty wifi. What's his pfp?

[@94deepc1]

@@AngriestSaltthe joke is it’s a blank profile picture 🤯

[@sekkuar]

Funny thing about the kinder surprise, it's actually banned on accident. See back in the day, some pharmacist was making a syrup for children, and he found a chemical that tasted really sweet and put it in the syrup and shipped for sale. One small problem: the sweetener he used was diethylene glycol, which is highly poisonous to the human body, and so his syrup killed over 100 people. Here's the catch though, because there was no law saying you cannot put literal poison in a syrup, what he did was technically not illegal. That's why they passed the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 which said you cannot add anything "non nutritive" inside of food products. They obviously did not mean anything like the kinder surprise, but because the plastic is technically inside the chocolate, then it fits the letter of the law.

[@MTTT1234]

The French once tried to implement a metric time system right after the revolution, but that attempt bombed spectacularly. Like not only for hours, minutes and seconds, but also weeks, months and years, etc.

[@Dutch_Dame68]

Yeah, they found anything and everything "too aristocratic", including the Gregorian calendar. It was invented by the church, after all.

[@2727daqwid]

I guess the timing was poor...

[@jonathanj8303]

Pretty sure the USSR experimented with both 5 and 10 day weeks. Didn't go that well.

[@alastairbarkley6572]

You're right. Decimal everything - 10 month years, all with new names. But, it WAS sensible for France which had evolved dozens of different measurement systems over time. Goods travelling from southern to northern France passed through multiple customs borders all levying duty on different measurement.

[@Darkprosper]

Well, there were still 12 months in a year, and 7 days in a week. I guess they couldn't commit all the way while keeping the days and years based on astronomical cycles.

[@Alyssa-le9qk]

As an American who has had multiple cashier jobs, yes, we stand the whole time. The phrase “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean” is meant to discourage any rest at all. It’s definitely wack 😂

[@sunnyandthechlo]

I wasn’t a cashier but I had a job that was easier to do half of sitting and half of standing. Corporate would come through constantly and take all the stools out of our work area and hide them in the office. Being made to be constantly moving and never standing still or get yelled at made me twitchy as hell.

[@rawfish_8.3]

It's downright inhumane

[@Cowboy_Frog]

Australia is varied. Some places have chairs others don’t. I worked at various shops where I had to stand from 15 to 21. My back is absolutely ruined beyond repair and I’m not even 30 yet. My only option is to fuse my vertebrae.

[@Cowboy_Frog]

@@rawfish_8.3huge boomer energy too, the whole “sitting is lazy” but standing for 8 hours is fine.

[@macdieter23558]

Slavery is no more a thing of skin color!

[@ramonalavigne8953]

I mouthed the words "WTF is german pasta?" the exact time you said it, LOL!

[@TheSpiderInUrWalls]

Yeah… as someone with a German grandmother, if you want some ‘traditional German food’ make some Lebkuchen or Zimtsterne. They’re pretty easy to make and sweet, so unless you’re allergic to nuts you’ll probably love them.

[@JamieNoah638]

There are German noodles like Spätzle (they're Swabian), but no one would ever call them pasta.

[@ramonalavigne8953]

@@TheSpiderInUrWalls Thanks for the recommendations. I've never made German food before. Hopefully it tastes good.

[@pippavombr5856]

Spätzle, Schupfnudeln, Bandnudeln - love them. These are some "German Pasta" and we never call them Pasta in Germany. Only Italian noodles have the name Pasta, and German noodles are never Pasta.

[@nari5025]

'Pasta' as a word is italian. In germany it is 'Nudeln'. Granted, the make can be quite the same, but nowhere in germany would it be called pasta. Get an english word for it.

[@Bren688]

Ameeica land of the free. Where you can get arrested for crossing the road in the wrong place.

[@lewisgrant7622]

And have to pay 5grand just for an ambulance

[@Hrochnick]

Can't drink alchol until 21 (mostly).

[@kingofravens215]

Jaywalking is legal now in NYC btw!

[@NickyBrooks-wi5ob]

America. Land of the racists.

[@SysterYster]

@@Hrochnick I mean, that's not really a bad thing though. XD One of the few.

[@RhianeTurtonator]

“American imbetweeners is better” someone put that guy on a list, they made Jay a kiddie kisser in the American adaptation 😭🙏

[@MRB2580]

That must be bait. No sane person would say that.

[@RL_ManicFX]

@@MRB2580 “sane” is the keyword.

[@iris4547]

america loves remaking things to its detriment. havent seen the inbetweeners, but i recall the trainwreck of the american skins remake. and innumerable failed remakes of foreign films.

[@s-kayultra2702]

@@iris4547shameless was also a disaster

[@DarkCobra88]

The person is probably already on a list, likely sign the register too and has recently been released on offences which may or may not relate to kissing kiddie's.

[@solus8685]

4:20 as a German, I also don't know wtf German pasta is. Maybe Spätzle? Wouldn't exactly consider it pasta tho

[@nicolesalzmann5119]

Of course it is pasta!

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

@@nicolesalzmann5119 I understood they were egg noodles, not pasta. (Pasta does not contain eggs)

[@sabmid1]

@@AlphaGeekgirl Pasta does not contain eggs? Tell that to our largest pasta producers here in Italy, such as Barilla o De Cecco.

[@michaelmather7352]

​@@sabmid1de secco now thats good pasta

[@yurenchu]

​​​@@sabmid1 If I remember correctly: according to US food regulations, if it contains eggs, it's legally called a "noodle product", and if it doesn't (or less than a certain percentage), it's legally called a "macaroni product". So the term "egg noodles" would be redundant (or a _tautology_ ), because a noodle product _always_ contains eggs.

[@herrhartmann3036]

4:05 As a native German, I say that honouring German traditions would make him more German than any percentage of genetic descent. But apparently, what he considers "German Traditions™" is not really as German as he thinks.

[@Aya-Aya-Aya-Aya]

i agree, culture is more relevant than your dna. im scottish english, however my dna would be very different to that of a highland scots or a fellow in kent. however i carry both cultures into my day to day life. as meaningless as phrases to celebrating cultural traditions like st andrews day. however as you said. he probably doesnt actually celebrate traditional german holidays?traditions or even understand that what a bavarian does is different to what a hamburger does or celebrates! (this also applies to the scottish american guy too)

[@bobbysue9363]

mmm German pasta

[@Gorkamork]

@@bobbysue9363i think he means Spätzle

[@bobbysue9363]

@Gorkamork I reckon you're right. It's still amusing, though!

[@Tsuna_Dokkan]

I agree, because someone could be biologically 100% American for example, but born and raised in Germany, spoke English and German growing up and observed German traditions, would you consider them American or German?

[@mushroomsoupv2.060]

lately I've been in this rabbit hole of watching Americans reacting to European stuff like European languages and soda, Fanta in particular and it oddly amazes me.

[@sofie.jupiter]

wirt pfp spotted!!

[@mushroomsoupv2.060]

@sofie.jupiter hell yeah 👌 Over The Garden Wall is such a good show.

[@eva_kvd]

oo what channel do you watch? would love to see

[@mushroomsoupv2.060]

​@@eva_kvd I think the channel was called iWrocker or something like that. basically the guy reviews plenty of stuff about Europe vs America, he recently make a video about EU vs NA Fanta which I thought was mildly interesting by how damn orange the American Fanta was, like, damn.

[@mcreena]

I’d love to try soda made in the EU. They make it with real sugar and no artificial coloring. US it’s all dyes and high fructose corn syrup.

[@VFLPlus]

Those Communist cities. Not only are they not Communist, they don’t all look the same. Clue: Paris is not next to the Atlantic Ocean and does not have a giant statue of some bloke on top of a giant mountain. Rio does not have loads of canals and millions of people on bikes. Just saying.

[@clothilde1623]

Someone claiming that Paris, Amsterdam and RIO(!) look alike genuinely made me lol. I mean in what possible way does Rio remotely resemble Paris?? They both have buildings? 😂

[@RandomGuy37]

As an European, Americans confuse me even more now. Just why?

[@Stefiiiz]

Because "CoMmUniSm" 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@combmyhairformebby29]

Americans are very ethnocentric. People in America also overestimate the intelligence of Americans. As an American, I can confirm half the population doesn’t know basic knowledge nor acknowledge that facts are facts. It’s so sad

[@Montymasonsmyth3626]

​@@StefiiizLike the Soviet Union took over the entirety of Europe

[@Stefiiiz]

@@Montymasonsmyth3626 What? 😶

[@Montymasonsmyth3626]

@@StefiiizThat was sarcasm dw

[@eloise_creative_studios9978]

2:54 im someone who has a heavy aussie accent. Last time I tried to do an American accent, the girl I was talking to laughed at me so hard she cryed.

[@Meum46]

Hey 😠

[@campeãodomundo2137]

​@@Meum46???

[@willdo2909]

😂You made her laugh! Good for you! Go on "aussiing"😊

[@LyrLyrPantsOnFyr]

I’m from Britain, and trying to do an American accent feels like being strangled.

[@Auourlia]

⁠@@LyrLyrPantsOnFyrSame, rather just stick to the British one I have

[@mayraalejandragonzalezeraz5886]

3:36 I recognize that Michael Jordan is a great basketball player, however as a person from South America ( not from Argentina in my case Colombia) I can guarantee that the person who said that Lionel Messi is not popular here doesn't know two things: 1) Football is the most popular sport in the majority of South America countries. 2) Lionel Messi is from a south America country.

[@gottfriedosterbach3907]

You just shifted to the American football is the only football discussion and nobody wins except American stupidity.

[@MsAnpassad]

It only looks like the Americans pay less taxes than us on paper, as they get nothing back from their taxes. We get affordable childcare, free healthcare, subsidised public transport, free education, cheap medicine etc. For example, I'm disabled and pay around 30% in taxes, but get far more than that back from the government every month, for example my entire rent, part of my electrical bill, free healthcare (I'm sick, so in USA I would be dead by now), I only have to pay a small fee when going by taxi and so on. What do the Americans get? Driving themselves to hospital during a massive heart attack after their boss finally let them get off work, a crumbling infrastructure and their kids back in bodybags from some for profit war?

[@Cowboy_Frog]

Where tf does that money go? Probably the military.

[@iainwalker8615]

You seem to be very knowledgeable about what it’s like to live in America for someone who’s never lived in America. Obviously the American government is heavily flawed but taxes are still partially going to things that benefit society. Again, you don’t live here so obviously you wouldn’t have a clue about what the local governments do which is what actually impacts the communities. So many English speaking non-Americans (except Australians for some reason) seem to absolutely love to shit all over America while saying that Americans are the ones who love their country and hate every other country. In reality, most Americans are very unhappy with the American government. It honestly just feels like cope how people keep blanketing Americans as idiots to make themselves feel better. The whole point of that subreddit is for people to nitpick the dumbest Americans so they can feel like their country is somehow better than America which kind of seems like jealousy to me. For the record I don’t personally think any country is intrinsically better than another.

[@tallemajas]

@@iainwalker8615 The person you replied to provided examples (healthcare, education, public transport, etc.) I'd love to see your examples of how American taxpayers' money is being well-used. Obviously no one is arguing that NONE of that money goes to good use. Someone has to maintain roads, public buildings, etc. But whereas in other countries the taxpayers' money extends to other important public services that's just not the case in the US. If I'm wrong, again, I'm open to examples of what the US pays for via taxes that's as important as free healthcare, education and public transport.

[@MsAnpassad]

@@iainwalker8615 It's called being educated. By the way, I can tell you a lot of really funny stories from my own life where Americans have been stupid (like "Do you have phones?"), all the most stupid comments have come from Americans and I've worked in remote areas of third world countries (the people out on the African savanna knew more about the world than you guys).

[@iainwalker8615]

@ I don’t need to provide examples for anything because I never claimed anything other than the fact that some taxpayer money goes to local things that aren’t noticeable by people who don’t live in the U.S. I honestly still don’t understand what the point of saying what you’re saying really is. Everyone already knows that other countries have free healthcare and whatnot. You saying that the U.S. is worse because it doesn’t spend taxpayer money on those things has no impact on anything. You’re just repeating it because it makes you feel better about where you live. If you’ve never lived in the U.S. then you can’t say much about what it’s like to live here, just like how I can’t say anything about what it’s like to live anywhere outside of the U.S. You’re just saying that the U.S. is bad because of certain political things which is exactly what people claim that Americans say about other countries. In the end, no government is perfect and just making fun of the people who live in country because you don’t like that country’s politics seems unfair.

[@JaydenSorrell-ej2pu]

"Have you ever had to stand in place for hours?" YES I DO CADETS ITS HORRID 😭😭😭

[@piercecowley255]

Wait do you jsut do parade lol?

[@Ikmmacfarlane]

Especially when you get caught out drifting off after 3 hours at ease just to be snapped to attention in a millisecond

[@piercecowley255]

@@Ikmmacfarlane brother change contingent if they're making you stand at ease for 3 hours

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

Same! Can’t sit down!

[@Ikmmacfarlane]

@@JaydenSorrell-ej2pu the boots kill me they have no support

[@bjørnjacobsengaming]

1:22 The Americans' idea of ​​freedom is that you should have the right to have all the firearms that exist in the whole world, whether it is a tank that can stand at your front door. You must have the opportunity to protect yourself from other people. WTF is this paranoid mindset? That is the reason why the neighbor buys an even bigger tank, so he can defend himself against his neighbor and other people, and that's how it escalates all the time.

[@clothilde1623]

“Oh shit, there’s a fire! I’m gonna start another fire to stop it!” - Americans

[@rellloom]

I don't understand people who hate taxes. It's literally the price tag we pay for civilisation. Even badly managed, you do not realise the things it does for you, until you have to think about them yourself. Just think of every expense as a tax that you either pay via yourself or the state. Makes sense to leverage the economics of scale for everything important, if your state isn't completely incompetent. If you want korean moisturiser, you can pay the 'beauty tax' yourself at checkout.

[@SheinelI]

Because people are egoistical and dont think about what dont impact em directly ecen if it does.

[@emmabrooks16]

Americans confuse me too

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

*most* Americans would be wondering what currency that is too 😂

[@ArgNerevarine]

@@DTAM-Aviation290yeah, gotta love them francs. Am I right, fellow denizen of Europe?

[@jxq12]

​@@DTAM-Aviation290 yeah, very nice marks they have donated

[@YeahNo]

@@DTAM-Aviation290Starts with an L so it must be 💰Loot 💰

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

@@YeahNo that doesn’t even look like an L 💀

[@KOZMOuvBORG]

0:50 "we save nations, not destroy them" Cambodia entered the chat

[@GenMilleXial]

just wait til you find out about what the Chinese and Vietnamese did to Cambodia.

[@GreedoShot]

along with guatemala, panama, venezuela, iraq, palestine, etc etc etc

[@scrollexdestiny]

*long list enters the chat*

[@oulibemusic1257]

Afghanistan and Iraq entered the chat

[@dijkb]

Lets comeback to that in about 4 years, if we can.

[@mak_707]

Where do white Americans think they came from, Disney World?

[@HarrisonPhillips-c1z]

I think so

[@mehallica666]

The rest think they're from Wakanda.

[@frajatheone9264]

Outer Space, if you ask Mor(m)ons

[@CelphTitled7]

god, this made laugh out loud, good one 😂

[@SingingSealRiana]

Probably😅

[@chokovok7231]

Love seeing this video after you guys all elected a convicted felon to be in charge of your country

[@Llama_charmer]

To be fair, to come anywhere close to becoming president You'd have to pull plenty of strings and bend the rules to even have a chance. I doubt any politicians have clean hands

[@dfuher968]

@@Llama_charmer Perhaps. But normalizing the Orange One to that point is in itself proof, that the Americans have lost, what little minds they had. He is NOT in the same category as any other politician. He attempted a friggin coup!! He stole and shared 1000s of highly classified documents! Hes a convicted fraud and ejudicated rapist. And so much more. There is NO comparison.

[@nac5901]

Nelson Mandela ring a bell?

[@shadowldrago]

@@Llama_charmerBe that as it may, Trump is is so much worse.

[@mabit]

What was the crime? To commit a felony there must be a crime. They said he paid to cover a crime, yet have never said what the crime was. If you cant answer that, then dont parrot the sound bite.

[@smylyface]

Messi vs Jordan is like comparing Lamborghinis to Ferraris. They are both legendary.

[@kumoric]

just gonna take the heat off of americans for a moment and say that today someone in my class ASKED WHAT EUROPE IS (we’re in yr 10 in the UK and he was 100% serious💀)

[@amadandearbhte4318]

Rip. I had someone when I was in y9 who thought the UK was in China and we bordered Korea 💀💀💀

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

Well to be fair you were in year 2 when the stupid vote for stupid people happened so the poor little sod has no frame of reference …or he lives in a strict Brexit household full of Nigel’s.

[@JimJK]

guy from my class said "is the UAE in Dubai?"

[@BreadTeleporter1968]

If this shit wasn’t in an options class then that’s when the sets come in, I feel bad for you if you’re in a set with the thickos 😭

[@tzarg]

I'm bad at geography but what the hell

[@SeventhGod77]

Yup. I’m pretty baffled by Americans right now too.

[@maddyc2412]

American's having a completely different definition of "freedom" and communism would make a lot of things make sense

[@theblackbaron4119]

They have the freedom of having their children become target practice for some mentally ill weirdo. They barely have a grasp on the outside world due to their horrible education, media and being basically indoctrinated to stand and worship that flag. There's patriotism and then there is cult like behaviour.

[@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204]

Americans (and sadly some English) - "Socialism is Communism"

[@zymelin21]

so the ernglish must be so happy that the have left the communist EU yes?

[@lhommedelayaute1989]

For Marx, Engels and Lenin it was the first stages/step of/for communism. But there is a lot of thinkers that define and redefine socialism/communism that it is easy to get lost. The mistake that people do is it to associate communism with authoritarianist regime, despite communism being a wide concept with different ideas and goals.

[@TroelsNybo1st]

Even worse: Right-wing USAmericans confuse liberalism with socialism.

[@Gambit771]

Sadly the UK is far too influenced by murica and far beyond just consumer products. British KZbinrs for example tend to speak and think like yanks now rather than Brits and it is embarrassing.

[@brianbarber5401]

The kinder egg is a testament to having stupid people, who’ll not be careful of the toy inside.

[@nathanb286]

PL games definitely have way more average viewers than NFL games. One website says the average PL viewers for an average game is around 600 million. I don't know how accurate that is, but it is still way clear of the NFL

[@EnderPlayerTV]

I saw 35mil as a number, I'm not sure if that's UK only or worldwide.

[@bomboclaaat92]

@@EnderPlayerTVProbably UK only

[@joshez1]

600 million is more the world cup final, not a pl game between Brighton and Fulham

[@EnderPlayerTV]

@@joshez1 Pretty sure world cup finals already breach the Billions of viewers number, not 600mil.

[@Yoonji9212]

@@EnderPlayerTV “In the 2019/20 season, the Premier League had a cumulative global audience of 3.16 billion, nearly double that of the next two most watched leagues in Europe, the Bundesliga and LaLiga.” That's from a first article I googled so idk how accurate this is.

[@jerrytracey6602]

Why are no Americans just American?? They're always "Irish American" or "German American" or "Italian American" etc. even if the overseas element of their heritage is generations old: hence you get people saying that they are Italian American, even if they admit themselves that the Italian element of their heritage is miniscule, like 2.34% 😆

[@nyneeveanya8861]

Hey, I am American mutt. Got some of a lot of different things in me from Native American, to European, to Asian, no trace of Neanderthal but I figure as sciences gets better I will end up everything…proud to be an American where at least I know I’m me, I think, maybe not,could be someone else…never mind.

[@chie970]

Real. Even the OG "American" is Native American 😂

[@trevormillar1576]

There are "just Americans": they're the ones who wear warpaint and feathers.

[@catsmom129]

I think it boils down to the “white Americans have no culture” thing. People feel like they’re missing out, and cling to an identity that gives them/us a sense of roots or belonging or something to feel special about. Otherwise we’re just boring mutts, which is kinda sad.

[@robertmatthews4285]

Such an interesting question. First, not everyone is US plays this silly game. My wife is half Irish and half Italian. This comes up only when discussing her heritage/ethnicity, otherwise she identifies as neither. She’s just American. Her mother and father who are 100% Irish and Italian respectively also only identify as American. They each refer to their parents as Irish and Italian, but they were all born in those countries. The more interesting part of this question is the political hypocrisy of so many Americans (not all) that want to identify by and honor their immigrant heritage while voting for and supporting anti-immigrant and racist policies. Walking examples of devolution (which supports a scientific theory that most of them want to deny). 🤦

[@ninetailedfox579121]

13:37 The term "soccer" actually started in England. It is a shortened version of "association football," which is the official name of the sport. Football is actually the name of a family of sports that include soccer, rugby, and gridiorn football (American football). By the time England got bored of calling it soccer, American football had been invented, which was being called just football, so we just kept calling it soccer.

[@easycall69]

13:33 For the average American, they pay around 25% to 35% of their income in taxes without seeing direct benefits, because we all know where that money actually goes.

[@iris4547]

it goes to paying illegals to vote for harris.

[@eve3363]

That's not true at all

[@easycall69]

@@eve3363 that is true of course I am not just talking about the federal taxes I am also including state taxes.

[@eve3363]

​@@easycall69You don't know what you are talking about

[@easycall69]

@@eve3363 are you just being dense on purpose? google for me how much taxes does the average american pay also btw this only includes federal taxes.

[@Jewsy]

I very much worked as a cashier in an American hardware store during high school and I did in fact have to stand there for 8 hours, even if we had no customers!

[@tallemajas]

That's terrible! Hopefully the attitude around that changes over there in the US

[@LycanKai14]

​@@tallemajasIt probably won't be anytime soon. American work culture is atrocious.

[@CasvGl]

@Jewsy is that why customers are expected to tip?

[@curepinkie1637]

​@@CasvGlcustomers are only expected to tip in restaurants because waitresses make like $2/hr so pick your poison i guess

[@s-kayultra2702]

@@CasvGlthat’s in restaurants since waiters and waitresses don’t actually make a wage that’s enough to live off of

[@Liggliluff]

(8:20) Only French decimal time had 100 seconds per minute, but it was only used for a short while.

[@Leofwine]

Yes.

[@gameshark3199]

Yes.

[@cooperellis3412]

I believe it was during to French Revolution, correct me if I am wrong cause I would like to know.

[@Liggliluff]

Quick search gives that the decimal time was used 1794-1800 while the new calendar was used 1793-1805. It was a little bit more complicated about when things started and ended than this, but in general the decimal time was used a shorter amount than the calendar.

[@nac5901]

Safe bet the guy saying that knew nothing about that anyway.

[@jonmcknight18]

Saying American Inbetweeners is better is like say American Top Gear is better than the original British Top Gear.

[@KelsaRavenlock]

Saying that the British top gear is better than the American top gear is like saying this piece of dog crap is much better than this one. In the end I just want them both off the lawn.

[@patrickporter6536]

American Top Gear is putrid. Don't like the original much either.

[@minion3806]

@@patrickporter6536 not a fan of the presenters?

[@patrickporter6536]

​@@minion3806Clarkson et al were mildly amusing, their replacements were awful and the Americans were worse than I thought possible.

[@paigeyb6383]

i work as a barista in a grocery store in the us and i so desperately wish they would let us sit when we’re not busy. my feet are so unbelievably sore everyday after my shifts

[@cynister7384]

The US is so dystopian.

[@Cowboy_Frog]

I hope you can get a seat. My back is ruined from doing a standing job for about 10 years. I’m not even 30 yet.

[@bobthrepeeoh]

To be fair, they should really make employees clock out if they are not busy.

[@cynister7384]

@@bobthrepeeoh Why clock out? That would just give the employers an excuse to pay them less.

[@bobthrepeeoh]

@@cynister7384 they should be made to clock out. Any moment you are not working is a moment you should not be paid.

[@Gothranger-l3k]

Well they just put the convicted felon in charge so what should we expect

[@zymelin21]

he may be a s.o.b, but he is our s.o.b is the rallying cry.

[@GenMilleXial]

this is what happens when we only have two right wing choices

[@dfuher968]

@@GenMilleXial No, this is, what happens, when uve spent decades being brainwashed to think, that freedom means getting rid of all protections for u in favor of corporations and the ultra rich. And thats the kindest possible version, I can give, the full version would get me banned from KZbin.

[@loosilu]

@@GenMilleXial They INSIST that Kamala is a far left communist marxist.

[@patverum9051]

Elect a clown...get a circus.

[@JC_JN4]

I wonder how long it will take until George runs out of "Americans _______ me" titles

[@YuiWrong]

He still hasn't used "befuddle" so I'm waiting for that one

[@glebglub]

@@YuiWrong personally I can't wait for "mindfuck"

[@s-kayultra2702]

@@glebglubnah im waiting for “Americans confuzzle me”

[@therealchayd]

"discombobulate" is another option.

[@patrickporter6536]

Many cenuries.

[@daanyalsheikh]

3:45 My parents are from Bangladesh and whenever it’s the World Cup, Bangladeshis almost idolise Messi and the Argentine team

[@doomslayer5662]

As an Argentinian person... We respect you guys, you are cool... Just do not come to our country, not because you aren't welcome... But because things are going to shite

[@Not_Snowy07]

As an another bangladeshi I can confirm no body cares to know whoever the fuck michael is

[@Brandis13]

The weird thing about taxes not included in prices in the US is, in places like theme parks at snack carts for example, they DO have prices with the tax included already, so apparently it would be possible. I don't unterstand why they don't do everywhere.

[@Brandis13]

As for the Kinder surprise eggs, I've seen them sold at some malls in Florida, at a stand called European Treats or something like that. Was surprised to see them, as I heard they supposedly are illegal to sell in the US.

[@moondaughter1004]

⁠@@Brandis13 from what I've heard. You're able to sell the kinder eggs which don't contain the capsule in it. Also it's crazy how much they tax concert tickets in the US. It's cheaper to buy European concert tickets and travel there and back. That's insane

[@abaddon1371]

There is actually a very simple explanation for why they don't include taxes on products in stores. It allows stores to set the same price for the commodity across the country, as different states have different taxes. Why they just can't do it locally, is probably down to why bother or to avoid customers talking across states how much cheaper they get it in their state.

[@lilykitty111]

@@abaddon1371 Prices for same items are different in different parts of the US.

[@tookitogo]

For retail, it is fundamentally illegal under US law to include the tax in the price. There are some exceptions, and things like snack carts are evidently among them. But that is why stores can’t post after-tax prices, even if they want to.

[@InfiniteWasp360]

1:28 Well if you look at Press Freedom rankings you'd find the US is 55th (behind most European countries lmao)

[@Llama_charmer]

How do they rank that?

[@InfiniteWasp360]

@@Llama_charmer The amount of Freedom it's people get politically

[@InfiniteWasp360]

@user-qn4jd9ct2q How much Freedom they get to choose who runs the place/protest about ones laws and policies

[@CelphTitled7]

​@user-qn4jd9ct2qand its barely enforced / more oppressed compared to the countries who ranked better than the USA, what the paper says doesnt mean much, russia is on paper a democratic country but does it look like one ? ( just an extreme example )

[@CelphTitled7]

@user-qn4jd9ct2q then why is the USA placed so low if you have such law ? edit; also read properly, i said "compared to the countries ranked better than the USA"....

[@scragar]

RE: nutritional information They're talking per 100 grams. Steaks are typically 20-30% protein so 21g/100g makes sense. That ratio similarly works out for mushrooms as most mushrooms are in the 1-5% protein range.

[@ShadowFalcon]

I dunno, it does also fit with Americans claiming they have more people per capita 😝

[@tookitogo]

@@ShadowFalcon 😂😂😂 Yeah, that gets frustrating. I know…

[@irehthinker]

the name of the vid is me after the election results (as an american)

[@ARandomWolfApproaches]

Same lol

[@slav4335]

american cars are massive because manufacturers wanted to bypass emission regulations by classing their vehicles as a small truck

[@DEVILTR1GGER]

Good timing for this video considering the election thingy is today

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Literally the point. It’s not a coincidence

[@lauriebak]

I’m American and Americans confuse me. There seems to exist, among some Americans, a narrow mindedness and practical lack of awareness that other countries even exist.

[@ModernHistory4U]

I spent a week in LA and used their “Metro” which are basically trams and their actual 2 metro lines. They are now massively expanding the system but it is essentially only used by the less well off and homeless people which really surprised me as I thought it was actually pretty good quality. Sadly the norm is to drive in LA and it will take a lot to break that mentality for locals

[@GooseVis56]

Posting this on Guy Fawkes Day is diabolical

[@tzarg]

👏👏👏

[@curepinkie1637]

fawkes... hawkes... hawk.. hawk tuah

[@DTAM-Aviation290]

Real

[@TheSpiderInUrWalls]

Nah there were riots like a half-hour walk away from me too-

[@akiraokami]

Some years ago I had an American tell me that Europe sucks because taxes, it didn't particularly bother me but he started going on and on about how much better the US was because they didn't pay taxes. This made me check up a few things and while I don't remember everything, I found that at least that particular American lived in an area of the US where he actually paid more taxes than I do, they were just split up instead of being "one thing". So their effective tax rate was roughly 10% higher than mine. I have since done the same check to various other places in the US only to find that everywhere I checked being relatively similar with the exception of one state (can't remember which one) where in that state they had an effective tax rate of 1% less than me.

[@infin8ee]

Always with the "freedom" argument but ask what that means in reality you get....??

[@absolutegoobe]

Weapons of war sold in retail buildings

[@lachlanchester8142]

If anything they have worse public transport so they have less freedom to travel however they want

[@odobenus159]

It means we won't be arrested for making a "grossly offensive" joke on social media. Cope and seeth, brits.

[@tallemajas]

The freedom to be scared about your kid's life while they're at school and to not be able to afford the healthcare you need to survive

[@absolutegoobe]

@@odobenus159 Look at the wittle yank! offended because a youtube video title called their nation confusing!

[@ashlagallagher9561]

As an American I can confirm that there is like no public transportation save for cities

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

I find it bizarre that a car seems to be seen as some ultimate signifier of individual 'freedom' over there, when it's a necessity. The whole country is engineered around cars, not people. You are forced to use a car or you can't get anywhere. The real freedom is when you have options.

[@foobar1500]

@@diarmuidkuhle8181 You have to remember, on top of that, that walking is communism. If you ask Americans they probably tell how Jesus said so in the Bible. There seem to be somewhat conspiracy-theorist groups in the US who actively oppose walkable cities, as if that would be a great "problem" in the US to start with. (When it's too dangerous to traverse less than a kilometre to a shop by foot it would seem that the problem is completely the opposite.) As an European who has lived just fine his whole life without even acquiring a drivers' license the American attitude on transportation utterly baffles me. The fact that Americans have succeeded turning their country into a place where it's practically impossible to live without a car is the problem, not the solution to envy and promote.

[@Teh_Duck]

@@diarmuidkuhle8181 The whole country is designed around cars because henry ford basically bought out urban planning. It's awful here transport-wise, I have maybe seen a few different busses in my life. Taxi's are non-existent outside of the massive cities, passenger trains essentially don't exist, and even the freight train system is necrotic.

[@ADMICKEY]

​@@diarmuidkuhle8181i sorta have options in the area of Arizona I'm in, just depends on how brave one is. Or what i need

[@lilykitty111]

Most American cities don't have good public transportation so if you're unable to drive or to afford a car, you may not be able to get to a bus stop and if you can, the buses may not go where you need to go.

[@EingeborenerVollblutmischling]

0:39 It's actually so horrible, that people used it as a punishment in early schools.

[@PinkAgaricus]

This was a form of detention in high school/secondary school for me, along with that, it was in the afternoon sun.

[@Lou.Cypher]

The funny thing about WhatsApp is, Technically speaking it's an American app now, since Facebook bought it😂😂😂 Where is their patriottisme?.😂😂😂

[@Khloya69]

We prefer a different American app, iMessage.

[@Shylias]

⁠​⁠@@Khloya69Since most Europeans use Android phones and we don’t care about the colour of our chat bubbles, we don’t use iMessage here. I have used iPhones for years and a lot of my friends use iPhones too, but we never ever used iMessage a single time.

[@Tony-lj5lr]

WhatsApp is originally an American app, it was bought by Facebook which was american an again WhatsApp is 100% american

[@alastairbarkley6572]

"As an American, can I identify as Sottish?" Yep, we saw him in 'Trainspotting'. The Yank drinking in that really rough Edinburgh boozer. Who goes off to the lavs with Begbie in pursuit...

[@haukenot3345]

8:42 This seems to be a misunderstanding. Of course, people don't randomly mix grains into their coffee. There is, however, a variety of grain-based coffee substitutes. Traditionally, they were a cheap alternative to coffee, and they became relatively widespread during WWII.

[@Snoosha]

Americans are quite special lol

[@Monkeymoo1111]

I wonder how people could vote for a person like trump but this video tells me why

[@abaddon1371]

Not that the alternative is any better in my humble opinion. Still baffles me, that a country of 350 million people, and these are the best candidates they could find? Go figure.

[@theblackbaron4119]

​@@abaddon1371having a 2 party system only is insane. Land of the "free" my ass. No freedom of choice when both candidates are just media figures that flip flop harder between points to appease the masses and continue with the same program anyways. At least under Trump the US had the best 4 years economically. Under Biden the worst apparently. Now Trump is going to pull out of the climate agreement and go bonkers. Should have gotten more parties with different candidates instead of Far left and far right.

[@jugatsumikka]

6:24 what I got while searching for a response myself, the EPL claims to be followed by approximately 1.9 billions viewers, with approximately 3.2 billions total views for a whole season. The second most viewed european league of football (the spanish La Liga) has a viewership of 76 millions per season. The 17 millions of the NFL is far lower.

[@pat9353]

That’s 17 million per average game, which would translate to 4 billion views a season with 272 games.

[@slapbass8723]

​​@@pat9353 Tbf the pl has too much games on during one time making it impossible for people all collectively watch one game so it would be very hard to not believe per game the NFL gets more viewers

[@c.d.rstudios4691]

"yess daddy george!" We all yell in unison

[@yeet5729]

yess daddy george!

[@TheBarkingKnight]

YESS GEORGE

[@ninja-ginger1973]

No George stop, please stop

[@MadtasticxXx_]

Yes daddy George!!!

[@Plopper2000]

😩😩😩😩😩

[@AuroraIaroruA]

George is my favorite American

[@CrsD-Assxssin]

Thats gotta be the best insult to a British person lol

[@PhantomOfficial07]

same

[@waewaepouwhare320]

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand

[@delars15]

The Kinder surprise egg thing is really funny Chocolate with toys for children is dangerous But a firearm that can fire live ammunition that can kill other living beings and that is made specifically for children is harmless On the other hand, you have to admit that surprise eggs are clearly allowed in Europe and not in the USA Children in Europe aren't so stupid that they choke on the surprise inside

[@clothilde1623]

Also, parents in Europe aren’t so stupid/neglectful that they let toddlers eat Kinder Eggs unsupervised.

[@bajsamedvargar]

I think we might have 100 second minutes in europe but only during work hours... why is the weekend so damn short!😂

[@KeesKouwenberg]

Euro minutes have 100 seconds? Hahahahahaha Well that's the first time I've heard that, hahaha Hilarious.

[@sofiacarrera1562]

For anyone wondering the epl has 1.87 billion followers which is ever so slightly more than the nfl

[@filippalightdawn8290]

Not me mistaking *those* for something else at 10:10 ...

[@mentarium9741]

glad i wasn't the only one. that does not look like steak

[@JamesterIsDivergent]

@@mentarium9741it’s a mushroom but yeah, doesn’t look like one either

[@Attirbful]

„All my ancestors go back to Neolithic“?! That is soooo funny in and of itself….

[@yuritrainspotting]

8:35 There is historical sentience as napoleon did try and make a metric time using 100 second minutes but it was way too silly and couldn’t work so no one else used it

[@eduardoxenofonte4004]

i wouldn't call it any sillier than any of the other metric units. the reason it didn't catch on was because unlike most other units, the second, minute, and hour were already standardized at the time. also, napoleon hated it and was the one who got rid of it.

[@frajatheone9264]

Not silly, but not useful at their time, or easily measured to be of common use. Nowadays, we speak of milliseconds, nanoseconds, all powers of ten.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

French Revolution, not Napoleon.

[@forgottenmusic1]

The Neolithic Britain in 1650 AD. Just wow.

[@sachacendra3187]

There's a reason we call the United States, the "Kinder Country" in my friend group lmao. "Guns for children" Muricans : *sleep* "Toy inside of a chocalate egg" Muricans : *real shit*

[@YanalFanio]

Now this is what I needed today!

[@creeperfun12]

nice rack!

[@Hiswf_]

4:49 the largest Shareholder of T-Mobile is the German Telekom. Btw Lidl and Aldi are also German companies

[@nfreye8828]

Also, if you tack on the cost of health insurance in the US, you'll keep less out of your salary than in most of Europe. I.e. you pay less tax but if you want the same standard of living, you'll need to pay more.

[@yourgoofballfr]

10:50 I'm not American so don't quote me but, wasn't America not even independent by then so the only reason they come from a bloodline like that is because they couldn't physically be American yet? unless they were native American, no?

[@lordlierhook3368]

Correct my country became declared it in 1776 and officially became independent in 1783

[@RL_ManicFX]

As an American…me too.

[@McGhinch]

5:00 Tell him that T Mobile is actually a German company -- at least it is operated by Deutsche Telekom. 🤣🤣🤣

[@systemspectral3260]

1:02 unfortunately Canada does this too, we don’t like it but our proximity causes a lot of their stuff to bleed in

[@debrickashaw9387]

6:50 Going by the americans logic here would land NFL at like 5k viewers since no one outside of the US give a shit about that sport

[@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS]

Wat does NFL stand for anyways? I legit don't know lol

[@LiOH-H2SO4]

​​@@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS National Football League.

[@pat9353]

As the comments keep pointing out, Canada does in fact exist. It’s about 750,000 per nfl game in Canadian viewership. The Super Bowl is nearly as big in Canada as it is in the states.

[@FuneFox]

​@@pat9353Basically 51st state

[@pat9353]

@@FuneFox I would argue that Austria is more similar to Germany than Canada is to the US

[@justagamer2485]

That first one reminds me so much of the idea that retail work should be mandatory so people can understand how horrible people are and promote kindness

[@Brutarii]

12:01 George's irish/welsh accent slipping out, his london accent is the fake one !