US Living: 4 Things I Honestly Thought Would Be A BIGGER DEAL
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Before moving to the United States, I did have one or two reservations. There were certain elements of American life that I'd seen in films that I thought would be a much bigger deal once I lived in the US. Thankfully, those things haven't been anywhere near as central to my US existence as I initially feared. Here are four of them.
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Distructive weather, venomous spiders, deadly snakes, aggressive animals, dangerous geography... Watching Lawrence over the years has made me realize that other countries think about our nature the way we think about Australia. 🤣
Same
Yeah. That's probably true. 😄
I mean, every time California gets a wildfire we get sweet fire tornado pics.
Yes but in the US nature usually stays in nature. The threats in Australia seem to be more interested in checking out civilization, or maybe I watch too much tv
@@honkytonkinson9787 Lol. I've found snakes and one time a really intrepid opossum in my house in a fairly urban area of California (I often leave the back door open for my dog), and was once shocked to discover our trash bin outside was not being raided by stray dogs but rather by a pair of urban coyotes. I cannot even count the number of camel spiders I've seen in the garage. My friend had a bat fly into her house once, and another called me in a panic to come over to capture and remove a tarantula that had found its way into her home.
We won't even talk about the wildlife Florida residents call animal control to remove, but I always thought of Florida as a whole universe unto itself anyway. 🤷♀️
Oh my god. The idea of the British media fearmongering about jaywalking in America is the funniest thing I've heard all day.
I’m sure the cop only arrested that historian for jaywalking because he did it immediately after being told not to. The police officer then needed to go on a little ego trip and punish the historian for not respecting his authoritah.
In a lot of US cities, especially the larger ones, jaywalking is technically against the law, but everybody still does it anyway and the laws against it are virtually never enforced. In the city I live in, the fine for jaywalking is set by statute at $1.00. Given that, even if the police wanted to strictly enforce anti-jaywalking laws, it simply would not be worth the paperwork.
Personally, I’d estimate that I jaywalk directly in front of a cop a least a couple of times per week and have never even been scolded for it.
When Winston Churchill came to America, he went to NYC. He looked in both wrong directions, then, stepped into street and was promptly run over by a taxi. I believe he survived the experience.
Jaywalking not only varies by state but also by city. Most places don't enforce it.
you’re not american if you haven’t jaywalked lmfao. it’s so low of a misdemeanor that it isn’t enforced in most states/cities
Isn’t that hilarious? I know I’m Boston jaywalking is more of an average Tuesday than an offense. Seriously, if the pedestrian actually crosses instead of meandering down the road you’re in luck.
Tornados aren’t a big deal until they are. Then they are a very big deal
The truth in this comment is absurdly realistic. I’m in Tennessee, my area has relatively recently been deemed Dixie Alley as a nod to Tornado Alley. We’ve had 2 brushes with tornadoes and I have felt very mild earthquakes, twice.
Not cool. Not. At. All. Cool.
As a man in California my whole life, earthquakes are nothing. Even when they hit it they are still relatively nothing. Yet I always hear outsiders scared of the idea in regards to Cali.
@@BigSteelThrill Think of a tornado as an earthquake that has all of its energy scrunched up into a narrow moving dot. So within that moving dot, Richter 9.5. Outside of that moving dot, maybe Richter 2.0, or zero. If you don't get hit, not a big deal. If you do get hit, at worst you're dead, at best you have major building damage. Trailers in particular fare poorly against tornadoes.
Can confirm, still cleaning up 2 yrs later
I was gonna say the same thing: "A tornado isn't a big deal until it hits your house..."
Living in the Midwest, my number one fear is other drivers on icy winter roads.
This!!!
It’s not even winter yet and I almost get hit by cars almost everyday when walking to class and work. They literally drive 1 foot away from me even tho it’s the law to give pedestrians 10 feet. I’ve actually had to jump out of the way. I’m sooooo scared I’m gonna get hit
As a Northerner living in the midwest I also fear midwesterners in the snow.
@@FakeRyanGuild at least they aren't southerners.
@Tom - hopefully, this account won't get hacked 3 feet for bicycles? I'm lucky if I get 3 inches!
As an American , growing up I really thought quicksand would be a much bigger deal .
Yes!
Hahahaha.... me too! you wouldn’t happen to be a child of the 60’s would you? quick sand often appeared on tv shows in those days as a treacherous obstacle. the idea of falling into some quick sand as I crossed the meadow on my way to school was a very real consideration. lol (quick sand) that sure does take me back !
Bro SAME cartoons and Indiana Jones really had me convinced
John Mulaney!!!
@@michellejoy3678 born in 66 so lots of shows I watched in the 70’s had that theme 😂
FYI, when the tornado sirens go off, contrary to what you've heard about hiding in the basement, we actually go outside to look for them.
well i wanna see how bad the cleanup is going to be!
Right, who wants to miss that kind of weather phenomenon
yep, open the garage door, put up a few camp chairs in the garage, and watch the storm roll in...
Same. The sky is really pretty right before and it's eerily calm for a bit.
Exactly. That's why he hasn't seen any.
Of course you haven’t seen one, they are called brown recluse not brown socialite
I like your humor melodicgrog!
Brown socialite. Lol. Good one!
Years ago We used to see them under Boards when I was doing Construction!
I see a brown recluse about every 3 months in Arizona, and black widows are even more prevalent
😆😆😆
Speaking of Jaywalking; I'm a Canadian who was visiting Seoul South Korea with a group. While in the downtown business district one day we grew impatient with the ridiculously long traffic light and decided to go for it and Jaywalk. The strangers also waiting at the light saw what we were planning and started to freak out. Finally the one man told us that we would die if we tried to cross. People drive too fast, ignore traffic rules and pedestrians die all the time there.
You’re not a Midwesterner unless you have gone outside during a tornado warning to look. Maybe while eating something with ranch.
So true😂
It’s the same in Texas and Louisiana.. only the food could be different. 🤣
That something had better be Bacon.
Same here in S. Carolina, I remember once in the early 90's during a tornado warning in 6th grade they made us huddle down in the hallways, and it was really close to us being let out of school for the day, and they kept us there for a good while after school, and all the parents who where coming to pick up their kids, my dad included were like WTF, let them out, I gotta get home, and all the while my dad was sitting in his truck drinking coffee, and eating powdered doughnuts lol!
And drinking Mt. Dew
Jaywalking is one of those offenses you'll probably only ever get caught doing if you end up pissing off a police officer because then he'll try to stick you with everything on the book.
Along with all the things in the book too!
Exactly. The cops wrestled him down because *he kept ignoring them!*
The reminds me of a parade I was at one year during Mardi Gras season: we were all behind the barricades waiting for the parade to arrive, and a cop was walking up and down the street. A drunk (we were all drunk,. but he was *drunk)* tried to hop the barricades to get to the other side, and the cop said "no". Wash, rinse, repeat... twice. By this time, the cop was tapping his billy club in his palm. Dumb Drunk hopped the rail anyway, and the cop *beat the crap out of him* then hauled him off to the paddy wagon. We all cheered.
Kind of like littering as well. I've seen people unwrap candy and throw the candy wrappers on the sidewalk right in front law enforcement. Technically it's littering but if you do it while a cop is yelling at you for something else, he or she will throw that into the ticket. Although they'll likely enforce littering if it's like an empty soda pop or beer can you throw to ground, then that's just plain rudeness to the public.
@@paullangland6877 the law i hate is how it is supposedly illegal to throw away your trash in someone else's bin. I don't own a recycling bin but my neighbors do so on the day it's supposed to go out I take it for them and throw my recycling in there. Also a good time to point out we live in a condo so there bin is just under the stairs.
@@bland9876 "the law i hate is how it is supposedly illegal to throw away your trash in someone else's bin."
You can't hate a law if it doesn't exist; Google the damned thing and see if it's real.
"I could have played for Manchester United in England... if it wasn't for reality." Even as an American that made me smile.
Manchester United.... pffft.... if your going to have a fantasy it might as well be for playing for City.
@@JohnSmith-gm4fj Chudley Cannons FTW!
I know a man who actually did play for Manchester until he was permanently injured. He still works with them, but he now teaches at a high school nearby me in the States. Of course, he coaches soccer, too.
@@ebwarg I’m more of a Hollyhead Harpies fan! Go, Ginny!
@@Ripplesinthewaters You mean he's a football coach?
the amount of times growing up in school having fire fighters and cops talking about stop drop and roll really made it seem like getting lit on fire was far more likely that it has been
It’s surprising how it only takes one time to make all that talk worthwhile.
@@moremerry57 Yeah, my uncle got lit on fire once as a kid. Thankfully his brothers were there and remembered, so they knocked him down and rolled him around. Still spent months in the burn ward, but it could have been a lot worse
Based on my elementary school education, I always thought being lit on fire would be a much bigger problem than it actually is.
*stop*drop*roll*
I swear they beat that into my head more than they did any other academic course.
And yet you see videos of people on fire running all over internet/news/tv shows... while I'm yelling "stop running you fool!"
Maybe it's less of a problem than it otherwise would be because kids are taught to stop/drop/roll/run around flailing?
Strangle I have been on fire or almost on fire so often that I don't ware synthetic fabrics. That's on account of bad life choices like drunken bonfires and running into danger.
I know 2 ppl that "stop, drop, and roll" saved their life. It was worth the lesson. 😂
Honestly I'm a little sad that you haven't experienced the demented Midwestern pastime of seeing a pea green sky outside, hearing the wail of a tornado siren, and running outside to try and get a glimpse of the funnel. Or yelling at your Dad to turn the TV off and come to the basement. Good times.
We always had a contest to see who could catch the most hail when we were home with dad. Mom survived the 74 Xenia, oh tornado though, so if she was home, we were locked in a closet. (No basement)
My childhood summers in a nutshell.
My grandson and I were the only two home last time a tornado warning came and we had two large dogs. So we sat in the hallway with one dog pulled over still in his crate, afraid he'd freak out. We sat on the floor and played on our phones when suddenly I said " do you think the dogs are wondering what the hell is wrong with this picture?" 😂😂
Quick, everyone run outside to watch the tornado
I live in nebraska and I haven’t experienced it yet
I literally spit my coffee out when you described "A tornado results in the death of a witch" as a documentary. That was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. 👍
As documentaries go, that was a good one. Very instructional if, by chance, you find a road made of lemony masonry work. 😂
There's no place like home.
Most of my life and adolescence was spent in South Texas, and I often visited family in the hill country. I'll never forget seeing an actual scorpion on my aunt's wall as a child, and though I was told it was normal, I couldn't sleep that night.
As far as spiders go, however, I can't tell you 100% one way or another if I've encountered a brown recluse or not, and in some way, that kind makes it scarier. There's LOTS of different species of spiders in Texas, and 90% of them are harmless, but there's also a lot that look very similar to each other... or in other words, we have a LOT of brown spiders, but the only dangerous brown spider is the brown recluse, so when you see a big brown spider, you're not 100% sure if it can kill you or not. This has, at least made me (and I imagine a lot of other Texans) very wary of pretty much any brown spider, and when we find one we either tend to let it go outside or kill it on the spot.
Our black spiders are not as scary, considering the only ones you really need to worry about is the female black widow, which has an undeniably easy to identify red hourglass marking on its back that's nature's way of saying "don't touch me"
Worth pointing out that the most "impressive" part of identifying a brown recluse, specifically is that it's always much smaller than I figure it should be... just eyeballing it anyway. There are field guides for determining colors and markings along with other details about spiders and spider kin (like scorpions)... BUT with scorpions the "general rule" is that the larger the scorpion, the less dangerous it tends to be for humans. It's not a perfect rule, admittedly, but a fairly useful (98%-ish) rule when confronted with a scorpion in the house or in camp... as it were. ;o)
The stars at night, are big and bright-
Another thing for people who are unfamiliar with black widows; since they are web dwellers, its very rare to see them walking around after they've picked a place to set up shop. They do tend to become more active at night though, so they will be less likely to hide away then in the daytime, unless its in a cluttered place like a garage. The reason I'm saying this is because a black widows web feels different to the touch then other more common webs that belong to Daddy Long legs etc. A Widows web is strong to the touch. So if you accidently touch a web and notice that it feels more substantial, Get Your Hand Back. They will not charge at you but it always feels safer to me.
I live in Alabama and went on a backpacking trip recently. I moved a stone to sit on and underneath I found 5 scorpions. First time I’ve ever seen them. In Alabama, not Arizona or Colorado, but my home state of freaking Alabama
We visited family in East and Central Texas every summer when I was growing up. When we would go to our family reunions in Golthwaite, TX, there were only 2 hotels. The Hereford, which had crickets and scorpions, and the Mauny (sp?) which had slime mold. We stayed at both at different times but all agreed that the Hereford, with its crickets and scorpions was preferable to the moldy other hotel.💯
As an American kid in the 70s, my biggest fears were quicksand and Bigfoot 😂
Me too...and i thought everyone's garage had an anvil and blasting caps!
Bigfoot? Wow, bruh
The Syfy channel: Bigfoot and tornadoes write that down!
Same
My biggest fear was the girl who lived next door's father.
I dream of a world were a chicken can cross the road without
having his motives questioned.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
It didn't. It just kindof wandered out there and did fuck-all for a solid minute.
Even then the chicken will still be the joke.
The chicken crossed the road because it was stupid. Very stupid. I work with them for a living so I know! In all fairness it's our fault for inbreeding them to the Nth degree, but they truly aren't mental giants.
@@agoogleuser4443 Still smarter than the domestic turkey!
Why did the Chicken cross the road?
To get away from Gonzo!
Why did Gonzo cross the road?
He was chasing the chicken!!
Here in Chicago, we’ve heard of this urban legend of the ‘jaywalking law’. We cross anywhere, anytime..carefully. Assume every car is TRYING to hit you.
In Chicago, Jaywalking is an extreme sport. We're basically playing Real-Life Frogger
Extra points if you cross in front of the Daley Center. If you get hit there you’ll die of paper cuts from all of the attorneys’ cards being thrown on your prone body!
Wait...they’re not trying to hit me?
Then you Have Florida, where the Pedestrian has Right of Way
@@railbaron1 ?? Thats in every state
You know, the jaywalking thing is interesting to me, because in the U.S., jaywalking is always used as the textbook example of "the most minor and inconsequential way in which a person could possibly break the law." Like, if a fictional character is riddled with guilt over jaywalking, you know they are _extremely_ straight-laced and follow the rules to the _letter,_ because jaywalking is a crime that literally no one cares about enforcing. As long as you aren't putting yourself and/or others in danger, you're fine.
Also, the term "jay" was originally an insult when the term was coined, and the term was invented by the automotive industry as part of an effort to shift the blame for car accidents onto pedestrians, so I really don't feel the least bit guilty about doing it.
Yeah but if you walk on a highway and get hit shouldn't the blame be on the pedestrian? Also walking when it's not your turn is the same as going through a red light. You are at fault if something happens and you aren't on a crosswalk as the pedestrian and I think it's quite common sense if you don't want to die. But In low speed areas sure who cares. But blaming the automotive industry when it's the one thing that saved our country is kinda sad.
@@likeablecloud2454 Are you... unanticipatedly expounding on movezig5's last sentence?
@@odo324 Yeah but the issue is that the term is needed. If some dumbass tries to commit suicide by walking in front of traffic it protects the driver. I processed his last sentence it's just that the whole idea of jaywalking is entirely unacceptable is stupid.
If you have a crosswalk we're people are supposed to stop and the road where you will probably die if you stop you have to understand why the crosswalks are needed. Then the term jay walking came out. His last sentence is stupid as yes although it was to push guilt on citizens it was needed as there were fucking idiots who put drivers in harm by walking were they shouldn't. And then if the driver hits them they would be guilty of murder for the pedestrians dumb decision.
@@likeablecloud2454 , "turns" are only necessary because of cars... Pedestrians and cyclists travel at speeds where you can just navigate between one another usually without stopping. In most countries, accordingly, cars get to wait their turn (stopping and staring is easiest for them anyhow; it's just a pedal assuming we are on surface streets) and everyone else can just go about their business. Highways are another matter of course, but that's not "jaywalking" since pedestrians aren't permitted at all on highways. And, frankly, strodes where you're likely to have a mix of pedestrians and cars going above 35 mph shouldn't exist; that's terrible city planning.
@@emma70707 dude jaywalking is literally walking were you shouldn't. Go to the crosswalks and the stroad isn't that dangerous. Sorry you seem to think they are dangerous because of speeds but most streets are 20 to 35 so it's quite literally a matter of not jaywalking.
When I was a kid in Oklahoma, I used to ride a tarantula to school while being chased by a tornado. Just sayin'.
In Illinois we just road the tornado.
That made me LOL! So true!
One word: alligators.
@@JonGee420 In Illinois, its a struggle to find an intact road to take in the first place. God forbid your arachnid is on the fritz.
@@LostShipMate last time I was in Illinois I gassed up in Indiana and drove all the way through without stopping for fear that I would be taxed for something
There's like 10 brown recluse spiders in my garage right now. We have a "you don't f with me and I won't f with you" thing going on.
Best way to go.
Sounds like some shitty roommates. Do they at least pay rent?
Make them pay bills
they're everywhere in the lower midwest. I find them in my basement, at work, in my parent's barn, and at my friend's auto body shop. here's the thing: they're shy, they flee before they bite, are relatively small so they have trouble breaking the skin, and don't inject venom like 95% of the time when they do bite. Most importantly, it's been found the danger of their venom is grossly overstated unless you let the small wound they can cause get infected. Most of the "brown recluse" bites you see on the internet are MRSA if you actually track down the source, true recluse bites develop VERY differently than those pictures. It's almost like a rash that turns into a bruise that turns into a small blister, usually between the size of a pea and a dime at worst, that then just sort of scars over. The pics I've seen of confirmed recluse envenomations are practically identical to the time I put on a boot with a paper wasp inside of it, and it stung me several times in the same spot before I could get it off. It sucked but it wasn't THAT bad, and the only lasting effects was a very small circular scar
Sounds like me and the black widows living in my motorcycle. I tried to get rid of them, but they really seemed to have their hearts set on living there so we leave each other alone and they get to go on road trips with me.
Soccer fields are literally everywhere. Especially high schools and colleges. But also a lot of elementary schools and parks.
I mean, I'm from Texas. Currently, when I open the shed to fetch my lawnmower, I have to stand WAY BACK when I swing open the doors to avoid the colony of brown recluse spiders that have webbed it all over on the inside. I have also had to pick up a friend from the hospital when there was a nest of brown recluse that lived in her mattress, bit the shit out of her through the night, and almost killed her. Tornadoes are also a thing in my neck of the woods :) So, by just not being in Texas you're safe from at least half your list.
Karimonster -
So far I've been bitten by them in South Carolina and Oklahoma. A friend in Florida lost the sight of one eye when one crawled onto her face and bit her while she slept. That was Florida.
@@jamesredman1263 Had a neighbor who was bitten by one on the temple and lost the sight in his eye (and it went all gray, cloudy, and gross-looking) for about eight months, but it eventually got better. Took about two years to get back to normal, though.
Wait wait wait. I didn't know Brown relcuse spiders lived in Texas. That might be the one thing that'll make me move.
That mattress sounds like a nightmare
Maybe if Texas starts making a big deal about all the venomous creatures and dangerous things that exist in Texas, we can lower the number of people moving to Texas.
I remember visiting Ireland and my cousins asked if it was scary with all the big storms and I had to tell them I lived on the other end of the country from all those big storms in the South East. A lot of people don't realize how big the US is.
I live on the south east and I had a tornado rip threw our town like 10 years ago and another one a few months ago
They say we're going to get hit by a tropical storm here tomorrow. It looks to be shaping up to be a fairly big storm. Just rain and some wind though. I don't anticipate it being life threatening. I've never been in any storm that was really life threatening I don't think. Although once I was stupid enough to drive in water a few feet deep. I was in a 4WD truck though so I made it OK. I could have gone around it. If I'd known how deep it really was I would have. Turns out once you're committed you pretty much have to press on.
The media doesn't do us any favors either. During all the riots last year, my Canadian friend was legitimately afraid for my life as if the entire country was burning down- thanks international media.
@@bodyofhope you wouldn't have known anything was going on from where I live. One day when I was out I saw a small group that tried to do something on a highway here. But they were just too small and were largely ignored so it never amounted to anything.
When my wife's family (Cuban) in Miami saw the news about the attacks in NYC & D.C. on 9/11, they called to check on her, worried for her safety. She lived in Cincinnati.
so THATS why my friends kept asking me whether it was true that jaywalking is illegal in america when i lived in manchester. I was so confused why brits were so concerned about our almost never enforced misdemeanor crimes
generally in my experience its only ever enforced when one of 2 things happens 1) the cop is behind on his ticket quota and needs to get more tickets or 2) your jaywalking was a component in an accident causing people to be injured or worse. Also its almost never enforced in smaller towns and cities
In the late 90s and early 00s there was a rash of smaller (especially college) towns enforcing the jaywalking laws (at least in the Deep South) - but it was usually as part of a ticketing quota/scare tactic used sporadically just to remind people that it was illegal and often dangerous. It was especially used at start of fall term. These areas were generally unfriendly to and dangerous for pedestrians or cyclists anyway. I have not seen jaywalking enforced since I returned from York (where some of my friends practically had to push me across the roads when I wanted to wait for signals - from a fear of cars more than laws) and suspect it is because the areas have become more pedestrian friendly. That said, when driving, you do have to keep a eye on all of the cellphone zombies out there.
I remember hearing that one a lot when I was a kid, how we shouldn't jaywalk. Then you grow up and realize you can pretty much do what you want, within reason. Jaywalking in New York City, for example, isn't within reason. But in smaller cities, jaywalking is fairly common.
@@curiouslywoven9737 following the traffic laws in smaller cities actually makes less sense than jaywalking. So the crosswalks are only ever at the intersection so when I can cross I'm always at risk of being hit by people just cruising through their red to turn or blitzing between cars to turn or people pulling up to the light to turn right on red. If I jaywalk a bit further up I no longer have to worry about traffic in 4 directions, just left and right. Yeah the cars shouldn't be mowing you over but I'm middle aged and cannot recall a single pedestrian strike ever resulting in charges despite both being in the cross walk with the right of way and pedestrians always having the right of way anyhow. So everyone tries to bully/blast/squeak by you regardless of how close that cuts it and they do so at high speed.
Enforced in Canada, so keep to the cross-walks! Safer for everybody!!
As a kid my mom would huddle my 5 siblings under the basement stairs during tornado warnings. We'd about kill each other ! Dad on the other hand wanted to take us all in the family station wagon and go look for them. We preferred going with dad @
Speaking as a Missourian, if there's ever any news about a tornado, chances are, you or someone you know are going to be seen outside staring at the sky for about 10-20 minutes. At the minimum.
I was born in Minneapolis and moved when really young. We went back to see the house my parents had me and my sister in and we stayed at an rv park. I asked my dad "what does a tornado warning sound like?".... 15 minutes later we are all in the designated bunker (the main bathroom building) surrounded by on radar what looked to be 3 tornados. I've never seen purple and green lighting before or since.
Yup.
In Missouri, Tornadoes are like live sports: exciting, loud and more fun when you're drunk and watching them than when you're actually participating
Yeah... I’m from Florida and we used to break out the slip n’ slide during hurricanes...otherwise they’re boring.
Watching a tornado from the roof of your house is sort of a rite of passage in Missouri! What part of Missouri are you from? I am from Northeast MO.
@@leewitte4580 North Central. Chariton County
My daughter had been *in* three tornadoes by age 18. In NJ and PA, not really tornado central. She’s just talented like that.
Does that mean she's been inside those tornados? While not being inside of a building?
I grew up in rural PA along the upstate NY border and have had a handful of tornados touch down within my area. None of them very powerful though. My sister managed to get a picture of one right by our house
@@MrC0MPUT3R Around 1998-1999 while traveling on 219 near PA/NY Border I was forced to pull over due to a tornado.
2:03
"Only every three years?"
- all of us living in tornado alley
Us in Alabama - Spring = tornado season
@@senseijoyner yup I once saw one a few hundred feet away, thank God it started going the other way and we had a basement
In OK, grew up just a couple miles South of the area that seen more tornadoes than anywhere else, and having witnessed 2 tornadoes that both maxed and likely exceeded EF5, every 3 years sounds very optimistic. One week, it was tornados until at least 3 am every day for a week straight. So depending where you are, that stereotype isn't unfounded. But it's also a drinking game.
Funny enough, for all the BS of 2020, very mild tornado season, but Canada's weather got drunk and played around in my backyard for a couple weeks to make up for it.
The first weekend after moving to Midwest City, OK, I saw a tornado outside the window (but a mile from us) the restaurant we were eating in. Two years later one sent hail and broke all of the apartment windows on my side of the complex. I still own a house in Moore, OK (we PCSed from there after living 13 years in OK, in 1998), where a number of tornadoes have managed to wipe out large sections of nearby streets, but it has been just fine. Weather doesn't worry me, lol. I also grew up with earthquakes, so maybe that's why tornadoes and hurricanes don't faze me.
26 years in Missouri and I've seen SO many tornadoes, but never seen one actually destroy anything. I was afraid of them when I was little, but not anymore. Lol.
As a kid, quicksand, undercurrents, and rip tides were my concerns, never minding the fact that I live probably a thousand miles from the ocean.
Also, downed power lines. I've only been around for two events causing those.
A few things do stand out as being just as dangerous as I was taught:
-crossing the street,
-earthquakes. God damn, I was inside for most of a magnitude 5.7 one and I busted down an interior door just because the lock was a little stuck and I could not suffer any delay from getting out of my old house.
-ricocheting detritus while shooting guns. Wear your eye protection while shooting. It's no joke getting a piece of copper jacket from a bullet in your eye.
The person who got stopped after they jaywalked was almost certainly more about the fact that the officer had ordered him not to, and he did anyways, then it was about the actual jaywalking
You sound lucky
Once my husband got a ticket, I kid you not, because the HAND was red on the crosswalk. He was walking.🤷♀️
@@mangot589 yeah, that sounds pretty excessive (of the officer) for most situations.
@@mangot589 I mean that's essentially the same as going through a red light. Whether you're driving, on a bicycle, or walking, the rules of the road still apply to you. Not that I agree with all of them, but they exist, and you can't be all that upset or surprised when you get a ticket for breaking them.
Yes, he acted as of the officer didn't exist
I thought Quicksand would play a bigger part in my life when growing up
It's a lot more likely to take your shoes,than your lfe.
Farmers drained all their wetlands. They were losing cattle.
2 years ago I would have laughed like a clown at that... but then I got stuck in quicksand.. it scared the fuck out of me because I am old and it took over 2 hours to free myself... my brother also got stuck. At first it was funny.. you know getting your boot stuck in the mud... but then you pull it out and the other is stuck even worse... and it goes on. At first you are just in up to your ankles.. and then the knees... It was comical I am sure... but not funny for us... until we were safe..
@@drmorqWarrenProject Glad you are both safe. I have never seen it (I am in New Zealand) but it does exist and it is dangerous if you panic. It was in every movie and tv series as a kid. So i thought it was everywhere...
We have areas of quicksand in Toronto, Ontario. The big pond, formerly a bay on Lake Ontario is called Grenadier Pond because 2 British Grenadiers fell through the ice and were sucked into the quicksand on the bottom. Part of the Toronto subway runs through circular metal tunnels because the subway runs through a pocket of quicksand. The trains are severely limited for speed through the area because the weight of the train could create a bow wave that could cause the tunnel to flex to much and break.
A coworker of mine came back from lunch one day with a ticket for jaywalking. She'd been walking down the street and spied several people standing with a police officer on the other side and being nosy crossed over to see what was going on. The officer just told her to get in line as he was ticketing all of them for jaywalking.
They should have scattered.
I want it even pay it a lot of people don't know but they're not really worried about Minor tickets being paid off I haven't paid off minor tickets in years
On the other hand I have been picked up on warrants for things that are little more serious but the minor tickets never come up though
I live in the county right above New York City: everyone jaywalks, it’s normal. Cops could get you for it I never heard of it happening. Went to college in New Hampshire: without a car in site I would cross the street & classmates would look at me as though I had a death wish.
hahahaha she shouldn't have been so nosy!
I'm late to the party, but I used to live in Mississippi, and I saw SO many brown recluse spiders.
My house was totally infested.
And it turns out they're not as aggressive as they're made out to be, and in the winter, the cold makes them very sluggish.
Of course, if you get used to their slow speed, as I did, because I first moved into my house in the winter, when the summer comes, and the same spider moves like lightning?
It's a little startling.
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And as for black widows, I've found them in Alabama under the spot where you turn your water on and off for the house, where the utility person checks it.
There's usually a little concrete box set into the ground that said "Water" on it.
It should've said: Box O' Widders, because it had a very striking black widow and her little baby widows.
Both of these spiders, the recluse and widow, aren't spiders you're likely to mistake for any other spider, once you've learned what they look like.
The widow in particular, in nature, is a very glossy globular black, with the legs perched under the hump of that globe.
You don't even need to see the red hourglass, because that shape is so distinctive.
And like you, I'm not afraid of spiders, in general, just in specifics, like when my hand is upon one unexpectedly.
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In my house, at first I tried a policy of live and let live.
Spiders eat bugs, I thought, so I'll leave them alone.
This worked OK until I watched a particularly large spider cross a piece of paper.
I heard the patter of its little feets (claws, they're called claws) clattering on the sheet.
I thought I could see the paper bend under its weight.
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That spider was put outdoors like a small dog.
Jay walking is a sport; it’s called Dodge Car.
Citizen’s arrest! Citizen’s arrest!
You have won the RUclips comment section!
I was going to say something similar. Jaywalking is most definitely a common college sport. It’s a race to see whether or not you can get across the road to the pizza place before a semi comes barreling around the blind corner... if you win, you get a pizza.
or Frogger
@@bookcat123 And if you lose you're a road pizza!
He also said disoriented instead of disorientated. Assimilation is complete.
I noticed that too.
Bwahahaha. Yesssss.
:distant chanting: one of us, one of us, one of us
He now officially speaks *American* , not English, muhahaha.
Actually both are considered correct in in both countries, though disorientated is about twice as common.in the UK, and disoriented is far more common in the US.
‘Interest that seems to largely diminish by the time people are done with education,,, kind of like Marching Band’
That one made me really laugh,, you know us too well Lawrence!
I felt this one, hit too close to home
Just the idea of a grown man playing soccer seems so ludicrous to me....that's what my little nephews do for fun. 😂
DCI? I guess they won't let you march that over 24.
Wasps: Use poison under cover of darkness. Strike quickly and violently. Then retreat like a blitzkrieg. Do not underestimate. A fist sized nest may seem like a minor nuisance, until you get too close.
Got a nest of hornets this past summer on our porch... The thing's about the size of a basketball! Keeps the (other) bugs out of the house, though...
Will probably (now that cold weather is setting in) clamp a bucket around the thing with gasoline in the bottom and then slice it off... Cap the bucket quickly once it falls in... AND that's that. ;o)
Wasps, Yellow Jackets and hornets are WAY more of a problem than any "deadly" spider... which truly aren't that deadly at all. I really dislike flying stingy things. Oh and Velvet Ants ... DO NOT pick up no matter what.
@@Cattrix999 Funny you should bring up Velvet Ants... I picked one up two summers ago and stuck it in a coke bottle... brought the thing to Terminex and had that guy identify it...
I'd never seen such a cool looking ant in my life! I just wanted to know what the Hell it was...
"SO..." I said upon learning about the "Mule Killer wasp"... "That was among the top 10 dumbest f***in' things I've done in my life. Right?" ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Well you were certainly lucky. We had a 15" pool put up in the backyard a few years ago, we had to buy sand to layer in the perimeter before the vinyl was laid down. A few days later I found this beautiful red and black fuzzy large ant, booking it across my sewing room. I followed the critter until it came to the wall and squeezed under the baseboard. I didn't have the inclination to pick it up because bright red and black told me.. ahh shouldn't touch that. Later googled and found out it was a Velvet Ant which is really a large flightless female wasp with a Freaking Bad Sting attached. I was nervous for a few years every time I used my sewing room. But nothing ever showed back up. We speculate that this gorgeous beast had come in on the delivered pile of sand to cushion the bottom of the pool. You can actually buy these now online to keep as pets.. I keep tarantulas and see different species of velvet ants for sale every once in awhile .. so if you are interested you can be the proud owner of a few :) . not me, I'll stick to my spiders
@@Cattrix999 Yeah... lucky is one way to put it... I avoided (through no fault of my own) a horrible sting that day...
I normally relegate my brand of "stupid" to wrangling the dangerous reptiles... since nobody wants that job or function in life... if they're sane.
SO the whole "bright colors mean danger" software didn't stick with me... (lolz)
AND those "spiders" are technically megalomorphs... AND I'm sort of confident you've already been warned that they die from being dropped, so I can tentatively stay relatively comfortable with handling them... ;o)
Re: tornadoes, you might have seen one and not realized it. F1 tornadoes aren't necessarily announced on the news. Basically if you are looking at a wooded area in a severe thunderstorm and the trees seem to be doing a violent, circular hula, there is probably a low level tornado the air above you that isn't touching down because of the line of trees. Ditto if you are sitting at a stop light and across the intersection are sudden repeated waves of rain all moving rapidly and strongly.in the same direction.
I currently live out in the desert in El Paso - and we have those teeny-tiny micro-tornadoes called "dust devils". They look so cute - but if you do actually get in side one - they have a respectable amount of energy to them.
Violent hula lol
Re:
When I was a first grader, I remember a Dust Devil picking one of my classmates a few inches off the ground. Looking back on it though, it's pretty obvious I fell for a bit of over exaggeration.
an f1 tornado started in a field near the playground when I was in elementary school (this was NH so they aren't even common here) and they didn't even make us come inside because they had decided that telling a playground full of 8 year olds a tornado was coming would be more likely to cause somebody to get hurt in the panic then the actual tornado which never even reached the playground before running out of power.
From an Alabama resident. Here's the thing about the Brown Recluse spider, it is called that because they are reclusive. I know they are around. I know the kind of places they like to hang around. I could probably find one in my house if I went looking. They have a strong preference for staying hidden and unnoticed. Out of habit I tend to give my shoes and clothing items a shake before I put them on just to be safe. At 51 years of age, I remain unbitten. I dont really expect that to change.
My mother was a USAF weather specialist and, a tornado chaser, when she was stationed at Tinker AFB back in the early 1980s. I got to go with her on a few chases. It was a blast.
Ah, yes....Midwest City, Oklahoma.
I hope not literally a blast
@@tonia.5861 It's IN Oklahoma City.
@@kathleenr4047 worked there for years and as it’s main gate is at 29th and Air Depot in Midwest City, those that live and work around there just make that connection. Technically you’re correct because North of 29th is Midwest City and South is annexed to OKC at least as far as Air Depot.
@@tonia.5861 Just sayin. It's in Oklahoma City. I used to live at Ft Campbell, Kentucky. The city smack next to it was Clarksville Tennessee. It's still IN Kentucky.
Do countries outside the US ever talk about the crazy hail we get here? Just curious. Where I grew up in Colorado had incredibly destructive hail storms. They would destroy cars, windows, rip the siding right off of houses, even strip trees of leaves and branches.
Just curious if storms like that happen in the UK or if I too live in a hellscape?
Also, giant forest fires and the resulting weather patterns they create.
Live in Maryland. Almost everything misses us, and I couldn't be gladder. But we have gotten hail the last few winters, and while ours is nothing like yours I cans e how it could easily be destructive. But you're right, people don't talk about it much!
Montana feels your pain
@@chip9177 us rocky mountain states got to stick together!
Here in Michigan we don't get hail nearly as bad as your region.
I thought that was a US thing too. Then I went to Melbourne, Australia. Three days into the trip, we got hit with a huge hailstorm.
I have a fear of going to Britain and being accosted by old men wearing tweed blazers, flat caps and demanding to know if I’m a Dickens Man.
That just sounds like the creative writing department at my university.
Sounds like a scene from "A Clockwork Orange".
@@starman6280 they wore bowlers
I'm scared of going and being arrested for thinking I still have free speech
That's my dream vacation!
"...you won't find them in libraries."
You can, under 796.
Well played, dog
A joke using the Dewey Decimal System, I am going to take a picture of this.👍. My sister once sent me a text with a bunch of numbers and said to disregard it as she just couldn’t find a pencil and needed to remember the numbers. I laughed and messaged back, asking why she was looking for books about health and sports. Never message a librarian call numbers because they will know what you are up to.
Conan, the Librarian now respects you.
@@endymallorn And my respects for a UHF reference
All roads lead to Weird Al.
When I visited England back in high school I thought I'd see Royal Guards everywhere with people constantly taking selfies with them or trying to get them to break concentration. Turns out they aren't just randomly posted on every other street corner 🤦♂️
When we visited England my wife worried that my army language, which tends toward the colorful, would offend someone.. Things were going swimmingly until we entered a fish and chip shop with our elderly tour guide, a WWII veteran, who commented that their appeared to be a group of German tourists dining in the corner. I replied “ don’t you like Germans ?” The answer was a very ungentlemanly and loud “f..k’m all”, followed by an equally loud “g.d.im” from an old gent behind the service counter.
@@stephenchapel2058 Fawlty Towers: The Germans
@@DurkMcGerk lol great one
I thought British policemen would all wear old-fashioned helmets and say, "What's all this, then?"
@@stephenchapel2058 When I visited Wales in 1990 I was introduced to an elderly Welsh WWII veteran, a friend of the family I was staying with. When he heard I was American he sat down across from me and stared hard at me without smiling. When he finally spoke, he practically yelled, "D-Day!" I was just trying to absorb this and think of a response when he said, "I'll. Never. Forget. The. Breakfast. I. Had. Real bacon! Eggs. Pancakes!" Another dramatic pause ensued and I now knew better than to reply before he was finished. Finally, he said while pounding on the table, "And it was All! Because. Of. You. Yanks!" All I could say was, "Was it?" And he went on to explain how he was somehow stationed with our 101st Airborne for the D-Day mission and they gave him the best breakfast he ever had and that it was likewise a peak moment fighting alongside them. I told him I was very glad to hear it!
I live in NYC. Jaywalking and crossing the street when the light is not in your favor, (as a pedestrian), is normal. In fact, the easiest way to spot a tourist is to see who stops when the signal says "don't walk."
In the Phoenix area and used to have Black Widows all the time in my yard, until we got chickens. They love Black Widows as snacks. Haven't seen any in a few years now.
I worry more about scorpions than black widows when I'm in Phoenix.
I'm 40, and I've only seen black widow spiders a few times here in S. Carolina, same with brown recluse, I've seen more eastern diamondback rattlers, and water moccasins then anything. Heck in my part of SC near the Savanna River we've even gotten gators wandering through town, and sunning themselves in people's yards having traveled a few miles to get to that sunny spot.
@@CommodoreFan64 We have the snakes in Texas, but most of us who don't live along the southern Louisiana border would probably shit ourselves if we encountered a gator. Though we do have wild boars, and those things get HUGE. RIP if you come across a mama with her babies
@@CommodoreFan64 up here in southeast Tennessee I’ve seen plenty of black widows. I see more copperheads than rattlesnakes, but I’ve come across plenty of monster rattlesnakes too.
I live in California and I can easily find black widows in my yard, but I'm not motivated to kill them unless they do something like settle around the doorbell.
They only come out at night, and killing them means getting close to them. The bug spray for "spiders" only paralyzes them for a few days.
This guy is hilarious! I’m glad this popped up randomly in my recommendations
True story: had a bunch of Brown Recluses at my old job. I put on a hat that had been sitting on the shelf. A few hours later after taking off said hat, a spider came dangling down from my hair. After freaking TF out, I looked down at said hat and found 1 living and 1 dead. 3 Brown Recluses. In my hat. For hours.
😟😨😱😱😱😱😱
Thanks, I hate it.
Are you sure that wasn’t the lookalike Introverted Hat Spider? They’re harmless.
My garage is full of black widows.... I don't give it another thought
@@SteveVi0lence usually they won’t bother you if you don’t bother them, and the bite isn’t lethal, but can be dangerous to children, the elderly or other immune compromised people, or if someone is allergic.
I had a couple of university roommates that were exchange students from the UK. They were talking about hiking around an unmarked trail. The conversation went something like:
"how many people are you taking with you?"
"Oh, just me."
"Uh... You _do_ realize there is a cougar warning around that trail, right?"
"But [American student] goes all the time by herself."
"Yeah but she has a concealed carry permit."
"Beg pardon?"
"She takes a handgun with her in case a cougar decides to attack. What do you do in the UK to protect against big predators?"
"Uh... The biggest predators we have are foxes and wild dogs."
"So... No bears or wolves or cougars or coyotes or pissed off deer/moose?"
"No! WTF?! Do you have that here?!"
"Well not the bears and wolves and moose, but my grandpa lives in Idaho and he has to watch out for bears and wolves. I think he takes a rifle with him when walking to the mailbox."
"America is scary."
"Pssh, just take a couple friends with you and you'll be fffffiiiine!"
I live in Rural MN, nothing in the woods scares me (though I usually have a lever-carbine with me.) - But Once a month I must drive to the Twin Cities...I got a carry permit, that's the REAL Jungle! (No not a racial thing, just thugs in general.)
Apparently I've been living your American nightmare. I grew up in southern Alabama, where you're likely to encounter both tornadoes and black widows with regularity. Then I moved to the pacific northwest and swapped the tornadoes for legions of hobo spiders, and a few extra black widows for good measure.
Oh, and the jaywalking thing is mostly a relic of the past, and only gets enforced by roid raging cops who get off on using their power. Much like tornadoes and black widows, it's not really something to worry about until you're the unlucky SOB who gets singled out.
You you think jaywalking isn't a sport? Really depends on where you live. "If you can dodge a car, you can dodge a ball."
In New Orleans it seemed to be a sport. People would just pop into the street from between cars, etc. Not wanting to be a murderer (even accidentally), it made me NERVOUS!
Dodge dip dive duck and dodge.
Welcome to Las Vegas, where even the police aim at careless pedestrians who foolishly use the crosswalks!
It's a sport in a Florida only the homeless must have balls of steel cause they just slowly walk out in the middle of traffic
*traffic
I live in Kansas and my old house is mostly held together with desiccated brown recluse corpses
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same
They have studied houses in that area that have literally hundreds of Brown Recluse cohabitating peacefully with human occupants. Turns out Brown Recluse spiders have very little to gain from biting humans except as a last ditch defense.
@@squintish Yeah we just ignore one another mostly
YOU TOOO? I thought mine was the only one, well that and piles of dust and cow manure that get blown in from the feed lots. Western edge btw.
I remember back when I worked at an airport I had a foreign guy come up to me and he pointed to our tornado shelter on site, and he was like, do..-do you guys actually use that?? I remember just being like, uhh, I mean, yes..? He was so genuinely worried about tornadoes so I had to explain that not only were they out of season, but most Midwesterners basically give no thought to them and a lot of times ignore the sirens. Like we have some bad ones every so often, like when Joplin, MO got straight leveled some years back, but that's like a once in a decade type event.
As far as recluses go, oh man Midwesterners also fear them but generally as long as you vacuum and actually use all the rooms in your house you wont have issues. However, I have heard stories of people just like, oh yeah had this spare bedroom that's never gone into and we moved the couch in there and there a massive nesting and like 50 brown recluses just chilling in there. True story btw.
But tbh even other Americans do exactly what you did, like people on the coast will be like, oh I could never live in the Midwest because Tornadoes are scary, or Midwesterners will be like, oh I could never live on the coast because of earthquakes and tropical storms. So don't feel bad, we do the same thing to each other.
I had a black widow in my garage at my previous residence but here's how spider's are bros: the generic house spiders killed it. I don't kill spiders unless they're being annoying or intrusive. Spiders are nature's insecticide (this is a joke since they're arachnids if you couldn't tell)... they eat the other things that you don't want to deal with (e.g. mosquitos, wasps, etc.)
If I find one around my home, I kill it because I have a toddler who might try to pick it up if she saw it.
@@sonicpsycho13 In my experience you'd be more worried about Brown Recluses -- Black Widow Spiders don't typically try to invade the home but I understand your opinion and caution. Be safe.
@@Avram42 I had a black widow that lived behind the toilet in my bathroom, her name was bobbie because she would stand at the top bobbing her head up and down while was in there.
yeah, I get a yearly brown recluse in my basement. Comes around when I get my yearly crickets. So many dead cricket bodies.
Yeah, I love long-legs spiders because they're so friendly and helpful. Also the fuzzy black wolf spiders are nice.
From the western US here, always thought of tornadoes as a regional thing (which I suppose is more accurate) so it's funny to hear that you attributed them to the nation as a whole. I never had to think about them a day in my life
A few years ago one touched down a few miles north of Sacramento. Caused some damage. They’ve also been seen in Long Beach. Plus waterspouts form off the coast sometimes. But the tornadoes, probably the F1 type, are an anomaly but they do occur.
@@christystewart4567 I'm in Idaho personally and I'm pretty sure we've never gotten anything more significant than, like, dust devils. If we have it was either a long time ago or brief
The sheer size of the US is something that a lot of people don't realize. California alone is larger than the entirety of the UK.
Technically there have been recorded tornadoes in every US state although obviously the vast majority happen in tornado alley
A lot of Europeans treat the US as a whole and act like the entire country is the same. The size of the US and differences between states are akin to different european countries than all being one country.
Laurence, I wonder how in the world you're able to make these amusing vlogs without breaking out into laughter in almost every sentence! You are such a funny gent!
This is nearly the whole reason I watch his videos, that slightly bent sense of humor.
Why do you think there are so many cuts in the video? ;-)
I grew up mostly in Florida, as that was where I was born. Us kids learned to avoid the spiders in the woods and our bedrooms. When turning over old logs, we watch out for rattle snakes and black widows. We saw a lot of them. Us kids running around in the woods and in our back yards (same thing), while our parents are doing other things, we just carefully move an old log or toy and say "I see a black widow" and we then put the log back down and go on our way. We might tell our parents. When we do, they say, "Well, be careful, just don't mess with that log." If we see a rattle snake, we tell our mother who gets a 20 gauge shot gun and goes out to shoot it. She didn't let us shoot it because we might miss it and just get it mad. We were around ten years old, so that was a good idea. Not that we didn't use the shot gun or rifle, we did, just not to shoot a rattle snake.
Your fear of spiders in the US sound similar to my fear of living in Australia. Too many venomous creepy crawlies for me to hypothetically live there!
Totally!!!! Like, why do so many Aussie things want to kill you? If it ain’t crocodiles, there’s snakes, if you miss the snakes, there are sharks. Don’t forget the spiders either. Never get in a fight with a male platypus. They play dirty... And pythons
I saw Black Widows, Brown Recluses and Tarantulas during My time in Arkansas! There were also a lot of Snakes! One time there was a Copperhead in the Outhouse!
@@BETTERWORLDSGT You say this like it’s surprising? I live with these creatures every day. Copperheads usually won’t kill you-not adults anyway. The venom is much less toxic than rattlesnakes.
@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 I don't want anything biting Me, poisonous or not, I shot several snakes during My time there, carried a Pistol out there in the Country! Not surprising stall, just telling the experience.
@@BETTERWORLDSGT My very liberal, feminist, pro-gun control philosophy professor would carry a gun with her when she mowed her yard. She called it her “snake charmer”, and blew off the heads of multiple snakes with it. I’m definitely not going judge you for protecting yourself.
Hahaha, you crossing your fingers while pushing up your glasses at 5:24 while saying you haven't encountered those poisonous spiders in 13 years was gold! Subtle, and awesome.
Should come to Southern California, black widows are all over the place, if I had to I'm sure I could go find one right now. They make their home in just about any dark place like sheds and the space under your house. I once was asked to clean out someone's cellar, there were literally dozens of them down there in webs all over the place, it was like something from a horror movie. I am not particularly afraid of spiders but I would go nowhere near it once I had a peek inside. There are also brown recluse spiders and you rarely see them because, as their name suggests, they are very reclusive. Generally, no one sees them until after they get stung by one.
I snorted with laughter at “the documentary about the witch that was killed by a tornado” 😂😂😂 I probably butchered his exact phrasing but that is the gist - still giggling
I worked at a Walmart one summer and they had this display that looked like a small smokehouse (think wooden frame and corrugated metal walls/roof) that they would use to display summer sausage and cheese. They stored it on the ground outside and asked a few of us to bring it in and set it up. That thing was covered in black widow spiders when we went to get it, but we just had to brush them off the best we could and bring it in to set up. Quite a few of them made the trip and lived happily in the middle of the deli.
When visiting Ireland and Scotland, I had an assumption that the Irish would be warm and chatty. WRONG! They were quite dour, unless it had to do with football.The Scots in Edinburg, however, were a kick!! We laughed so much more in three days than we had in the previous 16. I do want to go back to both places, but I look forward to Scotland more!
I've never been to Scotland but I visited Ireland and everyone was super friendly. The only guy who wasn't was a bouncer but even his attitude seemed "I'm brusk 'cause it's my job."
Never go to glasgow . I had a night out in Glasgow and lost 2 days
Totally agree Kristin!
Everyone we met in Ireland was incredibly warm and friendly! We stayed in a small village, so maybe that was part of it. 🤷♀️
@@hawthornandbear3664 Absolutely! People in Shannon were wonderful. It was odd in Dublin and Kerry. Even our final night at a castle hotel was a bit tense. I wanted a manicure. I went into the salon, which was empty. They told me that I needed an appointment when I booked my trip. Huh? I had to beg them for clippers so I could just trim the length off my nails. So unfriendly. I was happy to get into Scotland the next day.
I thought y'all might like to know, I saw 3 chickens cross the road the other day
My chickens cross the road at least twice a day. They always look both ways and have never been cited for jaywalking.
My chickens don't cross the road anymore. We keep them pinned up. Raccoons, stray dogs, lynx and foxes all think they are tasty.
Now thats intresting.did they say why?
@@daisysoup158 Sadly, they did not
The road into town, there was a family with some chickens free roaming.
Passed one chicken in the middle of the road one time. Had some tread marks on her feathers.
sometimes theres like...mini tornado alleys within tornado alley. my side of town has had at least 3 tornadoes in the last decade and is always stormy, but the other side of town barely gets a sprinkling of rain. how rude of mother nature😂
yeah, its weird. Where I am there are some good ol' thunderstorms throughout the warm months. About 90% of the damn things miss us, as if they saw our town and decided to dodge it. They are always all around us but hardly ever go overhead.
@@Skraeling1000 i wish that was me. last year my neighborhood was hunkering down because a tornado was ripping through and the people 25 minutes east didnt even get a storm ://// it tore my neighbors porch off :/// (they built a new one, nobody was hurt)
Tornadoes are very strange. A house can be flattened and the house next to it, untouched. Makes no sense.
Looked out the window once and couldn't see the house across the street through the rain. Not a drop fell in my yard.
There are now three Tornado Alleys. Climate change may be less to blame than better detection.
The first is the original in the Plains states. A second alley form in Mississippi during February.
The meanest would have to be Hoosier Alley, which is centered near Anderson, Indiana. Lawrence was lucky. Hoosier Alley is mean because Plains storms usually strike between mid-afternoon and sunset. Indiana tornadoes prefer stalking their victims at midnight. Plains tornadoes tend to be drier than Indiana tornadoes, which tend to get wrapped in precipitation so you don't know exactly where the tornado is.
I was living in Arkansas, at the time, when I was bitten, on the shin, by a brown recluse while mowing my yard. When the swelling was the size of a softball My wife took me to the ER, where the doctor agreed that it was a spider bite and that I should see my doctor tomorrow. I said it was hurting now and could he not do something about it.
He began administering the lidocaine, inserting the needle into the wound. As I am lying there trying not to kick the doctor from the pain, my wife tells me, "That's the pain shot." I responded by growling out, "IT'S WORKING!"
I still have my leg, so everything worked out.
Love you show!
When I lived in Wichita, KS, I used to see brown recluse spiders every so often. Mostly they hide under stuff in dark places though, so you don't see them even though they're there. Just don't blindly stick your hand in a shoe that's been in your closet for a while, and it'll be fine.
I lived in Andover KS for a couple of years in the early 00's, and that's about right, as my girlfriend at the time would tell me if I left a pair of shoes sitting too long in our closet to make sure, and shake them out just in case.
I've still never actually seen one, but when I was a teen, my stepmom nearly lost her leg one summer because she got bit in the camper.
Here in eastern Georgia they - WILL - chase - you. My cousin almost lost one of his feet to a brown recluse when the bite necrotized and split his foot in two down the middle from toe to heel. My dad also was bitten but we rushed him to the er in time for him to get a very expensive round of anti-venom before being admitted to the hospital for a series of anti-venom treatments that saved his life. In both cases, my cousin and my dad were unable to get away from the spiders which were actively attacking them, seemingly, for no other reason than their mere presence.
Typically, if a tornado flings you a mile away, you're not going to find yourself anywhere, ever again.
Except the afterlife, or possibly Florida if you believe in reincarnation AND going to hell.
Someone else will have to do the finding for you.
You mean I won't go to Oz?
@@LanMandragon1720 I don't think Australia is a viable landing point. I do hope you have your passport ready.
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I live in the Midwest and have seen one tornado in my life. Hailstorms are what make the weather a real pain, the damage to cars and the roof repairs. Nothing like hearing the the ka-thunk, ka-thunk, of softball size hailstones smashing cars in a parking lot.
Being inside, listening to the noise, looking up at the ceiling, saying, "oh, God, that sounds expensive..."
I lived 45 years in the Midwest and never saw a live tornado. The closest i came was the Xenia tornado in 1974, about 20 miles away. I was out paying with friends when the clouds turned a weird pea green color and our mothers yelled at us to go inside. Found out the devastation the next morning.
Some time in the 90s, a tornado touched down in the NE Cincinnati suburbs. Driving up I275, i saw one warehouse that was hit by the top of the tornado and it looked like someone had taken a scoop out of the building with a giant 100' wide ice cream scoop.
I’ve never seen a tornado but I grew up in Louisiana so I’m very used to hurricanes. Torrential rains and howling winds are just Tuesday for me.
i live in tornado alley, and, in terms of natural disasters, i feel safer there than on the gulf coast. tornadoes only devastate a very small path and are over in minutes, so getting hit is only a matter of being very unlucky. hurricanes fuck everything up, and sometimes force whole regions to evacuate.
Having lived in Missouri for most of my adult life, I never really experienced brown recluse spiders until I lived in the house I've been in for 10 years. And even that's generally just in the sense of seeing one in the summer every few months sitting in the bottom of my shower.
So far, fortunately, the closest call I've had was laying in bed one night, turning off the light and turning on the fan, then a few moments later feeling what felt like the breeze across my chest...except it was going the opposite direction of the fan's blowing, and only on one spot.
I quickly jumped up and flipped on the light, only to see the brown recluse on the floor next to my side of the bed. My general mercy didn't apply to this one, and he was promptly smashed. I've got a live-and-let-live mentality for them, where I'll trap them with a cup and move them outside...but once they crawl on me, the truce is broken.
This really surprises me because every apartment I've lived in in MO has had a problem with them. I used to find them in my bath tub and my lamp shades especially, all curled up dead.
Most likely was not a brown recluse. Lots of spiders resemble them.
Columbia is overrun with them. I've only been to Springfield about three times and every time I've had problems with them.
they're real common where i am, to the point that they don't bother me if i see them. i'll capture and release if i can.
some years we seem to have outbreaks of them. one time while living in a basement, they were particularly numerous. only time i ever got freaked out by them was when i woke up to the feeling of one crawling on my leg...inside my pants.
St. Louis native here. I remember mom shoving us into the basement ahead of the tornado. We thought it was fun. Black Widows? I used to collect them. Even other spiders are afraid of Widows. Hurricanes, tornadoes, widows, world wars, oh my. Guess there's a reason Americans are so resilient. Glad to have you here.
From North Georgia, was here when that EF4 tore through Rossville, and have killed at least around 20 recluses.
Born and bred Bostonian. Jaywalking here isn't a sport. It's an art form.
In the same way that Russian Roulette is an art form maybe!!! Boston and Downtown Manhattan are two places I Hate having to cross the street! LoL
I rode in a Van (Limo service) and the pedestrians actively looked like they were trying to get hit by the van. I swear I don't know how they didn't because none of the drivers even attempted to slow down. It was early in the morning so the vehicles were going at quite a good speed. I didn't notice the pedestrians so much in Boston. Probably because I was just terrified by the taxi cab I was in. The streets are narrow the driver took corners like one of those indoor rides that look like you are going to be hurled into the wall. Except with buildings.
@@MichaelOKC The trick in Manhattan is just to wait until there are enough pedestrians built up for the magic tipping point to be reached. Then the entire crowd jaywalks as one. It's a kind of extremely orderly and sedate mob rule.
Fun fact: Jaywalking is a crime that was created by the brand new auto industry in the early 20th century. Motorists weren't used to their newfound speed, and pedestrians weren't either. A lot of people got hit, and in order to save the burgeoning industry from lawsuits, jaywalking was declared a crime.
You can always tell the boston tourists by who waits for the lights 😂😂😂
My parents live in the country in Mississippi. While I was in college they had to get in the habit of spraying my room for brown recluse spiders before I came home for holidays because the brown recluses loved how no one would go in that room for months and decided to take it over.
I live in Texas and we have every spider you can think of in my backyard. My German Shepherd was bit on the paw by one and it literally almost destroyed his paw. You could see his bones in his paw from the flesh wound. You have to be aware of your surroundings no matter where you live.
I live in Oklahoma and am actually studying meteorology in grad school - so I've definitely seen tornadoes, caught a black widow in my house, and shaken brown recluse out of blankets put up for the winter. But all my friends from the coasts are equally freaked out by them, so it's not just a UK vs US thing!
Jaywalking is a crime that was created by the brand new auto industry in the early 20th century. Motorists weren't used to their newfound speed, and pedestrians weren't either. A lot of people got hit, and in order to save the burgeoning industry from lawsuits, jaywalking was declared a crime.
Its a sport in the uk ,see if you can get across the road with out getting run over
@@geoffpriestley7001 Same in Boston. Even if you cross on the corner, where you should (in the USA), cars don't give a shit. They go anyway.
@@DrVVVinK it's more also geared towards cities like LA, Newyork, small towns no one cares at lest now, i have been jaywalking for 20 years in my small town in u.s.
it makes sense with places with lots of people and cars though or main roads with high car count and speed
@@knightwolf3511 even in cities no one except bored cops care.
Another thing is that nobody wanted to do it because yes getting hit by a car isnt very fun and being called a Jay was something very offensive back then
Generally speaking, deadly spiders are good roommates. They're quiet, they keep to themselves, if you don't bother them, they don't bother you.
Yeah, the only two "dangerous" spiders I can think of in the US are brown recluses and black widows. Black widows are cobweb spiders and you might even have them chilling in your house without even knowing (depending on where you live, that is.) They're also far more likely to simply run away from you than be aggressive and attack you, and even then, bites are never really fatal unless you're a small child. Brown recluses will pretty much only bite you if they feel threatened by you and the only way they're even going to be in a position to bite you is if you're handling it or it's inside your clothes or something. We might have some really big spiders here, but that's all they are. Big. Not dangerous enough to do any real damage to you.
I have lived in the south my entire life, I have encountered sooooooooooooooooooooo many brown recluses.
North Louisiana has so many. I was always terrified of walking around near the lakes.
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Same here, anytime go to my shed I am sure I could find several, but as long as you don't bother them chances are they will not bother you. Though there was that one time I was bitten by one, the bite drained puss and necrotic tissue for several days. Strangely enough it happened in a motel room at a Holiday Inn, apparently the brown recluse was hiding in or around the bed, in a room that judging by the stale smell was rarely used..
I've seen a fair few of them, but never got close enough for them to bother me. I'm not exactly scared of them, and they're relatively normal, but I have a healthy respect for the amount of damage they can do. Same reason we stayed indoors for the night if we ever heard a coyote when I was a kid.
Grew up in the bay area, we had on average about 70 earthquakes a week (mostly small ones) but I grew up in a trailer that would start rolling (just a little bit) everytime the earth started shaking. You begin to ignore anything under a magnitude 5 real quick.
My brother was bitten by a brown recluse that had gotten in his bed. They pretty much treated it like a staph infection with strong antibiotics. Jaywalking -the way of life on a college campus 🤣
I didn't even know I got bit until after I got treated and they tested what they took out my arm the next week 😭I just showed this fast growing purple bump to my doctor and after a minute of looking at it she immediately went to the other room to get the needles ready lmaoo 🤣
@@jellyfishes800 My brother’s was almost the same. At first they thought it might have been MRSA but my dad found the spider in his bed. Now my dad thinks every spider is a brown recluse 😂🙄
@@loriwilson4933 omg I would've probably been permanently scarred if someone actually found that spider in my bed.💀💀 A few years after I got bit, I lost a (non poisonous) spider when it fell on my bed after trying to capture them and I slept on the couch for the rest of the week.🤣
Unfortunately my dad was bit by one... he had a crazy scar on his knee from the aftermath of the bite. Bit the upper side of his knee and had a huge scar there but also a scar on the lower part where they put a drain to help flush all the dead stuff. Seriously the pictures were horrible!
They treat it like a staph infection because 99.999% of "spider bites" are just an infection from something else the person didn't notice. Actual spider bites that need medical attention (in the US) are very very rare, especially compared to other injuries of unknown origin that get infected.
I have a good friend from the Filipinos who told me , laughingly, that when her mom first brought them to the United States when she was around seven, due to endless rumors back home she really expected to see roads made of gold and movie stars walking everywhere as soon as she departed the plane. Woah! It blew my mind that people coming to the US think things like that but I guess I can see why they might due to false rumors in their community. Nowadays though a person only has to go on RUclips to see what’s what in another country.
I’ve received a ticket for jay walking California, encountered a tornado Kentucky and Wyoming and come within sight of each one of those spiders in various states. Your fears aren’t unfounded 😂
California was the place that came to mind when talking about jaywalking. I don't know just how common tickets for jaywalking are in California but it's certainly the only state where I know it happens.
North Florida here. We have a small farm, and we have black (and brown) windows AAALLL over. We always have to check under water trough and bucket lips before picking them up. Once I even picked up a lead rope that I hadn’t used in a while, and there was a bunch of brown widow egg sacs in it. Just last week, I brought in some shoes that had been sitting on the back porch for a while and stuck them on top of the washing machine to wash. When I went back to move the laundry and get the shoes started, there was a black widow casually hanging out in my husband’s shoe. 😮 We have bears, coyotes/coy mixes, aggressive stray dogs, Florida panthers, foxes, and wild hogs. Earlier in the year, my old man horse passed away from long-standing heart issues. Buried him in the back pasture, as deep as we could with a rented backhoe. Some very large animal dug part of him up twice, even with a thick layer of rocks over him. It was nuts. I toss a rifle onto the ATV whenever the kids and I go to the back pastures.
We also have lots of venomous snakes (in my locale is 2 kinds of rattlesnakes, coral snakes, cottonmouths, and rarely copperheads, as we are slightly outside of their tiny range). I’m not really scared of venomous snakes, as they don’t want anything to do with you either. I’m mostly nervous about my kids coming across pygmy rattlesnakes, as I did twice as a kid. Close calls.
Gators in every body of fresh water, sharks in the salt water (3 people were attacked in one day, about an hour and a half from me recently). Highest rate of lightning strikes in the USA (a friend was struck last year and survived, and there was a strike fatality at my high school years ago, my old band director was the first on the scene). Crazy tourists on their way to Disney World, and snowbirds driving down from up north. It gets hairy here, in addition to the sun trying to murder us every summer (+90% humidity).
We survived a direct hit from a cat 5 hurricane (Michael) a few years ago that destroyed my home, my parents’ home, my grandmother’s home, and severely damaged many friends and family member’s homes. Before Michael, I’d been through at least a dozen hurricanes in my life. Walking around during the eye was always fun, and I even drove to my boyfriend’s house during the eye of one once as a teenager. 😂 Going through a cat 5 kind of takes the fun out of it though.
We are also one of the top markets for tornadoes now. LOTS of tornadoes here. Thankfully, we don’t have those F4-5 monsters here.
Maybe just don’t come to Florida, and you’ll be safe! 😂
We may have deadly deadly spiders, but the UK has Piers Morgan.
Are you in Australia?
You have a point, an idiotic one but a point....
Piers Morgan can be scared off with a rake. At least there isn't a colony of him in my basement.
@@Night-zn4ew he’s right about the Harkles though.
Is it bad that I only just got the "Why did the chicken cross the road joke?" after 31 years of life? 😕
@Conner Wine I finally got it, hahaha.
What do you call a fly without wings?
A walk....
Here's my spider story: I was born and raised in Oklahoma. A few years ago, Spring was coming which means time to clean the tornado shelter and get it stocked for tornado season. It was an outdoor underground shelter with three or four metal steps. I open the door, walk down the steps with my head down (because I'm watching the steps). When I step onto the floor and lift my head up, there was a black widow hanging about two inches in front of my nose. Man...If I had done anything different, I could have actually had a black widow on my face. Ugh, it stills gives me chills thinking about it.
@Olivia B Norman, OK had a bad hail storm a few days ago. You should check out some of the videos. I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
@@ValsLife1 black widow spiders are no big deal. I have one living under my back porch. 👍
@@ValsLife1 Have 2 vehicles that got hit, one was totaled (can't say I'm surprised, 5k car) and the other had $3800 in damage. Wish I had a garage
Couldn't help but notice how the two maps you showed reveals that tornado alley is very similar to brown recluse territory. I especially noticed since southern Missouri where I live is right in the heart of both! I've taken shelter from several tornadoes and a couple have done damage in my neighborhood, but I've never actually seen one. I wish I could say the same for Brown Recluses - despite their name, they are seen all the time around here and it is terrifying, to be honest. In my nearly fifty years, though, I've only ever seen four black widows - two outside and two indoors. I actually find them less frightening than Brown Recluses - although they are still pretty scary.
Alabama here, my mom was bitten by a brown recluse when she was 19. She was a teller at a bank and it bite her on her ankle. Long story short, she felt pain but never saw the spider. She finished her shift and went home even though she wasn’t feeling well. Ended up in the ER. She had to have all the flesh removed down to about the bone. Pretty crazy looking wound about the size of a quarter.
Also, I’ve seen 2 tornados in my life. One being the 2011 tornado in Tuscaloosa. Nothing is as scary yet astonishing.
havn't seen a tornado yet, but have been thrown into the basement by my parents a million times while they stayed upstairs to treat it like its a spectator sport. Well now I am grown and can do the same...still no official sightings.
I have been bitten by a brown recluse spider. I wound up with a hold in part of my skin. I had plastic surgery
That was mismanaged. I've been bitten at least 8 times. The first time the emergency room doctor gave me a steroid shot and benadryl. It went away within an hour. Then after that, they just told me to take Benadryl. I get a small welt that gets the necrotic black spot in the center, but it heals up without leaving a mark. No scar.
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I’ve seen some really nasty brown recluse bites, they are terrifying. I’ve noticed brown widows are becoming more prevalent in my area in the past few years. I find them in my mailbox, on the bottom part of my handrail to get to my front door, on my steps to my front door, literally everywhere surrounding my entrance into my house. I haven’t pissed any of them off enough to get bitten yet so I don’t know how severe the bite is from one of them yet.
Knew a teenager who was bit by brown recluse during a camping trip. Luckily he was bit on his derriere, as he had a bad reaction with significant necrosis. If he'd been bitten in a less fleshy area, like wrists or ankles it would have cut off the blood supply and cost him a hand or a foot. Very painful.
I got bite by one too.Ended up with a huge draining welt for 6 weeks which required IV antibiotics for the next weeks too. I blame the Republicans......
I'm in TN and our dorms always had some sort of bug issue, but my room in particular had several brown recluses pop up over the years and I was the one who took care of spiders because my roommate was arachnophobic. One memorable instance was a recluse climbed out of the sink drain and I had to pull it out with tweezers and throw it out the window.
I live in Louisiana and see a Black Widow fairly often, probably once every 2 weeks or so. They're usually chill as long as you're not messing with them
Hell, I was born here and the thought of tornadoes and spiders still give me the willies...and I'm probably older than you. Don't get complacent!! That's what they're waiting for!
Hahaha! 🤣🤣🤣 that’s what I they are waiting for!
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I was thinking the same concerning spiders .. when you least expect one...there it is!
Exactly!! Lol That's freaking legit. You'll be like my Grandma and put on a bedroom shoe one day and almost lose your foot to a brown recluse bite. ALWAYS check your shoes.
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My dad was actually ticketed for jaywalking (way back in the 80s or 90s). He was living in Los Angeles at the time, and was crossing with a bunch of other people. A cop yelled at him to stop, so he did. When he got the ticket, he asked why only he was ticketed when there were a bunch of people crossing, and the cop simply said "Because you were the only one that stopped."
7:37 the closest I got to being in trouble for jaywalking, is I jaywalked in view of cops and they just blow a whistle at us.