What's The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You? (Reaction)
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True story: whilst standing on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 2 American women stopped and asked me “which way is the Eiffel Tower?” They’d been standing there for 20 minutes, looking out over Paris trying to see it… they were literally standing on it! 🤦🏻♂️
Nahhhh.. for real?
Should I 😂 or. 😢
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
@@oopsdidItypethatoutloud unfortunately it’s very much a true story. They were really lovely women, but sadly didn’t do much to help American stereotypes 😂
Another true but not dumb story is that the French writer Guy De Maupassant's favourite restaurant was at the Eiffel Tower because that was the only place he could eat his meals without having to look at the tower!
@@B-A-L
That's ace 🫣
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I live in Berlin. One American lady said to me she was anxious about going to Denmark without her gun because Denmark was a communist country. I assured her the King and Queen of Denmark would protect her, while trying not to laugh.
Good thing you did that we are wery dangerous here in Denmark 😂
That's why we love our german neighbors!
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An American had a go at me once for mentioning my friend was black. Telling me I couldn’t say that, I had to say African American… I’m in the UK and my black friend was born and bred in the UK! They totally couldn’t understand that not all black people are African American!
Would it be wrong to call an Egyptian person an African American if they lived in the US, after all Egypt is in Africa
I encountered an older American lady on an internal UK flight who asked what African-Americans are called in the UK and (after we sorted out my initial confusion) she said, “But you're not allowed to call people black, it’s rude.” She could not accept that Britons are fine with that word. She actually suggested we use the term “African-American British.” I kid you not.
She also simply would not accept that “Asian” in the UK has the default meaning of “ancestry from Indian subcontinent” rather than “Chinese-looking”. It’s just wrong, apparently.
I personally feel like African American sounds a little bit racist (at least to me) because it sounds like they aren't considered completely American.
Like from the top of my head I can't recall any other country that groups people like that if they have the same nationality.
I could understand the African (or any other country) American if the person had actually born in Africa (or other ways had some kind of African nationality and even then it would be better to be with the proper country and not the continent) and then had gotten American nationality (same could be with other countries like person from France that got American citizenship could be called French American or something).
@@9Misaki3 Italian American and Irish American I've heard a lot for people not even born in IT or IRE. But there also was a lot a racism towards them back in the days.
@@realreactions3898Yeah but they’re all Irish on St Patrick’s day 😂. America is a country of immigrants mostly from European countries.
Strange how Americans think Socialised Medical practice bad, but don't think that the Police, Trash collection, Fire Services the list goes on isnt bad. Weird, very weird.
And education for under 18s!!!
@@geemo4284they are actively trying to get rid of that ...
It’s because Americans are too stupid to realize that it would lower the costs of their own medical care. All they see is them paying into a system, where someone else receives a benefit.
I think your grammar is incredibly bad. When I hear British people talking about their health care system I never hear them praising it? I do hear them saying they have to wait for a months to see a specialist. That's a great way to keep medical costs down, don't see a patient and just let them die on the waiting list. Everyone knows if you want better medical care in the UK you have to go to a private doctor that only accepts cash.
@@lennybuttz2162
Stop talking crap.
My brother wasn't feeling well, he phoned the doctors surgery, talked to a receptionist who asked him some questions, she then put him through to a doctor, who, after asking him some more questions told him he was sending an Ambulance, which arrived in ten minutes, they put him on a heart monitor and took him straight to Hospital, he was told he had a heart attack, and was stabilised and underwent more tests, he was told he had four blocked arteries, and needed bypass surgery, that was carried out the following day. He was asked if he would agree to take part in an experimental procedure, they took the replacement veins from his arms, instead of his legs, he agreed to this and after a twelve hour operation, and a seven day stay, in hospital, WALKED OUT on his own. THANK YOU NHS.
How much would that have cost YOU?.
And private doctors DO NOT only accept cash.
Yes the NHS has problems, many people suffer waiting times.
And many people suffer in the USA, because they can't AFFORD the treatment.
Im an Australian who was on a working holiday in the US. Two colleagues couldn't understand how I'd never celebrated Thanksgiving or the 4th of July before. I had to remind them to think about what those holidays actually celebrate and then asked them why people born and raised on the other side of the world would observe those holidays. These are the same people who couldn't believe the seasons are reversed in the different hemispheres. I had to do a demonstration using a rockmelon as the sun and an orange with the equator drawn on in marker, to explain how its possible for it to be summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere at the same time. We learn that here in primary school.
So do we. At least I did when I went to school. Im 53 so maybe they dont anymore.
Me too in 66-73. Certainly in detail by age 16, 1978@@occheermommy
My sister had an American boyfriend when she was much younger. He arranged to come over to see her once and he thought, without knowing where she lived, that he could walk to her house from the airport, because he'd heard the UK was small.
Technically he probably could but I wouldn't want to try with luggage and without some serious preparation! And plenty of time, so no.
@@WIDGIwell Ian Botham did John o groats in about two weeks. Mind he was youngish. Fit and had a support team. I also saw his feet after he arrived, they showed it on the news, jesus what a mess of sores and blisters etc.
Why are the children being "dumbed down" in schools. Everything seems to be over simplified so that they don't become too intelligent.
@@audreythomas4307 absolutely! The standard of education didn't just happen by accident. A well-educated population isn't as easy to control. And, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary "freethinking" is a synonym for dissident and heretic!
True Story: Im a Brit and a Texan was shooting his mouth off about how Russia was full of maniacs and they would obviously be the first country to use Nukes in anger.
I said to him "You do realise it was America that has already used nukes! Twice infact on Japan! They dropped it on women, children and old men. So what does that say about your beloved Untited States."
He didn't say a great deal after that. 😁
I normally find that ignorance and arrogance is usually amplified in Americans anyway regardless of being drunk or not.🙄
You two seem to be an exception to the rule though.
It also amazes me how they keep saying that America won WOII and NOT ‘The ALLIANCE’…!
As if they SINGLE HANDED won, simply ignoring everything that was done by the other countries in the Alliance…!
Same with the Gulf Wars… it is proven that 25% (!) of the American casualties were caused by OWN FAILURES…(‘friendly fire’ and/or plain mistakes!)
My ex was in the first Gulf War with the RAF and told me that nobody wanted to have the Americans behind them (as ‘back up’) because the risk of getting sh*t by THEM was actually HIGHER than by the ENEMY….!!!!!!
They re always going on about ‘honor’ too, yet they are also known to COLLECT EARS (yes, human ears) and wear those on a necklace, one for each enemy they k*lled…. HONORABLE…??!!??
We arent all Ignorant and Arrogant but the two seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. The more they want to tell you why they are right, the more you can watch the IQ score descend.
@@occheermommy it's JAM, jelly is what you call jello
@@occheermommy eres gringa verdad , ustedes son lo más ignorantes y lo peor es que tratan de educar a otros países de como deben de ser el chiste de cuenta solo gringa
@@markbriten6999 Well for us here is the difference. Jello is gelatin, i believe you call it jelly. Jelly to us is a preserve made from juice only. Jam is a preserve made with juice and fruit. I believe that also what you call jam. You may or may not lump Jelly (the US kind) in that mix or you may not use that at all, Im not sure.
I honestly don’t understand the term African American, in the UK a black person is just British.
On a flight from London to Glasgow once, an educated-sounding older American lady asked me what the equivalent of African-American is in the UK. I said, “British. Or black, or black British, if race is the topic of conversation.” And she said, “But that’s rude, you’re not allowed to call people black.”
She would not accept that Britons are fine with the word black. Or you that you can’t call everyone black “Afro-Caribbean” because there are plenty of people with no Caribbean connection. So she suggested calling black Britons “African-American British”.
I still wonder if they call - for example - a person with ancestors from Egypt or Marokko an African American too. Those countries are clearly part of Africa, but the people do not necessarily have black skin.
If "African American" is just a synonym for "black" because "it's rude to call somebody black" then you might as well just call them black.
Same in NZ. Elon Musk is African American.
@@icebergrose8955 Oh, right, South Africa has a lot of non-black people too. I would love to see Elon response if someone on Twitter called him an African American xD
It’s because of the slavery trade.
Englishman here. A friend of mine was on holiday in America in summer 2016, in the lead up to the presidential election. As you can imagine, there were posters and banners everywhere. He went in a convenience store and got chatting to the owner. Amongst other things, the owner said "It's not usually like this, but the election's coming soon, and tension is running very high in politics". All reasonable so far. But then, he started explaining what politics is! After about 30 seconds, my friend said "Yes.....yes I know what politics is." The American, sounding very confused, replied "Well, how do you know that?". My friend said "Well, we have politics too." To this, the American said "How can you have politics? I thought you didn't get to choose who was Queen!".
Gold! Pure gold!
@jackcarter5101 the Yanks don't have ownership of all stupid questions. I was living in London in the 80s and I had a cuople of girls ask me how long it took for the mail to get from 'say.. for example..Melbourne to Perth'. I told them weeks because we were still reliant on stage coach and horses. then I saw an opthamologist and asked how my 'pterygium' was. he laughed and laughed and said ' you don't have one.. you only get them in hot dry climates'. I said.. 'where do you think i'm from? can't you tell by my accent?' (I grew up in an arid environment). Mind you we did see a few americans while there.
Sarah Palin thought the Queen ran the UK.
After the Queen died. I saw some Americans on a podcast, actually reporters/commentators, who should know better, rage about her. 1 was black (sorry, "African-American"), the other was of Pakistani descent, and they were practically frothing at the mouth hurling hate at the late Queen for slavery and for the separation of India/Paskistan respectively!
It was insane! Like, she had nothing to do with any of that! But apparently the black woman thought, that coz her great-great-great-great grandfather was George III, she was all to blame for slavery, so at the very least she shouldve sold the Crown Jewels (which the monarch does not own) to pay reparations for slavery. And the guy, grandson or greatgrandson of Pakistani immigrants, was all in on reparations, coz in his opinion it was all the Queens fault, how the English had ravaged India and then the horrible handling of the separation of India and Pakistan. He actually thought, that she had personally handled that last bit! She wasnt even Queen at the time, and it wasnt her father doing it either, it was the British government, but like most Americans, Im sad to say, its like, theyre stuck at the time of the revolution, they still think, thats how the UK works, and how monarchy works, and that the UK and the rest of Europe stopped evolving, when they became their own country.
The ignorance really runs deep, even in the so-called well educated. Plus, the pure venom and hatred being spewed at the Queen, as it wouldve been targeting any person, was disgusting beyond belief. I had to quit halfway through their tirade, coz they just got worse and worse, and I havent listened to that podcast since.
I'm an American... that's just pathetic. Probably a Trumper 😂
As an Aussie with American relatives I have to be fair: there are 330 million of you and the educational standards there are wildly inconsistent. So while I've met many very intelligent Americans, the chance of meeting "less smart" ones is still high!
@@dutchroll This! We aren't all idiots, just most of us 😅
All of the Americans I meet are as sharp as nails. I wish that someday I would meet at least one of those being told in these stories. XD
As an American that's the best assessment of American intelligence i've ever read.
@@gaijinphgo to a Trump rally 😂
@@gaijinph Go live in the USA.
In Amsterdam,i was talking to an American (in english)when a local woman asked me a question,i answerd, and the American turned to me and asked what language we were speaking. I told him we were speaking dutch because in the Netherlands people speak dutch and he said she should speak english. When i asked why he said because we where in Amsterdam not the Netherlands
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😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🥴🙄
I love that attitude that anybody, wherever they are, "should" speak English.
Well, actually, I don't.
@@ruthgiles8926I was in Amsterdam, waiting to join a cruise down the Rhine. Everyone, even the guy in a local bar, spoke enough English. I'd got a bit turned around. The fact they spoke Dutch amongst themselves never registered. Mind I'm English who's spent many pleasant times in Europe. Most of not all people speak a bit of English and are happy to help, mainly heads use like everyone else in the world they aren't shitheads
@@markbriten6999 it's true that many people speak English as a second language in Europe, and are happy to do so, but that is not a reason to assume that anyone 'should' speak English.
I live in France and find everyone very helpful and friendly, but I have heard many stories of people who become a little frustrated with the number of Brits who live in France and never learn any French! They literally expect everyone to speak English! Embarrassing!
Had an American ask me where the Tour De France is held...had no answer to that. Too stunned.
To be fair, it does pass through parts of the neighbouring countries too. So Tour de France is mainly in France but also a bit in other countries.
But I'm sure that is not what the American meant.
You should have said it's obviously in Japan, it's literally in the name :D
Now the question is whether he would have asked which US state was Japan in.
The BEST thing about every reaction to this: always SO MANY more stories in the comments!
Which proves how stupid Americans really are😂
With these kinds of videos, I always pause and read the comments first 😂😂😂
These videos are just other people's posts regurgitated, but the comments are good.
In 1981, a 20 year-old American exchange-student came to study at my hometown´s University. Let me explain where I´m from: I live in Salzburg (Austria, Middle-European Alps). Salzburg exists since the 400s A.D. In 696 A.D. it was established as a Bishop´s residence. The first University in my city was founded in 1622 (about 150 years before the United States came into being). Composer Mozart was born in my city ... every year we´re giving the most renowned classical festivities in the world, Sound Of Music stems from my city, and - believe it or not - also the energy-drink Red Bull (well, that was later, about 1986, but just for scope). When the student opened his suitcase, I saw that he brought 100 disposable shavers and 100 pencils. I asked him why he needs so many, for what? He literally said the following sentence: "... to have stuff to swap things with the natives!"
PLEASEEEE…. Tell me he was joking…..!!
He was, right???
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Maybe you didn't know this but Europeans came to America in the 1400s. No we did not become the Untied States until the last 1700s but Europeans had been living here for over 300 years before that Not to mention People have actually been living in North American since the last ice age. What made you more upset that he called indigenous people natives or that he brought stuff to swap? I think most Americans know to pack extras for selling and swapping when they go to other countries. I would've picked Blue Jeans and teeth whitener but you know whatever.
@@lennybuttz2162 What kind of strange comment is that? I don't quite understand. If that was supposed to be sarcasm, it was a miserable attempt at it. Is it supposed to mean that you Americans believe that you have to bring gifts for the locals in every country in the world outside of America? I would have expected something with way too much sugar. You do realize that most European emigrants failed here and hoped for a better life there. If you look at their descendants, their genetic heritage has deteriorated even further. And if you wanted to defend the moronic action of your fellow countryman, you only made it worse. Knowledge is power... just not in the USA
When my dad went to Moscow in the early 80's he was recommended to take, chewing gum for small tip, jeans for a major one and to be bloody careful who he offered it to
@@lennybuttz2162according to QI the guy the pilgrim murderous shots address the on English. Having crosse the Atlantic several times. Oh and the pilgrims only left HOLLAND because they didn't allow shitty twats like them
I am from Canada... I was asked what we do with our igloos in the summer... shook my head and said " we have AC in it so it's all good"... fun times.
Im from Denmark. Even b4 the idiotic Fox segment comparing us with Venezuela (we're not even a socialist country and never have been!), Ive had more than 1 American ask, if we have polar bears walking in the streets....
@@dfuher968 Which is funny cause the US actually does have polar bears.. in Alaska!
I'm Canadian. If I told you all my "bizarre American behaviour and supposition ls" stories, we'd be here a week.
I have favourites, though:
*Asked if our dimes were "boat tokens".
*Asked if "this here sody-machine takes Canadian coins?" - in Alberta
*Furious tourist demanding American stamps bc he was sending postcards home to the U.S. -from Alberta
*Seeing my British Columbia license plate and being asked if I drove to Bellingham, Wa. FROM BRITAIN; then asked if I "spoke Colombian"
* Demanding change from a cash purchase be in "good American money"- in B.C.
* American family shocked to arrive in Lake Louise, Alberta in August and find the ski-hill closed for the summer - that they flew to Calgary and drove up through a clearly snow-free landscape did not register
* Had American tourists come into the Toronto travel agency where I worked wanting to "buy tickets to see the Queen".
*Recently was asked if I was going to vote Republican or Democrat; man was shocked to find out that Canadians do not vote in U.S. elections since Canada is A STATE.
No.
That's just silly I thought every one knew Igloos were just in Alaska.
In Paris, getting of the plane, American wife to husband: "What language do they speak here?"
I was working in London once when two american tourists asked me for directions to Edinburgh. I said you know its about 400 miles away? To which they said "can we walk it"? So i said yeah and watched them set off "north" lol on foot
Well, u werent lying. They could walk it, just might take a while 🤣🤣
That's what my parents want me to think how far thay walked to get to school
I was at the same situation! In Moscow I was asked by two Americans, if they drive (not fly!!!) at morning to see The Baikal lake could they be back to Moscow the same day afternoon?
Guys... There are 4,500 km (~3000 miles)! Like between the NYC and Los Angeles! They didn't believe me, because "The US is BIGGEST country, only them have such long distances but not "small European states"😂
Yeah, I believe that. You think Americans don't know distance? Who s the idiot here?
@@seasonedpotato8214god I've had great grand parents say the. FFS you would think the. Four Yorkshire mens skit was real
On the subject of getting confused between Switzerland and Sweden, they have the same problem with Austria and Australia, the tourist gift shops in Austria do a roaring trade in T-shirts reading "There are no Kangaroos in Austria", complete with the Australian traffic hazard symbol warning of wild Kangaroos.
I read about a gift shop in New Zealand selling toy kangaroos .
The owner said she was so fed up with telling Americans why she did not stock them that eventually she gave in and started to make some money from their stupidity.
@@Jill-mh2wn Yeah, I heard about that too, more power to the gift shop owner!
@@nicksykes4575 Well ,they say the customer is always right 🤣
@@Jill-mh2wn Well, we do have Wallabys, but they were introduced.
Same with Dutch people speaking Dutch in the Netherlands, which is NOT Deutsch or from Deutschland….!!
Yip, that's EXACTLY how the rest of the world sees Americans and this just proves how right we are!
@@leo1314ok It's completely okay to criticize, or even make fun of people making silly remarks. I don't think it's okay to lump all US citizens into one. It's just not the case at all.
@@RNTV But Americans don't understand that Americans do that ALL the time. Lumping people into one. The amount of times Americans say inaccurate things about other nations, even on the news, is mindblowing to us.
As an American, I know that many Americans do this. Does it make lumping people altogether on either side right? No. Not all of us do this, some of us actually take the initiative to educate ourselves about the rest of the world.
An American friend's wife to my ex (who is from Scotland). HER: 'Where are you from'? My EX: 'Scotland'. HER 'Oh is that in Ireland?' I'm amazed my ex didn't headbutt her ;)
at least she didnt ask if it was in England lol 🙂
😂 Me too!!
The fact is that US education doesn't seem to include global geography, global economic systems, global political systems and global cultures..... whereas my own little/big continent/country of Australia, with about 28,000.000 people, all start learning about other countries, their culture, their history, their geography from primary school onwards..... the USA wants to be isolationist, as if their country is the only one in the world....... like the 'we are the only ones with freedom' crap.... nope, no the USA is not... in fact, more and more each day, every citizens freedoms are being taken away... except for the moronic free for all stance on guns.....
There's a book about it
It's called dumbing Americans down
It's not by coincidence
Unbelievably well said my Aussie friend 🇬🇧🇦🇺
How wonderful being an Australian you are also an expert on the American educational system. I bow down to your superior intellect. Now lets open another can of Fosters and talk about the All Blacks.
@@lennybuttz2162 we're all experts on your education system. People like you demonstrate the effectiveness, or lack thereof, every day. What a bitter twisted little person you are Lenny. I'd say you need help but you probably cant afford it.
German here. Ivisited California back in 84 and went to a summer camp as a 14 year old teen.
I got a truck load of different questions. Among them were such classics as: was Hitler still around, or do we have cars in Germany. That last one from from a self-confessed car enthusiast.
I had to inform him that it was a German who had invented the first internal combustion engine car. Oh, and that both types of the most used engines, the Otto engine and the Diesel engine were both invented by a German as well.
He was offended, turned to me, and said I was wrong. Everybody knows that Ford invented the car. I just shook my head.
Yeah, Ive had an American tell me, that pizza was invented in New York. He was very insulted, when I tried to tell him, that its documented in Italy back to at least Roman times.
Americans seem to have a fetish with everything including the wheel having been invented in the US. They will either reinvent history to make it so or just refuse to hear about actual origins.
@@dfuher968 Christ on a bike! Marco Polo even recorded that the Chinese had Pizza when he was there. What makes the Yanks think they invented everything?
Talking about is Hitler still around...
I was once asked by American (an older one, not a kid!) if I met Joseph Stalin perconally back in Russia?
I thought he just mistakes a name and maybe he meant Vladimir Putin?
No, he asked about Stalin actually😂
My family came from Germany and they started the rail company that made most train engines for Europe, they also made a lot of military vehicles and later became Daimler Benz. We are taught World history but mostly we are taught American History. I think we learn a more accurate rendition of history than a lot of European schools teach. It isn't always a failure of our schools when kids don't know things its usually a failure at home. It is always easier to point your finger at others than turn it around and point it at yourself.
@@dfuher968 You do know Italians didn't even see a tomato until around 1500? Tomatoes came for Mexico. Maybe the Romans had a flat bread with food cooked on top of it but in today's world it would not be recognized as pizza. I do not believe pizza was invented in NYC, maybe that's were it was perfected?
I was once asked by an american "where do you come from?" I replied "England I'm English". To which they replied "which language do you speak over there?"
A few years ago in Florida I was asked "do you speak English or French back home?" (England). From someone who had a responsible job. To many Americans the rest of the world is either Canada or Mexico.
you speak Englishanese, right? XD
A Texan to me:'You speak mighty fine English for a furriner, what language do you speak in England?'. Having explained to him, (after picking my jaw up from the floor), he clearly didn't believe me.
@@digidol52 To be fair a lot of Englishmen speak French and act so hoity toity most of the time it's not an unreasonable question.
Do you know what an idiom is? In America often times when people ask you were you come from they actually mean where did your family come from, or what is your heritage. This is a very American thing because we are so diverse. Until the past 20 years most European countries had very little diversity.
I was at Neuschwanstein Castle in Southern Germany, a nineteenth century castle, built in a medieval style. Two Americans stood behind me as we went on a tour of the rooms. They stopped to admire the light fittings in one room. One of them said “Gee, I didn’t realise they had electricity in the Middle Ages!” …
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I was standing on a street corner in Milwaukee Wisconsin waiting for the light to change. There were 2 people from England behind me, suddenly 1 girl jumps up and down screaming, "Look! It's a yellow school bus!" they had seen yellow school busses in movies but didn't know they were actually real. hmm
The inspiration for the Disney castle was neuschwanstein
@@lennybuttz2162that's a little girl not an adult. We didn't have yellow school busses until about 5 years ago
@@markbriten6999 Oh, I didn't realize you thought you were there in 1979. She was an adult around 20? Honey, I'm 63 and we had yellow school busses when my mom went to school.
I live in Scotland and the best one I've heard was an American woman complaining that Edinburgh castle was built to far away from the airport.
Pronounced Edinburrow😂
I don't know if it was a joke or not but apparently one American tourist at Windsor Castle was heard to say contemptuously "You'd think the Queen would have more sense than build her castle under the Heathrow flight path!"
The healthcare in the US vs. UK is something I read a lot about. I'm English and In 2019 I needed emergency surgery, antibiotics and 6 weeks of daily visits to a nurse to clean and dress the wound. Cost to me was £0.
In Feb 2020 the issue recurred with the same surgery, antibiotics and nurse care. Cost to me was £0.
In May 2020 I had pneumonia and spent 2 weeks in hospital. 3 meals a day, daily visits by a doctor, bloods, all meds and tests. Cost to me £0.
In September 2020 the same bacteria, Streptococcus pneumonia, caused mastoiditis. Another 2 weeks in hospital, part of my skull drilled away, 12 weeks of daily nurse visits to my home to deliver IV antibiotics. All the time I was on full pay with my employer. Cost to me £0.
It's not Socialist... It's humane. If I lived in the US I'd be dead. I find it strange why some Americans find it weird... My previous boss was from the US and she was baffled. Love your channel guys!
Unfortunately some Americans have not just drank the Koolaid as regards their interpretation of 'socialism' - they've taken a bath in the stuff. Both naturally occurring stupidity & wilful ignorance cannot be educated away - mores the pity.
@@jockeyladjockeylad8492yeah Fox news compared Denmark to Venezuela. Two very different socialist countries
@@moondaughter1004 Correction. Denmark is not socialist. So its an even worse comparison. We Danes actually outrank Americans as "most capitalist country". Last I checked the OECD list, we were 5th, the US was 18th. We are not and never have been a socialist country. We're a socialdemocracy with a free market economy. And its not just "most capitalist", we outrank the US on. Its across the board. Best place to start a business, happiest, healthiest, more money to spend, living standards, u name it, we outrank the US. Always while being a capitalist country.
@@dfuher968 yeah I know. I'm Swedish. We're a social democracy too. It's just hilarious enough that I'm actually siding with you guys
You guys are lucky... that stupidity about free healthcare somehow being related to socialism is complete bullshit. I live in Florida and I am lucky enough to be a fairly healthy person. However, one time I got sick, ended up with a high fever and a certain kind of reaction to that fever (my ears and face got abnormaly red) so I was rushed into the emergency room. I got there and they immediately asked for my health insurance, which I didn't have and I expressed this to them. They did not thoroughly check me but they determined that I was dehydrated. Since I had no insurance, they did not want to give me IV fluid! You know what they gave me? One tablet of Tylenol, a Gatorade, and they sent me home with my face still red and my blood pressure up! Then came the bill... $500! For absolutely nothing! I truly think that if I were dying, they probably would have let me. You either have health insurance or a ridiculous amount of money for medical expenses... or you die here. Luckily what I had went away, but it did take me quite a while to heal and I think that I was left with some after effects. That is not the only negative experience that I have had with the healthcare system but this is just the rundown of how bad it is here.
That was many years ago, when the Concord airplane was still going. I was working in Hampton Court Palace, which was one of the residence of Henry the VIII, so sixteen century, the Concord plane would pass over it around 11.00am and was very loud for just few second at the point of making windons glasses shaking. So one morning I was kitting an american lady with the guide tour machine when the Concorde loudly passed over, and she look at me and asked me: " didn't they know when they build this place that it was going to be on the route of the Concord?" I though she was joking, I look at her ready and she was serious, she was not joking. I imagined Cardinal Wolsey, when he build the place thinking...."mmm in 500 years the Concord will pass over here and make a racket, shall I build the place or not?...who cares let's build it" 😆😆😂😂
It’s the teachers being stupid worries me more than any of the other criticisms! That’s crazy!
The dumbest thing an American said to me, once in Rome wandering the old forum an American tourist complained about the surface we were walking on, I mentioned it was a 2000 year old original Roman road and she said but can’t they fix it up.
😂😂😂😂
Dumb group of Texan tourists asked me while in Venice why us Venetians don't drill the lagoon so we can find oil and get rich.....
Like you haven't wondered that yourself when riding a bike over a cobblestone road? Fix the roads and save a chunk in a museum if you're nostalgic. LOL
@@lennybuttz2162 when I was growing up cobbles were common, never entered my head they would cover them all in tarmac, once they did it was great, but that’s the roads not a historic Roman Forum, so really the Italians did exactly that, paved the roads and made the Forum a museum.
@@lennybuttz2162 With your stupid statements, you're only making things worse and making yourself more and more ridiculous.
The All-American slogan could be - no brain - no pain - no damage
ha ha ha That is so funny. How long did it take you to come up with that one? I hope it didn't give you a headache. How is it the Brits never remember the fact that without America millions more would have starved to death during the war or that without us you'd be speaking German?
@@lennybuttz2162 Oh oh, now this card is being played in desperation. But this card isn't an ace, it's just a lark. This video is all about this topic and you're surprised that people are sharing their experiences? My God you must be pissed off or are you just disillusioned because the stupid part of the population of the USA is being played?
It's just the truth. Just be happy that you stand out positively from the crowd and shut up
A woman once sincerely asked me if men have pelvises.
Ehh, no love, ma legs just hang there
1. American girl asked if I was envious of the moon, since Im not American. I wish I asked all the questions that ran thru my head, but before I could, the hobby astronomer in me took the wheel and explained how the moon works, we all see the same one, even in Finland.
2. A tourist guy (with lovely Southern drawl, from Tennessee or Kentucky) I met in a bar here thought our free healthcare is straight up communism, people use ambulances as taxis, people go to hospitals for fun, which makes our doctors stupid somehow. I didn’t have the heart to correct him, he was so happy being the perfect little consumer, I didn’t dare break his illusion.
3. I keep being asked why my English is so good and how we deal with the polar bears. We learn languages in school, cartoons weren’t dubbed when I was a kid, I learned a lot from translating my favorite music and there are no polar bears to deal with, despite being very northern nation.
Your healthcare isn’t free. It isn’t free in the UK where I’m from. If there are intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe with medicine, healthcare isn’t free there either. Nothing is free.
I've had Americans arguing with me, adamant the words are pronounced Toona, Tooseday and toob 😂😂
I have to remind them the language is English not American.
I have an English friend, who went to Miami for holiday a few years ago. He was asked in the airport going through customs, how come he spoke such good English. He said "well, Im English". No, no, no, English is what is spoken in America. Which language do u speak in ur country? Him again "Im English. From England. We speak English".
He couldnt convince her. She thought, only Americans speak English. Apparently had no clue, where the English language come from, or why its called English.
@@dfuher968 They also think Spanish is from Mexico 😁
A young American couple asked me "How long does it take to drive to London from here?'"
We were in Dublin. 😮
A friend of mine told me that a lady he knew was working in the US. An American where she worked asked her where she was from and she responded "I'm from England". The American guy replied "Oh, what language do you speak in England?".
Have you heard the English speak? Sometimes when I'm watching an English TV show I have to turn on the closed captioning so I can understand what they're saying. There's cockney, rhyming slang, the way people in council housing talk which is an odd mix. Isn't there something called sing song? What about those crusty old blue blood who talk like they have a mouth full of phlegm? Then there's the posh people who are so snooty they barely move their lips when they talk and they speak in very high elongated tones. I guess the Welsh are no longer considered English but even when they speak English can be quite unintelligible. Then there's the Scots.
Travelling through the US I was told multiple times that I wasn't Australian, I was British because I didn't sound like Steve Irwin. My attempts to explain that the US isn't the only country with regional accents unsurprising didn't make any pennies drop.
I was also asked who does all the menial jobs in Australia like lawn mowing because we "don't have Mexicans".
Sounds like you ran into a really special bunch. As someone who did landscaping for several years I find that comment particularly idiotic 😂
I had it in reverse, they thought I was Australian when I'm English.
Tell them that it's too dangerous to work outdoors in Australia with our venomous animals and our dangerous sun, so we have mobs of highly trained Kangaroos to fill those roles.... I bet you they would believe it.
I've seen so many of these and what strikes me more than anything else is the tendency in US Americans to double down on their ignorance and tell people from a certain country that they know more about their country than they do
This is true. They absolutely, stubbornly refuse to be corrected. They ask for help, refuse to accept the explanation, and often end up calling me a liar.
Can you clarify for me the difference between U.S. Americans and another type of American? Yes, I do know more about my country than you do. Just because you grew up watching American TV shows and movies while you ached to live in America I was already doing it. I also know the difference between a TV show and reality something that Brits can't seem to grasp. They think the teenagers they see in TV shows are just like real teenagers in America. LOL You are so disrespectful and mean. You're a bully.
I'M 🇯🇲 JAMAICAN, i was in Florida &upon hearing my accent a lady asked me where I'm from, upon learning JAMAICA 🇯🇲, she then asked if we have pasteurized milk.. i told her no, we drank straight from the cow.
serves her right!
My American mother in law text us 2 days ago to confess to one of these. She said she got annoyed because when they arrived in Spain, no one was speaking English! She said she felt like a true American for wondering something that dumb 😂
An educated American?
I have travelled around the world and the only people that really revel in their ignorance is Amercans. It really stands out. I actually had to defend that Sweden is a country in Europe once (and that you can't drive to it from California)
On the driving part: with enough money and motivation, you could drive up to the north of Canada, onto Arctic ice cap, to Russia. Follow the coast until you get to Finland and drive to Sweden. I won't be easy, but it can be done. Top Gear drove two Toyota Land Cruisers to the magnetic North Pole once. The first to do so.
Im from Denmark and have travelled widely. I have to concur. Americans are by far the most ignorant, I have met. Also the least curious and most likely to complain, that things arent like theyre used to "back home".
And yeah, I once was asked, where Im from, and on replying Denmark, got the follow-up "oh yeah, thats the capital of Stockholm, right?". And that was from an American, who had even heard of Denmark and/or Stockholm.
U really cant make it up!
The funniest one I heard was an American on a train and we stopped at a place called ingatestone (anyone who knows the place or is British would break that place name up into in gate stone right?) well this American showed me a new way and it was priceless at the top of his voice; he stood up and shouted to his friend “oh my god, what a strange name for a town Inga test one! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I could not bring myself to correct him how to say ingatestone but Jesus I hadn’t even thought to break a word up that way
My English cousin lived in Florida and was asked frequently what language they speak in England 😂😂
he should have said that the English don't speak because they are telepaths. They would have believed him! 😂
You should give those Americans credit for realising
a) that other countries exist and
b) that they have languages other than English
An English friend of mine went on holiday to Miami and got asked the same question! While going through customs! Coz the lady was amazed at how well he spoke English...
I've met many Americans over the years and have had "What part of London is (insert place name over 100 miles from London) in", " what's it like living in a country where you can't defend yourself" but the best was that "American drink age law applies in the UK so stop selling my 18 year old son beer"
As an American, I apologize on behalf of Americans... those kinds of Americans are awful. Some of us actually do educate ourselves about the rest of the world.
To be fair it's really difficult for us to imagine such a small place to actually be a country? England is smaller than the majority f our states. You know Texas is 6 times bigger than the UK. Wisconsin is bigger than England and I can drive from one side of Wisconsin to the other in an afternoon. It will take 10 hours to drive from the top of Wisconsin to the bottom. When our country is almost 10 million square kilometers and your country is nearly 250,000 square kilometers you can see how we don't think it's very impressive. Might I add, when your grammar is as poor as yours do you really think you should be making fun of how other people talk?
@@lennybuttz2162 In British English my grammar is ok. In the simplified American English maybe different
@@Westcountrynordic LOL Do they even have English class in the UK school system? I guess you have to have a certain level of understanding to realize how terrible your grammar is. Do you know what nouns, verbs and prepositions are? Funnily enough I know the English don't have a gasp on what an actual adjective is. It seems like you don't care about punctuation either. Did you know punctuation is part of grammar?
@@lennybuttz2162 Lenny, with all the comments you’re leaving, you’re proving the world right about dumb Americans. That you can’t imagine such a “small” place to be a country is typical of an American, as most Americans don’t have passports, and the majority of the ones that do have them only to visit relatives in Mexico or Canada - not because they have any intellectual curiosity about the world beyond US borders.
Great reaction, I have a few but on my first visit to the US many years ago I was asked if we had telephones in Scotland, I was then told I was lying when I said it was invented by a Scotsman 😂, was also asked if we had fresh fruit and vegetables 🤦♀️
Well to be fair the average Scot doesn't know what fresh fruit and veg is - unless it's deep fried.😁
@@speleokeir Aye, you’re right, nothing goes better with my haggis, neeps and tatties than some deep fried lettuce leaves washed down of course with a can of Irn Bru, sláinte ❤️
@@speleokeir 🤣🤣🤣🤣 My thought exactly
On visiting a gun shop in Texas I was asked if we celebrated thanksgiving here in England . When i told the idiot no, he then asked me if we celebrated Christmas at the same time as they did. On another occasion , at my local market , talking to the stallholder who sold hand made jewelry , an American guy asked what kind of stone was in a necklace . It was Amber . On being told it was formed from tree sap millions of years ago , he was outraged . " That,s impossible , the world is only two thousand years old , it was created when Jesus was born. " I had to bite my lips and walk away.
In the midwest, around Thanksgiving and 4th of July, any number of people would ask me how England celebrates these holidays. Also Germans, Turks, Ghanaians, Russians and Indians that I knew got asked as much as I did.
Oh, I can top that. Sadly not 1 of my own experiences, of which I have a lot, but a friend of mine from England got asked by an American, if the UK would respect his 2nd Amendment rights, coz he was going there and would be bringing his gun.....
Simple and appropriate for today.... 'Happy Fourth of July!' to which I always reply 'But hang on, firstly I'm British and secondly don't you lot always put the month before the day? See you on the 11th of September and we'll commemorate that together then!' The look of puzzlement on their faces is a wonder to behold!
I'm not very big on celebrating this day. Most just use it as an excuse to by merchandise and light fireworks while getting drunk. If you want to celebrate the US gaining its independence I can think of much better ways of doing it. As for the 11th of September, I do celebrate since it's my birthday and all 😅.
As a student I spent one summer in the US as a councillor for Camp America, which a lot of students do as a chance to see the US.
I had a conversation with one of the other councillors who was American that went like this:
Him: You're from England right?
Me; Yes.
Him: Me and my friend were thinking of going there one day, so I was wondering how long it took to drive?
Me: (A bit non-plussed but giving him the benfeit of the doubt). Umm, I'm from England, you know in Great Britain/the UK,? Not New England.
Him: Yeah I know that. So how long does it take to drive? Because me and my friend thought it might be fun road trip.
Me: Well Britain is part of Europe, 3000 miles away, on the other side of the Atlantic.
Him: Yeah I know that. I'm not dumb, I've been to college. So a long drive then?
Me: * speaking slowly* Well no. You can't drive because the Atlantic is an ocean. You know a big wet sploshy thing full of very deep water? And the only way to cross it is to fly, or if you're rich, sail on a big ship like an ocean line
Him: Oh. I thought there might be a bridge or something...
😬
Not that Americans have a monopoly on ignorance, there are some pretty cring makingly uneducatd people here in Britain too, who don't know stuff I consider common knowledge.
For instance many of my work colleagues don't know where major cities such as Manchester, Liverpool or Newcastle are except 'Somewhere up North' because they're Townies who rarely leave their own city. Many haven't even been to London.
I've asked haven't they ever looked at a map? Or even looked at the map of Britain shown on the weather forecast every night which has some of the main cities on it. But evidently not.
And once at uni I was chatting to my housemates when I referred to someone as being 'condescending'.
Both girls looked at me puzzled and asked what condescending meant. I was a bit shocked as it's a pretty common word and being at uni I'd assumed they were intelligent well educated enough to know it. Being a kind and helpful person I answered as follows:
Me: The same as patronising. You know what patronising means?
Them: No.
Me: Remind me again what you're studying for your degree?
Them: English lit.
Me: Right. And you don't know what condescending or patronising means?
Them: No.
Me: Okay. Well it's when somebody talks down to you - as if you were a complete idiot - Much like I'm doing to you both right now!😁🤣🤣🤣
I'm German. Thank you for teaching me 2 new words. 😊 But the second one I just guessed right. From latin patron. In German I would maybe say "Herablassend", "belehrend" or even "überheblich".
I don't understand why so many foreigners get a huge thrill out of making fun of Americans and at the same time want to be in America. Why did you even come to America if you hate us so much? Was it just to get some funny stories to tell when you got back home? I don't get it, it seems like so many foreigners want to come to America but they all talk about it as if it's a 3rd world piece of shit nightmarish place to visit with the most horrible people on Earth. It doesn't make sense to me? Like I never dreamed about going to Saudi Arabia, Angola, or Nigeria. I sure wouldn't want to visit Viet Nam for the food or England either for that matter.
An American was visiting Windsor in England and asked "Why did they build the castle so near to the airport?"
I live in Cardiff (Wales) and someone I know who does tours of the castle heard a couple say, "Isn't this great, they've built a castle right next to the shops!"
That's hilarious. Oh and I'm sure a Brit never said the same thing. LOL like America has a corner on stupidity. Have you ever seen an episode of Benny Hill or gone to a Pantomime show?
Visiting the US from South Africa, I've been asked "Do you have to holler at the elephants to get off your driveway when you come home?" True story
Im a Finn and we have that same problem with polar bears, Ive been told. Not asked, told. Apparently they roam the streets here and steal from peoples trash.. (No polar bears in Finland, zero.)
Don't tell them this, but the entire country of Australia literally made up a subspecies called "a drop bear" (big scary Koalas ) just to mess with Americans and they still believe it 😂
Well, do you?
So I’m in the pool in Las Vegas on holiday from Australia. A guy jumped in holding a drink with the mirror sunnies and a large cowboy hat. He said howdy and I said G’day. He asked me where I’m from so I said Australia. “Where’s that?” he asks. “A small town near Milwaukee” I reply. “Oh...” he says.
So you're a stereotype. I never heard GDAY once while I was in Australia. I doubt he said howdy, too.
When an American asked me where is this or that country? I always answer "it's next to Klingonia". Most of the time that nonsense answer is good enough for them 😀
I'm from Scotland, and for some reason, americans never believe me!
I've been accused of lying about where I'm from an unbelievable amount of times online because apparently 'scottish people live in mud huts and don't have electricity or Internet access'! (Obviously, they've watched braveheart or something and think we still live the way we did hundreds of years ago!)
The number of americans who've insisted on calling me english even though I've repeatedly told them I'm not english and that calling scottish people english is never a good idea. Their attitude is "they're basically the same thing so who cares?!"
Scottish people care, and doing this sort of thing in certain parts of scotland could be very dangerous!
US guy : "Where are you from? "
Me : Venice.
US guy: You don't look like a typical Spanish guy.....
Me: 😳
Next time an American tells u, that Scottish and English is basically the same, ask them, how they would like being called Mexicans or Canadians.
I'm from London. I was in Pensacola with friends, a Guy around 20 years old from Kentucky came with another crowd, when he found out I was English he asked "Are there any Farms in England" I just stood there with my mouth open.
You think that's crazy? I was asked (seriously ! ) 'Do you have trees in the UK'?
@@ramadaxl I can honestly believe that!
@@stevew585 I ( eventually ) asked him if he'd ever seen a 'Robin Hood' movie. he said yes. 'OK...where did he live?' 'Sherwood forest' .' Right'!...( blank look ) and a forest is made of what'?
'OOOOOHH '
@@ramadaxl lol, Thick as planks
Here are a few of these that I've been asked in the past.
1) My favourite: I was chatting with a girl from LA and she asked me if we have Internet in Germany. While chatting with me over the internet.
2) A lot of US americans have asked me if I do speak German (I'm German btw). And even worse - it's not like they asked me that question meeting me in the USA or something. No, it's mostly US american tourists HERE IN GERMANY!
3) People asking if Hitler is still alive. And no, people are not joking when they ask that. Even if he hadn't ended his life in 1945 - he was born in 1889. He would be 135 years old by now.
Friend of mine standing in a queue with his kids in Disneyland. Man next to him said “ I love your accent , where are you from?”. He answered Scotland. The man replied “ That’s one hell of a drive!” 🤪🤪🤪
What, you never heard of an amfibien car that drives at the bottom of the ocean 😆 You just have to make sure you go pee before you leave because there's no toilet stops along the way.
1. Working about 1980 in a shop that got a lot of American tourists (usually older people).
- “I have blue blood. I’m descended from Bonnie Prince Charlie / Flora MacDonald.” We got variations of this over and over. Rob Roy McGregor, *the* William Wallace etc - they all have thousands of descendants in the USA, apparently.
- “I’m Scottish/Irish /English, I’m entitled to a passport.” (Knows of a great-great-grandfather who emigrated to the US.)
- “My name is very rare / unique, have you heard of the X clan?” (Surname that filled a swatch of half the phone books in Blighty.)
2. At college in the 1990s, US students:
- “I don’t have an accent”.
- “My name is MacX, so I heard I’m entitled to some clan land, where do I go to claim that?”
3. In the midwest, early 90s, on hearing that someone is from the UK.
- “Your English is very good/How long have you been learning English?”
- “How do they celebrate Thanksgiving / 4th of July in your country?” (A lot of people asked this around those dates.)
My Scottish friend was asked, in all seriousness, whether or not they had television in Scotland. He pointed out that the inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was Scottish and his interlocutor told him to his face he was lying.
"You don't know what it is like living in North America in the winter!" I'm Canadian. Living in central Canada. Where -40 temps are not abnormal. He also went on to inform me that -40F is "way colder" than -40C. Sadly, I'm related to this person.
Talking to an American couple at the pub. Their concept of what was old was a little strange. I was supposed to be impressed with them being sixth generation American. We sat in a pub dating back to the sixteenth century. The local church was started in 1215 the same year Magna Carta was signed. The village was recorded in the Domesday book in 1086. They asked if I had lived in the village long. I replied that the parish records only go back to 1500 but a member of my family was recorded on them in 1503.
Yeah we struggle with how old things are in Europe because most towns have only been around about 300 years here. We do however have a different sense of how far something is before it is considered “far”. For me a car ride in one day cannot last more than 8-9 hours or I start getting sore and need to lay down and stuff. When I was younger I could go more like 12-14 hours but Im 50 and the body is a little more resistant. (53 really). Im guessing 4 hour drives would be far for you? Im not poking fun or being rude, I am genuinely talking and asking because im curious. I know things don’t always come across well in text.
@@occheermommy .I visited America in the 80s....lol...and could never understand how Americans would say it's just down the road. Only to find it was a good hour or more drive. America is so vast that you have a totally different concept of distance to England.
@@allanchapman7986 yeah an hour drive is nothing. Most people commute that far, or they did prior to covid. Many started working from home after that. I cannot imagine how old some of the buildings are in Europe. We are also a driving culture in the US so an hour is no big deal because we all grew up in cars and have been driving since we were 16 ( or in my case slightly illegally at 15)
I can relate to this - I once showed an American visitor my Somerset village's church. She freaked out when she read the board listing all the previous vicars and saw that the first one took office in that very building in 1189. "No building can be that old!". I then really blew her mind by telling her that building that church had been part of the penance imposed on the Le Brett family because of their involvement in the murder of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. "But that was just a movie!" ('Becket' - Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton). No dear, it actually happened.
@@rattywoof5259 yeah most of us suck at history. I like history and I know I dont know much. Many just ignore it entirely. Then when they see a historical movie dont realize it’s based on history. We also arent always observant or polite in other countries and this is why we are seen as rude or ignorant. Many of us have travelled around Europe and Asia and such and know how to behave so it really hurts that those people have given us a bad reputation. I do hate when I hear that Americans are ignorant because many dont have passports. Now some of them are and you wouldn’t want them to travel to your town but most just dont see a reason to leave the US. You have to understand that the US is so vast that we have just about every site and weather type you could want to see. In Southern California you can surf and ski in the same day. There is so much to see in the US that most people dont even visit all the states before they die. There are many that say they dont see a need to go to other countries until they have seen all of their own. That isnt ignorant when your country is huge. Maybe if you lived in the UK it would seem ignorant but I dont think it is ignorance when you have over 3000 miles coast to coast. Not including Alaska or Hawaii.
"Canada doesn't have cars sweety!" Meanwhile we have the busiest highway in all of North America. It handles more traffic than the Santa Monica Freeway. (Hwy 401).
Me and my husband on top of the highest point of Snowdonia Wales and an American couple with a map asked us ' Where are we'? My husband said Ben Nevis. They said 'Thank you', smiled and walked off. We don't know what became of them, but it keeps us warm 27 years later.
@@scousemouse9715 😂😂😂
As an Englishman, I was once asked by an Amercian why I didn't celebrate Independance day, as he thought we did.
They all think we do!
at this point you probably should
I've also had people think we celebrate it in Australia.
The stupid thing is if you ask a Yank who they got independence from most of them don't know
Good lawd..
I was on holiday in Denver they took us to Six Flags as we had a toddler, as I was asking my son if he was OK on the ride the attendant said "OMG your accent is so cute where are you from ?" ..."Wales" I replied, "where is that" so I said "it is the country attached to England on the left" to which she replied "What Ireland ?"🤦♀
Wales IS joined to England. Ireland isn't.
I'm actually kind of impressed she knew that Ireland was to the left of England (even if not attached). More than most!
@@LFire12 not the left, west of.
I live in Tokyo and once overheard an american tourist LOUDLY complained "why nobody's talking in English and why everything's written in a weird-looking alphabets instead of a normal ones". Sigh.
To be fair, after a few days of vacationing somewhere where I struggle to understand the language
(I understand a bit of Spanish, and German (and some French and Italian if it is in writing - they speak too fast)
but I really don't speak the languages), my poor brain gets a bit tired. It IS tiring to struggle to understand.
(However, vacationing abroad is optional, so I can't really blame the locals for it, can I?)
@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 They don't speak too fast..they speak normally. They sound to you as if they speak too fast because you're not really fluent in those languages.
@@azabujuban-hito8085 As I stated myself.
I should also mention the complete confusion about the seasons being reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, or thinking that Australia is the only place with opposite seasons to the Northern Hemisphere.
Currency exchange and time zones are just met with "..........".
My husband lived in the States back in the 70s, his then mother in law said " Do you have electricity in England?".
Working in Houston with an international team, one Texan asked “`The UK is Ireland, Scotland, France and Sweden is in there too somewhere, right!!!” At the end of the Project he was presented with a Global Atlas intended for 7 year olds. Very bright guy who was an expert on the computer but had no experience of life outside Houston, TX.
Does that make him unable to study a map?
Houston, we have a problem 😂
Not what they said but what some believed. In Scotland we like to mess with tourists, particularly from the states about how we head to the hills for haggis hunting season
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OK. I have to comment on this one! Whilst in the US a good few years ago I was watching a football (soccer) game involving France and I can't remember the opponents. At one point the American commentator tried to differentiate one of the French players by calling him African American. I thought it was one of the funniest things I'd ever heard and my American friends were initially perplexed.
I had to explain. He's French, not American!
Funniest one I ever heard was while standing in line at a Waffle place here in Belgium, there was this American tourist infront of me that straight up asked "I'd like a Belgian Waffle" The guy behind the counter ever so politely replied : "Sir, you are in Belgium... every waffle you see here is by definition 'a Belgian Waffle' so you'll have to be more specific" He said it with such resignation I'm sure it wasn't the first time he had to point that out. I and other locals couldn't help but burst out laughing.
It is not just Americans who can give people a laugh. When on a bus tour of Italy, my husband and I paired off with an American couple and sat down at an outdoor table in Florence. Gerry our American friend wanted some iced tea. Not one of us could speak Italian but we all had heard Italian people speaking English with an Italian accent during our lives and were used to the “a” added to the end of a lot of English words, so when he asked for iced tea we said “make that 4”, and the waiter asked us “colda?” we all said 👍 yes … so we ended up sitting in the sun drinking hot tea with the temperature around 40 C because in Italy “colda” translates as “hot”. Lesson learned.
@judileeming1589 the word is caldo, meaning hot. Tè freddo is cold tea!.
I heard that an American on Twitter wanted the Queen of England to be impeached over some comments she may or may not have said about Meghan Markle, they must think that US law is dominant over individual sovereign countries own laws😂
Have you not heard of Julian Assange?
@@gregsmith4102 That guy arrested for extradition to Sweden for sexual assault? Who skipped his bail until the statute of limitations ran out on the offences? That Julian Assange?
@@wessexdruid7598 The sexual assault charges were transparently fake, it was ridiculous.
To be fair, so does the US Government. Ask Julian Assange.....
@@julianbarber4708 Tell that to the women he assaulted. We're talking about _Sweden_ here.
I got asked what we wore in Wales - I just said “the same as you, but more wet weather gear” and then “Is Wales in London”
I was asked by an American who worked for one of our US offices if we celebrated Christmas. And she was from Chicago which is not that far from Canada.
As a Brit I’ve always wondered why Disney, Universal etc put their massive parks in Florida because that puts me of going to them straight away. Even we know that all of the horrible crazy shit happens there and that’s not even taking the deadly heat and wildlife in to account.
And the fact that they have some of the most lax gun laws, and some of the worst gang violence. Hmm, I wonder if the 2 things are connected...?
My English cousin married a yank and lived on florida for over a decade.
Even though they lived in a gated community, the kids never played outside because of the violence. Plus they're absolutely terrified of kidnapping apparently.
Overall he hated it, divorced her and came home😂
But Tom Petty came from Florida!? So it can't possibly be that bad.
As an Aussie, the fear of "deadly heat and wildlife" made me lol hard 😂
I’m from Australia, and when I was in Boston I kept being asked if I was Canadian “because I had an accent”…..
Im from Denmark, English isnt even my first language. I was asked the same question by a couple of Americans, I met on holiday in Greece. Coz I "had an accent". 🤦♀🤦♀
@@dfuher968 Oh my god! 🤣🤣
"You have failed to convince me that a female shark could evoke evolve a crocodile."
Easily the dumbest thing anyone's ever said to me.
I was in the States and talking to a woman who told me that she was in London the previous year. I live in London so i asked "what part, where did you stay?". And she said "i don't know, downtown London". I said nothing. I decided not to explain that there is no such place.
Whilst visiting family in florida from england , a women asked me whats it like living in Australia lol
Someone reminding me to vote in 2016 when i’m clearly french canadian. I mean, can’t you read my accent? 😂😂
"read your accent".?
@@Smoshy16idioms - similar to “reading the room” or “do you read me?”
Sorry, I remembered another one (there were so many during my two weeks' travelling solo in the US).
I was repeatedly asked if we have Christmas in Australia. After the first couple of times I replied that no, we have Satanmas being in the Southern Hemisphere and all.
This is about Hockey between Edmonton oilers and Florida Panthers. We were sitting next to a bunch of people from Florida and one person asked me where are we from, my response was were from Edmonton. he said where is that? I'm like shit we play against your team dummy. nice looking guy with good job. omg!!!How come he doesn't know? i was shocked. we are from the Philippines living in canada. Province of Alberta, Town of EDMONTON...God Bless!! Mike and Jess. we love watching you. Keep it up.
Europe is NOT a country,its a Continent.
In the nineties, the Belgian band K's Choice went to tour the US and the singer had a conversation with the record company's associate about how different the States were from Belgium. The singer made a joke how everyone still rode in carts in Belgium, but quickly realised the associate took them seriously.
As a life long Londoner many years ago visiting family in a Iowa someone asked me Is Pompidou still your president😂
When i was a teenager, I worked in a supermarket in Ireland. An American tourist said I was lazy for sitting down at the register and that I should stand up because that's how they do it in the states. She also got angry at me when I refused to accept her pound sterling bank notes. I had to explain to her that Ireland is a different country to the UK and that we use the euro.
Sometimes I come to this channel not just for the content but to hear Jess laugh it's so infectious and brightens my day. I'm not American but on an island off Northern Europe in the Atlantic, that's a little quiz there!
i am from sherwood forest.1 day a yank asked me if i had seen robin hood around? even thou he died a LONG time ago,i tried to make his day.my reply was,he was in the ROBIN HOOD pub last nite,cos i lost to him playing pool!
It is actually quite sad that so many people in the USA are totally ignorant of the world outside of their country. Not only has the education system obviously failed miserably, but what might be even worse, they couldn't be bothered to inform themselves and learn about the world around them.
From an Englishman.
Here in Edinburgh lots of Americans come over for festivals, for sightseeing of the historic castles ect, so I have a few stories. During summer I was standing at a crossing and when the lights turn green to cross here there is a beeping sound, 2 American women in their probably late teens, early twenties came up to me and asked why there was beeping, I responded that it was for the blind (so they know when to cross). One girl responded with an outraged "THEY LET BLIND PEOPLE DRIVE HERE", maybe they were drunk since our drinking laws are lower but wtf. Arguably worse was when over hearing an American group talking about what they were going to do and see in the city and one stated, not as a joke, that it was so strange that they built a castle in the middle of a city... as if the castle didn't come first 😰
I used to answer lots of calls from Americans who were calling the UK. The number of times they'd ask me if I knew the Queen was unbelievable. They also asked if it was foggy where I was - London🤣I'm fond of Americans.
I'm Canadian my girls are irish dancers. The 2023 world itish dance Championships were in Montreal. In one stage room there was a disturbance. It was a drunk guy that had walked in just being drunk and disruptive.
The org decided to move us all to another room...1000 people. As we were moving there were some ppl from the UK commenting about worrying if there might be a gun..I had to turn and say we're in Canada not America. That's not a concern and they were like...oh...right. the Americans there had already clocked th4 exits and were out of the room though.
An American couple asked a person working at an Infopoint if the Castle which they are loockin at was built for turists like them.
I would have sade "yes it got built 500 years ago for turists like you"
That happened here in Germany
Theres this Simpsons bit about them visiting the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, and Bart refusing to believe, that its there, coz the story was written by Danish Author H.C. Andersen, and he keeps insisting, it was invented by Disney.
It actually happens regularly irl!
I was walking behind two American couples towards the entrance to a castle here in the UK. One woman said to the other “oh look, it’s just like Disneyland”.
I was driving two Americans. The conversation:
'Dude, are we in France or Germany?'
'We're in Germany, dumb ass!'
We were actually in Luxembourg. I didn't bother correcting them.😅
Fun facts to you guys and most Americans, US citizens, Luxemburg is a small country in Europe but it has the second highest per capita GDP of any country of the world .
It's around 140,000 USD ,so it's small but very wealthy!
When on holiday in Florida, an American asked me where I was from. I said England and he then said how did you get here? Did you drive?
I was talking to an American girl, who was convinced England was an island off the coast of New England.
Don't even ask her where Jersey is then!
@@B-A-Lor york
Or Washington....
I was asked if we had coloured tv in Scotland. My answer was that my cave did have a colour tv🙄
I'm British, and to be fair any American visitors I've met have been reasonable enough ---- except that none of them seem to have ever heard of the 24 hour clock
I am Australian, and the most common questions I frequently get from Americans is why we don't celebrate Thanksgiving and/or the 4th of July. I am shocked every time I hear these questions. Also, I have met a lot of very intelligent Americans, but unfortunately the stupid outweighs them for entertainment. 🤣🤣