7 Myths British People Believe About America - Part 3
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Here are seven more myths some British people believe about the United States of America.
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I love the thought of Brits watching American movies, believing the stereotypes that Americans are all incredibly affluent, while also being extremely skeptical of school buses actually being yellow.
It’s common sense that they are that stupid to believe everything.. and they call us stupid 🤣🤦♂️
Yeah, seems like school bus yellow should be the easier to believe.
What color are British school buses? Do they have school buses? Are they called something different?
@@sneedmando186 Most countries do not have a "school bus" system. I don't even think Canada does!
@@daffers2345 is everywhere like Japan? Do they walk or bike?
The funny thing about the beach myth is that most British people probably live closer to the ocean than most Americans do, considering there's nowhere you can stand on the island of Britain that's more than 70 miles away from the ocean.
Yup! I told. British friend that I'd only seen the ocean a few times and they were shocked. The nearest ocean is 900 miles away!
I grew up in the mountains in the middle of the U.S. I was 10 before I saw an ocean or a city for that matter and the only reason then was I was able to get out of school for my uncles wedding who lived in Californa. I knew snow and pine trees. The nearest ocean was 1,100 miles away. I was more impressed by multiple story buildings that I was over the ocean.
it's almost like Britain is an island country with surprisingly mild weather or something 😁
But aren't their beaches all gray and drizzly? That's all I've seen in British movies.
Exactly. I grew up about 20 miles from the coast, so the ocean was a normal thing for me. In my 20s I worked at a summer camp (yes, they're real). We took a trip to Boston, and I got to see a woman in her 20's from Ohio see the ocean for the first time.
"That's why I have to endure four tornado warnings every year." As someone from Oklahoma let me play you the world's tiniest violin.
That's a week for y'all
@@kathywiseley4382 Come late may it's a slow week too.
@@bentoth9555 Yeah, but as another lifelong someone from Oklahoma, I'll suggest that you *know* that one week is in May.
Kansan here, my first thought was “pssh, only 4?! Hold my beer.”
For real, i'm only a few hours from Lawrence in Ohio and my first thought was "only 4?" Thats pretty good for the midwest.
My Irish boyfriend’s parents believed that I was rich and hobnobbed with celebrities because I was from California. It ended up breaking up our relationship.
Funny thing was they had a cattle farm and said I’d never be able to handle farm life…but I own a farm twice as big as their’s.
Oof
To be fair, they likely didn't know that farms could be more than an acre or 3.
@@LegendStormcrow 😅
@@LegendStormcrow they probably didn't even think that farms existed in california
@@LegendStormcrow Florida obviously
The version of "all Americans are rich" that I've encountered was from a New Zealand woman I worked with who criticized Americans for not doing more international travel. She didn't seem to comprehend that a large percentage of the US population can't afford international travel beyond maybe a trip to one of the popular Mexican resorts on an all-inclusive package, and even then they have to either save for it for a long time or go into debt to take the trip.
That and "Can't you drive to Mexico or Canada or Alaska for a day trip"? Yah, if I had a couple thousand dollars for gas, three or 4 weeks for time off. A fully outfitted expedition plus $100,000 for an outfitted 4x4 for overland to see Alaska on the Alcan Hwy.
remember, americans can travel greater distances than most foreigners and STILL be in their own country!
@@davidkermes376 It takes what, 12 hours to drive across Texas? 16?
Most Americans barely travel out of their part of their city, let alone entirely different countries.
@@thedapperdolphin1590 I wouldn't go that far. The average American has been to 12-24 states.
The "Florida Man" thing is a result of Florida having different rules or laws regarding the publishing of crimes. I can't remember exactly why, but they make ridiculous happenings in Florida easier to "get to press".
Yeah, basically Florida allows the media to report on things that are purely speculative. Most other states don't.
The media can obtain police reports for any arrest in Florida easier than other states. Any slow news day can be filled with whatever looks interesting in the reports. This has evolved into some outlets just reporting the crazy sounding stuff.
I mean how else would we hear about the guy who was sober when he bought alcohol, then returned later drunk carrying an alligator for more alcohol for him and his new friend?
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 or the lady who was arrested for driving her scooter around the parking lot of a Home Depot while drinking beer?
Unfortunately I can't make it this year but I'm happy to spend next winter in Florida to experience the crazy...and get away from the Midwest cold.
@@toddtaylor6506 All states' media report on speculative things.
I considered myself "upper middle-class" growing up because we were able to afford to live within our means and if an emergency happened "can we afford to fix it" wasn't the primary concern (I've since learned what a luxury this was). Then in college I visited a friend's house for Thanksgiving where I learned that "upper middle-class" for her meant a large house in the Bay Area of California and very conspicuous consumption. We can't even agree what counts as Rich within the same country.
Rich is anyone with the newest console on launch day. To me as a kid, anyway. Always have to wait a few years or just never get it, still great and a luxury having anything though, even a snes would be perfect current year.
Class is not about money.
I grew up in Marin, one of the richest counties in California and I had all my needs met, but was one of the poorest of my friends, so even being wealthy compared to the rest of the country I still felt lower-middle class. It's all about what you're exposed to and what's around you.
Rich was defined once as those that make $20,000-50,000 more a year than you.
Since, like almost all Americans, I spent many hours on field trips, trips to athletic games and the like on yellow school busses I find incredible that the English think they're a myth. I never doubted red double decker buses in London before my first visit when I rode on them myself. Very strange considering what the Brits do believe about America. Never ask me about my guns!
Most Brits, do not think this. It's mainly Laurence with his out of date opinions.
I went to school in the 70’s, and due to the gas crisis all field trips were banned. Bummer.
@@Thurgosh_OG You say it like he thinks these things maliciously 😂 And he's very open about his opinions arriving from the media he grew up with, meaning those his age also will likely think the same things. He's only in his 40's, so that's a large amount of the population that was subjected to the outdated sterotypes of America.
They don't. What Laurence claims is a common British misconception is nothing of the sort. Don't take everything he says as accurate.
What about YOUR guns then?
News Flash: Not all of the coast is like California, either. In fact, the upper half of the west coast has some of the dreariest weather in the country.
Also do not expect a warm swim in the ocean anywhere north of Monterey.
Rain and rocks
Foulweather Bluff. Cape Disappointment. Point No Point. Useless Bay. The Europeans who first explored the Northwest must have been having some really bad days.
Yes, all dreary, stay far, far away!
The water isn't warm and the weather can be shit, but the Oregon coast is absolutely beautiful to look at.
I worked with a guy from Mexico who once asked a few of us what group we were in during college. Nerds, jocks, what? His understanding of U.S. college culture was based on Revenge of the Nerds.
Then there's the" Animal House " college life experience too ! 😂😂😂
There's also the song "High School Never Ends", by Bowling for Soup, which also outlines these cliche groups, lol. And, actually, throw a stone at any movie aimed at teenagers, especially from Disney, and you will STILL get that same breakdown of students.
Um… college campus ministry? When I was a student, I wasn’t part of any of those groups, lol - the people I hung out with were friends I knew from church.
We were all young once. It's little things like this that remind me it's not just me :D
As a Floridian, I can assure you all we are indeed professionally trained in acts of spontaneous insanity. The near constant heat and humidity for 3.5 seasons of the year are excellent teachers.
Us Minnesotans are worse, it's cold here so we spend a lot of time inside. Ergo we have a lot of time to carefully plan our insane acts
As a Arizonan we practically live on a star, once it went up to 3,500f
I bet you're excited for the half a season long Cthulhu season.
😂😂😂😂. As someone who's lived in all those states, your comments crack me up because they're TRUE! 😂😂😂
I have a friend in Yorkshire, England and she gets so excited whenever someone in our group posts a picture with a yellow schoolbus or a red fire hydrant. She was over the moon about a picture of a yellow schoolbus with 2 red fire hydrants on the street. Those of us in the US got a kick out of how thrilled she was.
That’s funny
That’s cute ❤
My English friend wanted to see our street side mailboxes when he visited.
On the flip side, I remember looking for a red phone box to take a photo with on my first trip to London 😂 Only to find that like the rest of the world, with the advent of cell phones call boxes were much less common (and much more disgusting) than they had been previously.
@@FarmgirlFriday According to Tom Scott, some places are starting to replace the phones with defibrillators. I wonder how long before those all get stolen.
I've pointed out to many people in the past that negative stereotypes tend to be exaggerated due to the fact that obnoxious people tend to draw more attention to themselves than the average person. To flip it around, as an American I've only known a few Canadians. Most have been lovely people to meet, but one happened to be extremely arrogant. It's not a coincidence that the arrogant one was by far the most vocal with her opinions, and was also the one and only person out of all of them that was confident that she spoke for all Canadians.
As an American, I've not actually heard much about the negative stereotype of Canadians. By far, the most prevalent Canadian stereotype I've heard is the politeness one.
@@Deneberus they are big smartasses
this videos is b.s..majority of brits don't believe ANY of that ridiculous stu!d sh*t n he shod be ashamed of himself for making ppl think we're that incredibly d*mb when we're not
@@Deneberus I think it's more common the closer you live proximity to the border. For example, in New England states there's multiple common negative stereotypes such as "The Monarchist", the "Pseudo-Progressive", the "Vancouver Pothead" or "Torontans" (why people from Toronto specifically get a bad rep involves alot of history, most prominently including an incident concerning the Boston bombing, but there are other reasons), or the "Egotist". Those are the ones off the top of my head.
I'm 76 years old, and have been going to the cinema for at least 65 years on my own. Not once have I heard an audience clap at the end of a film. And that includes all the Star Wars films.
I’d be interested to see a “people on the street” interview collab with Lawrence here in the US and an American CZcamsr in UK. Many Americans believe English people are all sophisticated, super highly educated, live in Victorian cottages, drive tiny cars, and drink in pubs every night.
You know what really gets me all the time?
How we (including me) feel exactly what you said about how we feel about the British being all sophisticated and proper..
We (Americans) usually think very highly of and love British people..
Yet the British usually hate Americans or tend to insult us... by saying things like Americans are fat lazy stupid loud and arrogant!!!!
That's just not right..
I mean don't they realize how much us Americans love and respect them??
I mean gees..
Messed up part..
I still love and respect the British people...
I think they are cool and awesome..
I absolutely love British accents..
I know there are many different accents from the different regions..
And i love hearing those differences..
I often wonder how those regions are..
And the life styles they live..
It's fascinating...
I wish British people could see that we are cousins and really are family...
And that us Americans want to just be connected and be together as brothers...
Why can't it just be so?
@@orangie8426 Not all British people have such a negative view of Americans. Most of us know that you are people who, like all people, differ. Some people are introverts, some are extrovert, have different interests and hobbies, different levels of wealth, and sadly poverty. All people differ, wherever they are from, and all people are the same because we are people and should be able to embrace our differences. Sending love from across the pond 😊
Those last two are actually very close to the truth. Other than a Rolls-Royce, there were very few large cars made in the UK. There are full-size classic American cars there, but there are many places that you shouldn't attempt to take them. The vast majority of the cars on their streets we would consider large compacts. And the pub culture is quite pervasive. If you want to dine cheaply it's where you go. Pubs are generally much nicer places than a typical American tavern and don't have a seedy reputation. The word pub is short for Public House, after all.
When I was in elementary school, I read a bit written by someone from London who closed by saying that he wanted to clear up the myth that it always rained in London. He said he had lived there for 50 years and had seen the sun twice himself.
Apparently last summer was the exception, where people were getting stuck in the melted pavement
its like 320 out of the like 365 days a year right? I think florida actually gets rain literally everyday. its something like 1 inch of rain per day.
@@tonyravioli1982 Florida is not quite that bad, but all summer long Floridians start heading indoors around 3:30pm every day, even if the sky is clear. Trust me it's about to rain.
British weather depends on where someone lives, the further north or west the cooler or wetter it is. On average London gets less rain than places like the Netherlands or Belgium. Even Paris. And last summer there was practically no rain in London from July to early September. The year before that it was similar.
@@equesdeventusoccasus you can smell when its about to rain if you live here long enough
When my wife and I moved to Bristol for our sabbatical, our kids were asked in their schools about their lives. They said their classmates thought we were super rich because our yard was an acre in size. We live in a small town in Indiana. I grew up in Iowa, and the yards in that small town were, on average are an acre. The best part of finding a school in Bristol was the school we choose loved our kids because having two Americans helped their diversity stats.
I visited a British family for two weeks and they had seen more of my country than I had. They were solid labor middle class. I had adjunct professor parents and had already been homeless once.
Bristol is pretty diverse, isn't it?
There is teeth prejudice in America. Myself and my son have genetically inherited, vulnerable teeth and I was bullied for it. People here sometimes assume that toothless people are drug addicts or hicks. Standard health insurance doesn't cover major teeth issues, so poor people cannot get proper treatment. I was fortunate to have generous family. I have had 4 major treatments on the average of $30,000 per restoration.
Yep. You said it all. Me and 2 of my 4 kids are the same as you.
Yes. Teeth are a class marker.
Same here. But interestingly enough, my DNA is 90% British. Hmmmm.... 🤔
@@kathywiseley4382 lol 😂 I am Scottish descent!
You would have done better having a long holiday in Türkiye and going to a dentist there. I did that and the prices were a fraction of those in the UK. I went with my wife and the dentist gave us a family discount. We both had bridge work done. From memory it was about a fifth of the UK price.
There are medical tourism companies that will arrange everything for you, but they take a big cut themselves, so if you know a Turkish speaker they should be able to get you a better deal.
While driving a school bus in S.F. I was waiting for a child to come out of their apartment a European family just boarded the school bus very adroitly and scared the bejeebus out of me! I was right around the corner from a street car line. I had a hard time convincing them I wasn't public transportation. Language barrier. And yes, my school bus was painted yellow.
Wait, you thought our school buses weren't real?
There was an foreign exchange student at my high school (I think from Australia, but it was an English-speaking country) who also didn't realize yellow school buses were real until she came here.
In most cities, students use the regular public transportation. And there is a lot of public transportation in England and Europe. They fail to realize that the vast majority of the US is rural, and that most of us rode the yellow school bus to school.
@@alphagt62 I still don't know why our yellow school buses don't (or at least they didn't in the 80s and 90s) have seat belts. But that is the same for all buses, so I guess it's not that weird. But what was weird was that sometimes on our school buses there would be just one seat that DID have a seat belt, and the bus driver said you had to wear it if you were sitting in that seat.
One thing that annoyed me in elementary school was when our bus would always stop at the crossing of these abandoned railroad tracks. These tracks had TREES growing in the middle of them and obviously no train was ever going to be coming through there, but I guess legally they had to stop.
@@KasumiKenshirou I agree! Back in the 70’s, there were no seat belts, and the back of the seat in front of you was a steal pipe! Kids got their teeth knocked out all the time in small fender benders. About 1980, they started cushioning the backs of the seats.
@@KasumiKenshirou Professional CDL driver here. Yup, it's required that busses and certain other vehicles stop at all railroad tracks, logic be danged..
I drove a silver car for about ten years and became convinced that people don't see silver cars. The day after I got the car I was rear ended, and I had so many near misses it's pathetic. When I was finally able to get a new car I really wanted a bright canary yellow car so people might be able to SEE it.
I swore off silver cars nearly fifteen years ago. I was thirty at the time, and I had never been hit by another vehicle until I got a silver car. That one got hit three times while stationary inside of five years. One of those incidents put me in the hospital and screwed me up permanently.
I swore I'd never own another "road colored" car and did some research. Turns out that statistics show white cars are hit the least, followed by yellow. Black cars are hit the most.
I've had three cars since the accident that made me buy a cane, all white. I haven't been hit since then either. I never liked the look of white cars before, but they've grown on me : )
yes!! my parents always told us “don’t get a pavement colored car” for that exact reason lol
I had light blue, almost grey car and it seemed like it was invisible to other cars. Swore off cars in colors that might blend in with the highway.
I have a friend who is a trucker. He's told me to stay away from gray, silver, black, or tan cars as the can blend in to roadways. Especially during poor weather or at night and especially to semi drivers looking down at them from above. I didn't listen and got a black SUV. I've been in three fender benders and they were all at night. My next one will be lime or purple, I swear.
@@kathywiseley4382 According to what I read while researching this with insurance statistices, get the lightest color you can find : )
We live in Nebraska. My wife once said that it was like living in the centre ring of a UFC cage match between weather fronts.
School busses are not painted mustard yellow -- they are painted school bus yellow.
Lol, the applause thing. It seems acceptable when it's like opening night of very anticipated films (thinking trilogies), but I can't say I have experienced it otherwise.
I have, but not often. Once in a while an audience Really gets into the movie, and when (never 'if") the Really Bad Guy gets what he deserves, they applaud, and sometimes cheer, as the villain is either blown into a million pieces or is somehow eaten by his own living booby-trap.
This is terrible but I remember seeing Independence Day in a theater & the audience erupting into cheers when the White House was bombed.
@@mister-v-3086 I forgot about that scenario. Very true👍
@@samanthab1923 is it because Bill was in office then😄?
@@vipergtsmre Omg! You’re right! 😂 watching old video of him it’s so obvious what a complete creep & thief he was/is.
Basically the Florida Man phenomenon is because Florida Police are required to release a statement about every arrest they make. So you’re bound to get weird ones at a much higher rate, and think about the prevalence social media and the accessibility of filming and instant reporting because of the camera equipped phones in our hands. It’s also the reason we always see viral clips of Karen Meltdowns and racist encounters. It’s not happening more often, the content is just extremely accessible now.
*Only* 4 tornado warnings a year???? Amateurs... 🤣🤣🤣
Laffs in Michigan
I grew up in a small town in Wyoming, where it is really 100+ miles to the next town, no matter which way you go. I thought all towns in America were 100+ miles apart during my childhood. Interestingly, I have lived my adult life(I'm 80 now), in the Capital city of Montana, and for practical purposes, it's still about 100 miles to the next town.
If you're 80, make sure you don't fall for the in-comments scam-spammer who replied to your comment pretending to be Lawrence. DO NOT engage! :)
William, I love your comment! It’s funny how all of us get these weird misconceptions about other people, either being the same as us or totally different!
I also grew up in Wyoming. I had towns grouped pretty close together but lander was always odd in that way. Nearest Walmart was still 24 miles away and the nearest mall was in Casper which was like 3 hours if I recall correctly.
@@nyarlathotep616 When I grew up in Rawlins, there were no Malls or Walmart in Wyoming. I've been thru Lander a few times. It looked like a nice town to grow up in.
@@williamromine5715 I enjoyed it. Grew up right by the mountains and the sinks and it's rural but not that desolate kind of rural. By Wyoming standards I mean.
Can I say that I am impressed how when you said "Kick Ass", it sounded like an American and not a Brit?
Um, California is NOT all sunny beaches and palm trees. The majority of it is mountains. The Central Valley, which is about a third of the state, has the Coastal Range on one side and the Sierra Nevadas on the other. As for sunny, my parents every September would go to the Coast to celebrate their anniversary by taking romantic walks in the fog.
Personally, I am American and I have absolutely no teeth in my head! I have had 3 three heart attacks and numerous other health issues that lead to me having every tooth pulled about 9 years ago.
The Florida man thing: I’m a Paralegal, one of our former attorneys had the Bar License in Florida. There’s a law there that makes any arrest records a full public record. All the press has to do is call and ask for “weird arrests” and they’ll get their story.
the last time I was this early, Boston Harbor was still tea flavoured
Last time I was this early, the Boston harbor definitely didn’t not taste like tea 😳
As a resident of FL, one of the biggest issues with the "FL MAN" stories not taken into account. Is the fact that FL is a State where people from across the country move to. So, those "FL MEN" just might not be from FL but ANYWHERE. Including the UK
A British “Florida Man”! 😄
As I like to say, Florida was colonized in the late 20th century by tourists who didn't want to leave.
@Pocket Fluff Productions
It's still full of snowbirds who, part-time, it. So depending on the season, FL MAN could be a northerner the rest of the year
It turns out that people all over the WORLD express amazement when they finally see an American Yellow School Bus 💛 IRL.
I wonder, if it's partly because many countries don't need school buses at all, because their population is denser or for whatever reason, students all live walking distance from their school? Even in many big US cities, people are so spread out, that students may live several miles from their school. In the country, maybe 15 or 20 miles away.
I've heard people have the same reaction over those red plastic Solo party cups. Apparently they're also considered iconic.
I talked to a British guy who said that, when he first moved to the US, he couldn't understand why the stupid school bus kept stopping in front of him. He proceeded to *PASS A BUS FROM BEHIND WHILE ITS REDS WERE FLASHING.* I think he said his wife had to tell him about them.
@@daffers2345 Thank GOODNESS he didn't run over a kid! The police give severe penalties for not stopping for a school bus, which in most places is STATE law.
Well people in Mexico and Central America tend not to be surprised, because they've seen them themselves in their own country. A lot of used school buses get sold there (sometimes they're repainted though).
Over the years I had many foreign exchange students in my classroom, and they always told me about those first days of school and how exciting it was to ride the yellow school bus they had seen in the movies for the first time.
I'm from one of the "rust belt" cities in the Northeast. They did once film a movie here. It was a post-apocalyptic setting.
First time I was up in Bethlehem PA I could not believe how big the steel plant was. Blocks & blocks of rusted metal all shut down.
Makes sense
Is it Gary, Indiana? That place looks straight out of Fallout.
@@camthesaxman3387 Nope. Never been there.
Correction: most kids don't get braces, though many do. Something like one in three American children will get braces at some point in their life, wearing them about 16-18 months in most cases, sometimes longer. From what I can tell, the figure is similar in the U.K. Some procedures like teeth whitening are more common in the U.S. than in the U.K., however.
this videos is b.s..majority of brits don't believe ANY of that ridiculous stu!d sh*t n he shod be ashamed of himself for making ppl think we're that incredibly d*mb when we're not
This yellow school bus thing is so damn funny to me. Like, why *wouldn't* that be reality? Yes, our school buses are always yellow because it's the easiest color for most humans to see in daylight. It's totally a safety thing. We take our school buses SERIOUSLY.
As an American...I do love the red double-decker buses of London---but aren't they ONLY in London? The American Yellow-Orangish buses are Nationwide. They are Everywhere; so who wins? My youngest son left for London two days ago, and he is currently wandering around the city eating strange Pub food and meeting strange UK people. I sure hope he returns as planned and doesn't stay there FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.
We get double-deckers all over Britain, and we do get some of the red ones outside London, but we also get local liveries on them, too.
When I first moved to San Antonio, TX in 1985 and bought a Season Ticket to the Symphony, we could catch a bus in the suburbs which would drop us off at the concert hall. What made it special? It was a red double decker bus from London.
There are double decker buses in NYC, but they are just tour buses
Back in the late 80’s when I owned a B&B in Ohio, we had a long-term guest from England stay with us on business. Then his fiancée Clare joined him, and they became one of our favorite guests. When it was time for them to go home, I wracked my brain over a gift I could give them to remember their time in America. I ended up giving them a ceramic yellow school bus cookie jar. Until I saw this video, I had no idea it was, indeed, uniquely American! I wonder if they still have it 🤔
Having lived in Florida for the past 68 year I can say. emphatically, that Florida Man is real. Keep up the good work!
Ooh it's Laurence! 😊 I want that shirt!
Me too!
I LOVE that shirt!
The only time I applauded at the movies, was when I attended the Live version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show while the actors did their thing as the same time the picture itself was playing behind them. And yes we dressed up in costume, with a newspaper, some hotdogs, a squirter bottle of water, a deck of cards, some toast...(you'll have to attend a live show to understand why you have all those things)!
I'm surprised it took me so long to get into the RHPS. It's about a bunch of weirdos with British accents making a bunch of uptight Ohioans uncomfortable -- that was my LIFE for 24 years! 🤣
I've only experienced the clapping with major franchises like Marvel or something, and even then it was only specific Marvel movies, particularly Infinity War and Endgame.
I think I applauded once in the hundreds of movies I've seen in a theater. Not totally sure though.
@@misstranle I’ve seen people applaud. I don’t watch Marvel movies and have never seen the ones you mentioned. I usually see it when some long suffering and victimized character finally stands up for him/herself or is finally redeemed or victorious at the end. A lot of sports movies have these storylines.
I always had my sparkly top hat and tap shoes... I went as Columbia! Even though my name is Janet...
I read a story of family that dad's job got transferred from southern California to Sheboygan Wisconsin. Everyone warns how terrible it was going to be, weather wise. The Wife replied to old friends back in California how great it was living in Wisconsin! Every morning she was waking up to a different world! She greatly enjoyed the changing seasons! I agree as the short time I spend in greater LA, everything, all the plants, trees, grass, looked like 5 year old plastic plants. All faded & dust covered. The same look day after day!
I have heard the same thing about hawaii. But I think I could stand with a few years of boring sunshine and warm temperatures after having lived in the Midwest for 30 years and the East Coast for another 24
I am California born and bred and lived in the East Coast and Midwest for nine years as an adult. After year four I came to the realization that the changing of the seasons is highly overrated, and seasonal affective disorder is very real.
So give me that boring perpetual sunshine and the NOT faded greenery over the nine months of bad weather and three of mosquitoes and humidity of the Midwest and Northeast.
As an LA native in my 60's with grandparents born here I request you leave immediately and return to whence you came. We have enough problems with you foreigners screwing things up for us. Like the Maryland grifters in the Pelosi-Newsom clan. Most of our truely malignant inhabitants are either East Coast immigrants or their children. Outside of them we're more like Texas.
I've been to Hawaii as well & while the weather doesn't change, on the island of Maui has 8 different climate zones. I even drove on ice covered roads!
@@shells500tutubo Native Angeleno here, I couldn't agree more!
Fun fact; not everything is standard everywhere.
As an example most fire trucks are red here in the USA, but there are exceptions like Arizona, where they are fluorescent yellow.
I am not sure why, probably something to do with the desert landscape is my guess.
Also many of us are interested in news from abroad, and always have been.
Remember when all the cop cars were white & black? Then blue & now black SUVs.
In my small county, some of the volunteer fire companies have red trucks, a couple have yellow and at least one has white. I have no idea why.
Most of the fire fighting equipment here in Oklahoma that I now see are painted white. We don't have much snow here.
@@essaboselin5252 oh interesting, there must be some method to it. East or west coast? Midwest? South?
@@garyschwab8802 oh that’s cool, you’re the second one to say white fire trucks. Maybe it’s because of lack of snow. Is your grass green or brown in OK?
Shetland is bingeworthy!!!
I visited a company in Horsham England, and people seemed excited to tell me they had visited the US. Almost exclusively in Florida. However, one engineer was very proud to point out he knew of many other locations. In particular, ski resorts in Colorado.
That's why the Publix Grocery stores in Florida have a British foods section. Dammit, I have to mail order everything ($$$)
Alot of I'd!ots like america coz of movies and media..most of us with brains or that have been or net Americans desp!se most of yall
As I understand it, the Sunshine Law allows people to look up just about anything a person was arrested for (as well as a number of other things) and that makes it easy to find the ridiculous stories. XD
In my experience, yellow school buses (which are *not* mustard colored) are probably the one thing that links every public school in the US. I've seen them from Connecticut to Hawai'i and lots of places in between. I always enjoy identifying the "bus barns" when flying. All those school buses parked together are very distinctive (even with the trend of them having white painted tops now).
"America is all palm trees and beaches." In a similar vein, there is the stereotype about what Texas looks like. Yes, a good chunk of it looks like you think it looks but I also live in the Piney Woods and, I looked up the numbers, in terms of area, it is about half the size of the British Isles.
You're not too far (relatively speaking) from the Great Lakes, they've got beaches! ;) But probably not the kind you crave. XD
While living in Scotland in the 90's I ended up in hospital & as soon as I was settled into the men's ward the first question I was asked was How many guns do I own . They were surprised that I didn't own any & that the only gun I ever shot was while I was in the army.
Scotsman here. I can understand the question, when there are more guns than people there and so many feel the need to have a gun, 'just in case', like it's an insurance policy.
@@Thurgosh_OG I always wonder how true that statistic is. In my 45 years I've only known 3 people who have guns, and none of them have more than one. I don't own one, never shot one, and have no desire to own one. I'm pretty sure they are counting law officers, and collectors/vendors. And the anti government guy who feels he needs 10+ to defend his right to have one. Some times I think they are counting guns in stores, just to do it up big or prove a point.
@@SomethingBeautifulHandcrafts that seems so weird to me. I can’t think of anyone (right now) that doesn’t own at least one gun. I have 4 and want more. It must be where we live
@@SomethingBeautifulHandcrafts some of us are hobbyists. I have a bunch, most different, that serve different purposes. Some are just decorative (though functional.)
It's like golf. Putting a projectile into a small target is satisfying, even if it serves no other purpose.
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Alot of people are just shielding you, or are flat out lying to you.
They may be hiding the fact that they own guns from you because they know you don't like guns, and don't want you to hold that against them. Alternatively they're not supposed to own guns, because muh gun control city laws, and don't want to put you in a position of having to testify against them.
Hope this doesn't burst your bubble.
One reason Americans think it's always raining in Britain is that even when it's not raining, it looks like it will any minute😁. Not to mention that the streets and ground always seem to be wet. And there's the *always carrying an Umbrella* thing. So there's that.😂 PS: I LOVE Britbox (available via Amazon Prime video), been watching it for years. So much that I'm addicted to Brit TV Programs, like 'Shetland' & the Police Drama, 'The Bill' (one of the longest-running British series, 35 (36?) Seasons (I try to watch 3-4 episodes each evening)
Cultural/Societal differences can lead to a false perception that someone is rude and/or arrogant, so perhaps that's part of where the myth comes from.
Movies almost ALWAYS make everyone seem "rich". It's the result of the people MAKING movies being rich. Most filmmakers don't have a damned CLUE about the "real world" in the U.S. (Or the U.K. or really elsewhere!). As an American, growing up watching American TV & Movies, I knew that this was B.S. I also watched a fair bit of British TV shows that WERE aired here. Aside from the average American thinking that ANY British accent was "posh", I knew full well that the average "Joe" in England was more or less the same as me. (I will say this though that I grew up with a LOT of people in real life that I saw on..."The Young Ones"! Just with American accents, LOL.)
The yellow school buses are more iconic because they are ubiquitous across the entire country.
what is cool about america is across all 50 states we have one of the biggest ranges of all biomes on earth from tundra to tropical rainforests (thanks to alaska and hawaii). i've barely been anywhere but a handful of states but sometimes it's amazing how you could be in denver among snowy mountains and then in a matter of say 2 hours by plane be in the sweltering las vegas desert, for instance.
Alaska also has temporate rain forests, notably the Tongass National Rainforest
The only time I've applauded at a movie and I've seen others applaud was opening night of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The audience applauded with the Millennium Falcon was first shown and at the end of the film
Same here, we had a bunch of fans in the theater who applauded when they liked something. I do remember a bunch of folks clapping at the end of a documentary movie we particularly liked, as well, but that's a bit different.
As a Kansas native, the weather comments really struck a chord with me
Ah, well, we just do, don’t we.
I'm British and I have never met another Brit that thinks all the US is just sunshine! The US is huge and of course the northern states will get cold and snow,
Fun fact about why so many of those stories come out of Florida. Florida has a law that requires the release of arrest records and things of that nature. This allows fast reporting on these crimes. So, crime reporters are super fast to pick up on these weird crimes & arrests in Florida whereas when they happen in other states they fly under the radar.
We used to routinely applaud at the end of movies, we don't any more. Teeth are a huge class marker in the U.S.
There I was thinking that Americans did not have a class system 😆
@@andrewsims4123 Huh? Everywhere has a class system.
I chuckled at the "four tornado warnings every year" part. I'm in the southeast US and during the spring, summer and fall, just about any time there's a thunderstorm on the forecast--which can be fairly often--we get tornado warnings. Four in a week isn't unusual. Most amount to nothing where I live which means when there really is a tornado almost nobody will be prepared for it. 😨
Oklahoman here, saying "Oh, yeah?"
@@Randrew Oh, I'm sure it's nothing compared to the states in the region known as tornado alley.
Yellow school buses are as iconic as the black British taxi cabs the classic ones the Double decker buses are second
Yes! Try nearly every Hallmark movie depicting someone working a minimum wage job...part time...and living in a $400,000.00 house with a new model car...ughh! Yes, TV is rather unrealistic concerning American lifestyles. By the way Lawrence...I see you're back to being a "bearded one" again...tragic! Don't worry...love you, your wife, your cat, and your channel! Wishing you, and yours a Merry Christmas (Happy Christmas?!), and Happy Holidays! God bless! Cheers!😇
I know! Hallmark is so unrealistic......I work in a library and live in a huge house, have my choice of attractive men, and never wear the same clothes twice. Seriously!!
A $400,000.00 house would only get you a 2 bedroom 1 bath house 740 square ft. Build in the 1950's in the desert. In Southern California.
@@minnie2185 yep. and working in a coffee shop, you would still need a rich cosigner and 3 roommates to afford it. That same 400k would get you 5 bedrooms on 1.5 acres somewhere else. Why anyone who isn't well off or trying to get into the entertainment business would move out there, I don't know.
@@minnie2185 Another example of the wild variation in not just US geography, but economics. I live in a 4 bedrm, 3.5 bath, $300,000 house in a college town in Oklahoma... on 5 acres abutting a lake.
/Queue the defensive people saying "but who'd want to live there!?"
@@Randrew You can’t make me say it, but how many Earthquakes have you had? Then there’s the Tornado threat…
So odd that the idea of yellow school busses were a joke?? You can't throw a rock without hitting one, and I've tried
Technically, we build everything out of rocks of vastly different kinds.
I've actually never seen a school use one. I don't think they're common in big cities.
They are all over North America, including Canada and Mexico.
@@Jarekthegamingdragon They aren't especially common in big downtown areas. There's usually already infrastructure that will get kids to and from school without a dedicated line. In the suburbs and especially in rural areas yellow buses are crucial. If kids, on average, have to walk several miles to school in varying weathers, there's usually a dedicated bus that will take them
@@Jarekthegamingdragon Must depend on the city because I went to elementary school in San Diego, California which is a large city, and we had them. I’ve seen them in large cities in Texas as well. Are you from the Northeast? I would think you guys might have narrower streets and a lot more traffic congestion in your downtown areas which would make running school buses more difficult.
Fun fact about “Florida Man”: The only reason these articles come out of Florida more than anywhere else is the state’s Freedom of Information laws that allow the press to access police reports far more easily. It’s probable that other states see the same kinds of weird behavior to a similar degree, but the press can’t access the information on it.
A friend of mine in Florida once told me that Florida's shape is why they have so many "Florida Man" stories. All the crazies roll downhill and end up there.
Speaking as a denizen of Los Angeles, we often do clap at movies we like-especially during Oscar season, when the best movies are usually released. It’s very common to see famous people here; and for every famous person, there are thousands more who work on movies in one capacity or another. My point is, if we clap at the end of a movie, there’s a decent chance that someone in the audience worked on that film or knows someone who did. Applause is a nice way to say, “Job well done.”
I remember having a conversation with my Cambodian sister in law about Asian perceptions that all white people are more attractive, and how we tend to think the opposite. Definitely blame various media for that perception. When you live in your country you're a lot more aware of spectrum of attractiveness that is more realistic than someone out of the country. :)
Pretty simple. Your brain doesn't compute trait differencing in people you aren't used to. This is where the idea of "You all look alike" your brain literally can't tell the difference, so a lot of asians, more specifically chinese people (Since their country is very locked down) will just think you are a movie star, because they just see the similar traits you have to a movie star.
Literally the only reason why my parents paid for me to get braces is because my orthodontic situation was so bad that I was finding it difficult to chew my food. And then I had to get them a second time because I fell on my jaw in a spirit assembly which completely undid all the work that my previous round of braces had fixed.
When will we get to see another installment of Laurence as The American Weatherman?
He'd have to shave again. And put on a button-up shirt.
Southern Californians often applaud at the ends of movies, especially on opening weekend, because there's a strong likelihood of below-the-line cast or crew being in attendance who weren't invited to the premiere. I have been in those shoes myself.
I lived in California most of my life. The nearest beach was about a 2 hour drive from me and was cold and miserable year round. The actual "nice sunny" beaches were at least a 9 hour drive away and I've only been to them twice in my 20+ years of living in California. It's funny how most people from other countries misjudge the size of the US. California alone is nearly twice the size of the entire UK
It is amazing how differently we view each other’s country. I hope to visit England one day.
So many places I want to see. A world full of history. I got to start saving.
And I hope you have an amazing time when you get around to it! Just make sure you don't spend all your time in London -- get out into the country for stuff like Stonehenge and The Agatha Christie Trail and suchlike. ;)
@@Beedo_Sookcool yes I want to see the countryside and small villages
As an American living in continental Europe but who has visited England numerous times: I love visiting England, but much like the US, a lot of England is kinda… dumpy.
@@tookitogo Yeah, a lot of people take no pride in anything. You can't go anywhere without seeing trash strewn about, even in the countryside.
You nailed an important topic for me. I'm reasonably well-traveled, and I have lived in a lot of environments (including your area - up in Waukegan). Being born and raise in mountain desert climate, I could never shake that off. After all my travels, I feel most comfortable with my mountains nearby - in a climate so dry you sometimes need a humidifier. Chicago was murder on an 85-degree F day at 100% humidity - the fan "spitting" on me. Meanwhile, my local temperatures of 105+ degrees F prompts an occasional swim in the river and a cold beverage in the shade... with satellite radio. I mention this only because I know of nothing in the British Isles that comes close to a desert environment - and you likely have no frame of reference.
I've been at several films where all, or most, of the audience applauded. They were, and still are, usually acknowledged as great films and award winners.
I've also been at a couple of films with devastating hecklers. For a reasonably bad film that can make the experience worthwhile. I've also been at some major films where I was almost the only one there. When I saw the Michael Cimino Western film "Heaven's Gate" at a major Hollywood theater the week it came out there was only a handful of us in the audience. I almost walked out myself as it was so bad, but having paid for the ticket I endured it all, while being grateful I hadn't convinced my girlfriend to come with me. Rather an eerie experience to be in a vast, fancy and technologically state of the art theater to realize when the lights turned back on there were only three of us there sitting in widely separated seats. The few others had walked out. We politely ignored each other and guiltily scurried out, trying to avoid attention. There was no line for the next show. Amazingly I stumbled onto a You Tube Channel where some viewers argued that "Heaven's Gate" was the best film ever. Proving the world has lots of lunatics.
In my experience American audiences applaud movie moments, not the overall movie. It's an interesting contrast to some Eastern cultures where dead silence is a sign of approval.
And the only time I ever outright booed a movie in the theatre was the infamous bat credit card scene in Batman And Robin.
I've only been to one where people applauded. It was the midnight opening of The Revenge of the Sith. I thought it was weird, because the people involved in making the film couldn't hear the crowd's expression of appreciation. Cinema is generally a one-way form of communication.
My experience is that we Americans DO applaud at the end of films (I've seen it personally many times), but it is usually reserved for big, highly-anticipated tentpole films which are seen as meeting the audience expectations by the ending. Bombs and tear-jerkers don't get applause.
@@ScooterBond1970 Agreed. The first time I heard an audience applaud was during "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" when he dumped his bottle of alcohol. Really caught me off guard. I've rarely heard an audience applaud at the end of the movie.
Canadian here. The only time I've experienced applause at a movie theatre was The Matrix when Trinity said, "Dodge this." Lots of applause, first pumping, and comments. Oh, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show but that's expected and encouraged along with all the other actions.
The number 1 myth of american being rich is nonsense
Applauding at the end of a film was more common up through the 80's but has really died down since then. As for the buses there are also white buses for church groups and prisoner transfer.
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I only learned the yellow school bus thing recently. As an American, I never thought about it. Of course they're that color. It makes them visible. So, when I was growing up, I thought the UK red double decker buses were much more iconic! It was only when my Russian friends visited and were excited to see school buses that I learned we did anything differently. Like you said, they're absolutely everywhere. Yeah, they're big, but reacting to them is like getting excited to see a bright red stop sign. It's everywhere, and of course it's that color.
A wholesome story: At my college, first year international students had to show up a few weeks early to get special orientation, and one of the first events was a field trip to an amusement park in yellow school buses. The college didn't own any school buses, they just rented them out for international students to have their first "american field trip" experience. So they got to eat themselves sick on fried food, go on roller coasters, and ride around in a yellow bus. I knew one of the bus drivers and he said he always got a kick out of the tradition because it was the only trip where his bus was the highlight of the whole experience.
I went to a very small church-school that had a standard school bus that was actually sky blue. Our parents drove us on regular days and we only used it for field trips. That was in the 80s and early 90s and I can’t remember seeing one since.
It may have been painted and "decommissioned." All school buses have been yellow for years. :)
Church buses are decommissioned school buses that have been repainted.
They're usually painted blue or tan.
In Illinois, and maybe other states, repurposed school buses cannot be yellow. Our sister church in Illinois has had Sunday School buses all sorts of garish colors. Here in Missouri, we just keep the old, faded yellow paint job.
Laurence, since you're covering American myths, do one for the UK as well. most everybody does think that its always rainy / miserable in England and that every winter it snows heavily there. its only recently through some old school friends who have migrated to England that i realized that its really very similar to most other island nations except its cold :D
Some of these were just chuckle worthy ones where I was like "oh yeah they believe too much from Hollywood" but school buses?! That was lol hilarious! I mean really? I think everyone rode a yellow bus as a child at some point! Great vid! 😆
I lived in England for 6 months and was very surprised by the pleasant weather. I was always told that London (often used to refer to all of England) is cold, rainy and foggy all the time. In six months, I think it rained the same amount that it would rain anywhere else.
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6:44 "Most kids will wear braces" ?? I don't know about that. I am a bit far removed from childhood, but it was only the children whose teeth were pretty crooked that got braces.
I was one of those crooked toothed kids with braces. Though they were somewhat crooked. I had a mild overbite. The main reason I needed them was that my very back molars had come in literally on their sides, thus useless for chewing.
@@indigobunting5041 Ouch!
I watch a lot of British crime shows on Britbox. In the shows, when the police go to a person's house to inform them that their loved one has been brutally murdered, the police officer then proceeds to go into the kitchen to make "a cuppa" for the bereaved. This always makes me laugh cuz I just cant imagine an American policeman making me a cup of tea. Does this really happen??
Yes it does. They will also stay with you until friends or family arrive and make sure you are ok before they leave.
It's rare that I've applauded at the end of a movie- I believe I did in 1980 as a teenager when I saw David Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN on the big screen- but in 2001 when I went to see A BEAUTIFUL MIND, after the credits were done, I stood up, pointed to the screen and unabashedly proclaimed, "And THAT is why Ron Howard won the Oscar for best director!"
Ok, Lawrence, I'll have you know it's 7:06pm in Texas and I've been called to dinner twice already. I'll eat later, your vids are worth it! Edit: Yeah, we all thought everyone in the UK has bad teeth but we now know that's just a myth...sorta...kinda...well...
They just don't prioritize straight teeth like we do. Overall, their dental care is free and WAY more accessible than ours is
@@lindseymarotti4606Also their dentists aren’t doctors
@@lindseymarotti4606 Dental care in the UK is free? Get real... Everyone pays via taxes, no government services are "free." Actually I'm a proponent of universal healthcare, but please don't perpetuate the notion that no one pays.
And sure, if a body doesn't have dental insurance dental care can be extremely expensive. I opted out of dental coverage with my health insurance plan and it came back to bite me in the butt... had to have a tooth crowned last month at the tune of $1300.00. I took the risk and lost. However from the time of the dental exam to the time of the setting of the crown was less than than 10 days. With "free" government run healthcare maybe I'd been looking at a 10 month wait.
Want to see how government run healthcare would look in the US? Take a gander at the Veterans Administration healthcare. Inefficient, bloated, and sometimes at your own risk waiting times and procedures.
There are pros & cons when comparing government and private healthcare systems, but I'm a typical American... I want what I want and I want it now. Just think of how nasty some folks can get when told at McDonald's, "There'll be a few extra minutes wait on those fries." It can be a real shee-it show sometimes.
@@ea42455 Effectively free, yes, it really is.
Less than free, really. In the US, we spend more tax money per capita on our horribly inefficient and expensive healthcare 'system' than Britain spends on its free system.
And the wait times for care aren't that much longer there. In fact, there's a shorter wait to see some specialists in Britain than in the US, and that's no matter how much you want to pay here. In my city, it's a 3 month wait for a rheumatologist and a 6 month wait for a neurologist.
We're getting price gouged, and we get demonstrably worse care.
Laurence, re. palm trees in CA, for those viewers across the pond, it also was the host of the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley up in the mountains near Lake Tahoe, and as hard as it may be to believe, not far from LA, there's a ski resort up in the mtns. Then, in the SE of the state, there's the desert, which includes Death Valley, and Joshua Tree national parks. On the subject of people distribution, there are cities like LA and San Francisco, but there's also the NE corner of the state near N. Cascades N.P., which is one of the emptiest areas in the Lower 48.
1) I rode a yellow school bus and I grew up in the 60s and 70s.
2) A LOT of people have bad teeth here because many of us can't afford dental care. Dental insurance is a bad joke with an annual cap of $1000 - $1500. We had to take out a second mortgage to fix my mouth because total cost was $37,000 but our dental insurance only covered $1,500. A great number of Americans just don't have access to that kind of money.
Darth Vader tossing the Emperor down the shaft earned hearty clapping from the audience.
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My sister has shark teeth. Her mouth is small and her palate is narrow. My parents could not afford braces. Her teeth were crowded as a girl and now in her seventies they are really ghastly. So no. Not all Americans have perfect teeth (altho I do)
Considering that there are about one thousand times more yellow school buses in the U.S., than red buses in Briton, the yellow buses win the dubious distinction of being more iconic.
"Chainsaw Jim looks like he hasn't been to the dentist in 40 years"- that's probably because Chainsaw Jim can't afford dental insurance. Another thing foreigners can't seem to wrap their minds around regarding the US is that our insurance doesn't work the same way as theirs. Not only is it so exorbitantly expensive that thousands of people simply can't afford it, not only is it so confusing that it seems like the isurance companies simply _want_ people to die because that's more cost effective, but as far as American insurance is concerned, your eyes and teeth aren't considered parts of your body. Vision and dental insurance are seperate from health insurance and are generally seen as "extras".
I've seen people applaud at the end of a film once or twice (34yo American living in Minnesota) and I remember being very confused the first time, and the 2nd time I just went along with it but thought it was kinda cringey. I think I've only seen it happen at very hyped movies with very enthusiastic fandoms, ie Star Wars or Marvel.
It doesn't happen often, but I have seen it a few times.
I’ve seen people applaud, and I don’t watch Marvel type movies. I’ve seen it happen in dramas where a character who has been long suffering finally stands up for him/herself. Our culture loves seeing the underdog win in the end. Some examples would be A League of Their Own and The Color Purple.
I’m an Old, and applause at the ends of movies used to be common back in the ‘50s and ‘60s, particularly for blockbusters.
As a very young teen, I went to the UK as a program to get to see the English language staples like Shakespeare (and other prolific authors, I just didn't get enough exposure to care about the rest, and honestly, I didn't care about Shakespeare either, I wanted an excuse to travel) and encountered more goods days than bad. Was hell without air-conditioning in most places though. That was in 2006. I'm most confused why it isn't standard, it's very humid and muggy without the rain. They must have been experiencing the sensation of being boiled alive for most of the time air conditioners have been around. As much as I was relieved of my idea that Brittan was always raining, I wish it was. At least rain is chilly.
It's rarely hot enough for air conditioning.
It isn't standard here in the UK because most of our weather is temperate to cold, and rarely gets hot. 2022 had a record heat wave in July, which is the only time that it would have been useful! Our houses need to be insulated and then warmed through central heating in order to be habitable in the colder months. The warmer months just need to have the heating turned off in order to maintain a habitable temperature.
@@Stephen_Lafferty I think hot and cold can be relative unless to an extreme. In the USA we frequently use the terms “hot natured” and “cold natured”. I’m cold natured and tend to be cold when most other people are fine. Then there are people I know who are hot natured and complain about burning up when most people are fine. I have friends who run their AC all year long including the winter and never turn on the heat. So these types of people are likely going to be miserable anywhere without AC. Everywhere I have worked it has been a case of office wars between the hots and the colds over the thermostat setting. We colds have to wear sweaters and bring space heaters to work in July so we don’t freeze 🥶 then we walk outside into the sweltering heat. Then I think a lot has to do with what you are used to. I mostly lived in the Southern part of the USA on the Gulf Coast. I moved to the Midwest, and it’s difficult for me because of the cold. To me anything below 60° F is too cold. The people here are used to it. On the other hand, snowbirds would come down in the winter wearing shorts and flip flops while we Southerners were wearing jackets and boots. We would look at them like they were crazy but to them our winters felt mild and comfortable. All relative.
And then you have Western Oregon, where we do actually get warm rain part of the year... Though not all summer. 😄 Most less expensive rentals don't have AC because owners figure people could survive the month or so of really hot temps we can get with lots of fans. Thank ghu, at least climate change is changing that. Meanwhile, you go out and buy a room AC unit or two if you have the money. I finally did, but it was killer at 95 or 100+ in earlier years. Which yes, we did have before climate change. Just not as often.
@@anndeecosita3586 This is true. I do run pretty hot so maybe it was just a me problem, but I couldn't imagine saying that summer I visited was anything _but_ uncomfortably sweaty. I'm in the midwest myself, and it's unbearable in the summer time, but winter is very nice to me. I often forget how many people are the polar opposite, so I can see how I might be suggesting something that sounds insane to those who are local to that series of islands now that you mention it. 🤣
About the perception that all Americans are rich: I was born in the early ‘50s and once taught a class of Polish women my age. Many of them grew up thinking there was no Great Depression in the US because all the American movies from the 1930s seemed to depict rich people in jewels living in mansions and frequenting posh night clubs.
Oh Hell No! Florida Man is like Florida Man, nobody else. Not even in Arkansas.
The only movie I've ever been to that people clapped at was the last Fast and Furious film that Paul Walker did which aired after his death. People did a standing ovation while crying.