Its sad that the US, the self proclaimed 'leader of the free world' does not exhibit freedoms that even us Brits expect. These remind me of the antics of the classic communist state.
Doesn't need to be "in a threatening manner" (at least in my experience) but of course it _is_ inherently dangerous (not enough time to brake safely) so a threat in that sense. (if you do it with a lorry for instance they may not even know you're there - one reason it's dangerous - so they can't exactly feel threatened)
The dramatic presentation of the effects of drink-driving after a prom sounds very educational. Presumably there's a similar exercise to illustrate the danger of guns?
Nothing about USA shocks me anymore after 2 American girlfriends and numerous interactions they're just not built the same as most people on the planet. Almost as if they were a country cut off from the rest of the world for centuries like china Japan and Russia. 😅😅
Too close _to their tailgate_ though so it's referring to the same part (unlike if e.g. they called it "Trunking", which doesn't fit with our use of "boot"). Maybe related to the prevalence of pick-up trucks in different countries ?
@@marydavis5234 A quick web search on the pledge of allegiance in schools shows that quite a few states still require it to be recited in some way (47 states to be exact) and a great many still require it to be recited by children in public schools every day. Don't need to be Murican to read Wikipedia.
@@marydavis5234 Exactly my point! The fact that America is a nation of 50 separate and distinct states, these states are often legally so separate they are better thought of as 50 separate countries. I just didn't understand why you said the Pledge of Allegiance was taken out of classrooms since 1970 when that is incorrect. Only Wyoming, Vermont, and Hawaii do not require the Pledge of Allegiance.. Presently nowhere in the nation can a student be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance however, Florida is/was trying its best to change that the Supreme Court be damned. I feel distraught and dismayed people don't care enough to even check what is being done in our schools.
Regarding the Homecoming, where are they coming home from? It sounds like it all takes place at school with a parade through the streets too, meaning that everyone has to leave their homes to take part. In my schooldays in 70s/80s Scotland I think the closest was going back to school after the summer. There were no parades or pep rallies or dances, just seemingly endless shopping for new school uniforms, all bought at least one size too big. This was, of course, so that it didn't need replaced due to growth spurts but had the effect of making what we're already your least comfortable but new clothes look and feel worse than your scruffiest jeans and t-shirt. The perfect confidence booster for already confused and anxious adolescents...
@@marydavis5234 Yes, but the name implies it's a celebration of someone coming home. E.g. celebration of people coming home after a war ended, celebrating a team coming home after winning an away game, that sort of thing. From what was described, the name doesn't seem to fit the celebration.
@@marydavis5234 So in other words, the explanation given, that it is to celebrate alumni coming 'home' is far more plausible than anything you can provide.
Upstate NYer here - I’ve never heard of the Judgment House. I assume it’s more popular down south with the Bible Belt influence. Up here is overall more secular, in my experience.😅
@@marydavis5234 I would suggest you do a quick web search on the pledge of allegiance in schools because quite a few states still require it to be recited in some way (47 states to be exact) and a great many still require it to be recited by children in public schools every day.
The first story, we have the same thing in the UK where one person goes to Haven (a caravan park) and the other goes to Hull. Basically both are the same thing... lol
What I find “weird” (apart from all the things you mentioned! 😮 Judgment House sounds very strange (and making a child experience it , to ensure they behave better in the future, to prevent a visit to Old Bill Satan’s gaffe later on?! 😱🤔hmmmmm…. A Social Services phone number would be busy! And for the Prom Night “play acting” a student’s death as a warning…. Just show the students the UK’s 60’s, 70’s 80’s DON’T DRINK & DRIVE films/videos back to back - they would make them think not drink!! 😧😖).. but just what IS a “Home coming Queen”?? I know the Monkees sang about one in the tune Daydream Believer - is it the same as a Prom Queen (and that too is nuts! It seems that there’s no such thing as “equal opportunities” when choosing the lucky winner - It’s always the prettiest and most slim girl with the natural blonde curly tresses and a perfect set of pearly white teeth that gets to wear the diamanté crown - its’s never that girl you know, the one with the dumpy pear shaped figure and a behind the size of a rhino, who has yet to master the knack of using a “hair styling wand” to get a bit of a wave in her naturally but flat “brown” hair; she probably has to wear her glasses too, because her parents cannot afford to buy her contact lenses! 😥) . I know how Carrie must have felt in the film (and book) of the same name! 😅 No, what I find TRULY weird are baby pageants!! 😱😱. Dressing up your toddler or little girl in a fancy frilly frock, primping and preening her baby hair with hair extensions and applying quantities of “product” on their faces that must keep the make up manufacturers dance their socks off! Then parading her on a stage with the other children as all the other “baby pageant” moms (see what I did there? 😄) stand around the stage, in the hope that it will be her lil’ babe who will the first placed winner and take home an embarrassingly large and ugly trophy to stand on the window ledge. 😳. To my shame, I ‘have’ watched these baby pageant programmes on TV and whilst I have been filled with horror at the witnessing the beautifying and parading of those little girls (and boys) and have heard the moms cry out “she loves the dressing up, it’s all good fun…” as a plea for acceptance, I cannot help but think of “other types of people” who might be watching the pageants for a different (wrong) reason! I did enter my own two children as (both boys) in a “Bonny baby” competition in the local newspaper when they were about 10 months old. At the photoshoot, my worries were, as the photographer was preparing to take their photos, that they would remain seated on the little Paddington Bear cushion; not squeal in anger and start to cry because they had been forced to remain seated on a Paddington Bear cushion or be sick down their brand new outfit from M&S! no…. Neither of them won but I still have the photos in my collection to remind them, now that they are 30 and 28 years old! 😂 Sorry for the long post - hope I haven’t bored you witless with my ramblings!! 😮😣
I am beginning to understand why a lot of Americans are the way they are. Barmy!. I am atheist and reclusive so I doubt very much I would fit in in America.
Did I learn something? Yes. Was it something I wanted to learn? No. As an Englishman, all the supposed religious piety is a baffling while people are allowed to walk around, sorry, drive around, carrying firearms and the law of the land protects businesses against employees.
@@Stoater1 it's only an "inalienable right" because Americans prefer school shootings to constitutional amendments - there's nothing stopping an amendment being passed repealing the American right to bear arms - just like prohibition was repealed. Your constitution isn't god given, it's human written.
@@Stoater1what we don’t understand is why it’s such a big deal for Americans. In the UK we never use a word like “inalienable” and we don’t understand why anyone would want to carry a firearm as a matter of routine. To be fair we don’t have large aggressive predators which are a threat to our lives or property here in the UK.
@@Stoater1 There's no such thing as an "inalienable right". All rights and freedoms are at the indulgence of someone else and can be removed at the stroke of a pen, the point of a sword or from the barrel of a gun. People in the UK used to be able to go about armed, but slowly and "for our own good" increasing restrictions have been imposed. If the people of the USA treated each other with consideration and respect and had an effective police force the people wouldn't need to carry guns. I doubt you'd understand that.
Can you in your wildest dreams imagine British, or indeed any European teenagers engaging with any of this lunacy? I suspect the response would be "Bollocks! -I'm off down the pub/cafe/park/club -anywhere.....".
Tailgating in the UK means driving too close to the car in front.....that said, I experienced something similar at a NASA Space Shuttle launch back in 1989 and came back home to the UK telling people what a good idea it was, especially if the launch was delayed. The folks in the cars near us looked puzzled by our lack of food and drink or a table at least. They guessed: ah Brits! we were given food! Thanks - even though the launch went smoothly.
but why would you want to drive your car to sit with randoms in a field when you could just walk to a pub, bar, town, take the train somewhere etc. Why bring food when the food is already at the places lol. This is one of those things americans do because the simple act of walking or taking public trasnport to communial destination doesnt exist as much. We also have sunday markets and boot sales if you really want to eat food truck food in your car.
@@WookieWarriorz It was a shuttle launch, an event. I remember as a child back in the '80s going to watch car racing at Mondello Park in Ireland. People would bring packed food and fold out deck chairs. Not just an American thing.
America is a weird place all right that they keep on saying that it's the United States when they're divided. States here! The Congress can't come together to pass a gun law to save others' lives, which is so strange & pathetic!
And they make a massive deal of separation of Church and state and I can't think of another developed country that has Church and state so bound together.
How exactly would gun laws save lives? Criminals, by definition do not abide by the law. It seems more like gun laws can only hurt law biding American gun owners and generally make people less free.
How about doing one on humour. Do Americans understand “open all hours” etc as “ghosts” had to have an American cast because they wouldn’t get the jokes in the British version????? Your thoughts.
Great Content. I'm from the East Coast of Canada, and didn't have the concept of all five of these! Never heard of the first two at all, very scary/traumatic. I thought Homecoming was a graduation at the end of the year. I thought Tailgating was BBQ from the back of some trucks in the parking lot, before a football game (not the gargantua you described 😱). And I thought the HOA was an invention for movies... to provide a conflict point, for the film. Never realised that it was a real thing. Living right next door, and there is still so much that I don't know/understand about the US, while still being very familiar with it. Love your channel, and keep up the deep dives.😊
Some of those things seem harmless, but taken to one, some what upmanship, the Halloween farrago is extremely weird ,especially as Halloween is a pagan celebration. I have seen a documentary of the home owners association, where a woman did not comply with the demands of the association and they sold-off her house at a ridiculously low price, and to an official in the group, which must be stretching the law.
Let's face facts we British folk are bonkers. We have bog snorkeling, welly wanging, haggis throwing and cheese rolling, but this video proves that the US takes bonkers to a whole higher level 😅 Excellent video, as ever.
America really embraces the crazy and sometimes I can sort of respect that. If you're going to be weird, go all out and decorate an entire room like a flaming judgement inferno. 😂
@@nealgrimes4382 I was thinking Morris Dancing - what if you combined the two, as described by David Attenborough? "There .. in the dense fog of a darkened heath .."
Judgement House sounds like something out of 'Old Harry's Game' where Satan (played superbly by Andy Hamilton) finds new and 'amusing' ways to 'torture' the so called 'righteous'. It is a comedy radio programme honestly
The British equivalent of 'tailgating' (picnics out of cars at a big sporting event) usually happens at horsey events and other upmarket social meetings rather than field sports.
I remember dating an American Lady who lived in AZ and the HOA decided that solar panels were not to their liking even though it was state-approved it resulted in all the homeowners paying $
That judgement house is like the terror stories of medieval times, when people couldn't read they saw terrible pictures of hell and the devil devouring people. What an awful thing to take children to. The next one I hadn't heard of was tailgating, for a fairly quiet person that must be a nightmare although because people live so far apart in the USA it's a way to get to know people. I had heard of homecoming but didn't realise it was so intense or that it was over a few days. Thank you for this it's nice to find out something I had no clue about.
I had heard of Homecoming because I had to ask a friend on Facebook about it. I only heard about the HOA because I think it was mentioned in the last episode of Alert: Missing Person Unit. Why did I think tail gating was about hanging onto someones car presumably on a skateboard?
Absolutely right. I remember reading a book called "fifteen" by Beverley Cleary when I was about 12 (it was my sister's) and finding out about sophomores, freshers, fraternities and homecomings and things like that. That was longer ago than I care to think. Then another book by Martin Fletcher called Almost Heaven, travels through the Backwoods, a fascinating account of an English journalists trips. But that first one. Gosh! Now I was brought up as a Church goer from a "low Church" which is one without bells and smells, and we did not "do" Hallowe'en. In fact most of the UK did not - it has caught on here as a very late arrival. We did a Guy Fawkes effigy burning ritual a week later instead. I never quite understood how the religious in America would be doing it and know you have confirmed they do not. Another thing you did not mention that I find creepy are "Beauty Pageants" with little children made up and dressed up like, well, jail bait. I haven't been West from the UK, although it was a childhood dream to do so. Instead I have been East for extensive travelling. I have an impending Canadian daughter in law so might make it there someday. But she is about to get her British passport, so maybe not.
mate halloween is an irish holiday also celebrated in scotland and wales too, what are you on about lol. The uk celebrated halloween long before the usa. I think you just had a weird family. Trick or treating was a thing in the uk and ireland in the 16th centuary, murica didnt even exist, irish people brought it over.
Totally agree on the beauty pageant thing, very creepy sexualising children and dressing them up to look older, I've hated every bit of it since the first time I saw it, which was quite some time ago. It isn't quirky or weird, it's paedophilic.
@@WookieWarriorz Thank you for informing me about Halloween in other parts of the UK and Ireland. My experience may be to do with the fact I lived on the South Coast, but truly it was not just my family. It was just not made a thing. Not even our Irish friends next door did it. All the toffee apples and apple bobbing and things like that were for Bonfire Night. However, have you heard of the Bonfire Traditions of Lewis in Sussex? My grandfather and his predecessors were involved in that tradition and that was a big thing on our part of the country.
All countries have weird things. This summer in Australia, there was a fire one kilometre away. I had no damage and so no claim. So what did the insurance company do ? They put my premium up $ 1000 . The excuse " It's environmental and I might have been affected "
What a video! So we had a prom (GCSE) and a valedictory dinner (A' level) in my high school. It was fun getting drunk with teachers at the valedictory dinner.
HOAs are like strata bosrds in an apartment complex. The building has structures and amenities which are not the responsibility of council or city, so apartment owners pay fees to maintain them, and have a fishing body which sets by laws and fees. HOAs are the same for housing developments, as there may not by a city or town with jurisdiction willing to pay for maintenance of roads footpaths, lighting and common areas. The developer instead says up an HOA inside the title deeds, and the HOA is then liable for upkeep. Where there is no HOA the homeowners may be individually liable for upkeep of footpaths and curbing bounding their properties. A township or city may not cover their neighbourhood.
You're certainly free to feel uncomfortable about stuff that other people do that you find weird. (the first thing.) But no one minds if you're nonplussed either. I've been to a relatives happy-clappy Christening for their daughter. And genuinely felt like I was in a room full of mentally deficient people. I just let it slide and got hammered at the bar afterwards because my wife was the designated driver that day.
Yeah, live and let live etc. Last Christening I was at the vicar made a Powerpoint presentation and got out his guitar at one point. Changed a bit since I last went to Church :).
In my English school age 15 in 1991, we had an immersive theatrical experience with a real car wreck and the drunk/drug driving students. The group were touring English schools. No idea if it still happens. The British public information films from the 70s and 80s were brutal in their depiction of drunk drivers. The churches in England that I have attended, hold ‘light’ parties at hallowe’en. Family fun, bouncy castle, dressing up, food as a diversion to trick or treat.
Judgement house looks fun, like a pantomime. I presume madam Twinkie would be in hell. When the Devil appears, does everyone shout “he’s behind you!!” and start hissing at him? 😂😂
I left high school in 98. I remember, a couple of years later, waiting on a group of friends in Coopers in Central station in Glasgow, there were four, five of us already, including a girl I went to school with. Three other guys, not part of our group, from our year in school, came in. We were making small talk, one of the guys said something like 'you were probably a bit intimidated to talk to us in school, because we were on the football team.' The girl and I, in genuine confusion and unison. Asked if we had a football team. I don't mean American football, odiously. Texting was pretty new, but we asked everyone we could if they knew we had one. Thinking back, you have to wonder who watched their matches. Couldn't just have been their parents.
Good video GGL!! I have heard of all these (except tailgating)only from watching uour channel!!😊😊😊😊...The HOA would not go down well for Brits as we have a saying that "every man's home is his castle"!! And interfering busybody's would get short shrift!!!
I live in England, in a small cul-de-sac of 23 houses that were built 30 years ago on former farmland. The owners of the land set up a covenant with restrictions that the owners have to agree to when buying one of the properties. These restrictions include no caravans, trailers or boats parked on drives and limits on what kind of pets one can keep. Except no-one is responsible for ensuring compliance because that would mean one other resident taking the offender to court for breaching the terms of the covenant. Instead, we just mind our own business.
Theres a "Young Sheldon" episode with a judgement house. Its a pretty good representation of what that crazy mess is all about. I agree. Weird. My son's high school did the whole crashed car before Prom, reinactment. He knew the county sheriff's helicopter was going to show up, so (being a plane spotter), he brought his camera to the event and mostly just waited for the helicopter to fly in. 🤦🏻♀️😆 Never been tailgating, but at my University, it was held in the big parking lot where the alumni brought their RV's on game weekends. Its like a little pre-game festival. One of the RVs, I remember, had a horn that played our fight song. (GO COUGS!) 😆 Yes, America can seem over the top, but every country has their things. 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe it depends on the religion - is it the cult of 'Jehovah's Witnesses', or 'The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints' ('Mormons') ? Or some other weird / scary cult or 'faith' ?! 🤔🥺😏🇺🇸
@@redwarrior2424 Yeah I lived in Houston those 20 years and didn't hear it, met many Americans in the UK, never heard it then, know many Americans here in the PH. Can't even remember hearing it in any American media, TV Shows/Movies/Song's or print.
Biggest tailgate parties I saw in USA were outside nascar and indycar races at Fort Worth, Texas. Definatley more people in the car park at the party than in the actual stadium !!
Tailgating sounds like a larger than life coffee morning/garden party/ car boot sale which we have in the UK, though instead of it being arranged at a football field, it would probably centred around a church or community centre and be on a much smaller scale. If you haven't been to a coffee morning or even a car boot sale, you might enjoy it.
Americans might speak english but they are as foreign as Chinese. Completely different. I saw an old yank tank driving down the M4 last week and i couldnt help but crack up laughing. Mostly bonnet, and less room inside than my bmw.
As I'm sure you know, in British English tailgating means driving dangerously and aggressively close to the vehicle in front. This looks more like what we would call a car boot sale with added sport.
I had heard of Judgement House literally once recently......maybe in the comments for your channel? The 'drink driving' presentation seems a bit over-the-top, but obviously a good message. Thanks for the detailed explanation of Homecoming. Obviously I had hard of it, but was never really clear what it was. I had no idea tailgating was so BIG!!! I was assuming that 2-3 carloads of people hung out together (alongside others doing the same thing) having a picnic, and generally chilling out before the Game - not that it was a whole festival! It sounds as if the HOAs are a paradise for those sorts of people who just can't let others alone to live their lives their own way. I have heard of HOAs banning the outdoors drying of laundry (although I have also heard that this restriction has been itself banned in some areas) which would NEVER work in the UK!
I watched a video about an abuse of HOA rules / regs in that a disabled lady in a manual wheelchair was informed that her wooden ramp which enabled her to leave her house, and generally get on with life outside her home whilst using her wheelchair, _had_ to dismantle and remove it from her property as it "affected the appearance" of her property and thus was a negative factor regarding the other properties of her neighbourhood. The CEO of the HOA bombarded her with written letters and emails, which her legal team could then present to a judge who decided the HOA was acting unlawfully (multiple reasons, I'm sure you can guess at at least few) and the lady won her case against her HOA and set a presidence for future cases regarding the rights of disabled tenants and residents. That such a case needed to be instigated is astounding - though I don't know how long ago this case came to be... I'm glad the Judge saw the truth of the matter and put things right but the behaviour of the HOA was / remains shocking to me... Though I don't doubt, sadly, that some landlords in the UK may try the same or similar tactics, or may have, in the not too dim or distant past.🥺🤔🏴😥🇬🇧🖖
I was surprised by the fact that you were right. I’d never heard of that Judgement House thing before. At first I was thinking you were talking about the JWs Maybe you were. But I left the States to live abroad as an Expat in the late 90s and I am still living abroad. I chose to remain living abroad for a couple of reasons. Fun violence and overall lack of personal safety and the other reason being these nutty HOAs. I’ve friends and relatives still there and a few of them have had run ins with out of control HOA tyrants.
Was gong to comment but having read those that had commented before that put all my points and many more probably better than me all i can say if there is a God I thank him for making me British.
Re tailgating - I think that most Americans would be flabbergasted to find t hat most premier sports grounds in the UK (football, rugby, cricket, tennis, rowing) have little or no parking for spectators and that most attendees travel there by public transport.
Brilliant list, I'd only heard about the HOAs. Judgement House sounds utterly terrifying for children as it's presented by religion as if it's reality. Wowza! Also interesting how uncomfortable you felt describing it for fear of offending someone. While well-intentioned, let's hope no students have had relatives/friends die recently if they have to go through that prom alcohol scare presentation! Homecoming sounds fun and supported by local communities too, but wow, you must have way more funding put into education if schools can afford all those activities and arranging floats and costumes and events. Tailgating sounds dangerous to us in the UK but now I know it's something totally different to what I was imagining when you first mentioned it. Thanks for creating such great content. I've seen lots of 'reactor' people using your content so it's obviously interesting to Americans too.
Beleive it or not, i saw a car crash tableau complete with car buried into a tree and a 'dead body' hanging out the door with copious 'blood' at the gatehouse of an RAF base in the UK around Christmas 1995.
While Homecoming is something that is largely practiced by the current students of a school, its intention at its finale is to welcome back (coming home) of former students who are invited to come back to their school for the game. It's sort of a casual reunion event that blends current and former students. Tailgating is by far my favorite American tradition outside of Thanksgiving. It's incredibly fun. It's also important to realize that tailgating is largely a university football thing, and it's really big at major institutions that have huge stadiums that accommodate tens of thousands of fans for each game. Tailgating "claiming" is likely different from institution to institution. For mine, tailgating happens adjacent to my and my friends' assigned parking that we reserve each season. I agree; go to a tailgate if you've never been!
When I was in the US I did see a parade with different vehicles driving down the road, some being Fire Engines and some maybe militarty with some people marching along and some trowing out sweets onto the pavement/sidewalk for people to eat. It was good to see people taking pride in their community and their country and the people in it. I never saw that in the UK apart from maybe in the 80's when the scouts, girl guides, sea cadets and other groups marched near my house with some bands olaying music. That never seems to happen as much anymore as few people join such groups maybe, living more an online life which is a shame. It's also due to the British Empire collapsing the US growing in power taking it's place.
Tailgating is common at Twickenham before an international rugby match and at Ascot during ‘Royal Ascot’. HOA’s are the norm in most parts of Switzerland
Number 2 - Meanwhile, at our leavers do in the UK there was a bar. Because most of us were 18. And because it was meant to be 'fancy' they rented out a function room at a posh hotel. The food was both awful and expensive. The relatively cheap pub meal me and my social group booked - I think we wound up spending about £5-10 on the meal each - was much nicer. (Also, my biggest 'wait what' in this video was to 'the television in every classroom')
OMG!!! Thanks for the inside scoop. Those things all sound so weird I would expect them to be part of a culture from another planet rather than here on earth 😄
The Judgement House and the prom scare tactics are beyond freaky. Are there many, many therapists on hand at these events? I lived in the US for decades, and I'd never heard of either one!
Yip ok! i'll give you your assertion that i didn't know this thing about America you were right lol! never heard of a 'Judgement House' before in my 53 years on this planet! Congrats I saulute you o7 lol!
That's so interesting and gives an idea of how dramatic and big things get in America. We have freshers week at Universitys which sounds a bit similar but we didn't at school, it sounds quite nice really to have afun week to start the year off. Tailgating sounds Mega, can't think of anything similar apart from country shows or hore racing or open events. People tend to bring food and chairs and sit outside by their cars in groups? That judgement house sounds so scary for a child, nothing like that here, they have 'light parties' for church kids on Halloween. I did the traditional dressing up and games before trick or treat came over from America. Wow, so many differences!!
Let me clarify: I am probably a bit older than your average RUclips viewer. Second, I was raised by midwestern culture, but we moved out west when I was young. Still, I never heard of such things. Even when I was a southern baptist.
America is unhinged, what can I say.
Harsh. But fair 😅
Hinges have definitely been tampered with. 🤔🤔
Where OTT is standard.
Its sad that the US, the self proclaimed 'leader of the free world' does not exhibit freedoms that even us Brits expect. These remind me of the antics of the classic communist state.
Tailgating in the UK is when one car is too close to the one in front. I'm not sure we have Tailgating like America does.
Love the video by the way 🙂.
Tailgating in the UK is following another vehicle too closely in a threatening manner
Doesn't need to be "in a threatening manner" (at least in my experience) but of course it _is_ inherently dangerous (not enough time to brake safely) so a threat in that sense.
(if you do it with a lorry for instance they may not even know you're there - one reason it's dangerous - so they can't exactly feel threatened)
Same in Australia
yep definately tailgating is threatening in the uk.
And what we always got told not to do or allow at work when swiping in through the security gates at work. 😄
@@lindasweeney969 Canberra is the CAPITAL of tailgating IMHO! Sadly, it seems to be getting worse elsewhere too, along with right-lane hogging.
Now I understand why seemingly every American has to have Therapy!
Was anyone else doubtful that they would learn something new only to be like WTF? at the very first topic?
I thought tailgating was when another car is up your arse in busy traffic.
Yep. And it royally pi**es me off. So stupidly dangerous.
The dramatic presentation of the effects of drink-driving after a prom sounds very educational. Presumably there's a similar exercise to illustrate the danger of guns?
😂😅😂😅😂😢
Nothing about USA shocks me anymore after 2 American girlfriends and numerous interactions they're just not built the same as most people on the planet. Almost as if they were a country cut off from the rest of the world for centuries like china Japan and Russia. 😅😅
From all the interviews with Americans, you could get the idea a great many know nothing of the world beyond their borders.
These are all very odd. Don't think I'd them here.
@@grahvis They don’t.
Japan? Hello? Do you think Japan is the same as China and Russia?
Tailgating in the UK, is driving too close
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Same in Australia. It's what my mother used to describe as climbing up someone's exhaust.
😄 Thanks.... I was going to post the same thing. 💙 East Coast of Canada💙
Too close _to their tailgate_ though so it's referring to the same part (unlike if e.g. they called it "Trunking", which doesn't fit with our use of "boot").
Maybe related to the prevalence of pick-up trucks in different countries ?
Same definition of driving too close in the north eastern states.
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The idea of Judgment House sounds like a direct descendant of the Medieval Morality Plays. With more lurid lighting.
Come and see the Mystery Plays in York! They happen every 4 years all around town.
Cult!
The first two sound like child abuse to me!
I'll consider the 2nd one abuse when Governments admit that printing pictures of diseased bodies on cigarette packets is abusive.
@@frankbrodie5168abusive to who? The idea is that they're disgusting to try and discourage you from buying them
In the UK a made-up car crash would have kids pissing themselves.
Next day they would totally blank the kid playing dead 😅
That judgement house thing sounds scarier than Halloween
Judgement house! Ha, the Catholic Church could scare you more 😂
Definitely learned that America is even more next level than I thought beforehand 😂
Spiralling into an inevitable disaster of its own desiring.
the judgement house made me think of Rowan Atkinson's "welcome to Hell"
Their idea as shown of Heaven gets me, I've never seen any Heaven described that wouldn't very quickly drive a person mad with utter boredom.
"but God loves you" George Carlin
Made me think of Arnold Rimmer Land in Red Dwarf
Yep, these do sound weird to me.
Glad that you pronounce ‘presentation’ our way and not ‘preeesentation’ as most Americans do !
Judgement House has a UK equivalent. It's called Monty Python.
Spanish Inquisition springs to mind.
@@peckelhaze6934 I didn't expect that answer.
@@alanj9391 Nobody does.
Love me some MP
Watching you try & explain judgement house was hilarious, that alone makes the insanity of it worth it. 🤣
You forgot about the "Pledge of allegiance" in schools.
@@marydavis5234 nope. That is not true.
@@marydavis5234 A quick web search on the pledge of allegiance in schools shows that quite a few states still require it to be recited in some way (47 states to be exact) and a great many still require it to be recited by children in public schools every day. Don't need to be Murican to read Wikipedia.
@@marydavis5234What???? I live in Alabama and the Pledge of Allegiance is still being done in Grammar Schools as of 05/05/24..
@@marydavis5234 Exactly my point! The fact that America is a nation of 50 separate and distinct states, these states are often legally so separate they are better thought of as 50 separate countries. I just didn't understand why you said the Pledge of Allegiance was taken out of classrooms since 1970 when that is incorrect. Only Wyoming, Vermont, and Hawaii do not require the Pledge of Allegiance..
Presently nowhere in the nation can a student be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance however, Florida is/was trying its best to change that the Supreme Court be damned. I feel distraught and dismayed people don't care enough to even check what is being done in our schools.
“Normal for North Korea” This is one of the creepiest things done in any supposedly free country.
Regarding the Homecoming, where are they coming home from? It sounds like it all takes place at school with a parade through the streets too, meaning that everyone has to leave their homes to take part.
In my schooldays in 70s/80s Scotland I think the closest was going back to school after the summer. There were no parades or pep rallies or dances, just seemingly endless shopping for new school uniforms, all bought at least one size too big. This was, of course, so that it didn't need replaced due to growth spurts but had the effect of making what we're already your least comfortable but new clothes look and feel worse than your scruffiest jeans and t-shirt. The perfect confidence booster for already confused and anxious adolescents...
@@marydavis5234 I understand that, I was asking why it's called that given that it doesn't take place at anyone's home.
@@marydavis5234 Yes, but the name implies it's a celebration of someone coming home. E.g. celebration of people coming home after a war ended, celebrating a team coming home after winning an away game, that sort of thing. From what was described, the name doesn't seem to fit the celebration.
@@marydavis5234So it is as I said, it is celebrating someone coming home. It's the graduates that are coming home to the school.
@@marydavis5234 Alright then, explain why it's called HOMEcoming? LOL, you struggle a little with the English language, don't you.
@@marydavis5234 So in other words, the explanation given, that it is to celebrate alumni coming 'home' is far more plausible than anything you can provide.
Kalyan knocking it out of the park again. Great stuff. Content you won't find anywhere else, certainly not with her sense of humour/humour 😊
Upstate NYer here - I’ve never heard of the Judgment House. I assume it’s more popular down south with the Bible Belt influence. Up here is overall more secular, in my experience.😅
What we really want to know is why the cubicle doors in American restrooms don't reach all the way to the floor? X
Pledge of allegiance in schools weird
@@marydavis5234 I would suggest you do a quick web search on the pledge of allegiance in schools because quite a few states still require it to be recited in some way (47 states to be exact) and a great many still require it to be recited by children in public schools every day.
The first story, we have the same thing in the UK where one person goes to Haven (a caravan park) and the other goes to Hull. Basically both are the same thing... lol
You delivered as advertised, I didn’t know of 2/5 weird things in this video
knew it!!! Thanks for watching!
I'm so pleased you seem sane and sensible because, I have to say, the rest of America is absolutely barking...
What a peculiar country
Look up old TV adds for drunk driving and speeding adds
Yup, the RSA Ireland and UK DOE ones are pretty hard hitting., no escaping the message.
What I find “weird” (apart from all the things you mentioned! 😮 Judgment House sounds very strange (and making a child experience it , to ensure they behave better in the future, to prevent a visit to Old Bill Satan’s gaffe later on?! 😱🤔hmmmmm…. A Social Services phone number would be busy! And for the Prom Night “play acting” a student’s death as a warning…. Just show the students the UK’s 60’s, 70’s 80’s DON’T DRINK & DRIVE films/videos back to back - they would make them think not drink!! 😧😖).. but just what IS a “Home coming Queen”?? I know the Monkees sang about one in the tune Daydream Believer - is it the same as a Prom Queen (and that too is nuts!
It seems that there’s no such thing as “equal opportunities” when choosing the lucky winner - It’s always the prettiest and most slim girl with the natural blonde curly tresses and a perfect set of pearly white teeth that gets to wear the diamanté crown - its’s never that girl you know, the one with the dumpy pear shaped figure and a behind the size of a rhino, who has yet to master the knack of using a “hair styling wand” to get a bit of a wave in her naturally but flat “brown” hair; she probably has to wear her glasses too, because her parents cannot afford to buy her contact lenses! 😥) . I know how Carrie must have felt in the film (and book) of the same name! 😅
No, what I find TRULY weird are baby pageants!! 😱😱. Dressing up your toddler or little girl in a fancy frilly frock, primping and preening her baby hair with hair extensions and applying quantities of “product” on their faces that must keep the make up manufacturers dance their socks off! Then parading her on a stage with the other children as all the other “baby pageant” moms (see what I did there? 😄) stand around the stage, in the hope that it will be her lil’ babe who will the first placed winner and take home an embarrassingly large and ugly trophy to stand on the window ledge. 😳. To my shame, I ‘have’ watched these baby pageant programmes on TV and whilst I have been filled with horror at the witnessing the beautifying and parading of those little girls (and boys) and have heard the moms cry out “she loves the dressing up, it’s all good fun…” as a plea for acceptance, I cannot help but think of “other types of people” who might be watching the pageants for a different (wrong) reason! I did enter my own two children as (both boys) in a “Bonny baby” competition in the local newspaper when they were about 10 months old. At the photoshoot, my worries were, as the photographer was preparing to take their photos, that they would remain seated on the little Paddington Bear cushion; not squeal in anger and start to cry because they had been forced to remain seated on a Paddington Bear cushion or be sick down their brand new outfit from M&S! no…. Neither of them won but I still have the photos in my collection to remind them, now that they are 30 and 28 years old! 😂
Sorry for the long post - hope I haven’t bored you witless with my ramblings!! 😮😣
I am beginning to understand why a lot of Americans are the way they are. Barmy!. I am atheist and reclusive so I doubt very much I would fit in in America.
Did I learn something? Yes.
Was it something I wanted to learn? No.
As an Englishman, all the supposed religious piety is a baffling while people are allowed to walk around, sorry, drive around, carrying firearms and the law of the land protects businesses against employees.
It is not that Americans
are " allowed " to have guns.
It is their inalienable
right to have guns.
I doubt that you would
understand that.
@@Stoater1 it's only an "inalienable right" because Americans prefer school shootings to constitutional amendments - there's nothing stopping an amendment being passed repealing the American right to bear arms - just like prohibition was repealed. Your constitution isn't god given, it's human written.
@@Stoater1what we don’t understand is why it’s such a big deal for Americans. In the UK we never use a word like “inalienable” and we don’t understand why anyone would want to carry a firearm as a matter of routine. To be fair we don’t have large aggressive predators which are a threat to our lives or property here in the UK.
@@Stoater1 There's no such thing as an "inalienable right". All rights and freedoms are at the indulgence of someone else and can be removed at the stroke of a pen, the point of a sword or from the barrel of a gun. People in the UK used to be able to go about armed, but slowly and "for our own good" increasing restrictions have been imposed. If the people of the USA treated each other with consideration and respect and had an effective police force the people wouldn't need to carry guns. I doubt you'd understand that.
@@Stoater1 All while ignoring peoples inalienable right to life. I doubt that you would understand that.
Dying laughing during your description of judgement houses.... Insane is right!! They know how to ruin a holiday, huh?
Can you in your wildest dreams imagine British, or indeed any European teenagers engaging with any of this lunacy? I suspect the response would be "Bollocks! -I'm off down the pub/cafe/park/club -anywhere.....".
Tailgating in the UK means driving too close to the car in front.....that said, I experienced something similar at a NASA Space Shuttle launch back in 1989 and came back home to the UK telling people what a good idea it was, especially if the launch was delayed. The folks in the cars near us looked puzzled by our lack of food and drink or a table at least. They guessed: ah Brits! we were given food! Thanks - even though the launch went smoothly.
but why would you want to drive your car to sit with randoms in a field when you could just walk to a pub, bar, town, take the train somewhere etc. Why bring food when the food is already at the places lol. This is one of those things americans do because the simple act of walking or taking public trasnport to communial destination doesnt exist as much. We also have sunday markets and boot sales if you really want to eat food truck food in your car.
@@WookieWarriorz It was a shuttle launch, an event. I remember as a child back in the '80s going to watch car racing at Mondello Park in Ireland. People would bring packed food and fold out deck chairs. Not just an American thing.
HOA’s wouldn’t work here. It would get violent, very quickly. 😂😂
America is a weird place all right that they keep on saying that it's the United States when they're divided. States here! The Congress can't come together to pass a gun law to save others' lives, which is so strange & pathetic!
And they make a massive deal of separation of Church and state and I can't think of another developed country that has Church and state so bound together.
How exactly would gun laws save lives? Criminals, by definition do not abide by the law. It seems more like gun laws can only hurt law biding American gun owners and generally make people less free.
How about doing one on humour. Do Americans understand “open all hours” etc as “ghosts” had to have an American cast because they wouldn’t get the jokes in the British version????? Your thoughts.
I always thought tail-gating was one car following another waaaay too close on the road, so that was new to me. :)
Great Content. I'm from the East Coast of Canada, and didn't have the concept of all five of these!
Never heard of the first two at all, very scary/traumatic. I thought Homecoming was a graduation at the end of the year. I thought Tailgating was BBQ from the back of some trucks in the parking lot, before a football game (not the gargantua you described 😱). And I thought the HOA was an invention for movies... to provide a conflict point, for the film. Never realised that it was a real thing. Living right next door, and there is still so much that I don't know/understand about the US, while still being very familiar with it. Love your channel, and keep up the deep dives.😊
Homecoming is the tradition of welcoming back alumni or other former members of an organization to celebrate the organization's existence.
Some of those things seem harmless, but taken to one, some what upmanship, the Halloween farrago is extremely weird ,especially as Halloween is a pagan celebration.
I have seen a documentary of the home owners association, where a woman did not comply with the demands of the association and they sold-off her house at a ridiculously low price, and to an official in the group, which must be stretching the law.
Let's face facts we British folk are bonkers. We have bog snorkeling, welly wanging, haggis throwing and cheese rolling, but this video proves that the US takes bonkers to a whole higher level 😅 Excellent video, as ever.
America really embraces the crazy and sometimes I can sort of respect that. If you're going to be weird, go all out and decorate an entire room like a flaming judgement inferno. 😂
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial (in Canada) "Dude, I scored tickets to the FJI - got any weed?"
I think that the UK is eccentric which is (mostly) harmless. Judgement House is dangerously crazy!
Don't forget Dogging.
@@nealgrimes4382 I was thinking Morris Dancing - what if you combined the two, as described by David Attenborough? "There .. in the dense fog of a darkened heath .."
Judgement House sounds like something out of 'Old Harry's Game' where Satan (played superbly by Andy Hamilton) finds new and 'amusing' ways to 'torture' the so called 'righteous'. It is a comedy radio programme honestly
Hiya, love all your vids, especially your 'specific' ones (as i am a nerd) i can't understand why the subscribers hasn't hit 500k yet!
The British equivalent of 'tailgating' (picnics out of cars at a big sporting event) usually happens at horsey events and other upmarket social meetings rather than field sports.
I remember dating an American Lady who lived in AZ and the HOA decided that solar panels were not to their liking even though it was state-approved it resulted in all the homeowners paying $
While here in the UK an Englishman's home is his castle.
In the UK, tailgating means driving uncomfortably/dangerously close to the car in front.
That judgement house is like the terror stories of medieval times, when people couldn't read they saw terrible pictures of hell and the devil devouring people. What an awful thing to take children to. The next one I hadn't heard of was tailgating, for a fairly quiet person that must be a nightmare although because people live so far apart in the USA it's a way to get to know people. I had heard of homecoming but didn't realise it was so intense or that it was over a few days. Thank you for this it's nice to find out something I had no clue about.
I had heard of Homecoming because I had to ask a friend on Facebook about it. I only heard about the HOA because I think it was mentioned in the last episode of Alert: Missing Person Unit. Why did I think tail gating was about hanging onto someones car presumably on a skateboard?
Absolutely right. I remember reading a book called "fifteen" by Beverley Cleary when I was about 12 (it was my sister's) and finding out about sophomores, freshers, fraternities and homecomings and things like that. That was longer ago than I care to think. Then another book by Martin Fletcher called Almost Heaven, travels through the Backwoods, a fascinating account of an English journalists trips. But that first one. Gosh! Now I was brought up as a Church goer from a "low Church" which is one without bells and smells, and we did not "do" Hallowe'en. In fact most of the UK did not - it has caught on here as a very late arrival. We did a Guy Fawkes effigy burning ritual a week later instead. I never quite understood how the religious in America would be doing it and know you have confirmed they do not. Another thing you did not mention that I find creepy are "Beauty Pageants" with little children made up and dressed up like, well, jail bait.
I haven't been West from the UK, although it was a childhood dream to do so. Instead I have been East for extensive travelling. I have an impending Canadian daughter in law so might make it there someday. But she is about to get her British passport, so maybe not.
mate halloween is an irish holiday also celebrated in scotland and wales too, what are you on about lol. The uk celebrated halloween long before the usa. I think you just had a weird family. Trick or treating was a thing in the uk and ireland in the 16th centuary, murica didnt even exist, irish people brought it over.
Totally agree on the beauty pageant thing, very creepy sexualising children and dressing them up to look older, I've hated every bit of it since the first time I saw it, which was quite some time ago.
It isn't quirky or weird, it's paedophilic.
@@WookieWarriorz Thank you for informing me about Halloween in other parts of the UK and Ireland. My experience may be to do with the fact I lived on the South Coast, but truly it was not just my family. It was just not made a thing. Not even our Irish friends next door did it. All the toffee apples and apple bobbing and things like that were for Bonfire Night. However, have you heard of the Bonfire Traditions of Lewis in Sussex? My grandfather and his predecessors were involved in that tradition and that was a big thing on our part of the country.
All countries have weird things.
This summer in Australia, there was a fire one kilometre away. I had no damage and so no claim.
So what did the insurance company do ? They put my premium up $ 1000 . The excuse " It's environmental and I might have been affected "
What a video! So we had a prom (GCSE) and a valedictory dinner (A' level) in my high school. It was fun getting drunk with teachers at the valedictory dinner.
Isn't that illegal
Brits have Freedom.
It is legal for all adults to drink. At 18.
@@hypsyzygy506 we are also allowed to drink with a meal aged 16 if the alcohol is bought by someone 18+ or at least we were at the time
HOAs are like strata bosrds in an apartment complex. The building has structures and amenities which are not the responsibility of council or city, so apartment owners pay fees to maintain them, and have a fishing body which sets by laws and fees. HOAs are the same for housing developments, as there may not by a city or town with jurisdiction willing to pay for maintenance of roads footpaths, lighting and common areas. The developer instead says up an HOA inside the title deeds, and the HOA is then liable for upkeep. Where there is no HOA the homeowners may be individually liable for upkeep of footpaths and curbing bounding their properties. A township or city may not cover their neighbourhood.
The latter three I had heard of vaguely so thanks for explaining. The first two I had never heard of before and they both sound horrific to be honest!
You're certainly free to feel uncomfortable about stuff that other people do that you find weird. (the first thing.) But no one minds if you're nonplussed either.
I've been to a relatives happy-clappy Christening for their daughter. And genuinely felt like I was in a room full of mentally deficient people. I just let it slide and got hammered at the bar afterwards because my wife was the designated driver that day.
Yeah, live and let live etc. Last Christening I was at the vicar made a Powerpoint presentation and got out his guitar at one point. Changed a bit since I last went to Church :).
The second story have a look at 80s to early 90s drink driving adverts in the uk
We had the dramatised car crash thing here in Australia except we had six football fields because we weren't poor.
In my English school age 15 in 1991, we had an immersive theatrical experience with a real car wreck and the drunk/drug driving students. The group were touring English schools. No idea if it still happens. The British public information films from the 70s and 80s were brutal in their depiction of drunk drivers.
The churches in England that I have attended, hold ‘light’ parties at hallowe’en. Family fun, bouncy castle, dressing up, food as a diversion to trick or treat.
Judgement house looks fun, like a pantomime. I presume madam Twinkie would be in hell. When the Devil appears, does everyone shout “he’s behind you!!” and start hissing at him? 😂😂
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I left high school in 98. I remember, a couple of years later, waiting on a group of friends in Coopers in Central station in Glasgow, there were four, five of us already, including a girl I went to school with. Three other guys, not part of our group, from our year in school, came in. We were making small talk, one of the guys said something like 'you were probably a bit intimidated to talk to us in school, because we were on the football team.' The girl and I, in genuine confusion and unison. Asked if we had a football team. I don't mean American football, odiously.
Texting was pretty new, but we asked everyone we could if they knew we had one. Thinking back, you have to wonder who watched their matches. Couldn't just have been their parents.
Heard of the 'car accident' scenario - alcohol or using mobile phones while driving, but not the fake funeral afterwards - that is beyond weird.
Good video GGL!! I have heard of all these (except tailgating)only from watching uour channel!!😊😊😊😊...The HOA would not go down well for Brits as we have a saying that "every man's home is his castle"!! And interfering busybody's would get short shrift!!!
I live in England, in a small cul-de-sac of 23 houses that were built 30 years ago on former farmland. The owners of the land set up a covenant with restrictions that the owners have to agree to when buying one of the properties. These restrictions include no caravans, trailers or boats parked on drives and limits on what kind of pets one can keep. Except no-one is responsible for ensuring compliance because that would mean one other resident taking the offender to court for breaching the terms of the covenant. Instead, we just mind our own business.
I worked in LA in the early 80's and I witnessed some freaky religious stuff about not drinking alcohol or drinking anything with caffeine in it.
Blimey judgement house sounds fun . 😂
a laugh a minute!
Presumably the Holy Ghost has a starring role :).
Not if you're a kid.
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Theres a "Young Sheldon" episode with a judgement house. Its a pretty good representation of what that crazy mess is all about. I agree. Weird.
My son's high school did the whole crashed car before Prom, reinactment. He knew the county sheriff's helicopter was going to show up, so (being a plane spotter), he brought his camera to the event and mostly just waited for the helicopter to fly in. 🤦🏻♀️😆
Never been tailgating, but at my University, it was held in the big parking lot where the alumni brought their RV's on game weekends. Its like a little pre-game festival. One of the RVs, I remember, had a horn that played our fight song. (GO COUGS!) 😆
Yes, America can seem over the top, but every country has their things. 🤷🏻♀️
Lived in the USA for 20 years, never once did i even hear of a judgement house 🤔
Maybe it depends on the religion - is it the cult of 'Jehovah's Witnesses', or 'The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints' ('Mormons') ? Or some other weird / scary cult or 'faith' ?! 🤔🥺😏🇺🇸
I've never heard of it either and I was born and reared in the South.
@@redwarrior2424 Yeah I lived in Houston those 20 years and didn't hear it, met many Americans in the UK, never heard it then, know many Americans here in the PH.
Can't even remember hearing it in any American media, TV Shows/Movies/Song's or print.
Biggest tailgate parties I saw in USA were outside nascar and indycar races at Fort Worth, Texas. Definatley more people in the car park at the party than in the actual stadium !!
you were right, all these 5 things are WEIRD, i did know about the tailgating and the HOA but the other 3 are just really strange.
😊 🎵"Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean to a 'Daydream Believer' and a Homecoming Queen"😐🎵?!
(The Monkees)
We actually had the car thing in my school in the UK. We didn’t have a fake funeral though.
Tailgating sounds like a larger than life coffee morning/garden party/ car boot sale which we have in the UK, though instead of it being arranged at a football field, it would probably centred around a church or community centre and be on a much smaller scale. If you haven't been to a coffee morning or even a car boot sale, you might enjoy it.
Do they ever combine the drink driving accident with the judgement house?
Shall we tell them that All Hallows’ eve is the day before All Saints day in the Christian Calendar?
That prom drunk driving thing is nuts. Never heard of anything like that happening up north, at least not in upstate NY.
unbelievable, I'd never heard of any of them. No, can't say more, I'm speechless.
Americans might speak english but they are as foreign as Chinese.
Completely different.
I saw an old yank tank driving down the M4 last week and i couldnt help but crack up laughing. Mostly bonnet, and less room inside than my bmw.
The first two, judgement room and anti drink-driving play acting were new to me.
As I'm sure you know, in British English tailgating means driving dangerously and aggressively close to the vehicle in front. This looks more like what we would call a car boot sale with added sport.
Wow I’ve learnt so much so much haha ! And I watch a lot of videos about the US! Thanks a lot !
I had heard of Judgement House literally once recently......maybe in the comments for your channel?
The 'drink driving' presentation seems a bit over-the-top, but obviously a good message.
Thanks for the detailed explanation of Homecoming. Obviously I had hard of it, but was never really clear what it was.
I had no idea tailgating was so BIG!!! I was assuming that 2-3 carloads of people hung out together (alongside others doing the same thing) having a picnic, and generally chilling out before the Game - not that it was a whole festival!
It sounds as if the HOAs are a paradise for those sorts of people who just can't let others alone to live their lives their own way. I have heard of HOAs banning the outdoors drying of laundry (although I have also heard that this restriction has been itself banned in some areas) which would NEVER work in the UK!
I watched a video about an abuse of HOA rules / regs in that a disabled lady in a manual wheelchair was informed that her wooden ramp which enabled her to leave her house, and generally get on with life outside her home whilst using her wheelchair, _had_ to dismantle and remove it from her property as it "affected the appearance" of her property and thus was a negative factor regarding the other properties of her neighbourhood. The CEO of the HOA bombarded her with written letters and emails, which her legal team could then present to a judge who decided the HOA was acting unlawfully (multiple reasons, I'm sure you can guess at at least few) and the lady won her case against her HOA and set a presidence for future cases regarding the rights of disabled tenants and residents. That such a case needed to be instigated is astounding - though I don't know how long ago this case came to be... I'm glad the Judge saw the truth of the matter and put things right but the behaviour of the HOA was / remains shocking to me... Though I don't doubt, sadly, that some landlords in the UK may try the same or similar tactics, or may have, in the not too dim or distant past.🥺🤔🏴😥🇬🇧🖖
Omg! The first two things 🫣😲😮 I’m lost for words really I am Kalyn, you’re right America 🇺🇸 is weird lol 😂 But you lovely, you ain’t weird at all!
The twisted thing about the church sounds a bit culty. 😮
The weirdest thing thet you mentioned is American Football , everything else makes sense 😂
I was surprised by the fact that you were right. I’d never heard of that Judgement House thing before. At first I was thinking you were talking about the JWs Maybe you were. But I left the States to live abroad as an Expat in the late 90s and I am still living abroad. I chose to remain living abroad for a couple of reasons. Fun violence and overall lack of personal safety and the other reason being these nutty HOAs. I’ve friends and relatives still there and a few of them have had run ins with out of control HOA tyrants.
Was gong to comment but having read those that had commented before that put all my points and many more probably better than me all i can say if there is a God I thank him for making me British.
I've only seen 1 and 2 so far, but I'm already going to stay home from work tomorrow. Not sure I can go on...
Re tailgating - I think that most Americans would be flabbergasted to find t hat most premier sports grounds in the UK (football, rugby, cricket, tennis, rowing) have little or no parking for spectators and that most attendees travel there by public transport.
There are a number of You tube videos of those car crash events. "Every 15 miniutes" I think they are called.
Brilliant list, I'd only heard about the HOAs. Judgement House sounds utterly terrifying for children as it's presented by religion as if it's reality. Wowza! Also interesting how uncomfortable you felt describing it for fear of offending someone. While well-intentioned, let's hope no students have had relatives/friends die recently if they have to go through that prom alcohol scare presentation! Homecoming sounds fun and supported by local communities too, but wow, you must have way more funding put into education if schools can afford all those activities and arranging floats and costumes and events. Tailgating sounds dangerous to us in the UK but now I know it's something totally different to what I was imagining when you first mentioned it. Thanks for creating such great content. I've seen lots of 'reactor' people using your content so it's obviously interesting to Americans too.
I was in stitches over 'judgement house' Monty python fans certainly organising them. Reckon they all need a drink after the prom crash show.
So, tailgating is *starting a bunch of fires in a car park*? Sounds safe.
@@marydavis5234If that's so, why was 'setting up a BBQ' specifically mentioned as a possibility?
Beleive it or not, i saw a car crash tableau complete with car buried into a tree and a 'dead body' hanging out the door with copious 'blood' at the gatehouse of an RAF base in the UK around Christmas 1995.
While Homecoming is something that is largely practiced by the current students of a school, its intention at its finale is to welcome back (coming home) of former students who are invited to come back to their school for the game. It's sort of a casual reunion event that blends current and former students.
Tailgating is by far my favorite American tradition outside of Thanksgiving. It's incredibly fun.
It's also important to realize that tailgating is largely a university football thing, and it's really big at major institutions that have huge stadiums that accommodate tens of thousands of fans for each game. Tailgating "claiming" is likely different from institution to institution. For mine, tailgating happens adjacent to my and my friends' assigned parking that we reserve each season. I agree; go to a tailgate if you've never been!
When I was in the US I did see a parade with different vehicles driving down the road, some being Fire Engines and some maybe militarty with some people marching along and some trowing out sweets onto the pavement/sidewalk for people to eat. It was good to see people taking pride in their community and their country and the people in it. I never saw that in the UK apart from maybe in the 80's when the scouts, girl guides, sea cadets and other groups marched near my house with some bands olaying music. That never seems to happen as much anymore as few people join such groups maybe, living more an online life which is a shame. It's also due to the British Empire collapsing the US growing in power taking it's place.
Tailgating is common at Twickenham before an international rugby match and at Ascot during ‘Royal Ascot’. HOA’s are the norm in most parts of Switzerland
Number 2 - Meanwhile, at our leavers do in the UK there was a bar. Because most of us were 18. And because it was meant to be 'fancy' they rented out a function room at a posh hotel. The food was both awful and expensive. The relatively cheap pub meal me and my social group booked - I think we wound up spending about £5-10 on the meal each - was much nicer.
(Also, my biggest 'wait what' in this video was to 'the television in every classroom')
OMG!!! Thanks for the inside scoop. Those things all sound so weird I would expect them to be part of a culture from another planet rather than here on earth 😄
The Judgement House and the prom scare tactics are beyond freaky. Are there many, many therapists on hand at these events? I lived in the US for decades, and I'd never heard of either one!
Proves these things must be very localised. Maybe in a small pocket of the country.
Yip ok! i'll give you your assertion that i didn't know this thing about America you were right lol! never heard of a 'Judgement House' before in my 53 years on this planet! Congrats I saulute you o7 lol!
That's so interesting and gives an idea of how dramatic and big things get in America. We have freshers week at Universitys which sounds a bit similar but we didn't at school, it sounds quite nice really to have afun week to start the year off. Tailgating sounds Mega, can't think of anything similar apart from country shows or hore racing or open events. People tend to bring food and chairs and sit outside by their cars in groups? That judgement house sounds so scary for a child, nothing like that here, they have 'light parties' for church kids on Halloween. I did the traditional dressing up and games before trick or treat came over from America. Wow, so many differences!!
I'm born and raised midwestern American and I never heard of this judgment house crap.
Which state? I’m glad after seeing this you must be grateful.
Let me clarify: I am probably a bit older than your average RUclips viewer. Second, I was raised by midwestern culture, but we moved out west when I was young. Still, I never heard of such things. Even when I was a southern baptist.