20 WEIRD Things AMERICAN'S Do
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Weird things about Americans
These are some weird things I've noticed about America in my time abroad.
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We call it the ground floor in Australia because it is at ground level. The 1st floor is the 1st floor because it is the 1st floor up from the ground floor.
So you say a building with just the ground floor has 0 floors or do you call it a 1 story building that doesn't have a 1st floor?
BlitzofChaos Gaming A storey is NOT the same as a floor.
BlitzofChaos Gaming If there’s only one floor then you don’t count the floors. You don’t call that one floor the ground floor and you don’t call it the first floor. you don’t call it anything
@@robman2095 If you don't count them how do you know there is only 1? You might think this is a stupid question but labeling or not labeling something doesn't change whether it exists or not.
@@blitzofchaosgaming6737 Obviously you know there is only one floor. I am just saying that we don't refer to it as either floor 1 or floor 0 or even the ground floor. If there is only one floor to enter it is unnecessary to tell someone which floor to go to so you don't need a label and we don't use one.
Another weird thing: tipping is compulsory. The employee shouldn’t have to rely on the customer for a living, that’s the employers job! Just raise the prices of food and pay staff more!
It's not compulsory but you'll look like a $*&
@@robertsertori5559 and you look like an arsehole because that waiter is dependent on you for their livelihood. Which as Braden said, should be the employers responsibility.
@@robertsertori5559 Not compulsory? waiters have been known to chase people down the road if they didnt tip.
Fuck tipping. If you have a great evening, tip if you want.
S we rvice is shit, no tip.
Why do American sports crown themselves "world champions" when it is a domestic competition. It's arogent.
The US dominates in pretty much EVERY sport. Full stop. And perhaps they think they are literally and figuratively world champions is because they CAN spell arrogant .
@@Audios81 Dominates in every sport.. hmmm... Lets see (sticking to world games) .. Football (soccer) .. nope .. Rugby .. nope ... Tennis ... nope .. Cricket ... nope. Carl is correct, the American world view can seem very insular. I'm not sure I would have used "arrogant" though.
@@Gaffa3007 haha 4 sports out of? Exactly. I'll agree with those 4, but that's it. Everything else from skiing, to hockey, the US usually wins the most gold medals during the Olympics, usually. Not always. I can't stand America, nor many of their people. But I can agree with many things they do. If you haven't lived there, you have no clue. Full stop. When you live there, then you can have a valid opinion. Until then, means nothing.
@@Gaffa3007 and at least they can spell "arrogant". Just sayin'.
JJS actual hockey is dominated by the Netherlands, India, Australia to mention a few. Not the US.
American football is literally only played in America. Australian Football League premiers aren’t called “world champions”.
Basketball has many professional leagues around the world. The NBA champion is not the world champion.
Etc...
An American saying the pledge of allegiance is a little cult-like is awesome.
I've been looking for a way to describe it for years.
To be fair, at least when I went to school, we sang the national anthem on a weekly basis. Is that any different?
@@SnowyRVulpix only once a week eh we sung it every moring in Canada in the 80s
On line, I generally find Americans to be not only ignorant of other cultures, but determinedly so. They will just refuse to accept any world view that does not echo their own. It's the most frustrating cultural trait.
Most cultures are here especially in large cities.
What I find weird about the US is that they all care about their rights and freedoms so very much but they don't want to know about any of the obligations that guarantee those rights and freedoms.Y'all need to learn the difference between Nationalism and Patriotism.
Most of us know the differences. But just like in other countries, the idiots are the most vocal.
What i find weird is how Afghanistan, korea, china, and other countries are communist. Like shouldn't the whole world have rights honestly
Why do Americans say “I could care less” when they mean they *couldn’t* care less?
It's called sarcasm, something that seems to be uniquely American or French. "I Could care less," means exactly what it says, you couldn't care any less about something. If you said I could NOT care less, different meaning. So it's, 'I could care less."
@@Audios81 "I could eat more". . . . Does that mean I'm not hungry at all and I don't want any more food? No. . It means I *COULD* eat MORE. .
"I Could care less" LITERALLY means "I have the capacity to care even less than I already do. . ". . "I *COULD* CARE less than I already do!"
Everyone else in the English speaking world says "I *COULDN'T* care less". . . Meaning 'It is not possible for me to give any less of a F___K!"
@@richardrejmer8721 odd, I have lived in the UK, HKG, SIN, and now Sydney and everywhere I've lived people say the exact same thing, "could care less". It's SARCASTIC, and is meant to be said that way. Like, I could fuckin' care less what you think. Sarcasm seems to be your strong point. And by your comment being "edited", obviously had to Google some grammar and spelling. I have never needed to do that. Have over 12 years of University level education, and haven't been at uni in over a decade. So happy that you say it the way you do, but again, stay in your bubble.
@@richardrejmer8721 learn what sarcasm is, or shut the fuck up.
JJS “means exactly what it says” is not sarcasm, in fact, this is the complete opposite of sarcasm. Having said that, I give a shit, which really means I don’t
Love your stuff: Weird things about Americans:
1. Finish sentences with “at.” - where is the car at?
2. Doomsday preppers
3. No separate indicator lights on cars
4. No switches on power points. Maybe it’s different in the US but many appliances (such as pool pumps) don’t have switches so we need an on/off at the power point
5. Say “cream” when they mean coffee whitener
6. Don’t know how to make a cup of tea.
7. Don’t like diesels for passenger vehicles (although there is a reason - the Oldsmobile 350)
Yeah it seems common on American shows like 'Cops', for the cops to use 'where', and 'at', in the same sentence. 'Where is he at?'
'Where' includes the idea of a place being involved, so you do not need to say 'at' when the sentence has already included the word 'where'.
We say first floor because it's the first floor after the ground floor.
@Tristan Kuhn another weird thing about USA is the overwhelming ignorance about the rest of the world. I was living in USA during the first Gulf War and was amazed when engaging in conversation about it and the topic lead to the Vietnam War that except for Vietnam War Veterans, I did not meet a single USA person that knew that Australia fought in the Vietnam War too. I was also astonished when I returned to Australia to learn my country of Australia was on the ground in Iraq and Kuwait (as were other countries), but there was not a single mention in US media except is was USA and UK military. Take a look at some of the John Saffran videos on youtube where he talks to US people on the street and asks questions about the rest of the world... Virtually nobody knew the answers. When I lived in USA in the early 1990's, I was frequently asked if we had electricity in Australia. OMG !!
me me You should have seen the US broadcast of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The Mens 1500mtr Swimming... Keiran Perkins had done badly in the heats, so he was in Lane 8. The two fastest in the heats are in 4&5. Well, NBC only showed the American swimmers in colour, and the rest of the pool was in black & white... even as Keiran (the Australian, and reigning gold medalist in the race) started pulling away and it was clear he was going to win... from lane 8 (an unheard of feat, btw). That is just one example of the insular attitude of the US. Media in the rest of the world reports on what happens locally, AND around the globe... America just sticks to within their borders.
I found this when I was there in 2008/2009, too. I knew people who could name all their state capitals, all the Presidents in chronological order and whatnot, but didn't know that the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, and in fact refused to believe as such until our South African co-worker backed me up. We then had to explain to them how such a thing was possible, by using fruit as the sun and the earth and doing a demonstration. They were flabbergasted. I do remember seeing a video - I don't think it was John Saffran - where a guy had a map of the world on American streets and attempted to question passers-by about various global current affairs and then asked them to identify those countries on the map, and the vast majority of people had absolutely no idea. Most people didn't even hit on the right continent. It was my turn to be flabbergasted.
It's a cult. And an insane one.
@@heystevo82 My final and long-time job (in Australia) included occasionally dealing with specialist software developers in the US. It wasn't unusual for them to advise us that such-and-such an upgrade to some software was expected to be generally available in (for example) spring 2015 or fall 2014 or whatever. I had to remind them, when dealing with Southern Hemisphere contacts, to use hemisphere-neutral terminology like "2nd quarter 2015" or "4th quarter 2014" so that it would be absolutely clear to all what they meant.
They don’t give a shit about whats happened, or happening in the rest of the world. Nothing is taught in schools and nothing is shown in the media. Having said that, I have seen things like the fires we had in January on their news.
Weird things: how Americans use their cutlery, particularly their forks. How they put marshmallows in savoury dishes and salads. How they don’t know words like queue and fortnight. How they misuse the word “whenever” and say redundant things like “off of”. How antiquated their banking system is with very little tap n go and people still using cheques and being paid by cheque or cash not direct deposit. How they use paper towels instead of tea towels. How they have a politeness system at four way stops instead of giving way to the right. So many weird things I’ve encountered on my trips to the USA, but the entree being a main course, the yellow cheese, and the lack of kettles were high on my list too.
Lol fortnight is a game.... and what do mean Americans use forks weird? 😂 and does the rest of the world not use the word “whenever” what do you mean?
@@sweeterlemons3062 a fortnight is a two week period. Lots of Australians are paid every fortnight and pay their rent every fortnight. It predates the game. The Americans I know use forks more like a spoon and less like a prong. They typically cut up their food then transfer their fork to their right hand and scoop food up rather than using their knife and fork for the entire meal. There is another CZcamsr I follow who uses whenever in circumstances where he could have said when. I then started really noticing it with my American friends and other American CZcamsrs. I find all these differences interesting.
A sports one, here in Oz our clubs are mostly community or membership owned, whereas US sports teams are privately owned, i think that's weird, especially when they're giving the Super Bowl cup (Lombardi trophy) to the winning owner, come on that's really freaking weird, the owner gets the cup, makes the speech, then later all the players heap praise on the ownership, like that's so freaking annoyingly weird, like just give the cup to the captain of the team ffs, it's the players time to shine!!!!
I don't think there is a designated captain in an American Football team. I find it weird.
Cellphone companies in Australia only charge for outgoing calls. In North America (USA & Canada) cellphone companies charge for both outgoing AND incoming calls.
so the phone companies are double dipping, that one phone call is costing both caller and receiver.
It's outrageous that subscribers are expect to _pay_ for the privilege of receiving a call from a telemarketer or a scammer.
Floors... it is the number of floors ABOVE or BELOW ground.
Exactly! So simple and straightforward.
So how many buildings do you have with 0 floors? You see the ground is natures floor.
BlitzofChaos Gaming Just because American’s do not comprehend the nuances of how the English language works, does not mean we have to be as ignorant as YOU.
@@aussieragdoll4840 You totally misunderstood my point. Unless you have a dirt floor on the ground level the floor is built above the ground. Might only be 8cm above the level of the ground but that is still a floor above the ground.
@@blitzofchaosgaming6737 not in a civilised society. You just don’t understand how thr world works.
Not wanting universal health care, even though it’ll be cheaper than what you’re paying now!!
Most Americans want Universal healthcare.
I say ‘like’ all the time and I am an Australian
@Rita Roork that’s stupid, you’d literally pay less in taxes for universal healthcare; are you that stupid to know that it’s only really freedom loving democracy’s that have universal healthcare
Differences from US I know of is the coffee is not European/espresso style, a lot more sugar and sweetness in everyday foods, that being said the chocolate isn't as rich, Americans not drinking tap water, random unfinished bridge and road projects about cities, Emphasis on materialism and expectations of character types, Somehow the roads aren't the same they are sealed differently and around cities there's potholes, not sitting in the front of Ubers (although this has changed pretty much everywhere this year) and having a chat with the driver, just getting Ubers everywhere, 150V mains, Older houses in aus have seperate hot cold taps which I didn't really see in the US, calling taps faucets, paper money
That's who you look like. Brett Lee.
HAH yes
Yep. Spitting image. I thought it was him for a minute
haha
Tristan's hair!
Brett Lee & Shane Watson were my favourite Aussie cricketers!
Thank you. Its been bugging me since his vids popped up in my feed
When we visited US first time, we found it weird the high amount of toilet water. Just ridiculous! Same with dates. Never got why you said months first. We actually went and bought a kettle whilst travelling cause many if the places didn’t have one. We just assumed it was worldly universal item. Was very odd seeing so much medication being advertised. I hated that!
And how patriotic and ignorant about other countries. We went to a regular weekday basketball match, and the full patriotic ceremony with national anthem was done at the start. We often do anthem, but only time we do the full patriotic ceremony at start of a sport match would be a either a final or special occasion like Aus Day/ANZAC Day/Remembrance Day etc. At school we sing anthem and school song at each assembly. I’m all for respect of fallen solider and your independence, but I think US goes way overboard. You can still be proud of your country, without going overboard. And the lack of world history and world general knowledge and events. I’ve got American friends and new family in law and they all had no idea about stuff outside the usa bubble. But they were so curious about learning which was great. I think it’s something desperately lacking in the USA education system.
And the allowance of animals on planes. Got the biggest shock when I was dosing on our first internal flight and a dig barked.
So you start off by talking about all the American things you were ignorant of before traveling to the US then talk about how Americans are ignorant of other countries. Do you even notice the irony?
BlitzofChaos Gaming it was a comparison and my experience of going to the states. When travelling to a different country there will be things you don’t realise that are different to your own country.
From what I've read about it, that whole caper of allowing "emotional support animals" into the passenger area on planes was a widely practised rort to avoid paying for pets to be transported as freight on the plane. Last I read, I think the airlines were starting to push back against it.
My Brisbane apartment building has the “American” flier numbering system and I agree, it makes much more sense. Basically we have the Basement, then Ground/First floor, then second floor (where I am) and on up. I say I’m on the second floor, not the first. It’s definitely a much more sensible system.
Also, the egg thing is because there’s a higher risk of salmonella in American eggs, so they have to be kept at a colder temperature. It’s also why they say never to eat raw eggs there. But that’s not the case in other countries with higher food standards (sorry, being honest here). American food standards are atrocious. It’s mostly a profit thing. It’s cheaper to fill your food with crap and cut corners on safety, so they do. But in other countries, we have stricter regulations making sure they don’t fill our food with crap and don’t cut safety corners. For example, I was horrified when I learned that American meat is sprayed with ammonia to kill e.coli.
No spraying here. But that’s also because our cows are mostly free range and grass fed and aren’t constantly standing in their and others shit up to their knees, because they’re being packed into tiny feeding lots where they’re fed a shitton of corn (because corn is subsidised by the US government, so it’s got a get used somewhere- it’s also why corn is used instead of sugar).
To be honest, as someone who grew up on an Aussie beef farm, the conditions American cows on industrial farms have to deal with just breaks my heart. It’s inhumane, and then it’s also really bloody dangerous for the people that eat the final product. We don’t have that issue here. Our cows roam large paddocks, with hopefully plenty of grass (or if not, they get fed hay that is spread about and also sorghum or molasses, but we are careful to make sure they’re mostly fed grass type feed, because grain actually isn’t very good for cows. We also feed them mulga our west, which is a grassy tree. Basically, the farmer pushes the mulga tree over so the cows can graze on that. The tree is often still alive, just pushed on to its side so the cows can reach the mulga leaves). But- the fact that US cows can’t just run and frolic in nice big paddocks, it’s just sad.
Yeah. American food is atrocious. Bad for the animals, bad for the farmers and bad for the consumers. Sorry mate.
Im pretty sure the egg thing is because once eggs are run under water or refrigerated they have to be kept cold.
I don’t know if this is actually true, but I have heard that most Americans don’t hang their clothes outside to dry. Everything goes in the dryer. I think this is weird if it’s true.
its really dependent on where you live. most americans, if they live in a city, do use driers, whether they're in a home or in a laundromat, but if you live in a less populated area, you would normally just hang them to dry so you dont have to drive to the closest city to dry your clothes mechanically.
( hope this helped a bit )
😂lol I mean my babysitter hung her clothes out, but mostly everyone uses dryers. But it’s not always sunny, some places (like where I live) are mostly really cold, like in the summer the highest the temperature gets is 90 usually. And the coldest I’ve seen is -2..... so it’s usually around 40 degrees. But then where my best friend lives, her clothes would probably get set on fire in the summer 🤣🤣🤣 cause it’s shes from Arizona, and she told me the highest temperature she’s seen is 120! Her mailbox has melted before at her old house cause it’s so hot. Lol ive spent a while talking about weather. But it’s an important factor XD anyways yeah I guess it depends where you live! But generally yeah your right, Americans use dryers 😂😂😂
@@sweeterlemons3062 when you say 90 degrees is that f or c it’s a dumb question I know but I’m from Australia soooo hearing 90 degrees without a letter after I’m just gonna assume it’s c as that’s what most people go by
@@michaelageorge2457 no lol I mean Fahrenheit. Omg i just googled it 😂 Um yeah I mean Fahrenheit. Cause cause 90 degrees Fahrenheit is 32.222 degrees Celsius. And 32 degrees Fahrenheit is freezing.
@@sweeterlemons3062 lol 32 degrees is just every day here in summer sometimes even hotter yet nothing has melted hmmm Arizona must just be special lol and I was just thinking like 90 degrees umm if that c then how you alive but thanks for the clarification
One thing I find weird about the US is how kid's sports teams are tied to their schools most of the time. So, if a kid plays football, the team he plays for will be his school team for the most part. Whereas in Australia, if you want to play a sport you just sign up for a local sporting club's team and play against other local teams.
That’s a good one. Thanks!
Schools here also have sporting teams too and play against other schools. My boys played footy at their school, but they also played for the local footy and basketball teams that were not school related
@@SnowBea69 I know that Aussie schools also have sporting teams, but the main sport that kids train and play for is club-based not school-based apart from a few exceptions
Unless you get roped into PSSA. God that shit sucked
@@SnowBea69 When I was at school in Australia (1980s) yes there was an inter-school sports season. It was a short season and though it existed, it was a small scale thing and did not get much attention. It would be advertised, one or two kids might sign up, but if you were not involved you wouldn't really know it was going on except the one or two kids participating might miss a few classes for training. I do not recall anyone not involved going and watching any of the games. My impression was that any participants were kids already playing football for local clubs. The inter-school sports thing seemed much to short-term to coach up novice players into a team.
I did athletics not sports. It was also a local club not connected t any school. We had private school kids in our club that did not go to our school. On Saturdays we all competed, which school you went to had no bearing on anything.
I wish I had $5.00 for every time this guy said "Like"!
I wish I had like $5 too!
And you got 23 likes for that comment.
I say ‘ like’ and I am Australian
Most haters want everybody to act 'like' them. That Australian accent is annoying BTW!
The Egg thing is a tiny bit more complicated. Eggs basically come out of a Chicken's cloaca (which is an organ that expels both eggs and poop) covered in a natural coating that protects the inside of the egg from the poop and any bacteria that come out with it. In the USA, egg producers "clean" the eggs in a way that removes not only any poop or bacteria on the eggs, but also the natural protective covering that shields the inside of the egg from those things. That means that the eggs in the USA must be stored in a refrigerator, or else naturally, the inside would be vulnerable to bacteria and pathogens.
In the rest of the world, the reason why eggs do not need to be refrigerated is because they do NOT remove that protective covering, but in general egg producers globally do also wash and clean the eggs of any poop and bacteria. Also, it's fairly normal in Australia and the rest of the world, to wash your egg before you cook it. But even if you don't the fact that they have that covering, means that the chance of the inside of the egg being contaminated is close to zero.
place said egg in cup of water, if it sinks its ok, if it floats its no good.
As for other weird things about the USA
Nothing is ever small, only "regular"
Aussies literally don't regard the "ground" as a "floor" ...a floor is - to us - the other side of a "ceiling" and its totally natural for us to think this way.
I think nearly every other country in the world does it like Australia.
Okay, because you asked, I find it odd that people say they are going to the "bathroom" when they are going to a toilet! Businesses do not have bathing facilities - they have toilets! 😊
Haha that’s a good one. Added
that’s because it’s nicer to say bathroom, than toilet :)
Maz De Hay so what do you call the bathroom?
Shmick ! lol the bathroom, either way it just sounds nicer than saying Toilet
@@mazdehay587 Why is using a euphemism "nice"? It strikes me as somewhat childish.
Lol nope. In one story buildings they only have a ground floor. The first floor is above the ground floor. Its commen sense. You need to spend more time here
7:30 Also if you map out the Democrat and Republican parties on a political spectrum which includes political parties from all the world's liberal democracies the American ones actually fall to the right. The Democrats are roughly centre-right and the Republicans are far right. The US has no real political parties which fall to the centre-left or beyond.
If you map out the candidates for the upcoming election on a scatter graph with the vertical axis being authoritarian - libertarian and the horizontal axis being left - right, the candidates for both major parties are scattered all around each other within the same authoritarian right quadrant. 26 out of the 31 candidates are within this quadrant.
Of the 5 outliers only 4 are are on the left side of the spectrum. Bernie is technically on the left but he is literally almost straddling the centre line.
So if Bernie were a candidate in Canada, Western Europe, or AUS/NZ he would be a hard moderate, the Democrats would be the major conservative party and the Republicans would be the far right quack party which keeps accidentally having neo-nazi scandals and incidents that everyone finds mildly entertaining but doesn't hold any real power within government.
Great info, that’s. Yeah, as a whole the US is one of the more right winged countries. As you saw from the democratic primaries, Bernie was pretty much forced out of the race from the mainstream democrats all agreeing to drop out and support Joe.
Having two parties makes everyone pick a party even though some don’t really fit it. For example if there was a more left party, Biden could have ran as president representing that party but instead he had to say he was a democrat and then they ended up forcing him out.
Obviously I’m not expert on this it that’s my 2 cents. Thanks for the thoughtful comment
I would like to know where you get this info from. Not saying you arent right, just wondering. Bernie being ‘in the middle’ just seems weird to me.
Also, Bernie dropping out shows me how corrupt the system is. I mean Biden is obviously senile, there is no way of denying that.
Anyway, if youre bored, check out the Joe Rogan podcast with Bret Weinstein that came out couple days ago. Somewhere in the middle Weinstein comes up with a pretty interesting possible solution for the political climate in the States.
@@TheOneMaxShow www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
The reason why it seems so skewed is because they use the same criteria for all the elections of western democracies. If you have a look at the other countries some will have a more even spread of parties across the entire spectrum, others will be somewhat similar to the US with all the parties bunched in the authoritarian right/conservative quadrant.
@@TheOneMaxShow Also to explain why Bernie being centre seems wrong there's an effect known in political science as the 'overton window' or the window of discourse. Basically if a group of people wants to push the mainstream conservation towards their side they will push the most extreme version of whatever they want changed so that by comparison the new "middle ground" is actually in their favour.
Once this is done the goalposts can be shifted again and again until whatever they wanted done all along is completed or whatever they wanted done becomes accepted by most people.
Both sides of the political spectrum use variations of this technique. The conservative right did it all through the 20th century in the US on a wide range of topics across the board (like drugs and healthcare for example) while also prosecuting anyone who was left of the new centre (red scare/mccarthyism). Currently the Republicans use Trump to spew far right nonsense so they can push their own agenda of cracking down on immigration and women's rights. The liberal left used it to achieve gay marriage, since decades ago it would've been thought of as unthinkable so non-discriminations laws were the new middle ground that the majority could agree on.
@@TristanKuhn Bernie calls himself a Democrat (sometimes) but he has won all his previous elections representing Vermont in the U.S. House & U.S. Senate as an Independent!
we used to have !c and 2c pieces, but they got rid of the copper coins, our dollars were paper and we had 1 and 2 dollar bills
Our one and two dollars have been coins for well over 35 years. I worked in Grace Bros as a cashier when we changed from paper to coin for these two values. I left that job in 1984...
Thanks for the video!
I find our European system more logical when labeling the floors. Basically we count the stairs. And as OberonOZ writes, if you're on the ground, you don't have a floor yet.
The two-party system comes you have a majority vote. You have that, for a clear balance of power. But it represents the fewest citizens in parliament. Many other states have a proportional representation right. A lot more citizens are represented, but getting a majority for a government is more difficult. Parties then have to form coalitions. But actually that's a plus because power is shared.
I'm from Germany. When it comes to selling, we strictly differentiate between medicines and other personal care products. There is even a ban on advertising drugs that only a doctor can prescribe. In the United States, there is a problem that many people have become addicted because they have had too little medication. It might help if the US passed stricter drug sales laws.
I'm looking forward to your next video. Sorry, my english is not so good.
Hey Pucky71! You're English is great! And thanks for writing all that. I loved what you had to say about the two-party system. I couldn't have said it better myself (just didn't want to bore people by going on a tangent explaining it in the video). One of my friends is from the Netherlands and we had a long talk a couple days ago about that.
As much as I understand the logic behind how you count stories/floors I still prefer the US way. I think that's just because it's what I'm used to.
The floor labeling makes even more sense when referring to basements as level -1, -2 etc. Ground level being 0.
One weird thing about America/ns: portion sizes. I used to work at a Subway store and an American lady came in to buy herself some lunch. She asked for a large drink with her sub so I grabbed a large cup. She says “No, I said large”. I was just like “This is large...it’s the largest cup we have”. She was surprised.
One other thing I’ve noticed working in hospitality in touristy areas is ‘manners’. It’s not really a negative thing but when I worked in hospitality I noticed they’d say “I’ll have ____” or “Can you get me a straw”. Lack of please and thank you. But they almost always said it in an upbeat way so they didn’t come off as rude. Maybe it’s just particular to individuals.
Other than that, when I’ve been abroad, Americans are generally speaking very pleasant and sociable people. They have enthusiasm for just about everything.
Haha I watched a vid once of an American Girl having to explain to her mother that you can't just order your coffee in Australia. You have to say like a polite intro - I'd never even realised we all do it 😂
Also I ask for medium drink sometimes at Subway and always forget how huge it is 😂 when they pull it out I'm always shocked
whats the last number in a countdown ? when a clock starts does it start at 1 or 0 , this is why the 1st floor is the next floor
Cheese in American has food colouring added....noticed this long ago as I'm Canadian/American, and Canada is close to Oz, Commonwealth. We grew up with a hot water dispenser, but no kettle, which I miss not having it here. But electric kettles are a must here and Canada, staple goods!
American: wheres your bathroom pal?
Australian: why, did you need to take a bath?
American: no! I need to do a number 2
Australian: NOT in my bath you not mate.
It's just a name derived from a domestic term applied to a public entity. Everything doesn't have to be literal...or the way that you do it.
If you're in a one story building then you are on the ground floor. Not the 1st floor. There is no first floor because there is no second floor.
Ground floor is your starting line. Anything else is above or below. Your can have Basement 1 and 2 and then floors above. Makes sense.
In the United States, it’s more than a food safety recommendation that eggs be refrigerated - it’s the law. The USDA determined that the best way to fight Salmonella contamination is by sanitizing the eggs before they reach the consumer. The washing process removes contaminants, but it also removes the natural coating of the egg, leaving the shell porous. On U.S. commercial egg farms, it is required that eggs are thoroughly washed and immediately refrigerated before they leave the farm and during transportation to the grocery store.
If you want to understand why we label the building levels the way we do in AUS
think of a ladder. The ground level is zero and the first step on the ladder is first level, the second step on the ladder is second level etc.
Interestingly the former world trade centre site in New York is called Ground Zero.
Thats a good way to look at it. And yeah, that is interesting
We refrigerate our eggs. Because we wash them off before sale, which also removes the protective covering. Egg shells are very permeable so stuff can get into them and spoil/poison them w/o that coating, hence the refrigeration.
With the eggs it's actually todo with how they are cleaned as well as the fact that they are refrigerated.
The egg thing is actually quite fascinating. In the US eggs are typically subjected to a harsh cleaning process to make them look shiny and perfect; this destroys the natural protective coating of the egg and causes them to spoil more easily, hence the refrigeration. In Australia eggs aren't cleaned much at all, it's common to find bits of straw or chicken shit stuck to them; so they don't spoil as easily.
Also as an Australian I will never ever use a kettle, I boil water in a saucepan. Kettles are very difficult to keep clean - go look inside an empty kettle some time, it's disgusting.
Some countries refrigerate eggs because they have a higher risk of salmonella. In Australia chickens are immunised against salmonella which means the chance of your eggs making you sick are very low.
Yes, though we fairly recently also adopted the US technique for washing eggs, which makes the shell porous as it removes a protective outer layer. Now our eggs are refrigerated, and need to be, in store.
Referring to one of your other video's Fosters was a big beer company over here from owned by C.U.B in the early 1900's and until the mid to late 80's When it was sold to a British company now it's many sold in the UK and the cans were blue Cheers
You are so right about ' ranch'. What is in that stuff?! The pledge of allegiance is way weird too. Gr8 fun vid
Thank you!
I would say the weirdest thing in America is the fact that the president is a carrot with a wig and a huge ego, and his opponent this year is an old guy with Alzheimers who talks about his hairy legs in interviews😂
🤣🤣 that’s pretty weird. I remember 4 years ago thinking “really, we have to pick between Hillary and Trump? Can we not find 2 better people than them?”.
Here we are 4 years latter and not much has changed haha
@@TristanKuhn excellent... even as a non-US person, I thought the same at the time... vote for loser number one or loser number 2.
Tristan I’ve said the same thing so many times! As an Aussie I’m like ... 300 odd million people and these are your options????? Dude.
If anyone Aussie comments on this, they have NO dog in that fight. Politics here are even worse. If you actually know how politics work in this country. Which I'm sure 99% percent don't as most Aussies are apathetic to the whole thing. Preferential voting, not voting in the PM, and on and on. So don't be throwing digs at a system you don't understand, the US or our own here in Oz. And yes I'm a tri-citizen, Australian at Canadian and American and familiar with each of their respective political systems. Just sayin'
@@Audios81 Preferential voting is vastly superior to first past the post voting, which is why USA is basically stuck with a two party system. You could be right about not being able to vote for the PM being bad, but also has its advantages. Also don't start off your spiel by saying no Aussie can comment on this, or I'll ask you to go home to the USA. LOL.
Having grown up part in America I have too much personal experience about culture shock. One of the craziest thing was about food. Whether the crazy side difference or the insane food coloring on everything. I’m happy that I got to experience it growing up since it makes me have more of an open mind to things.
Same here!
Garbage disposal in the sink. That seems so useful now that I think about it, but I was really shocked when I learnt that Americans have those.
This one I'm not sure on since I haven't lived in America. In movies/tv American schools have a cafeteria and it seems like a bunch of kids use it and eat there. There is the stereotypes about a "lunch lady" or that the school food sucks, or that everyone fights over the slices on pizza day. In Australia we call it a canteen. They have great food because it's more like a business in the school than a part of the school. Not that many kids actually go there (maybe 5% of the school each day?). I remember when I was in primary school everyone was really jealous of the kids who got lunch orders. Idk if that is a fake stereotype made by movies because drama in the cafeteria is more interesting than eating your sandwich while playing footy on the oval.
Look into MintMoible for reasonably-priced cellphone service in America.
Hey can you please tell me about iced tea. I hear so much about southern American iced tea but when I went to try some and buy it from Coles it was all flavoured and stuff. Which one is closest to proper iced tea?
The floor thing is first floor above the ground, that’s why it’s done that way.
Do you ever pay the actual price marked? Between weird sales tax and tips you never know what you’re paying.
Eggs are sold in the fridge/cool section, and they last about 2-3 weeks longer being stored in the fridge then not being stored in the fridge
The floor system I find is not just Australian. Like degrees Celsius or day/month/year date format it's only the USA who doesn't do this.
Eggs have to be refrigerated if they're washed. Which in the US, is mandated, and in Europe/UK it is mandated NOT to wash them. There is a thin layer of protection around the shell that is impervious to bacterial penetration. And so the eggs can be left unrefrigerated. In the US however the eggs are washed with warm water, removing this coating, making refrigeration necessary to stop them spoiling
Hi Tristan
Eggs in the USA are bleached which makes the shells porous so unfortunately, they can't be kept on the shelf... White eggs, and white teeth freak me out.
BTW Have you considered that in every country apart from the USA, travelling up 1 flight of stairs leads to the 1st floor, 2 flights leads to the 2nd floor, etc.?
That's a good way to describe it. Each flight of stairs leads to the next floor. I'm still not used to it but it makes sense if you think of it that way
Why bleach the egg?
@@danielgonzalez-yp7hi For the same reason they dye their cheese orange...
They think that's what U. S. Customers want
@@judasweeps3112 sadly I feel it's not cosmetic. American chicken carcasses are also washed in detergent before sales as many/most flocks have been intensively farm. In europe, and possibly the rest of the world but I don't know, to ensure safety from salmonella threre are strict regulations about cleanliness and hygiene to prevent disease. In the states, please correct me if I'm wrong, this is done at the final stage, hence bathing chicken carcasses and washing eggs. Although there is a slight aesthetic thing. I think white eggs are popular in the states whereas here in the UK most eggs are brown, foolishly we associate this with being more healthy and wholesome. that's how easy it is to fool us
There are both white, brown, speckled but no green eggs. The eggs are not bleached but washed which does two things, first it remove any hen "dirt" that might be on the eggs and more directly on the shell there is sort of an oxidation layer that gets removed, thus thus the eggs need to be refrigerated.
I live in Australia....my school (used to) sing the nation anthem every Monday (stopped cause of corona....Social distancing)
So it’s not really weird for America to do that
I am English and went to live in NJ for a couple of years, there are far too many ads for medical stuff.
Electric kettles aren't common in the US because of the voltage. Typical kettle is 2,000 to 2,400 watts which at 240 V is 10 amps or less. At 120V it would be 20 amps which is not a common outlet size. The alternative would be a 1200 Watt kettle that would take 20 minutes to boil water. The weirdest thing about America is that they think it is the greatest country on earth and ten give stupid reasons.
The kettle thing is because US power is 120v (240v in Australia) so it takes longer to boil water in an electric kettle. So a microwave or gas cook-top is faster.
Yes, we need a parliamentary system for just the reason you mentioned: a chance for all viewpoints to be represented, as well as the parties KNOW they HAVE to compromise to get ANYTHING done
You could discuss the banking sector and the use of cheques/checks.
If you want you can also discuss the words for holding 2 alcoholoc drinks at a time.
Also not having overhead lights in apartment lounge areas and using lamps plugged into the outlet with the switch near the door.
That America loves utes/trucks.
Hope you really enjoyed your time
Great video. Don't agree about the building numbers! Lol
Look at building like rungs on a ladder. If your feet are on the floor (ground) you're not classed as the first rung of the ladder - because you haven't started climbing yet. You're on zero rungs....
It's where the saying ground zero comes from. It's the starting point, level with earth... after zero comes 1.
I think only America calls ground level, first floor, so if it were a democracy, we'd win 😅😅
Tristan, I hope you stay in Australia for a couple of years.... until things get better in the USA. You’re very welcome over here.
Thank you! I love it here and have no plans on going home during corona
@@TristanKuhn I like your vid's mate. You seem like a good man. I hope our country is good to you. Cunts in every country bud, just hope the cunts here aren't as bad.... lol
Watched your vid on Aussie's using the "C" Word... haha
I totally agree about the floors in buildings. I never really noticed it because I rarely go into multiple story buildings. It makes much more sense the American way.
I think of the floors like a vertical number line. Ground floor is zero on the number line. So it could be called Floor Zero. Then you go upstairs to floor 1. Sounds logical to me. :) The floor below is floor -1, etc.
If you live in a house do you call it the first floor.
Plus buildings can have floors below street level.
I like the way you think through things - you are travelling to expand your mind.
Mico is the only way to super heat water. You can actually get the temperature above 100 degree cel which is typically boiling point. But I’m a mico you can actually get the water above 100 and that can cause severe third degree burns. So yeah use a kettle
How about not being able in some states that you can not pump your own gas for your car?
Ground floor is zero floors away from ground. Then you can have basement floors B1, B2, B3 which are equivalent to -1, -2, -3. In America you must have to go straight from 1 to B1, which is weird.
Mobile phone, not cellphone. One (penny) and two-cent coins were removed from circulation in 1997, (but they are still legal tender). We do tend to keep our eggs refrigerated these days.
What I find weird is how Americans always talk so loud. It's like they are yelling when they are just having a normal conversation.
Yes! So freaking loud!
Because in their ethnic culture they are taught to be so outspoken and be confident no matter what in their daily lives... also taught is being prideful ultimately more than being humble and considerate
It does make it easier to pick the Americans in a crowd...if the socks and sandals didn't give it away first! 😁
On the topic of eggs... so not to endanger anyone.
Eggs are treated differently in the USA vs some other countries.
In the USA eggs are "cleaned", they are stripped down to their shell, removing the natural protective film over the eggs.
From this point, the eggs are required to be refrigerated to prevent the growth of salmonella.
The UK doesn't remove this film and as a result, don't need to refrigerate eggs. Australia cleans a little further than this, so they aren't refrigerated in the store, but should be refrigerated at the home.
Water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 Celcius.
So seems to be an easy gage of temperature
Something to consider with your debate/defense of a ground floor being the first floor: How do you then denote subterranean floors? -1, -2, -3. If the ground floor is 1 and the first basement floor is -1, where is floor 0?
I don't find the two party political system particularly weird. However, the rallies and conventions that go with politics in the US are very odd. I have only ever seen them on TV but they look more like a religious revival than a political rally. For me, politics is about financial and social policies first and moral superiority a distant second. US campaigning seems to be largely about establishing moral superiority first then viewing policies from that vantage point.
I've seen many interviews where people say, "I'm a Republican." Whereas, if I were of that political persuasion, I would say, "I vote (or voted) Republican." It's like they have a sense of identity or total commitment or something I don't know. I would like to hear your comments on this difference.
Yet Americans still say "The Fourth of July"
In fifty years, I have NEVER thought of that as a cogent rebuttal! Thank you!
Try Red Leicester cheese orange and delicious !
I agree we should number floors at 1, not ground and then 1 but that said, I'm a train driver (that's railroad engineer) and Australian locomotives are numbered with a class prefix of usually 2 numbers (a letter in Victoria) and then the unit number within that class. Eg; the NSW 44 class had 100 units, numbered 4401 - 44100. American locomotives are numbered from zero. Eg; if there were 100 locos in a class, they be numbered (let's say) 4400 - 4499. When else does one start counting anything from zero?
Most that I see say L for lobby or g for ground...and these levels usually have a floor, so they're the 1st "floor", (not the 1st elevated floor.)
The egg thing has a little to do with refridgerating it, but it has a lot more to do with washing the eggs. If you wash the the eggs, it removes a protective layer that massively reduces bacterial transmition & propagation through the shell. Australia does the same thing in some states. If washed you have to refriderate to extend safe self life.
Sobriety tests.. just breathalyse them if you think they've been on the piss. Also the lack of slang, the inability to laugh at themselves (everything is offensive), lack of swearing, unable to tell where someone is from due to their accent... "yall from England". lol But don't get me wrong.. every now and then I come across an American that restores my faith in the entire country ;)
US has about 18000 police departments. Aus has just one police dept for each state and one at a federal level.
And you drive on the wrong side of the road
No, you drive on the wrong side of the road hahaha jk. Thanks, had no idea about he police departments
@@TristanKuhn we don't have sheriffs like in America. Ours is tied to the courts and only enforces court orders in civil matters. Our police are also much better trained generally
Tristan Kuhn No, no... you drive on the right hand side of the road. We drive on the correct side of the road.
by having a single police force in a state it make it more difficult for there to be ‘jurisdictional conflicts’. In the US, crims can commit a crime in one town and move to another and police have issues going to get them, or chase them... that doesn’t happen here. If a crim looks to be trying to cross the state border, the police will contact the other state and ask them to continue the chase or grant permission for ours to continue the chase. Much more efficient way of doing things.
I'm Australian and I've always thought it as ground floor, second floor ECT
One thing I love and respect America for is how patriotic they are toward their culture, I wish we in Australia can be as patriotic as the Americans
Simon I disagree..I find Americans to be overtly patriotic...all that hand on the heart crap(which is starting to happen here..Scomo I’m looking at you)..yes you can be proud of your Country but don’t go overboard.
@@terencemccarthy8615 100% Agree
Probably because we call them levels not floor. So level 1, level 2, etc so it makes more sense when you say level than floor when level 1 is the next level after ground.
Why do Americans buy regular drinking water from the supermarket/grocery store?
I see that a lot happening in California, though not so much in the Midwest.
Hunter Radiant California water, especially in San Diego, comes from a long way away.... sometimes a different state. So the taste can be quite bad. Think Adelaide bad...
Eggs in America get washed, which removes a natural coating called the bloom, as well as any random poop smears. The bloom actually protects the egg from bacteria though, so if you wash off the bloom, you need to refrigerate the eggs, and you need to freak out at the thought of eating raw egg because it is more likely to be contaminated.
The ground floor is at street level. The first storey built above the original building is known as the first floor. This makes it a two storey building.
Ground 'Floor'=1
@@uvprofile67
Not to British or Australians.
Ground, then 1st floor (above Ground floor).
The traditions in UK precede those in later colonies by centuries. Old World came before New World.
Talking about time. When I worked in NY they would say a quarter OF 5. We would say a quarter TO 5, or 4:45. I found that "of" really weird.
It's a North-Eastern thing. My friend from Connecticut says it all the time.
The same thing is when they say “off of” instead of just “off” like ....Get off of me
Ground floor is like zero. It would be weird if you had multistories above and below ground to start with one on the ground floor. Ground floor is the level that allows you to leave the building because it's level with the ground outside.
Ads for drugs on TV. Not only is there a plethora of them but the really strange part is the warnings that follow every one of them. This may cause muscle cramps, headaches, hypertension, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and on it goes for two minutes.
Eggs are washed in the US due to FDA and USDA regulations. Here in Oz they aren't, so the protective coating stays on
There is a different way they prepare eggs in the US to Australia... can't remember exactly what, but I read it somewhere.... but one of them wash the eggs and the others don't... so one has to be refridgerated. It is a difference with the food standards.
Australians use to recite the pledge to the Royal Family every morning at school and even as far back as the 70's, (sigh) when I was a young'un we sung the national anthym every day at assembly.
As an Australian, I totally agree. 1st floor and Ground floor should be synonymous. None of this offset nonsense.
It makes more sense to heat your water in a microwave oven in a glass or ceramic bowl. The whole point of a microwave is that the microwaves increase the rate at which the water molecules are moving (they're ALWAYS moving, even when they're in ice form...if they weren't, Absolute Zero wouldn't just be hypothetical), so by heating it up in 90 seconds is more economical and therefore environmentally friendly.
As for the date, that's only changed in the last decade or so. I've been following professional tennis since the mid-1990s, and everyone in the chat sessions on a lot of the websites are international and people used to write their dates MM/DD/YY...but in the last decade or so, people started writing their dates DD/MM/YY. But as for speaking, I never tell people that my birthday is on "the second of July"...I always say "July 2nd". That's interesting though, I'm going to start listening to how people say their dates.
Oh yeah, why were you paying so much for mobile phone service here in America? My unlimited data is $29.99 (nah, it's $30.00, I just wanted to pay homage to your penny rant. Hehe.) with AT&T Wireless. Now I wanna ask my friends how much they're paying 'cause I use about 60GB/month and pay $30.00.
Wait, who told you that eggs NEED to be refrigerated? Even after I buy my eggs from the supermarket, I leave my 18-pack of eggs next to my stove and I eat 3 of them everyday and I've never gotten sick from them (I don't good eggs for breakfast on Sundays 'cause I usually go out with friends for breakfast or brunch).
Hey Sean! The microwave does make sense if you’re just making one cup but otherwise the kettle is nice. And I find it easier to get the temperature right with a kettle. When it comes to cell service. Maybe Hawaii is on a different broadband or something like that. What cell phone provider are you with?
Regarding eggs, I read why you cant (or not supposed) to leave them out after refrigeration is because they condensate ok the outside and I guess that’s bad for them or something. But clearly it works for you so it’s not that big of a deal!
Tristan Kuhn I probably should’ve also mentioned that we do have water kettles in our houses (my and my bro) ‘cause we do have family/friends over pretty often. 😁
Sorry, all my parentheses distract. I have AT&T Wireless. All the major companies bought out the local providers years ago. I used to work for Honolulu Cellular 1997-1999 and then AT&T bought them out so I worked for them 1999-2000. But I didn’t realize data rates had gotten so high. I think since I’ve had this data plan since around 2007, I think I might’ve been locked in.
Hmm. Now you’ve piqued my interest. My dad grew up on a farm on Kaua’i, so I’ve always just kept my eggs out...but I never thought about the distinction between being refrigerated or not. As a man of science, I’m definitely gonna go read up on it.
Dude, thanks for always making videos that are fun, but also thought provoking and conversation provoking. I’ve really enjoyed your content from back in your gymnastics days. Wow, the time has really passed!
Hope you’re having a great Pride Month! 😘❤️🏳️🌈
I started using ISO dates yyyy/mm/dd long before 2000. Also swapped VCR for one with 24 hr clock after accidentally recording mid-morning crap instead of late night brain food,
My house would confuse you--two levels at front, one at back. Which one's Ground floor?
the egg thing. I could be wrong but I think in the states the egg are washed. This destroys the protective porous shell, and the eggs then need to be refrigerated. Of course, as you said, once refrigerated, eggs need to stay refrigerated as the moisture in the fridge will destroy the protective coating on the eggs. Sadly the real issue is poor husbandry of hens and using detergent to rectify the problem at the end rather than addressing the initial problem
So glad you can see how illogical the date thing is
We (Australia) actually have laws against advertising prescription medications because they don't want people to misuse them. Misuse of anti-microbial medication can create super bugs (diseases resistant to treatment) and make people resistant to treatment. America has far less strict rules on medication and medical treatments.
FYI - egg refrigeration is because the US (and some Australian states) washes the eggs, this removed the seal from off the eggs pores making them susceptible to bacteria. If the egg is washed, it must be kept in the fridge!
Technically in a 1 story building you would be on ground level? Add another story to that 1 and you get a 2 story house that’s where it gets confusing
Weird thing about America: your butter is white! Apparently this is because the cows that the milk comes from are kept indoors. In Australia, dairy cows have time outside in the sunshine which increases their levels of vitamin D, which in turn gives Australian butter a yellow colour.
About the floors difference it’s a matter of transition. It literally means above ground. So that’s why the American second floor is actually first floor anywhere else.