Hey guys don’t get it wrong please I don’t think it’s actually okay to not know Europe isn’t a country, it’s just me saying it’s better thinking Europe is a country rather than thinking it’s in Canada! Just to clear the misunderstandings which was caused by me😵💫
well, the problem is that both is wrong. just because one is "less wrong" doesnt make it right or better 😅 europe is an eurasian sub-continent and historical culture area. it´s not in canada, no country and it´s also not the EU. 🤣 but i got what you mean 😂
@mary carver Nahh .. Europe is just a big bunch of communist evil ruled by the Nazis 😄🤣 And never forget .. they don't have "Freedom TM", only the USA has "Freedom TM"
@@novakhin1642 actually Europe isn't a subcontinent, it's an actual continent and it's proved that there was a time when europe wasnt connected to Asia and the Ural mountains are proof of that because they were created from the merging of both of those continents
That's almost as bad as thinking the moon is made out of cheese lol, I mean, these are basic things you would expect almost everyone to know or at least hope they would know and it really does get you to question the education system in the US.
On the other hand, quite some people even think that Africa is a country, or speak of it like it is. And I speak of people in Europe who do so. Not an excuse for beeing uneducated, just saying such uneducation can happen everywhere.
I just keep remembering the "difference between countries and continents" joke from Whose Line Is It Anyway back when Drew was the host. They roasted Drew through the whole episode about that slip-up.
Don't worry, guys. In a couple of decades it will be perfectly okay to say Europe is a country. And a decade or two later, the same will be true about Africa. Continent sized behemoths will be the only way to compete with China. United Americas, European Union, African Federation, China, and Asioceania(for those parts of Asia that don't want to be assimilated by China). One big step towards a unified world government. Getting people used to different cultures living in one big community. Making everyone at least bilingual, if not trilingual... Also, note how I didn't include someone in these predictions. A certain member potato just made sure they'll fall, no matter how many copies of Oppenheimer's Toy they have.
When visiting my in laws in Florida I was asked by a woman selling cotton candy in a mall if I knew the queen. As you know, sarcasm is a British marshal art, so I replied "yes of course I do. She visits my house sometimes for a bacon sandwich and a pint of Guinness". She said "really", I said "no, not really" & just walk away leaving her with her mouth hanging open. I challenge anyone to approach the queen without prior permission & see how long it takes before they are knocked senseless by an MI5 agent. 😂
I can't remember their name but a chap was attending a big do in a marquee. Being a bit late he brushed passed an old woman in the entrance, he apologised explaining he was late. She told him not to worry as they wouldn't be starting without her, then he realised who it was.
My Grantparents escapes from Nazi-Deutschland in the early 1940’s to the US (Texas, german community). After 7 years they escaped back to Germany. Reason: Too many stupid people…..
You realize that in the US your vote counts differently depending from which state you are? Californian vote is worth the least. Freedumb. demagogacy. U-S-A.U-S-A.
I dont understand that clip at all. Does it mean, that if you have an hearth attack you only can go to a specific ER and the other ERs are not going to be paid by your insurance? What if you had car accident and wake up in the hospital? Do they know to which ER they are supposed to drive you? That is so weird. It makes no sense.
It's not just the educational system problem. It's the people who choose to be ignorant, cause all the basic knowledge about the world, you could learn it throughout your life by watching the news, tv shows, movies, reading, even in social media. I don't get how they manage to avoid catching this info, it's practically inevitable.
The thing I find most funny about Americans is that they think they are the only "free" country in the world. Although the US is probably the least free county in the developed world...
Oh my god... the first one with the woman... She is right... 2 kid shops and in the middle... guns... Oh my god. The land of the free she says. She is totally right, this is this level of ludicrous. Maybe what is more worrying is that he didn't notice what she meant ^^.
@@grahvis yet how free are they when they live with such fear all the time? Fear of being sick and having to face enormous hospital bills, fear of a boss firing them because they had to take a sick day, fear of a stranger on the street wielding a handgun. No thanks, that's not freedom.
American once told me that English is a hard language to learn. Me as a Finnish person said no, not it is not :D Here is why many countries in Europe have access to American movies and English based music not to mention that we have English courses in school. When i was in school they started from 3rd grade up so no my dear Americans English is one of the most easiest languages to learn :)
That doesn't describe difficulty or easiness of a language, but rather how much time and effort is put into learning it. And the amount is huge. I'm sure native English speakers could learn the same level of Finnish if majority of music and movies in the world were in Finnish, and if they would start learning it just as early in school.
@@enginerd80 It's just that that education in the US is not the same lvl of standard as it is in Europe. I learned English on my own after school i just had no interest in it while i was in school to be honest :)
English is considered one of the hardest languages to learn because it doesn’t have the same vocabulary rules and logic that most languages have. I feel you just read way to much into the comment. English isn’t just American.
I'm from the Netherlands, there was a time where i had to be taken to the E.R. because i suffered a heart failure. after about a week whilst they were taking care of me they said they wanted to put me under the scanner for x-rays because they noticed some symptoms that were indicators of another condition.. turned out i also had a tumor on my adrenal gland. long story short(many complications): i was hospitalized for over 3 years, after that period i was sent home with another year of hospital care at home. my bill: $0,- if i would be an American the bill would probably be the thing that killed me after surviving the things i've been trough. oh i forgot to mention. my employer was obligated to keep paying my wages for the first 2 years of absence, (only after 2 years of sick leave they can end the contract). how does that compare to America ? :P
@@foreignreacts Hey man, i'm loving the content. It's great to see people taking an interest on how other countries do things. Keep it up so we can continue watching your stuff. greets from Maastricht (south of the Netherlands)
for that level of treatment maybe hacking Bill Gates' bank account or changing your name to 'Heisenberg' and cooking crystal meth might be your only options
I was asked where I was from by a guy, when I lived in Philly. I said England. I’m English. They said what language do you speak, you speak English almost perfectly. It was the almost that got to me. Cheers.
@@wgrady222 wow, thanks for the comment. It’s a funny story, not to be taken seriously. But, no it’s not chalk and cheese. It’s mature cheddar traditionally made and orange cheese that they call cheddar. Bad copy.
Greetings from Finland! I have to wonder what american people learn at school?😅 Here in Finland every 9 year old knows about all countries in Europe and their capitals, too...and they know all continents as well. And they speak guite good english as well...so...are the children here wiser than the adults there!?
"If you think Europe is a country that is fine" A bit of me died there. These are the standards that ruin a hole generation. You shouldn't have to be rich to be slightly educated.
Health should be a number 1 priority in EVERY country. In England i am happy to pay for NHS even though I don’t need it, I’m glad it will be there when I need it. It’s sad that in America people worry so much about the cost of their health.
7:28 - This can happen in other places too. My sister went into a big brand toy store (in Germany, where we live), to look for a stuffed dog that looked like her RL dog, and the lady was all "sorry, we don't have that, but it's also really expensive here." Hello? That's not very good marketing, lol. And it's also rude to assume that my sister couldn't afford something in your store. So my sister bought a stuffed rhino for 300 euros, out of spite, just to see the look on the lady's face. - Note: My sister had just landed a really good paying job and was treating herself.
One comment "you call yourself Americans"... And you and we all refer to all people from Africa continent as africans(Ghana, Zimbabwe, Congo, Kenya...) then aren't all from the American continents Americans? (Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil...) All Americans :)))
About Turkey, I kinda don't blame the guy because that is how Hollywood depicts our country. When you see a Hollywood movie that tooks places in Turkey, It is either a vast desert with camels etc. where people are wearing clothes associated with Arabic culture(that's why most Americans think we are also Arab but we are not) or it only shows the grand bazaar which is one tiny place in İstanbul. So naturally people think we live in a country that is covered with deserts and bazaars lol. There are no deserts in Turkey, not even one :-D
Once i spent 2 hours to explain why I don't get beaten because i don't wear a hijab... 2 hours... and when i said i am not even a muslim he gave me a shocked pikachu face lol it was kinda funny. I love how they assume you have to be a certain something if you belong to a certain ethnic group.
Hey everybody! Hi! I'm from Serbia,East Europe,and when I lived in USA some time ago, when ppl asked where I was from I used to say Yugoslavia(the former name of my country at the time)... The response was always OH Yugoslovakia LOL... When Yugoslavia came apart into various countries,I used to say I was from Serbia,and ppl assumed I was from Siberia and I could understand Russian language. Like big NO,yes we are a part of Slavic group, but that doesn't mean we can even vaguely understand one another
My 2 sons went to America with their dad when they were maybe 12 and 9 years old. When they returned they laughingly recounted how some American children commented on how good their English was.😄
Paying like 30 dollar just to hold your newborn baby after giving birth is disgusting. Especially since it already costs like 10 000 dollar to give birth in the first place.
that girl being charged 28.000 for having to visit the ER broke my heart. to all you americans out there: why do you people continue to live in the US? I realize that moving to a different country is always a huge risk but there are so many countries in the western world... even more if you add in the industrialized worlds and count countries like Japan and South Korea and they are all so much better options in the long term... why do you people continue to live in the US? I don't understand it... 28.000$ in debt for one visit to the ER? If you ever asked yourself "how do I know that my country does not care about me", that's how you know. 28.000$ in debt for one visit to the ER. your country does not care about you. at all.
When I first went to the US I was in a diner in Nevada. The waitress said to me 'do I detect a Cockney accent?' I replied 'You're about 100 miles out, duck!' I'm from Nottingham and we don't sound remotely Cockney! She then started going on about Robin Hood etc. When I told her we still have a Sherriff she was gobsmacked. I've also been asked over there if I'm Scottish and Australian!
I'm Scottish and was usually mistaken for being Irish in America - even when I'd handed over my British passport for ID, the cashier said "oh, you're irish!". It's probably better to mistake a Scot as Irish, than think Scotland is part of England (which also happened while I was over there).
The ER one is mindblowingly horrible. You realy have to check individual doctors during an emergency so you don't get bankrupt? This is insane. I mean she only had headaches but what about people with severe injuries...
She had a Cluster-Headache which is the worst kind of headache you could get. It's also called Suicide Headache because of the pain (i have to suffer with it as Well, so "Just a headache" is totally wrong ) but i understand what you are saying with checking If you get the doctor your insurance Work with (that's crazy)
I feel for that poor girl with Cluster headaches. Another name for them is Suicide headaches because the pain is so bad. I know I have had them and if I had had a gun I would have used it.
I work in a Museum in The Hague the Netherlands. And one time I had an American guest who wanted to pay with dollars. So I said sorry we do not accept dollars, only euro's. He:"but it is legal oayment". I:"yes, but only in America. I could make him understand, that in a small (but awesome) museum as ours, you cant pay with dollars. For the rest our American guest have been awesome. And if you ever make it to the Netherlands, come visit us at the Panorama Mesdag in The Hague. It will be an experience you will never forget, traveling back in time to Scheveningen in 1880.
You should just have accepted the dollars at an inflated exchange rate (e.g. $3 = €1) and put your own euros in the till, then headed to the bank to exhange the dollars into euros at a nice profit for being so entrepreneurial (a term Americans ought to understand).
@mcchickenz I wasn't actually serious, but does the Netherlands imprison people for a €20 (not sure where you got that figure from) fraud? If the American visitors were happy with the arrangement, the employee might be considered to have 'gone the extra mile' and should be rewarded appropriately. 😀
Some years ago I was talking with my adult American cousin and I mentioned Mecca (I can’t recall what we were discussing.) He looked puzzled and I asked him if he knew where Mecca was and he replied ‘Mexico.’
I got my spine crushed by a tree. I spent a week in NICU, a month in regular hospital and 3 weeks in physical therapy. The bill came to a whopping $334,000. If the hospital didn't write it off as "extreme poverty", I would have had to choose between filing bankruptcy and destroying my credit for 20 years, or spend the rest of my life being bankrupt from making payments. It would have ruined my life. They blame it on malpractice insurance premiums the hospital has to pay for, but if they had good doctors, why even have the insurance? Well, my fiance at the time did more for me in the hospital room than ALL of the nurses combined. One was removed from the floor when my family found out how they were treating me. So, what was the bill actually for?
Gees, I have the 'rona right now and I needed an ambulance ride and spent three nights in hospital. I'd say my bill was 0, but I didn't even get a bill. The care I received was top of the line, efficient but compassionate. Charging for healthcare at the point of access is literally killing people and destroying lives.
The American health system is unbelievably bad. Almost $28,000 for a visit to the ER, and that's WITH HEALTH INSURANCE! Go to the ER in any Australian public hospital, and it's almost all FREE. At the very most you might get charged a few dollars for some incidental items and maybe $20 for medication you are given.
I my wife and my daughter have 3 different cronical diseas.. medicines cost more than our salary...in Usa we would be left dying like Animals? In Italy we are good and safe...we pay more taxes...but with free healthcare system
Do you pay more taxes though. Have you ever checked? Or is this just assumed? I live in Scotland and pay less in tax/deductions than someone on the same salary in the US. So I pay less in tax and get free healthcare.
An old joke from Europe: A tipical american tourist (baseball hat, chuwing gum, wet tropical t-shirt, camera, short, fat body, dewlap, sunglasses) on a marketplace asks a trader: - What is this? - Strawberry. - Really? Our strawberries much bigger in the US. What is that? - Apple. - Oh, we have much bigger apples in the US. And that? - points towards watermelons. The trader answers nervously: - Grapes, damn it.
And all he did was smile, like oh well that's America, and thought nothing of it. Same with school kids having to go through a metal detector, a smile as if, oh well that's America. Their attitudes to things though I do find funny. They actually believe they live in the best Country in the world is probably the funniest.
Worst thing was her mother essentially saying it's her fault not to ask each individual doctor in the ER whether they are covered by her insurance.. I heard stories of US doctors who know the system still getting screwed when they had to go to the ER themselves, it's a minefield..
“Oh you probably can”t afford that.” Yeah, the Pretty Woman scene where she goes in a store in Rodeo Drive and they treat her like trash because she didn’t “look the part.” Never experienced that in Ginza (Tokyo’s version of Fifth Avenue, where all the designer stores are.) You can go in in a T-shirt, shorts and flip flops and they would bow to you and serve you properly, and some stores even offer hot chocolate at the door in winter. No judgments, indiscriminate customer service. Best thing is, even if you didn’t buy anything, they bow and thank you on the way out anyway. I swear, Japan has spoiled me, I probably can’t shop anywhere else.
The girl who sounds american who was asked "what language do you speak" in england, was probably some sarcastic people hoping she would say "I speak american...duh" and then proceed to laugh at her
You keep saying "that's the way America is", so which political party are you going to vote for that system to dissapear? Wait, wait... you only have 2 choices: the bad and the ugly!
I can imagine why this question 10:14 appears so frequently. when you're from such a hugeass country which official language is English, the international language is English, and (optimistically) you know there are some other native languages in Ireland/UK area, you could sometimes get that brain lag wondering what England's language actually is, because the answer seems too obvious 😂
I don't think they, as in the generally ignorant ones, know much about anything inside America either. There was a Texan shop owner that didn't know where our country, The Bahamas, was located when we told her where we were from. To make it easy for her because we are just a speck on the map, we said its a bunch of tiny islands just east of Florida, to which she replies, "Where's that?". We first get confused because one would think an American would know where Florida is but then just start to list some names of well known places in Florida so that she could maybe understand, like Miami, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Tampa, Boca Raton, etc.. Surprisingly, nothing clicked for her until we finally mentioned South Beach. So, on that day we learned there are Americans that don't know where the states that make up their own country are, even ones in the same region as their own e.g. Texas and Florida are both Gulf States or US states along the Gulf of Mexico.
On the subject of "...but you probably don't have that in Turkey"... To be fair, on discussions of freedom, I often have to tell Americans "...but you don't have that in the US".
I'm Canadian 🇨🇦. No. I don't live in an igloo, and where I live usually has milder temperatures than NY. We're America lite, with a dash of Universal Healthcare. Peace xo
I would not say stupid before ignorance, on average all people are equally smart, but the education system should produce ignorant people because it is easier to govern them.
6:10 Bruv I have a story to tell though! So! I live in Brazil (ok it isn't that much better than USA but its still home!) and if you work in a registered job, you tend to gain a whole slew of perks, which includes medical insurance (We do have free healthcare but for emergencies having a insurance may mean life or death). So, I had a pretty bad kidney stone stuck between the kidney and the bladder and had it extracted fast. They gave me like almost a month to recover (In increments of 14 days ) I just gave the document that said the recovery time was needed to the workplace (as is required by law for me to give and they to accept) and that was it.
So, I used to work in Tech Support and we had around the clock coverage. Which meant for out of hrs US coverage, Emea and Apac did that. So I had a US customer one day, and he asked me where I am based. And I said, the UK. And he was like, UK? I was like, yes, you know, England. And he said, oh, you mean Canada.
I am so shocked about the girl wich had to go to the ER... wtf!? 33800 $... for what? In germany you get all your teeth in Gold + a new hipp and perhaps a cyborgleg! 😂 Damn, what a fucked up country😅
You keep saying "It's just how America is". This is the problem, Americans are doing nothing about their own bad situation, they just sit back and take it. How many of these videos do Americans have to watch to realise they are being so screwed over by the Govt that is supposed to be working for them.
I've been blessed to only go to Hospital a handful of times. It's always free, and the one time I was given a prescription it was $6.95 for the 3 month course of pills.
Don't call Europe a country, trust me. It's the same as to say America is a country (and yeah, America, not USA, America = USA + Canada+ Mexico + Belize + Guatemala + Cuba + Bahamas + Cayman Islands + Jamaica + Haiti + Dominican Republic + Turks and Caicos Islands + British Virgin Islands + Montserrat + Antigua and Babuda + Dominica + St Lucia + Barbados + Granada + Aruba + Curacao + US Virgin Islands + Anguilla + St Kitts and Nevis + Guadeloupe + Martinique + St vincend and the Grenadines + El Salvador + Honduras + Nicaragua + Costa Rica + Panama + Colombia + Venezuela + Trinidad and Tobago + Ecuador + Suriname + Guyana + Brazil + Paraguay + Peru + Bolivia + Uruguay + Chile + Argentina + Bermuda), hope I didn't miss a country or counted a country outside the american continent. The point I am making is, that all countries in Europe have a distinct culture and history. As such you really can't say Europe is a country. The EU is the closest thing to a country but even that is just a lose union (like the Holy Roman Empire for example) and doesn't even encompass the whole continent.
@@rubberyowen1469 well, I left out the Netherlands and France as well, even though both still directly control islands in the carribean (aruba for example may be part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands but are still a constituant country).
@@fusssel7178 I did notice but was more interested in the U.K. South America, North America and Canada of course are all part of The Americas. Take Care. 👍
@@rubberyowen1469😃 the thing is it is not "the americas" is America cause it is a continent ,just 1 continent. so there is no "the".😉 just to clarify. have a great day!😃
@@emilialavarellocambaceres315 Where I live in Europe the continent is known as The Americas and is all one continent obviously. Globally Countries are taught different to others. It is not really a problem and hardly worth mentioning. Take Care. 👍
Long time ago I was in Miami and someone asked me for directions, so I replied: 'Sorry I can't help you, I'm from Holland'. The response was: 'Oh Holland New York', and he moved on....
At least your still learning though that there is a world outside America and just how totally RIPPED OFF Americans are. I admire your will to learn and I wish more Americans would do the same. They really are an embarassment to watch and listen to on RUclips. FOX and CNN are also great for a good laugh. I love you Americans and your always entertaining. Keep learning and Take Care over there.👍
(11:05) My life. I say an opinion. Others disagree. Fine. Someone else says their opinion. I disagree. They get upset, and say I don't have to disagree with all their opinions. But... what are we supposed to do? Just sit in silence? Talk about the weather? Like, sharing opinions is a discussion.
The lack of knowledge or ignorance of countries I can kind of understand & is funny but the ones about your health care? The poor girl 20000 in debt because of a headache - I literally cried with her. you guys gotta fix that health care system
I think the whole world (not that it would ever happen) should have to demonstrate basic knowledge of how the political system works before you're allowed to vote. Just to eliminate voters who vote for someone just because of their ethnicity/gender etc. Also, living in New Zealand I've had jobs with unlimited sick leave, but more commonly you just get 10 or 15 days, with 4 weeks legally of paid vacation days. A lot of jobs will start 'suggesting' you take leave once you have over 4 weeks because you need to be rested to work efficiently. Work/life balance is a biggy.
Comments made by visiting Americans that annoy us Brits: We speak with a cute accent. We spell words in a funny way. We drive on the wrong side of the road. Our beer is too warm. Our food/drink portions (and cars) are so much smaller than those in (insert State). I actually saw a You tube comment from an American who thought it crazy that someone from Glasgow would travel "THOUSANDS" of miles to London to demonstrate against a visiting Donald Trump!
I don’t understand - would you really get fired because you didn’t call work that you wouldn’t be able to come in? Is that a thing? Seems to me you get fired for the dumbest reasons in the US. Here we have a whole HR procedure before someone is fired involving a letter to you requesting a meeting with your manager and HR (where you can bring an union rep or a support person), then if it’s deemed bad enough you have a written warning that is valid for 6 months. It usually takes about 3 of these procedures to then be sat down and asked if this job is for you and maybe you’d be better off resigning. If a company doesn’t follow these steps, then the employee has a case for unfair dismissal and they may end up having to pay court costs and back pay. If you’ve done something like theft it still involves a meeting to be told you will be instantly dismissed. Life seems really harsh in the US.
Have you heard about some of the questions the staff at Yellowstone are asked by American tourists. Does Old Faithful operate in the winter? Are the animals animatronic? What time do you let the animals out in the morning?
I'm in Canada, worked at a national park. We got questions like: What time does the whale show start? (Asked about wild whales in the ocean) That's just styrofoam you have anchored there for effect, right? (About an iceberg) Can you turn the ocean down, it's keeping me awake.
I was once asked "where you from" and I said Costa Rica and this girl from the US said "where is that"? so I said "Central America" and she was like "Ohh so in the middle of the US?" ... pfff
Hey guys don’t get it wrong please
I don’t think it’s actually okay to not know Europe isn’t a country, it’s just me saying it’s better thinking Europe is a country rather than thinking it’s in Canada! Just to clear the misunderstandings which was caused by me😵💫
Don't let it get to you :) Love your videos.
well, the problem is that both is wrong. just because one is "less wrong" doesnt make it right or better 😅 europe is an eurasian sub-continent and historical culture area. it´s not in canada, no country and it´s also not the EU. 🤣 but i got what you mean 😂
@mary carver Nahh .. Europe is just a big bunch of communist evil ruled by the Nazis 😄🤣 And never forget .. they don't have "Freedom TM", only the USA has "Freedom TM"
@@novakhin1642 actually Europe isn't a subcontinent, it's an actual continent and it's proved that there was a time when europe wasnt connected to Asia and the Ural mountains are proof of that because they were created from the merging of both of those continents
Foreign Reacts, you've reviewed quite a lot of these types of videos now. So has your opinion of being American and Americans changed?
#1 : At least she has heared of Canada. Now the big question is : does she know in which US State Canada is located ? 🤨😄
😂😂😂
Lol
Probably south by the name of it! 🤣
Yeah France.
🤣🤣
You saying "It's just how America is", is exactly the reason why it is so.
Not knowing that Europe isnt a country is not fine, that´s basic geographical knowledge!
Exactly.
That's almost as bad as thinking the moon is made out of cheese lol, I mean, these are basic things you would expect almost everyone to know or at least hope they would know and it really does get you to question the education system in the US.
and they say Putin is keeping his people in the dark
On the other hand, quite some people even think that Africa is a country, or speak of it like it is. And I speak of people in Europe who do so. Not an excuse for beeing uneducated, just saying such uneducation can happen everywhere.
Next you gonna lie to us that earth isn't flat eh, shame on you!
"If you think Europe is a country... it's totally fine." No, dude... it's not fine at all...
I just keep remembering the "difference between countries and continents" joke from Whose Line Is It Anyway back when Drew was the host. They roasted Drew through the whole episode about that slip-up.
He's too nice to idiots/too afraid to be negative. But it's next level to think it's inside Canada.
He's just being nice. He has to dumb it down for Americans, ya know?
Don't worry, guys. In a couple of decades it will be perfectly okay to say Europe is a country. And a decade or two later, the same will be true about Africa. Continent sized behemoths will be the only way to compete with China. United Americas, European Union, African Federation, China, and Asioceania(for those parts of Asia that don't want to be assimilated by China). One big step towards a unified world government. Getting people used to different cultures living in one big community. Making everyone at least bilingual, if not trilingual...
Also, note how I didn't include someone in these predictions. A certain member potato just made sure they'll fall, no matter how many copies of Oppenheimer's Toy they have.
My kid is 8 years old and he can name the continents. No, thinking Europe is a country it's not fine. Exactly as dumb as thinking África is a country.
Bro I was told by some American that Europe is a poor COUNTRY (facepalm) Europe is a CONTINENT, my little American darlings.
Whilst visiting America my friend was asked if we have freezers in Europe
You were talking to an American and you expect intelligence/knowledge?
@@valsyaranamual6853 well, this channels host seems to be a smart and humble dude.
@@SatumangoTheGreat You think so?
England: while in the States.
"Oh, I have been to Europe."
Oh really, where?
Dumb look!
"Oh yeah know, Europe."
When visiting my in laws in Florida I was asked by a woman selling cotton candy in a mall if I knew the queen. As you know, sarcasm is a British marshal art, so I replied "yes of course I do. She visits my house sometimes for a bacon sandwich and a pint of Guinness". She said "really", I said "no, not really" & just walk away leaving her with her mouth hanging open. I challenge anyone to approach the queen without prior permission & see how long it takes before they are knocked senseless by an MI5 agent. 😂
I can't remember their name but a chap was attending a big do in a marquee. Being a bit late he brushed passed an old woman in the entrance, he apologised explaining he was late.
She told him not to worry as they wouldn't be starting without her, then he realised who it was.
Freddie Mercury...?
@@nervanderi 😂😂😂 England's full of queens, but they tend to keep themselves to themselves. 😂✌
Do you guys give lessons of British humour for foreigners ? I guess as a French I will have to pay 50% more but still...
French people love sarcasm too, guess we have more in common than we think lmao
My Grantparents escapes from Nazi-Deutschland in the early 1940’s to the US (Texas, german community).
After 7 years they escaped back to Germany.
Reason: Too many stupid people…..
Oh god... I think that's the first time a comment about that time made me laugh...😂😂😂😂
😱 The person who thought Europe was in Canada votes and their vote matters as much as the one from anyone else👁️👄👁️
Trump had to win somehow, no?!
It reminds me the meme :
"You have to respect others' opinions!
Their opinions : 3²=6"
Sometimes I think Americans don't have geography classes. Do they?
You realize that in the US your vote counts differently depending from which state you are? Californian vote is worth the least.
Freedumb. demagogacy. U-S-A.U-S-A.
@@Epintus06 Your right. How many university students know the real answer? Not a lot probably. LOL.
being charged $28,000 to have a cluster migraine attack treated - I love living in the UK and paying income tax
I dont understand that clip at all. Does it mean, that if you have an hearth attack you only can go to a specific ER and the other ERs are not going to be paid by your insurance? What if you had car accident and wake up in the hospital? Do they know to which ER they are supposed to drive you? That is so weird. It makes no sense.
It's not just the educational system problem. It's the people who choose to be ignorant, cause all the basic knowledge about the world, you could learn it throughout your life by watching the news, tv shows, movies, reading, even in social media. I don't get how they manage to avoid catching this info, it's practically inevitable.
The thing I find most funny about Americans is that they think they are the only "free" country in the world. Although the US is probably the least free county in the developed world...
For real
Oh my god... the first one with the woman... She is right... 2 kid shops and in the middle... guns... Oh my god. The land of the free she says. She is totally right, this is this level of ludicrous. Maybe what is more worrying is that he didn't notice what she meant ^^.
It's funny how Americans think they are the only country where people have freedom.
@@grahvis yet how free are they when they live with such fear all the time? Fear of being sick and having to face enormous hospital bills, fear of a boss firing them because they had to take a sick day, fear of a stranger on the street wielding a handgun. No thanks, that's not freedom.
American once told me that English is a hard language to learn. Me as a Finnish person said no, not it is not :D Here is why many countries in Europe have access to American movies and English based music not to mention that we have English courses in school. When i was in school they started from 3rd grade up so no my dear Americans English is one of the most easiest languages to learn :)
That doesn't describe difficulty or easiness of a language, but rather how much time and effort is put into learning it. And the amount is huge. I'm sure native English speakers could learn the same level of Finnish if majority of music and movies in the world were in Finnish, and if they would start learning it just as early in school.
@@enginerd80 It's just that that education in the US is not the same lvl of standard as it is in Europe. I learned English on my own after school i just had no interest in it while i was in school to be honest :)
How can you say english is hard when you don't know any other language to compare it to?
Also hi from your Uralic brothers 🇭🇺🤝🇫🇮
English is considered one of the hardest languages to learn because it doesn’t have the same vocabulary rules and logic that most languages have.
I feel you just read way to much into the comment. English isn’t just American.
I'm from the Netherlands, there was a time where i had to be taken to the E.R. because i suffered a heart failure. after about a week whilst they were taking care of me they said they wanted to put me under the scanner for x-rays because they noticed some symptoms that were indicators of another condition.. turned out i also had a tumor on my adrenal gland. long story short(many complications): i was hospitalized for over 3 years, after that period i was sent home with another year of hospital care at home. my bill: $0,-
if i would be an American the bill would probably be the thing that killed me after surviving the things i've been trough. oh i forgot to mention. my employer was obligated to keep paying my wages for the first 2 years of absence, (only after 2 years of sick leave they can end the contract). how does that compare to America ? :P
If I’m honest
The moment you got sick you’d maybe die due to fear of using the healthcare
It’s truly sad and I’m happy for you
@@foreignreacts Hey man, i'm loving the content. It's great to see people taking an interest on how other countries do things. Keep it up so we can continue watching your stuff. greets from Maastricht (south of the Netherlands)
for that level of treatment maybe hacking Bill Gates' bank account or changing your name to 'Heisenberg' and cooking crystal meth might be your only options
I was asked where I was from by a guy, when I lived in Philly. I said England. I’m English. They said what language do you speak, you speak English almost perfectly. It was the almost that got to me. Cheers.
But, American English is different from English English, like chalk and cheese
@@wgrady222 wow, thanks for the comment. It’s a funny story, not to be taken seriously. But, no it’s not chalk and cheese. It’s mature cheddar traditionally made and orange cheese that they call cheddar. Bad copy.
Greetings from Finland! I have to wonder what american people learn at school?😅 Here in Finland every 9 year old knows about all countries in Europe and their capitals, too...and they know all continents as well. And they speak guite good english as well...so...are the children here wiser than the adults there!?
That sounds like a rhetorical question. In your soul you already know the answer 😂
sadly they are only taught that they are the best but ignore any facts
More educated yes
Wiser not necessarily
@@colinthompson5846 These sweeping generalizations are much more stupid than anything in the video.
Vi vet redan svarat på de där 😂
No no no, if you think that Europe is a country, that's definately not fine! 😆
In my opinion, that is more retarded than not knowing where Europe is, lol.
You really said "if you think Europe is a country, that's fine." No it's not....
Nope. That’s plain stupid and ignorant.
"If you think Europe is a country that is fine"
A bit of me died there.
These are the standards that ruin a hole generation. You shouldn't have to be rich to be slightly educated.
Whole!!!
There was this American lady who heard 'O, sole mio' for the very fist time, claiming it was a rip off of Elvis' 'Its now or never'.
😂😂😂
Health should be a number 1 priority in EVERY country. In England i am happy to pay for NHS even though I don’t need it, I’m glad it will be there when I need it. It’s sad that in America people worry so much about the cost of their health.
To be fair, the one comparing US government to a garbage can is applicable in many more places.
I have never wanted to visit the USA for many reasons... And this didn't convince me otherwise.
7:28 - This can happen in other places too. My sister went into a big brand toy store (in Germany, where we live), to look for a stuffed dog that looked like her RL dog, and the lady was all "sorry, we don't have that, but it's also really expensive here." Hello? That's not very good marketing, lol. And it's also rude to assume that my sister couldn't afford something in your store. So my sister bought a stuffed rhino for 300 euros, out of spite, just to see the look on the lady's face.
- Note: My sister had just landed a really good paying job and was treating herself.
One comment "you call yourself Americans"... And you and we all refer to all people from Africa continent as africans(Ghana, Zimbabwe, Congo, Kenya...) then aren't all from the American continents Americans? (Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil...) All Americans :)))
Ähh having snow in Finnland, is a totally differnd level!! I can tell you that.
About Turkey, I kinda don't blame the guy because that is how Hollywood depicts our country. When you see a Hollywood movie that tooks places in Turkey, It is either a vast desert with camels etc. where people are wearing clothes associated with Arabic culture(that's why most Americans think we are also Arab but we are not) or it only shows the grand bazaar which is one tiny place in İstanbul.
So naturally people think we live in a country that is covered with deserts and bazaars lol. There are no deserts in Turkey, not even one :-D
Once i spent 2 hours to explain why I don't get beaten because i don't wear a hijab... 2 hours... and when i said i am not even a muslim he gave me a shocked pikachu face lol it was kinda funny. I love how they assume you have to be a certain something if you belong to a certain ethnic group.
The ignorance of the woman, about Denmark and Scandinavia, is incredible!
Greetings from Denmark. And, oh... Not the Denmark in Canada.
Hey everybody! Hi! I'm from Serbia,East Europe,and when I lived in USA some time ago, when ppl asked where I was from I used to say Yugoslavia(the former name of my country at the time)... The response was always OH Yugoslovakia LOL... When Yugoslavia came apart into various countries,I used to say I was from Serbia,and ppl assumed I was from Siberia and I could understand Russian language. Like big NO,yes we are a part of Slavic group, but that doesn't mean we can even vaguely understand one another
The metal detector at school , looooooooooooooooooool... Thank lord , i dont live there
😭
My 2 sons went to America with their dad when they were maybe 12 and 9 years old. When they returned they laughingly recounted how some American children commented on how good their English was.😄
I feel for that lassie being distraught with her hospital bill when I have the NHS .
What on earth did she have done in order to justify that sum; an examination, MRI/CT scan, possibly blood tests. The profit margin must be huge.
God knows ! I'd hate to think ! The cost would be zero here. These bills are insanity to me
Where do these quacks get off charging so much,for the sake of $30.00 pm extra tax you could have free health care
At Monicello, Charlottesville VA, I said to the shop attendant that I was from Portugal and she went "Nice, I have a friend from Guatemala!".
Paying like 30 dollar just to hold your newborn baby after giving birth is disgusting. Especially since it already costs like 10 000 dollar to give birth in the first place.
If they charge me $ 10,000 for my newborn baby, you'll leave him in the hospital.
I never understood this. Surely if they don't give your baby they have kidnapped him/her? That has to be illegal.
that girl being charged 28.000 for having to visit the ER broke my heart. to all you americans out there: why do you people continue to live in the US? I realize that moving to a different country is always a huge risk but there are so many countries in the western world... even more if you add in the industrialized worlds and count countries like Japan and South Korea and they are all so much better options in the long term... why do you people continue to live in the US? I don't understand it... 28.000$ in debt for one visit to the ER? If you ever asked yourself "how do I know that my country does not care about me", that's how you know. 28.000$ in debt for one visit to the ER. your country does not care about you. at all.
When I first went to the US I was in a diner in Nevada. The waitress said to me 'do I detect a Cockney accent?' I replied 'You're about 100 miles out, duck!' I'm from Nottingham and we don't sound remotely Cockney! She then started going on about Robin Hood etc. When I told her we still have a Sherriff she was gobsmacked. I've also been asked over there if I'm Scottish and Australian!
I'm Scottish and was usually mistaken for being Irish in America - even when I'd handed over my British passport for ID, the cashier said "oh, you're irish!". It's probably better to mistake a Scot as Irish, than think Scotland is part of England (which also happened while I was over there).
The ER one is mindblowingly horrible. You realy have to check individual doctors during an emergency so you don't get bankrupt? This is insane.
I mean she only had headaches but what about people with severe injuries...
She had a Cluster-Headache which is the worst kind of headache you could get. It's also called Suicide Headache because of the pain (i have to suffer with it as Well, so "Just a headache" is totally wrong ) but i understand what you are saying with checking If you get the doctor your insurance Work with (that's crazy)
I feel for that poor girl with Cluster headaches. Another name for them is Suicide headaches because the pain is so bad. I know I have had them and if I had had a gun I would have used it.
I work in a Museum in The Hague the Netherlands. And one time I had an American guest who wanted to pay with dollars. So I said sorry we do not accept dollars, only euro's. He:"but it is legal oayment". I:"yes, but only in America.
I could make him understand, that in a small (but awesome) museum as ours, you cant pay with dollars. For the rest our American guest have been awesome.
And if you ever make it to the Netherlands, come visit us at the Panorama Mesdag in The Hague. It will be an experience you will never forget, traveling back in time to Scheveningen in 1880.
But remember to get some euros. 😂
You should just have accepted the dollars at an inflated exchange rate (e.g. $3 = €1) and put your own euros in the till, then headed to the bank to exhange the dollars into euros at a nice profit for being so entrepreneurial (a term Americans ought to understand).
@mcchickenz I wasn't actually serious, but does the Netherlands imprison people for a €20 (not sure where you got that figure from) fraud? If the American visitors were happy with the arrangement, the employee might be considered to have 'gone the extra mile' and should be rewarded appropriately. 😀
A Canadian friend of mine had a similar experience once. Lady was trying to pay in "regular money".
Some years ago I was talking with my adult American cousin and I mentioned Mecca (I can’t recall what we were discussing.) He looked puzzled and I asked him if he knew where Mecca was and he replied ‘Mexico.’
Hehe, I like the faces on the countries bit “WHY CAN NOBODY HAVE AN OPINION BUT YOU!?” 👁👄👁 🤣🤣🤣 love that
Who said that?
@@foreignreacts Europe said it - at the end @10:55 onwards
I got my spine crushed by a tree. I spent a week in NICU, a month in regular hospital and 3 weeks in physical therapy. The bill came to a whopping $334,000. If the hospital didn't write it off as "extreme poverty", I would have had to choose between filing bankruptcy and destroying my credit for 20 years, or spend the rest of my life being bankrupt from making payments. It would have ruined my life. They blame it on malpractice insurance premiums the hospital has to pay for, but if they had good doctors, why even have the insurance? Well, my fiance at the time did more for me in the hospital room than ALL of the nurses combined. One was removed from the floor when my family found out how they were treating me. So, what was the bill actually for?
Gees, I have the 'rona right now and I needed an ambulance ride and spent three nights in hospital. I'd say my bill was 0, but I didn't even get a bill. The care I received was top of the line, efficient but compassionate. Charging for healthcare at the point of access is literally killing people and destroying lives.
hello, I am from France, the capital of People's republic of Canada. I watched many of your videos today and had a lot of fun.
The American health system is unbelievably bad. Almost $28,000 for a visit to the ER, and that's WITH HEALTH INSURANCE! Go to the ER in any Australian public hospital, and it's almost all FREE. At the very most you might get charged a few dollars for some incidental items and maybe $20 for medication you are given.
39k for an ER visit.
Damn, that must have been some luxury resort...
Bruv,a few weeks ago,you didn’t know there are TWO hemispheres and your winter is the Southern Hemispheres summer and vice versa!!
I my wife and my daughter have 3 different cronical diseas.. medicines cost more than our salary...in Usa we would be left dying like Animals? In Italy we are good and safe...we pay more taxes...but with free healthcare system
Do you pay more taxes though. Have you ever checked? Or is this just assumed? I live in Scotland and pay less in tax/deductions than someone on the same salary in the US. So I pay less in tax and get free healthcare.
You should react to "foods banned in Europe but legal in the US"
An old joke from Europe:
A tipical american tourist (baseball hat, chuwing gum, wet tropical t-shirt, camera, short, fat body, dewlap, sunglasses) on a marketplace asks a trader:
- What is this?
- Strawberry.
- Really? Our strawberries much bigger in the US. What is that?
- Apple.
- Oh, we have much bigger apples in the US. And that? - points towards watermelons.
The trader answers nervously: - Grapes, damn it.
🤣🤣🤣
i think i would just... have a panic attack getting a bill of 28k. thats like... so much money. insane...
And all he did was smile, like oh well that's America, and thought nothing of it. Same with school kids having to go through a metal detector, a smile as if, oh well that's America. Their attitudes to things though I do find funny. They actually believe they live in the best Country in the world is probably the funniest.
For 28k in some countries in Europe you can buy a big house.
@@zuzauramek9850 Yes, but as any American will tell you they live in the best Country in the world and they actually believe it. LOL.
Worst thing was her mother essentially saying it's her fault not to ask each individual doctor in the ER whether they are covered by her insurance.. I heard stories of US doctors who know the system still getting screwed when they had to go to the ER themselves, it's a minefield..
They climbed it and didn't even want to stay 😂😂😂
“Oh you probably can”t afford that.” Yeah, the Pretty Woman scene where she goes in a store in Rodeo Drive and they treat her like trash because she didn’t “look the part.” Never experienced that in Ginza (Tokyo’s version of Fifth Avenue, where all the designer stores are.) You can go in in a T-shirt, shorts and flip flops and they would bow to you and serve you properly, and some stores even offer hot chocolate at the door in winter. No judgments, indiscriminate customer service. Best thing is, even if you didn’t buy anything, they bow and thank you on the way out anyway. I swear, Japan has spoiled me, I probably can’t shop anywhere else.
The girl who sounds american who was asked "what language do you speak" in england, was probably some sarcastic people hoping she would say "I speak american...duh" and then proceed to laugh at her
You keep saying "that's the way America is", so which political party are you going to vote for that system to dissapear? Wait, wait... you only have 2 choices: the bad and the ugly!
An American said to me a few weeks ago actually…… “you have NETFLIX over here??”
🤔
My daughter when in America was once asked if we have ice cubes in England.
I can imagine why this question 10:14 appears so frequently. when you're from such a hugeass country which official language is English, the international language is English, and (optimistically) you know there are some other native languages in Ireland/UK area, you could sometimes get that brain lag wondering what England's language actually is, because the answer seems too obvious 😂
The thing is, The States doesn't have an "official" language.
Person: has a heart attack, goes to hospital, survives, gets billed 100k $, has another heart attack, repeat.
I don't think Americans know much about anything outside of America embarrassing really
I don't think they, as in the generally ignorant ones, know much about anything inside America either. There was a Texan shop owner that didn't know where our country, The Bahamas, was located when we told her where we were from. To make it easy for her because we are just a speck on the map, we said its a bunch of tiny islands just east of Florida, to which she replies, "Where's that?". We first get confused because one would think an American would know where Florida is but then just start to list some names of well known places in Florida so that she could maybe understand, like Miami, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, Tampa, Boca Raton, etc.. Surprisingly, nothing clicked for her until we finally mentioned South Beach. So, on that day we learned there are Americans that don't know where the states that make up their own country are, even ones in the same region as their own e.g. Texas and Florida are both Gulf States or US states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Sometimes I start to wonder if something other than shootings, drugs, and rap, such as LEARNING, is happening in American schools! seriously!
Talking of that lady's accent, how is your accent in your second or third language?
I think he thought it was sexy!
Huh
Unnecessary to find some cool
Okay whatever haters
On the subject of "...but you probably don't have that in Turkey"...
To be fair, on discussions of freedom, I often have to tell Americans "...but you don't have that in the US".
Don’t they teach GEOGRAPHY in schools in the USA?
You are the proof.... America has fine people
The worse part is if they have access to Internet and still don't use it or know that they're posting on international platforms.
As an Ohioan, I would apologize for the guy from Cleveland, but. . . He IS from Cleveland so, yeah. . . 🤣
I love the coffee in Australia its the best in the world and Vegemite and timtams and the beaches and just how happy the people are. 😁
👍🤠 🇦🇺
It's not okay to think that Europe is a country. Please people, learn a bit of geography, it's not that hard.
It’s better than thinking Europe is in Canada ☹️
@@foreignreacts That's like saying cow poo smells better than dog poo.
@mary carver neah, they speak French right ? ;-)
And they invented Google 🤔🙈🤣🤣🤣
I'm Canadian 🇨🇦. No. I don't live in an igloo, and where I live usually has milder temperatures than NY. We're America lite, with a dash of Universal Healthcare. Peace xo
I would not say stupid before ignorance, on average all people are equally smart, but the education system should produce ignorant people because it is easier to govern them.
I love the US as a tourist but unless I'd win millions in the lottery I wouldn't move there
Well, if some american tell me "Ellen's show, you probably don't have that in [country]?", I would proudly answer "Of course not"
6:10
Bruv
I have a story to tell though!
So! I live in Brazil (ok it isn't that much better than USA but its still home!) and if you work in a registered job, you tend to gain a whole slew of perks, which includes medical insurance (We do have free healthcare but for emergencies having a insurance may mean life or death). So, I had a pretty bad kidney stone stuck between the kidney and the bladder and had it extracted fast. They gave me like almost a month to recover (In increments of 14 days ) I just gave the document that said the recovery time was needed to the workplace (as is required by law for me to give and they to accept) and that was it.
When you're bleeding like mad but crawl past three doctor's offices because they're not "in the network" - only, and really only in the US.
So, I used to work in Tech Support and we had around the clock coverage. Which meant for out of hrs US coverage, Emea and Apac did that. So I had a US customer one day, and he asked me where I am based. And I said, the UK. And he was like, UK? I was like, yes, you know, England. And he said, oh, you mean Canada.
Turkey is famous for feral cats, plus the breed known as Angora cats originated in Turkey.
I am so shocked about the girl wich had to go to the ER... wtf!? 33800 $... for what?
In germany you get all your teeth in Gold + a new hipp and perhaps a cyborgleg! 😂
Damn, what a fucked up country😅
ER means "extreme rates" 😱
Okay, to be fair to americans, someone once said they're from Pennsylvania and I thought it was a Scandinavian country .-. sooo....😳
You keep saying "It's just how America is". This is the problem, Americans are doing nothing about their own bad situation, they just sit back and take it. How many of these videos do Americans have to watch to realise they are being so screwed over by the Govt that is supposed to be working for them.
They are terrified of socialism though most don't know what it is.
I've been blessed to only go to Hospital a handful of times. It's always free, and the one time I was given a prescription it was $6.95 for the 3 month course of pills.
That being said, I choose to pay $35 to see my personal Dr, but if I had no money, I could see the call doctor for free.
"Dumpsters: You probably don't have that in Turkey. Stray cats: you probably don't have that in Turkey"
meanwhile, in r/TurkishCats *everybody laughs*
Don't call Europe a country, trust me. It's the same as to say America is a country (and yeah, America, not USA, America = USA + Canada+ Mexico + Belize + Guatemala + Cuba + Bahamas + Cayman Islands + Jamaica + Haiti + Dominican Republic + Turks and Caicos Islands + British Virgin Islands + Montserrat + Antigua and Babuda + Dominica + St Lucia + Barbados + Granada + Aruba + Curacao + US Virgin Islands + Anguilla + St Kitts and Nevis + Guadeloupe + Martinique + St vincend and the Grenadines + El Salvador + Honduras + Nicaragua + Costa Rica + Panama + Colombia + Venezuela + Trinidad and Tobago + Ecuador + Suriname + Guyana + Brazil + Paraguay + Peru + Bolivia + Uruguay + Chile + Argentina + Bermuda), hope I didn't miss a country or counted a country outside the american continent.
The point I am making is, that all countries in Europe have a distinct culture and history. As such you really can't say Europe is a country. The EU is the closest thing to a country but even that is just a lose union (like the Holy Roman Empire for example) and doesn't even encompass the whole continent.
The Falkland Islands is a definite NO and pleased you missed it out. (U.K.)👍
@@rubberyowen1469 well, I left out the Netherlands and France as well, even though both still directly control islands in the carribean (aruba for example may be part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands but are still a constituant country).
@@fusssel7178 I did notice but was more interested in the U.K. South America, North America and Canada of course are all part of The Americas. Take Care. 👍
@@rubberyowen1469😃 the thing is it is not "the americas" is America cause it is a continent ,just 1 continent. so there is no "the".😉 just to clarify.
have a great day!😃
@@emilialavarellocambaceres315 Where I live in Europe the continent is known as The Americas and is all one continent obviously. Globally Countries are taught different to others. It is not really a problem and hardly worth mentioning. Take Care. 👍
Long time ago I was in Miami and someone asked me for directions, so I replied: 'Sorry I can't help you, I'm from Holland'. The response was: 'Oh Holland New York', and he moved on....
At least your still learning though that there is a world outside America and just how totally RIPPED OFF Americans are. I admire your will to learn and I wish more Americans would do the same. They really are an embarassment to watch and listen to on RUclips. FOX and CNN are also great for a good laugh. I love you Americans and your always entertaining. Keep learning and Take Care over there.👍
Exactly. I only laugh at people that refuse to learn. Ignorance =/= stupidity
(11:05) My life. I say an opinion. Others disagree. Fine.
Someone else says their opinion. I disagree. They get upset, and say I don't have to disagree with all their opinions.
But... what are we supposed to do? Just sit in silence? Talk about the weather? Like, sharing opinions is a discussion.
Ouch! That must have hurt.
The lack of knowledge or ignorance of countries I can kind of understand & is funny but the ones about your health care? The poor girl 20000 in debt because of a headache - I literally cried with her. you guys gotta fix that health care system
I think the whole world (not that it would ever happen) should have to demonstrate basic knowledge of how the political system works before you're allowed to vote. Just to eliminate voters who vote for someone just because of their ethnicity/gender etc.
Also, living in New Zealand I've had jobs with unlimited sick leave, but more commonly you just get 10 or 15 days, with 4 weeks legally of paid vacation days. A lot of jobs will start 'suggesting' you take leave once you have over 4 weeks because you need to be rested to work efficiently. Work/life balance is a biggy.
My grandpa actually got a heart attact and he rode a bike to the hospital. It was a 15 min ride.
Comments made by visiting Americans that annoy us Brits: We speak with a cute accent. We spell words in a funny way. We drive on the wrong side of the road. Our beer is too warm. Our food/drink portions (and cars) are so much smaller than those in (insert State).
I actually saw a You tube comment from an American who thought it crazy that someone from Glasgow would travel "THOUSANDS" of miles to London to demonstrate against a visiting Donald Trump!
🙈🙈🙈 it's around 400miles, Americans could google it, but somehow...🤔🤷♀️
I don’t understand - would you really get fired because you didn’t call work that you wouldn’t be able to come in? Is that a thing? Seems to me you get fired for the dumbest reasons in the US. Here we have a whole HR procedure before someone is fired involving a letter to you requesting a meeting with your manager and HR (where you can bring an union rep or a support person), then if it’s deemed bad enough you have a written warning that is valid for 6 months. It usually takes about 3 of these procedures to then be sat down and asked if this job is for you and maybe you’d be better off resigning. If a company doesn’t follow these steps, then the employee has a case for unfair dismissal and they may end up having to pay court costs and back pay. If you’ve done something like theft it still involves a meeting to be told you will be instantly dismissed. Life seems really harsh in the US.
Yup in the Netherlands its by law forbidden to fire someone that is on sickleave
Well, you can't be sick for three years and not have to leave your job, I guess.
Tsk, tsk that Denmark thing. It's a well-known fact that Denmark is the capital of Amsterdam.
Have you heard about some of the questions the staff at Yellowstone are asked by American tourists.
Does Old Faithful operate in the winter?
Are the animals animatronic?
What time do you let the animals out in the morning?
I'm in Canada, worked at a national park. We got questions like:
What time does the whale show start? (Asked about wild whales in the ocean)
That's just styrofoam you have anchored there for effect, right? (About an iceberg)
Can you turn the ocean down, it's keeping me awake.
to think that europe is a country is ok? well alright then...
I mean it’s better to think that rather than thinking it’s in another country
Right? 😵💫
They both are silly 😬
I was once asked "where you from" and I said Costa Rica and this girl from the US said "where is that"? so I said "Central America" and she was like "Ohh so in the middle of the US?" ... pfff
The final one is so right 🙈
At least most Americans know Australia exists... cause they always confuse the country I'm from with it 🤨😑 NO KANGAROOS IN AUSTRIA!! 🤟😆😂
No, no kangaroos but your Sacher Torte tastes also pretty good.