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I love how the joke about the person who lives in Romania having not seen a single vampire in the 700 years they’ve lived there just completely flew over Evan’s head.
That was CLEVER
I actually had to stop and think about it for like a solid minute right now before I understood the joke. It flew over my head when I was watching the video
i don’t think it did
I loved the *whoosh* it made
@@b1g_m00n More like a flappy fluttering sound of leathery wings in the dark.
But vampires don't really "lived"
did Evan miss that the Romanian said they had lived there for 700 years? they were making the joke that THEY were the vampire
wooooosh
I wondered if anyone else would comment on that, lol. Except... Was it a joke?
@@tomnicholson2115 we'll never know...
@@riannaf927 the irony
Maybe they have had problems with mirrors, disallowing them to see vampires?
As a black person, when I went to Nigeria to visit family, you wouldnt believe the number of people asking me if I rode giraffes etc. the only animals I even saw were dogs, chickens, and a goat. Once, my brother even told someone he was from Wakanda and they believed him
My mom had a pet monkey as a child. She has never left America. What’s African people’s excuse for having boring pets?
cause satire/sarcasm is everything now and people genuinely believe it
@@jude8067 In America they apparently don't learn enough to know the difference. Evan said that (in German)
@@jude8067 In America they apparently don't learn enough to know the difference. Evan said that (in German)
@@annnee6818 yeah, i know that’s how i realized once i was 14 that i needed help and science was literally keeping me sick, bc it was saying there was ‘nothing wrong’ since i’m vaccinated, and have a history i can base things off of, sent me into a midlife style crisis when i’m 18 😅
"We're all sad, there's no sun, there's always snow"
Evan: "Finland?"
Me (a Finn): Finland?
E:"Russian."
Me: Oh yeah, it was about stereotype that was not true.
😂😂😂
Bwoah
Isn't Finland counted as the happiest country in the world?:0
@@lore5080 yes because all the sad people kill themselves, there are a lot of suicides in Finland
@@areswalker5647 Damn that was dark.
Evan lists all of the dangerous things he saw in Australia.
Australians: “But did you die though?
Common misconception, Australia simply wants to MAIM you, not kill you as many people say, why the gimpie gimpie or platypus venom
The sun here will kill you before the animals do.
@@k-leb4671 Or the Milat's🤭
When Evan called the pope Italian, I could hear Argentines all over the world crying.
it is our one chance to be mentioned in his video and he ignores us lol
I came straight to the comments to see if anyone mentioned that, come on Evan😂
@Redheaded Stranger I though Argentinians are the ones that don't cry. There is even a song.
Although tbf the Pope was born into an Italian-Argentine family.
Yup, he made a lot of mistakes in this video.
The Pope doesn't even live in Italy.
Ah yes I love the capital of Brazil São Paulo.
**Brasilia cries in the distance**
FRICK I thought I cut that bit out. Haha. I had actually said "isn't the capital Sao Paolo" earlier and cut it out, but had to google and wow genuinely hadn't heard of Brasilia OOP
@@evan Brasilia is like built completely as a government district, it's a bit like Washington DC. almost all government or government-related
Fun fact: Brazil is called Braziliya in Bulgarian... also their capital :)
American here, I honest to God thought when I was little that the capital was New York since every other country has their capital as their biggest city
There were three countries I always got the capitals wrong as kid for. I always thought the capital of the US was New York, capital of Brazil was Rio and the capital of Australia was Sydney. I think because these are probably the most famous cities in each country so you just assume it’s the capital because that’s the way it is with most European capitals. The ones, as a European, I was always most familiar with.
Hello and welcome back to a man joking about getting the capital of Brazil wrong while also simultaneously getting the capital of Brazil wrong...
Ele vai pro gulag
Is that the way of kings on your profile pic?
brasilia
That's what you get for calling the country Brazil and the capital Brasília.
@@omega1231 Mexico’s capital is Mexico City, same goes for Panamá and Guatemala, so pretty common in Latam 😂
Between São Paulo not being the capital of Brazil and Pope Francis not being Italian, it can be said this wasn't one of Evan's brightest moments
Also saying the Blarney stone isn't real. ;)
*Brasilia cries in the distance*
He is still American....
Americans tend to call a person who has Italian parents (or grandparents, or even great great great grandparents) Italian, even if the person in question is born in the US, Argentina or somewhere else themselves. Pope Francis dad, and maternal grandparents, was from Piedmont, Italy.
@@Asa...S Americans do a lot of stupid things, doesn't make it more right though. If someone grew up in Argentina, and identifies himself as Argentinian, then they are Argentinian. It's not too complex. I also highly doubt that Evan was aware of Pope Francis's family background, I believe he just went off the though process that the Pope lives in Italy (which is also pretty wrong, as the pope resides inside Vatican City, which is not considered Italy by any stretch). He screw up, no need to cover him on it.
My new favourite thing to do when Americans tell me about how Irish they are (sometimes they try to explain "Irish" culture to me, an Irish person) is to start talking to them as gaeilge. The look on their face is priceless😂
awww, are you being mean to your eighth cousins?
Haha, that's mean. My OH is Irish, a Cassidy and he can't speak it. Neither did his dad who grew up there.
omg so many don't even know Gaeilge is a language lol.
It's so fucking irritating
Heheheh, serves them right.
Contrary to popular belief, Brits do not kill off those who do not like tea - it's the only reason I'm still alive
We just haven't found you yet.... 😉
@@rhilou32 😬👀🏃🏻♀️💨💨💨
@@artifexi3570 run.
did you just get exiled then?
I do however find significant social ostracisation occurs when you choose not to own a kettle...
i have a friend from oklahoma who told me that he didn't know italy was real until last year. HE'S 17. HE THOUGHT ITALY WAS JUST MADE UP FOR TV SHOWS AND MOVIES I-
This comment made my day 😂
I also grew up in Oklahoma and I thought that about gay people. Oklahoma is a sheltered place to grow up, ok? 😅
Why... why would that be made up? Such a weird assumption to make.
@@ecocentriclife the same reason people think that wakanda IS a real place. Misinformation
i know a kid who argued with me for twenty minutes that they speak Spanish in Italy, and that Italian isn't a thing... I'm half Italian, and my granparents are fluent in the Italian language. We were in 11th grade. Thanks FL education system.
Given that Igloo is the word for home in many inuit languages, unless you're homeless, you live in an Igloo, even you Evan.
I learned something new today, thanks!
As far as I know about the history of Greenland, before people started living in modern wooden cabins, it was more common to live in turf huts, than for people to live in igluvijait.
Ahh, so I guess the girl who thought Polish people lived in igloos was right afterall. I don't know, dude, she must have thought I was way more interesting than I am until she found out it was actually hot in the summer there.
@@bookraccoon closest to poland I've been is Berlin in October, even in shorts that was torture for me!
One minor correction, you are using Inuit wrong. Inuit is actually the name off a specific group of circumpolar people. Not every circumpolar person is an Inuit, there are also the Yupiks (they are the ones living in Alaska and Russia). People should really stop using Inuit as a word for circumpolar people.
My parents are from Bogotá, Colombia and they came to the US in the early 90s. Someone asked my mom if she used to live in “a treehouse in the jungle.” The person who asked was their landlord, who also expressed surprise that my mother knew how to use a telephone and computer. She’s a software engineer with a Masters in computer science.
What.... how do people like that have the brain capacity to become landlords?
Crazy! Although the steriotype about Colombians here is more that they are all in drug cartels
@@dasy2k1 Yeah, that’s true. I’ve had my fair share of people ask me for marijuana or cocaine when they find out where my family’s from, even though I look like a combination of the pillsbury doughboy and the net average of all clipart that comes up when you search “nerd” on Google Images.
I'm more surprised he didn't ask them if they were drug lords
So disappointed that "America is a free country" wasn't one of the myths mentioned :P
I feel it’s more of a non-serious, light hearted type of answers that the OP who asked that are required, unless the question has a *serious* flair above the AskReddit question. Though if it were serious, that would be a good answer, but it’ll have a lot of reactions.
Probably because the Americans think it's true and not a myth.
Americans themselves are the only ones who believe that.
America has its share of drawbacks but it's freer than a lot of countries in Europe, maybe all of them depending on your definition.
@@joebob2293 Depends on if you're looking at positive or negative freedoms.
"Romania. Many people believe we have vampires, but in the *_700 years of living_* here. I haven't even seen one."
Seems a little suspicious 🤔
He's a lich.
He ain't a vampire if hes still living. Nothing sus here
No shit sherlock?
Nah I can attest to it I've not seen one for a millennia.
Not every immortal being a vampire 🙄🙄 Stop misrepresenting the immortal beings community it offends us
About South Korea being big drinkers, when I lived there I learned the culture is that you shouldn't refuse a round of drinks from your boss, and since after-work meals are pretty common all the employees will get drunk with their boss a lot (some places do it almost every work day). People don't really go to bars and just drink there, you drink while eating and just keep ordering more stuff and more drinks.
Thankfully I didn't have to do that since I don't drink but yeah, often we'd go out for a meal with most of the staff and I'd be surprised at how much they put down, and I'm from Scotland.
Which is probably why he was thinking of Japan, since both countries seem to share that aspect of company drinking.
but in reality the answer is Russia
@@PlaceboEllie Russia, Finland, Norway, Poland, Ireland, UK etc. in these countries people drink much more rarely than for example in Spain or Italy, but when they do drink they drink until pass-out drunk. But it doesn't add up to "beat" the warm countries where people sip wine to every non-breakfast meal. Except for Ireland I guess.
According to the WHO it’s Belarus, Lithuania then South Korea with the Czechs and Russians close behind.
As an anti-alcoholic who loathes the taste, smell, and side effects of alcohol overall, now I want to cancel my plans to visit Korea or all the other countries mentioned in this thread...
7:00 There was an episode of Peppa Pig banned in Australia because it was written for a British audience where the moral of the story was that spiders aren't dangerous... Not a very appropriate show for the kids down under
I've seen that episode (I have arachnaphobia so I was terrified the whole time)
Spider-Man movies are dangerous in Australia. I had to explain to my nephew several times that getting bitten by a spider won’t give you magic powers.
Funnel-Web Spiders are one of the reasons I don't want to live in Sydney.
@@k-leb4671 I'm 33 lived in Sydney all my life never seen one.
I hate that Canada has a reputation of “perfectly accepting” and “can do no wrong”... we still have SO MUCH discrimination and racism (especially towards indigenous people) but it mostly flies under the radar internationally because of the reputation...
I was born and raised in Canada and I completely agree.
It gets out occasionally, especially now that Kamloops has become public knowledge. I know I am not directly responsible, but the attitudes of the British at the time have left some nasty legacies. The same thing happened in Australia. The common thing with both? The British. I'm a Brit btw.
A good friend of mine is Canadian and she's absolutely lovely, but we've had to take a break bc her hatred for the US and all of the ppl here has been off the charts and I seem to trigger it just by texting hello. I completely understand where she's coming from, but also I'm a person here. Idk what to say... so I say nothing.
@@bodyofhope why does she hate America tho?
I used to believe this myth until I married a Canadian. I’m now divorced.
I mean... In French we literally have a slur that refers specifically to Parisians. "Parigot" is an insult and we absolutely use it as soon as someone who didn't grow up in Paris but moved there (for college for example) starts acting too parisian.
**Evan drops phone, briefly turns into a squeaky dog toy** ... I'm laughing so hard I have hiccups now. lol
Ha ha, yep, girly squeak nailed!!
That part was hilarious🤣
he sounded a bit like Mickey Mouse xD
I came looking for a comment along these lines. I spat my beer out when he squealed, especially as it got higher pitched as it went on.
When does he do that? Lol I think I missed it
I was 8 months old when the Berlin wall fell. Was born in the GDR. I went to Australia in the early 2000s and people asked me what it's like over here in our divided Germany. And people asked if we had enough food, electricity and so on. I was so amused at how they apparently hadn't heard the news 😅
Yes, I met an Irishman there who took against me because I was English, and couldn't understand my insisting that the Irish and the English get on fine together. I was married to one at the time! (My new partner is Irish as well)
@@Lily-Bravo Yeah we get on well with the English now, just don't tell Sinn Féin *shush*
@@Lily-Bravo Since when did the English and Irish get on? Not in my lifetime! Nor many centuries before it.
@@dcarbs2979 I grew up living next door to an Irish family. They were my best friends. My best friend at College was Irish, I flat shared with another Irish girl, I married an Irish man and am now 20 years into another relationship with an Irishman. None of them have ever felt any animosity from the English. That is my experience of normal non extreme people.
To be fair, at school (Hessia) we had geography books that were so old, Germany was still devided
I’m Welsh - for years there has been a myth basically taking the piss where we tell people “popty ping” is “microwave” in Welsh. It’s literally so wrong but people genuinely believe it - it’s hilarious
"pysgod wibli wobli" always makes me laugh too 😂
(I went to uni in Wales)
I've lived in Wales most of my life and whenever I've found myself in England I get this from the "Saes" XD
I was taught by my Welsh teacher that microwave was popty ping, only to find out from my fluent friend that it's not
You can definitely blame Russell Howard for that 😂😂
ITS NOT!!!???
im from NZ and one time my family went to Los Angles and spend 20 minutes explaining that we are not Australian but kiwi and that NZ is no were near Africa, she ended up thinking NZ and Aussie are the same country 🤦
Don't feel bad. I'm from New Mexico (a state in the US) and people all over the US think we're part of the country of Mexico. (Asking why our English is so good, saying they can't do international shipping, etc.) If we can't even get our own geography right it's no surprise we can't get other countries right either.
@@danieljensen2626 The actual fuck man
Izzy b Ellen why do New Zealanders call themselves kiwi? Genuinely curious. I’ve never been to the country
@@Casualobserver3656 I think it is New zeland's national bird, or at least endemic to NZ
@@Casualobserver3656 honestly no clue, they are our native bird and it sounds nicer then new Zealander haha
"Everyone hates the Parisians"
As a Parisian... me too
I love that scene in Bienvenue chez les ch'tis where he desperately asks "Paris?! Tell me it's not Paris!" when they're discussing where he's being transferred. Like, is it that much worse than Lyon?
I had quite good experiences as an Australian tourist attempting French. Even the guy in the Louvre cafe was very friendly. Supermarket cashiers didn't speak much but that is the same in any huge city.
@@tl8211 Well, to be honest, we see Lyonnais like they are just the parisian of the east.
In a hurry, mean, proud, ignorant and quite racist. But the food is better.
Maybe it's a big city type of situation, but near Lyon we have Geneva in Switz and... You will never believe me, people are so nice !!! Even to French, that they hate !
And Genevian have a reputation among switzerland to be the Parisian of Switz. But again, switz people are like the canadian of Europe.
@@newbris Yes. As a Tourist most of places are amazing arround the world, its not the same live there your everyday life
everytime evan says "the italian state of new jersey" i die a little more inside
as someone from nj it is a quite accurate running joke tho,,, but agreed
Why?
@@bobbioleary1266 ehhh I guess if you live up north or south perhaps. The middle parts don't have that many italian people.
And when he makes assumptions Italian people.. ya know, from Italy.. based on his experiences in Jersey. Just no, dude.
@@julesnatural I know
Greenland supposedly got its name from Erik the Red, a Viking who was exiled from Iceland for murder. Therefore he founded the first Viking settlement in Greenland and called it Greenland to make it more appealing for new settlers.
I believe there was similar thought behind the naming of Titty Hill in Sussex
100% true
And fun fact, his son, Leif Erikson, was one of the first Europeans in North America
No according to the sagas he named it Greenland for good luck, there isn't any historical evidence that he wanted to attract more settlers.
Greenland was green a long time ago. Core sampling has revealed earth way down below the ice. While some of you have chosen to cut and paste Wikis entry about Erik the red, here is a bit from further down "Interpretation of ice core and clam shell data suggests that between 800 and 1300 AD, the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a relatively mild climate several degrees Celsius higher than usual in the North Atlantic,[40] with trees and herbaceous plants growing, and livestock being farmed. Barley was grown as a crop up to the 70th parallel.[41] The ice cores indicate Greenland has had dramatic temperature shifts many times over the past 100,000 years" So Erik was there when it was green.
we don't kill people for making tea wrong. We hold an entire assembly about it at school...
If someone says they don't want tea, don't force them to have tea
If someone is unconscious they do not want tea
@@smifull even if they first say they want tea, and then decline the tea DON'T GIVE THEM TEA.
@@ellaf3877 If someone is asleep, don't force the tea into their throat!
unconscious people can't answer the question, 'do you want tea?' ...because they're unconscious.
I remember seeing this awareness thing or what ever its called and thinking "this isn't going to translate well for us British"
Tea is a cure for everything. Fact. Someone is unconscious. Forget CPR. Just pour tea down their throat. That's why teapots have a spout.
Even as a woman I understand that on occasion people will decline my sexual advances. That's ok that's their choice and I never give it a second thought. Someone refuses my offer of making them a cup of tea, I die a little inside. At 1st I wonder what is wrong with them. Then I start to question if theres something wrong with me! Or god forbid I make bad tea! I usually end up spiralling in a pit of dispare. A deep depression that I just can't see a way out off. Until someone makes me a cup of tea then I can suddenly see a light at the end of the tunnel
When my parents were looking for a house to buy in France there were genuinely people who said they didn't mind selling their house to an English couple because at least they weren't Parisian.
From what I have witnessed personally from Parisians is that they look down the nose at the non Parisian French. I knew a French exchange student at University, I referred to her as being French. She looked at me in horror and flared her nostrils and practically screamed at me "I am not French, I am Parisian" at me. I slowly stepped away. My first experience of what Parisians thought of the rest of the French.
Prawns are not just another name for a shrimp they are two different animals, yes they are closely related but one is usually found in salt water while the other in fresh.
Whilst technically true, Brits and Aussies will tend to call both species prawns.
@@MrVisualHigh Aussies definitely make a point of distinguishing between the two.
4:42 Evan, the capital of Brasil is also not Sao Paulo. It's Brasilia.
As a high schooler I got yelled at by an elderly French man in Austria while I was trying to collect donations for charity as part of a service project I was doing as a student ambassador (I’m American). I apparently conjugated a verb wrong and that in his mind legitimizes yelling at a 16 year old in the middle of a public square. I was just trying to ask him if he wanted to donate. The whole situation was very “Karen”. At least I was trying to communicate with him in his language. We weren’t even in France.
I've been to Brussels and there was a Frenchman who didn't speak English.
So, my dad tried in French, which he speaks fairly decently. The man muttered he didn't have time for us and walked off.
We were late for an appointment and the TomTom had broken down. When he walked off, I started crying (I was 14) and yelled; 'Please sir! We are late, we need help!'
After a few steps he turned around and said in perfect English; 'Oh alright, fine, where do you need to go?'
Luckily he helped us, but I was baffled by the fact he did this. When I told people online, later on, a Frenchman responded with; 'That's not rude, he just didn't want to help tourists, I would've done the same.'
@@Widdekuu91 I think people in cities with a lot of tourists can be a bit like that.
I think it could happen in Amsterdam as well.
@@rogerwilco2 for sure- i know that asking locals in london directions is dangerous: there's no telling where they'll send you.
be glad if people *only* decline to help, instead fo sending you miles out of your way to some godforsaken pit.
that said in my experience it's only older french folk who act like everyone should speak flawless french or not speak at all, while i was working in france & trying to improve my french the main issue i had was that french folk'd hear my accent & insist on speaking english to me so they could practice...
Well, there's a little rural town in italy where i go in summer and many french go there too, they always act like they're above everybody and sometimes have absurd request like "we come here every year, you should write your street sign and every shop sign in french before and italian after" (note, this town in located in mid italy, far from the french border). The audacity some people have is really surprising.
Tbf I don't know if they're parisian french or non-parisian french.
@@Widdekuu91 I was told by a fellow Australian, if a Parisian rebuffs a "Parlez vous anglais?" with a "Non!" then quickly follow it with a "Parlez-vous australien?". Tried it in Paris and got a laugh and some help in English - I mean Australian :)
8:03 I like how whenever people make lists of different countries there's either no African country or people refer to the whole continent as if it were one country
Nobody really learns about Africa unless they choose to. Nothing to do with Africa is taught in schools (not in my experience anyway) other than everyone in Africa is poor (which is bullshit, there's some pretty rich people there) and there's a couple pyramids that are a few thousand years old. That's the sum total of our education 😂
i genuinely dont think i was taught that africa wasnt a single country until like 8th grade and even then it wasnt touched upon in detail, but just given some like fill in the countries coloring page. The way africa is briefly taught in american schools treats africa as one country
Even in my country we aren't taught that much about the differing countries of Africa, and we're very close. We do know some out of sheer osmosis due to the nearness, but other than that... Italy has done some really, really horrible things to Libya as a nation, for example, but it gets barely mentioned at all. It's honestly shameful.
Besides Morocco and Egypt, but yeah. Too be fair though, I don't know much about the different cultures of African countries either.
Yes, it's really sad. That is one of the many topics I really want to learn about more.
In Switzerland, we learnt a few things about the history, mostly the parts linked to Europe, and our history teacher in high school teached us about the Rwanda genocide and the history of that region, which was probably one of the best history lessons of my life because that teacher was amazing.
To be honest, I think most people's history classes teaches mostly about their history and their part of the world. I learnt alnost nothing about America or Asia either.
BUT WE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CONTINENT AND A COUNTRY 😂😂
New Zealander here, and I have no idea what that person was talking about. It's all sheep everywhere here. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a city-dweller. As rural folk, I know better
They've been replaced with cows
Dairy dairy dairy
When people find out you're from Wales they always ask: Can you pronounce that really long place name?- What, you mean Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwerndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch? I will instead direct them down the road to other places such as Dwygyfylchi, Rhoscefnhir or Pernhyndeudraeth
My Welsh uncle lived in Llanfairpwll... (for short), many years ago and taught me how to say it. It’s the only Welsh place name that I’m totally confident in pronouncing.
Just watching English people say Llanelli is amusing. But it's fun disappointing people who ask for the train station saying LlanfairPG 😂
That Romanian vampire joke completely went over Evan’s head 🤦♀️
As bats tend to do.
Dude, Gympie Gympie is insane; people and animals have been reported to have killed themselves to escape the pain, including the guy who accidentally wiped his ass with it
well he should of made tea with it.....on second thoughts ouch
Australian here, I had no idea this plant even existed!
I'm not convinced that the guy accidentally wiping his ass with it is a true story (though I do see it mentioned variously across the web). It occurs to me that had he picked a leaf to wipe his ass with, then he would have been stung on the hand first and already known it was painful before it reached his ass. Alternatively I suppose it is possible that he didn't pick the leaf at all, by what sort of odd person wipes their ass on a leaf that is still in situ on the plant?
Are these things like nettles on steroids or something?
@@theodoreyoungman2111 Pretty much. Also an accurate description of the people from the town of Gympie.
Ecuador here, people think we either live in the Amazon forest or in the mountains, in fact there are cities. Even the galapagos have cities
A sad Dutch myth: a lot of people think we're super tolerant and open because we were the first country to legalise same sex marriage and we've also had weed being available in shops for years.
Sadly this is far from reality, our weed laws are currently far behind many US states and some other countries, and discrimination against LGBT people has been on the rise
My family is Slovak. My great great grandmother came over during the Austrio-Hungarian Empire, but Slovaks existed way before that. Even when Czechoslovakia existed my family referred to themselves as Slovak.
I'm like "Why is Evan saying São Paulo is the capital of Brazil when it's Brasilia?" I'm not even very good at geography and I knew that 😅
The biggest two myths about Russia is that we all look and act like Putin in his photo-ops, and the second biggest myth is that all Russians like him (a lot don't)
Are you saying you don't ride horses topless?
It's like they can't see how far Russia extends into Asia.... Like the border of Mongolia is mongolians and then white people 🤣
@@rtsharlotte OF COURSE NOT 😂
@@rtsharlotte it’s freezing, we wear pure fur coats and drink vodka for warmth
@@antonallen8972 I was taking the piss because of that famous picture of Putin riding a horse whilst topless. Lol. Maybe it's more famous in England than in Russia
I currently live in the US Midwest. When I tell people here that I'm from Norway, they go: Oh! So you're used to the cold and the snow. Um, no. I'm from the West coast of Norway (Bergen and south of there), where it rarely snows in the winter, due to the Gulf Stream from the gulf of Mexico. Which also ensures that Northern Europe as a whole is a lot warmer than it otherwise would be give it's latitude.
Thanks. Didn't realize that.
I assumed because you were north of Scotland you would be, at a minimum, a little more cold and snowy than there. Thanks for the info.
@@newbris It depends where you are in the nordic countries, the closer to the coast you are the more windy and wet it gets, less cold and less snowy (although chill factor is more of a thing the closer to the coasts you get) the areas that get -20 to -30 fairly regularly during winter is the very north, Finland has colder weather in general as it's not a peninsula or island kingdom, although the landmasses toward the baltic sea tend to get colder weather since the baltic sea is incredibly cold, plus north eastern winds (dubbed Siberian winds) some times come down and even turn Denmark into an ice cube.
It depends really, the latitude is not the entire reason for cold climates, some times it's more about weather phenomenae, and on that a wet windy -10 feels a lot colder than a dry less windy -30. I believe a large reason for the climate in Scotland, is much the same as in Scandinavia, it's an Island, coastal climates are wet and windy more so than snowy. I mean central Europe often gets more consistent snow than many parts of Scandinavia for this reason especially, because they are mostly completely landlocked.
I remember going on holiday to Norway and packing lots of jumpers. Stepped off the plane at Oslo and boiled. I'm never jumping to conclusions about another country's weather again.
@@runningcommentary2125 it becomes quite nice in summer.
That every Swede has the IKEA meatballs recipe. Everyone just has their own family recipe.
The frustration we, Irish people, feel when someone says Ireland is part of the uk is immeasurable. We didn’t go through centuries of the British trying to erase our culture for nothing.
Shush ginger
@@PennyWenny224 the unnecessary negativity😂 I’m not even ginger, sorry PENELOPE
Correct me if I'm wrong, Northern Ireland IS part of the UK, right? I get that it's not the same thing, but I would think it's an understandable mistake. Or at least more understandable, than say, getting North and South Korea mixed up.
@@ijustdocomments6777 ye my comment is light hearted. It is an understandable mistake although I would say it’s not more understandable than north and South Korea but it is understandable. We are completely separate from the uk tho and spent hundreds of years trying to hold on to our language, sports, religion (although I’m not particularly religious myself) and traditions so it is frustrating when someone does assume we’re in the Uk when we constantly put effort into rejecting being part of the Uk. Even in the North there is still violence over them being apart of the Uk and being under British rule. But when someone makes the mistake we don’t loose our head it’s more of an “ugh” feeling.
You mean Britain Lite?
I've often found that people assumed (years ago in chat rooms (showing my age)) that being from England meant you must live in/near or have been to London and met the Queen.
I'm Dutch and they often think I'm either a religious, Christian farm-girl with a cow that lives in a windmill and milks the cows all day.
OR that I am promiscuous whore that has milked all the tourists and lives in the red-light-district.
In reality I'm a very promiscuous and religious cow that has milked a windmill and lives with tourists who farm whores are day. It's a strange world.
@@Widdekuu91 😄
I lived in Nottingham for 3 years and I have given up on correcting people when they say I lived in London. it's no use.
@@AJ-uo5zl At least we've heard of it. How's the sheriff btw? ;)
I've met Princess Anne, and seen Zara in the pub a few times. Does that count?
Did you just say Sao Paulo is the capital of Brazil? It's Brasilia! (Thanks to my dad for this fact, making me learn all capitals of the world ~30 years ago)
i was looking for someone who mentioned this 🤣🤣🤣
Indian? yeah. Our dads love making us learn stuff. Reminded me of some good times.
@polichedconspiracy Can't wait for all capixabas coming after you
@@r0yce Yep, Indian & and you're not wrong! 😂.
I'm from south America, Guyana 🇬🇾 specifically. We were taught to learn the currency, capital city and a few other important things about all the countries in south America. We were also taught to learn about the other continents and countries belonging to the different continents, we do this in Primary School.
Another Dutch myth: foreigners (non-Europeans) think we actually go to work, do our groceries etc. on ice skates. Like, no, that's bicycles for you, not ice skates.
I’m Scottish and I went to uni in Dundee where I was in halls with a 50/50 split of Scottish students and English students. For fun, the Scottish students and I used to put BBC Alba on the TV and pretend to understand because they all thought that every Scot spoke Gaelic.
Shrimp and Prawn ARE different things. They look the same out of the shell and they taste the same. But they are different animals.
Not in food terms though: they're all generically prawns in the UK and Australia, they're all generically shrimp in the US. Marine biologists will tell you different, but cooks won't - as a food, they're interchangeable.
@@MrJacobThrall You can be allergic to one and not the other. Making the difference VERY important in food terms.
*Evan looking around for the Duolingo owl in case he makes a mistake in German*
This channel has become one of my favs recently!!
Nigerian here; that we are all poor, personally i live in a massive house in an estate that looks better than some uk ones.
That we don't have water, i hate that one so much.
...are you related to the prince though?
@@TotemoGaijin 😂😂😂 I hate you.....but to set the record straight there isn't a prince of Nigeria. Different tribes, towns, villages, etc have their royal families but there isn't one king of nigeria as the country doesn't have a monarchy, and the kings of those towns or villages only have traction in their villages, and chances are outside their village noone knows theyre royalty
It's probably not the best move to compare your house to a British ones. They are the smallest in Europe 😅
@@minimim89 i only did cause most of evans videos are geared towards a British audience
Zoe Lmao
As a czech in living in canada, my jaw dropped when i saw Czechoslovakia in a text book
so i just found out that evan interviewed for a teaching job at my school about a year ago and my friend had him as a trial teacher.
it’s such a cool coincidence but also it would have been so weird to have watched youtube videos of my maths teacher
I love how people who didn't grow up in Ireland thought as a child that leprechauns were real and lived in Ireland, and those who did grow up in Ireland just thought they were real and lived in trees.
I bet if you had touched the plant in Australia your love/hate relationship with the cactus would change
When he said he wanted to touch one, I thought Evan, you learned nothing from your cactus experience.
Finnish children do get homework, it's just way less than what the kids in the US get.
14:15 I think it's like angry people on the internet. They're more visible but nice people are actually a majority.
The one about the Prime Minister's igloo being closed for renos since 2019 cracked me up. The official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister (24 Sussex Drive) has been unoccupied since 2019 because it had fallen into such disrepair. Trudeau and his family have been living in Rideau Cottage instead since then. Part of the issue is there are no clear funds set aside for maintain 24 Sussex and most Prime Ministers don't want to be the one try to to push that that money because it could look bad on them.
Also THANK YOU for recognizing that we don't say a-boot. It definitely sounds more like a-boat.
I have heard that the "sheep shagging" rumor comes from an old law that said that if you are caught stealing a sheep the penalty was death, but if you were caught shagging a sheep it was only losing a hand or finger. Not sure if it's true but that's what I've heard.
And then somehow transformed canadas saying "like shagging sheep/dog" meaning "easier than you thought" or "having easy life"
"deverish spiders (... ) don't live in suburbia"
My friend who lived half of her childhod in Australia : kicks one of the most dangerous spiders of the terace chair, swims through a (potenially ) dangerous swarm of folws ...
My first coherent sentence as an Australian kid was "spider thong kill" it wacked a redback spider of a chair we tend to teach them young.
Also to translate the last sentence he is saying that a city person going into a national park or bush land being and idiot.
While the native leprechauns have gone extinct, the Blarney stone is ready for kissing as soon as this pandemic is fully over
"Just the prince"
Myth #2: that Nigeria is a monarchy and not a republic.
i remember being surprised by the surprisingly low number of monarchies in Africa
even though in hindsight it is obvious that there won't be many monarchies in Africa because decolonised nations would obviously form republics not monarchies
I think it's because of all the extravagant looking presidents (dictators) there sadly has been in africa. Muammar al-Gaddafi is a good example. he just look like a monarch
(westernsentick view)
and people in europe and america (the continent) has in the last many centuries seen Africa as backwards and backwards often make people think of absolute monarchy
and the nigerian prince scheme will make many people conclude that nigeria must be a monarchy
thats just my thoughts though
@@crazydinosaur8945 In some nations such as Nigeria, republicanism and monarchy actually coexist. The country is a republic but the tribes still practice monarchy. This is how you have chiefs, princes, kings in country where the chief executive is a president.
@@ayoa1173 if it don't have a king/queen it's not a monarchy.
more like a Republic of dukedoms/chiefdoms
or am i totaly wrong?
@@ayoa1173 I think there are parts of Southeast Asia like this as well. Pretty sure at least a few of the pre-colonial monarchies in Indonesia sort of exist.
comment: "no, unfortunately we don't ride kangaroos to school and work everyday!"
me: yeah, they have weekends off
As a New Zealander, I can confirm that there are indeed plenty of places here where sheep or even cows will be wandering over the road. They're usually running away from farmers who don't understand consent. 😲
You saying "Paris" the American way but in a French accent threw me off more than it should lol
My ex had a pen pal when he was a kid. Penpal was in southern USA and he lived in Minnesota. Pen pal thought Minnesotans all lived in igloos and that it snowed all year long
also I find it funny that we call it Czechia with a Cz despite the fact that even though this word is like the only time “cz” makes the “ch” sound in English, it is used as the word for a country, who’s language doesn’t do that… in Czech, they are “Česko” so “Chesko” or “Cheskia” or even “Chesk Republic” would’ve been great but instead they went for something that fits better in Polish (their word for Czechia is “Czechy”) than English just to make a name that sounds correct but isn’t…
It's kinda what happened with Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina)
@@boldanabrasevic3020 yeah lol Hercegovina should be spelled the same way and just pronounced differently but for some reason they put a Z there that’s pronounced from how it normally would…
For some reason your videos came into my YT recommended at the perfect time. Thank you for the laughs tonight, I needed it!
Although I’m from Yorkshire, you should know that you can kiss the Blarney Stone (I’ve done so myself) it’s the leprechaun part that’s more sus🤔 I’d like to think they’re real though.
If mimes and vampires are real, no one is gonna convince me that leprechauns aren't.
We just tell you they aren't real so you won't come steal our gold 🤫
French dude here, actually the stereotype that we all love baguette is very true, a bit less for wine and cheese but still. Also it’s true that A lot of old people in France don’t like strangers talking another language (which is dumb ofc), but the most prominent reason a French won’t answer you in English is because they suck at it, like so bad. But the truest thing of all is that French people hate Parisians, even Parisians themselves.
I'm a Brit and I've lived in a few different countries (did a uni exchange in Russia, Belgium and now I live in Japan) and the amount of people that think we sit down to have afternoon tea every day (at exactly 5pm, complete with a teapot, fancy 'brewing methods' and a cake stand) was so surprising to me. I have to ruin their fancy image of us like "no mate we just make it directly in the mug and I drink it casually at all hours of the day."
You can't just drop that on them all of a sudden. You have to ease them in with something like, "Well, not all of us dress like the Monopoly man."
I am shook. You don’t? How scandalous!
Did you tell them that afternoon tea was actually 4pm? 🤣
tea time? you mean 'my current cup is now only luke-warm' time?
One girl in my Spanish class thought people in Poland lived in igloos. When everybody looked like her like she'd grown a second head, she said she was bad at geography. So am I. But that's just too far.
Years ago, as a police officer at a European airport I once asked a man, who was a bit disruptive: "Sir, have you been drinking?" He literally replied "Yes of course, I'm Irish!"
Hello and welcome back to Reddit read by someone better than Google translate!
The person who said you have to go into the bush to see a lizard in Australia is actually wrong. I live in suburban Australia and there was a lizard in our garden once. Amongst the lizard, we get Kangaroos in the streets and gardens (this has happened to me in Canberra, the aptly named 'bush capital'), and bush turkeys.
It also depends on what sorts of lizards they're thinking of, and which suburbia. The Gold Coast in Queensland often has skinks (teeny lizards) running about, and occasionally has blue-tongues. Metro Melbourne in Victoria basically doesn't have lizards; you need to go into the rural areas.
mine is that Canadians put maple syrup on everything,
we also drink it straight
you also put ketchup on potato chips
Kind of like Americans with ranch dressing! Yes, some will drink that straight, too.
@@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee no, they're ketchup FLAVOURED
I mean, we do actually put it on a lot more than other countries... especially in Quebec. Eggs poached in Maple syrup are really, really good.
(Yes, I am Canadian and I have visited Quebec several times)
I will say, the stereotype of Canadians being nice is true. Like, yeah I’m sure there are some assholes in Canada, but I’ve had the pleasure of making a lot of Canadian friends and you’re all lovely. Also, you sound like any American would until you say “sorry” and it gets me every time lol
Haha fun fact about Parisians, I live in Paris but I am from Lille. And I keep having people I just met asking me if I am from Paris, and I say "no" and they respond by saying "I knew it that why you are smiling" haha I still find this hilarious each time it happens.
A myth about my country (sweden) is that we hate talking to other ppl. Some of us do hate that but 9/10 we just hate starting the convo but more than happy to keep the convo alive.
aaah yes, São Paulo, the beautiful capital of Brazil...
Didn’t even realise how early I was till I came to the comment section 😂😅
Same! I read all the comments and thought the rest weren't loading due to my ppor internet connection 😂
I never realise how early I’m gonna come either
Same 😅😅 first time I've ever been so early
Cheers from Iowa, Evan! You're one of my favourite content creators on RUclips.
I grew up mostly in Hungary, but while visiting family in the U.S. as a teenager, a random person assumed that I lived in a mud hut and rode a camel to school...yeah, a mud hut and a camel, in Eastern Europe. 🤦♀️
As a Scottish man who is not ginger nor drinks, I can confirm we’re all ginger, constantly drink and roam around the fields in skirts cursing the English and screaming FREEEEEEDOM like a wolf howling
The Vampires just migrated elsewhere, obviously.
Before the wall wars.
The Czech Republic is still called the Czech Republic but they want the world to use Czechia because it’s more casual. As an example, the official name for Greece is “The Hellenic Republic” but that’s very formal so we just say Greece.
Okay, WOW, this is new information to me
In Dutch we actually call the country "Tsjechië" already, which in pronunciation is really similar to Czechia, so it's not a surprise to me at all.
The myth about Vampires in Romania and around it comes from the fact that we have most of the world's bat species live in that region
No, it's because some guy named bram stoker chose to write a novel about about a vampire and have it take place in romania. We actually didn't have folklore about vampires until the novel.
@@sara_daria2 I just meant that the vampire=bat myth might've come from the abundance of bats in the region, not necessary vampire lore as a whole
I’m from Peru and the amount of times I got asked if we rode llamas to school/had electricity/running water/lived in huts/how we all stayed on the mountain (bc we all live at the top of Machu Picchu I guess?) is honestly incredible. I had a whole story about llama school buses by the time I was 14ish.
When in the Big Bang Theory Sheldon talked about how wonderfull the German trains are, how they are pefectly on time... every German felt like they lived in an alternate Universe.
Evan, rhetorically: Do you see mimes in London?!
Me: The only mime I've ever seen in my life was in front of the statue of Boudicca on my first trip to London.
First night in Vancouver a guy introduced himself to me in a bar and he literally said "aboot" and "eh" in the same sentence.
I think he's right that "a-boat" is much closer to their accent than "a-boot" though.
That Soju that they drink with everything!
I love how much Evan is really in on the UK banter - I know he's lived here for years but it makes me happy to see how he gets / can make British inside jokes
For me its technically two steorotypes
1: I'm an insanely violent orange colour fanatic whos hates the irish
2:I'm a kilt wearing heavy accented ginger man who hates the english
so many countries especially online seem to hate us Brits for things in history and think we feel the same about them but most the time we don't even know about it because we've done so much to so many countries
That "oh my phone" was beautiful
Apparently, some exchange students in college were surprised that there weren't gauchos on the main avenue in my city, and one even dared to ask why there weren't any cows around. Another myth is that we all know how to ride a horse, spoiler alert, no we don't. Most folk here in the city are city boys/girls, we only see horses and such maybe once a year on the rural expo?
Also, I kinda cried inside when I heard Sao Paulo as Brazil's capital, Brasilia always gets ignored :(
I grew up in New Mexico and have had to explain to people that being a country boy doesn't mean I was a farmboy. We were pretty basic suburbia, except we just had one of everything (one fast food place, one gas station, one department store in the "next town over" but we were both too small to survive on our own, one supermarket, et cetera) and anything else required driving 30-45 miles one way.
Rambling off-topic, but I've found that has had an interesting effect on my routine. I live in an actual city now with nearby resources but I still mentally block out things like getting groceries as something that needs a full day and strategy to get everything in one trip. "I need some more socks but it's already 4PM. Better go tomorrow."
They gon be beheading people if I come there? Because I don’t like that kind of stuff
I had a teacher who had spent a semester in Paris teaching English and she said that at first she was really nice to any English-speaking tourists who asked for directions or anything, but it happened so often and the tourists were so often rude (assuming at first she didn't speak English and speaking super slowly and loudly as if it would help) that eventually she became just as rude to the tourists, pretending not to know English or giving wrong directions
I've been to Perth in Australia 3 times and one time I went to a cafe and they sat us on a table next to an interior wall that was absolutely covered with red back spiders... also the house was invaded by the biggest moth I have ever seen (think the size of a bat). My dad found a trapdoor spider in his shoe before putting it on. You definitely find venomous stuff in houses!