10 WEIRD Things AMERICA Does BEST!
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I forgot to unmute the music under this.... who noticed?
Not me
Lol I did wonder why it was so quiet but just thought I couldn’t hear it. Yea I work construction
I took your advice and I watched the video of Ireland's anthem I'm from America but it made me proud to be Irish
Didn't notice it; was paying attention to the pretty lady.
And we fight wars on principle more than self interest, especially as evidenced by 600,000 Americans dying in our Civil War over the principle of abolishing slavery which still takes place in many places worldwide.
From the South here: Bless your heart is not always rude! we sometimes actually mean it:)
True, I once heard a priest say it that way.
I'm from the south too and in my experience it's usually an insult
Most of the time bless your heart is not an insult. Most of the time it is either:
1. An expression of condolences/ sympathy or empathy; or
2. An expression of pity.
The third and least common use is to to express sarcastic contempt.
@Steven Hunter31 Right!?! *eff* off is one i feel like our Friends na'Heirinn could analogize with
Diane says in the video, people are always commenting about this bless your heart thing.
And here we are! How do ya like them apples?
Pickup trucks. Nobody does pickup trucks like America.
BUILT FORD TOUGH!!!
(I came from a blended family; my dad's family worked for Ford, my mom's for Chevy. Guess which I prefer 😉)
Also..."Pick 'em up trucks!!!"
Oh, yeah! How did I forget that? We definitely created, perfected and own that shit!
Go to Iceland. Their monster trucks blows Texas away. I was amazed!
@@Gabbagooooo California has stupid regulations the rest of us laugh about. I have a 3500 Ram Diesel Dually that is so illegal in California an common all over Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas cause we have actual cattle we have to haul.
"Sweetie", "Honey" etc. and "Bless your heart" are NOT ALWAYS meant in a condescending or insulting way. They can often be casually affectionate or genuinely sympathetic. It's all in the tone and the person saying it.
exactly, they can be and in most cases are sympathetic
Only in the North are those insults. In the South, my experience is that those are sincere expressions of kindness or fondness.
It's the context!
I was just about to say this. I'm from the south and that's something my Grandmother would say to me if I had a bad day or something. :)
"American's don't curse as much..." oh bless your heart!
As a Texan I approve this message. 😂
Well, it is certainly disappointing to learn that you don’t have Lucky Charms in Ireland.
😟
I almost spit my drink out on that one... lol
XD
Dude, I so badly wanna go to Ireland for the first time and see that in a cereal isle.
Chris Welch im bringing lucky charms whit me
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” -Mark Twain
Twain was a genius. 😆
Do you know what his name means though?
@@jdog7797 Relared to river depth....
@@michaelweber6962 And a world class cynic.
Samuel Clemmons was a great American who was unafraid to be himself although he is sometimes better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
"Australia is the expert on BBQ" How dare you *stares in American Southerner*
@@michaelweber6962 I'm actually thinking she's biased.
I think people conflate Barbecue aka "BBQ" with grilling. Everyone in America grills. I think Austrailia is a grill culture. But Barbecue is technically very different, slow cooking over a low fire or smoke, over the course of hours, frequently with tough but flavorful meats. That's the kind that Diane had in Texas, most likely.
@@shaneofthehillpeople The person did say "BBQ/grill culture".
@@marklekahmenter6796 Granted! But I don't think the two overlap very much. I can't bbq on my grill, and I'm not sure a bbq is ever used to grill steaks.
@@shaneofthehillpeople I'm an American foodie, of sorts, and I understand the difference. Perhaps Aussies still need to be shown the wonders of slow, slow cooking over fire.
5 cereals? I didn’t know Ireland was stuck in the dark ages.
5 cereals/ we have 5 Capt'n Crunches .
Heck, we have 3 different Dunkin Donuts coffee flavored cereals,
I had my first bowl of Cheerios in my 30s.
That’s funny. I just came from the store and I was marveling because I counted 13 different varieties of just Cheerios, and most of them I’d never seen before!
"Want to be an astronaut in Ireland, dream hard . . . and move." Priceless.
If you're indecisive, the cereal aisle is the worst part of the grocery store.
Seriously! Lol. That and trying to pick a restaurant on uber eats
Jeff DeBoer or stoned. For years now I have been mixing cereals. And now that I am older tying to be healthier, I mix a healthy cereal with a good cereal.
lol really shouldn't be eating that crap anyway. It's ALL horrendous for you! Truly. & as a side note, some of us, myself not least, have a strong preference for the "pasty" 😉
My top 3 are: frosted mini wheats, honey nut cheerios and sugar smacks.
I hate it when other people try to pour my cereal for me. They don't know that I want, they don't know what I like, they don't know what I've been through.
Diane: “Australia are the experts on BBQ”
Texas: “🤣😂😆 hold my Shiner Bock”
BULLSHIT !!
@@johnhoffay9081 Lol don’t be jealous. Y’all got kangaroos.
Texas doesn’t even have the best. I’ve eaten it all over the country:
1. Kansas City
2. Texas
3. Memphis
4. North Carolina
5. Everybody else
@@bobungaurmoms4954 Georgia, sweet and sticky, at #1.
Alabama has the best....and I will tell you why....I have literally watched a man slow cook/smoke a buzzard and opossum on the same pit at the same time and call it bbq....don't @ me.
In addition to amber alerts for lost children, we now have silver alerts for missing elderly people. It is really a good thing!
Yes, we do, but you act as though it just started. Amber alerts started in '96, nationally in 2002. Silver Alerts were proposed in 2005 and implemented in 2006. That means it's been "a thing" for 14 years when you posted this response.
Definitely a thing in Florida!
@@cryptozoomauler5505 TBF, If it's current it's still NOW. "We have color TV now" is a valid statement in English. Even though color TV began in the US in 1954, We NOW have color TV. Now is Now.
The amber alert sound your phone makes will scare the crap out of you in the middle of the night.
Oh yes... or wake u up very early and you’re very terrified and confused for a few seconds
And cause you to run off the road if youre driving. Becuse YOU arent allowed to text while driving, but its OK if the government (who prohibits you from texting while driving) texts YOU.
Nate Hill You can opt out of getting amber alerts. Just spreading the knowledge.
@@justneedtovent - As I did. Even the highway signs are rather useless. "Call 911 if seen: silver Honda, (license plate number)" and I look around and never see it.
Which is why most turn off the alerts.
Theres an American dialect where every noun and verb is modified by “f*****g”.
You talking about the "accent" found in New York City?? LOL!
A Finnish comic noticed that we add the word “ass” to certain adjectives, like “long ass drive” or “big ass building.”
@@AmandaFromWisconsin I do that all the friggin time. For example, this was a cool ass video.
Aidan B Fuck yeah! 😂
ah, i see you speak mechanic
Fun Fact: The musical tune the American National Anthem is based off of is an old British drinking song.
"To Anacreon In Heaven"
We do our national anthem at a ridiculous number of events. There was a bean eating festival in my home state of Missouri where they would sing the national anthem before we ate beans.
Yes, America has a lot, BUT we don't have Chewie the magical Irish Talking dog!
Chewy 2020
Nor an alligator named Daisy.
I wanna shave that mutt
We had Sylvester the Talking Kitty Cat, but...not any more.
comic the comic insult dog?
A lesser known alert is the Silver Alert used when an elderly person with diminished thought process wanders off and gets lost.
I've only seen those while down in Arizona.
@@AlaskaErik
East coast. We've had some
I've seen them in Florida and I think Virginia.
We actually do have Amber alerts in Ireland - a woman was kidnapped a few years ago and there was amber alerts all over Dublin etc...unfortunately she had been murdered within an hour or so of being kidnapped but the murderer was found and shot dead (which is really really rare scenario for someone to be kidnapped so i think thats why Diane thought we dont have it).
@@traceymarshall5886
😔
I remember that on my last trip to Limerick, I asked a friend's husband if I would be safer staying at a hotel in Limerick, or at the University in the next town over. He told me the next town over. My 2nd to last day there, I woke up to the sound of sirens. There was one other American left in the wing of that dorm with me, and we didn't think anything of it, because we're both American. By the time I ran into her at the bus stop an hour later, it was all over the country. A man in my age group (which is not young) had been shot going into the gym at 5.30 by masked gunmen. (Which meant that he knew them, if youvask me). It was the talk of the town for 3 days, whereas in the US. it was something that probably would have blown over quickly, had you not known the guy personally.
The thing with "bless their heart" is that one can say anything bad about a person as long as it ends with 'bless their heart'. For example, " they are ugly enough to make a freight train take a dirt road, bless their heart "😂
Or
She didn't get beat with an ugly stick, the whole forrest fell on her, bless her heart. 😂
Yes! It's like being sympathetic of someone's obvious drawbacks but in a mocking way. Backhanded sympathy if you will. "Check out the shy, quiet one standing by herself over there. Poor thing doesn't even know how ugly she is. Bless her heart."
Lol! "Dream Hard And Move" That could be a tee shirt. 😁
How the hell did they miss muscle cars? Not average american cars, muscle cars
Australia has some muscle cars.
@@magnificentfailure2390 I know I am Australian
I had a 40th ed Mustang. I miss it. Traded in for family vehicles 😂 But once the kids are older, getting a 4 door Jeep Wrangler. Always wanted one. And because I live in Florida, I don't have to worry about it being so freaking cold to have the top down. 😂
If you aren't a "car person" chances are you don't care.
Or monster trucks
America is special in its own way, Americans make a lot of mistakes, but always make it funny.
Yes we are very good at laughing at ourselves. It's part of our resilience. Sure we are wrong in many ways. It's our task to be better. And not be crippled by the past.
B Branett You can say that about every country.
and when it isn't funny it is amazingly tragically sad in a schadenfreude way.
John Schneider what ways are Americans wrong?
Here in America “bless your heart” is more of a southern thing and also I don’t think people usually mean it as an insult but I can see how it might come off that way.
It i completely a southern thing. You will not hear it anywhere else.
Amber alerts blank everything. Phones, tv, radio, etc. they also have a distinct signal we all are taught so we know exactly what’s going on
Our local Whataburger is slow that the "24 Hour Service" sign has become a joke... "That sign doesn't mean they are open 24 hours, it's telling you how long you're going to wait."
💚💚💚🇮🇪🍀💚💚💚
Yes!! Good grief, they take forever!
Greeaat food though!! Worth the wait!
Yeah it depends where you are. If you’re in San Antonio it’s a traffic jam but some out in the county or even Comal or Guadeloupe I went through some reasonably quickly. I don’t know if it’s China virus or new Chicago ownership that ruined the wait time.
@@agypsychild Ours, in Georgetown (just north of Austin), has been slow for years. They are especially slow if there are only a couple of cars in line. They tend to be pretty efficient when hit with a rush.
"Christ on a bike" that gave me such a funny mental image of a guy in a robe & sandals riding around the park
Specifically Irish Jesus 😂
We need a photo of Paul riding a bike now.
Jesus on a pancake.
I have said before, Bless your heart is more a phrase of pitty than one of swear words.
When it comes to swearing in the US, I find it more fun to find, and hear, creative ways to express frustration. For example my husband says "BISCUITS!" when he is mildly upset, "BISCUIT EATER!" when he is very frustrated, and "BUISCUITS AND GRAVY!" when he is extremely mad. 😂😂😂
The key to a rousing national anthem is to set patriotic words to a convivial drinking song.
Glad someone mentioned it...
Sadly, it appears that "To Anacreon in Heaven" was not actually a drinking song, although I'm sure there was plenty of drinking going on at the meetings of the Anacreontic Society. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song#The_original_role_of_the_Song
How to make a perfect national anthem:
1: Fight in a war that threatens your very freedom and way of life.
2: Have one of those battles be seen by a poet from afar, praying for victory.
3: THEN compose a brilliant melody conveying the emotions of steps 1 and 2 into that poem.
And Presto. 🇺🇸
Name another country where this has happened. I dare you.
@@mikeaninger7388 The melody existed long before the poem.
Not just a drinking song, but an English drinking song which is strange when you consider that the words are a poem about a battle between the Americans and the English where the Americans lost rather badly. The British guns pounded Fort McKinley for hours on end and the Americans could not effectively return fire because the British cannons had a much longer range. The only positive thing that could be said was "Well, at least they didn't hit the flag!" The British later landed in Virginia, marched on Washington and then burned it to the ground. There's a good reason why the War of 1812 is not generally regarded as one of America's finer moments.
I know! American's are always getting shat on... It's like; "Dude, I just want to live in peace and pay my bills, yo."
Rick Jones cause we are really prideful but we don’t balance out when it comes to learning things I kidd you not some people thing Ireland is near Canada or japan
@@jjkm17 and some people think not caring about a person's race makes you a racist .... and people wonder why americans are considered dumb just look at the stuff some of us say i mean seriously how can i be a racist for treating everyone like crap equally regardless of your heritage?
In the South a woman calling you Honey or Sweetie is a term of endearment and not an insult. Also Bless YOUR heart isn’t an insult in the South. Saying, “Bless HER heart” while gossiping about a third person is an insult but they don’t hear it.
The absolute best thing you said was the remark about our cereal rotting our teeth out of our heads, but our water is full of fluoride so it balances out. 😂 I almost blew my fluoridated water out of my nose.
Americans don't resort to cursing.
Me, from NJ: *sweatdrops*
Hears American's don't cuss, remembers earlier in the day when a load gate failed and my hand was crushed between 2 muffler racks and my hand was broken shouting profanities so loud that everyone in the area stopped what they were doing to watch. Many people learned new cuss words that day.
Kenneth Draper i don’t normally hear cussing unless I’m whit my friends and we’re talking about each other but maybe it’s cause we are in the south
@@jjkm17 Nope, Wisconsin same except good days at church.
not cursing, it's colorful profanity LOL
Me from just outside of Philly: sweats
Grilling may be the Australian's super power, but Bar-be-cue is ours! Slow smoked, tangy, spicy, sticky bar-be-cue!
And by "ours" you mean the Carolinas. It was our gift to the world.
Brandon Sherman East Tennessee/ North Carolina is the best. That vinegar based bbq
@@brandonsherman8173 Kansas City has entered the chat.
Represent!
Texas-style beef ribs. (drops mike)
Fun fact, "The Star-Spangled Banner" is set to the tune of an English drinking song.
About what you said about low quality photos for missing teens. That happens in the US too and I think the reason is sad: that they came from such a dysfunctional unloved environment that nobody was taking normal family photos of them
"Bless your heart" is not American, it's southern. You won't hear a New Yorker saying "bless your heart".
Sure you do. It’s just that in NY it comes out as F$&@ off! Ha Ha 😂🤣
I hear it all the time here in California.
....eastern southern. You won't hear much in Texas and Oklahoma , what we understand as "southern " but might be known as "central southern " elsewhere.
Southern American maybe... anything north of the equator isn't considered "Southern" in a global scale.
To Non Americans, there are more countries in the world than America.
Maybe more like rural America, or at least residents with southern heritage. We hear bless your heart in rural Eastern Washington state where it's all farms, orchards, desert, and cowboys. lol.
Who else in the world has perfected the art of deep frying absolutely everything? Give us time, and we'll eventually deep fry a pint of Guinness.😋
yum
That sounds AMAZING!
There's a wing place near me that has deep fried Oreos and deep fried Nutter Butters and they are just wonderful.
Sorry but I feel like I have to jump in here and mention that the Scots give us a run for our money on this one
Why, in the name of all that is holy and sacred, would you even want to do that? That's just...wrong. (Totally joking, I put Guinness in my chili recipe.)
5:16 - "The trouble with the French is that they have no word for 'entrepreneur'." - George W. Bush
It's a funny quote, but not to take away from that according to Snopes it is also a fictitious quote.
I thought that was a French word?
@@BidwellRunner didn't he say that on camera?
Another stupid fake quote that helped turn me into a hardcore conservative. 👍
@@joshuayow4653 you could actually look it up but you're obviously too lazy.
"... Also, there'd be all the cursing." LMAO!
"where does all the pent up anger of not cursing go?" a space program & an entire porn industry 👀👉🏽👈🏽 😂
And I was coming here to say this... :)
People cuss too willy-nilly, but I wouldn't trust a person who NEVER said swear words.
Also we go online and savagely troll the ones who crossed us.
and guns
Gun ranges
Supermax in America: the prisoniest of prisons, for the scariest prisoners.
Supermax in Ireland: 🍔🍔🍔
Its Supermacs :)
interestingly enough, according to the Eighth Amendment in the United States Constitution, Supermax Prisons are a violation of constitutional rights. weird thing is, nobody gives a damn.
@The end is near its Super "Macs"
Its Super "Macs"
@@vegaswould The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing unduly harsh penalties on criminal defendants, either as the price for obtaining pretrial release or as punishment for crime after conviction.
What part of the constitution do you think the Supermax Prison violates? If no one objects then it is neither cruel or unusual. It all depends on how you define cruel and unusual or unduly harsh. You have to do something very very wrong to end up in Supermax. There is only one supermax prison remaining in the United States federal system, ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado
We actually have several different styles of bbq based on region.
And we typically finish it all before it gets cold
"Also, there'd be all the cursing..." You may have revealed too much there. LOL.
"Bless your heart" is a southern thing. We swear a lot in this country.
The tune of our National Anthem is actually an old British drinking song. The words were a poem that someone set to the music of a song that "everybody knows".
Bless your heart is not fully correct. It should be Bless your heart, poor thing..
I was going to mention the drinking song bit, but you beat me to it. :)
@@maistymae1582 Sometimes I say "Bless your little pea-pickin' heart" just to give them some variety.
Was also coming down here to mention the drinking song bit
Oh, totally forgot, another BIG reason for so much variety in food stuff: the incredible variety of people! It's not just that the U.S. has food from basically everywhere else, it's that we combine it in new ways. We'll take sushi and put it in a taco. I don't know why, but this is the country that deep fries butter and pays to eat it.
A lot of cultures inter-marry when in America. I have a friend who is half Japanese Hawaiian, half Irish married to a man who came over from France (who is now working for NASA). I have another friend whose mother is from Guam and father is Jewish. The foods that come out of these households are amazing! The U.S. gains SO MUCH by the variety of cultures that are here!
10:50 "All the cursing..." That's hilarious! Bless your Irish heart.
"when i think of BBQ i think of Australia first and foremost"
NO
NO
NO
NO
NO
GRILLING IS NOT BBQ!
grilling uses high heat and takes virtually no time at all.
BBQ uses low heat, and takes ALL DAMN DAY.
Australians know NOTHING about BBQ.
"...dads with umbrellas in the back garden..."
.....apparently you don't either, that's not a BBQ that's a "cook out" or a "grill out", and NONE of the food cooked there is BBQ.
Damn straight!
@Lord Raiden 100% yes!
Absolutely....REAL BBQ takes time....a lot of time if done right.
Yes, a pressure cooker and a slow cooker are completely different.
"There are no space stations in Ireland." - Diane, 2020
Me, internally, "It's not a space station until it leaves Earth, so...." ;)
Yeah, i was thinking “there are no space stations in the U.S. either”
But we have “spaceports” that is multiple locations where a reusable extra-atmospheric crafts can take off from and return to.
Yeah, I took as “launch” station.
@@djens8976 We don't trust our astronauts around Irish girls they might not want to go.
did you know that the ISS (international space station is still within the earth's atmosphere?
i just figured out recently that i live 35 miles closer to what is officially considered space than detroit ... i live 85 miles from detroit space legally begins 50 miles above my head
The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812. The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore, a days-long siege between British and American forces.
Depending on who you read, the tune has its roots from an Ireland or London drinking song - a pub? Go figure.
Tim Hawks
Anachron in Heaven? I believe
*To Anacreon In Heaven, yes British pub song
@@sulufest No, it wasn't. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song#The_original_role_of_the_Song
Additional trivia: It was not until 1931 that The Star-Spangled Banner was adopted as the United States' national anthem.
Anybody else just shout 'Oh Canada' over & over during that anthem?
I’m from the American Midwest and here when people say
“Bless you heart,” or even
“Oh sweetie,” it’s never used as an insult, normally when I hear it it’s because I gave someone a compliment or something.
OMG!!! Chewie was looking at you so hard while you were doing the bleeped out cursing. Like, "Dang mommy. Potty mouth much?"
to answer your question about non-cussing methods of releasing stress: gun range. we take it to the gun range. blasting a gaping hole in cardboard can work wonders for your mood
Until you starting shooting steel targets, my Club just bought a Polish Plate rack to go with our Texas Star. Now we just need the Irish Plate Rack for the trifecta of steel targets.
Punching holes in paper is fun, but steel is that extra cherry on top.
In Chicago we just apparently use our streets as our gun ranges.. I guess it saves on travel time?
@@LinderRyan Steel is so much fun to shoot. I bought a couple of small spring auto popper type of targets years ago (from mgm I think). Its surprising how far splash back can go though. I got hit in the lip with a little bit of lead one time. Make sure you got those eyes on.
That sounds like a you thing than an American thing
@@wesisacoolkid I am going to lean it to an American thing because besides myself I know plenty of others that feel the same way. I am sure not everyone feels that way but I am sure many do (thats why I consider it American).
A drunk Irish fella tryin to get his lad out while a good lookin bird with too much spray tan on turning the sheets orange... Yeah I'd watch that 🤣😂👌
Bless your heart darlin
Bless your soul
“ Really took the Biscuit “. As regards to pent up anger ? Target Practice
I'm not sure it's something we "do" well, but our tornadoes are humdingers.
Our Earthquakes are contenders too, but as a Californian, I readily concede that the Japanese and Indonesians are the Gold and Silver medal holders at the moment.
To shine a little trivia light on this, the US experiences over 1000 tornadoes per year, almost 1300 per year over the last decade. They are also usually the strongest and most violent. The country with the 2nd highest number is Canada, with around 100.
@@chrisd7047 The UK gets up to 50, that'd be 2000 if you adjusted for size.
They can be ferocious too - they've been known to knock over wheelie bins!
@@hlund73 The UK gets the most tornadoes per square km, that's true.
But, my! The poor wheelie bins. Why, those tornadoes must do 10's of dollars in damages!
I dunno but "irish space station" just cracked me up
As a Southerner, I've always seen "Bless your heart" as an expression of disbelief that someone's worldview is so wildly inaccurate that they are in need of divine intervention.
As an American, I am offended that you would say that we do not swear. I can speak entire paragraphs with just a single curse, and some prepositions.
Agreed. I think that's why Americans always jump in offering up the "Bless your heart" and "Sweetie" comment. I'm from NY, but live in Georgia, never heard Bless your heart till I moved to the South. In the Northeast, we cussed like drunk sailors. I think in these compilations of America by Europeans they don't really take into account the size of the country. Small regional idiosyncrasies don't identify the entire country.
@@1111kalon You must have lived in the south for a long, long time...cussing??? lol
We swear, but like how we're known for our fast food, the Irish are known for their blue language! It's funny that it actually comes up in travel videos and blogs quite a bit.
@@crazeyjoe Yeah, you caught me. It's been damn near 30 years... smdh
@@1111kalon Cursing is the proper term. With that said, if you used that word in your region, they would look at you like you were an alien, lol!
Johnny Depp should have had an Amber alert.
rofl.
RIGHT??
Ooooooohhh
HAHAHAHA
54, at this point, a Silver alert
"Also, there'd be all the cursing." lol No seriously... literally laughed out loud.
One other thing I am proud of as an American: We put people on the moon. With rotary dial-up telephone technology, we put people on the moon and brought them back.
Outta my home town Titusville fla !
Well, maybe *starts a war between conspiracy theorists and believers*
Allegedly.
This is a great video,and I like how "Chewy is just relaxed back in the background. Yeah we're surrounded by great tasting food and whether it's good or bad.
Amber alerts come to our cell phones, as an alarm message.
It was named for a little girl named Amber.
In Florida we also have "silver alerts" for lost elderly folks. (Usually they are dementia or memory care patients, and they wonder off, their caregivers lose them.😪)
Another reason to avoid FL.
I agree with Diane on the barbecue, if America gets a compliment on barbecue from Australia, that is IMPRESSIVE!
As for business opportunities, it is really wide open, and when you say “the sky is the limit” I envision South African entrepreneur Elon Musk replying “oh, the sky is my limit? No, I’m going beyond the sky!”
@Tux Penguin Elon Musk got his start from his dad who owned a diamond mine in South Africa. During Apartheid. Elon Musk also doesn’t believe that the corona virus is that big a deal. America now has over 160,000 dead. Fuck Elon Musk.
@@johnbalk6091 160,000 for a "super deadly" virus isn't that bad especially when we have over 5,000,000 confirmed cases. That's literally less than 0.032% death rate and falling every day. And this is ignoring the FACT that hospitals were counting ALL deaths as covid deaths if they had the virus regardless of the actual cause of death.
I live near the Space Coast/Cape Canaveral so I see his work going up all the time.
Spacex is going to provide all NASA space transportation needs...
20,000 Starlink satellites will be circling the Earth 🌎 soon, beaming the entire planet with mm waves for 5g.
John Balk
I think you missed my point John.
There are many foreigners who have started businesses in the US and made millions. Musk is merely the first example that came to mind when I heard the keyword “sky” from Diane. Please try to relax, John.
Tux Penguin, I had to give you a thumbs up for your user name. Penguins rule!
“Bless your heart” in the south can take on a number of meanings. From showing empathy and compassion to flat out sarcasm. Personally I’ve always translated it to mean “it just sucks to be you.” Despite being a southerner , I never have used this phrase but I have a lot of friends who do. I always laugh when they say it thinking my own translation. 🤣
The American Anthem was set to "To Anacreon In Heaven" a British drinking song.
As an American, I don't think I've said "bless your heart", except as a direct quotation, one single time in my whole life.
I think that both "Bless your heart" and "Oh, Sweetie" are largely confined to the South
@@stefanfisher4440 Because in the Northeast (I'm from Massachusetts) we just tell you to go fuck yourself. We Yankees appreciate forthrightness.
Stefan Fisher yep. Your correct. Not Florida south though. Lol. Georgia is where it stops. I hate that saying. No one is genuine when they say it. Well not around where I live anyhow. 😉😂
@@stefanfisher4440 Where I live, (Louisville, Kentucky, so technically the South but not anything like the image that comes to anyone's mind when the American South is brought up), "bless your heart" and "oh, sweetie" are definitely things that people say, I'm just very much not one of the people who says them.
I'm in the deep South and its not as common as you'd think. It's an insult mainly used by women. Now that I think about it though, for a guy to tell another guy "bless your heart" would be a great way to turn an argument into a full blown death match.
The tune of the national anthem is "To Anacreon in Heaven", the official drinking song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th century English "gentlemen's club" for amateur musicians. Which is probably why it's easier to sing when drunk.
Correction, we have significantly bastardized "To Anacreon in Heaven."
@@twisterdavemd1 A couple of good sites for the song:
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Oh say, can you see? Me neither, I'm pissed!
Personally, I prefer “America the Beautiful,” which is easier to sing, and puts more emphasis on the social justice ideals we ought to be striving for. And for diversity fans, the author was an openly gay woman ... in the 1890s!
Just discovered your videos. Love your personality and your presentation. Have enjoyed the 2 I've watched so far.
Oh Bless your Heart ... I just saw this today.
"Bless your heart", is also very frequently used as a term of care, concern, and endearment.
True, it just depends upon how it's said.
Nah...90% of the time, it's really not used except to say "sucks to be him/her" lol. But it sounds nice tho!
@@indyracingnut I wouldn't go as far as 90% but it is more often an insult than a nice term.
And also a giggle when you walk away 🤭
@@meacadwell
I've lived in the south all my life and never heard it as an insult.
Uh,... obligatory" I'm an American", but We DO curse. A lot. I am in the north, though.... my first word was allegedly "Bitch!" Which I yelled. In church. During silent prayer. Also, thank you, to anyone who took the time to look for the good inside this dumpster fire that we are currently experiencing.
peppermintjamie so for me I guess “dildo” was my first curse word. I thought it meant a stupid person. I called my brother one in front of my parents. After they stopped giggling, they asked what it meant and told not to use it anymore.
Yeah. I use the word fuck like it's a comma.
She must have met some really tame folks here in America.
You'll also notice that nearly all places of worship have good handicap access. The tune of the American National anthem was an English drinking ditty.
It's a small adorable event when I watch your infotaining videos. Thank you for the smiles and laughs. 😀
“Bless your heart” is more of a Southern thing here in the US. I’m in Wisconsin (upper Midwest part of the country) and I’ve never heard anyone say it here.
It's said a lot in California.
Sky Den They probably genuinely mean it.
@@AmandaFromWisconsin Sometimes. ;-)
@@skyden24195 I've heard a bit here in this part of Midwest I'm from Indiana, but maybe not as little as sweetie. I totally feel its a southern thing as I heard it most when visiting
Louisiana
I live in Texas. People say it a lot here.
The answer to what we do with out pent up anger is let it all out every 4 years when it's election time.
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Yeah...you kinda have a point there.
My mother cracked me with her wooden spoon when she thought I cursed in front of her. By the way I was in my twenties sitting at the table with my wife. Lol
I'm a new subscriber, and I've noticed that I have had amazing luck since subscribing! The curse has passed me by! Yessss!!
I love your videos! My ex was from Belfast, and I notice that a lot of the things you talk about, she also told me about.
When it comes to cereal and the other immense variety of products...imagine America not as one big country, but 50 small to medium size countries that all speak the same language (sort of...lol) and have no passport laws or tariffs in between them, and then imagine each of those 50 countries come up with 5 of their own cereals, and then ship them out to all the other countries around it with no import/export problems, all on a huge roadway system (or boats to Hawaii). And then there's Mexico and Canada who send stuff to us, too (ketchup-flavored potato chips).
And a lot of these products are regional! I'm in the Pacific Northwest USA and there are some regional candies, sodas, and foods that I've never heard of that show up on the Try Channel. Side note, I blame Try for getting me addicted to salty licorice (they hate it with a passion so I had to try it and I got hooked).
@@jaymzx0 Small world, I live in Renton, right next to Seattle! Yeah, Bartell's I noticed has a lot of regional candies and sodas, probably because they're a local chain. But some national chains like Safeway and Whole Foods have surprised me by stocking local brands. My favorite regional item is Hairbender blend of coffee, whole beans, by Stumptown, from Portland. Amazon Fresh stocks it, so I stock up when I can. LOL! But the best local item I found in the PNW by far are Ranier cherries.
@@redheadgeek9225 Yea I'm in the same region and Hairbender is great coffee. I was excited to see Try have Aplets and Cotlets and Seattle Chocolate - and happy to see they didn't hate it. I think they had Brown & Haley Mountain Bars at one point. There are a lot of great beers and ciders that come from here, and many other things other regions may have never heard of. There are some things, like Moxie soda, that aren't popular outside of their particular regions that I adore over here, so there is a little bit of spillover.
But yea, the US is really a collection of 50 different countries with the same flag, and it's a HUGE place. But we Washingtonians are more like Oregonians or Californians than say, the Irish are to Germans, or Polish to Ukrainians. Very close in proximity, but much different in culture, language, and history.
Speaking of size, Ireland would fit from top to bottom between Vancouver, BC and Portland, OR.
In Southern Maryland we have old bay seasoning,(mostly for seafood) seen that once outside of MD, in Florida but the cook was from Maryland. Which leads me to my favorite chip ever, crab chips from Utz(east coast) who incorporated local seasoning into a chip.
And I'm sure there are a lot of other specific differences like that in every state.
"The people who brought you Disney also brought you Porn™"
We are the Alpha AND the Omega.
In some cases, the same exact people.
thats lit as hell
Disney is perv central
Lmfao
I could listen to her talk all day. She has a wonderful lilt to her voice.
I would love to sit down and talk with Diane. There is so much I could explain and set straight.
I appreciate the positivity of this video. I realize we are the 'epicenter' of a lot of dysfunction lately and I just want to scream "Get your act together AMERICA"!!! Thanks for letting me vent! :)
Vent away lovely Maureen!
@@DianeJennings :)
I don’t know if it is your accent or the cadence in the way you talk, I just love to listen to the way you speak, you just have an enjoyable voice.
Among other enjoyable aspects....
we get the amber alerts on our cell phones even if a child goes missing 50 miles away and its helped so much
“Took the biscuit”...definitely adding this to the vocabulary!
From a woman in a wheelchair, it's "Neurologically unique"
Oh good you made a video. Glad we were available for your commentary. Feel free to go home anytime sister.
cool ... enjoyed your insights ...
As I understand it, Aussie "bbq" is grilling meats over a flame. American barbecue is tough cuts of meat like pork ribs/beef brisket/pork shoulder etc cooked a long time over a relatively low temperature. American barbecue starts early in the morning. Aussie BBQ starts when someone lights the gas grill
There are plenty of misguided Americans (particularly in the north) who sadly call hamburgers and hotdogs on a gas grill barbecue.
Except for California BBQ: which is tri tip over direct fire (Santa Maria style). I'm from NC myself, so always have a hankering for Eastern NC pulled pork: I now have to make it since I live in Atlanta. Traditionally, Eastern NC is smoking whole hog and using a vinegar sauce (the sauce is especially great with pulled pork). Other states will have other sauces. In fact I smoked some BBQ just this weekend (a Boston butt, as well as 1 slab of ribs): great summer activity that is leaving good leftovers, but would go quick if we had social gatherings.
The term "bless your heart" is usually mean a insult in the southern states calling someone a dumb a**
I think you’re over thinking it. The people in the south are generally pretty nice people and are just being nice to you. You are trying to make it something that its not.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d rather look at the good in people and not think so negative over everything. Life is short and I’d rather have a good attitude as much as I can. Even if the person is a jerk, just walk away with a smile on your face. Forget about the jerk. Move on with your life.
But really, bless your heart really is just a thank you. It’s not ah dumb a$$. Not even remotely. That’s a first I’ve heard anyone ever say that. If you were a jerk to whoever said that to you, Maybe you think that would be what they were really meaning to you being a ahole. But again southern charm, they were still trying to be nice to you. Maybe you’re not used to that? Without actually seeing what actually happened, I can only make some guesses. So in can’t take either side.
In can only hope that at least you’re a good person and leave it at that.
@@jbdragon3295 no, op is pretty correct. As a southern man I can 100% confirm that 99.9999999999999% of the time when we say "Bless your heart" we are calling you a moron in the most polite socially acceptable fashion. On a side note, when we say "what in tarnation?!" We are saying what the fuuuuh? Don't get me wrong though, we do cus like sailors just like the rest of the nation.
As a Texan, I thank you for the BBQ recognition. Lots of issues but im happy we do something right
Binging your videos on USA election day 2020. Hitting subscribe to this one cause I cannot chance the curse of bad wifi at the moment!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for keeping me pleasantly distracted while polls are tallied! Well done Diane!!!🍀🥃Sláinte🥃🍀
the melody of The Star Spangled Banner was originally composed for Anacreon in Heaven, written sometime between 1760 and the late 1770s, expounding on the virtues of wine. The song itself was first publicly published in The Vocal Magazine in 1778 in London. Anacreon was a British gentleman's club in London.
Yes the music part is from a drinking song you are very correct, and the words are a poem about the war of 1812.
So a drinking song about war for our national anthem, sounds about right.
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@@tj_2701 if you would like a more detailed description of the pending of the Star Spangled Banner ? Watch the 4th of July video of the fireworks Set off by Mike Morgan and his family on "Outdoors with the Morgans", CZcams channel. Before the fireworks begin , they play a recitation of the event!
NY people are with ya with colorful language. Our state bird is "The Finger" You are home here Diane!
:) Enjoyed the video! I also went and listened to your national anthem, I really liked it! Definitely not a banger like mine here in America but it's a good one. :)
This is a great video, and I love your flower! 😊😊