a little fun fact. the rocket data for the moon landing was metric. they wasted computing power to translate into freedom units so americans could read the instruments.
We do use computing power for planes to convert everything into freedom units. Somehow we all agreed to use freedom feet and stuff, so European instruments, that actually run metric measurements, are always converted into freedom units.
@@koshie66 is it fair to say that germans put a man on the moon and let america pay for it .... thinking about that orange guy not even get mexico to pay for a wall 😂
The reason they have not changed to metric in the airline industry is that height then would be meter ASL, airpressure mm/hg, airspeed km/h so there US risk for confusion.
The funny thing is, those 11 countries that are more obese for the most part are because the Americans have military bases there and spread out their fast food and corn sugar. These countries are predominantly south east asian island nations.
you can also add in that these was all quite healthy places living mostly of fish. then USA had "some" nuke tested in the area and told em "sorry, can't eat that fish anymore... but instead we give you this BURGAR" just look up these island and see how many Mac's there , or Burger King and even Wendy's...
When I moved to US from EU I was .. and I'm not exaggerating.. shocked by the amount of plastic bags the bagger used for my groceries. Back in EU I would bring my own reusable, durable cloth bags and stuff all of the groceries into two, maybe three of those. Here in US they used no less than sixteen (!!!) plastic bags to separate the items by type, then put those bags into larger plastic bags.. so I ended up with something like twenty plastic bags..
I just discovered baggers were a thing. Also I tend to use just a big grocery plastic bag (the kind that is sold by cashier for like 1€ now but it quite strong so it can last years)
13:09 It's because Europeans make fun of things that actually happen, while Americans just make random stuff up. Telling you, that you are just wrong is not being defensive. like, I I had a conversation with an American who made fun of Europe for not having ZIP codes... Countries in Europe do have postal codes, they are just not called ZIP.
The thing that baffles me about american houses is that the structural walls are often built on the same type of wood frame I only see in room seperators in europe. If you're just putting panels on light frame you're not building a wall, you're building a kite.
Yeah that's how the majority of suburban homes are built in the US, and I'm seeing a scary trend of rural homes being built that way, too. I'm sorry but while brick is more expensive, it's also far more resistant to both extreme hot and cold temperatures given proper insulation in other parts of the structure, as well as heavy wind and rain, again given proper construction in other parts of the structure. We have some of the most extreme weather on Earth, and we need to start building like it more often. My neighbors' house has exterior siding, mine has brick. While the occasional violent windstorm might only take off a shingle or two from my house (which has not happened since the roof was redone a few years ago), they've lost siding multiple times and even had a rather weakly supported awning on their barn get ripped off.
@@lsswappedcessna I'm a city dweller used to being surrounded by rebar concrete and several layers of insulation. Even brickwork makes me feel exposed. I can only imagine staying in those buildings would make me feel like I'm on some movie set that only needs to look the part or sth. I wonder if it's a matter of regulation. I doubt flimsy construction like that is even legal here. Since everyone builds with bricks or concrete it's probably more affordable as well compared to it just being an optional upgrade. Very much doubt it's just cultural. I don't think we even have the infrastructure to allow people to chose shit construction.
@@Todesnuss We use woodframing on houses, but requirements of thickness of posts and insulation used are way higher than in the USA. The first example I found uses cells to strengthen the structure. You can see the walls are much thicker even before insulation and non-structural walls are added. This is most similar to the woodframing used in the USA. Also everything is screwed, not nailed. czcams.com/video/aZ9oFo3bP-Y/video.html Then there's also post-and-beam woodframing used, since the middle ages: czcams.com/video/W-Q1BHohJzk/video.html. There are more modern versions of this which in The Netherlands we call 'Barn houses' - modern houses bulid with post-and-beam framing and then the gaps filled up with hemp blocks or laminated woodchip board + insulation. The first method is far cheaper than the second one, since the second one relies on heavy oak timber beams and the first method uses laminated woodchip board a lot for structural elements. The second one lasts centuries.
@@weerwolfproductions Yea makes sense. Not like wood can't make a banger construction material. It all comes down to what structural standards are expected by law. Gonna be a bit different across Europe as well. Don't know if anyone here in Austria builds on frames like that. But I don't know how our farmhouses are traditionally built and modernised versions of those are definitely a thing.
@@Todesnuss Austria would be log construction or post-and-beam i think, at least traditionally. Log stacking was never a thing in The Netherlands until they started importing Finnish houses in the 1980's. Traditional Dutch wooden houses would be post-and-beam with brick or wattle and daub infill, or post-and-beam with plank cladding - usually horizontal on the outside and vertical on the inside. No idea what insulation they used - in any. These houses were build in peaty areas where they required hardly any foundation. Check out 'Tsar Peter the Great house Zaandam'.
@@MitmachGaming I agree on a personal level, but at the same time naw mate, we need to be fair, Fahrenheit is used in most laboratories because it's somehow better, just like how American laboratories use Metric because its better, labs in the rest of the world use Fahrenheit for the same reason. I say we shake hands on it and just make what they do in labs and stuff official, we can all learn Fahrenheit if the UK, America & Liberia make the switch to Metric, if we want something we should be willing to give up something as well.
I Love when Americans come at you like : but we landed on the moon Yeah. And the lead designer of the Saturn V Rocket was Wernher von Braun. German scientist , former Nazi and hater of the imperial system. All of the calculations were done in metric. The rest in imperial
@@tomast9034 and still the soviets heavily relied on german scientists ... the difference: while the US bribed them to go to the states.... the soviets simlpy abducted the ones they could get hold of
@@suicidalbanananana These non-jobs are created for people that normally wouldn't be able to obtain a job. As there is no social security worthy of that name to take care of these people.
well maybe not offended if they tried to pack my stuff, but its my stuff i paid for it, and i know how i want it packed and not randomply packed by someone.
@@michasokoowski6651 It makes sense because 0-100 is as simple as it gets so you don't even have to memorize it, you just know it once you learn it, while it's pretty normal for people who uses Fahrenheit to not know 32-212.
@@alftuvik3820 And you dont have to memorize 32-100-210 if you learn it as a child. (and the part about people using fahrenheits not knowing these values is more of a result of poor public education in USA) In celsius we have: 0 (freezing point of water) - 20 (room temperature) 36.6 - body temperature, 100 boiling point of water. In Fahrenheits its 32 - 70 - 100 - 210 The way the human brain works is basically we treat these the same as language, so we jus understand these. Where celsius (just as basically any unit in metric system) shines, is when we do calculations because delta C is equal to delta K, so celsius just works amazingly well in thermodynamics.
Hi. The pacific islanders are obese because US did nuclear tests there destroying the marine ecosystem and then introduced fastfood chains to feed the starving population. It's a pretty sad situation.
@@robvanderkroft6515 Not true that Polynesians have always been overweight nor is it because of nuclear testing in the pacific, that was the French. It’s because of the introduced Western diet that their metabolism can’t handle.
that and Polynesians apparently have a real genetic predisposition to become obese due to the presence or absence of something in their body. I can't remember details for the life of me though
@@nevilleapple629 Agree. Pacific islander used to have to work hard to gather food, though since WWII, they saw the introduction of canned goods, and preserved foods. A majority of Islanders also have a gene, that means due to the easy access of food they no longer have to gather, they do not burn that energy off, and store it as fat, thus the bigger builds nowadays.
Its surprising that Americans dont realize that the space craft used for the ride to the moon was build using the metric system. Wernher von Braun (director of NASA and a German) hated the imperial system.
Every single time an American is like: "We landed on the Moon." to win an argument, i want to remind them, that "Wernher von Braun" is clearly the most American name I can Imagine.
And they have spend a quarter trillion dollars (adjusted for inflation) on the Apollo project. They could have sent robots to achieve the same scientific benefit. They were first on the moon for the sake of being first in something.
little fun fact. I am italian and I had a fire in my house. Momentarely there was an american firefighter team working together with the italian one for joint training therefore when the firefighters arrived some of them were from the US. The door of my house was shut, and only the dog was inside. The door was super hard to get through so the us fella had a genious idea... -'lets get through the walls!'. Just for context the walls of my house are not even made out of bricks, are 1mt (3feet in democracy units) of river rocks and steel 😂. Good luck into taking that wall down cause the last 5 hearthquakes couldn't.
I live in a house like that, though not because of meeting Earthquake regulations, just because in the days they built the thing they built tough. Three floors, ground floor the external walls are four foot thick, fieldstone with rubble and mortar internal core. Top floor it tapers to a mere three feet. Worse its one of those old mortars that just get stronger as time passes because they constantly cure over time.... The bloody mortar is probably tougher than the stone now! When I had fibre put in for the internet after I first bought the place it took the installer 16 hours to drill through the wall..... Literally two entire work days just drilling the damned hole for the cable! Its an old 1730's house in the Welsh valleys, they built the damned things to last in those days. Even now if one is condemned they just board it up as demolishing would be a nightmare!
And you damn well better be quick about it. Those things are coming through the till about 2-3 per second. When I was in the USA last year I was actually getting frustrated by the cashier/bagger. Just let me do it and push this stuff through the scanner, I can do it like 4 times faster (while sorting it by that goes in the fridge, in the kitchen and in the pantry in the cellar).
@@fetzie23 Cashiers are checked on their speed when handling customers hence passing through items at lightning speed is part of that. I just dump my items back in the cart, get one or more empty cardboard boxes which they leave at the exit and sort everything when I am back at my car. Less stress.
@@daggel011 I mean, they lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars in 1999 because software read navigation data sent in metric as Murican. With navigation data off by a factor of 4.45...well.
A long time ago, when I saw in American movies that during a fight in a house someone was hit against a wall and it broke, I thought, what a load of crap, no one can punch someone in such a way that a wall breaks. Then later I learned that in the USA they build houses from cardboards.
When we lived in the US, I always wondered why burglars would try to enter through windows or doors when, it seemed to me, that it'd be a whole lot easier to just quietly peel away a bit of that plastic siding and then cut a hole in the 'wall'. One of those utility knives with a short, strong blade would do the trick and alarms are typically on windows and doors. I got the impression that glass and doors were stronger, and noisier, than the actual walls. You can quite easily punch through a wall in any of the houses we lived in in the US. Here we have 50cm-thick (yes, metric) stone walls, so perhaps a tank would get through with enough speed? This reminds me. We watched the Walking Dead series for a while and laughed at a lot of the stuff. One thing we all agreed on was that those Walkers would not have been very numerous or successful in many of the European countries, like where we live: we have stone walls, strong doors, double-glazed windows and, very importantly, heavy wooden shutters on all of the windows, except one where there are metal bars. The whole village would be unperturbed by slow-moving, voracious, dead people who struggle to open an unlocked door, hahahahaha! Imagine, us Europeans would be watching in horror as the whole of the US became Walkers.
Have you ever heard of the AC paradox? We use them for cooling but they produce a lot of heat. So the more ACs you have in a town the hotter it gets increasing the use of ACs thus completing the cycle and heating the town even more. It's actually a real problem in highly dense places.
Heh, where i live in Germany, the cashiers in Aldi are so fast, it's a sport to get the groceries back in your cart before they finish...and start looking at you impatiently while waiting for you to pay ;-)
I witnessed a few times my mom asking the cashier to go a little slowly, and if not dong so, just saying:"Ok I'm done, I don't buy anything, good bye. And then just leave."
So far i know, the NASA team, that developed the Apollo 11 (1969) used the metric system mainly. (but that can by a myth) How ever NASA started using the metricsystem from 1979, as long as it was easy to implement. (°C/K where used for development and construction, but still for take off °F was used) just 1988 NASA had to convert to the metric system by law as long as it is technicaly not obstruct programms. *1 Still in some papers, you can see how they switch randomly from the metric to the imperial system. But that can be a resoult of cooperation between different institutions, to which data the papers refer. (just my gues, after i read some of thos papers) *1 ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930014020
After the atomic bomb test in the Pacific those islands lost their main food source namely fish. In comes the American fast food chains and obesity starts on the islands.
A European built the rocket that went to the moon... and he did it in metric. Ok, so he had some er... unfortunate political leanings but the point still stands.
Tbh, I dont think, he actually had any political leanings, he seems to have just been willing to ignore politics and work under, whichever government gave him the opportunity to build his rockets.
@@dfuher968 It's possible but I'm not convinced. His story that he wasn't relly into the whole Nazi thing only came about after the war, but of course he would say that. And that line would be beneficial to the US government. But I think his membership of the SS is the biggest giveaway. I could be wrong though.
austrian here. i am always uncomfortably amazed when i see that american houses are build with wood planks 😄 and just recently i had a discussion on ig about americans never opening the windows in their houses. they don´t need to because "other than houses in europe the houses are very well ventilated". no man, the wind can blow through your walls and windows. that is not what "very well ventilated" means 😄😄😄
Fahrenheit is terrible. 0 is water freezing point. 100 is water boiling point. That's what you need to know. The German people realised the error and went Celsius.
And it also relates directly to SI units and Kelvin with no calculations needed for the translation (unlike Imperial where you have to calculate even within similar unit systems like inches, feet, yards, miles, etc).
Gdansk (Danzig) was part of the Polish-Lithuanian-union at the time. However, he studied and lived in The Hague in The Netherlands where he invented the scale. I don't care if anyone calls it Dutch or Polish invention, but there is no Germany in this equation. His grandfather was of a very well know (rich) Prussian family, but before you think, that is a German link...At the time Prussia was Polish too.
@@kenbrown2808 So, when exactly should you worry about icy conditions on the road? 15 is chilly, 20 is nice, 25 is warm, 30 is getting hot, 35 too hot....I don't see your problem, but I do see mine. Especially since the 0 is the exact point, the road becomes dangerous.
The pay gap (after taxes!!) is much smaller in reality when you account for all the things Europeans don't have to pay for or that are heavily subsidised: Health care, child care, education, mobility, safety, cultural events, quality groceries, vacation and activities, affordable housing and soooo much more!
That is not really true. If you ad a low cost healthinsurance covrage you get about simular healthcare as in most of europe. Education cost difrance is not really that large. Its not feally free in europe, evdn the countries that claim they are And to compare a eu collage to ivy leauge collage is really unfair. Of collage are compare like for like for teachers, engineers, and nurses the diffrance is really quote low. While a european student would end up with a lower loan, they will also end up with lowet pay and more taxes. I calculated those 3 profrssion in a median eu nation and a median us state, amd all 3 profession actually have a lower payback time in the us. And o did calculate out of state cost. Mobility is generally cheaper im the us... with the one exception of international flights that is way cheaper in europe. Like 3-4 times cheaper. Thd diffrance in safty is actually very small. There is a few plsces in usa that habe really poor safty that pulls up the avrage. Bit if you just look at a random town, the diffrance is really quite small. Cultural event have zero value. Its a wast of money. Housing realtive to pay after tax and intrest is both between 30-35% in europe and usa. The diffrance is that us houses are larger but european houses generally have better quality. The main advantage in europe is that when the house is payed of the rest value tend to be higher. For quality of food its a bit more complicated. Most food in eu have higher quality, but not all. I was kind of surpriced when a noticed a soda in sweden is more garbage than one in florida. Worth saying, they are diffrent from state to state. For bread its really quote complicated. For greens depedns on where you live on both continents. Eggs are for sure better in europe. Pork i would say its a wash, beef i would say its a bit complicated. The us cow get more food on root, while also getting more antibiotics. Something as simple as mc donalds is garbage tear in nordic, its pretty bad in the us, but ironically a bit better in souther europe. On the flip side, mcdonalds is pretty expensive food im souther europe.
I only saw it once here in Germany at Kaufland. But this was on a very busy day, like a long weekend because of Chrismas or New Year. The actually had 3 people on every checkout. One scanned the items, one was bagging and there was a person with the cashbox where you had to pay.
I saw it a couple of times when I travelled to South America, but it was like High School kids trying to get money for a trip or something. Baggers is a very weird and wasteful idea. You should have a cloth bag or a backpack or something that you can reuse anyway.
@@helloweener2007 in half a century i had it happen twice near busy holiday shopping. and the result was that i ended up with 10+ plastic bags (impossible to carry in my hands), thus had to unpack everything and pack it again myself in one single big bag to carry it over my shoulder.
in sweden the postNord courier called me to tell me that if I wanted my package i should have gone there to pick it up myself from their warehouse cause it was too heavy (16kg) and they didn't feel comfortable carrying it around.
Fun factoid: foods made in America are usually not allowed to enter the EU, so the "American" foods you see here are made within Europe, but use recipes that are slightly altered to be considered legal.
What's always funny to me is how petty we are in europe. We hold grudges towards other european countries that'll last a 1000 years. Mocking americans is banter, mocking our neighbours is a lifestyle. 😂
The pay difference is crazy in my opinion. I am currently studying to become a teach in Norway and the minimum wage per year is almost 600000NOK (~59000$). And the workplace provides everything. When I heard that they teachers in the US had to buy their own supplies and rely on pupils to also buy in things for the teacher, I was shocked
They get more money in the US because "it goes less far", you simply NEED more to live in the US. The problems is that with the printing of Dollars thing, prices across the world keep slowly rising while our salaries dont. We are essentially paying for the weird disconnect that's going on in America, just because the Dollar is the common trading valuta. This is why a lot of people in the EU at least somewhat understand "BRICS", while we don't really see them as a better option at all (hello? EU biggest trader in the world, so just make the Euro the #1 trading valuta???) we mostly do agree that the Dollar is kinda sh*tty.
@@RaduRadonys They may be, but why not pay teachers, who are teaching the future generations, a fair pay. And I am not talking about making the rich, but enough to live off of it.
Guys, we also have AC in Europe. Only in a couple rooms like bedrooms especially, in the newer houses as units on the walls or as a portable form on wheels.
But it's pretty much exclusively in southern Europe, like south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc. In Northern Europe it's very rare, and also since it's a small industry there aren't many AC providers and the few that exist overcharge like crazy cus it's a rarity field with minimal competition.
@@Real_MisterSir Think that is just what is expected. If you live in a country where summers go to life threatening levels then AC is fine, even if not as sustainable. It's up to countries who aren't experiencing such temperatures to pick up the slack. Similarly if Northern Europe needed heating options that were unsustainable I would expect Southern Europe to pick up the slack and not use the same if possible.
Hello i'm french and fun fact an emerency doctor from an hospital in Paris tell that the most common injuries is finger bonnes braked du too punching wall he said they had like 2 or 3 personne per day with this type of injuries and 90% are men.....when memes become reality 😂
Here in Normandy, there aren't that many hot days but even during such days, the house I live in stays nice and cool. It was build in 1800's and nothing but the interior walls have changed.
3:47 Fun fact: NASA uses the metric system so the metric system landed on the moon. Another fun fact: When NASA doesn't use the metric system nothing lands anywhere because the Mars orbiter crashes onto the atmosphere, breaks apart on impact and only leaves a heap of scrap metal behind for the price of hundreds of millions of dollars.
When NASA does a US press release or updates news on their websites, some poor editor has to convert and change all of the metric values to US Customary Units (which are still ratified by Metric!), so that the general public in the US don't get confused.
@@Thurgosh_OG Yeah, but the best part is that even US citizens don't have a good visualisation of their British imperial units which is why the subreddit r/anythingbutmetric exists...
This is not true. NASA mission computers caluculate in the metric system. But the astronauts user interfaces are in imperial units. Regards from Germany
@@alidemirbas6566 Yeah, the displays could also display banana lengths but it's still metric that landed on the moon... (Also with regards from Germany)
@@alidemirbas6566 Coz they use computer power to convert the metric to imperial units for the displays. On a side note, the Mars Orbitor was caused by NASA using metric, but their subcontractor using imperial and the discrepancy causing the failure. Pretty sure, NASA didnt know, the subcontractor didnt use the metrics, they were given, but Im also pretty sure, that all NASA contracts now include the requirement for metric.
Here in Finland you bag your own groceries. I usually just toss them back in the cart after the cashier has beeped them so I can pack in peace instead of just frantically trying to do grocery tetris while the rest of the cashier queue is looking at me like "what's taking so long"
We just check out the whole cart with out even moving them from the cart, then driving the cart to the car and just tip it in. Then have a other cart in the garage tip it out on and drive it into the kitchen
16:35 The reason the US dropped letters where British English uses them is because a long time ago printing news papers in the US was charged by counting the total amount of letters printed. Simplifying words meant less printing costs. Hence you see American English being called English (simplified) sometimes.
Which is ironic because English had already been vastly simplified for exactly the same reason in the 16th Century with the invention of Printing presses. Its why you saw the great vowel die off for example, when all the old anglo-saxon vowels were dropped, like the combined ae. and they were not the only ones. I think they chopped the English Alphabet down by something like 40%!
14:17 The thing about check-out lines is true, everywhere. The total number may vary, but you bet that only one or two are open. Why? Since nobody wants to cut managers' wages, they cut personnel instead to save money. So the people who work as cashiers also have to re-stock shelves and stuff. We actually have a famous saying, at least here in Vienna: "Zweite Kassa bitte!" We're sort of politely asking them to open up a second check-out. Oh, and we bag our own groceries. They either go back into the shopping cart, or into bags/baskets we brought ourselves. That's not the cashier's job.
When NASA release a press update to the US public or on their own website, they have an editor convert all of the metric numbers to US Customary Units because the US public apparently cannot convert measures. I'm British and can convert measures on the fly.
Same in Denmark. I don't remember the last time I saw a plan that was not unlimited data and the most up-to-date connection type. Sure you can get those 10 bucks burner plans, but typical baseline for unlimited has been a thing for way over a decade by now. My plan has unlimited everything, and 20gb free data and unlimited calls/texts in 50 foreign countries too, the US included. So I could literally go to the US, use my phone, and pay half the price Americans pay to use their phones in their own country..
Spain: A home-mobile pack with unlimited calls mobile to mobile or mobile to landline, unlimited texts, 4G/5G data, 50 GB (I don't need more), landline that I don't use but I have old family members that want and use it and 500 mb optical fibre for 38 euros. For a little more you can have TV premiums, aditional mobile lines or if you travel frequently outside EU roaming including countries of my pack a plan for using your mobile line in those countries. You can find lower prices but the company I use is very reliable and never had a problem.
I worked for six years in a German-American joint venture automobile plant, and we had to wear proper uniform clothing, including steel-toe boots and no belted trousers (pants), and no wrist watches. If you weren't properly dressed you would be sent home and loose a days work.
@@liquidminds It sounds like an exaggeration and a lot of fun, but wearing a wristwatch was responsible for several thousand euros of damage to paintwork and body panels and man-hours of repair work. It was also a safety risk, including severed limbs, with the consequent loss of workforce and thousands in insurance and compensation costs.
@@olisipocity I understand why you can't wear it, but the description sounded like if you forget to take off the watch they will just send you home. Which likely won't happen because you can easily just take it off. On a side-note, it's also the same reason they don't wear ties. Those were involved in some nasty accidents too.
The main problem with the US food displays in UK is that outside of USA a lot of your food it literally ILLEGAL to sell as food... too many carcinogens and contaminants are allowed, which outside of USA just aren't tolerated
@@RickDangerousNL The baggers are a USA thing. I only see something similar with Christmas when shops will giftwrap your presents and put it in a special bag. From your neighbours who spend their money on food instead of roads.
14:05 wait you have someone to pack your bag and if not the cashier does? Here in Germany u have to pack your own groceries and u better hurry because everyone is waiting for u
As a European I have to point out that the wage difference is why so many of us think AC is out of our budget range. Even in France, one of the richer countries in both Europe and the EU over 60% of people would not get AC because of the high cost. And that's for a study done by a company selling ACs.
Same in Australia, only Aldi employees sit down but I heard working at Aldi is like being in the military compared to other supermarkets so I guess they deserve to sit down for a bit. Lol
My sis worked for a company that provided all kinds of packaging and once had an opportunity to do an order for Aldi. After seeing the absolute massive binder with requirements Aldi had for them, they passed on the job.
@@sabinereimer7809I don't see the problem though. Coming from Germany and having worked in a big grocery store, you are meant to look out for every possible thing. You don't simply walk by an isle that is not correctly set up even if it's not you isle. You fix it and do your other work. I've never heard of many regulations though. Probably a little bit of what every German does instictly at work without being asked or forced.
@deadzio compared to other clients they had for similar projects, Aldi's requirements were enormous. Don't frame it like my sis saw what she would have to do and thought, 'Well, I'm not doing that because I'm lazy!' Makes it seem like you go into comments just to throw insults, and that's a waste of everybody's time.
2:40 reminds of the Bundy family in London. Buckingham Palace "moan, boring", Big Ben "moan, boring", London Bridge "moan, boring" "Oh my God, a McDonald´s, quick, get the camera!" :)
No, that is a completely separate job. And if you pregnant or disabled, they might even take your cart to your car and lift the groceries into your car.
@@judithoberpaul509 My last visit was in 2018. It might have been total opposite in reality, because I was staying in San Francisco, Berkley, and Stanford University area. People were semi normal and healthy, but I saw some zombie apocalypse in SF. Just like in the Hollywood movies 😉
@@Monsux I have known the USA since 1980 and was there again last March. You are right, but there is a difference between SF or other big cities and more rural areas. I can say that I have been in contact with many people and I couldn't have imagined them to be more different. In any case, there are things that I still don't understand. But I'm no longer surprised. It is a country of great contrasts and that includes zombies 🤗🤦♀️ This year I had an experience that I had never seen before. I saw the Golden Gate Bridge from the plane without any fog. It was cool.
4:30 How houses are build in Europe. Although Ian might not take recommendations from the comment section, maybe others are interested: 1. A series about building a house in Germany from start to finish www.youtube.com/@taurifilm723/search?query=Building%20a%20House 2. US carpenters visiting Swiss carpentry school and learns about the huge differences. BTW: Switzerland, Austria and Germany have similar school systems and standards in place. I really would recommend the whole series he made about his visit to Europe as it includes how to become a carpenter, materials used for houses as well as the reasons, window and door specifications etc etc czcams.com/video/llJvFYBpTu4/video.html
I had a parent show up to a parent teacher conference dressed like an American once, my colleague was so shocked she thought we might need to call social services. I had to explain that going outside in pyjamas and a bathrobe is just something that you do over there.
Here you risk being "collected" by the police, thinking that you are suffering from dementia and escaped from your care home. And nobody carries his ID in his pj's so that's going to be a problem too.
🤣 Makes a lot of sense to me lol, i feel like at least half the people you come across would call or tell somebody if you walk around like that anywhere outside of America, there's such a thing as comfortable clothes, wear that instead, going out in your sleeping wear is like a universal sign of going crazy lmao.
@@Thurgosh_OG In Spain only married gypsy women go supermarket shopping in pajamas. Always with slippers, hair in an unkempt bun and 2 kids in tow. You would never see a non married gypsy badly dressed. The tendency is diying slowly.
Fahrenheit is at least internally consistent (unlike other units of measurement in the US like length and mass) but it doesn't plug into the SI system of units. Technically the SI system uses Kelvin but one unit Kelvin is the same size as one degree Celsius and for most most calculations the difference in temperature is what's relevant
I'm not defending Fahrenheit in any way but it is a Centigrade system (i.e. takes two temperatures and divides the bits in between into 100 degrees), in other words it uses 100 degrees for human body temperature (but is actually out by a couple of degrees) and zero for a very cold day in the Baltic.
Funfact about german Aldi (well, almost all german grocery stores really): if you're slower packing your things than the cashier is at scanning them and let them pile up your groceries, people next in queue will judge your weak bloodline. And our cashiers are fast! It does help that there's no one trying to bag everything in a thousand plastic bags (dear Lord that was a shock when we did grocery shopping during our US trip, ALL OF THE PLASTIC BAGS!!!). Also we return our shopping carts!
🤣 your famous German cashiers... During my US holidays we shocked the cashier because my friends and I opened our backpacks and crammed all groceries in seconds, nearly taking off her hands the scaned items but when we were at München the cashier outsmarted us and the greceries were piled up at our end of the till.
I did a cruise some years ago. It was negative 32 degrees celsius outside when we came to Helsinki in Finland. The Americans that even tried going ashore just went to the nearest McDonalds and then returned. Nothing else. The rest of us had a great day in Helsinki!
Recently talking to an American couple. Asked where they had eaten and similar. Turned out McD and Starbucks exclusively, and "you guys, it's soooo expensive!". Please make an effort.
Brit here. The newest house I have lived in is my current one built in 1953. The oldest house I have lived in was built in 1835. My friend and her husband just bought a house that was built in 1675.
My mother bought a 1953 house too, in 1985. Back then we had to refurbish a coal shack to a bathroom and the electricity needed upgrading but that was it (at that time).
Greetings from Austria. I know the story at 04:30 from the news. That huge ass rock came from pretty high up in the mountains, fast enough to cut through the ground and road like a hot knife through butter without slowing down, before it found its resting place. Fun fact: In the corner where you see the rock, sat also the family, eating. They got the scare of their life, but were otherwise completely unharmed.
The 1st time I visited the US was when Carter was still President and I was surprised that all the houses are made from wood, but then I learned that they are way more affordable than in Europe so everybody can own a house and that made sense for me. Today housing prices are absolutely insane and an American wooden house costs the same (or more) as a European brick house and people can only afford them if they are very well off and that doesn't make sense to me.
There’s a major housing shortage. 4.5 million fewer houses than needed. Low supply means prices increase. And builders don’t have an incentive to throw up houses faster, because they’re pocketing the inflated housing prices.
It's having to replace that stapled on roofing on many US houses every 10 years thing, that bothers me. My house is young, only about 70 years old but has never needed the properly tiled roof replacing.
Average internet speed in eu pretty much caught up with america so it's not even and excuse anymore. In italy, the average cost for gigabit internet at home is like 20/25 euros per month and something it comes with a mobile data plan included for the price... Most of our mobile data plans nowadays looks like this: "Unlimited talks" + "100 texts per month because no one uses them anyway " + "150 to 200 gb of mobile data at 5g speed" and everything for the price of 10 euros. We're talking about average prices and options, you can pay more if you want but any option above 15 euros per month for a mobile data plan is usually not advertised and difficult to find even on the various companies websites. I pay 30 euros for both 2.5 gigabit internet at home and my mobile data plan.
For quite a number of years the UK's average speed was higher than the US, so for us they have caught up and currently are ahead but gigabit fibre is the standard people are aiming for, the provider companies have yet to catch up.
In the Netherlands I pay €50 for a package deal for Gbit fibre (1000/1000, no data caps) internet and mobile (5G calls/text unlimited, data unlimited (20Gb/day). Not in a package at the same provider I would pay €45 for internet and ±€32.50 for mobile. There are of course multiple providers with their own pricing so it also varies on which is available (fibre isn't available everywhere yet). Has the US finally got rid of the data caps on their internet? I know that used to be a thing.
well... don't look at prices in Norway... got an 30/5 Mbit 4G based broadband connection while waiting for the fiber to be completed*, and it costs 849,- per month. that's 71€ atm copper they have shut down for several years just like the FM radio here in Norway, so can't use ADSL even if it was faster, more reliable and cheaper... when the fiber is done i will get an 250/250 line for 799, but if i wanted an 1000/1000 line like he had it would been 1299,- (so 110€) *(they started the work in the area in 2011, they are to come and do the final parts and connect my house "November" )
It is very expensive in The Netherlands too. I pay for my cable internet-tv plan around 70-75 euro. That includes a phone landline. There is only 1 provider that offers internet via cable so that doesn't help. There is much more to choose with DSL but if I had fiber in my apartment I'd probably choose that.
4:52 - AC is probably great, but far too many US houses are about as insulated as greenhouses, at which point they're incredibly wasteful. If you insulate your house properly, AC is still great, but you won't be wasting shit tons of energy cooling it in the summer and heating it in the winter. You'd be using a small amount of energy to heat it and a small amount of energy to cool it.
Here in Garmany I earn 30.000€ a year before taxes, healthcare and costs of living and atm I save up 1.000€ each month to travel to Japan for a whole year. Can't see an US-American even living with that amount of money.
"C stands for correct, and F stands for fake", yeah, I really love that Celsius-Fahrenheit comparison, because Celsius is so scientific, decimal, and easy to understand: 0°C is when water freezes, and 100°C is when it boils. European outlets and plugs are wonderful sturdy things which were made with safety in mind. You have ground (or earth) contacts that divert the energy from devices into the ground in case of a short circuit, and it runs through a fuse box which will cut the respective line within tenths of a second. So, no chance of killing someone (or yourself) by a hairdryer in a bathtub. (Exceptions may apply.) Cashiers need to have a chair here in Germany BY LAW. Aldi probably wouldn't have to provide chairs in America, but they do. It's to prevent damage to the feet and the spine that comes from long-time standing. Cashiers are not obliged to use that chair but mostly do. Flags, c'mon, I'm German, and I probably know the flags of most Western European countries, but the more eastwards or northwards it gets, the less I know. I don't even know all the flags of the 16 German federal states. How many flags of the 50 US states do YOU know? About money, I think in Europe (despite the inflation) you still get your money's worth in quality products, while about the US, I'm not so sure. "hand egg" for an American "football", that took me a few seconds to comprehend, but that's definitely funny! I'll try to remember that word for the next time I meet an American. "I'm in a football team!" "Oh, you mean you're playing hand eggs?" Fiber-optic internet here in my rural corner of Germany, the cost depends on the bandwith. I could have 25 Mbit/s for 29€, but if I wanted 100, that would be 49€ per month. 29€ for 25 Mbit is what I pay now for access via copper wire, my provider has proven to be reliable over many years, 25 are good enough for me, so I'm fine with that. For "Gigabit internet" I think it would also be around 100€, and even more if you want "synchronous" access where download speed equals upload speed, and it's usually only offered to companies.
Celsius Rock. 0° is freezing, 100° is boiling. So much simple to memorize / visualize than frrezing at 32° and boiling at 212°. And yes 100$ a month is a ripo-off. Prices vary country to contry in Europe, but in France , it's around 40 to 50€ for fiber, depending on the provider and services.
🤣No. sixth form is NOT sixth grade (unless you failed several times).. Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior means nothing to schoolchildren outside of the USA.
If you go to Lidl, they have at least 8 tills, but only have one open with the one cashier and sometimes they open another one when the queue ends up the length of the middle aisle and people start tutting. Has to be said, their cashiers are lightning fast and you as a customer need to be too and get everything in your trolley just as fast unless you want to be hidden behind a quickly growing pile of shopping stacking up and risk being crushed under an avalanche of your own shopping.
WHY?!? can you not just bag your own groceries? i can understand you may need help if you are handicapped, but the rest of you should really bag it yourselves.
I don't even know why they bag their stuff in the first place. Don't Americans always do grocery shopping with their cars? Just move your cart to your trunk and put everything in crates for easy transport. No need for bags at all.
Fun fact: sixth form refers to the two years spent attaining A-levels (level 3 qualifications), between the ages of 16 and 18. It is also commonly referred to as college.
It's quite a handicap that you can't put your own shopping in the bag. I had ADSL which cost €30 per month (100/50 Mbit/s). Now using 5G (5G 200M) for about €20 per month. An intermediate phase, because the fiber is already at the corner of the house and will start working in the fall. Its speed is 1000/1000 Mbit/s and the price is €29.90 per month. There is no limit on the amount of data in any of the subscriptions. The phone also has a subscription that includes everything (calls, text messages and internet) for 19.90 per month. The internet is 20M.
16:30 - Ian: _yeah, we just use "or"_ Living Colour, the US american Rock band: *hold our beer...* 19:50 - I can't speak for other european countries but here in Portugal I have 500/100 (download/upload speeds) fiber optics internet, with 100 digital TV channels (the majority of which are Full HD), and landline phone with unlimited free calls for national landlines and unlimited free calls for EU numbers between 9PM and 9AM on weekends and I pay only 32€/month.
The pay gap change has 1 big factor and thats taxes. "my chips are 1$ in american and 2$ in europe". The american price ommits the tax so it seems cheaper but its alot closer than it looks, especially when you consider those chips had to be shipped across the ocean. In that same vein things like internet, car insurance and whatnot are way more expensive because unlike most first world countries, those services have been sold off to companies whos entire goal is to take you for all they can and have no regulations. Both places pay taxes, but the americans taxes dont go to things it should so you pay taxes + healthcare + random things added to utilities. In the end 2 people earning 60k are paying very different amounts for a very different level of service. Here in aus i probably pay a bit more for water but at least i can drink the water rather than having to pay for filters or bottled water on top of that. And as someone who lives 150km from the next biggest town, no distance in the USA isnt an excuse for not having good utilities. Im earning 55k a year and i have a good car (and can afford to look after it), house and live quite comfortably.
@@charlesb7019 in Europe, houses are normally built based on the general weather/climate. So southern Europe handles more heat and so go for cooler houses where northern European houses are built more to keep heat in. Thus Italian or Spanish Architecture tends to look quiet different to say British and Dutch Architecture or going even further north, Swedish and Finnish Architecture. It's not perfect but it usually helps mitigate out the worst parts of the worst seasons in those areas quiet significantly. Of course there is still AC in Europe and still heating in Europe but overall it is much less needed due to the design of the houses themselves. Where I am, in South-East England (2nd hottest part of England) Aircon is very uncommon, it wouldn't surprise me if the number was below 1% of houses but what you will find on most houses is Double Glazing, keeps noise out and heat in. The only thing I do find weird that we don't have here are flyscreens, those seem pretty rare but probably due to UK having lower numbers of mosquitoes, unfortunately climate change has been increasing this number.
9:50 "we have the most healthy fruits and tons of fresh healthy fish over here" "nah lets have 3 big bottles of imported coke and fry up some of everything"
I've tried beers from various European countries and they're all significantly better than British beers, and I'm British. Saying that all the Italian/German/Spanish/Polish/Belgian beer etc all are produced for UK market, inside UK. We don't import beer, just the recipes, I guess and brew it ourselves.
5:06 Of course Americans pump AC into everything, that is because you live in what are effectively sheds. If I'd live in a shed I'd have AC too but I live in a properly built house which makes a big difference. 10:20 All countries above the USA are Polynesian and their beauty ideal has traditionally been what Europeans might politely call 'Rubenesque +' or technically accurate 'morbidly obese'. 10:59 An Italian once told me this joke: Q: Why is Italy shaped like a boot? A: Because you can't fit that much shit into a shoe.
Fun fact, there are 36 million of scottish/irish descent in america, about 50 million of german descent, and 17 million of italian descent, that's almost 1/3rd of the entire population. Kinda sad they don't know much about europe tbh..
Watching 7:43 Coffee and Cigarettes meme, whilst having Coffee and a Cigarette for breakfast as a german is kinda... funny, ominous and weird at the same time.
The thing is NASA use the metric system and Celcius, because the German scientiests like Werner von Braun that gave them the rocket technology used those. And in Europe cashiers always sit, at every supermarket, and we never had baggers, in the Netherlands people put their groceries in reusable shopping bags, like the ones they also sell at Ikea(if that's also a thng in the US)
Not every supermarket in Belgium : Colruyt and its subsidiaries (Okay, Spar, ...) make their cashiers stand and they have to work full time (about 8 hours) while in other supermarkets the (sitting) cashiers often only work halftime, about 4 hours. About 30 years ago an ex-employee wrote a book about working at Colruyt and it wasn't pleasant, to say the least. Despite being a multinational the company was still ruled by the family with an iron fist and beware those they didn't like. I guess things haven't changed much. I'm just waiting for a Colruyt employee chiming in how wonderful working at Colruyt is actually.
Someone I know, when s/he was about 12yo got interested in climate and weather and s/he created a project on the topic. To make sure s/he had got all the facts straight, s/he took the presentation s/he had made to the local weather station in the European town where they lived. The people there watched the presentation, made some interesting and useful comments and then the 12yo asked why there were devastating tornadoes in the US and not in Europe. The climate person explained that there were tornadoes every year in this particular country but two factors prevented them from being on the scale of the US's. One was the lay of the land that either prevented a strong build-up or caused it to fizzle out quicker. In areas where there were strong enough build-ups, the houses were made of stone and all that typically happened would be the loss of a few roof tiles and trees being ripped up which could cause more roof damage. He explained that the US has vast regions that are perfect for tornado build-up and that for some reason the US seems to think putting light wooden houses and mobile homes on known tornado paths is a good idea. When I was in my teens, in a European country, I witnessed a crane swinging and then falling over and a car being turned 180 degrees by the swirling wind. It was a tornado. A window was broken by the falling crane and roof tiles flew around. The car was the most spectacular event. It lifted, turned around horizontally and dropped back down.
Europe experiences several hundred tornadoes every year, they just don't have the impact of the US ones very often but there are some historical stories of bad ones on the past.
Americans let the cashier bag their stuff at a supermarket? It’s not that hard to bag your own stuff! You can take the UK off the map of not being able to take being mocked, mocking the UK is a national sport in the UK. America was one of the first countries to take up the metric system along side France. That some still hold on to Imperial is the reason million dollar mars missions crash. Edit: Can’t criticise the American in Walmart in PJ’s when half the girls in Asda are in Teddy Bear Onesie in the winter.
Come ! I`ll house you for a week in the czech republic ! (EDIT I`ll even let you drive my skoda and give you a local brewery tour !)this is obviously invitation for Iwrocker,,,,
Styles of building and materials used frequently reflect the local environment. Here in New Zealand most houses are timber framed, even brick homes are brick veneer, that is the house frame is wood and the exterior is brick cladding, having no structural role. This is because of the ever present earhquake risk (not for nothing is NZ known as the shaky isles). This was brought home to me when i bought my fist house. The house had an exterior concrete chimney made of pre cast sections cemented on top of one another. Being a proud new home owner I saw that the joints were all cracked through the plaster so i got a builder around to give me a quote to fix it. He told me not to bother as the chimney would not collapse in an earthquake (which were common in that area) but would flex with the movement, much as would the wooden framed house. A couple of eathquakes later, and talking with locals this proved to be the case. Solid concrete or stone buildings built years ago are now costing their owners a fortune to bring up to earthquake proof scale and even.our Parliament buildings are now sitting on new foundations designed to act a a shock absorber in case of tremors.
a little fun fact. the rocket data for the moon landing was metric. they wasted computing power to translate into freedom units so americans could read the instruments.
We do use computing power for planes to convert everything into freedom units. Somehow we all agreed to use freedom feet and stuff, so European instruments, that actually run metric measurements, are always converted into freedom units.
and the americans needed Germans to send their men to the moon.
@@koshie66 is it fair to say that germans put a man on the moon and let america pay for it .... thinking about that orange guy not even get mexico to pay for a wall 😂
because the guy that made all the shit didn't like freedom units...
also a guy you should not ask what he did in Germany between 1939 and 1945.
The reason they have not changed to metric in the airline industry is that height then would be meter ASL, airpressure mm/hg, airspeed km/h so there US risk for confusion.
The funny thing is, those 11 countries that are more obese for the most part are because the Americans have military bases there and spread out their fast food and corn sugar. These countries are predominantly south east asian island nations.
Thank you, was about to write the same.
Half of them aren’t even sovereign states.
All the us aviation uses degrees C..
you can also add in that these was all quite healthy places living mostly of fish.
then USA had "some" nuke tested in the area and told em "sorry, can't eat that fish anymore... but instead we give you this BURGAR"
just look up these island and see how many Mac's there , or Burger King and even Wendy's...
If you are speaking of Islands like Samoa and other Polynisian Islands ... thats actually Oceania, not south east asia
Only in America would the elimination of baggers mean more work for cashiers. Bag your own stuff 😂
Whats a bagger? Someone who helps mass murderer?
When I moved to US from EU I was .. and I'm not exaggerating.. shocked by the amount of plastic bags the bagger used for my groceries. Back in EU I would bring my own reusable, durable cloth bags and stuff all of the groceries into two, maybe three of those. Here in US they used no less than sixteen (!!!) plastic bags to separate the items by type, then put those bags into larger plastic bags.. so I ended up with something like twenty plastic bags..
It's funny how US is such a rich country, yet cashiers bag your shit.
If they bagged their own stuff it could (a) be considered exercise and (b) make them realize the crap they're putting in the bags.
I just discovered baggers were a thing. Also I tend to use just a big grocery plastic bag (the kind that is sold by cashier for like 1€ now but it quite strong so it can last years)
13:09 It's because Europeans make fun of things that actually happen, while Americans just make random stuff up. Telling you, that you are just wrong is not being defensive. like, I I had a conversation with an American who made fun of Europe for not having ZIP codes... Countries in Europe do have postal codes, they are just not called ZIP.
The thing that baffles me about american houses is that the structural walls are often built on the same type of wood frame I only see in room seperators in europe. If you're just putting panels on light frame you're not building a wall, you're building a kite.
Yeah that's how the majority of suburban homes are built in the US, and I'm seeing a scary trend of rural homes being built that way, too. I'm sorry but while brick is more expensive, it's also far more resistant to both extreme hot and cold temperatures given proper insulation in other parts of the structure, as well as heavy wind and rain, again given proper construction in other parts of the structure. We have some of the most extreme weather on Earth, and we need to start building like it more often.
My neighbors' house has exterior siding, mine has brick. While the occasional violent windstorm might only take off a shingle or two from my house (which has not happened since the roof was redone a few years ago), they've lost siding multiple times and even had a rather weakly supported awning on their barn get ripped off.
@@lsswappedcessna I'm a city dweller used to being surrounded by rebar concrete and several layers of insulation. Even brickwork makes me feel exposed. I can only imagine staying in those buildings would make me feel like I'm on some movie set that only needs to look the part or sth. I wonder if it's a matter of regulation. I doubt flimsy construction like that is even legal here. Since everyone builds with bricks or concrete it's probably more affordable as well compared to it just being an optional upgrade. Very much doubt it's just cultural. I don't think we even have the infrastructure to allow people to chose shit construction.
@@Todesnuss We use woodframing on houses, but requirements of thickness of posts and insulation used are way higher than in the USA. The first example I found uses cells to strengthen the structure. You can see the walls are much thicker even before insulation and non-structural walls are added. This is most similar to the woodframing used in the USA. Also everything is screwed, not nailed. czcams.com/video/aZ9oFo3bP-Y/video.html
Then there's also post-and-beam woodframing used, since the middle ages: czcams.com/video/W-Q1BHohJzk/video.html. There are more modern versions of this which in The Netherlands we call 'Barn houses' - modern houses bulid with post-and-beam framing and then the gaps filled up with hemp blocks or laminated woodchip board + insulation.
The first method is far cheaper than the second one, since the second one relies on heavy oak timber beams and the first method uses laminated woodchip board a lot for structural elements. The second one lasts centuries.
@@weerwolfproductions Yea makes sense. Not like wood can't make a banger construction material. It all comes down to what structural standards are expected by law. Gonna be a bit different across Europe as well. Don't know if anyone here in Austria builds on frames like that. But I don't know how our farmhouses are traditionally built and modernised versions of those are definitely a thing.
@@Todesnuss Austria would be log construction or post-and-beam i think, at least traditionally. Log stacking was never a thing in The Netherlands until they started importing Finnish houses in the 1980's. Traditional Dutch wooden houses would be post-and-beam with brick or wattle and daub infill, or post-and-beam with plank cladding - usually horizontal on the outside and vertical on the inside. No idea what insulation they used - in any. These houses were build in peaty areas where they required hardly any foundation. Check out 'Tsar Peter the Great house Zaandam'.
"Fahrenheit rocks", says the American - yet Fahrenheit is actually German, and we acknowledged our error quickly! 😄
How can anything be better than dividing the temperature into 100 parts starting from the freezing point to the boiling point of water?
@@MitmachGaming I agree on a personal level, but at the same time naw mate, we need to be fair, Fahrenheit is used in most laboratories because it's somehow better, just like how American laboratories use Metric because its better, labs in the rest of the world use Fahrenheit for the same reason.
I say we shake hands on it and just make what they do in labs and stuff official, we can all learn Fahrenheit if the UK, America & Liberia make the switch to Metric, if we want something we should be willing to give up something as well.
@@suicidalbanananana
Kelvin is used, not Farenheit.
Farenheit makes no sense at all, nobody can't even say what are reference points of scale
@@horsemen665 thank you, i guess people were sleeping in class😅
@@horsemen665 0 °F was the coldest temperature known to its creator (i think it was some chemical reaction). 100 °F is body temperature
I Love when Americans come at you like : but we landed on the moon
Yeah. And the lead designer of the Saturn V Rocket was Wernher von Braun. German scientist , former Nazi and hater of the imperial system. All of the calculations were done in metric. The rest in imperial
When NASA used their own system for the Mars Climate Orbiter it also did result in it crashing.
@@danvernier198 NASA used metric coding the subcontractor used imperial coding.
discrepancy of them caused crash
the only first for usa in space race was landing on the moon. all the other goes to soviet union.
@@antcommander1367 Long ton, short ton. imperial gallon US gallon what could possibly go wrong
@@tomast9034 and still the soviets heavily relied on german scientists ... the difference: while the US bribed them to go to the states.... the soviets simlpy abducted the ones they could get hold of
I'd be offended if a cashier tried to bag my stuff. What do you think I am, an infant? I can do that on my own 😤
It amazes me the baggers don't expect a tip, knowing the tipping "culture" in the USA. Or do they because they can't be receiving much of a wage ?
@@flitsertheo Wait what?! i thought the whole point of making such a non-job was so people could get some tips from it? weird.
@@suicidalbanananana These non-jobs are created for people that normally wouldn't be able to obtain a job. As there is no social security worthy of that name to take care of these people.
I work in retail. A lot of adult Americans may as well be infants.
well maybe not offended if they tried to pack my stuff, but its my stuff i paid for it, and i know how i want it packed and not randomply packed by someone.
Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100°c. It makes perfect sense to humans
It makes sense because you are used to it.
That said, celsius is better because it alligns with kelvins
@@michasokoowski6651 It makes sense because 0-100 is as simple as it gets so you don't even have to memorize it, you just know it once you learn it, while it's pretty normal for people who uses Fahrenheit to not know 32-212.
@@alftuvik3820 And you dont have to memorize 32-100-210 if you learn it as a child. (and the part about people using fahrenheits not knowing these values is more of a result of poor public education in USA)
In celsius we have:
0 (freezing point of water) - 20 (room temperature) 36.6 - body temperature, 100 boiling point of water.
In Fahrenheits its 32 - 70 - 100 - 210
The way the human brain works is basically we treat these the same as language, so we jus understand these.
Where celsius (just as basically any unit in metric system) shines, is when we do calculations because delta C is equal to delta K, so celsius just works amazingly well in thermodynamics.
The problem with "freshman" is that it can be high school, college or middle school, so it's a really bad way to tell the age.
The best way to tell age is with numbers.
@@cutice Aren't those decimal? Like metric units? Yuck!
I've watched a documentary about obesity on some Islands, they basically are forced to eat junk food because of the US.
Democrat principles buddy.
@@wifi961Thought you were a Republic.
yeah i saw it too. Great american export.
They are fed by US food. Some of those countries are indirectly owned by US.
All their food got irradiated but American nuclear tests
Hi. The pacific islanders are obese because US did nuclear tests there destroying the marine ecosystem and then introduced fastfood chains to feed the starving population. It's a pretty sad situation.
The pacific peoples have always been larger peoples
@@robvanderkroft6515 Not true that Polynesians have always been overweight nor is it because of nuclear testing in the pacific, that was the French. It’s because of the introduced Western diet that their metabolism can’t handle.
I guess simple biology is not taught, where you are from.
that and Polynesians apparently have a real genetic predisposition to become obese due to the presence or absence of something in their body. I can't remember details for the life of me though
@@nevilleapple629 Agree. Pacific islander used to have to work hard to gather food, though since WWII, they saw the introduction of canned goods, and preserved foods. A majority of Islanders also have a gene, that means due to the easy access of food they no longer have to gather, they do not burn that energy off, and store it as fat, thus the bigger builds nowadays.
"Can't land on the Moon"
Hand over those Rocket scientists you stole from Germany!
NAZI Rocket scientists. (USSR also built their space program on East German Rocket scientists)
And all of the British Engineers and Space specialists that ran the whole Apollo program for the US.
Nazi scientists, which is even worse. The US never cared with whom they´re collaborating with or exploiting.
Its surprising that Americans dont realize that the space craft used for the ride to the moon was build using the metric system. Wernher von Braun (director of NASA and a German) hated the imperial system.
@@nilsbellack7087 As well he should. Metric is far easier and far more accurate. Which is, why its the standard in science, including in the US.
Every single time an American is like: "We landed on the Moon." to win an argument, i want to remind them, that "Wernher von Braun" is clearly the most American name I can Imagine.
Ask them who ran the whole Apollo program? They will be dumbfounded when they hear it was all British Space specialists and Engineers who did it.
And they have spend a quarter trillion dollars (adjusted for inflation) on the Apollo project. They could have sent robots to achieve the same scientific benefit. They were first on the moon for the sake of being first in something.
Von Braun was more rocket science PR man than actual rocket scientist by the time of the space program.
little fun fact. I am italian and I had a fire in my house. Momentarely there was an american firefighter team working together with the italian one for joint training therefore when the firefighters arrived some of them were from the US. The door of my house was shut, and only the dog was inside. The door was super hard to get through so the us fella had a genious idea... -'lets get through the walls!'. Just for context the walls of my house are not even made out of bricks, are 1mt (3feet in democracy units) of river rocks and steel 😂. Good luck into taking that wall down cause the last 5 hearthquakes couldn't.
I live in a house like that, though not because of meeting Earthquake regulations, just because in the days they built the thing they built tough. Three floors, ground floor the external walls are four foot thick, fieldstone with rubble and mortar internal core. Top floor it tapers to a mere three feet. Worse its one of those old mortars that just get stronger as time passes because they constantly cure over time.... The bloody mortar is probably tougher than the stone now!
When I had fibre put in for the internet after I first bought the place it took the installer 16 hours to drill through the wall..... Literally two entire work days just drilling the damned hole for the cable!
Its an old 1730's house in the Welsh valleys, they built the damned things to last in those days. Even now if one is condemned they just board it up as demolishing would be a nightmare!
Hello fellow Italian ! Lol 😂
There is never a bagger where i'm from (in europe). You put your own stuff away whilst the cashier scans your items.
And you damn well better be quick about it. Those things are coming through the till about 2-3 per second. When I was in the USA last year I was actually getting frustrated by the cashier/bagger. Just let me do it and push this stuff through the scanner, I can do it like 4 times faster (while sorting it by that goes in the fridge, in the kitchen and in the pantry in the cellar).
@@fetzie23 Same. So awkward just staring at some teen pack my bags, barely moving. "Wanna double bag that, Sir?" gtfo with that nonsense, get it done.
@@basstrammel1322 "Just stick it in the effing bags already" :P
@@fetzie23 Cashiers are checked on their speed when handling customers hence passing through items at lightning speed is part of that. I just dump my items back in the cart, get one or more empty cardboard boxes which they leave at the exit and sort everything when I am back at my car. Less stress.
A German cashier is required to have way quicker release timing than Tom Brady ever had! 🤣
Fun fact is that NASA used the metric system
Guess why...
Maybe because - it is better!?
Every scientist in the wole wold is using the metric system, even in the US.
Uses... as in present day. Always have except for the very beginning.
Maybe because the US took a lot of German Knowledge for the NASA.All the Documents included the more logical Metricsystem
@@daggel011 I mean, they lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars in 1999 because software read navigation data sent in metric as Murican. With navigation data off by a factor of 4.45...well.
A long time ago, when I saw in American movies that during a fight in a house someone was hit against a wall and it broke, I thought, what a load of crap, no one can punch someone in such a way that a wall breaks.
Then later I learned that in the USA they build houses from cardboards.
Its not cardboard, its fiber paper with gypsum on it.
Much more fragile than cadvoard.
Haha, I thought it was a joke too! 😂😂
Then I learnt it wasn't...
They need those hollow, easy to break and fix "walls" to hide bodies. Something you don't see often in Europe.
@@flitsertheo Oh that is fucking hilarious. Fred West and his missus should have moved to the States
When we lived in the US, I always wondered why burglars would try to enter through windows or doors when, it seemed to me, that it'd be a whole lot easier to just quietly peel away a bit of that plastic siding and then cut a hole in the 'wall'. One of those utility knives with a short, strong blade would do the trick and alarms are typically on windows and doors. I got the impression that glass and doors were stronger, and noisier, than the actual walls. You can quite easily punch through a wall in any of the houses we lived in in the US. Here we have 50cm-thick (yes, metric) stone walls, so perhaps a tank would get through with enough speed?
This reminds me. We watched the Walking Dead series for a while and laughed at a lot of the stuff. One thing we all agreed on was that those Walkers would not have been very numerous or successful in many of the European countries, like where we live: we have stone walls, strong doors, double-glazed windows and, very importantly, heavy wooden shutters on all of the windows, except one where there are metal bars. The whole village would be unperturbed by slow-moving, voracious, dead people who struggle to open an unlocked door, hahahahaha! Imagine, us Europeans would be watching in horror as the whole of the US became Walkers.
Have you ever heard of the AC paradox?
We use them for cooling but they produce a lot of heat.
So the more ACs you have in a town the hotter it gets increasing the use of ACs thus completing the cycle and heating the town even more.
It's actually a real problem in highly dense places.
Heh, where i live in Germany, the cashiers in Aldi are so fast, it's a sport to get the groceries back in your cart before they finish...and start looking at you impatiently while waiting for you to pay ;-)
I witnessed a few times my mom asking the cashier to go a little slowly, and if not dong so, just saying:"Ok I'm done, I don't buy anything, good bye. And then just leave."
The funny part is that NASA uses Celsius... so Fahrenheit didn't land on the Moon, despite the US doing it
I believe anything that has to do with space uses Kelvin.
also I think they used mm not inches to design the rockets
@@johnsmith-cw3wo that too... the scientific community mostly uses metric
So far i know, the NASA team, that developed the Apollo 11 (1969) used the metric system mainly. (but that can by a myth)
How ever NASA started using the metricsystem from 1979, as long as it was easy to implement. (°C/K where used for development and construction, but still for take off °F was used)
just 1988 NASA had to convert to the metric system by law as long as it is technicaly not obstruct programms. *1
Still in some papers, you can see how they switch randomly from the metric to the imperial system. But that can be a resoult of cooperation between different institutions, to which data the papers refer. (just my gues, after i read some of thos papers)
*1 ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930014020
They probably use Kelwins instead, since it's standard in science.
After the atomic bomb test in the Pacific those islands lost their main food source namely fish. In comes the American fast food chains and obesity starts on the islands.
We french did more or less the same thing to some of our islands. I guess that's why some of our islands are in this chart.
A European built the rocket that went to the moon... and he did it in metric. Ok, so he had some er... unfortunate political leanings but the point still stands.
Nothing quite like -WWII- German engineering.
A group of European Space Experts and Engineers were responsible for running the whole Apollo program, they were British.
_Vorsprung Durch Technik_
Tbh, I dont think, he actually had any political leanings, he seems to have just been willing to ignore politics and work under, whichever government gave him the opportunity to build his rockets.
@@dfuher968 It's possible but I'm not convinced. His story that he wasn't relly into the whole Nazi thing only came about after the war, but of course he would say that. And that line would be beneficial to the US government. But I think his membership of the SS is the biggest giveaway.
I could be wrong though.
If cashiers can't sit, because if your not standing, your not working, then what do people in offices do?
Not work. That was easy.
austrian here. i am always uncomfortably amazed when i see that american houses are build with wood planks 😄 and just recently i had a discussion on ig about americans never opening the windows in their houses. they don´t need to because "other than houses in europe the houses are very well ventilated". no man, the wind can blow through your walls and windows. that is not what "very well ventilated" means 😄😄😄
Fahrenheit is terrible. 0 is water freezing point. 100 is water boiling point. That's what you need to know. The German people realised the error and went Celsius.
And it also relates directly to SI units and Kelvin with no calculations needed for the translation (unlike Imperial where you have to calculate even within similar unit systems like inches, feet, yards, miles, etc).
Gdansk (Danzig) was part of the Polish-Lithuanian-union at the time. However, he studied and lived in The Hague in The Netherlands where he invented the scale. I don't care if anyone calls it Dutch or Polish invention, but there is no Germany in this equation. His grandfather was of a very well know (rich) Prussian family, but before you think, that is a German link...At the time Prussia was Polish too.
@@Real_MisterSir we will occasionally convert between feet and inches, but otherwise, we just measure in the unit we plan to use.
50 is chilly, 60 is cool, 70 is comfortable, 80 is warm, and 90 is hot. in metric, that's only a 20 degree span.
@@kenbrown2808 So, when exactly should you worry about icy conditions on the road?
15 is chilly, 20 is nice, 25 is warm, 30 is getting hot, 35 too hot....I don't see your problem, but I do see mine. Especially since the 0 is the exact point, the road becomes dangerous.
The pay gap (after taxes!!) is much smaller in reality when you account for all the things Europeans don't have to pay for or that are heavily subsidised: Health care, child care, education, mobility, safety, cultural events, quality groceries, vacation and activities, affordable housing and soooo much more!
A comment full of fallacies and flat-out blatant pants-on-fire lies.
@@janosnagy3096 Evidence please?
@@janosnagy3096 Nope!
@@janosnagy3096 Still haven't found any facts to back up your emotional vomit? That's what I thought.
That is not really true. If you ad a low cost healthinsurance covrage you get about simular healthcare as in most of europe.
Education cost difrance is not really that large. Its not feally free in europe, evdn the countries that claim they are
And to compare a eu collage to ivy leauge collage is really unfair. Of collage are compare like for like for teachers, engineers, and nurses the diffrance is really quote low.
While a european student would end up with a lower loan, they will also end up with lowet pay and more taxes. I calculated those 3 profrssion in a median eu nation and a median us state, amd all 3 profession actually have a lower payback time in the us. And o did calculate out of state cost.
Mobility is generally cheaper im the us... with the one exception of international flights that is way cheaper in europe. Like 3-4 times cheaper.
Thd diffrance in safty is actually very small. There is a few plsces in usa that habe really poor safty that pulls up the avrage. Bit if you just look at a random town, the diffrance is really quite small.
Cultural event have zero value. Its a wast of money.
Housing realtive to pay after tax and intrest is both between 30-35% in europe and usa. The diffrance is that us houses are larger but european houses generally have better quality. The main advantage in europe is that when the house is payed of the rest value tend to be higher.
For quality of food its a bit more complicated. Most food in eu have higher quality, but not all. I was kind of surpriced when a noticed a soda in sweden is more garbage than one in florida. Worth saying, they are diffrent from state to state.
For bread its really quote complicated. For greens depedns on where you live on both continents. Eggs are for sure better in europe. Pork i would say its a wash, beef i would say its a bit complicated. The us cow get more food on root, while also getting more antibiotics.
Something as simple as mc donalds is garbage tear in nordic, its pretty bad in the us, but ironically a bit better in souther europe. On the flip side, mcdonalds is pretty expensive food im souther europe.
I've never seen a chashier bag. We do that ourselves.
I only saw it once here in Germany at Kaufland.
But this was on a very busy day, like a long weekend because of Chrismas or New Year.
The actually had 3 people on every checkout. One scanned the items, one was bagging and there was a person with the cashbox where you had to pay.
In the 90s I saw it in France on holiday. It changed rapidly😂.
I saw it a couple of times when I travelled to South America, but it was like High School kids trying to get money for a trip or something. Baggers is a very weird and wasteful idea. You should have a cloth bag or a backpack or something that you can reuse anyway.
@@helloweener2007 in half a century i had it happen twice near busy holiday shopping. and the result was that i ended up with 10+ plastic bags (impossible to carry in my hands), thus had to unpack everything and pack it again myself in one single big bag to carry it over my shoulder.
@@danvernier198 Supermarkets here leave empty cardboard boxes at the exit.
In sweden cashiers sit down too, but ok we didn't land on the moon, so standing must be better :) LOL
in sweden the postNord courier called me to tell me that if I wanted my package i should have gone there to pick it up myself from their warehouse cause it was too heavy (16kg) and they didn't feel comfortable carrying it around.
😂😂😂😂😂
Fun factoid: foods made in America are usually not allowed to enter the EU, so the "American" foods you see here are made within Europe, but use recipes that are slightly altered to be considered legal.
What's always funny to me is how petty we are in europe.
We hold grudges towards other european countries that'll last a 1000 years.
Mocking americans is banter, mocking our neighbours is a lifestyle. 😂
No, mocking Americans is conditioning.
The pay difference is crazy in my opinion. I am currently studying to become a teach in Norway and the minimum wage per year is almost 600000NOK (~59000$). And the workplace provides everything. When I heard that they teachers in the US had to buy their own supplies and rely on pupils to also buy in things for the teacher, I was shocked
I think we have to redefine 3rd World!!!!!
Yes, but Norway together with Switzerland are the most expensive countries in Europe.
They get more money in the US because "it goes less far", you simply NEED more to live in the US.
The problems is that with the printing of Dollars thing, prices across the world keep slowly rising while our salaries dont. We are essentially paying for the weird disconnect that's going on in America, just because the Dollar is the common trading valuta. This is why a lot of people in the EU at least somewhat understand "BRICS", while we don't really see them as a better option at all (hello? EU biggest trader in the world, so just make the Euro the #1 trading valuta???) we mostly do agree that the Dollar is kinda sh*tty.
@@RaduRadonys They may be, but why not pay teachers, who are teaching the future generations, a fair pay. And I am not talking about making the rich, but enough to live off of it.
@@sirisolbar Guess how much is the minimum wage of teachers in the Czech Republic.
5:47 A light, casual beer for a hot day? That's what Radler is for.
to add for the ones not in the know. Radler is the result of mixing Sprite (or similar) and beer
Guys, we also have AC in Europe.
Only in a couple rooms like bedrooms especially, in the newer houses as units on the walls or as a portable form on wheels.
And in most shops, bars and hotels too.
But it's pretty much exclusively in southern Europe, like south of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc. In Northern Europe it's very rare, and also since it's a small industry there aren't many AC providers and the few that exist overcharge like crazy cus it's a rarity field with minimal competition.
@@Real_MisterSir Think that is just what is expected. If you live in a country where summers go to life threatening levels then AC is fine, even if not as sustainable. It's up to countries who aren't experiencing such temperatures to pick up the slack. Similarly if Northern Europe needed heating options that were unsustainable I would expect Southern Europe to pick up the slack and not use the same if possible.
@@Real_MisterSir I live in the north of France and every shop has an AC system, not every house has some but it's only the older ones
Hello i'm french and fun fact an emerency doctor from an hospital in Paris tell that the most common injuries is finger bonnes braked du too punching wall he said they had like 2 or 3 personne per day with this type of injuries and 90% are men.....when memes become reality 😂
Here in Normandy, there aren't that many hot days but even during such days, the house I live in stays nice and cool. It was build in 1800's and nothing but the interior walls have changed.
I know what you mean, they knew how to work the airflow through the rooms used the most!
we have 25°C even thru days with 40+ outside....the catch is all windows are closed during the day and open after sundown till morning. no AC.
1 meter thick stone wall? :)
@@tomast9034 preferrably. bring it on, big bad wolf, sneeze some blizzard down my valley ;p
Same here. Burgundy.
3:47 Fun fact: NASA uses the metric system so the metric system landed on the moon.
Another fun fact: When NASA doesn't use the metric system nothing lands anywhere because the Mars orbiter crashes onto the atmosphere, breaks apart on impact and only leaves a heap of scrap metal behind for the price of hundreds of millions of dollars.
When NASA does a US press release or updates news on their websites, some poor editor has to convert and change all of the metric values to US Customary Units (which are still ratified by Metric!), so that the general public in the US don't get confused.
@@Thurgosh_OG Yeah, but the best part is that even US citizens don't have a good visualisation of their British imperial units which is why the subreddit r/anythingbutmetric exists...
This is not true. NASA mission computers caluculate in the metric system. But the astronauts user interfaces are in imperial units.
Regards from Germany
@@alidemirbas6566 Yeah, the displays could also display banana lengths but it's still metric that landed on the moon...
(Also with regards from Germany)
@@alidemirbas6566 Coz they use computer power to convert the metric to imperial units for the displays.
On a side note, the Mars Orbitor was caused by NASA using metric, but their subcontractor using imperial and the discrepancy causing the failure. Pretty sure, NASA didnt know, the subcontractor didnt use the metrics, they were given, but Im also pretty sure, that all NASA contracts now include the requirement for metric.
Here in Finland you bag your own groceries. I usually just toss them back in the cart after the cashier has beeped them so I can pack in peace instead of just frantically trying to do grocery tetris while the rest of the cashier queue is looking at me like "what's taking so long"
We just check out the whole cart with out even moving them from the cart, then driving the cart to the car and just tip it in. Then have a other cart in the garage tip it out on and drive it into the kitchen
16:35 The reason the US dropped letters where British English uses them is because a long time ago printing news papers in the US was charged by counting the total amount of letters printed. Simplifying words meant less printing costs. Hence you see American English being called English (simplified) sometimes.
Which is ironic because English had already been vastly simplified for exactly the same reason in the 16th Century with the invention of Printing presses. Its why you saw the great vowel die off for example, when all the old anglo-saxon vowels were dropped, like the combined ae. and they were not the only ones. I think they chopped the English Alphabet down by something like 40%!
14:17 The thing about check-out lines is true, everywhere. The total number may vary, but you bet that only one or two are open. Why? Since nobody wants to cut managers' wages, they cut personnel instead to save money. So the people who work as cashiers also have to re-stock shelves and stuff. We actually have a famous saying, at least here in Vienna: "Zweite Kassa bitte!" We're sort of politely asking them to open up a second check-out.
Oh, and we bag our own groceries. They either go back into the shopping cart, or into bags/baskets we brought ourselves. That's not the cashier's job.
wait, the cashier bags it? here it only happens if the customer is having significant difficulties.
Americans don't know that NASA uses Metric by the sounds of it.
When NASA release a press update to the US public or on their own website, they have an editor convert all of the metric numbers to US Customary Units because the US public apparently cannot convert measures. I'm British and can convert measures on the fly.
Here in Ireland, I pay €18 per month for unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and unlimited 5G data.
We mostly have unlimited phone subscriptions in Finland as well, but at much higher price. Especially for 5G.
I'm in the UK and pay £10 per month for unlimited calls, unlimited texts, and 120Gb of 4G/5G data. Which is more than I need.
Same in Denmark. I don't remember the last time I saw a plan that was not unlimited data and the most up-to-date connection type. Sure you can get those 10 bucks burner plans, but typical baseline for unlimited has been a thing for way over a decade by now.
My plan has unlimited everything, and 20gb free data and unlimited calls/texts in 50 foreign countries too, the US included. So I could literally go to the US, use my phone, and pay half the price Americans pay to use their phones in their own country..
Spain: A home-mobile pack with unlimited calls mobile to mobile or mobile to landline, unlimited texts, 4G/5G data, 50 GB (I don't need more), landline that I don't use but I have old family members that want and use it and 500 mb optical fibre for 38 euros. For a little more you can have TV premiums, aditional mobile lines or if you travel frequently outside EU roaming including countries of my pack a plan for using your mobile line in those countries. You can find lower prices but the company I use is very reliable and never had a problem.
My same all unlimited plan here in Russia costs 2,5 € per month
Mobile connection and internet is one of the cheapest things here.
I worked for six years in a German-American joint venture automobile plant, and we had to wear proper uniform clothing, including steel-toe boots and no belted trousers (pants), and no wrist watches. If you weren't properly dressed you would be sent home and loose a days work.
Steel toe boots No belts no wrist watches
Yeah. Safety is a thing. Who knew...
"you're still wearing your watch, go home"
"but I can just take it off and.."
"Go home!"
😅😅
@@liquidminds It sounds like an exaggeration and a lot of fun, but wearing a wristwatch was responsible for several thousand euros of damage to paintwork and body panels and man-hours of repair work.
It was also a safety risk, including severed limbs, with the consequent loss of workforce and thousands in insurance and compensation costs.
@@olisipocity I understand why you can't wear it, but the description sounded like if you forget to take off the watch they will just send you home. Which likely won't happen because you can easily just take it off.
On a side-note, it's also the same reason they don't wear ties. Those were involved in some nasty accidents too.
@@liquidminds absolutely correct.
The American food thing would be as if I went to USA and only took a picture of a IKEA 😂
The main problem with the US food displays in UK is that outside of USA a lot of your food it literally ILLEGAL to sell as food... too many carcinogens and contaminants are allowed, which outside of USA just aren't tolerated
16:16 The 6 flags: Russia, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Slovenia (that I mistook for Slovakia at first) and Croatia.
Slovakia has the same flag as Slovenia, but they put the hungarian coat of arms on it.
Ez
Yep, Slovenia and Slovakia get me confused.
Luxembourg was hard, I never see that flag anywhere.
@@samiraperi467I actually remembered that they got a "weird" light blue 😂
If baffles me that you gus have/had baggers. What's even more weird is that the cashiers bag the items for you. We just do that ourselves.
The necessity to provide anybody with a job, because there is no social security to care for those people.
fellow europiean or is litteraly only a usa thing?
European 😊
@@RickDangerousNL The baggers are a USA thing. I only see something similar with Christmas when shops will giftwrap your presents and put it in a special bag.
From your neighbours who spend their money on food instead of roads.
@@flitsertheo Australia still has the cashier bagging the goods - of course you end up having to pay for the bag if you don't bring your own.
14:05 wait you have someone to pack your bag and if not the cashier does?
Here in Germany u have to pack your own groceries and u better hurry because everyone is waiting for u
In Mexico too.
As a European I have to point out that the wage difference is why so many of us think AC is out of our budget range. Even in France, one of the richer countries in both Europe and the EU over 60% of people would not get AC because of the high cost. And that's for a study done by a company selling ACs.
Americans add AC, Europeans build solid walls to keep the temperature inside stable…
Work well until you put a PC aka space heater into the room.
Same in Australia, only Aldi employees sit down but I heard working at Aldi is like being in the military compared to other supermarkets so I guess they deserve to sit down for a bit. Lol
My sis worked for a company that provided all kinds of packaging and once had an opportunity to do an order for Aldi.
After seeing the absolute massive binder with requirements Aldi had for them, they passed on the job.
Oh yes! Aldi employees are responsible for EVERYTHING. And they have to do it FAST!
@@sabinereimer7809I don't see the problem though. Coming from Germany and having worked in a big grocery store, you are meant to look out for every possible thing. You don't simply walk by an isle that is not correctly set up even if it's not you isle. You fix it and do your other work.
I've never heard of many regulations though. Probably a little bit of what every German does instictly at work without being asked or forced.
@@staomruel because she would have to work?? Amazed
@deadzio compared to other clients they had for similar projects, Aldi's requirements were enormous.
Don't frame it like my sis saw what she would have to do and thought, 'Well, I'm not doing that because I'm lazy!'
Makes it seem like you go into comments just to throw insults, and that's a waste of everybody's time.
2:40 reminds of the Bundy family in London. Buckingham Palace "moan, boring", Big Ben "moan, boring", London Bridge "moan, boring"
"Oh my God, a McDonald´s, quick, get the camera!" :)
So the cashiers actually put your groceries in your bag in America? Holy cow. I would feel so akward xD
No, that is a completely separate job. And if you pregnant or disabled, they might even take your cart to your car and lift the groceries into your car.
When he says there aren't even baggers anymore meanwhile we never had any to begin with let alone have the cashier do it 😂
Here you do it yourself lol
If Hollywood movies have tought me anything, Americans are thin, athletic, and always beautiful. Surely they wouldn't lie to us, right?
Never
Have you ever been to America? Ask me what I see when I'm there. 😊
@@judithoberpaul509 My last visit was in 2018. It might have been total opposite in reality, because I was staying in San Francisco, Berkley, and Stanford University area. People were semi normal and healthy, but I saw some zombie apocalypse in SF. Just like in the Hollywood movies 😉
@@Monsux I have known the USA since 1980 and was there again last March. You are right, but there is a difference between SF or other big cities and more rural areas. I can say that I have been in contact with many people and I couldn't have imagined them to be more different. In any case, there are things that I still don't understand. But I'm no longer surprised. It is a country of great contrasts and that includes zombies 🤗🤦♀️
This year I had an experience that I had never seen before. I saw the Golden Gate Bridge from the plane without any fog. It was cool.
Well the population is big and Mexican Americans are also fat but that doesn't benefit the argument.
4:30 How houses are build in Europe.
Although Ian might not take recommendations from the comment section, maybe others are interested:
1. A series about building a house in Germany from start to finish
www.youtube.com/@taurifilm723/search?query=Building%20a%20House
2. US carpenters visiting Swiss carpentry school and learns about the huge differences. BTW: Switzerland, Austria and Germany have similar school systems and standards in place. I really would recommend the whole series he made about his visit to Europe as it includes how to become a carpenter, materials used for houses as well as the reasons, window and door specifications etc etc
czcams.com/video/llJvFYBpTu4/video.html
I had a parent show up to a parent teacher conference dressed like an American once, my colleague was so shocked she thought we might need to call social services. I had to explain that going outside in pyjamas and a bathrobe is just something that you do over there.
Here you risk being "collected" by the police, thinking that you are suffering from dementia and escaped from your care home. And nobody carries his ID in his pj's so that's going to be a problem too.
🤣 Makes a lot of sense to me lol, i feel like at least half the people you come across would call or tell somebody if you walk around like that anywhere outside of America, there's such a thing as comfortable clothes, wear that instead, going out in your sleeping wear is like a universal sign of going crazy lmao.
@@suicidalbanananana It's creeping in, in the UK. Tescos at 22:00 (just to annoy some Yanks) there will be a few in PJs, slippers and dressing gowns.
@@Thurgosh_OG In Spain only married gypsy women go supermarket shopping in pajamas. Always with slippers, hair in an unkempt bun and 2 kids in tow. You would never see a non married gypsy badly dressed. The tendency is diying slowly.
Fahrenheit is at least internally consistent (unlike other units of measurement in the US like length and mass) but it doesn't plug into the SI system of units. Technically the SI system uses Kelvin but one unit Kelvin is the same size as one degree Celsius and for most most calculations the difference in temperature is what's relevant
I'm not defending Fahrenheit in any way but it is a Centigrade system (i.e. takes two temperatures and divides the bits in between into 100 degrees), in other words it uses 100 degrees for human body temperature (but is actually out by a couple of degrees) and zero for a very cold day in the Baltic.
Funfact about german Aldi (well, almost all german grocery stores really): if you're slower packing your things than the cashier is at scanning them and let them pile up your groceries, people next in queue will judge your weak bloodline. And our cashiers are fast! It does help that there's no one trying to bag everything in a thousand plastic bags (dear Lord that was a shock when we did grocery shopping during our US trip, ALL OF THE PLASTIC BAGS!!!).
Also we return our shopping carts!
🤣 your famous German cashiers... During my US holidays we shocked the cashier because my friends and I opened our backpacks and crammed all groceries in seconds, nearly taking off her hands the scaned items but when we were at München the cashier outsmarted us and the greceries were piled up at our end of the till.
@@vanesag.9863 Oh, that's evil!
I did a cruise some years ago. It was negative 32 degrees celsius outside when we came to Helsinki in Finland. The Americans that even tried going ashore just went to the nearest McDonalds and then returned. Nothing else. The rest of us had a great day in Helsinki!
Recently talking to an American couple. Asked where they had eaten and similar.
Turned out McD and Starbucks exclusively, and "you guys, it's soooo expensive!".
Please make an effort.
How sad, they go to a different country, and all they eat is McD?
@@dfuher968They're democrats, why are you surprised.
Brit here. The newest house I have lived in is my current one built in 1953.
The oldest house I have lived in was built in 1835.
My friend and her husband just bought a house that was built in 1675.
My mother bought a 1953 house too, in 1985. Back then we had to refurbish a coal shack to a bathroom and the electricity needed upgrading but that was it (at that time).
My Father build this house, before this house was here, my grandparents and their children lived in a hut, in the same place my house is today.
Check out Finlands old president Sauli Niinistö playing hockey with soma random dudes😂
Yeah, well, you have to admit Putin is not a random dude... (I know. But this picture comes up first)
Its weird to think a president needs a small army to walk in their own country.
Greetings from Austria. I know the story at 04:30 from the news. That huge ass rock came from pretty high up in the mountains, fast enough to cut through the ground and road like a hot knife through butter without slowing down, before it found its resting place. Fun fact: In the corner where you see the rock, sat also the family, eating. They got the scare of their life, but were otherwise completely unharmed.
I really wouldn’t want the Americans appropriating mate from us Brits and Australian New Zealanders
I know what you mean, Pal.
The 1st time I visited the US was when Carter was still President and I was surprised that all the houses are made from wood, but then I learned that they are way more affordable than in Europe so everybody can own a house and that made sense for me. Today housing prices are absolutely insane and an American wooden house costs the same (or more) as a European brick house and people can only afford them if they are very well off and that doesn't make sense to me.
There’s a major housing shortage. 4.5 million fewer houses than needed. Low supply means prices increase. And builders don’t have an incentive to throw up houses faster, because they’re pocketing the inflated housing prices.
The US isn't the only one with a housing crisis.
Unleashed markets, shackle the workers
Shackled workers spit on those below them
Welcome to capitalism
It's having to replace that stapled on roofing on many US houses every 10 years thing, that bothers me. My house is young, only about 70 years old but has never needed the properly tiled roof replacing.
Democrat policy.
Average internet speed in eu pretty much caught up with america so it's not even and excuse anymore. In italy, the average cost for gigabit internet at home is like 20/25 euros per month and something it comes with a mobile data plan included for the price... Most of our mobile data plans nowadays looks like this: "Unlimited talks" + "100 texts per month because no one uses them anyway " + "150 to 200 gb of mobile data at 5g speed" and everything for the price of 10 euros. We're talking about average prices and options, you can pay more if you want but any option above 15 euros per month for a mobile data plan is usually not advertised and difficult to find even on the various companies websites. I pay 30 euros for both 2.5 gigabit internet at home and my mobile data plan.
Belgium: 130 euros/month for a combo of fast unlimited fibre optic (1000/100) and two SIMS (basically unlimited).
For quite a number of years the UK's average speed was higher than the US, so for us they have caught up and currently are ahead but gigabit fibre is the standard people are aiming for, the provider companies have yet to catch up.
I pay 15€/month for 300mbit in Finland. 1Gbit would be 25€ for me. Mobile with unlimited everything is around 35€.
I pay 45€ in France for fiber with 8gb up and 8gb down
In the Netherlands I pay €50 for a package deal for Gbit fibre (1000/1000, no data caps) internet and mobile (5G calls/text unlimited, data unlimited (20Gb/day). Not in a package at the same provider I would pay €45 for internet and ±€32.50 for mobile.
There are of course multiple providers with their own pricing so it also varies on which is available (fibre isn't available everywhere yet).
Has the US finally got rid of the data caps on their internet? I know that used to be a thing.
€100 a month for Internet?? That's insane.... That can't be real
I've talked with americans who pays like that for their mobile data plan...
@@maxis5427 my mobile, Internet, TV services, Netflix, prime, wouldn't even totall that!
I pay 25euros for 500/500 a month 😂
well...
don't look at prices in Norway...
got an 30/5 Mbit 4G based broadband connection while waiting for the fiber to be completed*, and it costs 849,- per month. that's 71€ atm
copper they have shut down for several years just like the FM radio here in Norway, so can't use ADSL even if it was faster, more reliable and cheaper...
when the fiber is done i will get an 250/250 line for 799, but if i wanted an 1000/1000 line like he had it would been 1299,- (so 110€)
*(they started the work in the area in 2011, they are to come and do the final parts and connect my house "November" )
It is very expensive in The Netherlands too. I pay for my cable internet-tv plan around 70-75 euro. That includes a phone landline. There is only 1 provider that offers internet via cable so that doesn't help. There is much more to choose with DSL but if I had fiber in my apartment I'd probably choose that.
Reminds me there isnt even an american section in supermarkets in France 🤣
4:52 - AC is probably great, but far too many US houses are about as insulated as greenhouses, at which point they're incredibly wasteful.
If you insulate your house properly, AC is still great, but you won't be wasting shit tons of energy cooling it in the summer and heating it in the winter. You'd be using a small amount of energy to heat it and a small amount of energy to cool it.
Here in Garmany I earn 30.000€ a year before taxes, healthcare and costs of living and atm I save up 1.000€ each month to travel to Japan for a whole year.
Can't see an US-American even living with that amount of money.
"C stands for correct, and F stands for fake", yeah, I really love that Celsius-Fahrenheit comparison, because Celsius is so scientific, decimal, and easy to understand: 0°C is when water freezes, and 100°C is when it boils.
European outlets and plugs are wonderful sturdy things which were made with safety in mind. You have ground (or earth) contacts that divert the energy from devices into the ground in case of a short circuit, and it runs through a fuse box which will cut the respective line within tenths of a second. So, no chance of killing someone (or yourself) by a hairdryer in a bathtub. (Exceptions may apply.)
Cashiers need to have a chair here in Germany BY LAW. Aldi probably wouldn't have to provide chairs in America, but they do. It's to prevent damage to the feet and the spine that comes from long-time standing. Cashiers are not obliged to use that chair but mostly do.
Flags, c'mon, I'm German, and I probably know the flags of most Western European countries, but the more eastwards or northwards it gets, the less I know. I don't even know all the flags of the 16 German federal states. How many flags of the 50 US states do YOU know?
About money, I think in Europe (despite the inflation) you still get your money's worth in quality products, while about the US, I'm not so sure.
"hand egg" for an American "football", that took me a few seconds to comprehend, but that's definitely funny! I'll try to remember that word for the next time I meet an American. "I'm in a football team!" "Oh, you mean you're playing hand eggs?"
Fiber-optic internet here in my rural corner of Germany, the cost depends on the bandwith. I could have 25 Mbit/s for 29€, but if I wanted 100, that would be 49€ per month. 29€ for 25 Mbit is what I pay now for access via copper wire, my provider has proven to be reliable over many years, 25 are good enough for me, so I'm fine with that. For "Gigabit internet" I think it would also be around 100€, and even more if you want "synchronous" access where download speed equals upload speed, and it's usually only offered to companies.
I'm in France, far away from any big city, my village is 150 inhabitants (and around 500 cows), and I get fiber-optic 1 GB internet for 30 €.
Celsius Rock. 0° is freezing, 100° is boiling. So much simple to memorize / visualize than frrezing at 32° and boiling at 212°.
And yes 100$ a month is a ripo-off. Prices vary country to contry in Europe, but in France , it's around 40 to 50€ for fiber, depending on the provider and services.
🤣No. sixth form is NOT sixth grade (unless you failed several times).. Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior means nothing to schoolchildren outside of the USA.
If you go to Lidl, they have at least 8 tills, but only have one open with the one cashier and sometimes they open another one when the queue ends up the length of the middle aisle and people start tutting. Has to be said, their cashiers are lightning fast and you as a customer need to be too and get everything in your trolley just as fast unless you want to be hidden behind a quickly growing pile of shopping stacking up and risk being crushed under an avalanche of your own shopping.
WHY?!? can you not just bag your own groceries?
i can understand you may need help if you are handicapped, but the rest of you should really bag it yourselves.
I don't even know why they bag their stuff in the first place. Don't Americans always do grocery shopping with their cars? Just move your cart to your trunk and put everything in crates for easy transport. No need for bags at all.
Pretty sure internet speeds in europe are in average faster, and subscriptions cheaper.
16:00 Russia, Netherlands, Luxemburgh, France, Slovenia, Kroatia. Not that difficult. Didn't even need Google.
Fun fact: sixth form refers to the two years spent attaining A-levels (level 3 qualifications), between the ages of 16 and 18. It is also commonly referred to as college.
It's quite a handicap that you can't put your own shopping in the bag.
I had ADSL which cost €30 per month (100/50 Mbit/s). Now using 5G (5G 200M) for about €20 per month. An intermediate phase, because the fiber is already at the corner of the house and will start working in the fall. Its speed is 1000/1000 Mbit/s and the price is €29.90 per month. There is no limit on the amount of data in any of the subscriptions.
The phone also has a subscription that includes everything (calls, text messages and internet) for 19.90 per month. The internet is 20M.
16:30 - Ian: _yeah, we just use "or"_
Living Colour, the US american Rock band: *hold our beer...*
19:50 - I can't speak for other european countries but here in Portugal I have 500/100 (download/upload speeds) fiber optics internet, with 100 digital TV channels (the majority of which are Full HD), and landline phone with unlimited free calls for national landlines and unlimited free calls for EU numbers between 9PM and 9AM on weekends and I pay only 32€/month.
Just had the pleasure of sitting in the sun,cold beers at hand,watching Living coloűr. They absolutely smashed their set as always.
The pay gap change has 1 big factor and thats taxes. "my chips are 1$ in american and 2$ in europe". The american price ommits the tax so it seems cheaper but its alot closer than it looks, especially when you consider those chips had to be shipped across the ocean. In that same vein things like internet, car insurance and whatnot are way more expensive because unlike most first world countries, those services have been sold off to companies whos entire goal is to take you for all they can and have no regulations. Both places pay taxes, but the americans taxes dont go to things it should so you pay taxes + healthcare + random things added to utilities. In the end 2 people earning 60k are paying very different amounts for a very different level of service. Here in aus i probably pay a bit more for water but at least i can drink the water rather than having to pay for filters or bottled water on top of that. And as someone who lives 150km from the next biggest town, no distance in the USA isnt an excuse for not having good utilities. Im earning 55k a year and i have a good car (and can afford to look after it), house and live quite comfortably.
You wouldn't need air conditioning, if your houses were better built. Just sayin'.
Really? Because it’s been super hot and humid here for the past three months. Don’t think you realize what our climate is like.
@@charlesb7019 When a house is correctly built with proper materials and insulation, it keeps itself cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
@@charlesb7019 Yes, Really.
@@charlesb7019 in Europe, houses are normally built based on the general weather/climate. So southern Europe handles more heat and so go for cooler houses where northern European houses are built more to keep heat in. Thus Italian or Spanish Architecture tends to look quiet different to say British and Dutch Architecture or going even further north, Swedish and Finnish Architecture. It's not perfect but it usually helps mitigate out the worst parts of the worst seasons in those areas quiet significantly. Of course there is still AC in Europe and still heating in Europe but overall it is much less needed due to the design of the houses themselves.
Where I am, in South-East England (2nd hottest part of England) Aircon is very uncommon, it wouldn't surprise me if the number was below 1% of houses but what you will find on most houses is Double Glazing, keeps noise out and heat in. The only thing I do find weird that we don't have here are flyscreens, those seem pretty rare but probably due to UK having lower numbers of mosquitoes, unfortunately climate change has been increasing this number.
@charlesb7019 Bro, they don't care they're liberals.
9:50 "we have the most healthy fruits and tons of fresh healthy fish over here" "nah lets have 3 big bottles of imported coke and fry up some of everything"
European "old solid houses" are a great example of survivorship bias. The old crappy houses aren't around anymore.
Fun fact, for us in belgian. the meme for the beers. We would put belgian beers on top and german beers on the tap water sections 😂
I've tried beers from various European countries and they're all significantly better than British beers, and I'm British. Saying that all the Italian/German/Spanish/Polish/Belgian beer etc all are produced for UK market, inside UK. We don't import beer, just the recipes, I guess and brew it ourselves.
@@vi11ageidi0t in any case all are now the property of a Brazilian company... Modern world xD
@@ChelouWolf with it's headquarters Grote market 1 B-1000 Brussel Belgium.
5:06 Of course Americans pump AC into everything, that is because you live in what are effectively sheds.
If I'd live in a shed I'd have AC too but I live in a properly built house which makes a big difference.
10:20 All countries above the USA are Polynesian and their beauty ideal has traditionally been what Europeans might politely call 'Rubenesque +' or technically accurate 'morbidly obese'.
10:59 An Italian once told me this joke:
Q: Why is Italy shaped like a boot?
A: Because you can't fit that much shit into a shoe.
9:18
Most of the countries ahead of the US are nations receiving massively subsidized US chicken meat and corn sugar.
Fun fact, there are 36 million of scottish/irish descent in america, about 50 million of german descent, and 17 million of italian descent, that's almost 1/3rd of the entire population. Kinda sad they don't know much about europe tbh..
Watching 7:43 Coffee and Cigarettes meme, whilst having Coffee and a Cigarette for breakfast as a german is kinda... funny, ominous and weird at the same time.
Yeah it's spot on. 😂
The thing is NASA use the metric system and Celcius, because the German scientiests like Werner von Braun that gave them the rocket technology used those. And in Europe cashiers always sit, at every supermarket, and we never had baggers, in the Netherlands people put their groceries in reusable shopping bags, like the ones they also sell at Ikea(if that's also a thng in the US)
Not every supermarket in Belgium : Colruyt and its subsidiaries (Okay, Spar, ...) make their cashiers stand and they have to work full time (about 8 hours) while in other supermarkets the (sitting) cashiers often only work halftime, about 4 hours. About 30 years ago an ex-employee wrote a book about working at Colruyt and it wasn't pleasant, to say the least. Despite being a multinational the company was still ruled by the family with an iron fist and beware those they didn't like. I guess things haven't changed much.
I'm just waiting for a Colruyt employee chiming in how wonderful working at Colruyt is actually.
A black coffee and cigarette, my favorite of breakfasts.
Very few countries' in Europe actually smoke more per capita, than the US does but France causes a big imbalance.
9:00 thats only because america nuked oceanian fish and then sold them mcdonalds
the fact that people dont bag their own stuff in america is so wild to me
C: water boils at 100 C and freezes at zero. F: water boils at some random number, freezes well above 0, makes no logical sense
Someone I know, when s/he was about 12yo got interested in climate and weather and s/he created a project on the topic. To make sure s/he had got all the facts straight, s/he took the presentation s/he had made to the local weather station in the European town where they lived. The people there watched the presentation, made some interesting and useful comments and then the 12yo asked why there were devastating tornadoes in the US and not in Europe. The climate person explained that there were tornadoes every year in this particular country but two factors prevented them from being on the scale of the US's. One was the lay of the land that either prevented a strong build-up or caused it to fizzle out quicker. In areas where there were strong enough build-ups, the houses were made of stone and all that typically happened would be the loss of a few roof tiles and trees being ripped up which could cause more roof damage. He explained that the US has vast regions that are perfect for tornado build-up and that for some reason the US seems to think putting light wooden houses and mobile homes on known tornado paths is a good idea.
When I was in my teens, in a European country, I witnessed a crane swinging and then falling over and a car being turned 180 degrees by the swirling wind. It was a tornado. A window was broken by the falling crane and roof tiles flew around. The car was the most spectacular event. It lifted, turned around horizontally and dropped back down.
Europe experiences several hundred tornadoes every year, they just don't have the impact of the US ones very often but there are some historical stories of bad ones on the past.
Americans let the cashier bag their stuff at a supermarket? It’s not that hard to bag your own stuff! You can take the UK off the map of not being able to take being mocked, mocking the UK is a national sport in the UK. America was one of the first countries to take up the metric system along side France. That some still hold on to Imperial is the reason million dollar mars missions crash.
Edit: Can’t criticise the American in Walmart in PJ’s when half the girls in Asda are in Teddy Bear Onesie in the winter.
Come ! I`ll house you for a week in the czech republic !
(EDIT I`ll even let you drive my skoda and give you a local brewery tour !)this is obviously invitation for Iwrocker,,,,
ja prijedu😂
Which brewery?
@@FaulerSackK bernard
@@theoteddy9665 you are not invited...
Tell me it's a real Skoda and not one of those Volkswagen clones. Even an OT-810 would do, wait, that is a Tatra.
Guess its indeed not celsius but german fahrenheit that got you to the moon (paperclip)
Styles of building and materials used frequently reflect the local environment.
Here in New Zealand most houses are timber framed, even brick homes are brick veneer, that is the house frame is wood and the exterior is brick cladding, having no structural role. This is because of the ever present earhquake risk (not for nothing is NZ known as the shaky isles).
This was brought home to me when i bought my fist house. The house had an exterior concrete chimney made of pre cast sections cemented on top of one another. Being a proud new home owner I saw that the joints were all cracked through the plaster so i got a builder around to give me a quote to fix it. He told me not to bother as the chimney would not collapse in an earthquake (which were common in that area) but would flex with the movement, much as would the wooden framed house.
A couple of eathquakes later, and talking with locals this proved to be the case.
Solid concrete or stone buildings built years ago are now costing their owners a fortune to bring up to earthquake proof scale and even.our Parliament buildings are now sitting on new foundations designed to act a a shock absorber in case of tremors.