These Europe vs USA Memes are Brutal.. 🤣

[@MrLarsgren]

a little fun fact. the rocket data for the moon landing was metric. they wasted computing power to translate into freedom units so americans could read the instruments.

[@dnocturn84]

We do use computing power for planes to convert everything into freedom units. Somehow we all agreed to use freedom feet and stuff, so European instruments, that actually run metric measurements, are always converted into freedom units.

[@koshie66]

and the americans needed Germans to send their men to the moon.

[@karstenbursak8083]

​@@koshie66 is it fair to say that germans put a man on the moon and let america pay for it .... thinking about that orange guy not even get mexico to pay for a wall 😂

[@brrebrresen1367]

because the guy that made all the shit didn't like freedom units... also a guy you should not ask what he did in Germany between 1939 and 1945.

[@nicklasodh]

The reason they have not changed to metric in the airline industry is that height then would be meter ASL, airpressure mm/hg, airspeed km/h so there US risk for confusion.

[@itskyansaro]

The funny thing is, those 11 countries that are more obese for the most part are because the Americans have military bases there and spread out their fast food and corn sugar. These countries are predominantly south east asian island nations.

[@tigeriussvarne177]

Thank you, was about to write the same.

[@monobryn64]

Half of them aren’t even sovereign states.

[@georgejoseph4164]

All the us aviation uses degrees C..

[@brrebrresen1367]

you can also add in that these was all quite healthy places living mostly of fish. then USA had "some" nuke tested in the area and told em "sorry, can't eat that fish anymore... but instead we give you this BURGAR" just look up these island and see how many Mac's there , or Burger King and even Wendy's...

[@karstenbursak8083]

If you are speaking of Islands like Samoa and other Polynisian Islands ... thats actually Oceania, not south east asia

[@Raven_Leblanc]

Fun factoid: foods made in America are usually not allowed to enter the EU, so the "American" foods you see here are made within Europe, but use recipes that are slightly altered to be considered legal.

[@virenor]

This fact becomes less fun when you dig in a little and realize that FDA plays dumb and never sees anything suspicious when food brands literally pay for so called "research". US food is just full of toxic and cancerogenic substances that are strictly limited or just entirely banned in EU.

[@stennostenno1346]

Correct, this includes all poultry, beef and pork

[@hoebertrabeck1621]

yoiu should pointout, that american food is considered a hazard to your healt.

[@fs9553]

@@hoebertrabeck1621 why should we point that out? That's common knowledge

[@jurgenmeriste6794]

@@fs9553 thats literally why they are not allowed to enter EU

[@kwlkid85]

Only in America would the elimination of baggers mean more work for cashiers. Bag your own stuff 😂

[@matsv201]

Whats a bagger? Someone who helps mass murderer?

[@TarisSinclair]

When I moved to US from EU I was .. and I'm not exaggerating.. shocked by the amount of plastic bags the bagger used for my groceries. Back in EU I would bring my own reusable, durable cloth bags and stuff all of the groceries into two, maybe three of those. Here in US they used no less than sixteen (!!!) plastic bags to separate the items by type, then put those bags into larger plastic bags.. so I ended up with something like twenty plastic bags..

[@automation7295]

It's funny how US is such a rich country, yet cashiers bag your shit.

[@margaretnicol3423]

If they bagged their own stuff it could (a) be considered exercise and (b) make them realize the crap they're putting in the bags.

[@nemesis7774]

I just discovered baggers were a thing. Also I tend to use just a big grocery plastic bag (the kind that is sold by cashier for like 1€ now but it quite strong so it can last years)

[@matt47110815]

"Fahrenheit rocks", says the American - yet Fahrenheit is actually German, and we acknowledged our error quickly! 😄

[@MitmachGaming]

How can anything be better than dividing the temperature into 100 parts starting from the freezing point to the boiling point of water?

[@suicidalbanananana]

@@MitmachGaming I agree on a personal level, but at the same time naw mate, we need to be fair, Fahrenheit is used in most laboratories because it's somehow better, just like how American laboratories use Metric because its better, labs in the rest of the world use Fahrenheit for the same reason. I say we shake hands on it and just make what they do in labs and stuff official, we can all learn Fahrenheit if the UK, America & Liberia make the switch to Metric, if we want something we should be willing to give up something as well.

[@horsemen665]

​@@suicidalbanananana Kelvin is used, not Farenheit. Farenheit makes no sense at all, nobody can't even say what are reference points of scale

[@tehontuoksuinenpulla9504]

​@@horsemen665 thank you, i guess people were sleeping in class😅

[@johndoe-bx7qs]

@@horsemen665 0 °F was the coldest temperature known to its creator (i think it was some chemical reaction). 100 °F is body temperature

[@EmanueleGTino]

little fun fact. I am italian and I had a fire in my house. Momentarely there was an american firefighter team working together with the italian one for joint training therefore when the firefighters arrived some of them were from the US. The door of my house was shut, and only the dog was inside. The door was super hard to get through so the us fella had a genious idea... -'lets get through the walls!'. Just for context the walls of my house are not even made out of bricks, are 1mt (3feet in democracy units) of river rocks and steel 😂. Good luck into taking that wall down cause the last 5 hearthquakes couldn't.

[@alganhar1]

I live in a house like that, though not because of meeting Earthquake regulations, just because in the days they built the thing they built tough. Three floors, ground floor the external walls are four foot thick, fieldstone with rubble and mortar internal core. Top floor it tapers to a mere three feet. Worse its one of those old mortars that just get stronger as time passes because they constantly cure over time.... The bloody mortar is probably tougher than the stone now! When I had fibre put in for the internet after I first bought the place it took the installer 16 hours to drill through the wall..... Literally two entire work days just drilling the damned hole for the cable! Its an old 1730's house in the Welsh valleys, they built the damned things to last in those days. Even now if one is condemned they just board it up as demolishing would be a nightmare!

[@ruggerorossi551]

Hello fellow Italian ! Lol 😂

[@a7HKdAbmET]

@@alganhar1 I know the feel. I live in on the Adriatic coast, Croatia. Ground level dates to 1500s, and most of the structure is from mid 17th century. It's large white limestone blocks (like ones they used for fortifications) in two layers, with rubble and mortar core. Front doors have an arch above them (to hold platform for upper level entrance), and someone some long time ago decided to bridge the house with the house facing our own by setting an another arch to rest into a side of the first one (and not in the middle, but at random spot off of one end) to hold the bridge. We adapted some apartments above ground level and rent them during summer. That's how we had this German architect few years ago who said that there'd be no way average modern construction work companies would ever do that. Some extremely renowned ones, perhaps, but not without some serious money. Walls being 150cm thick (on avg) probably helped, but still. It took several days for my dad to smash a hole big enough in it to fit a small window, when he was young (they could only do it by digging out entire blocks of stone).

[@Thao-nathos]

Something told me those guys either were talked out of it or had a very bad surprise lmao

[@jooproos6559]

Well,then you have to wright about the walls on most off the houses in the states,they are from thin wood at best...No problem getting through with a ax or something.

[@mondexponent2126]

I Love when Americans come at you like : but we landed on the moon Yeah. And the lead designer of the Saturn V Rocket was Wernher von Braun. German scientist , former Nazi and hater of the imperial system. All of the calculations were done in metric. The rest in imperial

[@danvernier198]

When NASA used their own system for the Mars Climate Orbiter it also did result in it crashing.

[@antcommander1367]

@@danvernier198 NASA used metric coding the subcontractor used imperial coding. discrepancy of them caused crash

[@tomast9034]

the only first for usa in space race was landing on the moon. all the other goes to soviet union.

[@obelic71]

@@antcommander1367 Long ton, short ton. imperial gallon US gallon what could possibly go wrong

[@karstenbursak8083]

@@tomast9034 and still the soviets heavily relied on german scientists ... the difference: while the US bribed them to go to the states.... the soviets simlpy abducted the ones they could get hold of

[@cucublueberry8078]

I'd be offended if a cashier tried to bag my stuff. What do you think I am, an infant? I can do that on my own 😤

[@flitsertheo]

It amazes me the baggers don't expect a tip, knowing the tipping "culture" in the USA. Or do they because they can't be receiving much of a wage ?

[@suicidalbanananana]

@@flitsertheo Wait what?! i thought the whole point of making such a non-job was so people could get some tips from it? weird.

[@flitsertheo]

@@suicidalbanananana These non-jobs are created for people that normally wouldn't be able to obtain a job. As there is no social security worthy of that name to take care of these people.

[@lsswappedcessna]

I work in retail. A lot of adult Americans may as well be infants.

[@T0ffik1]

well maybe not offended if they tried to pack my stuff, but its my stuff i paid for it, and i know how i want it packed and not randomply packed by someone.

[@olli3386]

Greetings from Austria. I know the story at 04:30 from the news. That huge ass rock came from pretty high up in the mountains, fast enough to cut through the ground and road like a hot knife through butter without slowing down, before it found its resting place. Fun fact: In the corner where you see the rock, sat also the family, eating. They got the scare of their life, but were otherwise completely unharmed.

[@noobkid4579]

Das klingt ziemlich österreichisch hahshhs

[@HubiKoshi]

"Can't land on the Moon" Hand over those Rocket scientists you stole from Germany!

[@johnsmith-cw3wo]

NAZI Rocket scientists. (USSR also built their space program on East German Rocket scientists)

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And all of the British Engineers and Space specialists that ran the whole Apollo program for the US.

[@ruvik1256]

Nazi scientists, which is even worse. The US never cared with whom they´re collaborating with or exploiting.

[@nilsbellack7087]

Its surprising that Americans dont realize that the space craft used for the ride to the moon was build using the metric system. Wernher von Braun (director of NASA and a German) hated the imperial system.

[@dfuher968]

@@nilsbellack7087 As well he should. Metric is far easier and far more accurate. Which is, why its the standard in science, including in the US.

[@GGysar]

13:09 It's because Europeans make fun of things that actually happen, while Americans just make random stuff up. Telling you, that you are just wrong is not being defensive. like, I I had a conversation with an American who made fun of Europe for not having ZIP codes... Countries in Europe do have postal codes, they are just not called ZIP.

[@dangeroix]

And the zip code / post code system was first used in Ukraine

[@HexAyed]

@@dangeroix Pretty sure the UK did it first, in 1857...

[@bobbyboo9897]

​@@HexAyedUK stands for UKraine

[@Ni3k_070]

@@bobbyboo9897 It stands for United Kingdom, not Ukraine

[@TheMrFilipin]

@@bobbyboo9897 UA is for Ukraine

[@andrebarreto9177]

Have you ever heard of the AC paradox? We use them for cooling but they produce a lot of heat. So the more ACs you have in a town the hotter it gets increasing the use of ACs thus completing the cycle and heating the town even more. It's actually a real problem in highly dense places.

[@loreleiocarolain2209]

Yes, and especially the "canyon effect", when the heat stored by concrete walls and asphalt is restored during the night, therefore it doesn't cool down during the night.

[@leec6707]

It's so warm they need AC, but still use a dryer rather than hang their washing outside. It's a bizarre mindset.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

1) AC works harder 2) Hot Microclimate created 3) Goto 3

[@channindusilva1555]

Hi. The pacific islanders are obese because US did nuclear tests there destroying the marine ecosystem and then introduced fastfood chains to feed the starving population. It's a pretty sad situation.

[@robvanderkroft6515]

The pacific peoples have always been larger peoples

[@nevilleapple629]

@@robvanderkroft6515 Not true that Polynesians have always been overweight nor is it because of nuclear testing in the pacific, that was the French. It’s because of the introduced Western diet that their metabolism can’t handle.

[@samrester6254]

I guess simple biology is not taught, where you are from.

[@melocoton7]

that and Polynesians apparently have a real genetic predisposition to become obese due to the presence or absence of something in their body. I can't remember details for the life of me though

[@stuartspencer2161]

@@nevilleapple629 Agree. Pacific islander used to have to work hard to gather food, though since WWII, they saw the introduction of canned goods, and preserved foods. A majority of Islanders also have a gene, that means due to the easy access of food they no longer have to gather, they do not burn that energy off, and store it as fat, thus the bigger builds nowadays.

[@Todesnuss]

The thing that baffles me about american houses is that the structural walls are often built on the same type of wood frame I only see in room seperators in europe. If you're just putting panels on light frame you're not building a wall, you're building a kite.

[@lsswappedcessna]

Yeah that's how the majority of suburban homes are built in the US, and I'm seeing a scary trend of rural homes being built that way, too. I'm sorry but while brick is more expensive, it's also far more resistant to both extreme hot and cold temperatures given proper insulation in other parts of the structure, as well as heavy wind and rain, again given proper construction in other parts of the structure. We have some of the most extreme weather on Earth, and we need to start building like it more often. My neighbors' house has exterior siding, mine has brick. While the occasional violent windstorm might only take off a shingle or two from my house (which has not happened since the roof was redone a few years ago), they've lost siding multiple times and even had a rather weakly supported awning on their barn get ripped off.

[@Todesnuss]

@@lsswappedcessna I'm a city dweller used to being surrounded by rebar concrete and several layers of insulation. Even brickwork makes me feel exposed. I can only imagine staying in those buildings would make me feel like I'm on some movie set that only needs to look the part or sth. I wonder if it's a matter of regulation. I doubt flimsy construction like that is even legal here. Since everyone builds with bricks or concrete it's probably more affordable as well compared to it just being an optional upgrade. Very much doubt it's just cultural. I don't think we even have the infrastructure to allow people to chose shit construction.

[@weerwolfproductions]

@@Todesnuss We use woodframing on houses, but requirements of thickness of posts and insulation used are way higher than in the USA. The first example I found uses cells to strengthen the structure. You can see the walls are much thicker even before insulation and non-structural walls are added. This is most similar to the woodframing used in the USA. Also everything is screwed, not nailed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4ucoHmlaMeDY7s Then there's also post-and-beam woodframing used, since the middle ages: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jV60YnV-pM19sM0. There are more modern versions of this which in The Netherlands we call 'Barn houses' - modern houses bulid with post-and-beam framing and then the gaps filled up with hemp blocks or laminated woodchip board + insulation. The first method is far cheaper than the second one, since the second one relies on heavy oak timber beams and the first method uses laminated woodchip board a lot for structural elements. The second one lasts centuries.

[@Todesnuss]

@@weerwolfproductions Yea makes sense. Not like wood can't make a banger construction material. It all comes down to what structural standards are expected by law. Gonna be a bit different across Europe as well. Don't know if anyone here in Austria builds on frames like that. But I don't know how our farmhouses are traditionally built and modernised versions of those are definitely a thing.

[@weerwolfproductions]

@@Todesnuss Austria would be log construction or post-and-beam i think, at least traditionally. Log stacking was never a thing in The Netherlands until they started importing Finnish houses in the 1980's. Traditional Dutch wooden houses would be post-and-beam with brick or wattle and daub infill, or post-and-beam with plank cladding - usually horizontal on the outside and vertical on the inside. No idea what insulation they used - in any. These houses were build in peaty areas where they required hardly any foundation. Check out 'Tsar Peter the Great house Zaandam'.

[@MilleMouse]

6:04 as the brilliant Monty Python said: “American beer is a lot like making love in a canoe… f*cking close to water!” 😂

[@koopalibrary]

There is never a bagger where i'm from (in europe). You put your own stuff away whilst the cashier scans your items.

[@fetzie23]

And you damn well better be quick about it. Those things are coming through the till about 2-3 per second. When I was in the USA last year I was actually getting frustrated by the cashier/bagger. Just let me do it and push this stuff through the scanner, I can do it like 4 times faster (while sorting it by that goes in the fridge, in the kitchen and in the pantry in the cellar).

[@basstrammel1322]

@@fetzie23 Same. So awkward just staring at some teen pack my bags, barely moving. "Wanna double bag that, Sir?" gtfo with that nonsense, get it done.

[@fetzie23]

@@basstrammel1322 "Just stick it in the effing bags already" :P

[@flitsertheo]

@@fetzie23 Cashiers are checked on their speed when handling customers hence passing through items at lightning speed is part of that. I just dump my items back in the cart, get one or more empty cardboard boxes which they leave at the exit and sort everything when I am back at my car. Less stress.

[@dirkp.6181]

A German cashier is required to have way quicker release timing than Tom Brady ever had! 🤣

[@marcinjankowski4432]

I've watched a documentary about obesity on some Islands, they basically are forced to eat junk food because of the US.

[@wifi961]

Democrat principles buddy.

[@balung]

​@@wifi961Thought you were a Republic.

[@maxtheswamp]

yeah i saw it too. Great american export.

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

They are fed by US food. Some of those countries are indirectly owned by US.

[@yrm1594]

All their food got irradiated by American nuclear tests

[@helenethorn]

In Sweden we actually get working clothes when its needed.... No one in any assembly factory uses their own clothes...

[@jurgenmeriste6794]

same here in Estonia, most places give their workers their workwear but if you want you can bring your own if you have

[@0oDaan12o0]

@@jurgenmeriste6794 We call that normal in the EU. If your work requires a uniform or gets your dirty, they're required to offer suitable clotes and safety gear free of charge. Ofc, you can sometimes opt to wear your own stuff, but that's optional (and not always allowed)

[@Robobongo88]

Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100°c. It makes perfect sense to humans

[@michasokoowski6651]

It makes sense because you are used to it. That said, celsius is better because it alligns with kelvins

[@alftuvik3820]

@@michasokoowski6651 It makes sense because 0-100 is as simple as it gets so you don't even have to memorize it, you just know it once you learn it, while it's pretty normal for people who uses Fahrenheit to not know 32-212.

[@michasokoowski6651]

@@alftuvik3820 And you dont have to memorize 32-100-210 if you learn it as a child. (and the part about people using fahrenheits not knowing these values is more of a result of poor public education in USA) In celsius we have: 0 (freezing point of water) - 20 (room temperature) 36.6 - body temperature, 100 boiling point of water. In Fahrenheits its 32 - 70 - 100 - 210 The way the human brain works is basically we treat these the same as language, so we jus understand these. Where celsius (just as basically any unit in metric system) shines, is when we do calculations because delta C is equal to delta K, so celsius just works amazingly well in thermodynamics.

[@e1123581321345589144]

humans are mostly water, so yeah, it does make perfect sense.

[@derdude6139]

​@@michasokoowski6651no it make sense cause you can replicate it just like with the metric system

[@jackofalltrades5761]

After the atomic bomb test in the Pacific those islands lost their main food source namely fish. In comes the American fast food chains and obesity starts on the islands.

[@maze8974]

We french did more or less the same thing to some of our islands. I guess that's why some of our islands are in this chart.

[@jaspermooren5883]

Yeah in a way, almost all of the top 10 is because the US.

[@zacksagin6879]

I call bs

[@Max-gu4mk]

look it up ​@@zacksagin6879

[@elchuMc]

13:04 we don't "make as much" as americans because we don't have to pay insurances that cost thousands we don't have to pay absurd taxes and we don't have to go in debt to go to hospitals

[@aliceurban6717]

And we don't need to save for retirement. The government does that for us

[@ikkelimburg3552]

Yes we do pay for our own retirement, it’s included in the wagetaxes and general taxes. It’s not like ‘the government’ has a big moneytree hidden somewhere 😂

[@ikkelimburg3552]

Well I beg to differ on the absurd taxes. We pay way more taxes in Europe, that’s why we have nice roads, healthcare, (more) affordable higher education, etc.

[@jjthe]

Ok the tax bit is more than a little silly. You pay more in taxes that Americans do

[@ingemarsjoo4542]

At one of my workplaces there was a very attractive girl, immigrant from (the then communist) Bulgaria. One day she and I discussed how it was living in a communist state. "Well, she said, it was a one party dictatorship, there were no free press and so on, but there were positive things, too, like free health care. Not even the dentist cost you a dime".

[@CommanderApple]

Every single time an American is like: "We landed on the Moon." to win an argument, i want to remind them, that "Wernher von Braun" is clearly the most American name I can Imagine.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Ask them who ran the whole Apollo program? They will be dumbfounded when they hear it was all British Space specialists and Engineers who did it.

[@to_loww]

And they have spend a quarter trillion dollars (adjusted for inflation) on the Apollo project. They could have sent robots to achieve the same scientific benefit. They were first on the moon for the sake of being first in something.

[@nicoladc89]

Yeah, same for the Atomic Bomb. Szilard, Fermi, Teller, Wigner, Bohr, Bethe, Bloch, Chadwick, Frisch, Wu Jianxiong, Rotblat, Rossi, Salvadori, Segré, Slotin, Ulam, Von Neumann, Weisskopf, Wigner etc...

[@4Everlast]

True, but how far are we going? Americans are mostly Europeans, the rest is original American "indians" and Africans, Asians, Latin American's.

[@jjthe]

America is a country made up of immigrants dude. Someone isn't less American because they have a German name. Obviously, this program recruited people outside the US but the argument of, "That's not an American name," is just as dumb as what you are arguing against in the first place

[@gaborbakos7058]

A long time ago, when I saw in American movies that during a fight in a house someone was hit against a wall and it broke, I thought, what a load of crap, no one can punch someone in such a way that a wall breaks. Then later I learned that in the USA they build houses from cardboards.

[@matsv201]

Its not cardboard, its fiber paper with gypsum on it. Much more fragile than cadvoard.

[@onerva0001]

Haha, I thought it was a joke too! 😂😂 Then I learnt it wasn't...

[@flitsertheo]

They need those hollow, easy to break and fix "walls" to hide bodies. Something you don't see often in Europe.

[@paulcurran9697]

@@flitsertheo Oh that is fucking hilarious. Fred West and his missus should have moved to the States

[@annerigby4400]

When we lived in the US, I always wondered why burglars would try to enter through windows or doors when, it seemed to me, that it'd be a whole lot easier to just quietly peel away a bit of that plastic siding and then cut a hole in the 'wall'. One of those utility knives with a short, strong blade would do the trick and alarms are typically on windows and doors. I got the impression that glass and doors were stronger, and noisier, than the actual walls. You can quite easily punch through a wall in any of the houses we lived in in the US. Here we have 50cm-thick (yes, metric) stone walls, so perhaps a tank would get through with enough speed? This reminds me. We watched the Walking Dead series for a while and laughed at a lot of the stuff. One thing we all agreed on was that those Walkers would not have been very numerous or successful in many of the European countries, like where we live: we have stone walls, strong doors, double-glazed windows and, very importantly, heavy wooden shutters on all of the windows, except one where there are metal bars. The whole village would be unperturbed by slow-moving, voracious, dead people who struggle to open an unlocked door, hahahahaha! Imagine, us Europeans would be watching in horror as the whole of the US became Walkers.

[@SteamboatW]

I did a cruise some years ago. It was negative 32 degrees celsius outside when we came to Helsinki in Finland. The Americans that even tried going ashore just went to the nearest McDonalds and then returned. Nothing else. The rest of us had a great day in Helsinki!

[@asherandai1000]

That’s practically t-shirt weather

[@MostlyPennyCat]

We had wind-chill down to -30°C here in England when we were out saying on a racing yacht. I literally do not own clothes rated for that temperature, not even close.

[@SteamboatW]

@@MostlyPennyCat Then try to imagine Helsinki in 30 dry degrees base + windchill + the baltic sea moisture .vs. American tourists from temperate parts of America, with even less protective clothing that you had. *brrr*

[@rjmac3095]

@@asherandai1000 I've been outside in -22C in a T-shirt (It was sunny!) But at night in -29C, I was wrapped up pretty warm, but I was walking around for about 7 hours and didn't get cold.

[@ingemarsjoo4542]

When I did my mandatory military service in Sweden 1969-70 the lowest temperature I remember was minus 33 celsius. And we were sleeping in tents... Me, too, would never have left the ship if it was minus 32 celsius. Over my dead body. My military service made me hate cold and snow for the rest of my life. In recent years, thanks to global warming, the winter temperature in southern Sweden is rarely below minus 10. And that is quite tolerable, compared to below 30.

[@Turalcar]

The problem with "freshman" is that it can be high school, college or middle school, so it's a really bad way to tell the age.

[@cutice]

The best way to tell age is with numbers.

[@to_loww]

@@cutice Aren't those decimal? Like metric units? Yuck!

[@dyslexicLLM]

What's always funny to me is how petty we are in europe. We hold grudges towards other european countries that'll last a 1000 years. Mocking americans is banter, mocking our neighbours is a lifestyle. 😂

[@wifi961]

No, mocking Americans is conditioning.

[@Merip1214]

Yep. The English and French have a historical rivalry, like siblings. It's almost a game

[@ingemarsjoo4542]

@@Merip1214 But between certain countries it´s not a game, they are taking their rivalry very seriously. Remember the civil war in former Yugoslavia back in the 1990-ies. They still hate each other. When I worked for the railway here in Sweden, there was a locomotive driver from Bosnia and another one from Serbia. They had both been drivers in their respecive homelands, on the Yugoslav railways, so it wasn´t that complicated for them to learn to drive swedish locos. Some years had passed since the civil war ended, but these two guys never changed a word. Never.

[@veladarney]

Fun fact: Back in 2006, when Germany hosted the soccer world championship, we all got a good laugh, over here in Germany, at how the beer they were supposed to sell at the championship stadiums (US beer, btw) because it legally couldn't be sold as beer. Like, we got actual laws what you're allowed to call "beer", and it looks like US beer doesn't meet the criteria.

[@ingemarsjoo4542]

German beer must be brewed according to some "purity laws" from the middle ages.

[@Shoomer1988]

A European built the rocket that went to the moon... and he did it in metric. Ok, so he had some er... unfortunate political leanings but the point still stands.

[@Krymms]

Nothing quite like -WWII- German engineering.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

A group of European Space Experts and Engineers were responsible for running the whole Apollo program, they were British.

[@Real_MisterSir]

_Vorsprung Durch Technik_

[@dfuher968]

Tbh, I dont think, he actually had any political leanings, he seems to have just been willing to ignore politics and work under, whichever government gave him the opportunity to build his rockets.

[@Shoomer1988]

@@dfuher968 It's possible but I'm not convinced. His story that he wasn't relly into the whole Nazi thing only came about after the war, but of course he would say that. And that line would be beneficial to the US government. But I think his membership of the SS is the biggest giveaway. I could be wrong though.

[@sherwinfortuin1495]

Fun fact is that NASA used the metric system

[@daggel011]

Guess why... Maybe because - it is better!?

[@joshenarvidsano9976]

Every scientist in the wole wold is using the metric system, even in the US.

[@CamiloSperberg]

Uses... as in present day. Always have except for the very beginning.

[@onkelpencho8609]

Maybe because the US took a lot of German Knowledge for the NASA.All the Documents included the more logical Metricsystem

[@walkir2662]

@@daggel011 I mean, they lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars in 1999 because software read navigation data sent in metric as Murican. With navigation data off by a factor of 4.45...well.

[@TheIsemgrim]

16.15 1.Russia 2. Netherlands. 3 Luxemburg 4. France 5. Slovenia. 6. Croatia

[@Mastordant]

The only one I didnt know was Slovenia

[@stuartward9208]

The main problem with the US food displays in UK is that outside of USA a lot of your food it literally ILLEGAL to sell as food... too many carcinogens and contaminants are allowed, which outside of USA just aren't tolerated

[@loreleiocarolain2209]

Including long term preservatives, which are forbidden in Europe.

[@riculfriculfson7243]

Fahrenheit is terrible. 0 is water freezing point. 100 is water boiling point. That's what you need to know. The German people realised the error and went Celsius.

[@Real_MisterSir]

And it also relates directly to SI units and Kelvin with no calculations needed for the translation (unlike Imperial where you have to calculate even within similar unit systems like inches, feet, yards, miles, etc).

[@vogel2280]

Gdansk (Danzig) was part of the Polish-Lithuanian-union at the time. However, he studied and lived in The Hague in The Netherlands where he invented the scale. I don't care if anyone calls it Dutch or Polish invention, but there is no Germany in this equation. His grandfather was of a very well know (rich) Prussian family, but before you think, that is a German link...At the time Prussia was Polish too.

[@kenbrown2808]

@@Real_MisterSir we will occasionally convert between feet and inches, but otherwise, we just measure in the unit we plan to use.

[@kenbrown2808]

50 is chilly, 60 is cool, 70 is comfortable, 80 is warm, and 90 is hot. in metric, that's only a 20 degree span.

[@vogel2280]

@@kenbrown2808 So, when exactly should you worry about icy conditions on the road? 15 is chilly, 20 is nice, 25 is warm, 30 is getting hot, 35 too hot....I don't see your problem, but I do see mine. Especially since the 0 is the exact point, the road becomes dangerous.

[@FrogiMen13]

making cashiers in supermarkets stand is a fucking crime.

[@maireweber]

The pay gap (after taxes!!) is much smaller in reality when you account for all the things Europeans don't have to pay for or that are heavily subsidised: Health care, child care, education, mobility, safety, cultural events, quality groceries, vacation and activities, affordable housing and soooo much more!

[@janosnagy3096]

A comment full of fallacies and flat-out blatant pants-on-fire lies.

[@maireweber]

@@janosnagy3096 Evidence please?

[@KeesBoons]

@@janosnagy3096 Nope!

[@maireweber]

@@janosnagy3096 Still haven't found any facts to back up your emotional vomit? That's what I thought.

[@matsv201]

That is not really true. If you ad a low cost healthinsurance covrage you get about simular healthcare as in most of europe. Education cost difrance is not really that large. Its not feally free in europe, evdn the countries that claim they are And to compare a eu collage to ivy leauge collage is really unfair. Of collage are compare like for like for teachers, engineers, and nurses the diffrance is really quote low. While a european student would end up with a lower loan, they will also end up with lowet pay and more taxes. I calculated those 3 profrssion in a median eu nation and a median us state, amd all 3 profession actually have a lower payback time in the us. And o did calculate out of state cost. Mobility is generally cheaper im the us... with the one exception of international flights that is way cheaper in europe. Like 3-4 times cheaper. Thd diffrance in safty is actually very small. There is a few plsces in usa that habe really poor safty that pulls up the avrage. Bit if you just look at a random town, the diffrance is really quite small. Cultural event have zero value. Its a wast of money. Housing realtive to pay after tax and intrest is both between 30-35% in europe and usa. The diffrance is that us houses are larger but european houses generally have better quality. The main advantage in europe is that when the house is payed of the rest value tend to be higher. For quality of food its a bit more complicated. Most food in eu have higher quality, but not all. I was kind of surpriced when a noticed a soda in sweden is more garbage than one in florida. Worth saying, they are diffrent from state to state. For bread its really quote complicated. For greens depedns on where you live on both continents. Eggs are for sure better in europe. Pork i would say its a wash, beef i would say its a bit complicated. The us cow get more food on root, while also getting more antibiotics. Something as simple as mc donalds is garbage tear in nordic, its pretty bad in the us, but ironically a bit better in souther europe. On the flip side, mcdonalds is pretty expensive food im souther europe.

[@krempel_und_klumpad]

austrian here. i am always uncomfortably amazed when i see that american houses are build with wood planks 😄 and just recently i had a discussion on ig about americans never opening the windows in their houses. they don´t need to because "other than houses in europe the houses are very well ventilated". no man, the wind can blow through your walls and windows. that is not what "very well ventilated" means 😄😄😄

[@SpiritmanProductions]

The term 'sixth form' is idiomatic, a legacy term from when the school years were called 'forms', although by the time I was at school, 'year' was more often used: Primary School: 1st & 2nd year 'infant' (ages 5-6), 1st to 4th year 'junior' (ages 7-10) Secondary School: 1st to 5th year (ages 11-15), optional 'sixth form' (16-17) You could leave school after the 5th year. 'Sixth form' has special meaning (and thus retains its historical moniker) because it's the optional final 2 years when you study for A-Levels, prior to going to college or university, or 1 year to re-do GCSEs (which used to be O-Levels; I'm one of the last people who has them!). It is often on the same site as the secondary school, but there are also separate sixth form colleges. Uniforms are no longer worn, which is an amazing experience when you've been wearing them for 11 years.

[@SPeeSimon]

Isn't it a reference to Doctor Who? 😅

[@BlackWater_49]

3:47 Fun fact: NASA uses the metric system so the metric system landed on the moon. Another fun fact: When NASA doesn't use the metric system nothing lands anywhere because the Mars orbiter crashes onto the atmosphere, breaks apart on impact and only leaves a heap of scrap metal behind for the price of hundreds of millions of dollars.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

When NASA does a US press release or updates news on their websites, some poor editor has to convert and change all of the metric values to US Customary Units (which are still ratified by Metric!), so that the general public in the US don't get confused.

[@BlackWater_49]

@@Thurgosh_OG Yeah, but the best part is that even US citizens don't have a good visualisation of their British imperial units which is why the subreddit r/anythingbutmetric exists...

[@BlackWater_49]

@@alidemirbas6566 Yeah, the displays could also display banana lengths but it's still metric that landed on the moon... (Also with regards from Germany)

[@dfuher968]

@@alidemirbas6566 Coz they use computer power to convert the metric to imperial units for the displays. On a side note, the Mars Orbitor was caused by NASA using metric, but their subcontractor using imperial and the discrepancy causing the failure. Pretty sure, NASA didnt know, the subcontractor didnt use the metrics, they were given, but Im also pretty sure, that all NASA contracts now include the requirement for metric.

[@sirisolbar]

The pay difference is crazy in my opinion. I am currently studying to become a teach in Norway and the minimum wage per year is almost 600000NOK (~59000$). And the workplace provides everything. When I heard that they teachers in the US had to buy their own supplies and rely on pupils to also buy in things for the teacher, I was shocked

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

I think we have to redefine 3rd World!!!!!

[@RaduRadonys]

Yes, but Norway together with Switzerland are the most expensive countries in Europe.

[@suicidalbanananana]

They get more money in the US because "it goes less far", you simply NEED more to live in the US. The problems is that with the printing of Dollars thing, prices across the world keep slowly rising while our salaries dont. We are essentially paying for the weird disconnect that's going on in America, just because the Dollar is the common trading valuta. This is why a lot of people in the EU at least somewhat understand "BRICS", while we don't really see them as a better option at all (hello? EU biggest trader in the world, so just make the Euro the #1 trading valuta???) we mostly do agree that the Dollar is kinda sh*tty.

[@sirisolbar]

@@RaduRadonys They may be, but why not pay teachers, who are teaching the future generations, a fair pay. And I am not talking about making the rich, but enough to live off of it.

[@tomscorpion6288]

@@sirisolbar Guess how much is the minimum wage of teachers in the Czech Republic.

[@nikGhost1]

9:30 The reason why America is not first is because they are who made those other countries on the top list, it's a sad story about US testing bombs on the islands and that eliminated all the fish in the region and now all they have is fastfood.

[@z3cki]

American fast food, Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King's. They made them fat not just by nuking the fish, but by bringing the fast food industry there too 🥲

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

If cashiers can't sit, because if your not standing, your not working, then what do people in offices do?

[@WackyAmoebatrons]

Not work. That was easy.

[@TheCornishCockney]

They wear roller skates.

[@francesctorrent5186]

​@@TheCornishCockney useless shit😂

[@tomast9034]

just sitting and looking good :D

[@FutureChaosTV]

​@@TheCornishCockney 😂

[@Marianne-k4u]

I've never seen a chashier bag. We do that ourselves.

[@helloweener2007]

I only saw it once here in Germany at Kaufland. But this was on a very busy day, like a long weekend because of Chrismas or New Year. The actually had 3 people on every checkout. One scanned the items, one was bagging and there was a person with the cashbox where you had to pay.

[@Tuinierenopstrobalen]

In the 90s I saw it in France on holiday. It changed rapidly😂.

[@danvernier198]

I saw it a couple of times when I travelled to South America, but it was like High School kids trying to get money for a trip or something. Baggers is a very weird and wasteful idea. You should have a cloth bag or a backpack or something that you can reuse anyway.

[@Anson_AKB]

@@helloweener2007 in half a century i had it happen twice near busy holiday shopping. and the result was that i ended up with 10+ plastic bags (impossible to carry in my hands), thus had to unpack everything and pack it again myself in one single big bag to carry it over my shoulder.

[@flitsertheo]

@@danvernier198 Supermarkets here leave empty cardboard boxes at the exit.

[@Ryuuoo_]

14:12 Here at Finland you are the bagger. Customer

[@Americaninparis2012]

Here in Normandy, there aren't that many hot days but even during such days, the house I live in stays nice and cool. It was build in 1800's and nothing but the interior walls have changed.

[@basstrammel1322]

I know what you mean, they knew how to work the airflow through the rooms used the most!

[@tomast9034]

we have 25°C even thru days with 40+ outside....the catch is all windows are closed during the day and open after sundown till morning. no AC.

[@tomast9034]

1 meter thick stone wall? :)

[@GutnarmEVE]

@@tomast9034 preferrably. bring it on, big bad wolf, sneeze some blizzard down my valley ;p

[@annerigby4400]

Same here. Burgundy.

[@myfaceismyshield5963]

The funny part is that NASA uses Celsius... so Fahrenheit didn't land on the Moon, despite the US doing it

[@yakoobski]

I believe anything that has to do with space uses Kelvin.

[@johnsmith-cw3wo]

also I think they used mm not inches to design the rockets

[@myfaceismyshield5963]

@@johnsmith-cw3wo that too... the scientific community mostly uses metric

[@jeremyw6418]

So far i know, the NASA team, that developed the Apollo 11 (1969) used the metric system mainly. (but that can by a myth) How ever NASA started using the metricsystem from 1979, as long as it was easy to implement. (°C/K where used for development and construction, but still for take off °F was used) just 1988 NASA had to convert to the metric system by law as long as it is technicaly not obstruct programms. *1 Still in some papers, you can see how they switch randomly from the metric to the imperial system. But that can be a resoult of cooperation between different institutions, to which data the papers refer. (just my gues, after i read some of thos papers) *1 ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930014020

[@eizo45]

They probably use Kelwins instead, since it's standard in science.

[@st0ox]

10:00 the only countries with greater obesity rates than the US are all island nations that got their fish nuked by American nuclear tests, though. After they could not longer sustain their own food sources American fast food chains took over on those islands and the rest is history.

[@red_concrete_1212]

14:05 wait you have someone to pack your bag and if not the cashier does? Here in Germany u have to pack your own groceries and u better hurry because everyone is waiting for u

[@wifi961]

In Mexico too.

[@elhnston6589]

14:00 They have no "baggers", WHAT, not the cashiers job to put you're shit away.

[@Haghenveien]

Absolutley, same times they do it out of the kindness of they heart if they see you struggle but that's not their job.

[@TheKrauzerII]

Reminds me there isnt even an american section in supermarkets in France 🤣

[@thetechnosaiyan]

Carrefour has/had an american section

[@valentinlemaire9699]

16:16 The 6 flags: Russia, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Slovenia (that I mistook for Slovakia at first) and Croatia.

[@lnemeth4334]

Slovakia has the same flag as Slovenia, but they put the hungarian coat of arms on it.

[@jattikuukunen]

Ez

[@ankhayratv]

Yep, Slovenia and Slovakia get me confused.

[@samiraperi467]

Luxembourg was hard, I never see that flag anywhere.

[@lyaneris]

​@@samiraperi467I actually remembered that they got a "weird" light blue 😂

[@arnoeagleeyes]

Heh, where i live in Germany, the cashiers in Aldi are so fast, it's a sport to get the groceries back in your cart before they finish...and start looking at you impatiently while waiting for you to pay ;-)

[@BzhToine]

I witnessed a few times my mom asking the cashier to go a little slowly, and if not dong so, just saying:"Ok I'm done, I don't buy anything, good bye. And then just leave."

[@Merip1214]

Even here in Wales it can be like that 😅. Love shopping at Aldi

[@Merip1214]

Even more fun though, is the rivalry between Lidl and Aldi, which often comes out in their adverts, where one makes fun of the other. I think it was Aldi who had the carrot mascot for a bit, and then Lidl had a Christmas advert and the plate of carrots had the Aldi mascot on it being stabbed with a fork... (Along with a clever line in the song that I don't remember)

[@lapisinfernalis9052]

And from my experience they get faster the further south you go.

[@TheAderwolf]

@@BzhToine the thing is they have to scan it in that fast because of company regulations. you have to have a certain speed of items per minute. now you can still take as long as you want to to bag it. i simply dont pay till im done bagging if im feeling its a slow day that way they cant start with the next customer. usually tho i take it as a little game of "can i beat the cashier today"!!!

[@adpop750]

I'm Dutch and in 2019 it was record breaking hot in The Netherlands (40.7 °C / 105.3 °F). So in Spring of 2020 I bought an AC...........I used it on 2 days since..............and that my dear friends is why you don't need AC in Europe (well maybe you do, in Mediterranean countries, but you get what I'm saying).

[@Pseudoplasmagore]

Here in Finland people can't handle temperatures over 25 °C

[@BrokenCurtain]

5:47 A light, casual beer for a hot day? That's what Radler is for.

[@NoZoDE]

to add for the ones not in the know. Radler is the result of mixing Sprite (or similar) and beer

[@Oikolukuhirvi]

Here in Finland you bag your own groceries. I usually just toss them back in the cart after the cashier has beeped them so I can pack in peace instead of just frantically trying to do grocery tetris while the rest of the cashier queue is looking at me like "what's taking so long"

[@matsv201]

We just check out the whole cart with out even moving them from the cart, then driving the cart to the car and just tip it in. Then have a other cart in the garage tip it out on and drive it into the kitchen

[@Merip1214]

Our (UK) Aldi has a shelf you can move to for sorting your shopping into bags, without holding other people up.

[@mayaamis]

0:50 the UK joke about sixth form, it's Doctor Who refrence 🤣🤣🤣 the show has been airing there over 50 years and is big part of their culture :)

[@Azmedon-AU]

Americans don't know that NASA uses Metric by the sounds of it.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

When NASA release a press update to the US public or on their own website, they have an editor convert all of the metric numbers to US Customary Units because the US public apparently cannot convert measures. I'm British and can convert measures on the fly.

[@Odah_]

Guys, we also have AC in Europe. Only in a couple rooms like bedrooms especially, in the newer houses as units on the walls or as a portable form on wheels.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And in most shops, bars and hotels too.

[@Real_MisterSir]

But it's pretty much exclusively in southern Europe, like south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc. In Northern Europe it's very rare, and also since it's a small industry there aren't many AC providers and the few that exist overcharge like crazy cus it's a rarity field with minimal competition.

[@Odah_]

@@Real_MisterSir I live in the north of France and every shop has an AC system, not every house has some but it's only the older ones

[@DavidNewmanDr]

There are countries in Europe where you can get air flow heat pumps that warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

[@1andonlyMiro]

I'm a civil engineer from Finland and to me basic building of a house in the States seems like a joke. Here you HAVE to take into consideration the amount of wind in the area, the amount of rain in the area (those two combined as well), how much load can snow cause onto the roof, how to keep water from going UNDER the building or inside of the building, how to dry out the water that unavoidably gets sort of into the structures, how to keep the house reasonably warm in the winter and reasonably cool during summer WITHOUT the structures becoming unbreathable to avoid mold. Also the direction of the sunrise during summer/winter. These are just for regular houses in regular places, nothing special, no mountainsides or possible earthquakes taken into consideration. It is SO MUCH EASIER to design basic houses in the States.

[@RickDangerousNL]

If baffles me that you gus have/had baggers. What's even more weird is that the cashiers bag the items for you. We just do that ourselves.

[@flitsertheo]

The necessity to provide anybody with a job, because there is no social security to care for those people.

[@omeka8842]

fellow europiean or is litteraly only a usa thing?

[@RickDangerousNL]

European 😊

[@flitsertheo]

@@RickDangerousNL The baggers are a USA thing. I only see something similar with Christmas when shops will giftwrap your presents and put it in a special bag. From your neighbours who spend their money on food instead of roads.

[@sanitychek]

@@flitsertheo Australia still has the cashier bagging the goods - of course you end up having to pay for the bag if you don't bring your own.

[@toolatetothestory]

The thing is, when Americans make fun of Europe, they usually struggle to even name three countries within the entire continent and just assume that the entirety of Europe is the same, which is racist. Unlike Europeans, who know how the US works because it's like a toddler in the bus that won't stop screaming. Everyone in the bus knows about that toddler, if we want to or not.

[@KjetilBalstad]

My son when he was 12 had learned (in school) every European nation with Capitol, all European flags, every US state, most major US cities, most African and Asian nations, and Oceania, and the most significant history of most areas of the world if not for every specific nation. Along with the English language stating first grade, and having just started on learning Spanish.

[@tigervv6437]

16:35 The reason the US dropped letters where British English uses them is because a long time ago printing news papers in the US was charged by counting the total amount of letters printed. Simplifying words meant less printing costs. Hence you see American English being called English (simplified) sometimes.

[@alganhar1]

Which is ironic because English had already been vastly simplified for exactly the same reason in the 16th Century with the invention of Printing presses. Its why you saw the great vowel die off for example, when all the old anglo-saxon vowels were dropped, like the combined ae. and they were not the only ones. I think they chopped the English Alphabet down by something like 40%!

[@GrapeBubblegum2.0]

Same in Australia, only Aldi employees sit down but I heard working at Aldi is like being in the military compared to other supermarkets so I guess they deserve to sit down for a bit. Lol

[@staomruel]

My sis worked for a company that provided all kinds of packaging and once had an opportunity to do an order for Aldi. After seeing the absolute massive binder with requirements Aldi had for them, they passed on the job.

[@sabinereimer7809]

Oh yes! Aldi employees are responsible for EVERYTHING. And they have to do it FAST!

[@BlueFlash215]

​@@sabinereimer7809I don't see the problem though. Coming from Germany and having worked in a big grocery store, you are meant to look out for every possible thing. You don't simply walk by an isle that is not correctly set up even if it's not you isle. You fix it and do your other work. I've never heard of many regulations though. Probably a little bit of what every German does instictly at work without being asked or forced.

[@deadzio]

​@@staomruel because she would have to work?? Amazed

[@staomruel]

@deadzio compared to other clients they had for similar projects, Aldi's requirements were enormous. Don't frame it like my sis saw what she would have to do and thought, 'Well, I'm not doing that because I'm lazy!' Makes it seem like you go into comments just to throw insults, and that's a waste of everybody's time.

[@MakooWallinen]

In Sweden automotive plants give their workers work clothes, and usually wash them for them.

[@sailiealquadacil1284]

14:17 The thing about check-out lines is true, everywhere. The total number may vary, but you bet that only one or two are open. Why? Since nobody wants to cut managers' wages, they cut personnel instead to save money. So the people who work as cashiers also have to re-stock shelves and stuff. We actually have a famous saying, at least here in Vienna: "Zweite Kassa bitte!" We're sort of politely asking them to open up a second check-out. Oh, and we bag our own groceries. They either go back into the shopping cart, or into bags/baskets we brought ourselves. That's not the cashier's job.

[@romeufrancisco7041]

wait, the cashier bags it? here it only happens if the customer is having significant difficulties.

[@zpitzer]

In sweden cashiers sit down too, but ok we didn't land on the moon, so standing must be better :) LOL

[@EmanueleGTino]

in sweden the postNord courier called me to tell me that if I wanted my package i should have gone there to pick it up myself from their warehouse cause it was too heavy (16kg) and they didn't feel comfortable carrying it around.

[@ElkeSiegburg]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Sh4d0w20]

everytime someone from the US tells me how tall he is im only understanding "im about 6 squirrels tall and shes about 4 and a half racoons"

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

Here in Ireland, I pay €18 per month for unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and unlimited 5G data.

[@jattikuukunen]

We mostly have unlimited phone subscriptions in Finland as well, but at much higher price. Especially for 5G.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I'm in the UK and pay £10 per month for unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and 120Gb of 4G/5G data. Which is more than I need.

[@Real_MisterSir]

Same in Denmark. I don't remember the last time I saw a plan that was not unlimited data and the most up-to-date connection type. Sure you can get those 10 bucks burner plans, but typical baseline for unlimited has been a thing for way over a decade by now. My plan has unlimited everything, and 20gb free data and unlimited calls/texts in 50 foreign countries too, the US included. So I could literally go to the US, use my phone, and pay half the price Americans pay to use their phones in their own country..

[@vanesag.9863]

Spain: A home-mobile pack with unlimited calls mobile to mobile or mobile to landline, unlimited texts, 4G/5G data, 50 GB (I don't need more), landline that I don't use but I have old family members that want and use it and 500 mb optical fibre for 38 euros. For a little more you can have TV premiums, aditional mobile lines or if you travel frequently outside EU roaming including countries of my pack a plan for using your mobile line in those countries. You can find lower prices but the company I use is very reliable and never had a problem.

[@annafrolova7891]

My same all unlimited plan here in Russia costs 2,5 € per month Mobile connection and internet is one of the cheapest things here.

[@kailahmann1823]

Americans add AC, Europeans build solid walls to keep the temperature inside stable…

[@mrnickname850]

Work well until you put a PC aka space heater into the room.

[@tomast9034]

@@mrnickname850 not a potato pc... :D:D:D:D

[@michasokoowski6651]

9:00 Ok... lets look at the top 10... and they import food from the USA, thanks for coming to my ted talk

[@snakeoilaudio]

The 1st time I visited the US was when Carter was still President and I was surprised that all the houses are made from wood, but then I learned that they are way more affordable than in Europe so everybody can own a house and that made sense for me. Today housing prices are absolutely insane and an American wooden house costs the same (or more) as a European brick house and people can only afford them if they are very well off and that doesn't make sense to me.

[@BlueSapphyre]

There’s a major housing shortage. 4.5 million fewer houses than needed. Low supply means prices increase. And builders don’t have an incentive to throw up houses faster, because they’re pocketing the inflated housing prices.

[@vreeze33]

The US isn't the only one with a housing crisis.

[@UnifiedFriends]

Unleashed markets, shackle the workers Shackled workers spit on those below them Welcome to capitalism

[@Thurgosh_OG]

It's having to replace that stapled on roofing on many US houses every 10 years thing, that bothers me. My house is young, only about 70 years old but has never needed the properly tiled roof replacing.

[@wifi961]

Democrat policy.

[@ileana8360]

4:30 How houses are build in Europe. Although Ian might not take recommendations from the comment section, maybe others are interested: 1. A series about building a house in Germany from start to finish www.youtube.com/@taurifilm723/search?query=Building%20a%20House 2. US carpenters visiting Swiss carpentry school and learns about the huge differences. BTW: Switzerland, Austria and Germany have similar school systems and standards in place. I really would recommend the whole series he made about his visit to Europe as it includes how to become a carpenter, materials used for houses as well as the reasons, window and door specifications etc etc kzbin.info/www/bejne/op2tp3mPd9WHq5Y

[@TravisSansbury]

When he says there aren't even baggers anymore meanwhile we never had any to begin with let alone have the cashier do it 😂 Here you do it yourself lol

[@thelvadamee6936]

Hello i'm french and fun fact an emerency doctor from an hospital in Paris tell that the most common injuries is finger bonnes braked du too punching wall he said they had like 2 or 3 personne per day with this type of injuries and 90% are men.....when memes become reality 😂

[@Rafaela_S.]

Here in Garmany I earn 30.000€ a year before taxes, healthcare and costs of living and atm I save up 1.000€ each month to travel to Japan for a whole year. Can't see an US-American even living with that amount of money.

[@HappyFPV]

For less than a hundred euro I get 8Gb fiber internet, 8Gb up 8Gb down 😂

[@ReadersOfTheApocalypse]

Where's that? Bukarest? Not in Germany, for sure.

[@basto1d]

Recently talking to an American couple. Asked where they had eaten and similar. Turned out McD and Starbucks exclusively, and "you guys, it's soooo expensive!". Please make an effort.

[@dfuher968]

How sad, they go to a different country, and all they eat is McD?

[@wifi961]

​@@dfuher968They're democrats, why are you surprised.

[@olisipocity]

I worked for six years in a German-American joint venture automobile plant, and we had to wear proper uniform clothing, including steel-toe boots and no belted trousers (pants), and no wrist watches. If you weren't properly dressed you would be sent home and loose a days work.

[@samrester6254]

Steel toe boots No belts no wrist watches Yeah. Safety is a thing. Who knew...

[@liquidminds]

"you're still wearing your watch, go home" "but I can just take it off and.." "Go home!" 😅😅

[@olisipocity]

@@liquidminds It sounds like an exaggeration and a lot of fun, but wearing a wristwatch was responsible for several thousand euros of damage to paintwork and body panels and man-hours of repair work. It was also a safety risk, including severed limbs, with the consequent loss of workforce and thousands in insurance and compensation costs.

[@liquidminds]

@@olisipocity I understand why you can't wear it, but the description sounded like if you forget to take off the watch they will just send you home. Which likely won't happen because you can easily just take it off. On a side-note, it's also the same reason they don't wear ties. Those were involved in some nasty accidents too.

[@olisipocity]

@@liquidminds absolutely correct.

[@jensv874]

Lol a bager. We never had that over here. We bag it ourself.

[@gastonjussen3896]

So the cashiers actually put your groceries in your bag in America? Holy cow. I would feel so akward xD

[@vogel2280]

No, that is a completely separate job. And if you pregnant or disabled, they might even take your cart to your car and lift the groceries into your car.

[@miou-miou-]

WHY?!? can you not just bag your own groceries? i can understand you may need help if you are handicapped, but the rest of you should really bag it yourselves.

[@dnocturn84]

I don't even know why they bag their stuff in the first place. Don't Americans always do grocery shopping with their cars? Just move your cart to your trunk and put everything in crates for easy transport. No need for bags at all.

[@TigraxPlays]

The one with Portugal is actually so funny cause my grandpa send me a photograph with our president like 2 month ago just casually walking the streets like they are best buddies

[@maxis5427]

Average internet speed in eu pretty much caught up with america so it's not even and excuse anymore. In italy, the average cost for gigabit internet at home is like 20/25 euros per month and something it comes with a mobile data plan included for the price... Most of our mobile data plans nowadays looks like this: "Unlimited talks" + "100 texts per month because no one uses them anyway " + "150 to 200 gb of mobile data at 5g speed" and everything for the price of 10 euros. We're talking about average prices and options, you can pay more if you want but any option above 15 euros per month for a mobile data plan is usually not advertised and difficult to find even on the various companies websites. I pay 30 euros for both 2.5 gigabit internet at home and my mobile data plan.

[@countk1]

Belgium: 130 euros/month for a combo of fast unlimited fibre optic (1000/100) and two SIMS (basically unlimited).

[@Thurgosh_OG]

For quite a number of years the UK's average speed was higher than the US, so for us they have caught up and currently are ahead but gigabit fibre is the standard people are aiming for, the provider companies have yet to catch up.

[@oskar6747]

I pay 15€/month for 300mbit in Finland. 1Gbit would be 25€ for me. Mobile with unlimited everything is around 35€.

[@tribuletrib2497]

I pay 45€ in France for fiber with 8gb up and 8gb down

[@KlotePunker]

In the Netherlands I pay €50 for a package deal for Gbit fibre (1000/1000, no data caps) internet and mobile (5G calls/text unlimited, data unlimited (20Gb/day). Not in a package at the same provider I would pay €45 for internet and ±€32.50 for mobile. There are of course multiple providers with their own pricing so it also varies on which is available (fibre isn't available everywhere yet). Has the US finally got rid of the data caps on their internet? I know that used to be a thing.

[@tonycasey3183]

Brit here. The newest house I have lived in is my current one built in 1953. The oldest house I have lived in was built in 1835. My friend and her husband just bought a house that was built in 1675.

[@flitsertheo]

My mother bought a 1953 house too, in 1985. Back then we had to refurbish a coal shack to a bathroom and the electricity needed upgrading but that was it (at that time).

[@rodrigoandorinha9259]

My Father build this house, before this house was here, my grandparents and their children lived in a hut, in the same place my house is today.

[@mynewname7830]

Love your personality dude! Cheers for the vids

[@Aotearas]

Funfact about german Aldi (well, almost all german grocery stores really): if you're slower packing your things than the cashier is at scanning them and let them pile up your groceries, people next in queue will judge your weak bloodline. And our cashiers are fast! It does help that there's no one trying to bag everything in a thousand plastic bags (dear Lord that was a shock when we did grocery shopping during our US trip, ALL OF THE PLASTIC BAGS!!!). Also we return our shopping carts!

[@vanesag.9863]

🤣 your famous German cashiers... During my US holidays we shocked the cashier because my friends and I opened our backpacks and crammed all groceries in seconds, nearly taking off her hands the scaned items but when we were at München the cashier outsmarted us and the greceries were piled up at our end of the till.

[@Aotearas]

@@vanesag.9863 Oh, that's evil!

[@AlucardNoir]

As a European I have to point out that the wage difference is why so many of us think AC is out of our budget range. Even in France, one of the richer countries in both Europe and the EU over 60% of people would not get AC because of the high cost. And that's for a study done by a company selling ACs.

[@casperronge2563]

In Denmark I also have gigabit fiber internet, 1000Mbit download and 1000Mbit upload, but I pay 43.5 dollars

[@DavidNewmanDr]

My symetrical gigabit connection costs me £25/month, because of competition. There is a new company that runs optical fibres along the telephone poles that undercuts the big companies that uses to charge me £50/month.

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

€100 a month for Internet?? That's insane.... That can't be real

[@maxis5427]

I've talked with americans who pays like that for their mobile data plan...

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

@@maxis5427 my mobile, Internet, TV services, Netflix, prime, wouldn't even totall that!

[@TheExileHQ]

I pay 25euros for 500/500 a month 😂

[@brrebrresen1367]

well... don't look at prices in Norway... got an 30/5 Mbit 4G based broadband connection while waiting for the fiber to be completed*, and it costs 849,- per month. that's 71€ atm copper they have shut down for several years just like the FM radio here in Norway, so can't use ADSL even if it was faster, more reliable and cheaper... when the fiber is done i will get an 250/250 line for 799, but if i wanted an 1000/1000 line like he had it would been 1299,- (so 110€) *(they started the work in the area in 2011, they are to come and do the final parts and connect my house "November" )

[@prjw73]

It is very expensive in The Netherlands too. I pay for my cable internet-tv plan around 70-75 euro. That includes a phone landline. There is only 1 provider that offers internet via cable so that doesn't help. There is much more to choose with DSL but if I had fiber in my apartment I'd probably choose that.

[@vaksivaksi5179]

Check out Finlands old president Sauli Niinistö playing hockey with soma random dudes😂

[@companyjoe]

Yeah, well, you have to admit Putin is not a random dude... (I know. But this picture comes up first)

[@rodrigoandorinha9259]

Its weird to think a president needs a small army to walk in their own country.

[@MichaelWoIf]

Hi Ian, since you've mentioned you'd love to see a video about houses in Europe I'd suggest you to watch Building a house part 2 Masonry by Taurifilm. It's a detailed process of building the most important staff that is pretty common for majority of European countries. (Part 1 is about the foundation and part 3 is roof btw) I've seen the video already but I'd be happy to see you reacting to that.

[@antivanti]

Fahrenheit is at least internally consistent (unlike other units of measurement in the US like length and mass) but it doesn't plug into the SI system of units. Technically the SI system uses Kelvin but one unit Kelvin is the same size as one degree Celsius and for most most calculations the difference in temperature is what's relevant

[@MadTamB]

I'm not defending Fahrenheit in any way but it is a Centigrade system (i.e. takes two temperatures and divides the bits in between into 100 degrees), in other words it uses 100 degrees for human body temperature (but is actually out by a couple of degrees) and zero for a very cold day in the Baltic.

[@Khiswow]

Celsius Rock. 0° is freezing, 100° is boiling. So much simple to memorize / visualize than frrezing at 32° and boiling at 212°. And yes 100$ a month is a ripo-off. Prices vary country to contry in Europe, but in France , it's around 40 to 50€ for fiber, depending on the provider and services.

[@artyparis]

Low effort. Fed from Reddit. Laugh every 20 sec. Job done.

[@charlieheadlam8771]

Fun fact: sixth form refers to the two years spent attaining A-levels (level 3 qualifications), between the ages of 16 and 18. It is also commonly referred to as college.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

I really wouldn’t want the Americans appropriating mate from us Brits and Australian New Zealanders

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I know what you mean, Pal.

[@gecgoodpasi1654]

"i like fahrenheit better" NOBODY HAS EVER SAID 😐C being 0 to 100 for frozen to boiling water is so damn handy for daily usage

[@eisikater1584]

"C stands for correct, and F stands for fake", yeah, I really love that Celsius-Fahrenheit comparison, because Celsius is so scientific, decimal, and easy to understand: 0°C is when water freezes, and 100°C is when it boils. European outlets and plugs are wonderful sturdy things which were made with safety in mind. You have ground (or earth) contacts that divert the energy from devices into the ground in case of a short circuit, and it runs through a fuse box which will cut the respective line within tenths of a second. So, no chance of killing someone (or yourself) by a hairdryer in a bathtub. (Exceptions may apply.) Cashiers need to have a chair here in Germany BY LAW. Aldi probably wouldn't have to provide chairs in America, but they do. It's to prevent damage to the feet and the spine that comes from long-time standing. Cashiers are not obliged to use that chair but mostly do. Flags, c'mon, I'm German, and I probably know the flags of most Western European countries, but the more eastwards or northwards it gets, the less I know. I don't even know all the flags of the 16 German federal states. How many flags of the 50 US states do YOU know? About money, I think in Europe (despite the inflation) you still get your money's worth in quality products, while about the US, I'm not so sure. "hand egg" for an American "football", that took me a few seconds to comprehend, but that's definitely funny! I'll try to remember that word for the next time I meet an American. "I'm in a football team!" "Oh, you mean you're playing hand eggs?" Fiber-optic internet here in my rural corner of Germany, the cost depends on the bandwith. I could have 25 Mbit/s for 29€, but if I wanted 100, that would be 49€ per month. 29€ for 25 Mbit is what I pay now for access via copper wire, my provider has proven to be reliable over many years, 25 are good enough for me, so I'm fine with that. For "Gigabit internet" I think it would also be around 100€, and even more if you want "synchronous" access where download speed equals upload speed, and it's usually only offered to companies.

[@astree214]

I'm in France, far away from any big city, my village is 150 inhabitants (and around 500 cows), and I get fiber-optic 1 GB internet for 30 €.

[@annerigby4400]

Someone I know, when s/he was about 12yo got interested in climate and weather and s/he created a project on the topic. To make sure s/he had got all the facts straight, s/he took the presentation s/he had made to the local weather station in the European town where they lived. The people there watched the presentation, made some interesting and useful comments and then the 12yo asked why there were devastating tornadoes in the US and not in Europe. The climate person explained that there were tornadoes every year in this particular country but two factors prevented them from being on the scale of the US's. One was the lay of the land that either prevented a strong build-up or caused it to fizzle out quicker. In areas where there were strong enough build-ups, the houses were made of stone and all that typically happened would be the loss of a few roof tiles and trees being ripped up which could cause more roof damage. He explained that the US has vast regions that are perfect for tornado build-up and that for some reason the US seems to think putting light wooden houses and mobile homes on known tornado paths is a good idea. When I was in my teens, in a European country, I witnessed a crane swinging and then falling over and a car being turned 180 degrees by the swirling wind. It was a tornado. A window was broken by the falling crane and roof tiles flew around. The car was the most spectacular event. It lifted, turned around horizontally and dropped back down.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Europe experiences several hundred tornadoes every year, they just don't have the impact of the US ones very often but there are some historical stories of bad ones on the past.

[@BernhardGiner]

German here. I pay €11/month for my cell phone contract (okay, not many GB, but it's enough for me). And when I'm in another EU country, it doesn't cost me anything extra. For phone/Internet(250 MB/s)/cable TV at home we pay ≈ 40 € We pay €49/month for local public transport nationwide and nothing for school/ childcare/ university/ kindergarten/ apprenticeship. By the way: here we usually talk about net salary, health insurance, pension insurance, unemployment insurance and long-term care insurance, as well as income tax are already deducted. Just to explain why you can't compare incomes directly.

[@danvernier198]

I had a parent show up to a parent teacher conference dressed like an American once, my colleague was so shocked she thought we might need to call social services. I had to explain that going outside in pyjamas and a bathrobe is just something that you do over there.

[@flitsertheo]

Here you risk being "collected" by the police, thinking that you are suffering from dementia and escaped from your care home. And nobody carries his ID in his pj's so that's going to be a problem too.

[@suicidalbanananana]

🤣 Makes a lot of sense to me lol, i feel like at least half the people you come across would call or tell somebody if you walk around like that anywhere outside of America, there's such a thing as comfortable clothes, wear that instead, going out in your sleeping wear is like a universal sign of going crazy lmao.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@suicidalbanananana It's creeping in, in the UK. Tescos at 22:00 (just to annoy some Yanks) there will be a few in PJs, slippers and dressing gowns.

[@vanesag.9863]

@@Thurgosh_OG In Spain only married gypsy women go supermarket shopping in pajamas. Always with slippers, hair in an unkempt bun and 2 kids in tow. You would never see a non married gypsy badly dressed. The tendency is diying slowly.

[@shadowmandeathstroke8232]

That is not really something we do over here. That’s just a few oddballs here and there