There’s a Beer Sign that hasn’t been a beer sign for probably 15 years at least that people around where I live still know what you mean when giving directions.
My Grandpa in South Carolina once told me to turn at the old something mansion that burned down 30 years back. 🤣🤣 And then he told me the story of how it burned down and ended with telling me to turn at the gas station across the road. 🤣🤣
classic -haha. Ya der - go down dat a way, till see the see the red barn that burned down - they be some old blocks around that area der - ya know, hang a right and go a few I don't know der, maybe 5- 8 fields or so and take a turn at the big oak treeeee der, that should get ya going right on path der. And I fully understand. Thank ya der sir, need some help der. Noooo - ok see ya now.
As a midwesterner....those compliments make our day. But if you say thank you without a backwards back story, someone might think you're high and mighty. Can't have that.😂
Pay attention, this is important. He left out a really important part of the midwest goodbye in the words, but he did it with his actions. He looked down at his shoes immediately during saying "welp". Not too much before, not too much after. Just right. This is the way.
Midwest Good Bye also consistes of everyone in the house standing outside or in the door way waving good bye as you drive away with everyone waving at and back each other until you are all well out of sight.
@@Surprisemenow learning how eerily similar Midwest culture is to Norwegian culture is... eerie. It's been hundreds of years, and we still somehow all ended up with bag of bags and similar ways of saying goodbye.
My Mainer husband could give us midwesterners a run for our money. The amount of times I've had to break up a conversation should've made me rich. I love him but he can talk till you're blue in the face
"Bad weather brings us together" is more true than you think. Collectively bitching or applauding the weather brings a sense of 'us vs. them' every human craves but its all against nature, so no one's ever hurt!
0:44 At the end of every holiday gettogether my grandfather would do the mid-west shuffle in the car, inch by inch down the driveway, while my grandmother yacked on and on about every little subject.
I haven’t lived in MN for 45 years, but know of and have used these all my life. Probably the reason living in Florida people could tell I was FROM the Midwest.
Southern Mo here!!!! Dont spot much differnce! 'Cept we dont actually "talk with hands" like so many Europeans do. Ost of our European wore off 300 yrs ago!!!
60 from Mount Vernon, IN (SW toe). 90% of this was right for me. I think some Southern may have crept across the Ohio River and diluted this just a little.
@@wendypellett8343 It’s not exclusively a Minnesota thing, it’s a marker of Scandinavian heritage. It’s a Scandinavian thing that is used primarily in the Midwest but not exclusively, as it is used in Scandinavian communities in other states. And it’s UFF DA, yes the dictionary says oof da is an acceptable alternative, but the Wikipedia article is titled “Uff da”. I’m from the most Norwegian town in Iowa with the first Norwegian college in the US. Also my step grandfather was 100% Norwegian. I’ve been saying “uff da” my whole life.
@@sassenachdragonYes. I always thought it was just a sound many of us just naturally make, when I read in a Loraine Snelling novel about it's being like an actual Norwegian word or phrase. Which explains it's being esp. asst. w MN as MN had prob. the greatest number of Norwegian immigrant settlers of the Midwest states, although others got a lot, too. I didn't know other Scandinavian countries perhaps shared the term.. (?). I have swedish heritage although I mostly German, w some English and lil Danish as well. Born n raised in WI, not far in from St. Paul, MN tho.
We do a Midwest good bye in the back woods of the north east too. Always starts with a “well, I better..” and it helps to have a chore to do or a meal to eat.
I think it’s just a rural thing, I grew up in the way far out country part of California, and everything was measured in time, and running errands was referred to as, “going in to town”.
bonus is if you can use current weather like how average roads are in winter/during a snow storm, fog or are like some well known road construction (South Dakota) is famous for never ending road construction because of how unpredictable the weather is and only so many working days for construction.
I thought everybody communicated distance in driving time until I moved out of the Midwest. The look I received the first time I told someone, "That's about 6 1/2 hours away", was an eye opener. 😂 Around the same time someone told me a city was about 800 miles away and I was thinking, what the heck am I supposed to do with that trivia? 😂 Welp, gotta run! Watch out fer deer.
I've been told that in Chicago, despite it being in the Midwest, they have to give distances in miles because traffic varies too much to give reliable time estimates. Glad I don't have to worry about that.
That's a real issue in the Cleveland area, especially around Independence off of Brecksville Rd. I'm sure they're everywhere now since we humans tore down so much of their forest.
I love it! I never realized we do defend the weather. ☺️ With rain, I typically say it will be good for the fruit this year, it will wash all the pollen off the plants, or "We sure needed this. Remember how dry it was last year?" We are actually a pretty nice and positive bunch of people!! ❤ For our weather in Michigan, most people of a certain age will remember the "green storm" in the early 80's. That sounds something like, "Yeah, this storm is bad, but nothing like the green storm." Which is followed by each person's account of exactly where they were during the green storm. 😂😂😂 ...and the Midwest goodbye even happens over the phone!
@@hoosierpioneer Blizzard of '78. Trapped in a factory for three days because I let the boss convince me to have a guy take me to work on his snowmobile. Had to hitchhike home. Learned that lesson well.
@@hoosierpioneer I was born in March of that year. I will have to have Mom re-tell that story. It's not like my 9-month-old self would remember that event. But I do remember the ice storm that hit my area of IA pretty badly for three days in my 8th grade year. No power, so we were relying on our wood stove downstairs in the basement to heat our house. And crap-tons of blankets on our beds! 😅😅
G'day. A Canadian here. And I wholeheartedly agree on your southern time, compass direction, and landmarks for navigation. Us Hicks have been using it since we crossed the Atlantic.
Manitoba Canada is alot like the Midwest eh. We defend the weather, do the goodbye rounds where when you want to leave someones place you have to go to each person individually say goodbye and have a 10 minute conversation while saying goodbye, now if its a big party you're going to have to make a 2nd round of goodbyes to the first half of people who you said goodbye to lol general rule of thumb if you see someone 30 minutes sfter you said goodbye and you're still saying goodbyes you have to say goodbye again as you get closer to the door lol.
I never realized how similar Manitoba was to the US Midwest until I was stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado when I was in the US military. At the annual Christmas party, I was in civilian clothes and was talking to one of my Canadian colleagues and his wife. Suddenly, his wife said, "Excuse me, are you from Winnipeg?" I replied, "No, I'm from Wisconsin and Minnesota." She responded, "You sound just like you're from Winnipeg."🤣
Manitoba is one of the flattest areas you can find Maybe Alberta, so much you Canadians joke about it that Corner Sation or Letter Kenney was made in flat part of province.
I don't know anyone who measures distance - in distance. It's just not a useful frame of reference. Something can be a long distance - but if the route from here to there is mostly highway, freeway or express way: it won't take even half as long as it would if it was street to street stop signs and only 30 mph. Saying the mileage doesn't provide you with useful information. However - if you know the route, or have a good idea of it, you can give someone a reasonable expectation of how long it will take to get there: which is vastly more useful to them. They may be in a hurry, or low on gas, and therefore - knowing how long they should expect the trip to take allows them to make some relevant decisions like doing that task now or some other time or if they should gas up before taking the trip, etc. Conversely - you tell someone something is 3 miles, they'd probably expect that to be a pretty short trip: but not if the best way to get there is through some super clogged road construction and awful traffic - as where telling them "Yeah, that'll probably take you a good 25 minutes due to road construction" is vastly more informative.
Born and raised in MN, what's crazy is I don't like living here, but I defend the weather without even realizing it, just as he said. I hate it all, but have said every single thing. 🤣🤣
😂 from IN… when we were in Oshkosh for an air show we found out you couldn’t buy beer after 9 in Winnebago County. The gas station attendant told us to go up towards Appleton 3 exits… you could have said 30 miles and we would have waited till morning. But I didn’t think about it until we got almost there.
I'm from Texas. We have our own version of the "Midwest Goodbye" and it can be equally as long 😂 And we start it almost the same way: "Well I reckon..." 😂😂😂
Born and raised in Illinois but haven't lived there in decades and thought my Midwest speak was gone but nope, still say Geez Louis and finagle. The Midwest goodbye takes so long because you end up saying goodbye to the same people multiple times.
I can literally spend three hours doing nothing at my mom's house and it never fails as I'm walking out ready to leave she will remember something she needs me to do for her. Something I could have done the whole three hours I was there.
I can relate. And after that, when I was about to get in the car it would be "how about a sandwich before you go?". Enjoy those times. Before you know it they're only memories :)
2:02 never forget to overcompensate by giving way too thorough instructions of how to get the store you got the shirt, find the sales online, give em a call to make sure they have their size, just damn near offer the shirt off your back. It’s our version of “thanks pal”.
Regarding measuring distance in time, vs length, we do that in areas with a LOT of traffic, too. Even if it is only 10 miles away, we let the people know…it’s about 45 minutes away.
Story. Two high school friends (from Bemidji) attended Dartmouth College (in Hanover, NH). They both took German. One was translating German into English (or rather Minnesotan) and spoke the "ruff" word, and was laughed at by the whole class. He had to ask what was wrong with his translation. The other friend later got called out for referring to the "ruts" of a tree.
Holy crap, I feel this in my soul 😅 Geeze Louise has been part of my vocabulary since i could talk. And it's "jeet yet?" Then an offer of some homemade eats.❤
@@grindinitout1761 It's more than just the deer, donchaknow? You gotta watch out for'em deer TICKS these days. Nasty little buggers - their as big as just a pencil-width!
Oh sure, that is real nice of ya. I mean it. I tell you what, I noticed you had a tree that needed trimmed out side. If you got some time, I'd love to get up there and trim it up real good. What do you say?
In iowa we just had an early spring that felt like fall. Now we are in second winter. I think we just make them up as we go because the seasons and random, never ending combinations, and unpredictable.
A few days ago, I was in Tennessee and one day we went fishing. Our guide was from North Carolina and as we finished up we actually did a midwestern goodbye. We shook hands, said goodbye, and as we started getting in the car we stood outside talking with the doors open for like 15 minutes. Good time.
I say the weather thing a lot, especially “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” “Midwesterners stink at accepting compliments” dang and here I thought it was because I was insecure
And if the weather fails as a topic of interest, you can always talk about the biting insects. There's nosee'ems in the spring, mosquitos in early summer and deer and horse flies mid into late summer. Ticks you can talk about all year round. Not because they're out there in the middle of winter but because you or a relative might have gotten the Lyme's Disease from one last season.
As someone from Missouri we totally judge how far things are by minutes. Also if you come here be prepared to use both your AC and Heater in the same day.
Everyone should adopt measuring distance in time. Like it takes me 15 mins to get to work but it’s 3 miles. It could take an hour to get to the store in LA but be 5 miles. Let’s just let each other know how much time they need to allow for the drive
As a proud Appalachian, when we say goodbye it's a formula of an extended word + a compliment + a promise. "Yeeaahhhh.... listen, I hate to part good company, but I gotta go. I promise to stop over next week though and we can have some tea then!"
this is like listening to my dad, he always did the whole whelp, I suppose...followed by the classic, hit the road, if we were heading back home. The slap the leg and looking down...perfect. thanks, you made my day with that memory 😂
so funny:i grew up in central (small town) new york under parents that grew up in staten island and philly...city folk. 2:43 i so relate to all them things you did a great job, yeah a couple of flubs, no worries, of relating. central anywhere means ya gotta be polite etc.?
I grew up in NJ and we always gave directions in time because, traffic. I moved to Minnesota about 5 years ago and have seen most of these. One last thing is Jeet is used in the south too just pronounced slightly different.
Here in Seattle there is no goodbye ritual, you’re lucky to even get a goodbye. Heck, be grateful they showed up at all, and didn’t send a text bailing, 3 minutes before they were supposed to be there. Also, I’m from Northern California (aka, the good half), and we only measured in time. I”m 38 yrs old and I can’t tell you how many miles it is from my hometown to The City, but I can tell you it is exactly 3.5 hours. It’s a 15 min drive “in to town” from the house I grew up in, and it’s 45 min “inland” from the ocean.
I’m from Iowa and yeah, that damn wind is what makes the winters suck.😂 However, when I do my Midwestern goodbye, I don’t inch towards the door. I’m gone. Unless the person keeps talking and I’m to polite to walk away.😅
Traveling from San Diego's Pacific Coast to the Southern Texas Gulf Coast, we had lots of humorous moments at hotels, gas stations, restaurants, etc etc. The billboards along the road were hilarious, such as "home insurance plans more flexible than a flour tortilla".
'Jeet' is pretty universal, we do use that one here in the northeast. It's often followed by "wad'jeet?" which is asked to find out what you have eaten.
Yes, I agree on the mileage vs the time. If you drive through Chicagoland Traffic like we do many times to get to Michigan (I'm a native Michigander) you can't say how many miles. We always say how much time and then say, "depending on the time of year". Construction around Chicagoland can be a nightmare and can easily add another hour to your trip. I mean Geez Louise the traffic can be a nightmare!
1:14 I grew up in Michigan, and have lived all over the country in my adulthood, and it is my experience that most of the country does this same thing, and thinks they are unique for doing so.
😂Iowa native. Lived here all my life and married a native Iowa farmer. Here are some more: Oh my gosh! He is going to hell in a hand basket! Jeepers creepers. By golly. Holy moly! What in the dickens! My word! My land! My Lord! What the heck? Golly! I'll be darned. Darn it! My gosh, really? You've gotta be kidding me! For the love of Pete. Oh for Pete's sake. Wowsa! Them there....Boy oh boy. Hey there. So how did he pass? Fart cakes. When the cows come home. Knee high by the 4th of July (corn). Knee high to a grasshopper. Love him to death. Glory be! You gotta be kidding me! Yep! Yep! Yep! Sure thing. Heavens to Betsy. Jimmy rig or jury rig or jerry rig!
welp being from Illinois but almost 7 hours south of lake michigan... we round here get the best of both the south and the midwest. im closest to paducah kentucky. and we use land marks and nesw and time as directions. example guys asks how to get to FS.... Welp you go bout 5 minutes north here til you see that great big ok tree youll turn right head down that road about a mile then the 1st cross roads turn back south head on down there for a few minutes youll see them big silos up there. when you see them turn in the 1st driveway the 2nd drive is semi trucks only. you see them packers play? (as most of us hate the bears and cubs) Ya that was some good football right there. guess they lost the season tho them cards are pre gameing down at STL may wanna swing out and check em out.
For cry-eye-exclamation of disbelief Kinniption fit-an emotional meltdown😢 Six ways to Sunday-your taking too long You betcha Lemmyatit-your making a simple task into a project! 0:00
Distance is measured by time in New England too. Everything may be closer than the Midwest but depending on the time of day, there are all those people in the way.
The weather and the getting out the door can double for Southern as well. That dang Derek Bieri is making oofda cat h on everywhere else as well. 😂 He's a hard guy to not like.
We used to have the Air Force Code: Huh? Oh. Being from Minnesota when I went into the USAF I get this whole thing. There was a book "How to speak Minnesotan" I'm on a flight from Salt Lake City to Boise and this older couple sit in the seats next to me. They're probably early 70's. The guy starts messing with the tray table and starts his in conversation with his wife by saying "Yah knoh, a guy could..." Having just read that book and that being a saying in the book, I asked if they were from Minnesota. "Yah! Howdja knoh?" "We just flew in frum da Cities." I asked if they were from Northwest Minnesota and he said "Yup. Teef River Falss. Howdja kno that?" Just a guess I said. I had all I could do to not burst out laughing.
Distance in time is the only way that the NY metro areas can discuss because 20 miles can take 3 hours. I discussed while bartending serving a guy from Texas who came to the realize what he thought was a weird quirk was a hard reality once he drove somewhere
OMG I just said WELP to a friend in AZ slapped my thighs and stood up. She didn’t pick up on it at all and just kept talking. Eventually I gave up and sat back down. I’ve been gone from the Midwest for at least 20 years. 😂🤣
Time vs. distance works even better for city travel. Sure, it might only be a few miles away...but it's going to take you 3 hours to get there during daylight when everyone else is on the road too.
This is so accurate, especially the distance and goodbyes. Im from the Midwest, and i have NEVER heard someone tell me the actual distance in miles. And fir the goodbyes, when i was a kid my parents did this all the time, i would be at a family friends house and my dad would say that we were leaving in a couple of minutes and then i would proceed to go downstairs watch lord of the rings come back upstairs to were he was wait a half hour walk out to the car and wait another 10 minutes befor we actually left.
Iowa here, we say ofda as in I am off to, such as ofda store, ofda golf course. Also finagle is like going through alot of obstacles and barriers we finagled our way through, also like we jumped through the hoops or we Mcgivered our way. Also when saying how far it is in time people always say it is a half an hour less then it really is. I have learned if they say its about an hour away, I know its really at least 1 1/2 hours away. LOL love your videos
Grew up in Illinois and moved to the Northwest 25 years ago. The welp, is something my Son said yesterday when he was getting ready to leave. lol, he was born out here. Wonder where he learned that word. The word out here in the NW that drives me crazy is “these ones”.
Distance is either measured by time or landmarks. Bonus if the landmarks are things that used to be there but aren't now.
There’s a Beer Sign that hasn’t been a beer sign for probably 15 years at least that people around where I live still know what you mean when giving directions.
Same thing here in the Commiefornia Central Valley.
My Grandpa in South Carolina once told me to turn at the old something mansion that burned down 30 years back. 🤣🤣 And then he told me the story of how it burned down and ended with telling me to turn at the gas station across the road. 🤣🤣
classic -haha. Ya der - go down dat a way, till see the see the red barn that burned down - they be some old blocks around that area der - ya know, hang a right and go a few I don't know der, maybe 5- 8 fields or so and take a turn at the big oak treeeee der, that should get ya going right on path der. And I fully understand. Thank ya der sir, need some help der. Noooo - ok see ya now.
One that my late grandpa would say was to turn "where the big barn used to be". No road name, no new info, just the barn. Lol.
As a midwesterner....those compliments make our day. But if you say thank you without a backwards back story, someone might think you're high and mighty. Can't have that.😂
This is so true
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😮 WHAAAT?! THATS BAD! Y'all should take compliments & say THANK YOU!
Pay attention, this is important. He left out a really important part of the midwest goodbye in the words, but he did it with his actions. He looked down at his shoes immediately during saying "welp". Not too much before, not too much after. Just right. This is the way.
Midwest Good Bye also consistes of everyone in the house standing outside or in the door way waving good bye as you drive away with everyone waving at and back each other until you are all well out of sight.
@@Surprisemenow learning how eerily similar Midwest culture is to Norwegian culture is... eerie. It's been hundreds of years, and we still somehow all ended up with bag of bags and similar ways of saying goodbye.
My Grandma was the undefeated champion in our town of the Midwest Goodbye.
My brother in law is the Heir Apparent to that title.
My Mainer husband could give us midwesterners a run for our money. The amount of times I've had to break up a conversation should've made me rich. I love him but he can talk till you're blue in the face
"Bad weather brings us together" is more true than you think. Collectively bitching or applauding the weather brings a sense of 'us vs. them' every human craves but its all against nature, so no one's ever hurt!
0:44 At the end of every holiday gettogether my grandfather would do the mid-west shuffle in the car, inch by inch down the driveway, while my grandmother yacked on and on about every little subject.
My dad learned not to put on his coat until my mother was actually out the door.
My Minnesota grandfather was adorable. He'd leave the room, put on his pajamas and bathrobe, reenter the room and wait for guests to leave.
I haven’t lived in MN for 45 years, but know of and have used these all my life. Probably the reason living in Florida people could tell I was FROM the Midwest.
Ope! I moved from Ohio to Alabama and it feels like an entirely different word sometimes.
Went from IN to Memphis, TN. Didnt notice the "ope" until I was in the grocery store and got looked at funny
Holy crap, I'm 51 and born and raised in Illinois. Absolutely EVERYTHING here is true. How are so many people so completely the same? 😂
Because this is our culture. Mix a bunch of Swedes, Germans, Italians and native Indians together, what else would you expect?
Southern Mo here!!!! Dont spot much differnce! 'Cept we dont actually "talk with hands" like so many Europeans do. Ost of our European wore off 300 yrs ago!!!
60 from Mount Vernon, IN (SW toe). 90% of this was right for me. I think some Southern may have crept across the Ohio River and diluted this just a little.
WI here.
Born and raised in Indiana and never heard Offda until I met my wife, born and raised in Wisconsin at the UP boarder.
It’s Uffda 😉 okey-dokey?
Think it’s an upper Midwest thing. From Nebraska I rarely heard it. Wisconsin, SD and Minnesota natives say it a lot
Oofda is actually a Minnesota thing.
@@wendypellett8343 It’s not exclusively a Minnesota thing, it’s a marker of Scandinavian heritage. It’s a Scandinavian thing that is used primarily in the Midwest but not exclusively, as it is used in Scandinavian communities in other states. And it’s UFF DA, yes the dictionary says oof da is an acceptable alternative, but the Wikipedia article is titled “Uff da”.
I’m from the most Norwegian town in Iowa with the first Norwegian college in the US. Also my step grandfather was 100% Norwegian. I’ve been saying “uff da” my whole life.
@@sassenachdragonYes. I always thought it was just a sound many of us just naturally make, when I read in a Loraine Snelling novel about it's being like an actual Norwegian word or phrase. Which explains it's being esp. asst. w MN as MN had prob. the greatest number of Norwegian immigrant settlers of the Midwest states, although others got a lot, too. I didn't know other Scandinavian countries perhaps shared the term.. (?). I have swedish heritage although I mostly German, w some English and lil Danish as well. Born n raised in WI, not far in from St. Paul, MN tho.
We do a Midwest good bye in the back woods of the north east too. Always starts with a “well, I better..” and it helps to have a chore to do or a meal to eat.
Shows how Michigan I am. I thought time is how everyone describes how far away a place is. 🤣
I think it’s just a rural thing, I grew up in the way far out country part of California, and everything was measured in time, and running errands was referred to as, “going in to town”.
bonus is if you can use current weather like how average roads are in winter/during a snow storm, fog or are like some well known road construction (South Dakota) is famous for never ending road construction because of how unpredictable the weather is and only so many working days for construction.
Milwaukee is the same 😂
@caseysmith544 knowing time according to the weather is just survival in Milwaukee 😂
My husband is from the Midwest. His standard answer to "How are you?" is "Can't complain."
Followed up by "NO one would listen anyway" 😂
I thought everybody communicated distance in driving time until I moved out of the Midwest. The look I received the first time I told someone, "That's about 6 1/2 hours away", was an eye opener. 😂 Around the same time someone told me a city was about 800 miles away and I was thinking, what the heck am I supposed to do with that trivia? 😂
Welp, gotta run! Watch out fer deer.
I've been told that in Chicago, despite it being in the Midwest, they have to give distances in miles because traffic varies too much to give reliable time estimates. Glad I don't have to worry about that.
That's a real issue in the Cleveland area, especially around Independence off of Brecksville Rd. I'm sure they're everywhere now since we humans tore down so much of their forest.
@@kynn23I'm in the Chicago area and I hear blocks or miles alot. Sometimes I'll hear time.
Any potholes or bridges out. Is the branch flooded???? No way to measure actual miles!
@@kynn23 A lot of people will give both, with traffic as the variable: "It's 30 miles, about 40 minutes if traffic is good."
As a 35 year long Midwestern resident,
Yeah, no yeah. Pretty much this.
Brilliance, Myles! Now you just need to explain "Supper Clubs" to the rest of the world! (That's a Wisconsin thing--not even midwest.). You get it.
I miss me a good supper club!!
Supper clubs are amazing.
Also in MN.
I love it! I never realized we do defend the weather. ☺️ With rain, I typically say it will be good for the fruit this year, it will wash all the pollen off the plants, or "We sure needed this. Remember how dry it was last year?" We are actually a pretty nice and positive bunch of people!! ❤ For our weather in Michigan, most people of a certain age will remember the "green storm" in the early 80's. That sounds something like, "Yeah, this storm is bad, but nothing like the green storm." Which is followed by each person's account of exactly where they were during the green storm. 😂😂😂
...and the Midwest goodbye even happens over the phone!
Lol or the snow storm of '78 I hadn't been born yet but I feel like lived through it with all the stories I've heard 😂😂
Gotta get it right. It was the blizzard of '78. And I did live through it!
@@hoosierpioneer true true🤣🤣
@@hoosierpioneer Blizzard of '78. Trapped in a factory for three days because I let the boss convince me to have a guy take me to work on his snowmobile. Had to hitchhike home. Learned that lesson well.
@@hoosierpioneer I was born in March of that year. I will have to have Mom re-tell that story. It's not like my 9-month-old self would remember that event. But I do remember the ice storm that hit my area of IA pretty badly for three days in my 8th grade year. No power, so we were relying on our wood stove downstairs in the basement to heat our house. And crap-tons of blankets on our beds! 😅😅
G'day. A Canadian here. And I wholeheartedly agree on your southern time, compass direction, and landmarks for navigation. Us Hicks have been using it since we crossed the Atlantic.
Manitoba Canada is alot like the Midwest eh. We defend the weather, do the goodbye rounds where when you want to leave someones place you have to go to each person individually say goodbye and have a 10 minute conversation while saying goodbye, now if its a big party you're going to have to make a 2nd round of goodbyes to the first half of people who you said goodbye to lol general rule of thumb if you see someone 30 minutes sfter you said goodbye and you're still saying goodbyes you have to say goodbye again as you get closer to the door lol.
And while you are making the rounds, someone will ask" you leavin? What's yer hurry?"
@@hoosierpioneer yes! 100% true
I never realized how similar Manitoba was to the US Midwest until I was stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado when I was in the US military. At the annual Christmas party, I was in civilian clothes and was talking to one of my Canadian colleagues and his wife. Suddenly, his wife said, "Excuse me, are you from Winnipeg?" I replied, "No, I'm from Wisconsin and Minnesota." She responded, "You sound just like you're from Winnipeg."🤣
Manitoba is one of the flattest areas you can find Maybe Alberta, so much you Canadians joke about it that Corner Sation or Letter Kenney was made in flat part of province.
I didn't realize that I measured distances in time until watching this video
Big thing in Canada too
I don't know anyone who measures distance - in distance. It's just not a useful frame of reference. Something can be a long distance - but if the route from here to there is mostly highway, freeway or express way: it won't take even half as long as it would if it was street to street stop signs and only 30 mph. Saying the mileage doesn't provide you with useful information. However - if you know the route, or have a good idea of it, you can give someone a reasonable expectation of how long it will take to get there: which is vastly more useful to them. They may be in a hurry, or low on gas, and therefore - knowing how long they should expect the trip to take allows them to make some relevant decisions like doing that task now or some other time or if they should gas up before taking the trip, etc. Conversely - you tell someone something is 3 miles, they'd probably expect that to be a pretty short trip: but not if the best way to get there is through some super clogged road construction and awful traffic - as where telling them "Yeah, that'll probably take you a good 25 minutes due to road construction" is vastly more informative.
I thought that was how everyone measured it...
Midwesterners always act like they are special for doing this, when almost everyone (at least in the US) does this.
Same
Born and raised in MN, what's crazy is I don't like living here, but I defend the weather without even realizing it, just as he said. I hate it all, but have said every single thing. 🤣🤣
😂 from IN… when we were in Oshkosh for an air show we found out you couldn’t buy beer after 9 in Winnebago County. The gas station attendant told us to go up towards Appleton 3 exits… you could have said 30 miles and we would have waited till morning. But I didn’t think about it until we got almost there.
I'm from Texas. We have our own version of the "Midwest Goodbye" and it can be equally as long 😂 And we start it almost the same way: "Well I reckon..." 😂😂😂
The Midwest is really no different then the south
Where I grew up in the Ozarks, "Well I reckon..." was just what you said about an hour or two before you got to saying, "whelp".
yeah from Kentucky and it's the same way throughout the south
@@parkerbreitenbach2767 yeah, except the weather.
Sounds about right. I'm a NC boy who's been living in the midwest for a few years now. Definitely some similarities.
Am Iowan. Can confirm cedar rappids to cedar falls is about an hour and a bit.
same here
Thought he said Dubuque to Cedar Rapids? That be about an hour n a half.
I didn’t hear him say “you guys “. That’s my favorite!
Did you mean "youse guys"
Born and raised in Illinois but haven't lived there in decades and thought my Midwest speak was gone but nope, still say Geez Louis and finagle. The Midwest goodbye takes so long because you end up saying goodbye to the same people multiple times.
FIB alert!
"Might as well hug everybody again on the way out!!!"
The way you guys drive gives my finger an erection! Greetings from Wisconsin!
The weather one got me in my roots.
@@Jaxson-kc8vk it's ok most of the midwest doesn't consider Wisc, Min, and MI to be in the midewest...
I can literally spend three hours doing nothing at my mom's house and it never fails as I'm walking out ready to leave she will remember something she needs me to do for her. Something I could have done the whole three hours I was there.
I can relate. And after that, when I was about to get in the car it would be "how about a sandwich before you go?". Enjoy those times. Before you know it they're only memories :)
Same here! 🙄
The chair in the dining room (or surface near the front door) that has a pile of stuff she wants to see if you wanted just as you go to leave.
Grew up in the Twin Cities and every time you talk to anyone still there…….the weather WILL BE part of the conversation GUARANTEED!
What are the four seasons in Minnesota? Winter, winter, winter, and road construction.
2:02 never forget to overcompensate by giving way too thorough instructions of how to get the store you got the shirt, find the sales online, give em a call to make sure they have their size, just damn near offer the shirt off your back. It’s our version of “thanks pal”.
Regarding measuring distance in time, vs length, we do that in areas with a LOT of traffic, too. Even if it is only 10 miles away, we let the people know…it’s about 45 minutes away.
Ya, I wanted to watch the partial eclipse today, but y'know, we really needed the rain that brought those clouds.
Don't forget about the "fronchroom". Or hanging lights on the "ruff" of your house. 🤣
Story. Two high school friends (from Bemidji) attended Dartmouth College (in Hanover, NH). They both took German. One was translating German into English (or rather Minnesotan) and spoke the "ruff" word, and was laughed at by the whole class. He had to ask what was wrong with his translation. The other friend later got called out for referring to the "ruts" of a tree.
As an albertan i can certainly relate everything including the accent and beer consumption
Holy crap, I feel this in my soul 😅
Geeze Louise has been part of my vocabulary since i could talk.
And it's "jeet yet?" Then an offer of some homemade eats.❤
And by "some homemade eats" we mean enough food to feed a platoon, encouraging them to take some home for later because "ya, we have plenty".
@xlerb2286 Ah, you must know my people.
We throw in yet with jeet and it kind of blends into one work. "Jeetyet?"
100%
Oh ya…”jeet yet?! Yont to?!” Classic. 🍻
Caint visit without eatin sumpthin!!!
I generally would say “Didjeet yet?” Greetings from MN
I've lived my entire 47 years of life in Minneapolis and everything in this vid is completely true. I love it.
Left Iowa as a 8 year old in 1969, family moved to Oregon. To this day virtually all these are still part of our talk and expression 😂
WELP!! (Knee slap) oh, hey ya, how's your folks doing, tell 'em i says hello.
ya know speaking of the folks, they just got the new thing in with the house. really is a marvel to see
Oofta that sounds like a beauty. I hear it’s in a heavily wooded area. Watch for deers on the way out there.
@@grindinitout1761 It's more than just the deer, donchaknow? You gotta watch out for'em deer TICKS these days. Nasty little buggers - their as big as just a pencil-width!
Oh, speakin of deers, I tried a new marinade on my deer jerky this year, ya gotta try it I'll bring some over next time.
Oh sure, that is real nice of ya. I mean it. I tell you what, I noticed you had a tree that needed trimmed out side. If you got some time, I'd love to get up there and trim it up real good. What do you say?
I'm from northern Indiana and proud of it ❤❤❤❤❤
Is different from southern Indiana, yes? Maybe less hillbilly?
My goodbye is “welp+ sigh+ Bout that time”
Thanks. I’ll be heading to Fargo next week from Idaho. This will help with the language barrier.
Love Idaho. Lived there the last 3 years of my Air Force hitch.
This is spot on for northwest Missouri!
Y'know I'd like a description of our seasons. Like in Ohio we got early winter, winter, late winter, and road construction.
In Minnesota we have 9 months of winter and 3 months of poor sledding….
Same in Nebraska. We have winter, construction, and winter.
Sometimes Ice Season also likes to rare its ugly head.
I Iowa we have winter, almost construction, and construction.
In iowa we just had an early spring that felt like fall. Now we are in second winter. I think we just make them up as we go because the seasons and random, never ending combinations, and unpredictable.
@@wojtczak1984 "Second winter." Sounds like "second breakfast" only expanded into seasons. 😅😂
A few days ago, I was in Tennessee and one day we went fishing. Our guide was from North Carolina and as we finished up we actually did a midwestern goodbye. We shook hands, said goodbye, and as we started getting in the car we stood outside talking with the doors open for like 15 minutes. Good time.
I say the weather thing a lot, especially “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity”
“Midwesterners stink at accepting compliments” dang and here I thought it was because I was insecure
And if the weather fails as a topic of interest, you can always talk about the biting insects. There's nosee'ems in the spring, mosquitos in early summer and deer and horse flies mid into late summer. Ticks you can talk about all year round. Not because they're out there in the middle of winter but because you or a relative might have gotten the Lyme's Disease from one last season.
The mosquito is the unofficial Minnesota state bird. (Loon is official.)
As someone from Missouri we totally judge how far things are by minutes. Also if you come here be prepared to use both your AC and Heater in the same day.
Speaking in minutes is a game changer.
Everyone should adopt measuring distance in time. Like it takes me 15 mins to get to work but it’s 3 miles. It could take an hour to get to the store in LA but be 5 miles.
Let’s just let each other know how much time they need to allow for the drive
As a proud Appalachian, when we say goodbye it's a formula of an extended word + a compliment + a promise. "Yeeaahhhh.... listen, I hate to part good company, but I gotta go. I promise to stop over next week though and we can have some tea then!"
this is like listening to my dad, he always did the whole whelp, I suppose...followed by the classic, hit the road, if we were heading back home. The slap the leg and looking down...perfect. thanks, you made my day with that memory 😂
The Midwest goodbye is literally my dad getting ready to leave family events but we live on the west coast.
100% everyone needs to adopt minutes over miles
Bonus if you can take current weather into account, mainly winter or if only route forces a mandatory bigger road construction zone.
I'm from south dakota struggling down here in Texas with these people who supposedly are nice ain't no one like us Midwest nice.
Agreed!!!❤
Especially if they think southern Kansas is Yankee territory!
so funny:i grew up in central (small town) new york under parents that grew up in staten island and philly...city folk. 2:43 i so relate to all them things you did a great job, yeah a couple of flubs, no worries, of relating. central anywhere means ya gotta be polite etc.?
I grew up in NJ and we always gave directions in time because, traffic. I moved to Minnesota about 5 years ago and have seen most of these.
One last thing is Jeet is used in the south too just pronounced slightly different.
Here in Seattle there is no goodbye ritual, you’re lucky to even get a goodbye. Heck, be grateful they showed up at all, and didn’t send a text bailing, 3 minutes before they were supposed to be there. Also, I’m from Northern California (aka, the good half), and we only measured in time. I”m 38 yrs old and I can’t tell you how many miles it is from my hometown to The City, but I can tell you it is exactly 3.5 hours. It’s a 15 min drive “in to town” from the house I grew up in, and it’s 45 min “inland” from the ocean.
I’m from Iowa and yeah, that damn wind is what makes the winters suck.😂 However, when I do my Midwestern goodbye, I don’t inch towards the door. I’m gone. Unless the person keeps talking and I’m to polite to walk away.😅
We always add 'The' at the beginning and add a 's' at the end.
The Jewels (store).
The Aldis.
The Thornten's.
The Osco's.
Traveling from San Diego's Pacific Coast to the Southern Texas Gulf Coast, we had lots of humorous moments at hotels, gas stations, restaurants, etc etc. The billboards along the road were hilarious, such as "home insurance plans more flexible than a flour tortilla".
'Jeet' is pretty universal, we do use that one here in the northeast. It's often followed by "wad'jeet?" which is asked to find out what you have eaten.
When those two don't work I like to follow it up with a Y'ungry?
Yes, I agree on the mileage vs the time. If you drive through Chicagoland Traffic like we do many times to get to Michigan (I'm a native Michigander) you can't say how many miles. We always say how much time and then say, "depending on the time of year". Construction around Chicagoland can be a nightmare and can easily add another hour to your trip. I mean Geez Louise the traffic can be a nightmare!
1:14 I grew up in Michigan, and have lived all over the country in my adulthood, and it is my experience that most of the country does this same thing, and thinks they are unique for doing so.
An actual Midwestern conversation:
Djeetdjet?
No-djou?
'Squeet!
😂Iowa native. Lived here all my life and married a native Iowa farmer. Here are some more: Oh my gosh! He is going to hell in a hand basket! Jeepers creepers. By golly. Holy moly! What in the dickens! My word! My land! My Lord! What the heck? Golly! I'll be darned. Darn it! My gosh, really? You've gotta be kidding me! For the love of Pete. Oh for Pete's sake. Wowsa! Them there....Boy oh boy. Hey there. So how did he pass? Fart cakes. When the cows come home. Knee high by the 4th of July (corn). Knee high to a grasshopper. Love him to death. Glory be! You gotta be kidding me! Yep! Yep! Yep! Sure thing. Heavens to Betsy. Jimmy rig or jury rig or jerry rig!
This is so true. Love this guy
welp being from Illinois but almost 7 hours south of lake michigan... we round here get the best of both the south and the midwest. im closest to paducah kentucky. and we use land marks and nesw and time as directions. example guys asks how to get to FS.... Welp
you go bout 5 minutes north here til
you see that great big ok tree youll
turn right head down that road about a mile then the 1st cross roads turn back south head on down there for a few minutes youll
see them big silos up there. when you see them turn in the 1st driveway the 2nd drive is semi trucks only. you see them packers play? (as most of us hate the bears and cubs) Ya that was some good football right there. guess they lost the season tho them cards are pre gameing down at STL may wanna swing out and check em out.
Yes! With part 2, the list is complete! Great job
This is this gentleman's way of expressing himself. This is not how all the mid west talks & expressive themselves.
For cry-eye-exclamation of disbelief
Kinniption fit-an emotional meltdown😢
Six ways to Sunday-your taking too long
You betcha
Lemmyatit-your making a simple task into a project! 0:00
this explains my whole childhood in michigan. Moved to west coast and confused people for decades.
Distance is measured by time in New England too. Everything may be closer than the Midwest but depending on the time of day, there are all those people in the way.
The weather and the getting out the door can double for Southern as well. That dang Derek Bieri is making oofda cat h on everywhere else as well. 😂 He's a hard guy to not like.
We used to have the Air Force Code:
Huh? Oh.
Being from Minnesota when I went into the USAF I get this whole thing.
There was a book "How to speak Minnesotan"
I'm on a flight from Salt Lake City to Boise and this older couple sit in the seats next to me. They're probably early 70's.
The guy starts messing with the tray table and starts his in conversation with his wife by saying "Yah knoh, a guy could..."
Having just read that book and that being a saying in the book, I asked if they were from Minnesota.
"Yah! Howdja knoh?"
"We just flew in frum da Cities."
I asked if they were from Northwest Minnesota and he said "Yup. Teef River Falss. Howdja kno that?"
Just a guess I said.
I had all I could do to not burst out laughing.
This is fantastic. The "Ya know, a guy could..." is textbook midwest. This made my day.
Distance in time is the only way that the NY metro areas can discuss because 20 miles can take 3 hours.
I discussed while bartending serving a guy from Texas who came to the realize what he thought was a weird quirk was a hard reality once he drove somewhere
Dubuque to Cedar Falls, in my Camry, straight down Highway 20, hour and forty five minutes.
OMG I just said WELP to a friend in AZ slapped my thighs and stood up. She didn’t pick up on it at all and just kept talking. Eventually I gave up and sat back down. I’ve been gone from the Midwest for at least 20 years. 😂🤣
As a Canadian, I must say, I feel right at home!
The JEET one got me. I was like, "wait a minute... is that real?" Rolled off the tongue far easier than I expected lmao
From Missouri..."jeet jet? Noju, Lesqueet"
Yuntoo?
Jeet?
You want too?
Same. lol
Measuring travel distance in time is definitely something we do in Pennsylvania too lol.
Time vs. distance works even better for city travel. Sure, it might only be a few miles away...but it's going to take you 3 hours to get there during daylight when everyone else is on the road too.
Town just down the road from our place used to have “uff da days” as the town holiday.
Decently consistent in the heart land, I'd say. Still varies state to state.
We used these same Idioms here in the South as well 🤠! Geez Louise! All the time 😁! Ja eat yet? Is big here too!
This is so accurate, especially the distance and goodbyes. Im from the Midwest, and i have NEVER heard someone tell me the actual distance in miles. And fir the goodbyes, when i was a kid my parents did this all the time, i would be at a family friends house and my dad would say that we were leaving in a couple of minutes and then i would proceed to go downstairs watch lord of the rings come back upstairs to were he was wait a half hour walk out to the car and wait another 10 minutes befor we actually left.
the midwest shuffle - nailed it!
Translate these in french and you can pretty much hold a conversation in Quebec, amazing similarities
Iowa here, we say ofda as in I am off to, such as ofda store, ofda golf course. Also finagle is like going through alot of obstacles and barriers we finagled our way through, also like we jumped through the hoops or we Mcgivered our way. Also when saying how far it is in time people always say it is a half an hour less then it really is. I have learned if they say its about an hour away, I know its really at least 1 1/2 hours away. LOL love your videos
In the Midwest, if you don’t like the weather just wait, it’ll change.
Funny, spot on. If you haven’t done one on giving directions by using miles, minutes and landmarks but no road or highway signs.
Rotfl I always say when it’s raining Ope well we’ll have a good fruit you know. 😂
This video is gold. Keep it up!
Grew up in Illinois and moved to the Northwest 25 years ago. The welp, is something my Son said yesterday when he was getting ready to leave. lol, he was born out here. Wonder where he learned that word. The word out here in the NW that drives me crazy is “these ones”.
im not from the mid west, but my mom was, all my friends thought i talked weird lol
Thank you Miles
Compliments are the worst, I cannot except them
If I really want to mess with my boyfriend (Indiana), I praise him, you’d think I was performing an exorcism 😂😂
I must be close enough to the midwest area, because although I'm Canadian, I resonate with most of what he was sayin'.
I know the distance by time driven is fairly universal. I’m from OR, and they certainly do that there too.
I’ve been in eastern Pa my entire life and all of these apply to me and my family. Especially Jeet and the measuring in time not miles. 😂
I grew up in Wisconsin. These are my people.
I'm Midwestern and u couldn't of said it better