Common Things Different in Europe vs. the United States
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Ah America, filled with gun toting rednecks wearing their flag as a t-shirt and pondering what Jesus would do while chowing down on Mexican food, greasy burgers, partially hydrogenated corn syrup cubes, and washing it all down with Budweiser, the king of beers… for those who’ve never tasted real beer… And Europe, full of a homogeneous group of people who spend most of their time measuring things in meters instead of Ariana Grandes as every god-fearing individual should, whilst worshiping the British monarchy, rioting about football, mocking Americans and their inferior chocolates and cheeses, and otherwise bent on making sure the entire world becomes socialist… Or, at least, so the interwebs have taught us all. But what are the actual interesting differences between people and things in the surprisingly diverse United States compared with the various individuals in the vastly more diverse countries of Europe?
Well, to best answer these questions, we’re going to do something a little different today, as joining me is my occasional co-host and one time redneck turned city-boy, Daven, to represent you Yanks, whilst I’ll give my insight on the European side. So let’s dive into it all, shall we?
Hosts:
Simon Whistler
Daven Hiskey
Producer:
Daven Hiskey
0:00 Intro
2:06 HOMES
4:26 Buying a Home
13:21 Locks
18:20: Kitchens and Appliances
24:25: Rooms
25:35: Bathrooms
32:54 Garages
35:00 Misc
37:08 Dining
46:13 Pub Culture and Drinking
59:15 Mexican Food
1:02:35 Meal Deal
1:05:27 WORK
1:21:30 Everyday Things
1:41:43 Dress
1:51:09 Education
2:03:00 Internet
2:05:30 Day Fine System
2:07:32 Foot Goes In, Foot Goes Out
2:08:40 Transportation
2:27:35 General Culture
3:12:25 Healthcare
3:19:50 Misc
0:00 Intro
2:06 HOMES
4:26 Buying a Home
13:21 Locks
18:20: Kitchens and Appliances
24:25: Rooms
25:35: Bathrooms
32:54 Garages
35:00 Misc
37:08 Dining
46:13 Pub Culture and Drinking
59:15 Mexican Food
1:02:35 Meal Deal
1:05:27 WORK
1:21:30 Everyday Things
1:41:43 Dress
1:51:09 Education
2:03:00 Internet
2:05:30 Day Fine System
2:07:32 Foot Goes In, Foot Goes Out
2:08:40 Transportation
2:27:35 General Culture
3:12:25 Healthcare
3:19:50 Misc
Thank you❤
More please!! You too together is amazing entertainment
I literally thought I had selected an old Brainfood podcast for about 15 minutes... More please!
SI units of temerature are Kelvins
SIMON!!! Australians are British Texans. There ya go.
Just realized, this is the first time I've seen Simon communicate with another human...
Yelling at Danny doesnt count?
Yeah I realized a few Blazes ago, it's really just him talking to himself in every video. I would love to have a job like that. lol
I sometimes think about that with Brain Blaze. If you walk by his office, you just randomly hear some guy yelling at a non-existent Peter and such 😆
Daven is amusing. The poor thing keeps trying to stay on point.... and Simon cannot be contained.
😂
A 3.5 hour TIFO?? Holy cow. I've always enjoyed seeing the top notch hosting of these two by themselves, but seeing them together is absolute treat! Hope we get more of these in the future.
Thanks for pointing this out. I thought it was 35minutes. I'll have to come back to it. It'll replace my movie night.
They used to do an hr-long podcast called The Brainfood Show, but it did do well for some reason
Just finished and Laughed at the end when Daven commented that they are 2 and a half hours in.... and I've been watching for nearly 4 hours.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't bring myself to like
A bit too long, had to break it up. Interesting though.
How did neither of them realize they could just say squariana grandes?
I missed this so much! The banter back and forth is so great... I know Simon has 3749 channels now, but don't let it go months and years before you two record together again.
It's 3874 channels now, but who's counting? lol 🤣
Now I’m expecting measurements to be in Danny Divitos. These Ariana Grande things don’t make sense 😂😂😂
Danny Divitos are too logical... therefore European.... therefore freedom-hating.
Like my pappy used to say, the whole world may use Danny Divitos, but the only country that landed a man on the Moon uses Ariana Grandes!
Right? I can’t do the equations in my head from Arrianas to devitos. 😂
I was so confused by that. Wish they explained the actual measurement after
Are they about the same? I know she's also tiny
From playing League of Legends 10-12 years ago I to this day still measure everything in "Teemos".
I'm from Australia and throughout this episode I kept thinking "wow , these Americans and Europeans do some weird shit" .
I used to live in Brisbane. Other cities might be better, but the Mexican food in Brisbane is just absurd quantities of melted cheese. I sure miss Burger Urge, though.
Imagine not having encountered a Deadlock because for some reason you think the world is safe, so safe you're worried about fires more than keeping your residence safe
Australians are British Texans
Lol I know, but Aussies have some weird stuff too, A Zebra crossing!? Welcome to the club mate!! Lol
@woolenthreads I know right I have a deadlock on my house(Melbourne), if that doors locked from the inside the key is in it. If you aren't careless its not any more dangerous than a lock with a little knob on it.
It really looks like Daven is in the basement looking up and Simon is looking down into the the basement 🤣
That’s what them inside locks for
You guys should do this more often, make it a podcast where you start with a subject and just see where it goes. It's awesome to watch you guys interact.
I 2nd that
They did. It was called the Brainfood Show. It evidently didn't do so well because they stopped. I thought it was great. My favorite podcast ever.
This is great. It's like listening to two guys catching up at the pub talking about random stuff.
The chicken sandwich stuff is probably chicken loaf. It's a popular sandwich filling here in Australia, it's a square or round block sliced off as you buy it. It's made of chicken meat pureed, and they add potato starch and oils and stuff, the real fancy stuff has whole peas in it... yeah, it's a cheap alternative to real chicken.
Thanks!!! :-)
All I wanted was a normal chicken sandwich. But there was no normal chicken sandwich. 😋 -Daven
Chicken is already the cheapest protein (although sometimes ham or pork is cheaper but not always) why do you need a cheaper alternative?
Side note I've seen ham at 50 cents a pound which is incredibly cheap so maybe that's our equivalent?
@@omgandwtf1 Sounds like ham is wayyy cheaper in the US than the UK.
@georgehh2574 to be honest the price is slightly deceptive, the cheap hams tend to be bone in, so about a pound is non edible. It's still a great deal, also ham steaks are like $1 which with a cup of rice is pretty filling meal.
I've never had that and I'm a vegetarian so I'm biased, but that sounds horrendous
The return of my favorite podcast after 3 years!!! Glad to have you both back. Hope all is well.
I did my time having to clean bathrooms and I'm pretty sure what wrecks women's rooms is children. One woman having to wrangle 5 kids under 10 through a potty break can utterly destroy a regular restroom.
Btw on the toll roads here in Texas, you’re right Simon it is the most American thing… but also we didn’t vote on the toll roads or at least new ones. We did originally in the 80’s and 90’s and the tolls were to be removed once the road was paid off. However, the roads are never paid off so they just add more. But I use mine..
First time i've seen simon talk with someone 😮
I thought all his contacts lived in the basement 😂
Weeeeell, Daven seems to be in a dark place, esp. during the second part of the video. One can easily put up a green screen in a basement so I wouldn't exclude it just yet...
Simon is a very good AI, they use his program to train the others. He's so good in fact, Daven doesn't even know he had been working with an AI.
How do we know Daven is not in the basement?
An actual podcast between factboi & Daven, and near 3 1/2 hours? I'm into that shit! (insert skeletor meme)
Nothing makes simon happier than cracking out the ol chat gpt
❤ this conversation is amazing- thanks to both of you gents
California has way better Mexican food than Europe this is absurd
Well, duh
OH MY GOSH RIGHT??
Also, TexMex is completely separate from traditional Mexican food? Two distinct flavor profiles. And most of America is very much aware that Taco Bell is not Mexican food?
That entire part of this conversation made me inappropriately protective of the Mexican heritage in California.
lol just about every state has better Mexican food than Europe
How many European countries have you had Mexican food in? Honestly curious if your opinion is based on facts or are just an uninformed opinion?
Dude out of all the states California has the worst Mexican food I've ever had. Y'all gotta add guac to everything even if it shouldn't. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona all top California by miles
Auto lock. While stationed in West Germany I walked out of my apartment to check my laundry and heard the dreaded Click. After an adventure finding my landlord who did not speak English, I got in. From the on the key was on a chain around my neck. It stayed there day and night!
lol!!! I remember those days! Hey did your barracks have the swaztika (F.U. Siri it is spelled correctly you damn snowflake) on the bannisters at each floor? I was in Mannheim and people don’t believe me. 😂😂😂
you were lucky your land lord had a key. Because they are actually not suppossed to keep one. By law they have to hand you ALL keys to your apartment that exist for the time of your contract.
@@hannajung7512 Depends very much on location and the type of housing. In many cases a landlord/management company will have master keys for multi unit dwellings for emergency access in case of fires or plumbing disasters that affect multiple units, for example, but they can't enter units without a set time notice for each entry/project unless it's an immediate, ongoing emergency.
I locked myself out of my house in Scotland had to walk barefoot in my T-shirt and sleep shorts to my in-laws to take me to my husband’s work so I could get his keys. It was glass bin day and I panicked, ran out of the house without my keys not realising hubs had taken the bin out before work lol.
thats not the "lock" thats the "latch"........
More of this style of video please. Got me through laying 3km of fencing. Loved it.
I’m an American who’s moved to the UK just over a year ago. The first house I lived in had separate taps in the bathrooms for hot and cold water and it was built around 2010. The second house I’m living in now does not have a latch on the inside of the door to lock it, I have a use a key to lock it, it was built in 2006.
The bank loans in the UK are only fixed for a few years at a time then they go variable. Which is stupid. I don’t how any normal person is supposed to buy a house in the UK anymore. It’s so expensive ever in crappy towns.
I think Fahrenheit fails since 71 doesn’t feel different than 72 or 73. There is a much bigger difference between 20c and 23c.
You realize that C is 1.8x F so there is a much larger difference. (I should not be amazed by the brainless any longer)
Hey Daven and Simon. I really enjoyed this format. It was like a couple friends catching up with a lot of interesting conversations.
I hope you do more of these
BTW the buff Simon edit was hilarious
There are lots in the past to watch if you search brainfood podcast.
All I had to do was watch the intro, and I KNEW this episode was going to be a hum-dinger! :D
Alcohol dependency disorder specifically includes in its definition that you are unable to stop despite negative personal/professional/health consequences already being obvious.
Also, re university rankings, they are quite anglophone-skewed and use the way US and UK universities are organised as standard without taking national peculiarities into account. For example Germany has a lot of research institutes that are associated with universities but are technically a separate entity (e.g. Max Planck Institutes or Fraunhofer Institutes). The professors there typically have dual affiliation with the institute and an associated university, will teach at the university etc. But because their primary affiliation is with the research institute their research, their international prizes (there are a lot of Novel prize winners at Max Planck institutes), the external funding for major projects etc. will not count towards the university they are also affiliated with, despite them in practice being as involved in the day-to-day of the university as equally senior professors at anglophone institutions. Similarly faculty and postgrad students at these institutes are not counted in the "internationality" measure within the rankings. I just talk about Germany here because it's the non-anglophone system I know most about, but the same thing artificially make a lot of other non-anhlophone top institutions look worse than they actually are (e.g. in France).
In the northeast USA, most doorknobs can be manually locked from the inside and stay locked after exiting and closing; on the other hand, deadbolts do not have spring latches, and must be locked only after fully closing the door. Doorknob latches are very easy to bypass with a credit card, so most dwellings also include deadbolts for increased security.
We have both on the west coast but every outside door has a deadbolt as well.
Deadbolts do nothing if someone just uses a window or picks the lock which is INCREDIBLY easy with a couple of stiff wires.
@@paulmartin2348 anything can be defeated with a motivated enough thief; the idea is to make your home less convenient than someone else’s so they go with the easier target.
@@paulmartin2348 so many more opportunities to get caught those ways you mentioned.
Wait, is this really a new episode of The Brainfood Show? I've been waiting for this for years!
I’d never heard of that before until your comment. Are they videos or just audio?
@@nontrickpony There's video too! It was a podcast they did on here up until a few years ago, but it seems they're back
Having a lock that requires a key on both sides (or any lock requiring a key in order to exit the building) is a major fire-code violation in the US.
Tell that to the school I used to work for.
It is here in Germany, too. At least on public buildings or on multi party-buildings (don't know, if thats the correct term for houses with multiple flats). But the appartement doors or the door to your private house can be locked down fully, thats true. On the other hand you usually keep your keys in the lock on the inside, when you're at home or leave in the worst case via balcony, terrace etc.
In public, sure. Some areas allow you have a lock on both sides in your own house.
15:31 you would want that if you have windows around your door. People break the window, reach around, and unlock the door from the inside. That’s why we had it in our house in Alabama.
also a major over looked spot is the door that is in the garage that goes inside the house. most garage doors car be lifted up enough to slide under and then even if the door going into the house is locked and has no windows a clever crook will bust thru the drywall just to the side and reach thru and unlock the door and walk right in. And yes this is a thing, a group of robbers were specifically targeting homes exploiting this weakness in my area for around a year. Contractors began installing extra wood work in the area to prevent it and eventually they were caught and man when they were they got linked to almost all of the other break ins done the same way. they probably did them all but not enough evidence was left to link them to scene. They were an organized unit working in 2 crews one doing recon and the other doing the job. they knew the routine of the whole neighborhood before they would hit. The worst part was they didn't get caught because they slipped up. they got caught because one of the guys girlfriends didn't like one of the other guys girlfriends and went to the cops and outted the whole operation... HELL HATH NO FURY really applied here.@@oreotookie
This was a really fun episode. I like your banter and comparisons. Well done gentlemen!
I love this 😂❤ It sounds like a combined rant of multiple drunken conversations from during my time living in Israel and visiting a good friend who moved from the US to Czechia and had settled there.
We’ve both traveled a good deal and I’d say our longest rants involve rest rooms… neither of us have been to Asia but when in Budapest were in a ruins bar and the bathroom had the “hole in the floor” stalls.. good times were not bad 😢
Which ruin pub exactly? That sounds barbaric 😂
This is fun to listen to and a great break from the usual internet format of 'people from different cultures shouting each other down with anecdotes'.
Great video.
I got you beat, Daven. I used to front-end manage at that same company, and we had an elderly (I'm talking ninties) woman come into the disability stall and somehow she had gotten diarrhea on every possible surface. We ended up giving her a full new outfit, and because she was too weak to even stand for more than a couple minutes, I ended up having to basically give her a spit bath as she had soiled every single article of clothing on her. 🤦 It took over an hour and a half. Poor dear... she ended up coming in and doing it three more times though- with no family we could contact on her behalf.
Retail is insane.
God bless parcel clerks, and god bless FEMs
AWESOME EPISODE!!
I loved the back and forth conversation about USA vs UK differences
the difference with the free bathrooms is that european woman didnt sue, they instead just started pissing on trees as well, it might be a tiny bit more difficult but its definitly doable.
Thanks! I hope we have more of these type shows.
Thanks! -Daven
Three+ hours of crazy tangets. Best. Day. Ever! Thanks!
Hi Simon :) Oh my gosh, this video is incredible!!! I've never seen a video of yours where you have a guest, this is amazing! Please do more of these types of videos...I LOVE this!!! Thank you for ALL the videos and channels you have - my fiance and I enjoy them VERY MUCH! We watch your videos EVERY DAY! I love the different channels and the way you react, interpret, etc!!
Daven is not a guest, he's been a part of the podcast since the beginning.
This was amazing... Learned so many things and differences... Took me a month to watch, just put it on while having dinner some time
A British pub sounds like a commercial living room where someone else serves you food and drinks.
Exactly. Public House.
Sorta how it started, people living along roads would open up their houses to travelers and served food, as a bi-income
i really enjoy these podcast style episodes. thank you for making and editing it
As a Canadian this is like a constant back and forth of figuring out where stuff in my culture came from.
I've always avoided bars but those pubs actually sound nice
They sounded like medieval taverns.
No doors in Sweden auto lock behind you, 100% manually have to lock all doors here.
Romania as well, never seen an auto lock door on a private home. Only in hotels.
The only time there are doors that auto lock, is in a few instances of the main door to a apartment building. At least here in norway
Some doors in apartment buildings do auto lock.
Edit: As far as I know, most apartment buildings have auto lock doors. At least in the towns I've lived in, in Sweden.
In Finland apartment block doors autolock & in most buildings outside doors autolock after like 23:00. Most other home doors have a switch so you can decide depending on where you live / are you expecting visitors etc. or just going outside for a moment and don't want to accidentally lock yourself outside.
No keyholes inside, always just a thumb-grab thingy. Abloy (Finnish lock company) is used everywhere and even some just normal apartment block doors have electric locks with the key activating the lock before it can be turned open. Most outside doors don't have large windows & due to insulation doors are easily 5 cm thick so even if they have small slits no one is going to get their hand through to open the lock.
In Poland also
I love this video. I hope you do more duo ones!
Great video guys. I love this format!
The boys are back at it. It’s been too long since we’ve have this team up, gentlemen. This is gonna be bigger than the avengers.
Hot & cold had separate taps because the cold water is potable (drinkable), but in the old systems, the hot water wasn’t potable so they didn’t want anyway for the water from the hot to mix with the cold.
The calcium and rust wont "hurt" you, but it tastes awful.. Lead is a whole different matter.
potable is the word your thinking of not portable. TBH I've never heard of a place where the cold water was drinkable but the hot wasn't, what would you use it for? Certainly not washing the dishes or having a shower, genuinely curious here.
My understanding was that the hot was separate because there was an added charge for hot water, at one time
@@redhotmoon1656 Might be the charge is for the hot water heater? Makes no sense to have the hot water non potable.
@@1300BlueStar Google says: Cold water came from a mains supply and was fit for drinking. Hot water would be serviced by a local storage cistern often situated in the loft.Water bylaws prevented hot and cold water being mixed because water that had been sitting in a tank in the loft was not deemed safe to drink
This was great! I was skeptical that this would be enjoyable for almost 4 hours but I loved every minute of it. It took me a week to ge through it all but do it again!
dude this is AWESOME!!!!!! great video i hope you do more with other guests
Dude, more dual host episodes please
Homes
1) Takes a while to buy? Yes. Do most houses, including apartment buildings, have garages? Yes, technically. Apartments share a huge garage with parking spaces (usually 2) per home, however some can have garages in them aswell reserved for the bigger apartments. "What if you put a garage inside a garage?".
Jobs
1) The government(s) covers the maternity/paternity leave. In my country (Portugal) it is the Social Security service that pays that. "With what money" you ask. With the 11% mandatory contribution (deducted monthly from the salary) everyone who is working has to make.
2) Simon was right to point out that any employee can be fired during the "probation" time, usually the first 3 months. After that, companies can only fire employees if they go bankrup or if there is a just cause to do so. Refusing to do work is ground for just cause termination... so you- an employee- can't simply refuse to do it. However, a company can "ask" a worker to leave in good terms- in which case said worker will receive compensation. I say "ask" because workers can always refuse to leave, in which case there are several other methods a company can use to force them to accept the termination of the contract, such as bad work environment and blocked upward mobility in the company's ranks.
Stuff
1) We also have a TV tax. However, everyone pays it, even if they don't have a TV. "How?", the tax is included in the utilities tax, specifically the Electricity Tax. You literally cannot avoid it unless you're highjacking electricity from a cable somewhere. It also pays for our public funded news channels, both domestic and abroad, as well as public TV series which are actually pretty good.
2) There are extremely few public toilets available in Portugal's biggest cities. You'd be more lucky finding a public toilet in a small town. We used to have them but they were always full of junkies and their residue. If you wanna go for a pee, man or woman, you go to a café, buy a bottle of water, and use the restroom.
3) Eggs are bought at regular temperature. I don't know anyone who put them in the fridge all the same. You could put them in the pantry but eh...
Education
1)Speaking of University. In Portugal we have a very unique university culture and garment. We call it "Traje" and it resembles the Harry Potter's student uniforms, capes and all- it is actually the other way around. JK Rowling took inspiration from our universities uniforms. Not everyone wears them, but anyone can wear them as long as they are a student.
2) University is not free for most, but it can be free for those who really really struggle financially. Still, the tuition fee is pretty low ( 300€per year) and everyone, no matter how poor they are, can go to university. As for accomodation costs... that is where the real cost barrier is as you'd be lucky to find a room for 350€ a month.
Transportation
1) You'd be surprised to know that Portugal is very car-centric. We have good Public Transportation mostly on the 2 biggest cities (one being the capital). You do need a car to live here.
Many things Simon said were more of a "UK thing" rather than Europe as a whole. There's a big divide North/South, East/West among EU countries, and even bigger when accounting for non-EU countries- specially so in regards to lawmaking. Still, there are plenty of similarities between everyone.
I feel like this just picked up where the podcast left off, I was halfway through building a fence and then there was just no next episode, so thanks Simon, everytime I look at that fence I'll think of you
Love this! Seriously can't wait for more of these!
EU regulations say that if a place sells alchohol they have to have free water available.
True, but they do not have it on the menu, you have to ask for it. AND you need to order tab water to get the free water. If you order just water, you will get some premium brand bottled water. and at least in Germany it will also be carbonated.
@@hannajung7512I can’t imagine being parched and someone hands me a carbonated water! That sounds terrible lol
In many European countries, free (tap) water has to be available if they serve any food or drinks. In most places, the tapwater is of much better quality than bottled water.
Everywhere in America is required to have water and bathrooms.
Europe is whack!
@Random_UserName4269 that's not accurate. I know plenty of places that don't have public restrooms, and you have to pay for water. At least, you have to pay for the cup, or if you want only ice you have to pay for it. It's usually like 25 cents ish.
I think it's wise to take into account that a *ton* of folks here in the US have shit jobs, shit wages, no savings, no vacation, no healthcare, shit homes, shit or no internet, and very little opportunity to change any of that.
Absolutely. Most Americans don't make 6 figures. We all can't be software engineers, and it's ignorant to brush off everyone under the poverty line. Prices are higher because of inflation, not because everyone is making more money.
Of course there is a gradient but that is far below the *median*
Median stats are what you should pay attention to, not mean. Like gdp per capita vs median income or household median income which is all stats collected by the US census. It’s clear we fail to appropriately address the most unfortunate and many times overlooked the ethnic/cultural connections to old state policies that had cascading effects. (e.g. Jim Crow south). But before you call everything shit and all, understand the fact that in our country it is considered extreme poverty to live at levels that far exceed say the means of homeless people.
If you have a job, you should have healthcare included, which while sure is not perfect, but it covers most everything unless the coverage is bare minimum penny pinching stuff.
Most Americans are given lots of paid vacation and sick days, but most are not taken as in America in a sense similar to east Asia, there is a (albeit less intense version) of a a sense of moral obligation to work more than is required, or be seen as a slacker (which has very old roots in early American colonial societies as it was associated with laziness or being a 'freerider'. Sure what we have isnt perfect, but, it's for sure not a static system that is impervious to change influenced by society not just capitalistic greed. And who are you talking about with no Internet…? We have billion dollar bipartisan programs (that have been very successful) in rolling out (particularly fiber optic lines) into all of rural communities. have you been around America the last 25 years? the rural west is literally dealing with floods of incoming people that wish to do their job remotely… how would this be possible if these cheap rural communities couldn't provide fast enough internet connectivity to support such a thing?
also you have to look at state law or county codes mostly for healthcare, mandated minimum paid leave, paid maternal and/or paternal leave. my county is industrial+sleeper communities for white collar professionals.
people now in industrial blue collar utility work are compensated far better than ever before (please remember how awful working conditions used to be??)
but you can make more as a linesman or electrician over a base level code writer.
tons of folks in Europe also lack such modern essentials, at levels that can be slightly different but at the end of the day, you cant really just drag the US as a place with poverty and social immobility. in fact social mobility is very difficult in Europe as the stronger regulations and state interventionism helps many avoid utter collapse of their ability to form a safety net for the poorest, it also makes individual enterprise very very difficult to the point of uselessness because of all the red tape and the vast subsidies given to large corporations to keep them competitive with asian and NA markets.
this leads to a culture almost caste level stagnation in growth both individually and economically as a nation.
if you think that poverty and the poor treatment of far flung communities is a uniquely American thing or that it is worst here and we are getting worse faster than everyone else, i would highly suggest getting a passport and actually see the world. Also shit homes? have you ever looked at the destruction after very similar powered earthquakes in Italy, our China? now look at California and japan, do you see connections as to which have better infrastructure to suit earthquakes. Brick or concrete without joints and frames of steel or lumber framed stilts. When i lived in rural but a university county in Indiana, I was always amazed at how in the midwest a tornado just meant stay indoors or at worst stay out of room with window if one is literally ontop of you.
The tragedy of climate change though has seen the rapid shift in tornado alley to the south where homes were built mainly to ensure the home didn't get waterlogged from a storm front or heavy rain/flood. and hurricane winds aren't like tornadoes, they blow rather than actively inhale any loose item bot bolted down. So wind in the southern homes we designed to flow under and over the home making it more ridged to one sided gale winds, not negative pressure and circling wind. it is something that will most likely require state regulations to be enacted and subsidize the homes and infrastructure retroactively. remember Europe has some old cities with old infrastrure but thats usually because they somehow avoided WWII battles and air raids that makes for example german cities faaaaaar far more modern than american cities, ones which i'd add was significantly funded by Marshall plan to rebuild europe to a level that could bring europe back to some sense of normalcy rather than ruinous wastes.
If jobs aren't shit as well in Europe why do so many move to the US?
my point being, comparitive suffering, as well as red herring one sided bashing of one nation vs an entire slew of nations just recently tied by the EU, its kinda dumb to pretend europe is somehow immune to the problems that face America, and arguably the entire world. is that bad? i would argue yes, is america suffering worse than most nations its size population wise/area? hardly.
@@JordanTracy93every day software engineers make less than garbage men in my region of the US. Electricians and other utility technicians are able to command massive pay raises, and fully complementary welfare benefits. Now I no that isn’t true everywhere but you can’t escape supply and demand.
@@JordanTracy93inflation causes both to go up, certain commodities have been pointed out as bucking the trend and spurs debate in economic circles due to its relative uniqueness of our modern global economy.
Inflation is WAY higher outside the US than inside. Please by all means look up any recent peer reviewed study or research on comparative central bank interest rates, inflation of the currency vs. comparative PPP inflation, and proportional expenditure on essential goods by all nations side by side.
Like think about Tucker Carlson stupid stunt at that Moscow grocery store, his “cheap” checkout as more than the median monthly income for a week of groceries for the average Russian.
You’ll find that all things considered, there isn’t much difference between European and Americans. You never see the balkans being used as a comparison to the US as a whole because we know that’s a poorly framed view, so the same goes for life in Paris or Munich or London and think that’s just bog standard for Europe. It’s why comparing Birmingham Alabama and say Marin county California is problematic at best.
Docs and Nurses get paid so little in the UK, they went on strike, the average nurse making 9 pounds/hour worked. That’s worse than some rural fast food workers in some US states. Does that mean US healthcare is better than UK healthcare, no but it does make it much different in what their weaknesses are.
I had no idea you two did episodes like this! I need more of this in my life!
I love this format! ❤
What the what? 3 hour drop from a fav channel i didnt expect? Yesssss!
In Australia it's also not counted as a bedroom unless it has a wardrobe (closet)
Not sure who told you this but it’s incorrect.
@@user-tl9ks6zv9h it was the case when I built my first house, and I'm also a drafting student. It may differ in different states or councils
I hope I randomly run into one of ye at that random travel spot where we're looking for that end-of-day drink. Too much here was "yeap, yup, uhu, uhu, totally agree" -- There's a handful of things I wanted to comment on during my stop/play/stop/play breaks - but your commentary about birthdays & thank you notes --- Did you know --- In Holland, it is customary for YOU, to bring a cake on YOUR birthday - for everyone else....
The reason The Netherlands has an average workweek of 29 hours is because a lot of people (mostly women) work part-time and many highschool and higher students have part-time jobs for maybe one or two days a week. We also have a lot of so called "0 hour" contracts, where people can be called in on a day to day basis. A normal workweek is 40 hours, 36 for the civil service. We also get quite a few vacation days, which increase as we age.
01:08:28 - A lot of people in the Netherlands are on 80% contracts, practically everybody with children because for the majority of people a day in kindergarten is considerably more expensive than what they'd make in a day, so it just makes no sense to work full time only to spend even more for somebody else to take care of your children while you work. Also, people here are more into healthy work-life balance than making the big bucks so 80% of a full wage is fine for most...
Hey Simon, I bought my house in just 2 weeks from viewing it to getting the keys. And that was just 2½ years ago.
Ofc it helped, that I had good savings to get started, so I had no problems getting a mortgage (yes, I took the 1% fixed interest over the 0.5% variable interest, coz Im not an idiot), and it was a fairly cheap house, coz it was somewhat run down, but they had already bought a new house, so they gave me an extra 5% discount for a quick sale. Which was great, that paid for a new bathroom!
Edit: Almost forget, yes, Im European, specifically from Denmark. So u can buy a house very quickly in Europe. And my 1% fixed interest is for the entire 30 years of the mortgage, unless I should at some point choose to remortgage. Personally, I find it very weird, that Brits cant fix their mortgage longer than 7 years.
And bedrooms without closets?? Never lived anywhere, which didnt have closets in the bedroom, its extremely rare in my experience.
Bathrooms - we most definitely have our toilet and shower in the same room. Tho sometimes bigger houses have an extra "guest toilet", which is usually just a tiny room stuffed into a corner or under a staircase or something, thats just a toilet, a sink and barely any floor space. And we ALWAYS have power sockets in the bathroom.
Only one of my 3 bedrooms has a built in closet (wardrobe).
Another one of those random YT marathon segments where I'm captivated enough to listen to it from end to end...but with necessary breaks across days!
This was so much fun to watch...so far. It'll take me a few days.
15:44 in Canada you can have an opinion to key your deadbolt on both sides. I had it when I had glass in the front door
Federal student loans in the US are discharged on death. Medical debt is paid by the estate but no remainder is passed on to the survivors. Basically, the hospital can take everything the debtor had, but can go after their family for more.
Edit: This explanation does not take into account exemptions. An exemption is an asset that, as a matter of law, is exempt from collections by creditors other than those with a security interest in that asset. A common exemption is the homestead exemption, which protects a debtor's home. Exemptions almost always have a dollar cap.
I'm only a quarter of the way through and I love this! Long form videos are my jam, and I love hearing you guy's opinions on random facts and experiences.
What an outstanding episode with lots to learn, but more importantly these two bouncing off each other is just a joy to experience. More please!!
Welcome to Portugal, if all is prepared without mortgage 72h to conclusion.
I'm in the US and I don't know many people that use their keys to lock their doors from the outside. Basically everybody I know just locks the door from the inside, then pulls it shut behind them when they leave
Yes. The only time I will lock it with a key on the outside is if I have forgotten to lock it before it shut it!
Besides needing to lock a deadbolt from the outside, I always lock the door latch with my key, so I don't accidentally lock it and not have the key to unlock it (I currently live in a house without a deadbolt).
But then people could break in with nothing more than a credit card.
Really enjoyed this episode. 3.5 hours well spent. Well done Daven & Simon.
You guys might compare tax burdens of America v.s. Europe (though that might be a little too much, maybe just the Czech Republic)
One of the memories I hold dear to my heart was when a British friend of my mom's came to visit for 2 weeks. She lamented our beaches were nice, was terrified of cows just walking around AND when she got to try a Hershey bar. In the film, "Empire of the Sun", the kid gets one and has pure elation at it. She thought that meant they were good, and put them on this imaginary pedistal. That was broken almost immediately and her face showed it.
She also hated root beer, and european peanut butter is way better than american
Completely agree about the Hershey bar 100% honest truth it tastes like baby puke. More like bad medicine.
Completely disagree about the peanut butter. Without question American peanut butter is best in the world not even close.
Love from the UK 😊
Hershey "chocolate" has butyric acid in, which is also in vomit. She was right, it's nasty 😂
Love them! Although I got to say that Europe is so diverse it's hard to compare. I'm Swedish and I have never seen a washing machine in a kitchen here. It's always in the utility room, and if you live in a small apartment without an utility room it is always in the bathroom. Also, we never have separate shower rooms. The shower and/or tub is always in the bathroom (although people can have extra "guest toilets" without tub or shower). So it's hard to campare since the countries can differ a lot, the Nordic countries differs from Bosnia, Italy or Germany for example. Different countries with different culture, economy, architecture and history.
That was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. Also super cool to see you both in a more free mode, talking freely without script. I know you had a script but you get my point.
Brainfood!!!
The talk about how they dress in Europe had me laughing since the last time I wore a suit I was 8. I have not worn anything but jeans and a t-shirt in winter and shorts and a t-shirt the rest of the year. I did not even get dressed up when I married my wife.
Nice full length feature guys! Well done.
Just a bit stereotype of Simon to make the distinction between Europe and the UK ;-) But joking aside, I think he made clear that he is not speaking for a catch all, just his personal accounts.
Would like to see more like these.
Ps. yes, the Dutch are the worlds leaders in part-time work... and directness.. not much beating 'round the bush, safes hours a week.
I think the information about interest rates and college loans has changed since your experience Devon. I’ve seen some numbers from legitimate sources and because the numbers they are quoting are so outrageous I need to do further research.
This is a great episode gentlemen. I have been waiting in anticipation for two weeks to get the time to listen. You have not disappointed. 💕
The differences in house prices and mortgage rates is nuts and I think directly relational. You can simply manage higher home prices if rates are low. My small townhouse in Switzerland was 1.3 million, but my interest rate is 1.3%. Making my monthly payment actually about the same as when I was paying off a 200k house at 4.5% in the US a decade back. Only in Switzerland more is going towards the principle and I'm making more from appreciation.
Great seeing you two guys together once again sharing a screen as happened years ago with the early podcasts.
Thank you for making this! I really miss the Brain food show. I like the dynamic between you two. This was awesome!
DAVEN!!! Glad to see you two together again. I loved the TIFO podcast!
a glass of wine with dinner? in the us you are an alcoholic, in europe you are the designated driver. jack told me that
This is a really great chat, cheers lads 👌🏼
Beer was cheaper than bottled water in Denmark for a long time, it only changed because the price of bottled water dropped dramatically from 4-5€ for a half liter to 2€ for 2 liters. There wasn't really any budget brands of bottled water because bottled water wasn't very popular in the past (we got very good tap water).
You can get a half liter can of beer for roughly 1€, just for the comparison. Bottled water was alot more expensive lol
31:20 No Mixing taps is a law. You're not allowed to have them IF you have a water tank, as the water in the tank can become contaminated, and a mixing tap could allow the contaminated water to back flow into the water grid. (I mean, it's all situational, 99.99% of the time, even if you did have a tank and a mixing tap, it's not gonna back flow)
Most people in the UK have a kitchen mixing tap at least, but we have the "Instant heat" system, where there is no tank, the cold water just flows through the boiler straight to the tap, and when it detects flow, the boiler switches on and heats the water flowing through it.
27:26 I am rewatching this episode. I love this format of the two of you. It's s that special kind of chemistry which is very rare and a lot of other podcasts are pulling out their hair. Extra bonus they'll learn about keeps and Simon's capitalist heart will beat with joy!
52:45 I’m right there with you Daven.
Can not stand the taste or smell of alcohol.
That was very surreal hearing Simon say "Fred Meyer"
Simon's basement is a lot nicer looking than I expected.
As an expat American living in Italy, and I cannot imagine going back to living without a Bidet. Italian homes have hooks near the Bidet for drying. Before you say "WTF a poop rag just hanging there?" The responsibility of the user is to clean that area properly to where it is just like drying when you finish showering. If I am ever forced to move back, I will invest in some form of bidet system. I was told by someone from Puglia that cleanliness is important in warmer weather places, and that is why the bidet and it's etiquette is so important in Italy, especially in the South
Also, free water is very hard to find in restaurants here. They give you a small glass with your coffee at the bars, but restaurants, no.
The way Simon is surprised he doesn't have a membership to Costco baffles him.
Only about halfway done, but these two together is pretty awesome. They seem to get along so well.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one, guys!
This was great. Please do it again
Deadbolt locks keyed on the inside as well as outside were common in Western New York when I was growing up (I’m 50 yrs old). The idea was security. Breaking a window on a door didn’t allow for unlocking it without the key. However, it was pretty common for people to leave the key in the inside lock.
Hey Daven, must admit the YT algorithm have cut you off from my front page. It is so nice to see you again, looking forward to binging your videos again now!
That's your fault not the algorithm. Go click on some of his videos.
They were talking about the TV license, when I lived in the UK in the 80's is was 90 pounds for a black & white TV and 100 pounds for a color. It didn't matter if the TV was able to receive the PAL broadcasts, you would still get fined. I knew some Americans who was fined because they didn't have a license for their TV which was a NTSC only TV. It couldn't receive PAL which is what most of Europe broadcasts on. Daven mentioned the truck. They would have that on TV shows, one a guy saw a truck with a dish on top so he rushed out and tossed his TV in the rubbish bin. A passerby saw that and asked about it. The guy said it was broken. The passerby was wanting to take it and they had a long discussion as to why he couldn't take it. The truck was just a satellite dish company so this guy lost his TV for nothing.
We have to lock our appartment door from the inside because our orange cat can open doors. He frequently breaks into the bathroom or kitchen when he want to. :D