We're So Screwed😩😩 American Reacts to More Americans Living Abroad Realizing America Messed Them Up
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- We're So Screwed😩😩 American Reacts to More Americans Living Abroad Realizing America Messed Them Up
In this video I react to more stories of Americans in other countries realizing that the US really messed them up in life.
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I recently came across a video for bulletproof bookcases for schools. People in the video thought they were awesome. Personally, I think it's terrifying.
yeah, stuff like that, or having to show a new way to tac lock a door using a chair is terrifying stuff.
We also learned barricading in poland, but that were 2 lessons just in case, no drill or anything ever happened.
@@TheEclecticBeard It's not that terrifying that Americans have such things, but that they need them. Same with "survival skills".
@@TheEclecticBeard That`s because the rest of the civilised world dont still act like the wild west.
I am a bullet professor tbh.
As an Aussie, I see America from outside, and what I see is disgustingly low wages in hospitality, extremely expensive health care, homeless people forced to live on the street where everyone views them as pest# instead of people struggling to survive, and an FDA that approves toxic additives to foods - a country controlled by corporate business so all the wealth is at the top and the workers are paid slaves.
As a Brit, who used to work for a US owned company, I have come to pretty much the same conclusion.
The other day I realized that all my money for food,rent or anyting else one might need. What I realize was that every single penny goes to a handful corporations eventually.
And yet I'm always shocked finding out how much money an average American makes per year
Travel teaches you this is not the norm in other countries. If more people realised this they might try and change things, first of all by questioning why.
When I was in Florida I made the mistake of asking a cop for directions because I was lost and I got threatening abuse in return. In the UK it's the police you go to for that sort of thing because it's expected that they're there to help you if you're in trouble.
In Spain, that's kind of a coin toss. Depending on the region or even the town you're in, you might encounter up to four types of police or social workers:
-Guardia Civil. Actual borderline sociopaths, ALL of them (including my distant relatives in the agency). No joke, "he didn't check one of the boxes in the sociopath diagnostic criteria" type of shit. The worst part is that they're technically a paramilitary corp so they have exactly zero accountability AND they don't even have to pass mandatory education. If you see green uniforms, try your best not to be seen.
-Local/Municipal Police. These are the ones you'd call the "regular" police. They're the ones that ressemble UK's police the most (at least the Metropolitan Police I saw in London), although the education requirements and the training program for the troopers are fairly poor for Europe's standards. They're the ones you look for when you're lost, though, as they do a lot of "proximity policing" work, which involves getting to know the community and generally having a decent grasp on how things are in their district. Worst case scenario, they'll apologise for not being able to help you and they'll try to contact someone who can.
-Regional Police. These replace the Guardia Civil in a few regions. Actually fucking elite (for Spain's standards lmao). Minor degree required, frequent refreshment training, very short response times... All the good stuff, but they're NOT beat cops. You'll only see them on their way to something unless they also happen to manage traffic in that region. If you come up to them, they'll try to get rid of you as quickly as possible, but they'll usually make sure you're all set so you won't go bother another officer.
-Civil Protection. These are a weird middle point between an actual social worker and a beat cop. Literally there to make sure you don't hurt yourself. Kind of a crapshoot in terms of profile, though.
BONUS!!!-Guàrdia Urbana. These are exclusive to the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, where they replace the Municipal Police. Extremely poor education and training requirements. They're literally the reason why people in Barcelona hate the police. Luckily, they only take care of administrative stuff so when it comes to criminal investigations and such, you'll get the Mossos (regional) taking care of it instead of one of these incompetent cunts. The real party poopers in an otherwise awesome city. Their nickname translates to "gossip with a gun".
You kinda want to know your cops if you want to hang around in Spain for a while...
That’s Florida. Anger, violence, and hate is what you find in Florida.
@@KirillTheBeast I should save this, I have some relatives moving to Spain next year and although the UK has screwed itself over mightily with Brexit, I was still planning on being able to visit them in Spain so this info might be super useful! Especially as I am disabled and my instinct would be to ask police for assistance if I was lost or stuck.
Here in Germany, the police will even drive you home if you get lost o.O. I can't imagine such conditions. Good that I live in Germany
@@xxxNapfelxxx Yeah... Sadly, Spanish standards for police staff are generally crap when compared to those of Germany. My experience with german police is that they'll bend over backwards to help you out if you're in trouble, as it should be.
"We don't even know what our cage looks like because we have never seen it from the outside." - Gore Vidal.
What the guy who stayed in Berlin forgot to mention is that he was fully paid for the three weeks vacation.
Yes. And being "sued" was probably not the case. The unions would have dealt with it.
@@milesdust3465 the being sued part was probably a joke they made cus americans sue evrrytime they see a chance for getting money out of it 😂💀
@@carimavandijk1091 Nope. In most of Europe the employee has a legal right of 22 week days of paid vacation a year, medical leave not included, depending on the country and type of service provided, and companies WILL BE SUED if the insurance companies realize these conditions are not met.
I should point out that in countries were the worker conditions are taking in account, the studies show that a relaxed worker is more productive, creates a better working environment and is less prone to accidents.
@@kamper5789 I'm from a european country, I know how it's often going (at least in my country) and the reasons you're giving after the being sued one (qbout the relaxed worker) are way more used reasons for companies to say to their employers that they need to use their vacation time. Yes companies can get sued if they dont meet these criteria, BUT when someone is just a workaholic the company doesnt really doesnt get sued that often (in my personal experience of hearing things related to this). That's why I said that it's probably a joke, because yes here in a lot of european countries, it is a running joke that americans sue for all kinds of bullshit if they can get money out of it.
@@carimavandijk1091 I kinda guessed it(the surname sounds dutch).
When i was working in the Netherlands, for STORK, i was called into the site manager's office to have a meeting with him and the safety manager because of my week hours and send home for two days because of cumulative time. The first thing he said to me was "Do you want me to get fired?". You see, i worked for a contractor, and when my hour sheet got into the regional office(to pay my company), the regional manager called him and "ripped him a new one"(information i got from his secretary). Then i got a call from my own company and my boss told me he had to pay the rest of my salary the next month(when i would be on vacation), because of insurance purposes.
What makes me (as an EU citizen) feel free is, for example, not having to worry about healthcare, sustainable work-life balance, not losing everything if i decide to quit on a overreaching slaver, being FREE of seeing ovious nutjobs intimidating people by openly carrying guns, etc... yes, that absolutely is part of freedom for me.
Workers rights hit different. Having close to a month a year of paid holiday time, alongside paid sick leave. When I learned that Americans often have to use what little unpaid holidays theyre allowed just to have a sick day? my mind was blown.
Edit: left this comment about 5 seconds before the clip of a guy saying this exact same thing came on lmao
I am intrigued why you said 'EU citizen' and not mention the country in which you live?
Just asking ...
@@1chish I'd imagine because a lot of the things he's listing are laws in place on an EU level. A lot of European countries exceed the level of workers rights for example still, but there are laws in place that the EU sets which they must atleast meet.
@@1chish Because lately, everytime i tell that i'm German somehow it escalates into some rant how germany isn't helping Ukraine enough....
@@Dippa666 This may come a surprise but things like workers rights, welfare benefits and healthcare systems are as good if not better in the UK which is not in the EU as within the EU. And when it was in the EU it had better then EU standards in many areas.
Yesterday I went for a long walk with my friend‘s dog. It’s an old dog, and he got tired, so I took a shortcut across a farm. There was an old lady working outside, she greeted me and asked me about the dog. I explained the situation, and she suggested that we should have a rest. She gave me a cup of tea and the dog was offered water, we talked for half an hour, and after that doggie was much better. It would never have occurred to me that someone could threaten to shoot me because of „trespassing“ 😮 Greetings from Germany
Ich komme auch aus Deutschland
"stand your ground" becomes "greet your neighbor"
Eh, if you want you can look up the sorts of warning signs americans line their properties with. It's not uncommon to see no trespassing signs that make it pretty clear the owner has guns and would like an excuse to use them.
Fun fact, America is currently no. 16 on the international freedom index, behind Canada and several Europen Countries. Not even in the Top 10.
I went to check the index you spoke of. I don't like how they don't give the exact way they calculated this stuff, but fine. Looking over the data, the US is number 7 on the economic freedom scale, and it scored a 9/10 in personal freedom. The average for personal freedom being 7.25, and the average for economic freedom being 6.94 (the US being 8.24), means that the US is actually in a very good spot at number 16. I would say that the ones above are flat out better but, again, there's no indication of how exactly they came up with the scores.
@@BigFry9591 of course 16 is not bad at all, but point is also that No.1 to 15 don't run around acting like they are the only free country in the world the way some Americans are.
Also remember counties like North Korea lower the average a fair bit-
@@connoryoung8951 that is a good point 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@BigFry9591
I didn't bother to look any further but the primary sources are very easy to find I'm pretty sure they contain at least the basics of their methodology. But as always with such things - that requires some effort to actually understand it to a point where viable criticism is possible so I just refer you to the CATO Institute and the Human Freedom Index and won't bother to go any further myself.
You can download the full reports as PDF there and if it doesn't contain the info you're looking for you'll probably find where to find it in there.
I’m British but I wish more Americans were like you, your country would have a chance to change for the better
Ya realize that whole of europe thinks the same of the UK. Only differences between you and USA is one shoots the other stabs. All english first language nations are failures. USA, Australia, UK, all same boat.
Really? He seems very on the fence and waaayy off what I would welcome in Europe - but hey, that's what decades of brain washing North Korean style will do.
I'm sure your country is just perfect! Better take a look around. 🤮
@@TheRapnep did anything in my statement say my country is perfect? I don’t think so, so better back up troll 😤🤢 but it is hell of a better place than the good old US of A which if you are from there answers my response completely
@@tinaridding2826 interesting how you went from someone else talking about perfection to putting that on me. However I'm just pointing out nobody in Europe aspires to go to the UK of all nations to pick from. I was talking about how you are all alike in English nations. And clearly you act as childish as expected. Since you can't even read about what I say but instead use someone else their words from a comment to pin on me. You can read it again if you like it's unedited you will only feel ashamed. Which brings me to my original point. Even when defending your cause which is plain silly you also fail to attack a argument with correct responses. Ignorant yet you ladies talk to protect your cause. You do know that by failing to disprove me and attack me on points I didn't make you only show proof of exactly that what I mentioned.
That all English nations are a failure of western society. They have a nice reputation of the past but it ain't gonna last. You can be mad all you want ladies. But that doesn't disprove I'm wrong.
Good luck to ya both
Oh and I'm from the Netherlands. Just so you know. You are even wrong in your geological guessing. Good try though. You should know that Dutch people are far less ignorant. If you would read more carefully you would see I speak of English first language nations being all a failure but wanting to talk big and show off how good they are while being utterly useless and behind on western development. You have all made western recess in progress. Well done though if that was the goal.
The more I see about the US the more I relate it to the conditions here in the UK 150 years ago in Victorian times. The working conditions, lack of health care, the rich industry bosses, the fear of and levels of personal violence, the rampant religiosity etc. Horrifying.
The guy being forced to take vacation was funny to me as a german. We take vacation time *very* seriously. If you get called to work during your vacation, they HAVE to give you back double what they stole from you by calling you during your vacation.
I'm from Scotland. I once visited north CA back in 2001 and asked my friend why there was a whole aisle in the store with just boxes of batteries. She informed me they were actually bullets. I was horrified. I'll never understand that culture.
That's fucking insanity. The obsession with guns and paranoia is a lethal mix. I've never been to America and I have zero plans to ever go.
Child kidnapping etc is so incredibly rare it's not even funny. The paranoia you guys have is insane. Your kids are more at risk from a family member than a stranger.
Do you know how many children go missing every day? It’s nowhere near as rare as you think, it’s just that most of the cases don’t end up being hugely covered in the media. 2300 children go missing every day in America alone. That’s crazy!!!
I think that's the point. What's to stop a disgruntled family member (split parents, abusive uncles/aunts etc ...) walking into a school to meet a child. I'd feel safer knowing that a school had some security (I'm a teacher).
EB - I’m not sure if you realize that you made some excuses for the behaviors anyway.
Americans fear kidnappings yet continue to send their kids to schools where school shootings are kinda of actually an issue.... however I'd say it's mostly down to terrible American city design, primarily the egregious use of single-family unit housing that makes Americans so fearful on this one. Since easy to keep children in house or back yard but the road is simply not safe for children; nobody is watching the road and houses are so far apart that children aren't playing together. Where I grew up in the UK, I played with kids on the street when I grew up and that was kind of normal for many culs-de-sac, parents would occasionally pop-out or have a look at the road.
As a teenager I was walking into town by myself, since the town was in easy walking distance (~25 minutes) and safe road crossings. In the US, most towns and cities just don't have that... you're lucky if even a convenience store is in walking distance, let alone a shopping mall or town/city center, and crossing roads is a danger on to itself.
@@Hustwick I agree. I’m a teacher too and here in Uk we have very strict security on our schools and you cannot get into site without getting through magnetic gates etc. Children are only allowed to go home with a named adult, and need a unique code word for another adult to collect them. Child abductions are very rare here but actually they do happen more than people think, but mostly from family members, estranged parents etc, rather than strangers.
I grew up on a farm in England, so I’m used to having guns around (well locked up mostly unless we were out rabbit hunting etc). It would never ever cross my dads mind to shoot someone walking across his field - he would just say it was private property and ask them politely not to in future because there is a footpath a few feet next to most of the fields. I can’t believe that people over there would even think to shoot someone just for walking across their land.
Friendly American here lol
You can't just shoot someone all willy nilly, we still have homicide laws lol. What you can do is have "No Trespassing" signs around the parameter of your land, and give them warnings if you are able to talk to them directly.
The fear some Americans have with someone walking through their land is that someone is targeting them or their land for something. It's not uncommon for a random person to come to your house and try to break in. Will it happen often? Of course not, but does it happen? Yes. There's always trouble makers in every town, just like there's trouble makers in any town in other countries.
Some states have a "stand your ground law" where if you feel like your life is in real danger, then you have a right to defend yourself, even if it means taking someone else's life to protect your own by the use of a 🔫. This law doesn't mean you can simply shoot someone for being on your property. It means you need to be able to prove a real life threat against you from that person being on your property.
Manslaughter is a very real charge in our court system 🤣. If you can't prove your life was in danger, your gonna catch a charge and do some prison time.
It's a common misconception that Americans just wanna shoot others, but we really don't. It's not inherently dangerous here, there are certain parts that are way better than others though. Essentially, the closer you live to a big city, the more dangerous it is. Crime rates drop when you get to smaller towns or more rustic areas like the mountains. But with more people comes more crime 🤷♀️
I'm sorry this wasn't the best answer, but I hope it clears up a few things. But I promise, the average American doesn't want to hurt others. It's just unfortunate that the dumb and stupid idiots who yell the loudest get the most attention 😑
I don't recall that happening any time lately.
Depending on where you are at certain places are more forgiving and kind like your dad. But in the city or in places where crime rate is higher then yeah they would threaten with a gun.
Trespass is a criminal offence in the USA, in Britain it's just a civil offence but if you cause a problem whilst trespassing that's aggravated trespass is a criminal matter. Shooting innocent people is a very serious criminal offence.
Bit of difference though between a typical single bullet hunting rifle compared to someone walking around the streets with a concealed handgun though. Guns in the UK are used for hunting, putting animals down that are suffering, or clay pigeon shooting that's it. Not like in certain other countries where they will can just shoot stuff in their property for fun/ or worse. All magazine loaded weapons are banned in the UK.
The American health care system sounds terrifying
It is
Yes, it is. After you pay $1,500 a month you can't afford to see a doctor, but hey you have insurance that you can't use
I'm ex forces and attend a therapy group for combat veterans suffering from PTSD. A few of us were talking about taking a course to become a counsellor for others in the same situation, and during research we stumbled across a video where adults at work were introduced to somebody who had experienced being shot at. She was about 8 years old. It broke my heart.
If you are a combat veteran, how can you not know of any child being in the danger zone where they could experience being shot at? The age of anybody being shot at should not be an issue. A suicide vest has, and can be, worn by a person of any age.
@@Mk1Male wtf are you talking about?
Good question. Sounds a bit like: children can carry suicide vests. And you should've been prepared to shoot at them, so why did meeting an 8 y.o. who'd been shot at impact you?
I hope I read it wrong and will be corrected.
Edit: fixed a few spelling- and grammatical errors
I think you guys are seriously misunderstanding him. He is literally talking about an 8 year old American child having survived being shot at in a non warzone
@@baul997 As you address us in plural: I think you'e misunderstood us.
Mk1Male is the one who addressed OP, while both Tussk and I addressed Mk1Male's response.
But just so you know, your answer could be construed (if one was so minded) to mean that meeting a 8y.o. who'd survived a shooting in the US, would be more jarring than shooting a 8y.o. in a war zone. ;)
That's obviously not what you meant, though.
Edit: Spelling and grammar.
Your honesty and acceptance of your country not being 'the greatest' is highly admirable and must be somewhat painful. And your humour is brilliant. Its good you can use humour to handle what must be difficult.
Big ups Sir.
24:25 Here in England there are numerous public footpaths, many of which cross farmland - rough tracks along the edges of fields, and occasionally through them. Many of them were established at the time of the land enclosures in the eighteenth century, but some of them are ancient tracks, some date from pre-Roman times, and the oldest derive from cattle-driving routes. They still exist legally, though not all of them are signposted. There are also bridlepaths for horses.
I was in the RAF but based on an American Air Base in Germany. The day before Halloween, an email went out to the whole base saying that all personnel could have their Halloween candy x-rayed at the medical centre until the end of the week. When I asked an American what it was all about, he told me it wasn't unusual for people to put razor blades and screws in Halloween candy in the US. WTAF!?
I don't believe it. You say you were in Germany. Then why the supposed x-rays? Why would they do that? Maybe Germany has a problem with that. It's not at all the norm in the USA. Just a minority of a few sick a$$holes. Another urban myth.
@@jwhite-1471 The poisoned candy too. It is absolute bull worrying about 'checking the candy.' There have only been a few cases of poisoned Halloween candy ever, and you know what they all had in common? They were killed by family members, who used the occasion in an attempt to pretend a stranger did it.
In one case, a father poisoned a his young son, after taking out a life insurance policy on the child!
It happens more often outside of Hallowe’en, with product tampering. Pins, razor blades, poisonous materials, sometimes it’s substitution with someone buying a flu med, which resembles their anti-psychotic meds and they switch it out and put the anti-psychotic back in the flu med box. I worked on multiple events with one of last events involving a man, who purchased multiple different types of products and substituted them, added substances, made his own labels and put the tampered products back on the shelf.
More often, the issues on Halloween in the US and onto US military bases all over, are kids egging houses, toilet papering cars, and homes, vandalism, and other such pranks, black cats being targeted (and killed), Christian fundamentalists causing issues.. but poisoned candy, razor blades comes from urban myths and zealots who love driving fears into parents.
Even now, the new fear of the year is rainbow colored fentanyl being handed out by drug dealers. Which is nonsense.
Again, though, it’s stoked by fear mongers.
I’m on an Air Force base in yokota japan and it’s going around here, the same thing that has gone around for decades.
Before it was the satanic panic, then it was the poisoned candy, then it was razor blades, now it’s rainbow fentanyl. 😑
Americans never stop being afraid of everything and stoking fear of the “other” - whoever that “other” may be. The LGBTQIA+ person? The immigrants? Who knows! But they sure are scary! Better not trust em! - /end sarcasm
Can you tell I’m not entirely pleased with Americans or America overall? Yeah, that’s why we’ve retired over here in Japan.
Find and post any actual article of this stuff being found. It's actually extremely rare and was some weird fear mongering thing from years back. I'm british but was massively interested in this subject when it came about
Canadian here. Recently had a horrific medical experience. Ambulance, 8 hours in the ER, emergency surgery, then a 4 day stay in the ICU due to surgical complications. Total cost with having no private medical insurance... zero. Nadda. Zilch. It might have taken longer due to the Canadian medical system limitations but at least I didn't have to declare bankruptcy after it all.
He doesn't realize how insane and normalized calling a bomb threat for a "day off" is. When we grew up, kids wanted a day off... it was called skipping school. Dickheads would at worse pull the fire alarm.
This. I was thinking that in most parts of the world, you'd maybe fake being sick if you're too young for parents to leave you unsupervised. Otherwise you just take the responsibility to skip. Don't make everyone fear for their lives in the process and call it "a joke". The What.
Yea. I was also like "bruh wtf, if you want a day off school, just dont go"
Like the worst thing anyone here in germany would do to get a day off is building a few smoke bombs with aluminium foil and tennis Balls and throw them in classrooms. Not a shooter threat
This! If people in my high school wanted a day off they'd fake being sick or if that didn't work and their parents made them go to school, they'd just jump the fence before the first bell or at break/lunch. Sometimes people would set off the fire alarm if they didn't want to go to maths. No threats of violence or death
I like how people from the USA say that "Oh but you guys in Europe pay a lot in taxes to get that!". Sure we pay a lot more taxes in Europe but for example, when everyone's taxes goes to healthcare, school, public services, etc it becomes a lot cheaper overall than compared if you would pay for the same stuff but from privately owned schools, healthcare, etc.
The freedom thing always gets me because there is actually something called the freedom index which ranks countries based on their 'freedom' using a number of factors. And the US comes in about ~14th. Below a lot of European countries.
I would have thought last
I was an exchange student in WA back in 2000-01, it was a small military town with a HS. Even then I remember we had one bomb threat and one instance of gun violence threat where the sheriffs came in and arrested a kid. Shook me up something good. Being from Finland I had never considered that school might be dangerous.
lmao, the only bomb threats we have are from old unexploded WW2 bombs, excluding the terrorist attacks a few years ago. The last mass shooting in the UK was in the 80s and resulted in a complete change to gun ownership laws, there has never been an event like it in the UK since, so appalled we were that the law allowed someone that mentally unbalanced to carry. Yes there are still the odd shootings involving gangs but nothing on the scale of the US and not mass shootings.
Giving out antibiotics to everyone that wants them is a whole other issue. The growing issue of antimicrobial resistance makes me think that this being prescribed by a doctor, not bought over the counter.
Could not agree more. We have a limited number of antibiotics available, and every single use shortens the usage of them. I don't say we should not give them to people who need them, but regardless how well educated and trained the pharmacist is, they are not a doctor. Give the power to prescribe either potentially harmful or otherwise problematic drugs to the doctors.
This was also unique to that country, where that woman was located. There is no western industrialized society, that allows pharmacies to hand out drugs that require prescription - to my knowledge. Only "soft" stuff. There seems to be consens, that a doctor has to take a look at your issue to decide, what you should take to counter that. And to prevent you take the wrong stuff and do damage to yourself.
Completely agree. Antibiotics shouldn't be handed out like candy. We are down to one or two medical drugs to combat certain strains of staphylococcus aureus. Which is a bacterium growing on every single person's skin on the planet. These strains are called MRSA and are the bane of most hospital doctors.
Antimicrobial resistance globally is driven massively by the US practice of feeding antibiotics automatically to all the animals being bred for meat. Anything for a quick buck.
I have never brought them over the counter in Britain they are prescription only along with the pill
As a Brit, it seems to me that the Republicans love a type of freedom and that is the freedom to tell other people how to live their lives.
Didn't Biden say that if you're black, and you don't vote for him, then you aren't black?
Yup, a nation of solipsists who are manic control freaks
Well put 😂
the liberals are far worse as they have such self righteous belief in the infallibility of there ideals that they're willing to subjugate all your rights because 'its for your own good' p.s i hate both parties
And "owning the libs". Whatever that means.
Two of the reasons my children and I decided that I should not extend my six year contract in the US, but return home, included: my kids wanted to be free to travel to and from school alone and be in class without fear of violence; I wanted to be able to treat my patients without worrying whether or not their insurance would cover the costs.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
I live in uk, I have recently gone back to work after being off work through illness for 11 weeks, I had 6 days holiday booked in advance, these day have been returned to me because I couldn't take them because I was ill ..
Works the same here in Sweden 👍
Don't worry Liz Truss wants to take your work rights away.You've lost your right to work and live abroad. Next up is sick pay, holiday, and redundancy pay. And you'll vote for it in the next election. My money is on the Tories winning the next election
Same in Germany.
In the US you would not be paid for the 11 weeks except for those that vacation days. You would have to apply for disability which isn’t easy to qualify for to get a portion of your pay
The way you name a mass killing so easily was the thing that got me, then I thought about the last horrendous mass killing in Scotland and it was 30 years ago. My family have shotguns and rifles for hunting and it's a huge process and the gun safe must be to certified standards. No loose guns for kids or even thiefs
Right? Dunblane isn't just a name that lives in infamy; it's also a powerful symbol of the good that a society can do when it chooses to act decisively in the wake of a tragedy. Here in Australia the name of Port Arthur has exactly the same meaning. I wish the US had responded to Sandy Hook with the same resounding "never again" that they gave to the 2001 terrorist attacks; more than three times as many people are killed by gun homicides in the US each year than were killed in 9/11, and guns are *the single most common cause of death* in the US for people between 0 and 20 years of age.
@@rhonafenwick5643 They could've tried having that attitude way way back in Columbine and avoided having the Sandy Hook disaster in the 1st place.
Not to mention the interviews and the firearms bloke trying his best to rag thr gun cabinet off the wall. Even down to justifying how much ammo you are allowed.
Wasn't the last mass shooting in Scotland - Dunblane in 1996 - also the only mass shooting in Scotland?
I don't know if it's the case nowadays, but years ago, the only time fireworks were for sale in the UK was approximately 2 week prior to Guy Fawkes' Night, i.e. the 5th November. You'd invariably hear a lot of bangs going off in the run-up to the big night, but afterwards, there was practically nothing. You might hear/see a few rockets going up for New Years, (people would often buy then in November and keep them until the end of December), but the rest of the year, there were no fireworks to be bought or heard.
It's the same now. It's becoming less and less popular nowadays though since most people are more conscious of pets etc I think most people just go to the big organised displays in parks or w/e
Where I live in the Midlands, fireworks can be bought all year round and they are. Hardly a week goes by without hearing some being set off.
@@baldyhead Is it not correct that you have a large South Asian community who celebrate some of their festivals with fireworks?
Right - ok - well here is something you might want to think about when talking about freedom too. A while back I went to the US with a few of my friends because I used to play American Football and wanted to go experience the whole "culture" around the sport. Here I am often accused of being more "American than European" - because I see a lot of good things about America.
Ok so we started booking stuff and all was great. Great big muscle car for the price of renting a small-ish sedan in the EU, cheap hotels, amazing prices on a lot of stuff... It looked like we would come to the US and feel "rich" with what we had saved up....... then came the insurance stuff... and just WOW! All the rules we needed to educate our selves on, the literal 1000's of ways you could get screwed economically and all the other stuff. Listen here I live RIGHT next to Germany - as in my family regularly go there to shop for food and drinks - and I can tell you this: We tease the Germans a bunch and use "slogans" like "Ordnung muss sein" - German for "There must be order!" - because Germany is in our mind overly bureaucratic and controlling... Erhm... I haven't even thought about saying this again since returning from the US. It's actually insane how much crap you guys have to put up with - and ALL of it carry heavy fines and even jailtime if you mess it up. Everything is disingenuous and made to take money out of your pockets. In fact - living costs turned out to be HIGHER pr. day than the trip we took around Europe a few years later. Like why is tax not added on the sticker price? please explain this to me because it's ACTUALLY moronic! You can do what many places do here and write the price without tax in a smaller font on the sticker - however having people needing to bring a freaking calculator to buy groceries is just... WHY? I will not go into the whole security net and healthcare system since you already know - but just point out that you pay really high taxes when you calculate it all and you get non of the services we take for granted here paying about the same in overall tax as you. The whole legal system is made to favor the rich - and you DAMN well better get the best and most expensive insurance if you go to the US - because 1 small accident - no matter if you couldn't avoid it - can put you in debt for the rest of your life... America is not free. I love your country - but it's the scariest and most unforgiving country I've ever been to - and I've been to Sudan and Nigeria... less warning stickers on both! 😕
Depends on your definition of "free". According to the national freedom index that I heard about from another user, the US has a person freedom score of 9/10. Economically, the US scored an 8.24/10, making them the 7th most economically free country in the world. The averages being 7.25 and 6.94 respectively.
In Sweden we have atleast 5 week *PAID* vacation....
Almost everyone take 4 week in the summer, and then have a week left to spread out or maby take in the winter.
sounds like a nicer place than this.
The best part of this vacation time is that it's a win-win. The employee gets more time to enjoy his life and rest up, and it's very well established that rested and happy employees are more effective at their jobs, so the companies are better off as well. It's seems pretty obvious as studies have shown that you don't fully wind down from work with less than 3 weeks of consecutive leave, but apparently there are plenty of places and companies that haven't figured that out.
Working smarter before working harder is a very fruitful path for everyone.
You are one of the most open minded Americans I have come across, I was an Englishman in MS for 2.5 years, you talk total common sense, it is so nice to hear, keep up the great videos, love your channel. 👍👍
I live in the UK. I recently had an accident at work that resulted in a fractured knee and torn ligaments. When I went to the hospital, I had an x-ray, MRI scan and got told that I will need surgery which has been arranged in less than a month. While I am waiting for my surgery, I was given pain killers, aspirin and a knee brace. This visit cost me exactly £0.00 since it comes out of my taxes each month.
My country is not perfect but I am always thankful for our NHS. Even if it does have it flaws.
Oh, and when I lived in the islands, everyone carried pocket knives in their pockets. You had them in your purse or pocket. You had them to peel a piece of fruit, cut a piece of string or thread, or whatever. I thought it was weird that we couldn't have a pocket knife with us in school. When they told us it was considered a weapon, I thought they were crazy.
In America everyone may have the right to own a gun, but that doesn't mean that everyone is capable of, responsible or sensible enough or even have an absolute need to use or carry one in the first place. If its the nut behind the wheel that kills persons in a traffic accident its the nut that pulls the trigger that kills with a gun. You may have the right to own, but what about the rights others have to not. You do have a gun issue in America. This isn't the wild west anymore.
The fight to own guns is ridiculous, think about the next generation. How much easier would you feel knowing that your child doesn't have to grow up in a country where they might be a victim of gun crime one day, or have their school shot up because some kids had enough. You would think people want to protect the next generation but all people care about is a material possession, you can still defend your home with a baseball bat if you really need to 🤷🏻♂️ less chance of killing someone with it.
To add to what you said too they can do all the checks and screening they want but it doesn't make a single difference to if someone is going to abuse the trust put into them. People that work in schools get checked but some of them still turn out to be paedophiles, Harold Shipman was a trusted doctor but he still killed loads of people for money. My point being if you have ill intent you will always just tell people what they want to hear.
The "wild west" was in fact much calmer weapon wise. That's just propagande to mask the fact that poverty, diease and corruption was rampart. It's was a pathetic, depressing period and people just think it was romantic due to movies and a few outlaws. COWboys were farmers or herders, not gunslingers. People had rifles and stuff sure, but extremely few carried firearms on their belt etc. And duels almost never happened. Just a handful of documented cases. Outlaws like Jesse James were claimed as heroes by moderna media to brush over the fact that he was a criminal who was winning against the law. So the modern law basically just converted it to hide the fact that it was a shit period. The US has never had a good period, period. Most countries have only seem small windows of prosperity, the US had barely had any. The wild west never was wild, it was sad. The wild west is right now, and just as sad.
The problem is, people are blaming the guns and not the person using the gun. 9 times out of 10 the guns are stolen when used for crime. Think of how many people in America own guns, a small number of those people committ gun crimes each year. Also, not everyone can own a gun, you have to pass a background check and mental health eval (required in some states, but it's easy to fake pass which is a whole other issue I have lol).
People wouldn't feel the need to committ gun violence if we had better mental health care and better ways to build up the community from poverty.
I know it sounds like a cheap answer, but that's my opinion on all of this. If we ban guns, people will find other ways to hurt others, using a gun is just the most convenient way for them. Look at the Oklahoma city bombing, absolute madness
They don't have a gun issue they got a cultural problem. In Switzerland they have more gun's per person then the US but no school shootings
You are not alone. I grew up in London and I was well accustomed to packed stadiums, venues, markets, commuting on crowded buses, trains and yes, pubs too. But all of that stopped when I hit about 40 years of age. I started to find myself extremely uncomfortable when surrounded by large crowds. Sometimes it was unavoidable, like weddings and if I ever had to fly to travel, I started buying the earliest flights just to avoid the crowds. Even supermarket shopping lol, I go as soon as they open at 7am or in the evening at 7pm. I quit going to any bars or pubs years ago, which is a good thing because I've found that by doing so I hardly drink at all now ;)
So yeah, it's not a mid-life crisis, but something different. The anxiety of being crowded is a horrible feeling that I've now learned to avoid and you aren't alone. I'm sure this happens a lot to men, it's just as men we don't often talk about it ;)
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"The reason why we have security in schools is to prevent students being kidnapped" isnt really the best defence for the US
Wow - I live in the UK and while it's not perfect I feel incredibly lucky that we have free at the point of need healthcare with the NHS. Whether it's a medical emergency, a family member having a baby or routine medical care there is never a penny (cent) to pay aside from a small, capped prescription charge (currently £9.35 per prescription). If you are someone with a chronic condition who needs lots of different medications you will either get them free or if not eligible for that you can buy a Prescription Prepayment Certificate (PPC) for £108.10 which means all prescriptions, regardless of number of items or how many times you need prescriptions are then free for one entire year.
And in the whole of my life I've never seen any civilian with a gun aside from people on a pheasant shoot in the countryside. Guns are highly controlled and regulated. Licensed gun owners are required to keep their guns in approved steel cabinets fixed to a wall.
For the 'forced' holiday time off too, if you work in banking/finance you have to take 2 weeks in a row aswell. If you don't do a big holiday during the year and have to use them up the end of Nov to get all the Christmas shopping and prep done is fierce handy😄
Ex-banker, I remember the two consecutive weeks requirement being introduced in 1995 after Nick Leeson managed to destroy Barings Bank. It was realised that people who refuse to take holidays could be hiding something rather than just being workaholics.
Don't forget that's even paid vacation :p
My husband just got told to take his two week holiday - no option to say no.
The 2 week rule was in place in the UK well before the Leeson incident, I think it was in the 1970’s my dad discussed it with me. I personally experienced this rule in my 1st job in the 1980s.
@@johnsimmons5951 I'm in Australia, we might have been a bit late to the game. Mind you, I was in a non-critical area and '95 may have just been the year they decided to make it bank-wide.
Interestingly, prison officers have just as long a training period as police officers in Germany and almost everywhere in Europe. If someone wants to change their professional field, they have an additional, possibly shortened training period. (You only have to learn the different things in the two professional fields)
If you were an MP in the Bundeswehr, you also have a shortened training as a police officer.
I have to concur. I've just retired from 23 years in the British Prison Service, 22 years in the military before that. My best friend, until he also just retired, was a direct entry (Police College) Detective in the NRW Police for over 30 years. We have had very similar coversations as you state over the years. Talked a few years ago to members of the RCMP whilst on a seminar too, very professional!
in denmark we have short education for both police and prison guards..
kind of like a light version 😃
no one wants to work at those jobs in denmark anymore, so they try all kind of stuff to get people...
just like people dont need to be educated to work with children as a teacher or in other jobs.
and the will take anyone they can get to take care of old people
we have seen so many shared videos of old people getting trash talk from the healthcare workers, or they make fun of them..
and thats on a good day..
some of the videos made(with hidden cameras of healthcare workers shows direct torture)
I absolutely disagree on that i work in forensic psychiatry, and talking to the police often. That is absolutely not the case
As far as I know, thats a little generally written.
I am a german police officer myself and your Statement applies mostly to the different forces of the same state.
If you plan to exchange your service from ohne state to the other, you need the same skills for the new post or you have to make the wohle 2 or 3 years of education and training.
And as far as I know, only the state of Brandenburg offers shortened trainings for former MP of the Army.
On the insurance:
I'm German and I paid about 200€/month for the standard state insurance with only meds themselves being bartially paid by myself.
Those numbers of 100 to 200 USD *A WEEK*?!?
That is an insane estimate, how damn expensive is insurance in the US?!?
It's also because the general price of procedures and equipment is lower here.
We pay less for the same service
Addendum: German state insurance is more than Healthcare. It also includes a retirement plan and other stuff, I can't find my payslip on which it is listed.
I always found it so weird when talking to someone from the US who seems to think they are free etc etc. No one in the world is truly free, unless you're away in a bush somewhere completely hidden from the world.
I especially find it weird when they seem to think having the NHS must be terrible cos it must cost so much. Except the tax cost for the NHS is nowhere near as expensive as US health care. Currently the Tories have gutted the NHS so it's not so great atm but I am still alive only because we have the NHS, they've saved my Mum's life 4 times. If we were in the US we'd be too poor to be alive right now. And yet alive we are and just as free as anyone from the US. If not more so cos we don't need to worry about guns being everywhere and no knock warrants with gun happy police.
so true mate so true
My husband had a cancerous kidney removed during the first lockdown and is having follow up appointments. I've just had an operation on my shoulder and again I'm having follow up appointments and physio and the cost zero. We also have our meds free because of our age, but some illnesses also have there meds free too. I believe that presentations are about £10 now per item, no matter what the item is.
So where have the Tories 'gutted the NHS' exactly?
Do you consider the largest funding settlement ever last year as 'gutting the NHS'? Did they 'gut' the NHS in the 2 years of COVID?
Please keep your politics out of what is a very different discussion and I am glad despite this alleged 'gutting' you and your mother have had good outcomes.
Here in the UK pharmacists are permitted to prescribe certain drugs to customers, there are some controlled things that they can't, and people are encouraged to consult them first for a lot of ailments. Pharmacists are probably better trained to prescribe medicines as that is their speciality and profession.
Of course, if they are concerned about the symptoms described they will advise/instruct the person to consult their GP or even go to A & E.
Australian here. Grew numb to your shootings as well.
I'm so so sorry for the kids but we can't constantly hold hope that it'll be the last school shooting for a nation that doesn't care.
Strange story from an European:
I got a mildly bad car accident once... aside a scar on my forehead, I had one hand casted for 1 and half months + another 2+ months of reabilitation to use it back. Basically, I could return to work only after almost 4+ months.
Aside NO healthcare bills (covere by my taxes already), NO risk to lose my job (protected by law, because NO employer can fire an injured person, even if the injury was caused outside the work in private time) and, MORE, receiving in any case my montly salary (even only in the base form - no extra-time/no bonus for holyday/night shifts... but being at home with less expenses was TOTALLY fine), after a 3-4 months back at my job, to let my collegues steam out a bit with THEIR lost holidays (to cover my absence), I HAD to leave on PAID VACANTION because MINE were not used at all in that year and they could NOT pay those, because the law prescribes for any employee to have AT LEAST ONE MONTH (roughly) of paid vacation x year (... with my kind of job at the time, even a bit more, because the vacation time matured based on contractual work hours, and mine was pretty rewarding), and I was already accumulating unused ones too much, considering the past couple of years (I was one of the owners' "right hands", mid-level, worker: not a special position, aside my will to "cover" in case of necessity of any trouble, to have extra hours-shifts/more pay, than the average, so I kind of left back two or three unused weeks from previous years, up to the point that they were reaching almost TWO months of unused vacation time).
Basically I didn't worked HALF OF THAT YEAR between (paid) injury leave and (paid) vacations. With NO RISK AT ALL of loosing the job.
Blew your minds, Americans?
Yea the gun threat thing is horrifying... The VERY WORST I've had during all of my school days was one guy swinging a big ass bike lock chain around during a tense but ultimately non-violent confrontation between my and another school that were close to each other. We didn't even have any baseball bat or knife threats, let alone gun threats.
when you hear a bang and assume it was a gun, I assume you were in a war zone and got some sort of PTSD.
PTSD is thrown around like candy. It's become some sort of "feel sorry for me" stamp. PTSD is way more severe. My brother was in a war zone and door slamming etc made him more alert and a bit jumpy. But if I ever said he had PTSD he would punch me in the face. It's so disrepectful. Same thing happened to cancer, people just call stuff cancer just because they dislike it. PTSD is horrible and is not that common. It turned from a totally ignored and covered diagnosis to prevent people from distrusting to military, to a joke. Americans gotta stop using extreme terms and conditions to compromise for their lack of ability to express themselves. Everything from "dying laughing" to using the word "literally". It stems from the social competitiveness created by distractions made from people controlling them. Having a discussion is always a battle in my experience. Loud can win even if wrong, extreme can win even if false.
Yes, every doctor over here, who takes care of mental problems, would propably start a treatment program for you to cure your issue.
This is not considered to be normal. Soldiers get this, when returning from a warzone, refugees get this, when entering from a warzone, crime victims get this after some serious sh*t happened to them. But ordinary people? Wow
well since by any sane defintion the usa is constantly at war...that PTSD checks out
Jumping at a door because it reminded u of gun shots does relate to ptsd. Understanding there are different severities of these things are important. “Just because people have it worse doesn’t mean u don’t have it bad.”
25 mins in, You don't get to sentence someone to death because they walk on your land. That is called murder.
Americans think of the war of independence as a victory, we in the UK think of it as a lucky escape.
Oh, my🤣 that woman who gave birth in Italy that randomly said "comunque", love her☺🤣
The woman living in Romania, I'm a Brit, I'm housebound so haven't been to Romania, but I have some Romanian friends and the one thing I know is Romanians love to party, have a good time, eat good food and enjoy themselves.
German here: Even the threat of shooting up a school, to get a day of, is beyond fucked up.
If asked, I wouldn't mind betting that some Americans if asked for a freedom that others might not have would reply "We have the freedom to carry guns" to which I would reply "You're welcome to that freedom. Me? I prefer the freedom to walk the streets freely withour fear".
On the pharmacy thing.. Pushing antibiotics without knowing if it's bacterial is stupid. We're already threatened by resistant bacteria.
Don't forget the people who mistakenly believe antibiotics can used against viruses.
What? You have to pay tax on a house you already own? Every year? That is NUTS. And the Police can confiscate your cash. Why do people stay there? There are so many "free-er" countries out here.
Slowly people are waking up.
This is absolutely horrific! Unbelievable how the US treats its citizens. So glad to be British 🇬🇧
We do in the UK as well. Called council tax
I don't know about other countries ,but in England we have a thing call council tax that every property owned or rented has to pay
Probably cause it's not exactly easy to escape this hellhole unless you have really in demand skills, family or money, I'd do it if I could in a heartbeat.
I'm french, and here in France, when you don't have a job you're under the social health program that is completely free. This take charge of your medical consultation, medicines and even hospital stays if needed. And when you got a job, it's generally your company insurance that pays your health needs if their insurance are good. If it's not that good, you can pay your own insurance that will cover what you need. I'm 28 and I had some health issues for a time when I was unemployed and I've never spent a cent. When I was working my health insurance wasn't that good and I had to pay 7.50€ for my consultations and a few more euros for some medicine that was not covered by my insurance, which is really not bad at all.
On the bit about making videos, I have to say it's been awesome watching your channel over the last ~year or so. The more you've exposed yourself to the rest of the world, predominantly British culture, the more it's been really awesome watching your opinions and beliefs change. So many people just never waver from whatever the majority view around them is or just reject the majority completely and find some other structure to embrace but you take in new information, process it, and form your own opinions.
So thank you for reaffirming my faith in humanity :)
On the subject of police stops, might I recommend you watch and react to an episode of Police Interceptors from here in the UK. I think it would be interesting to see your perspective on the de-escalation techniques they use considering that they are also, usually, armed response officers
On the whole walking through farms thing, here in the UK where I am we have public footpaths, which in many places are indicated by arrows. In some parts of the country, some parts of the footpaths go through farms. I think it was when I went to my cousin's wedding when I went to talk with my mother and we went for a walk which literally led through the middle of a grazing field for cows. There are usually either special gates which people can easily walk through but cows can't, or there are steps over the fence which again people can easily use but cows can't. As for the cows, they are use to people just walking past them all the time.
In germany if you are chronically stressed out, about to have a burn out or recovering from a serious illness, your doctor will prescribe you what is called a Kur. Your health insurance covers almost all of it and you have a minimal copay (could be $10 a day). It's 3 weeks (paid leave) where you are send to a kurort. Like a hotel where they focus on your health, you can decompress, you eat healthy or get your health back after illness.
In america they throw meds at you and even trying to get yourself into a mental hospital for your own safety is a hassle.
I'll be honest, we did actually have a knife scare back when I was in secondary school.
I remember it because it's kind of hilarious; essentially back at that time there were a number of secondary schools and there was always a rivalry between us. Never really knew why but it was kind of passed down from older kids to the fresh faces that we simply don't get along or interact with kids from those other schools.
Well this got out of hand where one kid had gotten into a spat with a kid from another school, so this other kid rolls up on campus with a knife to attack the kid from our school.
Yeah, that's as exciting as it got. We were all told to get inside whilest teachers cornered the knife kid in the tennis courts until the police came to pick them up.
That wouldn't happen today since those schools don't exist, they literally merged about a dozen schools across the county into 2 super schools which ended that kinda bs.
Americans have no idea what real freedom is. Love from Denmark.
In Norway we learn using wood carving knifes(mora knife) in kindergarden(with supervision), then from elementary school we’re left alone with them. I was so proud to be the first to cut myself “properly”!
You know kids, of course not on purpose, and it was only cool after I stopped crying.
based on what you said about punishment for crime, you may like to look into the differences between the Scandinavian prison systems and the American. Including the re incarceration rates and procedures through the prison, there are a lot of interesting psychological things at play in that sector.
It’s very impressive your system and seems to be working looking in from the UK
The issue is the mindset of the people. Is locations where prisons are about rehabilitation I feel people look at it as a second chance at life where as in a lot of other countries people would see it as “barely a punishment” and “nothing to lose”
@@connoryoung8951 Your thought process is the logical one that we have been following for most of human history, if the punishment is to nice, then people won't care and just commit crime.
In more modern times the numbers we have show that the main cause of crime is not absolute poverty, it is relativity and necessity. Basically if you have a very rich and a very poor neighborhood next to each other there will be a high crime rate, and on the same note, if you deny people the ability to live a decent life they will resort to crime, no matter how hard the punishment is.
On the topic of mindset, it has turned out that just like people don't have to believe in a religion to be moral, there is a basic tendency for humans to want to maintain a comfortable status quo, so actions like crime that disrupt it are not as forthcoming.
Another problem that has cropped up with the hard prison system is the issue of radicalization. If you put a small time thief in a prison with a drug lord, next time you catch him he is already part of the drug cartel.
On the topic of punishment, just from the part i have heard, the main thing there is the guilt. I don't have much knowledge about this area but it is supposedly quite an important aspect.
I feel you man, I used to love crowds in my mid 20's but in my 30's now just imagining being in a crowd makes me shake with anxiety. Think its your brain protecting you tbh and guiding you down the quiet path of hobbit life
👈 this guy living in an underground house - 🤔 "he might be on to something here, lets dig deeper"
Talking about healthcare, my son is a type 1 diabetic. If he needs any insulin and the associated stuff, I just phone my health centre for a prescription. The receptionist writes down what he needs and generally it is delivered to my doorstep within 4 hours - all totally free!
Antibiotics are not simple stuff. Those should be allowed only by a doctor, and in rare occasions.
I always get a good laugh when some American say something dumb.. like they do.
And you correct them. They always go to the same things. "You don't live here you don't know" like that is a good point. Or "well you are just mad that I live in a free country" The US is one of the least free nations in the western world. based on both laws and rights but even more so in a social aspect. what people feel they can do or will be targeted for doing.
The US laid the foundation for sitcoms and reality tv.
To such a point the US now is nothing but a reality tv show the rest of the world watch and either laugh or cringe at. And then when Americans talk about them self as all important and the silly stuff they do is all important. those episodes are extra fun.
Hi, I like your vids. Funniest part for me in this one is 30:00, when in response to high school security measures in US you are bringing up the subject of "kids" (teenagers) being brought to and from school by parents or family friends. You know what? In Europe, no one is picking up teenagers from high school. They manage to get around themselves. Maybe this is the moment you realized US has messed you up ; )
Keep up good work!
I love it when you tell an American that freedom doesn't actually exist and that it's an illusion, their faces look so confused because they have always been told it does.
Two partys ONLY? AND none is on the left????🤪🤯 Men!!!
YOU live in the lá lá land 😋👍
I'm a school teacher here in Vietnam. It still suprises me to see actual box cutters in the students pencil cases. Also toy vendors selling toy guns and plastic butterfly knives to students that openly play with them in school.
Then there is the fact that children out in public all see foreigners as teachers and they will aproach me wanting to talk and the parents encourage this. People don't automatically assume that all men are pedophiles. How refreshing is that? It's nice to not be judged so harshly like men are in the US.
And the last thing....I've actually been complimented by women! More than once, wow! I was floored the first time it happened.
I love it how more often than you'd like you're lost for words, you'd love to defend the US but you simply can't. Good for you for your honesty 👍
18:40 thats probably not hormones itself but the overall less sugar we got here. if you take in too much sugar and fats your body produces female hormones ( which in return could influence a womans period )
The big news today on the island I live on, was armed police arresting 3 people, ie police with guns. Having police with guns here is such a rare event that its major news, whereas USA all cops have guns.
In the 20 years I've lived here, there's only been 2 occasions where armed police have got involved in an arrest
Which island you on
In Norway where I live we have what they call "freedom to roam" your land is YOUR land, but people can walk by like your cabin or house as long as it is within boundary's, you cant like walk around the house and look in windows and creep lol, but walking from like one end of your property fence and along it to get to somewhere else is totally fine.
Also no one "own" the waters or ocean line, you are allowed to swim and enjoy it even tho someone "own" it.
It is all about mutual respect and "what is mine is also yours" kind of mindset, sharing is caring and all that =)
I love that this is a thing here, and find it very strange that people can be shot for walking over a invisible line into someones "privat land" that is mindblowing lol.
When it comes to your fear of shotings and so, that part is just so sad to the rest of the world, the "freedom" you have gives you fear of your lifes, and in Norway for instance, handguns are for shotingrange only, shotguns are for hunting, rifles' are also hunting. You need riggerus training and license for all of them, rules are there for a reason, and it works for the rest of the world.
That way you WILL get cought if you have a machinegun, you will not be able to walk around for a second without people calling it in. That way shit dont happend everyday with mas shotings and shit like that, it is SUPER rare,this is because everyone got your back as a unit and a people, insted of you beeing scared that EVERYONE can be the one shoting you in the back =(
Freedom is not beeing afraid to walk outside your door and fear of what will happen to you outside of your four walls.
Freedom is not beeing afraid of people storming your congress building with machineguns and guns. If what you have in America is "freedom" I am very glad I dont live there and what I need to be afraid of is will it rain tomorrow when I was suppose to paint the walls ;)
PS: In Norway now there is 2 poilice officers pr 1000 people, we have a prison systemt that has some of the highest rates of making people BETTER from when they end up there to when they come out,and some of the loest repeate affernders numbers in the world.
Police dont even have guns on their person here in Norway, they are locked away in their cars, only taken out when life is on the line. Also to become police in Norway, you need minimum 3 years education, this is why I feel safe, I know there are so few "bad apples" in the streets, if you cant trust the once protecting you, again you are definitely FREE!
Again your "freedom" is not what the rest of the world would call free in any way, shape or form and it is hard to watch the lies some Americans tell them self to get true the day =(
the high school visitor one is surprising to me. i'm UK and in my high school you had to sign in as a visitor and sign out as both visitor and student leaving early but i think mostly because if there was a fire (or a drill; those were pretty common) then they'd know if everyone was out. especially with that school; it'd been on fire twice in the years prior to me getting there, so i think they were more worried about fires than most schools are.
I can feel you with anxiety, i'm 22 i used to be the energetic one who always goes out, yells and sings etc. nowadays whenever i'm in a crowd or sit on a bus my heart pounds, i can't breathe, i feel like i breathe loud af, but i'm barely breathing.. Idk what the fuck happened with me but i like talking with people, i just don't really like strangers? And i don't mind talking to random people, i even do it myself sometimes. Something got a bit twisted haha
No, you are just really afraid of something and that fear gets triggered by strangers around you.
I'm the exact same! Mine started randomly when I was around 16 and now I'm almost 24 and feel stuck in life. I hope things get better for you, this mental prison is just awful but we've gotta keep going ✌️
My mans, that sounds like anxiety. Lmao. I struggled with agoraphobia for 10 years, and it started basically like that. Though having that said, I still hate strangers, not really big on people in general tbh.
It’s like you just read my WHOLE LIFE
In my schools if we dodnt want to do something,
Like detention, the fire alarm would go off. We wouldn’t take in a gun and start shooting or
Phone up for a bomb threat!
Fire alarm is kind of just as bad as bomb threat 👀
Exactly nor at my school we do a something like mix milk and orange to get sent home because we'd been sick
Don't students in the US simply skip school? If me and my friends didn't want to go to class we would just not go and go play some football or hang out somewhere.
@@Jmvars hide in the local park drinking out of brown paper bags?
Had a few fire alarms in the UK, altho I don't think it was about skipping school necessarily, if kids didn't want to go to school, they would skip out; then their parents would get rung up about their attendance... but yea, some kids really didn't want to be in school and would occasionally just not go.
This whole series of videos by EB is like watching Limmy realising he can’t say “purple burglar alarm”, but extended over many hours, eye rolls and sighs.
Im from Vienna /Austria... One day i just left a subway station and lightend a cigarette. A couple of american tourists next to me freaked out. Shouting at me, that in... (i forgot the state they named).. It's forbidden to smoke in public. And because they are from this state, i have to put out my cigarette.
When I sat down on the sideway (not on a bench, literally on the sideway), opened a bottle of beer and said "Well ok, let's talk about personnel freedom."... they ran away.
I don't know why, I'm a chubby, elderly lady with green hair.... Totally harmless. 🤷♀️
In UK, we have strict gun laws but we don't have desire for guns. I watched another channel (American couple living in UK) and husband felt that he needed to have a gun because he missed his own weapons.. I personally was shocked
I like the way to take time to think before saying anything.
It must only be a matter of time time before the shit hits the fan in the U.S , with all the stress and inequallity.
It looks to an outsider that it is all anger,stress and violance .... all controlled by the mighty dollar . Don't get me wrong , where Ilive is no paradise , but it is less volatile.
In the UK we have the freedom to cross the road where we like !
It's not related to this vid but, a coworker told me a time when she was training a 17 year old girl how to be a cashier. She stopped the girls training as a cashier when it came out that the girl had no concept for physical legal tender.
She had no idea what quarters, dimes and nickels were worth.
I'm nearly 60 years old and TBH most of my life I've been envious of our American cousins and their "freedom" but lately through watching your posts i think that living in the UK isn't too bad regarding some freedoms. You post on guns is one example. Yeah there is a lot to gripe about here but free heath care etc is wonderful compared to the trials and tribulations of the US. Respect to you E.B.
As a fellow Brit, I’m curious to know what freedoms you were jealous of and what you thought they have that we don’t have.
On the topic of guns, why do you need to own a gun unless you're a hunter or farmer (to keep animals away from your livestock). They can own a shotgun or rifle, there's no need to own handguns, semi/auto weapons. go to the shooting range if you want to use those weapons.
I know Americans will scream about the 2nd amendment but the was written over 200 years ago when people were less civilised.
not much has changed there actually, because the gun is their symbol of civilization, that's their mindset
-self defense
-because i want to
For alot of people it's complete lack of trust in the government, personally I'd rather have my own weapon than rely on a corrupt and ineffective police force.
Was told by a mix of Americans,( Wisconsin, Tennessee and Georgia Lads), that Florida is to America as America is to the World, Which is a *Terrifying* concept
As a non-American, watching Americans watch this and still try to defend 😬
0:41 broke away from lord north and his government.....not "the queen" in 1776
How I see it is Americans probably have less restrictions when they are inside their own home or property. But on public places, or elsewhere outside one's home, I think Europeans are better off. In Finland I can go to a forest that someone else owns, meaning private land. I can pick as much berries and mushrooms as I want, load them into my car, drive to the market and sell them. And that income is tax free.
Are you saying you can go onto private land without permission?
They wouldn't let you do that in the UK, you would need a permit to sell food and liability insurance, and would be forced to pay taxes on any revenues earned otherwise HMRC would come calling.
@@blueoval250 In many countries in Europe it is accepted that entry - usually on foot or by non-motorised means - onto land not being actively cultivated, or clearly part of domestic curtilage, for short-term, non-disturbing, non-damaging leisure purposes, is perfectly OK at most times of the year. Elsewhere in Europe, there is an accepted (often legally-enshrined) right to use - on foot - paths and tracks (which are _not_ maintained at public expense) which cross private land, and often go through farmyards, orchards and even cultivated fields. There is vanishingly-little disruption, damage or disturbance overall, and a great deal of pleasure - and education - enabled. You can also ride a bike or a horse on some of these paths and tracks - no need to go to special places to ride 'off road', you might well have miles of these rights-of-ways on the edge of your town or city.
don't be sad, americans, at least you have the freedom to haul around your precious guns wherever you go so you can defend yourselves against other people who haul around their precious guns wherever they go!
Yeah, I’m Dutch and own 2 shotguns for trap and skeet shooting. But it’s very regulated, you have to have a separate gun and ammunition safe, besides the backgrounds checks they do. You’re not allowed the heaviest caliber right away, that takes years. You have to declare to the local police that you’re a gun owner and they WILL randomly come by with a warrant and check if you’re abiding the rules.
And I’m ok with that, guns are not toys.
I had a job (in Canada) where I was not required to take vacation, but I was given vacation time I could use. But if I didn't use it, it carried over into the next year.
After 12 years of taking very little vacation, I was asked why I took so little vacation. I said, "because it makes me more expensive to fire."
That sucks
this sounds like a very bad idea tbh
My employers make me take my holiday leave every year lol
Usually around the months of October, November or December they approach me and say you've 21 days and you have to take them.
I use that time to get Christmas shopping etc over and done with.
I have worked at a few places in the UK where it's almost frowned on if you have too much holiday left over come Q4 and people will be asked why they haven't used more, tho most companies I have worked at allow you to carry a week over to Q1 of the next year.
it'll be weird if we didn't take any leave. the boss will be asking if i have any problems for not taking my leave. it's end of September now, i have 3 weeks leave to finish.
I remember exactly what I was doing when I heard about the Dunblane massacre. And there has not been another shooting in a school here since. Because the laws were changed immediately. We could not bear the idea of it happening again.
I understand that America is a very different place and people live very far apart and police may not be anywhere near enough to protect you, but that isn’t the case here, so we were able to do what we did.
Here in Belgium, to consult a doktor costs me 4euro and if he prescribes medication (whatever it might be) it'll cost no more then 10euro. And going to the emergency room? Don't worry!! That's all covered by social security.. Healthcare is a human right! No one should be sick and be unable to get help!
I definitely agree about the healthcare issue in the US with the pricing. In the late 1990s I worked for a company that had offices in the US and Canada (I am Canadian and had a TN visa at the time) and I worked with a group of guys traveling throughout the US but I was paid through the Canadian office while they were paid via the US one. One guy said he heard we paid a lot of taxes because of our healthcare and other social programs. I then heard him talking about having to pay extra for health insurance and looking for someone in his HMO, etc. So I asked how much he was paying for health insurance and he said over $400 a month for a family of four. I was shocked, and I quickly did the math and found that I paid about $400 in extra taxes over the month, but in Canadian funds, which at the time would have been a little less than $300 US. That also would have covered a family of four, if I had one. I asked him if the company provided any extended health benefits and I think he said some thing like a couple hundred for glasses and a couple hundred for something else, every other year. I could not tell him that the Canadian office, of the same company, every year gave us $400 for glasses, $500 each for massage, chiropractor, chiropodist, and a few other things, for about $20 a month. Things are probably different now as many companies have cut back on extended medical, but each company is different so it is hard to say what they have now.