People who've Visited the US, what's your WTF America Story? - Reddit Podcast
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i once saw someone say “not everyone in america is stupid, but nobody does stupid like an american”
“A person is smart but people are stupid”:Tommy lee jones MIB 1997
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that" : Barack Obama I think
Jack Whitehall
If it's stupid but works ...is it really that stupid😂
I mean they weren't wrong.
This German foreign exchange student I knew in high school told us "I thought I saw everything until I saw a man eating from a diaper." And that was his main takeaway from life in the US.
Was it a sub with a lot of paper covering it or was it an actual diaper? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an actual diaper someone was eating out of, there could be many reasons why a diaper is the best choice for eating out of.
What state and year was this? Because I think I saw something similar when I went to America
@@Bayerischer_bua Would've been either Wisconsin or Minnesota (the school was literally right on the border) back in 1994.
@@adamb89 nvm I went to Montana in 2012
@Kea Gaming Probably not a sub since they weren't too common back then. We had one subway restaurant in town and that was it unless you drove to a bigger city.
I live in Northern Italy, in an area famous for its guns and firearms industry (it's where the Beretta factory has its headquarters), and my dad is a master engraver on firearms. He told me that the first time he went to USA for a fair (ig it was in the 90s) he barely knew a word in english, and he met this old couple who recognized him and started to treat him like a celebrity, asking for pictures with him etc. When he tried to tell them he didn't speak english, they started to apologize: according to them, they were in the wrong because they couldn't speak italian, "the language of the famous master engraver"
Class is a rarity, but that old couple had it.
Nowdays he would be bombarded with "go back to mexico"'s
@@norml.hugh-mann nah, it was worse back then
Normal.Hugh.man6764 - if someone told me to go back to Mexico, they better hope they can run faster than I can swing the kg can of peanut butter in my pillowcase
Americans are either the sweetest people on earth or the weirdest people you have ever seen. Nothing in between.
I chuckled and asked, "What if I have diplomatic immunity?"
The cop, without missing a beat, yelled "HAS JUST BEEN REVOKED!!" and shot me 36 times.
Great, Lethal Weapon Reference 😂😂.
And then everyone cheered
Haha nice
Good one
story 4 is made up
The old lady is such a freaking legend
the have you ever heard about jesus part killed me
When the old woman speeding at 100 miles per hour turns to you and says “have you ever heard about Jesus?” That’s when you know everything is going straight to hell.
I always say, the nicest people, are the elderly
@@highqualityorangejuice420 h a v e y o u h e a r d a b o u t j e s u s ?
@@KrumbCrackhead "accelerates to 100 mph"
The ending of story 25 and the transition to story 26 was pretty funny.
"Are you Australian?"
"Australian here."
yeah. Thought only I noticed.
Ah yes average reaction when us Aussies are in other countrys
I have a story I was in Europe for a aid mission and vacation and a woman heard me talking an asked if I was Mexican and when I corrected her she didn’t believe me and insisted I was Mexican-I don’t even have a American accent
@@Uzyvan6 lol that would annoy the crap out of me, because I am very proud to be Australian.
@@kelliewhyte_85 honestly, I just like my Aussie accent
The US is a place where you can see extreme violence play out in real time, but also meet the most random kind people who know NOTHING about wherever you come from. As a whole, boy do we have problems, but dang it if we don’t have a nation of wacky lovable characters.
The bad stuff is mainly california tbh
@@MarshmallowBoy 🙄 Right. Nothing bad in Chicago, or Baltimore, or Philly. There definitely weren’t two twin babies kidnapped in Columbus recently. All of America is violence free except for Cali.
Side note: In my example, I was actually thinking about how both the good and the bad are true in my tiny town where there was a double homicide on the street earlier this year, but if you have car trouble there is some magic spell on the land which will summon two to six good-hearted wacky Appalachians out of thin air to help within five minutes.
@@83gemm it was a joke lol. And i had simply noticed that alot of them were in California.
@@MarshmallowBoy Fr, that place has been touched by tzeentch
from my experience, the main vibe Americans give off is "aggressively friendly", it's really nice but also slightly intimidating
My “wtf America” moment was when my highschool denied me an opportunity for a scholarship for low income students because I was white (even though I was literally the poorest kid at school).
it saddens me when they do that. because they haven't learned anything about discrimination and racism. theyre judging you by your skin color. im not white but i see the unfairness of the racism against anyone who isn't black or hispanic.
@@msairs I wish there were more people like you who know what true equality is
@@msairs Thank you for understanding what actual racism is, and not bringing up pointless shit from centuries ago to guilt trip people. So many people love to preach about equality but what they mean by that is they just want special privilege.
Yup. That’s about what america does nowadays. I was told I couldn’t enter certain buildings on my college campus due to being mayonnaise-American. And no, I call myself that, no one else does.
I've realised the US will never move forward, it will always be a never-ending circle of racism, history forever tied to its people. Even black people over there seem to perpetuate racial stereotypes on themselves on how a melanin-rich person should act/live/talk. You deviate even slightly? You aren't black enough.
I lost all interest of visiting when a young man from my country went there for a PhD and was murdered on the streets at night by a gang member. Some comments from certain black american citizens were foul and nasty because he was 'white and european'. But I realize trying to reason with them about the fact not all european countries colonized countries or had slaves is a loss of time. Bosnian muslims know what a genocide is. Polish know what war and being considered subhuman is like. Irish know what slavery feels like. Greeks know what being conquered and having a millennial history and culture is like.
But to them "white european"=colonizer=dead=good. I'm sorry we aren't all f*cking doormats to care about white guilt and to put up with it.
The story about oldladyfriend was so heartwarming
“Those are not disabled people, they’re fat people on scooters who are too lazy to walk… where do I sign up?” Bro the most funniest part lol
Wouldn’t being fat be a disorder if you were fat enough
@@blakerupp1444 unless you have a tumor that causes you to gain weight (yes that exists) or someone was born with a disability and you can’t function properly then I guess yes
@@apocalypse2519 Well there is disorders that come with obesity but obesity in itself restricts your movement and makes you not being able to do things. I’m not really saying that it should be classified as a disorder because that would mean age itself would also be a disorder.
Some Americans are a normal weight like me
i mean unless theres a scooter shortage ill save them for disabled people but if not my fat butt paid for it
I actually got one of the best compliments for my English by a guy I met in Miami. He was a friend of a friend and his name was Dale. He said: “your English is really good! What makes it so good is that when you make jokes they go over perfectly. It’s an art to be able to be funny and make sense in a second language”. This was almost 30 years ago and I still remember. We all had dinner at a restaurant in Coconut Grove. That was my second time to the US.
I live in NYC so I meet a fair bit of foreign tourists, most of whom speak at least enough English to get around. But one or two out of every ten I meet will always say "oh my God I'm sorry wnglish isn't my first language I'm sorry I'm so bad at it" while simultaneously speaking the language better than me.
@@georgewilliamson5667 it's ingrained in us to apologise in school especially when you're just starting out and then you just always keep it/ are unsure wether your english is up to par. Pretty much the one sentence I can still remember very clearly from my school spanish is Sorry, my Spanish is very bad could you please speak slowly (Lo siento mì español es muy mal. ¿Podría hablar mas despacio?) If it's a good day I might say I only speak a little Spanish but it's similar for english for the vast majority of people especially for those that don't use it very much outside of the Internet or School.
Wow, you must have have been so proud of yourself! My English is pretty decent but one thing I notice is that I really struggle to understand jokes, let alone make jokes (not that I do that much in my native language but still) and I figured this had to be pretty much the highest level of fluency.
What is your first language?
Your not British by any chance, are you?
@@stephenolan5539 Now I’m confused. If I was British, from a part of Great Britain 🇬🇧 my first language would in fact me English, wouldn’t it? But to answer your question: No I’m not British. I’m Swedish 🇸🇪
I've never been so proud and so embarrassed to be an American
same 😂
@@LunarLight Ikr😂😂😂😂
You should learn more of our history
Lol don't worry
@@Alexander-cg1ey True
Hopefully not typical American: We landed in Philadelphia coming from Europe, we were going to Puerto Rico with another plane. All four of us were smokers and two of the others wanted to smoke so badly, they were searching for a smoking area or bathroom to illegally smoke in there. Some airport employee recognized the desperate look, made a smoking gesture while asking us in English if we needed to smoke. Not far from us was an open door that lead to the outside, a staircase down to a sidewalk with a very used ashtray. We soon realized that we were literally outside of the airport on a side street to/from the parking lot. The door to the inside still wide open. The inside that was the area _after_ the security checks.
It's called "security theatre" for a reason.
Lol I'm from Puerto Rico and the US so this is even funnier.
@@elyenidacevedo1995 well...PR Is the US
@@norml.hugh-mann Yeah I know that's why I said this.
@@norml.hugh-mann Most people dont know it though.
We had a German exchange student, who told us the most shocking thing was eggo waffles. She watched stranger things and thought the waffles must be delicious…poor thing was met with shocking disappointment.
Waffles are delicious. Taste must be busted.
@@davidpowers9178 Not Eggo waffles, those horrible cardboard-tasting concoctions
@@ohnowendigos8804 There are Eggo waffles that are significantly less bad than the normal ones (advertised as "thick and fluffy"). But they're still frozen food, so don't expect a miracle.
Waffles are good tho.
eggo waffles are amazing wdym
I'm English / Canadian.
My mates and I couldn't stop laughing after we walked by a woman on a bench eating a block of cheese in a park in Dallas. It wasn't one of those snack cheeses either it was like a family size block of cheddar cheese.
It was so unorthodox that once we were out of ear shot one of the mandem asks, "was that woman eating an entire brick, bruv?"
We all just burst into hysterics after that 😂💀.
Must have been from Wisconsin
they were probably from Wisconsin, btw
@@kinghershybar4294 Now I'm curious, why do you joke about them being from Wisconsin?
@@EL-ISS Wisconsin is know for cheese. Fans of the NFL team there are called Cheeseheads
@@kinghershybar4294 Bloody hell, guess ya learn things everyday 😂 the whole "Cheasheads," thing has me cackling.
Don´t know if this one counts because it wasn´t inside the US, but here it goes. In 2010 I worked in a call center for JP Morgan Chase in Argentina and we took American customers. One of them asked me where I was from and when I told him he answered "Argentina? You got computers down there??". I couldn´t resist and with an ironic but friendly tone I answered "Yes, we also eat with forks and wear shoes on Sundays". It was a risky answer because he could have taken it the wrong way but luckily he just laughed.
You have internet down there?
@@joebungus3447 i really hope you are being sarcastic, because if you are i would like to say that as a mexican i go to school in a donkey while blocking the sepia sun rays with my sombrero and poncho
@@kiwi-vn2yysounds like a nice way to travel. Here in Sweden, we ride on a moose or a polar bear instead. Wearing just a bikini regardless of the weather, of course. I'm also blue-eyed and blonde, of course.😂
@@wolfstrand1959
In Canada we are more advanced we have dogsled to take us to school from our igloos. And wear shorts year round.
You know that he was telling a joke, right?
For any confused Americans, in Australia it's literally illegal to advertise a price that doesnt include the GST (akin to sales tax). The price on things is the actual price you pay.
Pretty much everywhere except the US has tax included. Tipping is basically an North American thing too. I think Americans get all het up about taxes because they are reminded everything has taxes on it.
Not all states have sales tax. It's good to check. Also, it can depend on the idem. If you buy jewelry, marijuana or alcohol you may pay a big tax. Tampons and pads in some states have the same tax as luxury things so bring your own.
@@jerrimenard3092 Yeah menstrual suppies are a luxury; there is reason it is called "being on the rag."
It would drive me nuts having to calculate tax for the final price instead of just looking at the price tag and knowing that's what I have to pay.
Do Americans have to figure out how much they need to pay then? That’s so much of a hassle
I have never been to the US...but I do have a US 'pen pal' I chat with online...He is constantly asking me whether I am not scared of being attacked by hippos because I live in Africa close to a river...I constantly have to tell him that the only wildlife I have recently seen was a Fish eagle...common sight close to rivers in South Africa
Bud, Americans think you guys have lions and hyenas on every corner in every city, National Geographic effed up our way of thinking of the world.
@@mwillblade meanwhile I believe it's much more likely for you guys to have encounters with wild animals than most Africans...especially in the more rural areas...in South Africa our wildlife are confined to reserves etc.
It isn’t just you, they don’t even understand their own country. I live in Florida and other Americans are always asking if I have to wrestle alligators, wade through pythons or other such nonsense to get around.
@@bobp4036 every state in America is like a entirely different country with different cultures, no wonder they think that 😂
@@bobp4036 Excuse me, speak for yourself. I have a Don’t molest the alligator sign in my gated community, I fought a snake before (Granted it was a baby but still) and had to walk the treacherous journey through a very small forest
4:56
I have a "WTF England story"
It's the opposite of this.
It happened when the road was "clear" and someone started walking out in front of our car without looking that we had to break sharply and nearly caused an accident because people seem to enjoy riding right up your bumper. It still boggles me that in Britain, crosswalks are more like guidelines than actual rules.
Note: I'm a British citizen.
Jaywalking isn’t illegal in the UK
@@Jumpyman_thegamerYT yea but brits learn the green cross code, and that is actually part of the Highway Code (rule 7of Rules for Pedestrians), so crossing without looking is a violation of the Highway Code and onus will be on the pedestrian, if the driver does not have reasonable time to react and were else wise driving responsibly.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance All I was saying is that it isn't illegal bro. Yes. it's dangerous, but not actually a punishable offence.
@@Jumpyman_thegamerYT but nobody else said it was illegal in the UK to begin with, just that you get occasional idiots who step out into the road in-front of cars, which you definitely do get over here.
@@DoomsdayR3sistance The OP literally said 'It still boggles me that in Britain, crosswalks are more like guidelines than actual rules'. They literally said it themselves, that crosswalks seem to be more like guidelines. So your claims of 'no-one said it' are baseless.
Story #26 - I'm Australian & had a similar experience at JFK Airport. While waiting for my gf to arrive from Europe, I start talking with other people also waiting. There was a nice American lady, who tells me she's about to relocate to London for her work, and a Limo driver who used to live in Australia. When the Limo driver & I start talking about how stinking hot it is at Christmas... American lady looks confused & asks when do we have Christmas in Australia!!!
Tbf, orthodox Christmas is later in the year, and y’all are so far south technically it should be pretty cold (if my memory of maps serves) in the winter. The concept of hemispheres flipping the seasons isn’t immediately apparent if you haven’t traveled much or don’t think about geography often
@@mcarrowtime7095 Orthodox Christmas is about 2 weeks later on Jan 7th, when it's still in the peak of summer & bushfire season. I get that y'all probably don't think about the southern hemisphere much!
I admit I didn't realize the summer at Christmas for way to long. I knew that the seasons were switched. Still it didn't connect in my brain. Tim Minchins song White Wine in the Sun where the whole family meets at Christmas and sits outside in the sun always gave me the image of them all wrapped up with scarfs and gloves and hats enjoying the winter sun. It was way later when a CZcamsr mentioned how she wanted to fly back home with her children for Christmas because if they would fly in June at the summer break it would be winter there. My brain just started to make clicking noises and a loud 'ohhhhh....' came out of my mouth.
@abigmonkeyforme um you know "summer olympics" relates to the sports played, NOT the season it's played in right? lol September's not summer in Australia! Can't wait to hear your students responses to that after 2032 when the Australian Brisbane SUMMER Olympics are held Fri, Jul 23, 2032 - Sun, Aug 8, 2032 🤣
Maybe switch to something like the tennis, which is a summer sport & talk about when that is held, or maybe discuss the football, or even that US & Australian fire fighting planes are shared between California & Sydney. Ask them how they think that works! (mind you, it doesn't work that great anymore, due to climate change increasingly overlapping the bushfire seasons). Bushfires on Christmas in Australia too, or if they are confused by Christmas, then NYE fireworks being cancelled, due to bushfire risks being too high & too many out of control bushfires on NYE in Australia
@abigmonkeyforme You remind me of the people on the Jimmy Kimmel show, asked to name a country on a world map & unable to do so cause their geography skills are so appalling!
Mexico, Tokyo, Munich & South K. are all in the northern hemisphere & have all hosted Olympics outside the months you listed in the last 100 years (that's 1/5th of all Olympics outside the months you listed). In fact South K has hosted a winter Olympics in the months you listed for them, but a Summer Olympics on the same dates as Sydney did!
& of course there's not going to be skiing in the summer Olympics when it's already in the winter ones! If any sports will cross over, it will be ice sports entering the Commonwealth games, since there is no Commonwealth Games winter event. Paralympic type events have already been added to the general Commonwealth games schedule, would actually be good to add some ice hockey etc to them as well, so as to even up the medal tally & give Canada a chance to genuinely compete with Australia.
Anyway, yeh, maybe focus on learning geography rather than trying to teach your students anything new
Thai immigrant here
1. The town I live at is very diverse, my neighbor is Chinese, the room below me is French Polynesian, the manager is Mexican. My friends are Iranian, Syrian, Chilean, Peruvian, Indian and Mexican.
2. Food portion is bigger; I sometimes have to either share a dish with my mom or ask a waiter for a box to take it home.
3. Very few pedestrians, but somehow has better traffic than my home country.
4. People here use fork to eat rice.
5. There are only 6 subjects a day for a week, meanwhile in Thailand, we have more than 15 subjects a week and the schedule is different every day.
just curious, what do you use to eat rice? (not trying to be rude at all)
@@skaljacob5256 spoon
@@knightzazazaza_th honestly that's a lot more efficient
Point 3 makes me rather afraid of Thai infrastructure...
americans use a FORK?? for RICE??
I’m from the United States, and I have WTF moments all the time. There are times when I don’t understand my own freaking country!
One would almost think that humans are weird, not the nationality
@@mcarrowtime7095 No, I've lived all over the world, America is full of completely weird people and only half of then are on drugs.
@@mcarrowtime7095 there certainly are local breeds :DD
Same. The pledge is creepy as fuck. And why can't we switch to the Metric system?
@@CinnaSwirls the pledge isn't that creepy, and trying to switch a population of 381 million to a new system of measurement is more difficult than you seem to think.
Lol it's funny because the Portuguese accent actually sounds just like a Russian accent when speaking English. An HR rep at an old job was Brazilian, when I first met her, I thought she was probably Russian haha, was not until I saw her Portugese last name that I caught on. Her first name was Karina which is honestly confusing because that could be Russian xD
There is a reason people joke portuguese sounds like a russian mocking the spanish.
I think it's also that the Portuguese accent sounds more like the Hollywood Russian accent than how actual Russians talk does.
Portuguese and Russian have the same sorta' sounds in some areas.
@@Matthy63 honestly the Hollywood Russian accent is actually kind of accurate a Russian speaking English. They're obviously Regional variants at summer obviously thicker than others and it really depends on how the individual speakers suppresses their accent in favor avimor American or British accent but the Russians I've met that had an accent pretty much sounded a lot like Russians accents from film although I'm sure there are some depictions in media that are quite exaggerated obviously but others are more accurate. I'm of half polish descent sci-fi and Slavic accents to be very warm and quaint. All the Russians I've ever met were very warm and trustworthy and honorable people so maybe that rubs off on my perception of the accent
@@ForageGardener Fair I mean more like. I work with both Portuguese people and Russians. And the sort of very cartoonish movie accent like, "my khovercraft is full of eels", that kind of thing, I can think of a few Portuguese people who actually have that exact accent, whereas for sure there would be regional variation but the Russians I'm thinking about the accent is a bit milder.
My foreign friend asked me with all seriousness if we worshipped quarters or something because the coin machines were *everywhere.* Lol. They also thought the American flags everywhere thing was a trope until they lost count trying to count them on a drive.
as a mexican, the times ive got to go to the usa im always mind blown at the amount of flags you got there. ive only seen the mexico flag in goverment buildings, school ceremonies, and a land mark weve got on our town, and there is only one at each location.
@@kiwi-vn2yy It’s similar in Australia. People don’t usually hang flags on their houses. You only really see them at schools, government houses, etc. Those flags are usually accompanied by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags as well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Aussie flag outside of a residence before.
lol i’d probably be that foreign friend. in New Zealand, there aren’t many flags except for at government buildings, some schools, memorials, etc. even then, it’s only one flag, and rarely will you find another within a 5 kilometre radius.
In the UK it's considered racist to fly the flag as it may make the immigrants feel uneasy. Can't remember the last time I saw a union jack in real life. The only place I see it now is in the language options on web sites. Even then, quite often it'll be the Stars and Stripes for "English"
What is a coin machine?
Yes… the people of Walmart are real. And yes. It’s mind blowing.
My wtf America moment was when I came as an immigrant from Mexico to the US to a decent public school in first grade. I apparently had the academic level of a 4 grader, but they didn't want to bump me up to 4 grade because I didn't know english. So their solution was to get me into an only english speaking class, which I struggled to make friends in and became an outcast between my peers. After a few months, I was able to learn decent enough english and pronunciation. But they still didn't bump me up because "it would cost too much money," and my mom couldn't take me to another school because it was the only one in the area. Basically I got robbed out of my chance of being a kid genius, was made a loner freak, and sumerge in depression from loneliness just to save a couple bucks fuck the american public school system.
Edit: this was a real story and my mom was legit told that "it would cost too much money" to move me to a different grade and no I'm not smart anymore since I was basically dumbed down and my autism didn't help shit but I still wonder how my life could have been if those assholes didn't hold me back
On behalf of the US and those who recognize some of its failings. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Even being a native born, hearing that was upsetting. That just sounds like poor planning and consideration on their part. They would have been better off assigning a tutor to you to teach you basic English whilst allowing you to attend 4 grade, least give you a chance.
story 4 is made up
Typical American public school experience, honestly.
There's your assimilation: government is nonsense.
It wouldn't cost "too much money", public schools are free.
@robbiddlecombe8392 I wasn't lying tho that legit was the excuse
I'm an Australian and was in the US around the time Steve Irwin died. People didn't believe I was an Aussie because I didn't sound like him. Most thought I was Irish!
Omg that's freaking annoying.
Not that many of us actually sound like Steve Irwin.
@@robbiddlecombe8392are perhaps from Virginia or similar? People from the original 13 Colonies have a accent that sounds like Irish.
In some cases we look back at the dumb things we say and cringe. My theory is that some of us are so eager to be polite that we blurt out something that sounds friendly before we think. I’m from the Midwest specifically, so perhaps that will give some context for my perspective.
What dumb things have you said that you now cringe over?
"What if I have diplomatic immunity?" That got me hard LMAO
So I've been learning English my whole life and love reading. I tell this kid that I moved to the US three months ago and he says, "Wow! You learnt English so fast!"
I’m American and my wtf America moment was when I went to the doctor to be told to take the inhaler I already have and was charged $300 to have a doctor tell me that in a 10 minute conversation
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Seriously, don't get sick here. It will wreck you financially for life.
You asked
I swear that they pull random numbers out of their a*s to put on the hospital bill...
The price tags don't include taxes. That was the biggest "wtf america" for me while I was there as an exchange student at 15 (I'm Swedish). Also, most people we met were extremely uneducated. Some truly dumb. All were at least very friendly :)
Yeah sad but true, thats pretty normal
At least most people are nice to foreigners
But yeah something you gotta look at before you go to US lol
what where they extremely uneducated about?
Also, if you ask someone out to eat here, it means you are paying. If you want to only pay for your own food, tell them you want to go dutch treat.
Uneducated in what?
The price tags don't include taxes because of the sheer scale of the country and how scattershot the counties are. There is a 5 mile long stretch of road nearby that with a grocery store at either end and a little market near the middle. 8, 10 and 12 % sales tax. Because one end was county that shot off in the other direction, the middle was a little piece of municipal that butted up against the other two and the end part was the start of the downtown metro area. The US is a bit wonky like that, but that's what you get when you effectively have a federation of 50 normal sized countries masquerading as one big one, where you can have four sets of laws, rules or regulations all pertaining to one place because you happen to live in an HOA with it's own regulations, in a city with own regulations, in a state with it's own laws in a country with it's own laws. Our bureaucracy is 4 layers deep my dudes and dudettes.
My WTF America moment was due to a business trip to San Diego, I booked a hotel near the office I needed to attend for a fortnight. The Co-workers were surprised that I walked too the office that was about a 10 minute walk from the hotel instead of renting a car. The hotel was also opposite a shopping mall so had plenty of restaurants in easy EASY walking distance.
Sounds like renting a car would have taken longer to travel. Depending on parking availability, maybe even involved more walking than just walking, too.
One time I was working on some documentation at a customer site for about a month in late spring. The site was a twenty minute walk from my home via a recreational trail. It was the best commute I ever had.
reminds me of the line in American Beauty when the girl says she's going to walk and her incredulous pal goes, but, that's like a mile!
during a team project in college me and like five people were supposed to tour the school and wright some details about the landmarks but we didn't all fit in the car so I walked I was faster getting everywhere because traffic was terrible and I could take a straighter path
if a restaurant in the US did not offer free refills on a soda, it would be on the nightly news for being a scam "customer's bill was not as expected". it would legitimately have to worry about being burned down in the middle of the night. Their are a few vendors/situations where it is acceptable to charge for refills on soda but if you don't know the culture don't risk it with out disclosing really really clearly each time we are charging you X for this drink. but free refills is also by the visit, coming back with a cup will get you reported as customer.
14.28 story 29 I had the same reaction. I cannot forget the large coke looked like a tub of coke, not cup. I was dying of thirst and insisted on a large size from my friend while he kept resisting but finally relented. When he handed it to me, I was silently mortified and couldn't drink but only a few sips, totally embarrassed myself.
Haha yeah, I asked for a large coke once and got over a f*cking litre!
😂😂😂 That disabled Disney visitors story. Had the same experience. Visited Disney World my second time in 2019 and noticed the sheer number of mobility scooters there. Turns out you can rent them and fat people do to get around. Maybe they categorize themselves as disabled but obesity is the only issue here, of course that in turn can cause joint problems etc. but not walking and taking the easy option even with early obesity does not help! I could not remember that this was common when I visited earlier in the mid 90s
1. WHERE DO I GET 50 NUGGETS FOR TWO BUCKS!?!?
2. I have never been to a store that didn't have their guns locked up in a plexiglass cabinet.
Gave ya the thumb for first comment but I've been to many stores that sell firearms without plexiglass in front of them. Weapons on the rack in many states that can be handed over without hindrance.
@@wolfmantroy6601 well shit I guess I live in a responsible state.
@@dutchvanderbilt9969 Or a blue one
@@therookiecookie3181 well let me ask you this, would you just leave your guns laying around where your kids or some idiot could get a hold of them?
@@dutchvanderbilt9969 They usually put licks on them so and ammo is locked away most the time, the guns are safe to hold and handle without the fear of them being fired or misused in any way but idk I’m from rural MO so I’m just used to it 🤷♂️
The Steven Irwin joke was spot on
Dude, I love how some of these stories are straight up wholesome. The "old lady friend" one was super sweet.
About the Canadian guy who saw the bald guy wearing bunny ears. I work in a grocery store in Canada and saw a guy walk in wearing a cat ear headband and a three foot long rainbow colored tail coming out of the back of his pants. Stuff like that does happen in Canada too
Story 5: As a South African I can only say...That accent sounded Indian lol
I'm Filipino, and I was staying over at Guam with my aunt and uncle once. One time, we went to a mall and when I stepped out into the (mostly empty) parking lot, I was FLASHBANGED by how bright it was. Literally nowhere else had been so bright before in my life, and in the Philippines, it'd regularly get much warmer than that parking lot was. I had to squint the entire walk to the mall (which was far dimmer than outside in comparison) and then had to squint again when we went back out
I am from the USA and In different regions, you will see different shockers. Somewhere in North Carolina I saw a roadside store that sold gas, liquor, fireworks and guns. Even being from America and having lived in the south, this place was over the top for me.
Did I buy anything? Yes! I got a jumbo Pepsi, a friend dough and some sparklers.
“Say what you want about Americans but we understand capitalism. You buy yourself a product and you get what you pay for”
-Max Payne
Americans understand capitalism the least, actually. They can't even explain how food scarcity was ended, which is of course by resolving the crisis of overproduction. If anything is cheap, it isn't because we understand how the system works, it's because the US collects rent paychecks from every other developing nation in the world and subsidizes oversupply to force prices down. Scarcity in this country has only ever been eliminated by overcoming the incentives that drive people to produce scarcity for profit.
Go to a hospital with a health issue and say that Americans get what the pay for. You'd be lying to yourself. What you get is reinforcement of the system of incentives that keeps raising prices in resources treated as scarce.
Bro the oldladyfriend is why I love old ppl & life itself some ppl are really out here living an entire adventure not scared of anything or going anywhere & it’s so dope how we cross paths with each other & make connections while one person can be doing something so mundane & the other has some super complex shit going on but you somehow mesh for whatever reason & now you’ve gained a new acquaintance and story lol
The first story was very similar to a story my dad told me he was going back up to Denver Colorado after delivering a load (hes a trucker btw) and he was driving into this town and right while he was getting ready to go to bed he looks at the Thai food place across the street and saw a whole group of police officer execute a armed criminal
14:15 I'm dying💀 what was that 🤣
I’m In the British army and we’d just finished a six week exercise in the jungle of Belize in 2017, we’d just spent three days continuously drunk on r&r there before we flew back to Britain.
Our plane had to stop over in Maine to refuel for the night and so we got to see a bit of this American town, no idea what the name, being 20 and younger at the time me and my mates couldn’t go to a bar but we knew that was a thing so no worries, so we did the next best thing and went to McDonald’s, obvious things there too, huge portions, free refills all that, what was weird was one of the employees, over weight woman in her sixties came to chat with us, she ended up getting kind of annoyed with us because when we told her we’re British and had come up from Belize she didn’t seem to grasp we were military despite us telling her and three of us were wearing our regie T-shirts and he stomped off thinking we were spoiled uni kids I guess who’d been to Belize and just flown to America for a day
I'm Irish. When I first moved to America at like 12 I think, I was asked by a schoolmate if we had soda in Ireland.
If it helps, we have been shown that a lot of common stuff here isn't all that common outside the US.
the 25 to 26 story transition gave me a chuckle and im not even sure if that was intentional.
The mean girls story reminded me,
Both my mom and I had similar Africa moments, hers was years ago when the internet just became a thing and she talked to some african guy, she was confused and said something along the lines of "You have internet there? I thought you didn't even have buildings"
My moment came later in life but in the form of geography which started with Russia
I'm notorious for my awful geographical knowledge which happened because when I was 8 my teacher told my class Russia was a continent, no one corrected me because it never came up, and I got exempted from geography classes due to bullying. I was 18 when my friends flabbergasted explained russia is a country and it took 2 hours to convince me.
They later tried to quiz me on what country is where and my friend who is from morocco mentioned being aftican, to which I replied "But Morocco is in europe?"
And my notoriety grew, after that I tried hard to figure out geography but till this day I still can't entirely wrap my head around it.
"my notoriety grew" LMAO
i have a friend like you as well. For some reason he just never paid attention at geography. Each time were talking about a country and i ask him where it is on a map you can hear him through his mic quickly searching it up online. Especially when talking about planning a vacation trip abroad its funny because he even does it with countries that are relatively close to us just a short drive away. He doesnt know countries that are like on the other side of one of our neighbors.
I was in the military. A new recruit came in and was so disappointed when she found out the west Texas border had no ocean. She had seen a map of the US only and assumed that the whole southern border was ocean front.
I'm sorry you had to be given the noriety as the one who doesn't no geography. Also that teacher was either board that day, didn't care, or clearly didn't know. Honestly they are better off teaching the basics and familiarizing the subject of geography.
To be fair, Morocco is right under Spain. You could probably get there using a rowboat if you were determined enough. (Perhaps you were thinking of Monaco?)
Story #14 well 1/2 of the states in America no longer require a permit to carry a gun anymore. And, thanks to the recent Bruen SCOTUS case, theoretically *_all_* states are required to give you a permit if you are qualified. Although a few states are trying to weasel their way around this ruling, but they are going to lose those cases.
That's a good summary of Bruen for those not in the know!
@@Lumilan Yeah, I tried to sum up Bruen best I could. Although that case is going to have wwaayy broader implications as it struck down a legal standard that has been the bases of most of the really restrictive gun laws in various left leaning states.
Meanwhile, I have a handful of moderately controlled mental illnesses, which means I can't legally even handle a gun, much less own one. America is weird.
@@SewardWriter Ehh, you might want to look into that. Having a 'mental illness' isn't an automatic disqualifier. It's mostly it is if you've ever been legally held by the government against your will for a mental health hold. There's even a few cases working it's way through the courts that is going to challenge that.
Sure, I agree that America is just weird in general. But the US gun law itself is a complete mess. It's shot through with contradictory statutes and out of date legal standards that are held together with the judicial version of bailing wire and duct tape.
And that's why the Bruen Decision has a lot broader implications than just NY's carry laws. The state courts are no longer going to just be allowed to hold the 2A to a lower of legal scrutiny than it has been for the past few decades.
Florida doesn't allow open carry, so even though we don't have strict gun laws, I would still find it odd to see people openly carrying guns.
The one about the washrooms just ticks me off. What the hell did they think “washroom” meant? A bathhouse? I’m from the US, and I thought that everyone knew what a washroom was, since I’ve heard it on television.
is a washroom the same as a rest room? is there a toilet in there? very confusing for non US visitors!
Is it a bathroom with toilets or is it the room where you do your laundry?
I'd think a washroom is with showers like you'd find at big gas stations on the highway or big train stations. I'd be blunt and ask for a toilet. One time I was in Poland and asked the host mother upon arrival where the bathroom is to freshen up. She happily showed me the way. No toilet in there. Just a bathtub and a sink.
@@robinbennett3531 yes it is.
@@elyenidacevedo1995 Are there beds in a Rest Room?
I only had to listen to the first one, and my heart filled with sadness. I live in California and it’s crazy how normal this is to us. That’s our everyday reality living in or by the city. Even the smaller towns spread across the state also have insane crime rates with people being just as crazy as the city. It’s not until hearing it from a “wtf is that america” video that I realized how abnormal and crazy life here really is.
We definitely need a movie about a guy road tripping across the US with that awesome old lady.
17:56 I had an "oh , he found a muzzle loaders" moment
When going to a furcon in Dallas Texas.. I stopped and picked up some online friends from outside of the states at various airports. I opened up my center console of my gas guzzler kia hybrid to get chapstick and there is my pistol and everyone went super quiet till I stopped for gas. Reached into grab my wallet and holstered my pistol and said "bathroom break and gas anyone need anything?" No one said a single thing. I walked into the store got a pack of smokes paid for gas. Came out and pumped gas got back in and said "you okay?" They all started that nervous laugh and said "we though you were going to rob the place" I lost it laughing and said "then I would loose the ability to carry it" we laughed once we got to the hotel. Tldr furries from other countries came to Texas and had to learn about Texas and guns
Americans are insane about guns. Texans are worse.
@@KaiHenningsen oh well
y would anyone go to furcon
@@topfloorb0ss because they're furries
Oh god
My wtf america story is i live in america and its every single time i see the news
I love this country. It’s so beautifully absurd and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Agreed lol
@@elyenidacevedo1995 apparently you haven’t heard of Mexico
I'm Australian. First night I was in the US I had seen a man walking up and down the train screaming, someone muttering something about Jesus to themselves and someone offered to sell me heroin. Hadn't even made it to the hotel yet. That place is scary
7:21 50 CHICKEN NUGGETS FOR 5 DOLLARS!!?? Dude, I've lived in the US for my whole life and I've never seen such a deal.
Yeah, I’d buy those nuggets in a heartbeat!
That's actually a pretty decent South African accent at 05:25 😁 Thanks for a great video! I had some good laughs!
Kind of refreshing that there were several wholesome stories this time.
13:18 omg. That grunt noise from Home Improvement 😂
5:00 Not true. As an American, I can confirm that even while walking on a crosswalk when it's your turn to cross the street, it is still unsafe. Most if not all of the drivers here are reckless. It is not uncommon to see someone run a red light and almost hit or sometimes hit a pedestrian, of course they don't get charged or jailed most of the time. Even when I went to see family on the other side of the country, there were still really bad drivers everywhere. Ironically, if you know where and at what time, it is possible to safely J-walk which just flips this reality we live in. Sometimes J-walking is safe but crosswalks are not... golly our society.
Nah, as someone born in the US I can say that's a Just Your Region thing. Where I grew up people actually stop at red lights. I walked constantly and never had a single close encounter in 20 years.
And as someone who is a British Citizen I can say Britain's roads are SO much worse, people will walk out in front of your car knowing and seeing you coming, forcing you to stop. They will also walk out in front of you AT A CROSS WALK when you have the green light and theirs just turned red, and keep walking until your light turns red again. It's a effing scourge. Meanwhile when *I* try to jwalk I nearly get run down. It's a no-win situation no matter what your transport is.
My partner also prefers driving in the US. I refuse to drive at all in Britain.
@@impishrebel5969 Where in the US do you live? I’ve been all over the US from as north as Niagara Falls to as south as Florida, from as far east as Maryland and DC to as far west as Colorado and California, and in all my years… I have never seen a place in the U.S. with actually decent drivers who follow the driving laws. Where do you live? I need to experience this place of safe driving in the U.S. that you talk about.
@@keagaming9837 yea every where ive been has had horrendous drivers
Every road is built like a highway which isnt good when that highway has stop lights pedestrians and intersections allowing for more deaths than necessary
Story 5:If they took j walking as serious as this cop says then the entire work force in New Jersey would be in jail rn.
Sounds like the cop was fishing around for the quota of the day
Not a civil engineer or a contractor, but from my knowledge on the subject, the issue of having to drive to everything that’s all in one spot is due to zoning laws that were created to prevent smog from factories from polluting the air in residential areas. Due to the way these laws were implemented, it leads to the issue of places of business being far removed from peoples’ homes in most places,
Note: I may have some details wrong in my explanation, so if someone does know the answer better than I, or just has more to add, please do correct me.
my "wtf america" moment is that y'all wear shoes inside your house.
That 13:18 home improvement sound made my soul leave my body was not expecting that
About the flags everywhere thing. Actually Thailand 🇹🇭 is the same. They really have flags everywhere too.
"She smiled and pulled a revolver out of her purse. She was a nice lady."
My late mother moved to the US with her kids (my siblings) from her first marriage and my dad, due to my dad being in the US military.
She was asked several times by multiple people where she was from and she told them that she's from Scotland. They replied back by saying that she speaks very good English, even though she spoke English her entire life.
Canadian here. I toured the US with my dad in his camper. After driving much of the day I liked to go for walks when we stopped for the night. The WTF moments were when I discovered that in many places you couldn’t walk because the busy roads/highways didn’t have room for pedestrians. I wanted to visit a mall I’d seen on the way in. I couldn’t figure out how to get there so I asked the clerk at a nearby hotel. He kept giving me driving directions. I had to repeat several times I was walking before he finally said I don’t think you can walk there.
Other WTF moments were going to ocean beaches to look for birds/marine critters and seeing big trucks just driving down the beach like it was a road without lines and using it as a giant parking lot.
Further south people were lying on towels while trucks travelled up and down and were parked randomly on the beach. I figured sunbathers must get run over regularly. My dad quipped if a pedestrian gets run over then the police probably issue them a ticket for obstructing the right of way of a truck (which seem to have more rights than people).
In Canada, beaches are for people and wildlife, not vehicles so it was quite a culture shock for me trying to get away from all the traffic to find the traffic had invaded what I thought were protected places.
Oh, another WTF was cows roaming through parks that purported to be refuges for endangered birds. The ground vegetation was essentially eaten, trampled, gone so the endangered birds that nest in ground and shrub cover were SOL (no wonder they’re endangered). You’d get fined or even jailed if you so much as plucked a leaf, but cows were allowed to reduce the land to a barren landscape. Just so different from our parks.
"Now there's a beauty! Overweightes Americanness, known for their impulsive spending habits. These babies can grow up to 158 kilos!"
i cant stop laughing at this
I’m from Winnipeg, Manitoba and I had a very similar reaction (except in English) when I saw the rollercoaster in the Mall of America. And then I had the exact same reaction when I got to the lego store and saw the gigantic sculptures.
And then I got to Chicago and had another culture shock when I got I.D’ed at the door of a sushi restaurant and turned away for only being twenty.
Where i come from you can get into a bar while you’re still in high school so being not allowed into a restaurant without a twenty one year old babysitter with me was absolutely bizarre.
I feel what that person said about everything being spread out. A shopping center not too far from my house has a nice little outdoor seating area that I don't think I've ever seen anyone use because of how spread out it is.
14:24 ??????
I was on a motorcycle trip through the Pokeno's in Pennsylvania (I am Canadian) I do enjoy a scenic ride and usually stay off the main highways, I love the natural beauty of the land. I stopped at mom-and-pop place got gas, ate a great meal, the young lady serving me was a local and had never left the area. When it came time to pay, I reached into my pocket and grab a bunch of money mixed in was some Canadian. The young lady took a liking to the toonie our version of the two-dollar bill. Silver with a copper centre she asked what that was, I told her, she was quite taken with it, so I gave it to her. It was like she won the lottery she was so happy and who was I to take that away from her. It truly is the small things in life that gives us the most pleasure! I got the best reaction from a person, and it only cost me two bucks (1.85 US). LOL😇😅🤣😂😁
I live down in Oklahoma, and every now and then some foreign money will make its way here. I don’t know what all’s in the box, but my mom has a small collection of foreign coins she’s collected over the years. May not be worth much, but it’s interesting to see stuff from around the world.
That was a nice little story
Also I think its "poconos"
&O G I’m a Michigander north of detriot and 50 kilometers from Windsor and your money is always mixed with ours. I have two 2 dollar Canadian coins and a Canadian dollar plus tons of Canadian Pennies & Canadian dimes. The Canadian dollar is our unofficial currency basically.
The man who filed a whole cup up with ice cream and old lady friend are legends
That Tim Allen grunt from 13:18 xD
Many decades ago, in New York, a guy inquired if I wanted to buy a newspaper. After declining he said " Half price. I stole them this-morning". Also when actually buying a news-paper from a street newsstand I noticed written on the cover of a woman's magazine ( Girls get your fanniy ready for the summer ). Outside the USA and Canada the word fanny has a different meaning. Very rude.
What does it mean there? (I’m American)
Lady parts...
Wait but what’s the part that’s rude
@@BestAiden23 "Girls, get your p*ssy ready for summer" is the non-US translation
12:25 After googling how Canadian money looks like, I would've asked him the same thing.
My own story, on me: When I saw a Canadian bill that seemed to show friendly Canadians helping a neighbor clear snow from his driveway, I commented on it, and was enlightened to learn that it in fact showed hockey players with sticks, not snow shovels. They were trying to knock out the teeth of players on the other team with lofted pucks and their own sticks.
We have topless women on the back of our twenties.
2:09-4:50 I love how that story is "American Babushka" the movie.
Story #4 Felt like a movie or a novel. We need one or the two of those (or both) asap, seriously.
The ending would've been even better if he changed his mind right before boarding the train, because in a whacky and unexpected way, he realized he was having fun.
I am visiting texas next year. I am so excited!
I personally wouldn't be excited about spending any money in that neo-fascist hate-state, but to each their own.
Saw a bug
And uhh
It's the worse bug ever
What was it?
5:59 I was really not expecting that punchline😂
In England we don't get out the car to greet a police officer. They would think that we were trying to hide something. They would ask you to get back in your car and take your keys or turn the engine off
I live in America and none of those stories surprised me.
I saw a random guy dance in the street once. Never wanted to visit since.
Just missin out tbh
What's so weird about dancing?
This requires a little bit more context; how bad could his dancing have been to make you wanna stay away from our great country?
Must have failed to griddy
@@boisegameshowguy Just as a guess, there might have been a wee bit of traffic in that street.
"flags everywhere is a distinctively usa thing"
scotland: *slowly backs away*
Out on a playlist in the background!
Me watching on a muted video listening to music:
I lived in the USA for a couple of years in the mid 1970s. Every morning at school, my whole class would stand up, face the US flag in the room, put our right hand over our heart and recite the 'Pledge of Allegiance'. (Fourty years later, I still remember it, word for word.) It was only later, as an adult, that I thought about the 'indoctrination' this practice can perform. Does any other country practice such a ritual?
Vietnam does something similar every Monday. But its a communist country so its a pretty low bar.
I'm pretty sure China is the same XD
hardcore socialist countries may do, and Nazi Germany did
The "Walmart gun shelf" guy is full of it. The guns are in locked racks with no way to access them for one thing. For another, if you are not a citizen you can't buy a gun, so I doubt they'd let him hold it.
I have seen a few with display guns but they had either a trigger lock or one of the ones with a metal cable that goes through the action making it unusable.
@@happyjohn354 Crazy. I've never seen them not behind glass or cages. Still have the locks though
3:47 "has anyone ever told you about jesus? no? then lucky you because youre meeting him in 5 minutes" the brakes dont work
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1:40 were making the mother of all sundaes jack! can't fret over every cherry!
I still remember a family vacation in the US when I was a kid.
1. We sat in a restaurant and I finished my drink.
My parents and I were completely stunned to find out that a. Free refills! and b. There's more than one flavour of coca cola (my dad tried to give me a refill of the regular coke I ordered initially, but accidentally gave me some cherry flavoured Cole or smth like that... yikes.
2. The amount of homeless people everywhere was disturbing.
3. The size of everything. The cities, the dishes, the buildings... a single Walmart is the size of my local mall!
Also, coming from Israel where almost everything is kosher, we were surprised to see how common and how normal it is for people to eat bacon; and how everyone just assumes you want cheese on your hamburger... but I guess this is more 'wtf Israel' than 'wtf USA'
If you want cheese on your hamburger its a cheeseburger here in germany.
so i would say its a wtf america moment
I have never been stopped for J-walking. I am American.
Unless you are being unreasonable about it chances are you wont the only time I have ever seen someone get stopped for it is when some high school kids ran into traffic causing everyone to slam on their breaks.
Basically use common sense.
When I visited Texas I was surprised at how many broken cars I saw on the streets. As in, things that I would be surprised to see in the scrap yard not being processed yet, things that looked like they were in a chain crash... I get it, not everyone could get a new one, but the fact that the public transportation was nearly nonexistent also shocked me.
I was from in America I was just absolutely shocked how much more beautiful Michigan was then Florida I had have never experienced seasons before it is just feels like spring or summer all year