things americans say..

Particularly their cars that are unsafe to pedestrians.

This snobby attitude of Europeans in the comment section under American youtubers' videos is just embarrassing. Can you guys stop?

@@ClifffSVK Truth hurts don't it?

@@ClifffSVK How was it snobby?

@@ClifffSVK What was snobby about that? Axe and 73 are just stating facts of why US stuff isn't allowed into the EU market. It is well know that US produced food doesn't match the EU standard. Due to our standards we reduced deadly road-accidents by cars of 16% since 2013, meanwhile the numbers for deadly accidents went up by 25% for the US around the same time-span. US is aggressively pushing for their cars to be labeled as "equal" by the EU so that they can be sold on the EU market. That's a risk for all EU members. Absolutely nothing snobby about that. Do you even know what snobby means? Or is it just like a nice word to use when you yanks meet someone who talks standard British English?

Do Yanks have anything marketed as food that is actually safe for human consumption?

It's not quite as simple, but generally it applies. For most ingredients and chemicals, the EU has "upper levels", that are usually derived from studies. That doesn't necessarily mean, that lower values are NOT harmful, only that anything above the upper levels certainly IS.

US: **Bans everything because one idiot choked on something**

@ Nice explanation.

And even if it's proven that food isn't safe it might be allowed in US. Some foods contain cancerous ingredients

I know! It's dreadful.
I long for these things called "Cars". I have to ride my horse to work every day and it takes me hours.
When I get home, I sit in my cold, dark, gloomy rock cave, dimly lit by a fire and huddle around the campfire wondering what "roadkill" is for dinner tonight.
Then I rest my dozy head on a pillow made of sticks and leaves, and a duvet fashioned from tweed and moss.
I haven't been on holiday in a whole 18 months... so please, spare a thought for me, the poor european cave dweller who isn't living the "American Dream".

You poor thing.

@@xanperia I'm in the same situation.
Help me 😂

@@thefiestaguy8831 ......... and trust me you don't get much 'road kill' when you only have horses for transport! I still remember that wonderful day when our horse clipped a very young rabbit kit, it fed the family for a week that did.

Be fair, we do have mobile phones ~ you just have to save up to buy an empty tin can and some string. It's not all bad here!

EU imports shit from other places without any regulations or tariffs.

Same thing in AUS. Americans don't understand why we don't buy American beef versus our own clean (from added hormones, pesticides, etc) beef. The bio-security of our environment (eg food!) is policed for OUR protection. Keep all that crap out of AUS. 🙄

Because they are bribed sorry I mean "Lobbied" to allow them.

Terrible food, dangerous additives, a healthcare system not affordable for everyone, and extremely expensive medicines... You'd think the US didn't want its citizens to live long, just as long as their productive years.

Maybe they should start teaching geography in school so they realize they're not the only country in the world that produces something

That's why the big R hate woke

BRAVO! Great answer!!! 👏👏 👏👏 👏👏

As Al Murray said, "We don't have a British Dream because we're AWAKE."

I just spend a minute looking up that quote only to see that you've posted it already.

"You can always trust the Americans to do the right thing, once all other possible alternatives have been exhausted".

they have so many school s***ting because they are not allowed to run in the corridors

This comment deserves ALL likes 😂

NAH, I´m more a fan of 10mm ......
to be precise
10mm AUTO

And that's the only metrics they know.

​@@NjazmoDollars and Cents are metric calcution, right?

Only seamstresses use centimetres. Engineers use millimetres, metres and then powers of 10.

also month-day-year... except for 4th of July 20XX.

@@Onan-u3b Absolutely false. Only decimeter and decameter aren't used anymore. If you want to mesure the (edit: ROUGH) size of a pen, you'd definitely use centimeter.

@@Onan-u3b So, would you measure your wiener in millimeters or meters?

@@yautjamerk9159
I use Imperial, (fractions & decimal), and ISO metric daily. I stand by what I stated.
The ONLY Trade I have ever encountered since my country adopted the metric system in 1969 that regularly uses centimetres is the Rag Trade.
Also, who uses a pen? I have pencils all over the place. A pen? Do you work in an office somewhere?

Last week in the UK, an American tourist got arrested for wandering around openly carrying a steak knife on a beach. He didn't think there was anything wrong with that because he lived in an 'open carry' state. I don't know which is worse; that, or the fact that he thought he had to be armed to walk on a beach...

God I totally agree, the American dream isn't a dream for anybody here anymore

When I read 'Mont Saint-Michel I honestly expected a story about those Americans swimming to the abbey instead of just waiting for the tide to go down, and then complain online about the difficult accessibility. 😂

I..what? They sat down in a private residence waiting to be served? 🤦‍♀️ reason 998 why Canada does not want to be the 51st state

" we prefer Canada"
Most people would still not want to live in Canadistan.

Im impressed, u got it past the RUclips censorship.

Someone said that to me the other day, about complaining about a product... "cos we have free speech"..😂

​@@dfuher968same ! 😮
😂

Fuuuuuuuuick......
Colour me confused! 😂

@@baskoning9896 I like the ‘the bad guys aren’t allowed to win’ movie regulation the US had for years. Probably one of the reasons they think that winners are automatically also the good guys.. 🤔

exactly...have known only one person who had that wish. She was in my class in secondary school. She even went a year to the US for highschool. 1 year and 20 kilo's heavier, she was cured of that wish. Don't get me wrong; she did have a great time, but she also saw the grass was certainly not greener in the US and she understood she had more chances in her homecountry....and much better healthcare

I mean I had... when I was a child and read about the American dream or watched movies etc but then I grew up ...

a family friend saved up for years to go live and work in america. he was back within a few months because the reality didnt match the tv shows and movies, and the idea they gave him of america, land of the free-to-pay-through-the-nose

The American dream. Work two to three jobs to pay off student debt, mortgage and car loan. No health care, stuck in traffic for hours and no vacation. Sounds like a dream 😢😢😢 Y'all have a nice day now 😊😊 No, no, no.

Why would they. They have it better in EEEEVERY ASPECT. It takes Americans to LIVE THERE AND MANY WOULD STILL NOOOOOT COMPREHEND. 😢

Bit of an American nightmare at the moment.

Beautiful saying 😂😂

Only americans still believe that the "american dream" is a positive thing.

@@stevec5922 Insert "Always has been" meme here.

Nightmares are dreams too.

One of the big reasons that we don't import US beef is because of the Huge risk to our Beef Industry due to the Biohazards that their beef brings.
The fact that we have more than enough for ourselves at decent prices is another, why would we want overpriced US Beef that could kill off our industry anyway.

Talking about US foods, have you ever tasted a 'Twinkie', tastes like shit wrapped up in cow dung.

@@gregedwards1087 thank you for the sacrifice so we don't need to try it.

Yes, we in Australia are pretty strict on a multitude of imports because a lot of diseases, etc, present in many parts of the world are absent here. We want to keep it that way. This is why customs at airports, etc, are very vigilant.
As far as processed food from the states go, chemicals and additives banned in pretty much the rest of the world are banned here as well, of course.

Yankee fake food and chemically loaded contaminated produce is banned from many countries as a health hazard. How is that a tariff?

But hasn't that been affected recently with everybody having Elbows Up?

US poultry isn't routinely tested for Salmonella and Campylabacta as they are in UK and Europe...thats why they chlorinated them.

Yup and We have tested american chicken plenty of times before in the uk to see if theyre fit for consumption and they have failed tests, theyre left in filth and squalor in the usa because they assume some chlorine will rid the chicken of all parasites, infections, bone conditions etc problems that come from long term neglect of the animals leading to products unfit for consumption according to our laws

8% of US chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Their figures.

@@stevec5922 Why do you say 'UK and Europe'? The UK is a part of Europe.

@@alwinrovers5712 Probably because he's confusing "Europe" with the "European Union" like so many people do.
I once had a clueless yank told me because of Brexit, we're no longer in "Europe". Shows you how stupid your average US citizen is.
I informed her, reliably so, that whilst the UK is not in the European UNION any longer - it is most definitely still physically located within the continent known as "Europe".

Yes, French bashing is alive at the moment, and it's getting tiresome. Blame Hollywood and its propaganda, and their school system ignoring the teaching of History and geography. Plus the nationalistic brainwashing from a young age.

Yeah Italia has the best Food ever in my Tier List 🇩🇪👋🇮🇹 also very much love the Culture

as a yank, I will say, real pizza is good. and real italian sauce is better than American imitations of it. and never go to Olive Garden, because you will most likely find it unacceptable. but I do still love a good west coast (US) style pizza.

One weird thing about US regulations is you can't make cheese from unpasteurised milk! So they don't have real parmesan over there (along with other cheeses). It's so funny to me that that's where they draw the line lol

They don’t have clotted cream either which makes every British person take a short gasp of shock and pity.
Imagine. Never having a proper scone or afternoon/high tea. The horror. 😮

@ yes, I didn't get a chance for scones while I was over there. I and what is sold as scones over here seem to be completely different.

If the iPhone were made in America without any imported components it would cost over $5000 unless you find people willing to work for $2.50/hr assembling it like in China.

​@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 well to be fair OP's argument is that if they were at the current's price even with everything being sourced/made in America, they would increase it accordingly to the market.
Since iPhones are a luxury product and they've never been trying to have particularly competitive prices, even if their production cost stayed the same, as long as other brands in the market increase their prices, Apple will probably match it.
But even then, even when it comes to American products in general, I think the prices will go up, it's not gonna be just imports, because the sudden increase in demand won't be met by a fast enough increase in production; and if imports are still cheaper to get than buying American, then the cost of life will eventually impact the prices of the latter

​​@@akirayuki6275You're missing the whole point.
The idea of these tariffs are for countries to negotiate so he's technically not wrong only it is not the tariffs, their being used as a negotiation tool.

*"I just don't get how people can believe that tarifs make things cheaper"*
Because people on the internet are dumber compared to most people in real life.

@@michaeljames1468 But who's negotiating? Retaliatory tariffs are being introduced. Tariffs are ALWAYS a bad idea.

As a person who knows nothing about plumbing I won't say anything about this topic

Australia is the same. 4 year apprenticeships for trades (which is most things from electricians to mechanics)

😂😂😂 true 😂😂😂

@@devo3243 the US also has 4 year apprenticeships for trades. and as for the original claim - you can always find an excellent student who knows more than the average graduate. you can find the "ours is better because we're superior" attitude in any country - from people who don't understand WHY their country does it that way.

@@kenbrown2808 Yes, but it gets annoying when a US-company invites a Master of his trade from an other country (in my case Germany, know of others in other countries, too) to teach apprentices the work with a completely new machine. Correcting the apprentice sofar that will be wasted and then having a foreman telling the Master he was wrong, redoing the machinesetting with the result of having to throw away 50% of the product because of not beeing usable ...

As a Greek I am offended lol

You got that wrong. It's freedom FROM democracy. The U.S. are a badly run corporation. What in U.S. politics is called lobbying we call bribery. In the U.S. it's just how things are done, here it's a felony.

@@MIGBMWLOVER Rightly so!

You have to remember that Jesus was an American, too...

@@wessexdruid7598 Yes - and then he realized how they misused his name to explain their unchristian behaviour. Ashamed he snug off and silently renounced his citizenship. Since then he lived a happy life on a small island in the pacific, amen.

Thank You greatly 🎉👍 It is nice to hear that

You mean white European American? What is an American anyway? As America is not even an English word, but like the majority of your state, and city names are all derived from indigenous words/names. As America is still colonized and has been for 500 years. America as X continents doesn’t even have a official language, yet white Americans seem to not understand where English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch which are all Indo European languages comes from, originating nor their history of how these languages ended ip in America in the 1st place: colonization, and illegal immigration from Europe since the 1400’s.

​@kilipaki87oritahiti 'America' is derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian map maker who lived in the 1500s. Before that the 2 continents now known as North America and South America were called 'The New World' (in British documents, at least, and similar terms in French/Spanish/Portuguese/Latin)

First settlers fleeing from religious persecution is nice story. Reality is that many of them left Europe because they couldn't persecute others and force them to adapt to their very narrow religious views. They left somewhere where they thought they could have those views forced on others. Didn't work out like that in the end as they ended up with constitution which prevents this.
Now they're once again trying to implement this as Project 2025. Its going on quite well under the counter in Trump administration. The Handmaid's Tale in the making no matter what laws say.

All other countries people's learn about world geography,world affairs and world history as well as their own countrys history but in America it seems as though it's all about the US full stop.

Americans knowledge through schooling starts at 2 years old, they are brain washed to think a certain way and know no other. A few Americans have travelled overseas and realised they have been lied to but the rest still believe the old way. Their president wants to turn the clock back and make them all ignorant again

@@mattkavanagh1504 Except not the uncomfortable parts like historical and on-going racial and social inequality.

Hey Kari :) You are talking of the first settlers as fugitives who fled religious persecution in Europe. That is a common misconception. The pilgrim fathers were NOT persecuted because of their religious convictions. The english state at the time had started to distance itself from former extremely rigid puritan ideas and turned toward a more moderate religious order. The pilgrims were radical puritans. They completely rejected the anglican church and wanted to establish their own isolated communities without having to deal with any different views towards religion. These people did not flee from tyranny. They fled from tolerance.
When I found out about this, my view on modern USA changed quite a bit. I guess it helps to understand why so many Americans are religious fundamentalists even today and why they do not even consider appreciating any world view other than their own. I even think its the root when we try to find a reason why these people did elect someone like Trump. Twice.

We use something similar in Australia for distance.
Everything is either 'Not Close' or 'Not Far' 😂

I was an illustrator. We used the DOP scale to charge clients. Depth Of Pocket. If they're a big rich corporation, it's one price, a small restaurant trusting you to give them a zinger of a menu, then it's another. Lol.

😂

Lol! Canada is much like Australia. Not too far, pretty close by, and whoo boy that's a roadtrip

Too firkin right.

Correct.
And a lot of these 'overseas products' that we buy, we actually ask them to make in the fist place, it's called outsourcing, and we do it for the benefit of our own population so they can buy affordable end products.

@@Captain101-x1o those two comments need to get pinned at the top and shown to every US citizen who brags about tariffs.

Isn't that the same in the US?
People who cite "freedom of speech" usually really want "freedom from counterarguments".

I'm not sure I buy that with all the censorship in media, that's "freedom from" exposing children to : swear words, nudity etc. or at least that's what they say

you can make a search for Two Concepts of Liberty or Isaiah Berlin if you are interested in those concepts or where they came from, it is always interesting to know. 🙂

@@to_loww Generally people using freedom in the US mean freedom for corporations to rob you blind. They think absence of rules is freedom, they don't think about freedom from the clutches of bad actors.

@@to_loww 💯

... or even wrongly ...

Wronger still

Words like where, why, what, and centre are objectively spelled wrong. They should have been hwere, hwy, hwat, and center.

@@gar6446 You’re just mean - tell them it’s “incorrectly”. Just because you have a school system that taught you something. 🤣

@@peterfireflylund Well 'where' did used to be spelt 'hwǣr' in Old English, much like encyclopaedia was until fairly recently spelled encyclopædia. There also isn't a standardised pronunciation of English - without looking at the IPA charts for Cockney vowels and diphthongs I would say centre should be spelt szena. British English continuously changes - most people can't be bothered to use their AltGr key on their keyboard these days to spell café correctly, so we now also have cafe (which I believe rhymes with gaff).

americans assume everyone wants an iphone like them lol becuase theyre still use text messages and want their bubble to be green lol, its really that vein and pathetic

Ssshhhhh!
The yanks will be along soon to tell you about their American-Korean heritage..
Bit like the "plastic paddy" types... or like how they view anyone black as "African American", despite the fact that many black people have never been to, or originate from either of those places.
One of my uncles is black. He was born in the UK. He's in his 60's. His parents were both born in the UK. "African American"????

well maybe he knew that. he said Iphone get cheaper and wined about the Samsung price, so maybe he hopped Iphone as "US product" could benefit that Samsung is out(or so). Of course he messed everything possible up with that idea.

@@rzwerg8085 Did you get your education in the USA? So many spelling errors in that paragraph.

@@thefiestaguy8831 who cares? at least he can communicate in more than his mother language. That is more than the average person from the USA are able to speak. So by your logic of your bs comment he is now smarter then them?

Americans dont like pigeons. Hey even put tariffs on them .

@61tomtomtom
🤣🤣

I remember the aussie airport show we had over here(uk), where kids and teachers would miss flights because of soil in shoe treads

soy + other seed oils have entered the comment section. you guys have a bunch of stuff that is cooking you too, just not as bad and as much as USA.. they are sneaking Soy into everything and i find it a bit suspicious

@@maxsmum3561 the only US produce that can be consistently found in Aussie supermarkets is the Californian navel oranges we get every winter. They should be appearing right about now.

As it should be. Greetings from EU.

@@shinerlight7094 Most of the walnuts in our Aussie supermarkets are from California.

Not for very long, I'd say end of the century is stretching it very thin. 50 years maybe?

On the plus side, they have a low life expectancy when compared to other first world countries

They also have 25% of the world's prisoner population in their prisons.

Well sound like they rely a lot on imports! Gonna get hard with those tariffs

The per capita (USA citizen) federal debt is more than that. Called "united" it is a federation of member states and state level debts are minor, but must be added to the per capita debt calculation too. Years ago, I added official debt and obligation numbers from state and federation in order to see how much that would be for a mum/dad-and-five-kids wold be. These lived off their farm where they were "homesteading", living in a barn converted into a house.
At that time, the debt for these 7 was already over 1 million USD. As Obama had a majority in the house but minority in the Senate, he had difficulties spending federal money. And federal debt declined during his watch. Trump ran that up again.
Note that USAnians don't want to pay taxes and member states live by that ideology. But when they need something in their state to be fixed, they run to DC. The president - not very powerful but CEO of central/shared services - has no money because what he has is spent on DoD, FBI, CIA, NSA, and more of that. A bit on education too. Well, that pres is also boss of the central bank and so they run the dollar printer and play Santa Claus. The money is borrowed from future generations.
For your analysis, I would add that each USAnian that went through some university, likely has a debt between 100K and 200K. They may also have 100K credit card debt per capita. Somewhere in there there will be a house and car, probably with loans too.
I don't think that is sustainable already since long time ago.
There is something for it though. In these times of blaming China, let's look at how they roll. They have forbidden the export of their currency. They also set the exchange rate artificially as there is no trade in the currency. Decades ago they set it very low. And it still is.
The impact in China? Exports are cheap. Imports are expensive. Local-local trade is relatively painless. No tariffs. No sweat. Strategically, it worked in their favour. Loads of Western companies have moved parts of their business there.
While US presidents have been borrowing money and ran the dollar printer, this made the dollar drop in value. The impact in the USA? Exports became cheaper. Imports became more expensive. Local-local trade was relatively painless. And, as China may have lent the most to the USA, with the drop of dollar value, your debt to China reduces in value. Thus reducing the pain for future generations. The Biden administration may have added a lot to the federal debt, but it helped the economy that is based on actual dollars going through the mill of the circulation.
The US$ is overrated, still, relative to the state of the US economy. Tariffs will not help. BTW, the UK£ is even more overrated. In international macro-economic models.

Yeah... as a Norwegian, I won't really say our country is poor either.

Americans don't owe anything in national debt, in fact large part of US national debt is to Americans.

Apparently, here in OZ, we all owe $25,000... well, I don't know who's running up debt in my name, because I sure as hell don't owe that much to anyone...so, stop it whoever you are😂

Real English.

In Australia, pissed is normal, angry is not being pissed...

@@TwinStripe Nice!

English is my second language and even I use "pissed off" as angry

pissed is drunk, pissed is angry. its interchangeable

My experience with US folk has been anything but the same.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
Arrogant, pompous, loud, rude, demanding and obnoxious, acting like they are so entitled and they are "something really special", so much more special and intelligent than anyone else because they are a CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SO RESPECT ME GODDAMNIT!
I can't stand them frankly, good riddance to them, and I wouldn't give a flying fig if I went the rest of my life not having met another.
The French are considered by MANY people, the rudest people in Europe.... well hear this. The Americans, are so rude, that even the French consider them rude!

In return we will sell European alcohol to US American 16 year olds.

Of course! And allowed to lobby for monopoly like they did in the U.S. Live long private equity! - that sort of sh!te.

Google and Microsoft already destroyed our anti-trust system, the US could do more if our leaders let them. And right wingers always let them.

Or just start producing food /cars that are suitable for export . Now there's a wild idea.

@@YaxKukMo1426 that does not make sense, US cars are great why europeans cant just drive F150 or 350 like every american does?

Came to put exactly the same comment 😊 Highlighted yours.

When you're a king you must know these things!

Maybe it went over his head like a swallow in flight. Maybe he knew, we can't tell.

There are a lot of kids and young adults now who can't tell time with an analog clock or watch. That's something my generation learned when we were about 5. Possibly earlier (earlier for me; I remember being 4 and my mother teaching me to tell time so I wouldn't miss my favorite TV shows).

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we get to travel the world 🌎 ❤

LOL sure, you don't even have free speech, cant own firearms, total cucks

yea we buy a litre of milk and call it 2 pints, order a quarter of ham get 125gms buy a fencepost "can i have a 2meter length of 2inch by 2inch" and if you want to swing from a lampost like Mussolini, try and ban pubs from selling a pint of beer.

Looks like you suffer from the lasting impression done by the US army staying till 1945...
The mix protects you from them and Germans at the same time...

@@philiprice7875 and I’m still partial to the occasional 1/4 of sherbet from sweet shops

But hey, it works !!

It is bonkers but we do know that there's a metric and an imperial system and do at least try to use them.

Genius comment! I'm stealing that!!

DESTRUCTION 100

exactly

Nowhere else are so many *beebs* and mouth censoring than in US tv shows.. growing up with MTV and just hearing *beep beep beeeeep beep* just like morse code 😂

@@simonkopp9238 Well, at least they get a "WARNING: This video/song deals with sensitive issues, including [...] viewer discretion is strongly advised." < but, yeah, ... it still gets beebed and censored! XD

They aren't even allowed to buy a Kinder egg incase they accidentally swallow the MASSIVE plastic egg in the middle with a toy in it.

@@belladonnichazeyjane4887 I know! But there is a restricion in Europe as well for Kinder eggs: you must be at least 3 years old - otherwise it might (!) be dangerous!
So if I would be mean, which I AM NOT, ... I guess a 3 year old european kid might be smarter than most americans! *hahaha

I have a stick that's a yard, I use it all the time.

And we order 2 meters of 4 by 2 (inches)
And 10mm thick 6 by 4 (feet)

@@Captain101-x1o Haha, correct. Lumber.
Water and sewage pipes also uses inches.

Shush. Americans gonna go extinct if they ever find out their units are actually French

For a touch of accuracy, I'dd suggest adding a "legally" when speaking about the definition of US customary units :
"the LEGAL definition of one inch is 2.54cm"
As opposed to the casual definition, being the size of that thumb part, which size universally varies form human to human
If you get in a discussion about the "superiority" of a unit system, you can always ask "When was the last time you got to a court for a conflict about the size of something you bought/sold ?"
to which the answer shall unsurprisingly be "never", in which case you can educate your audience asking "why, it used to be such a common case of judiciary process".
If they can't answer, you do it for them "because you stopped using body parts to measure stuff, and switched to metric system instead, even if you go to the hassle to hide it beneath a conversion coefficient"

There are only three left: Myanmar, Liberia and the US
The first two use metric for the daily stuff.

@@JimCareyMulligan and to count their money

Add UK to that list of not fully metric.

unless it's square or cube, in which case you jump hundreds and thousands. Also when dealing with volume, it's important to know that 1 decimeter cube = 1 litre.

​@@m0t0b33I mean for surfaces and volumes it's litteraly in the name of the unit so it's not exactly hard to know/remember either.
Surface? Squared meters. m2. So 10*10 (sorry I can't do power symbols on my phone).
Volume? m3. So 10*10*10.
Frankly to entire concept is so straightforward that I'm always surprised when I hear americans say it's "too complicated" yet they don't mind the imperial system. 😂

It’s adults. We’re cooked. I have had several conversations very similar to these.

Yes we do. But we're fixing it by eliminating our Dept of Education.

@@bruceullman4769 just like you ban books in the name of free speech. It's actually quite mindboggling what is happening in the US. It will take decades to get the trust back between yesterdays allies, todays enemies... You know, Europe. I know not every american is a fascist, but enough of you are to win an election with a fascist, rapist, conman and criminal. I don't think I will ever trust you americans again in my lifetime...

​@@bruceullman4769fixing the warning by removing the bell!

It's definitely adults!
American teenagers are generally more open minded.

To channel your inner Finn, you just stay quiet and play the video😅

​@@RaccoonLex 😂

@@RaccoonLex .and at least keep a thirty meter distance from any other viewer...😉

@@chrisf.685Cringe. Le autistic social awkwardness is a very new thing in Finland, post-50s pretty much. Finnic peoples have culturally been very jovial for 99% of our history.

except hes clearly a trump supporter, thats why he wont talk about politics and a video last week he said people were ridiculous for saying america is europes enemy now, he also tries to both sides everything when one side is clearly much worse. Its the classic 'im a centrist, im not political' while theyre secretly trump supporters and brainwashed by the maga cult like a lot of americans today. If this guy wasnt a trump fan he would speak out against the henious actions his country is taking, selling out their allies, refusing to support ukraine etc.

This 🤌👌

Trump Derangement Syndrome has entered the chat 🤣🤣
Denmark are literally helping to fund a proxy war in Ukraine. How many thousands of people have needlessly died there?

@@MattyEnglandAnd all of them are on Russia. Shouldn’t have invaded, maybe they’ll learn something this time around

@NameName-ll2yx If you're going to run a NATO shill/bot account, at lease use a believable name. 🙄 Embarrassing

We don't have a dream in NZ because we're awake!

​@@nem447Al Murray 😂

Great marketing, terrible product.

Nah, it's a dream alright. Never happens while you're awake.
Probably why the US right hates woke so much, they'd have to deal with the reality of it being bogus.

My neighbour is American and spends his winters here in NewZealand.
He's genuinely worried about going back this time. ☹

I drove Ford Escort vans for years, as did many others, so they discontinued them.

@@rosemarielee7775 Ford Escort is a legendary car. We often loaded 500+ kg of produce from our summer cottage into the trunk and back seats. And this Ford served us for more than 10 years, and repairs cost pennies. If you load 500+ kg of produce into a modern Ford Focus Sedan, it will simply be unusable in 2 years. And the repairs will be commensurate with the repairs of the airliner

My dad had one, the things we put in are umbelivebale. The poor thing lasted 20 years of abuse.

Ford has manufactured cars suitable for the European market in Europe since the 1920s and still do so

@@lucabaroni7715
Previously, Ford made reliable cars and Europeans bought them, but now they last 2-3 years longer than Chinese ones. It's strange why Europeans stopped buying them?

I loved my Mondeo.

@@Mithra-ac Yeah I loved ours too. It was built on the Ford EUCD platform, literally designed for the European market. The pre-cursor to the EUCD platform was Volvo's P2 platform, which is one of the reasons why Ford bought Volvo in the first place, they wanted a nice platform to expand their European-focused cars. That later became the Ford EUCD / Volvo P3-platform.

Fiesta was the bestselling car in my country for decades. I grew up with it, every iteration. They were everywhere. Ford dealerships couldn't stock them fast enough. Other EU brands were of course also popular but Fiestas seemed like a disproportunate majority - because they fit exactly what we wanted in a car. Then Ford decided to stop producing it. "Why aren't you buying our cars?" Well, we did but now you sell only cars that we don't want. Nobody is gonna buy a giant truck or SUV for their family, work or beater car. Now Dacia Sandero took that role, Ford literally scammed themselves out of the market.

@ Exactly!

@@tusux2949German here. We have a big Ford factory in Cologne, which now is deeply in trouble.
They switched the production to a big and expensive electric SUV. Which no one buys. They have an enormous number of it in stock.

Some day weapon manufactures in the US will start to sell gun subscriptions instead of guns.

if you actually read the federalist papers too which most americans havent you can see them rationalize and explain things like weapon ownership they were basically just copying the swiss malitia system. It had nothing to do with personal ownership really. 2nd amendment if you read it in full mentions nothing about owning weapons. Americans are just full of shit in every capacity

This exact point has been historically argued and the history of it is legitimately pretty interesting, look it up on the Constitution Annotated site (constitution.congress.gov). Until 2003 there were a BUNCH of regulations about individual ownership in District of Columbia, including a pretty significant one that required owners to keep registered firearms unloaded and either disassembled or suitably-secured (trigger lock, gun safe, lockbox, etc.); the Supreme Court eventually held 5-4 that the Second Amendment provides an individual right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes, and therefore found D.C.'s hitherto firearms regulation laws to be unconstitutional. This decision involved a statement that the prefatory clause ("A well regulated Militia") 'does not limit... the scope of the operative clause' ("the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"), using a foundationalist argument (that the phrase 'keep arms' does not have its literal meaning but is to be understood as meaning something else in the context in which it was written) to justify what the Supreme Court called a 'widely understood' codification of a pre-existing individual right to keep and bear arms.
The Court also concluded (again, 5-4, just remember that) that 'well-regulated militia' here does not mean a well-regulated (by state or federal government) military force or even a volunteer-reserve unit (which historically would have been the majority of a township or state's military power), but instead means 'all able-bodied men who are capable of acting in concert for the common defense', and argued that security of a 'free state' does not mean individual states but rather the nation as a whole. They also made the argument that the historical context was that "tyrants had eliminated a militia consisting of all the able-bodied men... by taking away the people's arms", which is something that should sound familiar to you if you've ever heard NRA propaganda.

As a beginner sewist, any sewing content from the US is confusing.. with yards and inches, 5/8 thing, and few others. Too much calculations are spent in the vid. However, even a content from India, Japan or Korea, I have no problem understanding how things are done and measured even if they don’t speak English. You just watch and understand, they make the process simpler when all measurements are added up mentally and you don’t have to keep track, and also can mentally subtract whatever fabric left.

@@katechiconi ever watched an NFL game?

@@roughrosa the inches! I "love"the: "I make allowance of about 1/6 of an inch." I freaking use centimeter. Not about, not close to: a centimeter. Easy. 1/8 of an inch... Cheesus Crisp.

@@shinerlight7094 that, too.

@@marikothecheetah9342 hahaha.. I understand the pain.

Sounds like the UK.

@@vladd6787 at least our cars and speed limits are metric.

Same in NZ.

Reminds me of the AC/DC song "Whole lotta Rosie" LOL. 42-39-56 and 19 stones, that was a big girl. According to Angus Young, Bon Scott was totally crazy about two Tasmanian fans who used to show up at the AC/DC gig, and the song is about one of them. It's said to be a girl called Rosemaree Garcia from Tasmania.

Now if they could drink AND carry a gun!
They seem to shoot each other a lot anyway... 😂

There are states in the US where you can order your drivers license online....

​@@xraison44 I thought you had to at least steer the thing around the block, while "blowing the horn".

lol

Before they discovered the use of fire, nights were soooo boring here in Europe

And those darn aliens would constantly try invade us! America is saving the world 🌎

@sarahfoster6765 Bwahahaha - best comment ever! LMAO 😂😂😂 greetings from Germany, you really made my day!

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The UK is the epitome of using both systems.
Fuel is sold in litres, but the roads are measured in miles. Everyone knows that cars that do higher miles per gallon are more fuel efficient than those with lower miles per gallon, but very few people would know that when measured in litres per 100km, lower is better.
Everyone knows how tall they are in feet and inches, but few people would know how tall they are in metres. Yet all engineering measurements are metres and millimetres.
Beer is sold in pints when sold on draught in pubs, but is sold in millilitres when sold on bottles or cans. Milk is sold in both!
I could go on!

Imperial is still used a lot in day to day life in the UK.
Driving, for example.

some imperial measurments are incorperated in the iso-din system.
That resulted in some hybrid industry standards we still use today.
F.e. the diameter of cartires are still in inches the height of the cheaks and width of the surface is measured in milimeter.
Also industrial piping diameters are in inches and the thread rolled/cut onto them is BSP (british standard piping) the lenght of the pipe is in meters.

Most Canadians are functionally bilingual in metric/imperial. We think in a mix of them, plus we add an element of time. For instance, I live in a mid-size city, and the nearest large city is 90 minutes south. I am no longer able to understand any temperature scale but Celsius, nor can I visualize an ounce of anything (drives me nuts when people talk about ounces of liquid; tell me the number of mL and it makes sense). But I measure height in feet and inches and think of Earth as being 93 million miles from the Sun (average, of course). I measure food and beverages using metric, but myself with imperial.

@@Shan_Dalamani Yes, the sun is 93 million miles away and travelling at 300 million metres per second the light takes... aaargh! I'll google it.

Thank you for explaining that! I learned something today.

The calorie is not part of the metric system. The Joule is.

And the flaw is anything to do with fractions.
i love the SI system. (“Metric” is what clueless people call SI or decimalization or whatever.) But decimal fractions are a pain.

@@Reality_TM Hansard debates on metric over the centuries suggest metric is inferior because it can use fractional units - i.e. those using fractions of an inch rather than specifying both inches and thou are using Imperial incorrectly.

@@Reality_TM What do you mean by decimal fractions? All fractions are a pain, that's why some people thought that a 1/4 pounder was bigger than a 1/3 pounder.

It's not just how prevalent it is, it's how over confident and obnoxious they are with it.

I tend to use both for measuring distance/length depending on the actual length. For longer distances, I’d use miles and yards and inches, but for precise measurements I tend to use mm.

And then there was the famous Mars climate orbiter: "The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, and it was destroyed in the atmosphere. An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two measurement systems: SI units (metric) by NASA and US customary units by spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin."

One of our Canadian measurements is the hockey stick. During the pandemic, the premier of my province explained social distancing this way: "It's the length of one hockey stick (not a goalie stick as those are shorter, but a regular one), or two calves, or one adult cow."
These are measurements he thought all Albertans could relate to. He even had cute little pictures to illustrate the concept.

@@Shan_Dalamani In northern Sweden social distancing was described as keeping “a small moose” between two people.

@@Cascadeis We have moose here as well, but most people either never encounter one, or only want to at a distance. They're dangerous to approach and they can completely wreck a vehicle if you run into one.
The voters he was trying to explain this to are mostly farmers and hockey fans. I'm neither, but have watched enough hockey that I knew what length he was referring to.
Alternatively, when the Chief Medical Officer gave us the actual measurements, I figured, okay, fine. She used plain old metric. A lot of the rural people here, though, still hate metric after 50 years and don't like to use it unless they have to.

I think the dream is over.
The desire still exists, but corporations have found a way to block this path, so that hardly anyone can fulfill the dream anymore.
In my opinion, education, the healthcare system, consumerism, work, etc., are pushing the average American into a corner. By the time they've paid off their healthcare and school debts, they're worn out by work, and the dream only exists in their thoughts, which seems to be the motivation to keep going, because hope dies last.
I don't want to say too much about it, though, because it's a distinct culture in which every American grew up.
I'm just glad that there are people like Ian who question things and educate themselves, think outside the box to see what else is out there, and don't just follow in one direction like lemmings without thinking.
Thank you Ian @iwrocker for this channel and for being who you are. You and your family are simply wonderful people who have a keen eye for the world and a healthy curiosity to learn about everything there is outside of the USA.
Keep it up, stay curious.

Wait, what? How... Why.... Okay, I need to reread dictionary to find words, because they all failed me.

You are damn right… Or is it perhaps “The american Nightmare”???

I was riding my ebike in mudgee (Australia) yesterday and had a fall in a park. Instantly half a dozen people came to help me, four cars pulled up, a lady put a pillow under my head, a man took my bike to a nearby house for safe keeping and someone else called an ambulance. I was treated by the ambos then taken to the local hospital and admitted. I was checked by Doctors, x rayed, blood tested, medicated and fed. (Lunch). I was given the all clear and released. They called a cab for me. I was only there 4 hours but received fabulous treatment. How much did it cost me? Zip, nada, zilch. All I had to do was show them my Medicare card. Boy I wish I lived in America, land of the free, and the brave. How much would this treatment cost me there?

Like the European Wine Flagon being used for the US Gallon.

The US gallon is the British wine gallon, whereas the UK used the ale gallon which was larger. The US ton is a made up unit, 2000lb, smaller than the tonne (1000kg) or the British ton which is slightly larger than the tonne (about 1016kg.)
It has been suggested that in the early days of the US, merchants invented the American ton and used the wine gallon to defraud people buying imports.

@@EbenBransome Sounds American to me, they're still pretty much con-artists.

Until a couple of years ago they were also using two definitions of Imperial distance measures. Look up what the "US survey foot" used to be called.

Ford Ranger was the top selling vehicle in Australia in 2024. Neck and neck with the Toyota Hi Lux.
Understand ours are made entirely in Thailand now. No Eu preference taxes you may have in Ireland.

The Daewoos badged as Holdens in Australia were a big part of Holden being closed down as a brand after dominating Australian sales from 1950 to 2005.

It probably isn't. I would guess it's pretty much same in other big countries like in Russia, China, India etc.

I work with environmental and climate problems. It is said to say but in my opinion we are past the point of no return. Goverments should switch their focus on meassures that would help keeping water and food in the country because as of right now it looks like Europe will look like a savannah in the next 100-200 years. The US will not do much better neither or any country below the artic cirlce on the northern hemishpere. If governments and citizens don't give up mindless consumerism and greed for money in the next 500 years we will be like Mad Max.

@ruan21101 that's sad reality.

Humans haven't yet evolved to work together for the benefit of all. The cetaceans and celaphopods are shaking their heads in disbelief.

They don’t care