5 Ways to Offend Americans 🇺🇸😬
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- So you guys know we unwittingly trigger some Americans so we thought it was only right to talk about ways to offend Americans. We've made a video on how to offend Brits and that will be coming soon!
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Neither of you could ever offended me. Actually you were right on.
Joel I don't eat beef either because its not good for u.yes I'm an American but im not offended by u & Lia.to be honest each state is like an island each 1 is so different in everything including language & what they r taught in school :-)
I have to ask!.But how long did u (both) live in the U.S for?
Yes, we tend to be drama queens on this side of the pond LOL
@@dirkjensen969 my mom is like this but she does so innocently thatu ur not sure if she knows she is doing it. :-/
Who else from the USA clicked on this video to see if you would actually be offended?
Turtlesunday 101 Right?! I’m not offended though. My neice lived in England for 5 years, and when our family went over for her graduation from uni my niece took them for dinner at a friends home - her friend is a very posh Brit who was super triggered about loads of things. My nephew tried to get the conversation going bc they just sat silent mostly during dinner; he mentioned the revolutionary war and well girl it was not a good thing! Mrs. X was angry!! So embarrassing - how could my nephew not think of anything else to say! Idiot! I’ve noticed from movies, tv shows, vlogs and such that some Brits become super triggered about their fellow ‘patriots’ turning against The Crown to start a new country in America
. Maybe they feel once a treason always a treason - I don’t know.
kinda tbh. I also wanted to see what they said too XD
Me Lol
^I^
Almost all the points we're correct though, in general. I mean they were completely right. Americans are just stuck up their own ass more than most countries. There's nothing wrong with being patriotic, but Americans really take it to the extreme that they can't even take a joke.
Annoying thing - when tourists think the entire country is like Los Angeles or New York
Agreed.
Andrea Ryan compared to other places we don't get cold at all. I have never seen snow once and I've lived in SoCal my whole life. And everyone loves when there's rain cause we've been in a drought forever. It's gets cold but like our version of cold which is like 50 degrees
Roy Michelle yeah. 50 is pretty cold
Andrea Ryan 50s is shorts and tee shirt weather, cold is -25 degrees with 30 mph winds.
@@kylefast9650 No. lol No it is not. It's not even a tropical climate, it's Mediterranean.
It doesn't offends us when you complain about your weather, it cracks us up.
Right 😆 🤣
strange because most people love rain in UK, me being one 🤣
Not offended- just had to laugh when Joel said “It’s our language! You took it!”... no darling, we didn’t take your language. You gladly brought it over when you “settled” here 😂
We inherited it just like they did. They crack me up when they claim to have invented it!
Even more so, English is a Germanic language, so it really isn't something they can claim
Allright wer going to america let's not talk to them because they won't understand so let's just not talk to them
Was thinking the same thing but would add - you guys left it here when we threw you and your monarchy (make believe) out.
Haha exactly
No Texan would say, “I’m not American, I’m from Texas.” Our statriotism doesn’t diminish our patriotism.
Yeah I mean I'm sure Joel and Leah would be fine if we called them Welsh, right?
True
EXACTLY
Right? In the states though, we're bragging about it, because we have every right to, but outside of the country "yeah, I'm from America" if they happen to ask which state we're from, then our Texas pride rears its beautiful head
I'm an Idahoan first and an American second.
brits: 4th of july has nothing to do with us
Americans: you were the ones we fought!
Brits: **visible confusion**
😂😂😂
So many people have declared independence from the UK, I understand why they've lost track.
Olivia Staub long time ago
Yeah, that's why I expected Brits to know a little bit of American history. America wouldn't BE the country it is if not for them. It's bizarre that they wouldn't be taught some basic highlights, but I guess it makes since that you wouldn't want to teach the children how you lost your greatest property just because you were being an a-hole...
When a foreigner tries to do an American accent it doesn't offend me it actually makes me laugh
Ik
I genuinely like to hear it if it's a real attempt.
I think "Valley Girl" would be pretty easy to do, and maybe even a Tennessee accent as well, but let them try to do a Minnesota/Wisconsin nasal thing. That would be fun.
Yeah tbh it sounds silly to me they always do the "Valley girl accent" which nobody has outside LA.😂
U know how many diff accents we have in USA. Then add diff languages and Native Indian languages.
1: ignore the queue
2: throw trash on the ground when a garbage can is a few steps away
3: impede the flow of traffic, both driving and walking
4: don't deposit your shopping cart
5: bring up politics
Very true. Especially #2 for me. There doesn't even have to not be a trashcan around for me to be upset by littering.
The UK: It's been really hot here.
The US: Cute, we literally have states that are on fire.
Justin LeMacks And Australia is like our county is on fire 😭
@@williamsanphy3126 I thought for sure you were going to say Continent.
Or an entire state was blow away by a tornadoes.
Arizona :(:(:(
Yeah, being a californian is hard at times
Americans didn't take the language, they brought the language with them.
Actually Americans in British originally sounded the same. Some time after the revolution the British actually fabricated their accent and dialect. Rich people actually paid people to teach it to them.
how did we bring the language Americans are born in america it was Brits who brought it
Bad Cattitude Exactly! Many coastal regions, and islands have accents that are pretty close to the original British accent that was brought over to the New World. I live in VA - east coast. Guinea near Gloucester, Va has for the most part retained their old accents. So we didn’t steal their language - it was ours as well, and we just didn’t evolve in the language with them.
Well, I’m Native American and we speak Cree. 🤷🏽♀️😘
GutiePie TTV Omg IKR. I HATE when British people are like YoU sToLe OuR lAnGuAgEs
Joel on the 4th of July "It has nothing to do with me." 🤣🤣 actually it DOES being you're English 😉
It has nothing to do with him
It has something to do with the contry
But not him as a person
Yes, it’s our Independence Day from the England.
@@antolimakrov5925 It has to do with the people inside of the country not the country itself.
It really doesn't though for most UK citizens. It is a blip on their radar when you look at their entire history, I mean they can trace their history back to before the Roman Empire. US history has less then 600 years, if you start with 1492, huge difference.
Perfect example, if you ask an American about General Cornwallis. In the US he is only remember for his involvement in our Revolutionary War but in British history, he had a whole life serving in India after the Revolutionary War and his reforms were extremely important in that country, he was a very forward thinking Governor of India for the time period. It's a huge difference but most Americans have no idea how much Cornwallis did after leaving the U.S.
@@bkayser05 as a person who lived their whole life in the US i can confirm this.
“They’re very independent” *wrote Declaration of Independence* 😂😂 freedom baby
I N D E P E N D E N T
Not anymore now that Biden is president lol
Imagine living in the US
And they want you to know
@@imDontaye I don't have to
I have never, ever, heard an American tell a Brit that they speak English "very well" like they suggest. Who are these Americans?
Exactly😳
It depends on the accent. Ever hear a Geordie accent? I needed a freaking translator!
Donald Trump does that! With each country! 🤣
Me neither? Who are these Americans? Odd.
@@GroinFaceGroin I heard Georgie once... and having studied SEVERAL foreign European languages, I'm pretty good with accents... and hell, I thought it was a completely foreign language!
My friends in the UK 🇬🇧 always send me “Happy Treason Day You Ungrateful Colonists!” Every 4th of July 😂
Gia Kürstenschweizer I just posted this elsewhere - then read your comment:
My neice lived in England for 5 years, and when our family went over for her graduation from uni my niece took them for dinner at a friends home - her friend is a very posh Brit who was super triggered about loads of things. My nephew tried to get the conversation going bc they just sat silent mostly during dinner; he mentioned the revolutionary war and well girl it was not a good thing! Mrs. X was angry!! So embarrassing - how could my nephew not think of anything else to say! Idiot! I’ve noticed from movies, tv shows, vlogs and such that some Brits become super triggered about their fellow ‘patriots’ turning against The Crown to start a new country in America. Maybe they feel once a treason always a treason - I don’t know.
You know... thank God for America. Britain has a Queen, but it’s not like she has any power. What’s the point? Brits think we are ungrateful to them (and we shouldn’t be grateful to them). But they should be grateful to us because after we claimed our independence they reduced the authority of the Queen in Britain, since they learned how unfair their system was. 🇺🇸
Tammy Seltzer It’s meant to be a joke. British humor is steeped in sarcasm and intellectual humor. As someone who lives in Boston, there’s actually allot about the revolutionary war that Americans are not taught or taught incorrectly. It was the wealthy slave owning land owners who were mostly opposed to British rule. You see GB abolished slavery which was going take affect in the American colonies. The wealthy tobacco plantation owners obviously didn’t like that idea; however, convincing the rest of the colonies to give up their British identity and all of the benefits that came with it, was going to be a tough sell. Being an American colonist had tremendous opportunity for upward mobility that was unattainable back in England due to a rigid social structure. The average American colonist could literally escape whatever social constraints they had back home and carve out a much more prosperous existence in the American colonies with the backing of the crown to protect them and purchase goods produced in the American colonies. The average colonist were actually devout loyalists. The whole “no taxation without representation” was propaganda derived by wealthy slave owners to convince the rest of the colonies to rise up against “British tyranny” so they can continue to own slaves.
Wish them a happy Losers Day.
I wonder at what point, will Britain realize that it was the United States, in BOTH World Wars, that saved them from complete occupation.
“2 hours is a road trip” LMAO!!
That is one way to work!!
2 hours thats not even that long
@@elizabetharellano7976 - I know! I was living in Texas short term and my mother drove 25 hours 4 ways to come see me; picked me up to visit home and took me back. THAT is a road trip 😂
For some of us, it's only a commute.
A 2 hour drive in England and you'll end in the Atlantic Ocean
A follow up to the accent one, NEVER mock a southerners twang specifically, we tend to take a lot of offense to that 😂
Thank you! Stereotyping is SO offensive... But for some reason it's perfectly fine if you're making fun of a southerner! 😠 It's even worse when you can be pretty sure the person has never known more than one person from the south.
and don't every say park your car in Harvard Yard or pahk youh cah in Hahyahd yahd to a Bostonian
A fairly large percentage of southerners seem to be quite thin-skinned. In my experience they are highly conscious of regionalism and critical of others outside of theirs, but love to claim victimhood over barely existing perceived slights when the truth is that the rest of the US really doesn't care that much about regions.
@@echt114 my simple theory...a culture of dueling (fist or pistols) produced a "polite" society. Certain things were not said so as not to induce a duel. So when those are mentioned now it is perceived as an insult.
I just began living in the south and have adopted Sir and Ma’am, they get so offended probably because they think I am being sarcastic with my very Mid-Western and mild Californian accent, I am just trying to be polite!
The distance one reminded me of a meme that said “people in Europe can drive two hours and end up in a bunch of different countries, but in America you can drive for 2+ hours and still be in the same exact state”
I've seen a story about a tourist in Scandinavia who kept crossing into the next country on the way back to their hotel every night; missed their turn, and a minute later they've crossed the border.
Meanwhile I tell someone I live 90 min from somewhere in Texas and they ask what state I live in. Um, Texas. I'm still over an hour away from the next state...
Oh my god. I live and Texas and you could drive for 15 hours and still be in Texas. My smart self thought that it was the same for everyone 🤷♀️ guess not
In Texas you can drive for 2+ hours and still be in the same county!
@@DavidMcCoyII
Just realized that, yeah, North-South through my county is 80-90 minutes.
@@DavidMcCoyII And in LA traffic you can drive for two hours and still be in the same city! GD traffic! Stay in your lane! Scoot up! What are you waiting for, it's GREEN! For The Love of PETE! Where did you learn to drive!!
Brits: what does the 4th of July have to do with me?
Same Brits: WHY DON'T AMERICANS HAVE TEA KETTLES!!!
let me tell you a story about the Boston Harbor...
Best comment!😂😂😂😂
Tea kettles?
@@melissadougan495 they have a different video about things Brits find weird about America and go in depth about how weird they find it that we don't all own tea kettles as a norm and that electric ones are even hard to find sold in stores etc.
I hardly ever drink tea. Lol. Sometimes cold sun tea
Jaclyn Freund microwave is the best for me if i ever make Lipton tea
Of course you didn’t know about July 4th. Brits have probably lost track of the dates all their former colonies declared independence from them. 😂🤣😂🤣
Too many to keep track of.
They don't like to remember the wars they lost. Actually if it wasn't for the US you'd all be speaking German.
You're almost correct on the "no talking" one. The busier the city, the less you should strike up a conversation. The smaller/more country a town is, the more you should strike up a conversation. The only exception in the south. Everyone's willing to talk there.
In the south, I've had people strike up conversations with me in the restroom and continue talking out of the restroom. Very conversational people.
The only thing I’m offended by is that they think we drive an hour for Starbucks. Umm no there’s one every five feet. It’s not an hour long trip
Here in New England it's a Dunkin Donuts every 5 feet. I'm astonished when there's a mile between one Dunkin and the next one.
@@SuperDrLisa so true...went to visit family, literally every 1/4 mile! We made a game of it while driving
Then imagine what it's like to live in Seattle where they invented that. Literally 1 in every block. I sometimes wonder dont they run out of business for being too close to each other.
facts, there’s a Starbucks in almost every city 🤷🏽♀️
But perhaps since usa is bigger, their feets are longer? So 5 feets might actually be really far...
Joel: American independence has nothing to do with us. America: We legit became independent from you though!?!
They dont like talking about taking L's even if we are their closest strategic ally militarily and are basically always going to back each other no matter what.
Even in Paris when I was getting told off by Parisians for asking if they spoke English I was grouped in with the English. They told me no I don't speak English (in English) only Americans and English think they should be able to go to other countries and the rest of the world should speak their language.
It was pretty obvious that many people in Paris spoke English fluently.
@@JG-ux7of and they're asses would be speaking German if it wasn't for America
@@heathierae788 -How right you are.
Ya we were just British people that were sick of the rules and wanted to become independent with better laws lol
Annika Martin I I was thinking the same thing! How could Brits not know the day that Americans signed a declaration of independence to break away from England??? It's a part of British history just as much as it is American history!
I'd say the reason any American would be offended by trying to do American accents is because I've found british people tend to either do a heavily southern accent or a valley girl accent which are both seen as unintelligent. And the reason we can see right through them is bc it is extremely rare for anyone to actually have either of those accents, especially valley girl, and I gre up in Sothern Cali
I do agree with you. I do not have southern accent from my Mom nor northern accent from my Dad who came from Pennsylvania. I had been born and raised in Georgia. Most people will asked me what country I am from even though I had live in Georgia all my life.
Well written, JM. Thank you.
Rare to have a Southern accent? I beg to disagree. Considered uneducated? Only by Northerners who never had a classical education as they had in the South until the feds destroyed our education system and replaced it with propaganda and narrowed degrees meant only to earn a living.
J Z. Everybody has an accent. I’m an American, as well, but we still have accents.
Valley Girl accents aren’t rare. I have two sisters and a sister in law who speak like that. So do their almost grown kids.
If I'm not mistaken, the 4th of July is part of your history, even if you would rather forget about it! ( :
True, but it's not that we would rather forget, we're not bothered either way, we're just not taught it.
It just doesn't bother us , even when we self learn it . Most of us have a negative view on the empire especially in younger age groups . Can you blame someone for wanting to escape a cruel empire. We had our arse kicked plenty of times. It's nothing new .
@@hannahdyson7129 The 'second' British Empire, perhaps, but the Americans left the first one, which was decidedly better. In some respects, it was their departure that led to the second.
@@10thdoctor15 Fuest and second? There was only ever one and it was wrong
@@hannahdyson7129 There were two - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire#"First"_British_Empire_(1707-1783)
Most countries were pleased to be part of the first, and many the second, in the same way that countries want to be in the EU. There's no denying that it was successful. Also, slave trade was abolished in the empire in 1834 (due to the Industrial Revolution).
Brits: I have nothing to do with the 4th of July.
Americans: 😐
Classic denial
You don’t want to know how triggered I got when they were talking about that
They are not taught that in school for obvious reasons !!
French saved u be quiet
Ww1 u joined at the end
Ww2 u joined at the end
Ww3 u probs will join at the end
Where was the saving or do u mean let every1 do the work then take the glory
FYI: The majority of the time when Americans say to a person from Britain "You speak English very well." It is a compliment because the majority of Americans find the British accent very proper and pleasing to the ears.
very true, I feel like and uneducated hill-billy next to them even if they aren't saying anything particularly intelligent
^
Same
Aye don’t worry bout it we support ur country the most as we are the only countries fighting is this day in age
Obviously including Canada and Israel
Us 4 seem to be doing the fighting
Especially in Iraq and afghan
🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇱
In no order lol
Everyone comes to Florida, expresses disapproval and tell us how they do it “back home”.
Don’t do that.
How is Florida man these days ?
Peter Lyall
The ones from here are good.
The recently relocated not so good.
🤣
I agree, people need to not come to Florida anymore. Build a wall 🤣
@@JohnnyWalker-rl9pm I would gladly agree to spend my tax dollars on walling you guys in.
@@ramonw9430 I feel special
I'm American and literally none of this has offended me lol
"Americans are very independent" that was the whole reason they founded America!! XD
The US was not founded to merely create a new nation of Americans . It was created to preserve individual liberty! And the creation of the states was the structure designed precisely for this purpose.
@@apga1998 notice the words you selected especially individual and liberty you kind of backed what they were saying. America has very independent roots
@@anon7248 well, remember that the Pilgrims came to America in search of religious liberty. They sought freedom from the State and its Church of England. In England, people were being burnt to death and persecuted for believing heterodox religious doctrine. America devised a solution to this problem. That solution involved making human freedom paramount. And the solution also involved finding ways to diffuse and minimize the power of the government. I hope you will always vote for freedom. Best wishes
@@apga1998 yes of course the freedom being searched for then was different from now. Hope you have a great day and many more to come.
Give America back to the people who was there first. The native indians
I find it funny that she said, "You took English from us!" When it was Britan's fault that they lost the colonies.
Britain*
To be fair they had a German king at the time.
That whole, "more loyalty to the state than to the nation" thing, that's mostly just Texas to be honest. Maybe Hawaii too, but mostly Texas just takes a lot of pride in their culture.
And Alaska
New England and NYC kind of are too, but not as much, it’s more specifically when it comes to sports (i.e. Red Sox/Yankees mainly), for a lot of people up here in the northeast their sports teams are kind of a cultural identity in itself
@@teresapeterson7187 nah Alaska doesn't seem like that.
That weather one really is true though. A few years ago, y’all called a flurry a snowstorm and panic shopped like no tomorrow, and we were just laughing over here from under four feet of snow 😂
Britain is terrible with snow. When most of Europe got lots of snow in 2010, the Scandinavian countries carried on like it was nothing.
4 ft? U had it easy.
How to trigger Brits for 200 years. Dump their tea into the ocean.
Edit: spelling
How to trigger Americans give them facts
If the french didn’t save u
Uk would own America
We also named u America lol just a fact
I thought Amerigo Vespucci named America?🤔
Cause french saved u
Jay_idk they only participated in one battle so not that much help 😬
Why do u misinform people when u are wrong? It’s called propaganda 😁 learn it
Probably not. The French are often portrayed in US history as only being involved in the Revolutionary War after the victory at Saratoga. In actuality it was much earlier than that and without their help, the war would've more than likely been lost quickly. I'm going to copy and paste a response to a similar question from a couple months ago, so pardon the laziness:
I'm typing from my phone so this won't be nearly as detailed as I would like, but here we go!
The French took a huge interest in the rebellion in the Americas because they knew how devastating it would be to the British economy. France had, after all, lost almost all of their colonies in North America after the Seven Years War (Or French and Indian War) so any way they could put a hurt on Britain would be good for them.
At the start of the war, the colonists didn't have the hard currency needed to field an army due to the Currency Act which made British silver in the colonies scarce so they sought aid from France. France at this time needed to appear neutral, so in 1775 a shell independent shipping import-export company was created between France and ally Spain (who felt their own colonies were potentially threatened by a British controlled Florida) called Roderigue Hortalez et Companie. It borrowed 3 million livres (1m from the French government, 1m from Spain, and 1m from French merchants) to cover start-up costs and to purchase and begin selling the colonists muskets, cannon, ammunition, tentage, and enough uniforms for 25,000-30,000 soldiers through neutral Dutch Caribbean islands. The idea was to sell these items to the colonists at low surplus prices, but then in turn purchase American tobacco and rice at a higher price with hard currency, which would then be sold through Europe by the merchants at an even higher price. This allowed 2 things: one was that this began giving the colonists a hard currency to begin funding a war and two it allowed the Companie to pay back the initial investors with the money acquired through selling American agricultural goods.
Early on, these supplies were critical for the Americans, who would have otherwise faced an early defeat in the revolution and also helped in the victory at Saratoga which gave France confidence to back the colonies officially in 1778 with the military treaty between France and America. At that point the Companie collapsed as the French government began supplying the colonists with far more equipment than the Companie ever could and were doing so directly instead of through vast shipping channels.
A valley girl accent is annoying regardless of who's using it.
I was just going to say that.
😂😂😂
BOSTON is worst.
No joke though
Isn’t that a fake or exaggerated thing? I remember ppl only used it to make fun of it but I never heard anyone actually peak like that or at least that exaggerated
4th of July: The Day we told crazy King George to kiss his arse, and leave us the f alone!
So...when Brits are taught their own history do they not learn about that time long ago when the unbeatable British army was handed its first major defeat...you know, during the American Revolution for which we celebrate on the 4th of July???
Perhaps that bit of British history has been whitewashed or just outright glossed over. After all, why elaborate on your own colony's rebellion and the humiliation of losing it. Just theorizing here.
We don't learn anything about it, nor about slavery. We learn the Victorians and The Tudors, Reformation, WW1& WW2 and history of medicine. Irish history if you're lucky. It's pretty horrendous. We hardly learn about other countries at all at school. Nowt about Europe apart from the wars.
@@ellebelle2507most slave traders were British
I have an aunt from England and she had no clue lol. She said, "It's not my history!" Well then where did all these white folks come from and why does everyone speak English?
I think it’s so glossed over because of how much territory England has had as a whole. Of course they don’t own any of it now but they had territories on every single continent so looking back on americas separation now it doesn’t seem relevant enough to cover
@@ellebelle2507 What school did you go to because we got taught about slave trades in history at my old secondary lol
July 4th, The day we sent you that break up letter.
Tim Buktu written in gunpowder
Some people just can't take rejection.
THIS!
Hell yeah! 😂🤑🇺🇸
It's not me, it's you! :)
Like if you’re from the U.S and didn’t get offended!
Staaaaap
americans annoy themselves
10:20
Imagine being an introvert in America. I'm so sick of random people stopping me when I'm walking to/from work and expecting me to have a conversation with them...during a pandemic...
Lol I know. That's why I always have headphones on. It's just covering my ears and there's nothing playing. When someone says anything to me and I don't answer, they automatically think I can't hear them. Works like a charm!🤪
@@madelinealicea2044 Doesn't work for me. People are so selfish and insecure, they'll go as far as touching me to get my attention just so they can make a stupid comment about something obvious...
@@sophiefilo16 oh gosh, that's horrible. I've been told I always look like I'm going to hurt someone, LMAO, my natural mug. Could be why I'm not approached that way. I have noticed when I'm at my wits end and feel like I'm going to go ballistic on someone I take a walk instead to calm down. People literally cross the street or move far from me when they look at my face. LMAO
@@madelinealicea2044 I have far from a friendly face, but for some reason, people just think I want to talk to them or hear random crap about their lives. Even my coworkers try to convince themselves I'm just being shy until finally, months later, they get the message that I DON'T want to talk to them, and then they convince themselves that I don't like them and form some petty grudge against me. I'm honestly just so over people at this point...
@@sophiefilo16 So frustrating. I'm grateful my last job was just me and the boss who would bring his dog to work. I used to say the dog was the best coworker I ever had
I usually love to listen to your channel and understand both sides because my mother was from London and my father was from North Carolina. I suppose the American part of me is rather offended at the fact that you won't talk to people in America who are speaking to you. We are genuinely friendly, kind, caring people (especially in the South) and I don't understand why you would turn your nose up at that and not speak. It just seems so hateful. When in Rome do as the Romans do! You might just meet some nice folks if you drop the unpleasant attitude.
Snobs ! I like the fact that we are friendly instead of walking around like we have a stick up our b*tt!!
Nah we're all A-holes here.
How to offend a southerner...don't offer sweet tea on the menu
If you're in the southern US and you don't want your iced tea (VERY!) sweet, you'd better say so when you order it. If you want what the British think of as tea, order "hot tea."
😂
When you order sweet tea ... then they bring you tea with a couple sugar packs...
Michael Pearce ... yes!!! I went to a little restaurant in machesney park , in northern Illinois ( right on Illinois Wisconsin line) they had southern fried Scrambled eggs With Biscuits and gravy.... in got so excited 😆.... ( if your not familiar you leave a little gravy in the frying pan break your egg and start to fry it slowly stir) Of course that start a conversation with the waitress and she told me that Machesney Park and loves Park are Call park-and-saw for all the Arkansas that came to Rockford..... Love my southern comfort food
YESSS! Triggering
How to trigger a brit: tell them they say "aluminum " wrong 🤣🤣
Croissant is Quasont to Tom Holland
Well they are spelt differently.
US aluminum
UK aluminium an extra i
So they both are correct based on the spelling..
Tell then that they are spelling "color" wrong.
@@joehackney1376 well you can attribute usa n uk spelling to Noah Webster he reformed spelling in the US to break away from English...his essay in 1806 focused on unneccessary incusions of so called ridiculous spellings he published a new dictionary wich was adopted and still used today..hence color as apposed to colour and the french usage of the words ending re into er theatre to theater
Centre to center and so on
@@thomaslowdon5510 And I thought that the War of 1812 was fought over impressment. But it must have been over Webster's telling the English that their form of spelling was ridiculous!!!
Now if you really want to have a fight, insult someone’s Mama.
I've just recently found this channel earlier today and I can't stop watching your videos lol. I don't think I've ever laughed harder than I have just watching you two crack jokes about us Americans lol.
It is considered extremely rude to not respond when asked a direct question.
jockadoobee class would be acknowledging when you are spoken to.
Maybe I should have been more specific. In the case they mentioned, it was rude to ignore the driver. All you have to do is say, "I'm really tired and don't want to talk". Driver will shrug and abide by your wishes. But, if you just ignore the driver it's like you think you're better than him or her. Get it?
Karen Wagner I agree with you.
Also here too rural areas people are way different than those in cities is it the same on that side off the pond? Sadly the average American could not afford to go to the UK as well so you likely meet our self entitled narreressist types a lot
@karen may it's just ironic though how US really is not all that different from the UK except plug in outlets are different and we are taxed differently but when you add them all up they likely come out to be the about same. And now days and times people can't really rebel against any government cause their might is to great it's why I suppose eventually at some point no one will really have the rights and freedoms we all take for granted now. It's just matter of when that new world order begins. How has the whole brexit ordeal effected things? I have heard for some it's good and others it's bad.
"You're very independent. Nobody tells you what to do."
It's true. It's like living in a country with 320 million cats. 🐈
Raptor302 sometimes a great thing, often not so great lmao
It might be pit bull dogs with a gun too :)
An apt analogy. True!
I think the vegetarian/ vegan thing is more “offensive” in the south and Midwest not really the east and west coast.
Your meat breakdown had me dying! " eh dint lock beef ...chickin is fa laydees? Wot?"
Joel: “[4th Of July] it doesn’t have anything to do with me.” Weeeelllll...
You mean the day we declared independence from your empire? 🤔
What I find funny is people from around the world seem to know everything about the states; when our election is, absolutely when we do something controversial, they know more presidents names than most Americans, but when it comes to simpler things like 4th of July they won't know it that the American flag requires respect
@@iSPELLinAMERICAN Ha ha, why would we care??!!
Ann Wang why are your people always commenting on our politics and our culture?
@@Annsunshine30, ask the people he is talking about.
I just felt like half of this stuff isn’t true lol.
I think they might have taken one or two short trips to specific places in the US, and mainly interacted with young people in bars, or airports. Maybe undergraduates. It’s OK. Tourism is fun.
You’ll probably never see read this but I applaud you guys for putting yourselves out there with these, haha. I live in San Francisco and as a fan I have agreed with you guys on a looot things (we don’t have AC here, we walk everywhere, it’s super vegetarian friendly, people ignore each other regularly, etc.), but I can see where you might have had these experiences with people so they’re funny! Interactions will vary so much on whether you’re in a city or the suburbs, or what part of the country you’re in, etc. - just like if we were over there. I hope you enjoy your Boston trip! :)
I am going to London for the coronation so I've been watching tons of British stuff on here and I came across you guys. You're both so funny! I absolutely love your content. I love Brits and British history and culture so I really enjoy watching you guys. This is one of my favorite videos so far.
Re: July 4, I dont remember the date of my divorce either.
🤣 That is the best comment ever!
i dont remember the date of any of mine..
🤣
Perfect!
Nailed it!
I can literally drive 8 hours in Georgia and still be in Georgia lmfao.
@@hilaryrussell5804 No, for instance here in NC, if you were to drive from the western most point in the mountains, Murphy, to the outer banks, it would probably take 9 hours.
It is closer to drive from Washington DC to Chicago than across the widest portion of Montana.
Used to be a trucker, you're doing something really wrong
internetqueen It takes 3 days to drive across Texas 😫
How slow are you driving and what direction? I've made it from Charlotte, NC to Tampa, FL in 9 hours and most of the drive was in Florida.
Texas alone covers your whole England Wales Scotland Ireland/northern Ireland.
So? Lol
no social pressure to talk to other people?! I HAVE FOUND MY HOMELAND!
Joel: offend America by being a vegan. People from L.A: Am I a joke to you
Yup :)
LOL!!
There are vegetarians and vegans all over.
Ha, ha! I'm an American vegan and there is no way to offend me. If you eat meat, dairy and eggs, you are far more at risk for cardiovascular diseases that kill more than 700,000 Americans annually, cancer, a further death toll of well over 300,000 and hospitals that are #3 with nearly 300,000 deaths. Try to eat to keep yourself away from doctors in all forms and shapes.
@@georgewest8468 I hope you are leery of sugar too. That's even worse than alcohol or caffeine for its addictiveness and widespread availability, not to mention how it costs next to nothing, pennies. Getting dreadfully sick from stuffing yourself with sweets or even indulging yourself frequently is even worse. When drinking the harm is typically avoided so long as you don't drink on an empty stomach. This isn't the case with sugar.
Post statement: I don't like beef or dairy very much myself. I find them to be far too expensive.
The only thing that annoys me about not knowing American history is when brits aren’t taught about their part in our history.
Exactly
Yes we are or we pick it up as general knowledge.
Most countries are not taught their own atrocities.
I'm sure that they are taught that we gained our independence from them and when, but it's not something that they would probably be tested over since it isn't really directly apart of their history. It doesn't directly affect their country.
@@CHarmon99 Doesn't directly affect their country? The birth of their largest ally? The humbling of an Empire? Their partner in two world wars?
#2 is so spot on! My neighbor from UK had the audacity to try to explain to me what my Constitutional Rights are!
I love how you guys talk as well! My great grandpa and grandma from England
The 4th of July has like everything to do with Britain😂😂😂
Yep - Everything!!! I wonder if they are lied to about the history of America? Brits not knowing about our revolution would be like them not knowing about their role in India!!!
@@familybills2908 Or Ireland
Ok just a thought... But maybe some brits don't know about our 4th of July cuz we'll why the hell would they even care about a holiday of us basically giving a giant middle finger to them?! Like come on guys be real here..., the brits sent people over here to expand their empire there people betrayed them, revolted and successfully kicked the brits ass back across the pond and was like "yea we are the greatest county ever we don't need them"
But they don’t celebrate it each year. So it’s not a date they keep in their mind.
@@Wicked_Knight you're a dork.
Pretty sure nobody from Texas ever said “im not American, I’m from Texas!” People don’t say that
Agree. I’ve never ever heard any American say that. EVER.
American by birth, Texan by the grace of God 😉 dang proud to be both.
RedYellowBlue I've never heard any American say that as well.
Mm some of them do consider themselves texans, californians, etc.first before American.
I think what they're saying is that Americans identify much more with their home states than we do here in the UK with our home counties.
But we are taught about British history in most schools.
And we are taught about brief little bits about American history in our schools. I don't know if it's a newer thing but I certainly learnt a little bit in GCSE history
I remember while working in the UK they brought this Scottish guy to talk to me. We carried on a conversation and the London crew asked me if I understood him. I said yes. They asked why is it that you can understand him and we can't. He was still standing int the group. I said I just have come accustom to pacing what I'm hearing to get the meaning just like I do for you. The whole grouped laughed.
As an American I wouldn’t be offended by any of those.
Same
Same
Same
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Except for the politics they care far to much about what we have going on
Joel and lia: a 2 hour drive is a road trip.
Me: about to drive 10 hours to go on vacation in destin florida. Not bothered and super excited.
what? wouldn’t you be really hot, and loads of bugs and get really bored? i can probably go for 3 hours but i’m kinda forced to drive for 4-5 hours (a day) to go to spain, and i hate it.
@@m0zz4re11a1 lol driving to places like south carolina and florida are ten to 14 hour drives for us and we dont mind at all. We think its fun!
We happily drive 27 hours from Detroit to Florida Keys.... totally worth it
@@m0zz4re11a1 super late reply, whoops. Most cars here have air conditioning, and if you're driving in the south, you aren't going to have windows down. That takes care of bugs.
As for being bored, you usually travel with someone. There's a bunch of road-side games like "spot x kind of car" or "find as many different license plates as possible". Depending on the state, sometimes the scenery is so nice it's enough to look at for 5+ hours.
Just drove a 42' coach from Idaho to Maryland. Total drive time was about 45 hours over 5 days.
I really love the perspective of America from people who take the time to make great comparisons.
The best way to offend Americans is to hate them for no reason. So EVERYTHING you've done defeats the worst thing because you've thought thru some comparatives. I really enjoy your channel!
Keep in mind there are a world of trolls on CZcams. I laughed so hard at this! Great video, thanks! :-)
I’m So Confused...
I’m An American And I Can Tell You That 37% Of These Don’t Piss Us Off....
The climate thing confused me. That’s not an American thing, that’s just because of victim culture which is present in all of western society. people compete to see who has it worse because everyone wants to be a victim. it’s the edgy hipster version of one-upping, and it has nothing to do with location
Ikr
The accent one confused me the most. I've laughed at fake American accents, I've cringed if they're bad enough, but most people are just fine speaking as they are. No one really blinks twice at any sort of accent, probably because our culture's so diverse, unless there's someone with a really thick accent, but usually it's more figuring out what they're trying to say.
Englishman: I’m in the US for a week. I plan to visit Miami, NY, LA and spend a few days with my friend in Atlanta.
Americans: 🤣🤣🤣
Go for it
On a road trip I ran into a English fellow who thought he'd ride across the US in a couple of leisurely days...he was not happy when I explained the scale of our country to him...It was as if he thought the Midwest did not exist!
James Dunkerson
Driving to CA it’s not bad till you realize NM & AZ are still in front of you.
@@perdidoatlantic the sun is riz/ the sun is set/and here we is/in Texas yet
Coast to coast on a few days good luck
Y’all are always cracking me up😂! Your so wonderful guys and hilarious😁.
Here in New England we have a lot of snow storms, hail storms, rain storms, and windy. The weather here changes literally every 5 minutes lmao.
An exchange student from New Zealand quickly learned not to ask in class: "May I borrow your rubber?"
Yeah, we used to call the stretchy things you covered your shoes with when it rains "rubbers". Not now! Don't see them for sale anymore, don't know what they would be called if they were.
Paula Jolly they’re now called shoe covers. I needed them for work in a butcher shop.
That's hilarious Mark..I would've know what you were talking about but most here would not know you're speaking of an eraser not a condom!😂
Mark Voelker NDKSJDJWND
Susan Resig yep. I bought some because I was using my bicycle as my means of transportation for a spell.
“I’m British The Fourth of July has nothing to do with me”
It has everything to do with you
No it's literally is just a small blip in their thousands of years of history. There's so much history to teach that they normally go for medieval which all happened before the USA's independence. Ont he other hand, it means a lot to Americans as it's the creation story for the country they live in. Outside of America, we only know about 4th of July if it's on an American TV show or you happen to visit when it's happening.
Soretta Ray It was a joke😂😂
@@sorettaray8829 Well, true today with you guys. No reason to know I guess. On the other hand in 1776 you guys were none too pleased on getting kicked out of America.
Jeremy * you say “you guys” but I’m not British ... I live in the pacific islands.
@Soretta Ray Then why are you speaking for the British if you’re not a Brit?
No offense! I'm a Yank and I love your videos. Your energetic conversations are delightful and true. Keep up the good work!
Lolol. . The 4th of July sort of DOES have something to do with you, or at least your country. hahahaha
It's called Independence Day for a reason lol
I would think that British people would remember the day they got a 'Dear John" letter from us. It was a huge, messy divorce!
Nope. Hardly gets a mention. It's your history not ours.
Yeah lol Britain couldn't care less about splitting off from America although it did make them become a ton less strong afterwards.
@@colinbaugh5091 at the time it was no big deal. But boy, wish we owned it now. Imagine, Americans could get the "English Experience." Without a passport.
@@simonpowell2559 lol yeah it sucks. You gotta realize something tho. Most people would rather visit the 50 states before going out of country cause it takes more than a day to get to one side of America. I'm pretty sure it only takes you an hour and a half from London to Paris. Hell it takes me longer than that just to get into the next state
@@colinbaugh5091 hi Colin, you guys are so easy to "trigger".
I have visited the States. San Francisco to NY. On Greyhound. Had a fantastic time and met some wonderful people. And yes darn, it's big. I remember going to Las Vegas. Wow, we are in the desert...... 3 days later still in the desert. You could do Britain top to bottom three times in 3 days. I'm sure you could spend a lifetime visiting the States and still not do it justice. (and yes I'm jealous.) I would love to visit the northern states Montana, Wyoming even Alaska for the hunting + fishing. Us Brits love to pull your legs it's just so easy. By the way you do know that there is a sea between London and Paris? All the best.
I found out that I offend a Brit by microwaving a quick cup of tea. 🤣
Hey, y'all! I'm from Texas. lol I love your video and you are hecka right about most things. XD This video was so fun to watch, while also being offended most of the time, but that's the point of this video. LOL 1. I've never heard about the accent thing, but people are stupid, so I believe it. 2. Y'all are right. We are all really independent and telling us what to do is not a good idea. Also, state rivalries are SO real. Like I said, I'm Texan and we hate Oklahoma and California, and we make fun of Louisiana all the time (but we secretly love them and feel really bad for them when they get hit hard by hurricanes). Also, I don't know if this makes sense to y'all since you aren't American, but Texans are basically the New York of the South and we think we're better than all the other states... because we are. ;) 3. We don't care about your weather and Joel is right, we are just really competitive, but not really offended regarding that topic. 4. LOL the driving thing is hilarious and you still get people that don't understand how far away things are (miles/time) in the USA that are American. It takes about 14-16 hours just to drive across Texas. I live in Houston and my family takes day trips up to Fort Worth all the time and it is about a 4 hour drive. Y'all are hilarious! 5. You not knowing our holidays is TOTALLY understandable... but I'm just one person and that is just my opinion. And about the 4th of July, even if you did know what it was, I would expect you to probably block in from you historical knowledge seeing as it was the day we gained our independence from y'all. LOL. Also, Joel is right... unless we grew up watching Horrible Histories, we probably know nothing about British history and shouldn't expect you to know anything about our's. 6. If you're in California or Oregon, you probably won't offend people by being vegetarian or vegan, but in Texas... Holy crap, you better be joking. I don't mind if you don't like beef, but being vegetarian is a whole other ball game. 7. Lol Fag is definitely an insult in America. Yeah, just don't say it because people will think you're a jerk. 8. Not giving eye contact or having conversation is VERY offensive in the South, but I can't really provide a Northerner's take on the issue. 9. You're completely right about imitating Americans. Very offensive. Hope you saw this! Hope you liked it!
Introverted American here; I agree with y'all. Please don't talk to me, ESPECIALLY if I'm on public transport. The way you two said that no one looks at/talks to each other sounds like Heaven to me.
“They sell fags in here!” Omg Lia 😂😂😂
I can just imagine the horror on people’s faces
Now, that's comedy!
@@heartland96a I think you commented on the wrong thing.
@@MarpenGaming your correct sorry
CVS in Va. doesn't sell cigarettes anymore
@@mrt83goin Same in FL.
1: Order a steak well done.
2: Order a veggie steak.
3: Put Tofu in something.
4: Confuse San Francisco with civilization.
5: Defaming our Military.
Well done usually means the meat is bad, and the restaurant is trying to hide that fact.
Captain Autism Apparently you have been sheltered all your life and never go out to enjoy the woods and lakes and went actually camping as a child... You suck as downer for putting that out there... I’m literally shaking my drunk @$$ head at this comment... Super dumb...
My head starts boiled when I hear well-done steak. My roommate likes her well-done. There's a special place in hell for those people
@@darienford860 Well done steak is preferred and more common outside 🇺🇸. I read an article real reason high end restaurant chefs abhor well done steaks because premium and cheap meats get equalized and taste the same when cooked well done. Bottom line: it's all about money and about acting rich.
Well done steak tastes better than uncooked meat and everyone should eat it according to their taste buds preference instead of acting like a sheep to marching orders of cultural elites.
Captain Autism UT is chilliest state we’re very boring
The 2 hr trip had me laughing 😂😂😂 2 hrs doesn’t even get me across my state. From the east coast of North Carolina to the other side is about 6 hrs. I only stop like 2 times for bathroom breaks and snacks.
Two things: #1-We Americans aren't trying to outdo you Brits by saying our weather is more extreme...it IS vastly more extreme across the states than in all of the U.K. #2 -Also, it's not true that Americans know nothing about British history. In school we learn how your history led to OUR history, so most people in the States are quite familiar with British history. Americans in general are also fans of the U.K, we enjoy British tv shows & movies, & we know a lot about the royal family
Seriously?! When I went to the UK, everyone asked me if I live on a ranch since I'm from Texas... I was offended!
I do live on a ranch but that's beside the point
BlankLooks Everywhere 😂😂
They always ask about celebrities or if you surf when you're from California.
I don’t but I live In Texas
Lol
Order a veggie burger with bacon and cheese.
Offend everyone.
I feel like a lot of people don’t care if you’re vegan though as long as you don’t harp on people who aren’t. Like I’m okay with someone being vegan but if they judge me for eating meat I will personally organize a hotdog eating contest in front of their house.
😁 LMFAO. I have!! I got the idea from True Blood when Jesus"was at Merlotte's and ordered one to see if Lafayette would make it or not.
After seeing it I had to do it. True Blood was a bad influence in my life. It's one of the many reasons I own all 7 seasons. Lol. Damn I miss that show.
Woah hardcore dude
LOL! I grew up in the south (Tennessee) and was a vegetarian then a vegan. Then I moved to the NW and then the Rocky Mountains. I cannot remember even one single person being triggered by it. Like EVER.
@Michelle D I feel like it’s only a problem depending on the person you ask and the friend group you’re in.
you two need your own sit com like my favorite keeping up appearances.
I've just been binge-watching your videos for the past couple of days and I just can't help but wonder on some of these what kind of Americans you're meeting 🤣🤣.
I just recently learned that an anthropological study showed that since the time that America a colony the British accent had actually changed -more- than the American accent. Meaning, American is closer to the original sound. 😆
Specifically, southern
I’ve discovered the greatest way to offend the Brits is talk about the monarchy
I went to college with a guy from England and when I would get drunk I would shout at him in a horrible impression of an English accent "The Queen is a bloody whore" he would get pissed off and say: "no shes not, dont say that. You can say she is a bitch but dont call her a whore" at first I thought he was joking but we ended up having a heart to heart about me not saying that to him ever again. They also love when you do horrible impressions of their accents and insist you sound just like them.
@@JG-ux7of tbh never hold a single person to that standard of queendom or kingdom. They are people not kings or queens.
Never realized how weird it is the the pharmacy sells tobacco😂
I know I'm late on this, but I get excited when I meet someone from another country because i like sharing American culture with them and learning more about there culture in the process
I actually spent the past 2 hours trying to imagine hating steak and I just couldn't fathom it. That's an American for you
wpb dumpling especially if your from the south or the Midwest.
Ive finally come to the conclusion they cooked it wrong and even then i love steak no matter if its bad
Yass
i find it too chewy but it’s okay. i’ll eat it but it’s not a favorite
I’m American and I absolutely hate streak. I don’t eat anything that comes from cows or pigs. It’s so gross.
Well I would think a group of English colonies overthrowing the English rule of them would be a significant event in English history too lol
The history of the UK is too long for all major events to be taught in schools. That said, I knew about the 4th July from US TV and films, it's pretty common knowledge in the UK as well.
@@blahdelablah it might be less of a problem if we called it Independence Day, as it probably should be.
No. Do you know how many times that happened
OMGoodness!! 2 hour drive is a road trip! Cracks me up! 😆
I’ll never forget the trip I took with my high school choir to Disney World... we drove 13 hours overnight on a charter bus (nice bus with a bathroom) from Virginia to Florida in December... the weather was weird too. Was freezing in Virginia when we left but sunny and 70F in Florida.
As an American, I quote one of my favorite American authors, Mark Twain, defining a patriot: "The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
“The next way to annoy an American is to not interact with them”
You two...you haven’t been to New York City.
They have been to New York City....
They have been to New York and New Jersey, and I think they hated the service they got there when they went out. So they have experienced the attitude up there some
Only people who haven't been to NYC would say that.. New Yorkers are very friendly.. just not at rush hours
@@susanramirez New Jersey is not a great example
@@kimsechrist4139 I've never been to either state. New Jersey is a bad example of what? I'm in the south, so both states seem the same to me
From an American - This was great!