WHY CAN'T AMERICANS BUILD HEAVIER HOUSES??? | Vir Das | Stand-Up
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2023
- Why Can't Americans build heavier houses? #standup
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Punching a hole in the wall always made me wonder how strong their men were, it turns out their walls were just weak
Yeah...don't take that to heart...I've seen pissed off high schoolers slug and make the dust shake from concrete walls...
Their buildings are made of cardboard. It's really disturbing to me😅
But it explains how the Extreme Makeover houses could be built in 5 days.
In DK you wouldn't even be done with the foundation in 5 days.
Coz everything is built with bricks and concrete. No houses are flying away here.
Maybe a trampoline and a few roof tiles, but not mamy.
Same. My german house is a damn castle compared to this😂
@@damienwylaz1738 It's fun looking at the craters in the concrete walls from this. I stuck my fist in one and it went as deep as half my forearm.
@@doggytheanarchist7876almost none of your houses would survive a Category 4+ hurricane lmao
"Why is your house flying away an annual event? Why are you living in origami??" 🤣🤣🤣
That got me good too…. But my favorite was the end. “It’ll land eventually” ❤😂
Wait til this guy learns what Japanese houses used to be made of
@@qui-gontimtherandomraptor1072 you mean like a century ago? Or now in 2023? Yeah concrete because you know earthquake and fire resistance is a thing.
@@AndrewHadi07 I always heard that Japanese houses were often made out of paper prior to and during WWII, which is part of why firebombing the Japanese was so effective. Maybe that's a load of heckery Idk
@@qui-gontimtherandomraptor1072 yeah wood and paper for window. Hence after the restoration they make sure to fix that. And take fire safety very seriously.
Meanwhile my neighbour writes contact info on his roof just for this reason 😂
😂
That's wild
U r kidding,right?? Right????????
@@monadarling1996 Possible if they were Indians 😊
@@AsphaltAshpalt 👀
"let's hope in a good area" just sucker punched me 😂
Sucks it didn't get the audience reaction it should have. It was layered.
“ it will land eventually….lets hope in a good area” Had me wheezing 😂
Contractors: Don't look at me, I just cut all the corners
At least they don't built skyscrapers out of paper mache, unlike someone...
What a truth! I never understand this! In Europe all houses are build of bricks or concrete ( blocks). And are not so expences like in US!
Bruh in every part of the world except usa, japan, some snowy places and uk deep forest areas. Everywhere people make houses with bricks and concrete. Japan i can understand there are many earthquakes so its better to make easy, cheap houses. But usa making house with cardboard?? Bruh my dog lives ina better house
@@khyatimanchoudhury1783 it's ok if USA built their houses like that but why the fukk thy cost so much??
@@ChoCoMoCo69 ummm coz its usa
@@ChoCoMoCo69It's overpopulated. They let anybody over the boarder for decades without any paperwork or without checking on them properly which created both overpopulation and high rate crimes. Which can't lead to anything else but a horrible economy.
@@ChoCoMoCo69and when I say it I don't mean it like other countries... Cause in US people from everywhere go. Millions of people. So it's extremely hard for most young people now there to get jobs... Like in general it is everywhere after COVID but in US most people I know that are my age that are 20... They can't find anything besides waiter.
I am distracted by his Cargo pants.
I'm distracted by his pockets
Same....like why is his pants crotch by his knees?😂
as someone who wear pants like that (over twice my size) i’m so utterly dumbfounded when i see someone else doing it like i’m not a majorly gay hypocrite 💀
I want pants like that! Where can I get in big & Tall
hes pocketmaxxing
"Punching hole into walls" is such a commonly American thing like am sorry why are your walls literal paper
Primarily habit; people don't wamt to pay for the bricks and concrete. That said, in places that are often built on the west coast, it's due to the earthquakes. Where I live in the east coast mountains, we jist worry about cost effectiveness. That's about it. If you think a 3 bedroom and 2 bathroom house for 550,000 dollars is expensive, bump it up to 750,000 wuth bricks and concrete.
Same question.
Like where I live, I can understand, but places where Hurricane is almost like an annual event.
Why do people keep building same weak Houses ?
Just make it out of Concrete, it's that simple.
I know some places cannot have heavy Houses, but let's be honest, you aren't building 3-4 storey Houses, it's probably only GROUND FLOOR with ATTIC or at Max G+1+Attic.
I saw a recent video of someone actually did it, and post hurricane only 1 single house was standing all others were literally gone like there never was anything there.
Oh God thank you! I'm an indian and I really never could wrap my head around these fragile houses!
Really me too😳😳i even asked my American friend who is a construction worker, he gave me a small lecture on types of houses. He lives in Florida, it’s like mother of hurricanes. At the end of the lecture I asked, so why don’t y’all build concrete houses, no answer 🤐🙅🏻♀️
wood is a better insulator than cement/concrete. so they build houses from wood in colder places in America, plus I think they America has a surplus of wood or something? the insulation is all I know about
Wood is cheaper in the US and its what builders are used to/know.
the same places that get hit with hurricanes also get hit with earthquakes or snowstorms. depending on how north you are on the coast
People don't realize that in places with hurricanes, houses are built to withstand them. In places with tornados you just pray that it doesn't hit your house, if it does it'll be pieces of your house that are scattered either way
Right. And people seem to forget gravity exists. If brick manages to get picked up in a strong enough storm and that storm disappears, what's gonna happen to the brick?
@@Yvonne-Bella y'know nowadays we stick things called rebar into our concrete to make it stronger, does america just not have rebar?
@zacmarken65 in Florida where hurricanes are common, most modern homes are made with cinderblock exteriors. they don't fly away. mobile home however do.
@@Yvonne-Bellawhy dafig would bricks be picked up by a bit of wind when it's literally glued to an entire wall of bricks using concrete and cement & a foundation buried into the ground bruh walls aren't just stacked bricks like a house of cards
Do your fucking basements also fly away? Because unless they do that's where you should keep everything that you don't want to lose. If you don't want to leave it under a empty lot then put a big-ass Gazebo there or something; tell people that it's open-plan.
Florida got called TF out 😂
He is just demonstrating his ignorance. Let him go on. The majority of buildings in Florida are either cinder block or concrete.
@@JP-sx7fq not really. In large builings like condos, offices, etc the construction is usually very solid, but not always in houses. North and Central Florida use mostly engineered frame wood. And the rest only really use CMU for the first floor, any other additional floors are wood. This is why there's still so much structural damage. after hurricanes.
I live in Oklahoma. One time on the news there was a lady who was talking about how her house was literally picked up by a tornado, and moved 15 miles Southeast. THIS IS A COMMON FUCKING OCCURRENCE.
I live in Oklahoma as well, apparently there are multiple situations of tigers roaming parts of Oklahoma, because they tornadoes keep helping them escape. XDDDD
Crazy shit happens here man.
I used to live in Oklahoma. Two tornados hit our trailer. It was scary.
We need updats on the FEILD DREAM!
15 years of EMI... how can we simply let it go !!
Bro i saw german walls and was like "bro why do we americans get the paper houses?"
Here’s the answers for why houses in the US are made of plywood and paper coming from a construction worker and a history enthusiast. 1) In the US there’s a lot of areas where heat is the main issue you deal with, paper and plywood let’s heat and cooling to flow in and out. 2) it’s cheaper (sometimes) and can be built anywhere 3) it’s how it was done before, since the great housing boom post ww2 this type of light frame housing was standard throughout the US, it was cheap and quick to build so it was useful to build so many houses that way. Now today there maybe other methods to build a house that maybe cheaper or more durable but construction tends to be set in their ways and refuse to change. Lastly if your house was built to withstand for a long time, then how could builders get repeat work?
Now to European readers, why are your houses built mostly out of concrete (especially Germany)? Simply it was cheap to build, retains heat, and to be frank; it was built to withstand the bombardment of a possible 3rd World War with the Soviets. In the post WW2 reconstruction, the west was eyeing up the Soviets and knew that Europe was going to be the battlefield. To help European to withstand the air raids and bombings, houses were rebuilt stronger and with cellars to be able withstand the heavy ordnances used.
Oh, cool. I did not know that. Thanks for the info, man, the more you know.
also earthquakes and tornados are way more common in the us vs Europe or even parts of asia. Flexible wood is is better than rigid materials for earthquakes and tornados. it lets the building flex and not break apart.
theres very few places that can match the amount of earthquakes. Japan is another example, their doors are literally made of paper sometimes.
The house i was born in was not "built to withstand WWIII" , it was built before we started numbering wars. In fact it was built before Columbus took up sailing as a hobby, and is still standing.
@@John_Lyle okay??? Good for you???
I can't speak for the USA, but as a European, our houses aren't built to sustain a WW3. Our houses have always been constructed using heavy materials (stones, bricks and now mostly concrete, but also heavy wood), prior to world wars. And even now that the cold war is over, we are still constructing houses with concrete. Like you mentioned, it retains the heat, and is well isolated from the exterior, and it tends to last for a long time.
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"Why is your house flying away an annual event........?" XD
As an Australian who has always lives in brick houses, as has my family for like...3 generations, I wonder that too.
Air conditioning, insulation, and overall greater distribution of hot and cold temperatures. Summer can go over 100 and winters can go below zero.
Fun fact: you used to be able to buy house kits from Sears. Like, a literal kit that you’d put together like ikea furniture, but it was your entire house
these confuses most foreigners - it is INSANE!!!!
You know, I always wondered how Jerry chewed through concrete to create his house.
Its like they never heard the three little pigs story
Your joke is far superior than his 😂😂😂
Please loan him your punch line or he will die a hobo.
Nope we didnt. This story is not native for indians.
@@khyatimanchoudhury1783 But I know the poems of Rabindranat Tagore! I’m joking, because he was a great poet!😂 “ The three little pigs” is a story well known, for children
@@UKpowerunleashed"Hobo" earned more in this show than your entire fucking bloodline in a decade
As someone living in an earthquake prone area, I’m actually glad about this because if my house comes crashing down on top of me, at least it’s drywall not bricks.
I am curious about same question
I love this man
Bros describing the plot of the wizard of oz 💀
BRO IM SO GLAD I DISCOVERED THIS GUY
That shit mostly happens in Southeastern United States (near the Atlantic Ocean 🌊). I live in Oregon 🌲 (Pacific Northwest). Some areas have floods 🌊 & forest fires 🔥. That's why I live on a hill...
In Florida, a massive target for Hurricanes, it’s just one big, flat, swamp.
You can’t build deep, nor have basements. You also can’t build exceedingly heavy in most areas.
I mean, you could. But now you have to worry about your house becoming the next Leaning Tower of Pisa and collapsing under its own weight as the foundations break down.
Bro there are tall buildings in Florida
OR, knowing that the US built CONCRETE SHIPS back in WW2, you realise there's a way to build something heavy on a soft soil and not making it lean or crack.
@@mariosebastiani3214 hmm there is something called pilling which you can do, to lay a solid foundation!!!! If I am not mistaken you pile logs as a part of foundation, just pump concrete instead
@@sebastiancs9034 there is also a form of micro-drilling, increasing the attrition surface of the foundation through several buried pillars in reinforced concrete. But in the US it would cost several times what the house does.
@@mariosebastiani3214
Your business are out to rob you, and you also have a labour&material problem that simply exasperates the problem!!!
OK THAT WAS PERSONAL-
In America, you can break your walls.
In Europe, your walls *will* break you.
Wood is comparatively cheap and easier to access in the USA.
"Why do you live in Origami?" sends me... like the hurricanes do to those houses.
That style of building houses was introduced during wartime restrictions of ww2
Insulation locks out the heat too if you build it right. This needed to happen 26 years ago.
Fr the walls are thinner than the windows😭
Sensible question indeed.
i like this guy
The real reason is heavier houses aren’t gonna be enough to fight a force of nature like a tornado, so we’d rather have paper walls flying around than bricks 😭
Japan has required architects and engineers to build tsunami and earthquake-resistant buildings.
During hurricanes, I'm more worried about flooding. At least, i find where it landed if the wind did it 😂😅
💯!!!
Never had to deal with a hurricane living in Wisconsin but I've lived through three tornadoes and not once has my house even budged. The weirdest part is one of the times the tornado was within five feet of the house still no damage. The sound a tornado makes is still the scariest thing I can think of though.
I now need a movie about an Indian family whose house gets swept away in a hurricane and the The whole movie is a road trip following the house 😂 this sounds like Pixar needs to write it😂
Same reason why it's so easy to renovate their houses. SEA people like me, we need our houses are built thicc since there's like a typhoon every month. Downside, renovation is quite the pain.
So funny 😂😂😂
As an architect, I agree!!
Can't lose a house whose loan we paid for the last 10 years yk😂
PEASE PLEWSE PLEASEW GETE SOMEE FITTING PANTSSS
The one country that has lot of firearms, the houses are have walls made of paper 😅
because it's really hard to build something that strong
Bro hasn’t seen cost of living prices 😂😂
So many pockets.. 😂😂
That is what my dad said! American houses are card board boxes. Hahaha😅😅😂😂😂
When profit is the only thing that matters you start to get strange and bizarre outcomes
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Housing market is crazy in the US. The boom and busts make us have to put them up in doubletime when the market says peoplenare buying them up like crazy.
Bro it’s so true. I lived in the Northern Marianas and our houses were made of concrete to prevent this. I come to America and Florida’s houses are flying away or being flooded every year 😂
Tornado alley should try and make british stone houses, it’d be amazing to see them still standing despite everything
(I know plains biomes aren’t the same as mountain biomes, but they should still stand a chance)
Go see the houses in Charleston SC
There are Pacific islands somewhere that get cyclones regularly and they figured it circular houses are the way to go, aerodynamic and the wind just goes straight around, they're always way safer in their houses than white man houses with steel reinforcement
Because the odds of a house surviving a category 4 or 5 hurricane regardless of what it’s made from is slim to none debris is flying around including heavy debris in winds going above 130 miles an hour if it’s a category 5 is going 157+ miles per hour buildings get hit with the debris and when it is going that fast it’s going to punch wholes into your house regardless of how good you secure it this makes your house lose structural integrity with winds going over 130 miles your house made from bricks or concrete isn’t going to survive after the hurricane you will need to rebuild it you might get extremely lucky and your house might not get hit by debris but if that’s the case a well built wood house will also survive and is a fraction of the costs. The area effected by category 4-5 hurricanes are considered uninhabitable for weeks and months after because it needs new plumbing electrical systems and debris needs to be removed.
Hey! Here's an idea: don't choose to live in a place like that where every day has the potential to turn you into Mary Poppins if you just have an umbrella ☂️
Bc brick is expensive also were trying to audition for wizard of oz
I live in South Florida and we have houses made of cement, iron and cinder blocks. I never understood the idea of houses flying off when a Hurricane passes by either.
It’s because of the natural disasters that we have are powerful enough to remove cinder blocks with ease, so to not have more damage done we build it in the ways that will create the least amount of damage. Each state has its own housing codes due to the large variety of natural disasters we have.
agreed, i am from chile
You build a house the way you want. You better be very rich
True
Living the Dorothy dream.
And then there's the Japanese that do live in origami yet somehow don't have that problem
We build brick and concrete houses... but in a category 5, well, depending on where in the hit zone you're located, it can tear those apart as well.
Well now I want to watch Bollywood wizard of Oz based off of this man's bit.
Easier method of relocation 😂
that's why building a house takes at least a year or six months at the fastest
In Louisiana if you build a house heavy enough to withstand a hurricane it will sink into the swamp below you
Fair point, counter point, why doesn't India just build earthquake resistant slums in every city? It's an annual event at this point, still got shanty towns crumbling like gingerbread houses tho.
Wood is expensive in India and manual labor is cheap
Hey c'mon i mean, we wouldn't have to pay for the moving expenses at least 😂
his pants distuurb me..
Those are Sirwal pants ...
because flying plaster is way safer than flying bricks.
We do design houses to withstand hurricanes. It's just those houses are expensive. Also now house can withstand cat 4 or 5 hurricanes.
Because when the earthquakes come and the houses collapse you don't end up in something so heavy it crushes you to death.
Hurricane 😂
If this was a movie I'd watch it. Wait.....
I love how everyone except america is confused on why they build houses out of paper 😂
Fr the walls over here are made of toothpicks
With the cost of living as it is… yes, I would follow that mf house. I paid for it, I’m not gonna let mother nature take it from me. >:(
Well he's right though. Our houses are made of cardboard reenforced with more cardboard.
Its the companies who want to build houses for cheaper
I love US :,D
Maybe just put an apple tag on your roof and you’d be able to find it
Maine aapka TWO INDIA suna..
Lots of love sir.❤
Is his pants on backwards?
Germany has notably fewer strong storms, let alone hurricanes. But if you punch a German wall, chances are that the wall will be fine and you won't. Even in a relatively cheap house.
Yes except for tornado that we don’t follow
Nahnah. It's more that they float away in hurricane
As an Indian, I know what he said was real.