Top 10 Facts About AMERICA That Make NO SENSE to Anyone Else
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- America. It’s one of the biggest countries on Earth, both in terms of population and sheer size. It’s the planet dominating superpower; the heaviest hitter where culture is concerned; a place known by nearly every single human on the planet… and, to all but the 4-5% of humanity who live there, it makes absolutely no gosh darn sense.
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10. US Toddlers Shoot One Person a Week
9. Bestiality is Still Legal in 9 US States (but premarital sex is outlawed)
8. The Highest Paid Public Employee in 39 States is a Sports Coach
7. Over Half of All Americans Don’t Hold a Valid Passport
6. 30% of Americans Prefer Saving Money to Vital Medical Treatment
5. 7 States Have Custody Rights for Rapists
4. America Has More Self-Identified Patriots than Anywhere Else on Earth
3. Americans are More Likely to Get Bitten by Other Americans than Rats
2. Americans Take ‘Fast Food’ Extremely Literally
1. Government Departments Have Official Advice for Reporting Elvis Sightings
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The reason we have more folks get bitten by people than by rats, is that we have very few folks get bit by rats. At 62 years old I've never known anyone who had been bitten by one.
I've been bitten by a rat, but it was a pet. I've also been bitten by a hamster. On the whole I'd prefer to be bitten by a rat.
"we have very few folks get bit [sic] by rats." In the video he explains that there are over 40,000 rat bites each year. (Rather a lot.) Exceeded only by human bites at around 45,000!
I can *almost* understand this, given the number of homeless people. Just last week a guy approached me and said "I haven't had a bite all week." So I bit him.
@@rahb1 lol
@@rahb1 that took an unexpected turn. I like it.
This is an excellent point.
Regarding Americans traveling: Neil Gaiman said that (paraphrasing): England is a place where 100 miles is a long distance and America is a place where 100 years is a long time.
Great way to sum it up!
True. It is less than 4 hours drive from Wales to London. And that means you have already driven the width of that island! And diagonally, at that! Drive 4 hours in most US states, and you are still in the same state.
@@nunya9555 but to look at it another way, to drive from Cromer on the east coast, to St David's on the east coast of Wales, Google Maps estimates over 7 hours at 1am.
So, converting the width of the UK into driving hours and claiming 4 is a bit weak.
It is still however absolutely nothing compared to distances in the US.
I often drive from the south coast of England to the North coast of Scotland... It's 13 hours of driving time with no traffic on average.
I do it with only a couple of toilet breaks, no overnight stops needed.
That should put the length of the UK into perspective, you can drive it in almost half a 24 hour day.
Nothing really.
@@underwaterdick. True. I was just looking at Google maps the other day (out of curiosity) and noted that distance. I assumed it would have been much further. A truck driver and I were visiting about travel times and he told me that the US map is not proportional to actual dimensions and it made me curious of other places. He said that the west side of the US is far larger than the map indicates.
When my sister gave birth to my niece, I drove for 9 straight hours (stopping briefly to pick up our cousin & to fuel up) to go see her & meet my niece. I didn't leave the state of once (not even a big state...Bigger than those on the east coast but tiny compared to those on the west half of the country)
I'm an American, I didn't know most of this but the entire time I was listening I kept thinking.......yeah I can believe that.
Yep
Definitely true.
Is it weird if after watching this I'm actually prouder to be an American that I was before?
@@arcion504 yes
@@arcion504 Very weird if you are proud of these freaky things that simply should not be true... but are.
The English say, "Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!!!"
The Scots say, "Hey! McCloud! Get off of my ewe!"
Americans: "Sir!! I'm gonna ask ya to exit da Cloud!!!"
Hilarious!!!!
*Nah it was Taffy the Welshman who was angry with anyone **_sharing_** his favourite sheep Betsy - named as he lived near Betws -y Coed.*
74 minutes eating? who the hell has that much time to eat?
Over 40 percent of Americans are obese. My guess would be 40 percent have that much time to eat.
@SLCPunked No one was confused about that,
Anyone who prefers a healthy lifestyle.
I have a friend who eats small amounts but he eats slowly. He has an athletic build. He chews every bite thoroughly and slowly. A small meal takes him about 40 minutes to eat. He spends a long time eating per day.
Eating with him is a pain because he takes so long to eat.
@@glidercoach Actually, I think that it is the other way around. The slower that you eat, the less likely you are to be obese . Chewing more and chewing slower makes you fuller so you eat less. I am a fast eater and equally as fat.
In defense of the passport thing... I live right on the border with Canada and for most of my life I didn't need a passport to cross the border so there was really no reason for many of us to have one.
@Tianeptine - It's the only other country within reasonable driving distance. I'd love to see other countries but I can't afford to do that nearly as often between airfare and cost of hotel rooms. Canada on the other hand I can make a day trip out of.
@Tianeptine - Mainly convenience. Driving here is a lot cheaper than flying. Example, I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and flying to Las Vegas, NV versus driving a pickup (20 hrs each way) that gets 15 mpg is physically cheaper (minus my time). Even in Dallas, it's still 8 hours of driving to get to Mexico. Our rail infrastructure is ancient (literally we have ties on some lines that date back to post-US Civil War Reconstruction) and rail transit if highly underdeveloped and inefficient as our rail lines are optimized for freight and not passenger travel.
In Michigan, Canadian pennies were always accepted as USA pennies when I was a kid.
@Tianeptine - You can fly to another country in Europe for like $50 USD, for us to fly to anywhere but Canada and Mexico is generally looking at 10-20x that.
@@BonkedByAScout So true!
Thank you for letting me know where to report my Elvis sighting... I had NO IDEA!
U can tell he’s trying his absolute best to just narrate without outright saying how completely stupid some of the points are.. I would probably not have been so strong
Antiquated laws are often left on the books because it costs more money to remove them than to simply not enforce them.
A lot of the ones he's describing are bull crap. Laws to make it legal to have sex with a horse? Pure bullsh!t!
There's the thing it's quite easy to sunset an old law, by adding a it to a law that's gonna pass both state houses....
In Missouri it was legal to shoot a Mormon on sight well past 1845.
In some cities a man must walk in front of a horseless carriage carrying a lantern at night. There's also "no spitting in public" but that is a reference to tobacco.
Bestiality comes along with its own punishment. . . no laws needed.
antiquated laws are kept on the books so the cops can always find a charge to arrest and hold a suspect..
To be fair to France and Germany, the last time they had an over abundance of patriotism, it didn't end well for them.
It's not exactly ending well for us Americans either....
@@whiteraven181 Patriotism also doesn't mean supporting Trump or his MAGAts !
@@whiteraven181 The US is too stupid to learn from the history of those 2 countries.
To be fair France and Germany didn't have the quality of constitution and national strength that that USA has.
France did not have enough. If they had, they would have retreated overseas in 1940 and continued the war.
Simon: You will never see a flag in every yard of any other country in earth.
Northern Ireland: hold my beer...
Don’t you get bombed for having British flags in Northern Ireland
Lachlan Chester
well rightfully so. britain ruined them, yet they still got back up! i’m african but i live northern ireland and ireland
@@lachlanchester8142 it would depend on where you live. It wouldn’t be wise to raise a Union flag on the Falls Rd for example. But go to Newtown and even the kerb stones are red white and blue.
And Denmark
I feel like 2020 deserves to have a whole new list of this. 10 More Things...
When I was a toddler I wasnt allowed to have dinner until I shot someone.
Just one? Amateur.......😜
You must have grown up in Baltimore. Or perhaps Los Angeles.
@John Saunders Mr. Saunders, if your parents taught you shooting someone at random was a U. S. value, they were psychotic. I hope you're all right.
@John Saunders Be nice, Mr. Saunders. I was once young and didn't understand the difference between 'auto mechanics' and 'quantum mechanics'. Come to think of it, neither had been invented yet...
Texas, hell yea
Yeah, most Americans "walk it off" so we don't bankrupt our families.
That's what's shocking. In any developed country, money is hardly the question when someone needs medical assistance. I honestly hope for you that you will manage to defeat the corporations and finally get a government that serves the people and not the elite.
@@FedericoLucchi It's one of the few things that keeps me fighting, thank you. I hope so too.
@@DragonAceSg7 I'm not living in America, but I wish you the best in 2020. Bernie seems a sensible choice for president, and I guess that's why corporate news smear him the way they do. Keep fighting!!
It's not about being developed. If I can't take care of it myself I damn sure wont put my hand out and expect free care.
@@MrVonMengesdorf Well, you should. Any other developed country has it, and costs of medication are lower as well. You shouldn't have to decide whether or not to get cured like you decide whether or not to buy yourself a treat.
"they still believe the idea of America is an idea of worth believing in" he said with a smile on his face.
😂😂😭😂😂💞💞
The reason it's called the American Dream is that you'd have to be asleep to believe it.
That and it's changed from owning your home and sending ones kids to school to being extravagantly wealthy at the cost of your fellow citizens. As evidenced by families like the Sacklers.
@@SuperMrHiggins Excellent George Carlin quote.
We believe it because it's true.
Most of us just can’t afford to travel abroad. They keep us poor and confused
Actually its because we can go a thousand miles in any direction and still be in our country we can go to the desert jungles mountains and still be in our country
@@tyronemaroney335 That’s utterly ridiculous. Most Brits have been to places as far as Mexico, Egypt, Thailand, Australia and of course the USA etc etc for holidays. Much further than travelling across the states. The thing is, we get between 25-35 paid days off a year that allows us to travel, I suspect that’s more of a factor.
Most of us are in so much debt they can't see straight yet still choose to buy Starbucks every day
When I divorced, I had to go stay with my parents in my small mid-western hometown. My kids were shocked that most of their classmates had never been to the next town, let alone the next state.
@@sircravenuk damn, the cap for PTO for me is 120hrs
Getting drunk, and getting into bar fights a US thing? Dude, have you ever been to Ireland?
Or Scotland and England? All you have to do is say futbol sucks on gameday and you'll have most of the bar swinging in half a second.
Or to any of our cities like Londonista for example?
Actually, singing is more common drunken thing in Ireland
- I'd prefer the fights to being expected to perpetrate a folk song.
he says it is their national sport... if you continue listening he says that is not just an american thing. If you are Irish, english or Italian you can make a championship, just prepare to be bitten by americans (the point he was making)
World class Ed system.
Regarding passports. There are many American who have been to Canada but have no passport because it wasn't needed at the time. Only became necessary in 2008.
Plenty of countries in the Caribbean did not require them either. The cruise ship industry thrived off of this prior to 9-11.
Yep, not necessary between US and Mexico either.
True, I have been to several islands in the Caribbean and Mexico before passports were required
Oh Eileen you are so right. This guy has no idea. Just another silly European who hasn't a clue.
Taffy Kins: That's correct.
I’m watching this while at home recovering from Covid. Even with my health insurance I will be paying huge bills for years. It is amazing to see what the insurance company will deny as if I got this on purpose.
that is so difficult to understand as a french! you , americans must be so rich that you can pay so much money !
What a backward country!
Why woudn't you take Ivermectin, cheap, easy and problem solved?
@Silver Fox Somebody pays you freeloader
They complain about collage and University fees, but don't complain they pay the sports staff crazy wages.
College*
#10 - we are very concerned about our toddlers shooting one person a week. We are trying to improve their marksmanship.
Lol
Clearly the only solution is to arm all toddlers so they can protect themselves.
not funny
@@clioaspinade9275 clearly, I mean more guns easily available on the streets will obviously mean less gun deaths!
The parents vote Trump in (regardless political affiliation), so the toddlers bumped up their genius plan to replace them with robots.
Er... that picture of a victim of violence outside a fast food restaurant that's meant to represent America's love affair with violence and fast food... that's the KFC on George St, Sydney. And that's a NSW police uniform...
Lol. Busted. 😂
They pump out far too many videos a week to care.
Time-traveling Troll, agree completely. He’s making unfounded, biased, personal passive aggressive attacks. I do hope he stays in England
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know that. Screw this guy. I will never watch his videos again.
@@russellharrell2747 where are you from?
The image of a scene outside a KFC in the section about biting each other is not taken in the United States. It is in fact a scene from outside the KFC on the corner of Park and George street in the City of Sydney (Australia). The policeman shown is a NSW police officer.
😁
Haha, I was scrolling just to see if someone picked that up 😅
I'm in Canada. We are often gobsmacked at our southern neighbours.
What does gobsmacked mean?
@@lazytommy0 overwhelmed with wonder, surprise, or shock.
@@Meowziez thankyou. I googled it after i asked. I've never heard that term before.
I try to live my life devoid of gobsmacking. Lol
You have my sympathy. And let's face it, your border is probably a little too long to build a wall.
Correction: Up until around 10 years ago, you didn't need a passport to go to Mexico or Canada. I have never owned a passport but I have been to Canada.
I believe it might have been longer time ago, I when to Canada when I was a kid, but it was longer than 10yrs ago.
Went to Bermuda with just a license.
You illegal
I know right!? My kids think I'm pulling their legs; I used to go with my parents all the time, we'd just cross in Buffalo or take a boat across Lake Erie! It was never a big deal!
Ham Bone it was June 1, 2009. I remember it vividly.
Coined the phrase "Lunch is for wimps". In my 30 years on this world and the 44 states I have visited I have never heard anyone say this ever. Not in person, on tv or even in a book.
Edit: Just came back to comment after a while and relize over 600 votes... I guess I am not the only one! 🤣
InsomniaCast in 39 years lives in 7 states I never heard of that either
The movie Wall Street..Mike Douglas says it. So of course if it was in a movie..then it MUST be real. What a idiot! We should have let the Germans take that dump over!! Our Mistake!!
@@garyheaton4791 they'd at least probably be brushing and flossing by now.
I'm 47 and I have to agree. I don't think I've heard lunch is for wimps.
Right? We're generally asking when's lunch and who's flying?
Fun Fact: The US is England's baby, meaning that in a way, The British "concept" STILL rules the world -. (I'm American, BTW!)
England must've done crack cocaine and binged on alcohol while pregnant lol.
"An absolute inability to get our priorities right"...yup, that's US.
#3. Simon. The vast majority of "human bite" cases come from when someone punches someone else in the mouth. Emergency Rooms in the US document any injury where a human tooth penetrates skin (e.g. someone's fist) as a "human bite" since the medical management and medical coding is identical.
Same is true in Europe.
This dipshit isn't interested in being factual, it's a self indulged hit piece for his own mental masturbation.
Thanks for clarification. That had me worried...
I live in the USA and still get confused sometimes, lol
What gets me still is how teachers and first responders are the lowest paid ones. They educate our future, and protect our lives.
I was literally just about to say that 😂
John Saunders, maybe if your education wasn’t so busted you would be able to use context clues to figure out the meaning of the comment. They’re saying that the contents of the list confuses them.
John Saunders It should be both.
I'd LOVE to travel, but I can't afford a passport much less money to travel on.
I watch at least 4 of your videos everyday, from all your channels but this one had me laughing out loud.(on the train to work). Brilliant.
You get used to walking it off when an ambulance ride alone costs 1,000 dollars.
Queen of the Bunnies -- I fell from my pedal bike and bumped my head, plus other injuries... The ambulance, the helicopter ride and the first night of my coma (before midnight) was 100 thousand dollars! :-D
Amen!!!
I wish! Here in California I had my credit ruined by an ambulance company that charged me two thousand dollars for a two block ride to the VA, and yes I am a veteran. And yes it should be and is covered by VA insurance but tell that to the ambulance company.
Like the couple anecdotes before help illustrate, $1,000 is actually far lower than even cheap ambulance rides in the US. You're "lucky" if it's less than $3,000 for the ride alone.
Yet in parts of Australia where there is the world's best ambulance services, it's free for patients.
You left out the fact that the CDC has an actual working plan in case of a zombie apocalypse...
That one was slightly tongue-in-cheek. Someone at the CDC figured that if they have to call it a "zombie" preparedness plan to raise public awareness of disaster preparation in general, so be it.
@@hzzlrp10, it was tongue in cheek. Remains so mostly. It's funny to me because an author I know actually bounced an idea off of some friends, one of whom had a friend at the CDC, and it (the vector & dispersal plan for the book) got into the mix in Atlanta. It's an amusing anecdote now, but imagine the reactions when they actually contacted my friend directly to request changes in his book because "...that could actually work!"
The series of novels became a big hit and the CDC started making revisions to the plan for reasons.
@@jerryphillips2970 All credit to the person(s) who came up with the idea. The CDC certainly got the desired result.
At least they're doing something worth while.
AKA a European invasion!
The USA has the best healthcare money can buy... too bad most of us can't afford it.
I have been to almost all 50 states. They are incredibly diverse and sometimes you feel like you are in different countries! I have only been out of the country for missions trips. I tend to use any excess funds to help others, not travel...
Damn, I’ve met some people who haven’t even been out of their state!
Left the state, a lot of people have never traveled out of their small town.
Esperanza Lastarria ~ wow.
I wanna give it a thumbs up because I get what you’re saying, but that’s pretty sad
Or city...
In SW PA, a lot of people have never been more than 50 miles from where they were born...
People buy houses where the backyard shares a fence with Mommy and Daddy's house.
Well, for a very long time I had only been to ND, MN, and SD because I lived in Fargo. Could drive to Moorhead all the time in MN, and the Valley Fair in MN, and close to the SD border. I met my husband and he was from New York and he and I drove there to meet his friends. Long drive. Beautiful country.
The 50% without passports are probably the ones without paid time off and likely couldn't afford to travel anyhow.
justin holl -- Probably right... I only acquired a passport as a teenager to tour Mexico for one week as a teenager with my high school band, beside that I've set foot in Canada for the afternoon to sight-see and have lunch when I visited Niagra Falls. Other than that I have never stepped outside of the U.S. --1.I can't really afford to do so, 2.I have so many other attractions available to me within the U.S. plus 3.I am fearful to travel because of my limited speaking ability. I do have family members who have traveled across the globe though for business needs. They were very pleased with their time away. They found it to be quite adventurous as well as profitable. :-)
I couldn't agree more! I was working 2 jobs to save up to visit the Bahamas in my 31 years I'd never gotten a passport because I didn't need to and it was expensive for me to take a vacation but once I did I realized life's way too short and plan on making a trip at least once every two to three years!
Exatly that, justin holl, and yet the people decrying this about Americans don't see that (just to do his travel vids here on YT, Mark Wolter ['Wolter's World'] has no cable and economizes on other things as well.)
@Mike Evans
lol no we don't. almost every other first world country has a higher standard of living.
I suppose that would depend on how you define standard of living. According to the United Nations the US ranks #8 out of the 10 top countries to live in world wide.
162 minutes? So some of you are spending more time eating each day than I spend sleeping...
It's really not healthy to spend less than 162 minutes sleeping.
@@isaacbaxter253 Some Americans have a problem counting past their fingers and toes...
@@quantumleaper That's true of almost any country. Or continent, if you meant north America or south America instead of the United States of America.
A trip to the Doctor in the US is about as effective as walking it off.
Nope, its the highest levels of medical care in the world. It's why those American doctors have stacks of Nobel prizes, why half the new medical therapies, techniques and innovations are from the USA, its why the US is packed with doctors from foreign countries, its why people all over Europe, Canada and elsewhere save money and fly to the USA to get medical treatment.
Why would you say something like that?
Even with insurance, if it's anything serious, requiring surgery or prescription drugs, it can cost more than most people have. Americans have also very little money saved, and can find themselves bankrupt if they have a health emergency. So we often decide not to go for medical help, because we know we can't afford it.
@@nanniwa No, that isn't what happens though, Americans spend so much money on medicine, therapy and doctors visits that it's not just a fun statistic they spend more on healthcare than any other nation on earth - its by a very large margin.
Americans do have a 'bankruptcy' option which idiots think means 'become total financial failures' or "have no money' when instead its a tremendously luxurious solution (i mean, for most people on earth its stunning luxury) where, in effect, all of their debts are wiped out. Yes, American can use that amazing financial benefit to their advantage.
Nope, there is no reason to believe Americans avoid hospitals because 'they know they can't afford it' but instead every statistic and real life experience tells you they routinely, constantly and often go to the doctor at rates as high as there are on earth.
All that said - why are you talking like it's supposed to be your RIGHT to get very expensive services?
You need food to live. You have to pay money to get food. Why do you think it should be your right to get food?
Does the utility company give you free electricity?
Why on earth have you decided that getting doctors, nurses, expensive medical items, their time and resources is something you or anyone should just take take take and not have to pay for??
"But then I can't enjoy the things I like, my lifestyle and I'd have to be like the poors!!!"
That isn't how anything else in life works.
If you're an American you are bathing in healthcare luxury, showered in the wealth of abundance, availability and a dozen schemes that let you get the best healthcare in the world for outrageously low prices, from government schemes, insurance and charities everywhere and that's all before your friends and family can chip in.
Very true! When I was in middle & high school I was told many times by a doctor that my (insert whatever was wrong at the time) was because of my weight &/or being on the computer too much. Then I would get sent back to school still feeling terrible & be distracted by my pain & started struggling even more with school work.
@@vampirefrompluto9788 In the USA you were able to go to a doctor many times for distracting pain?? And that's as a child?
Luxury much?
We don't "choose" saving money over healthcare... we can't afford it
I think on average we're healthier and more athletic than the "average" brit. And we damn sure live in nicer homes "on average."- no comparison.
Yeah and that free healthcare has a great dental plan in the EU.
Your comment deserves WAY MORE thumbs up! I would choose to save my life...if i could AFFORD IT!!
you can't afford healthcare because you waste your money. places with "free" healthcare just have the government force you to pay for your healthcare first. he mentions norway, well guess what, norway's TOP income tax rate comes into effect at 1.6 times the average wage income, which for norway would be a little over $70k a year, at which point the government will take abut 40% of what you make, compared to the US, where they'll take around 47% once you make over about $400k. so go live a life of luxury in norway. or just manage your money instead of relying on the government to do it. you'll have more than enough money to afford healthcare.
@@Atomic-Monkey what do you suppose we waste our money on?
pic used of men with pistols to talk about American gun culture @1:25 is in Switzerland.
You guys are sleuths.
@@samaraisnt sleuths gonna sleuth
I believe that for many Americans the idea of traveling abroad, let alone going on a real vacation, is beyond their grasp due to their job and finances. Some people use time off to see family or for emergencies or extra sick time, and not everyone is guaranteed time off for vacation whether paid or unpaid.
When he said "you dont have toddlers blowing each other away" I almost spit out my green tea!!!
I've lived in the US my whole life (so far). I have been to some of the seediest bars around the country and I have never seen a bar fight. There are plenty of a-holes in this country, but when you're in a bar, being cool is the unwritten rule. I think there is probably a stereotype of Americans fighting in bars from western movies. I have seen a fight in the parking lot maybe twice, but never in the bar. In fact, a few years ago a guy got stabbed in a bar somewhere in the metro area and it was all over the news because it just never happens.
Also, "lunch is for wimps?" Everyone I have ever worked with, even the busiest people, have always taken lunch. We get an hour where I work. I think you're way off on this one.
Do people stab in the US? I thought they just shot each other. 😉
@@cplcabs It's mostly in schools, restaurants, shopping malls, movie theaters, churches, temples and mosques... and dance clubs that you get mowed down by automatic assault rifles. In seedy bars.... every once in a while.... somebody may pull out a pen knife. Ya just gotta know the culture. A seedy biker bar seems to be the safest place to be...;-)
@@pheresy1367 strangely enough one of the safest bars in the UK i have been to was a biker bar. That was my first time in such a bar and and i wasnt a biker. Everyone was very friendly.
Lunch is for wimps? I have been in the work force for 35 years never heard that one, where is this guy getting his information?
Can relate
You need to do some research on the phrase " lunch is for wimps" never heard it . We love lunch because these bastards make us work all the time.
some of us don't get breaks other then lunch. It's the most important time period during the work week.
I think it was used in "Wall Street" by Gecko.
And some research on beastiality laws. He makes it seem it's perfectly legal in 9 states
@pavo6503 - In Peruvian (at least my wife's family), a 3:00 pm visit by the whole family means 5-7 pm, maybe a straggler arrives at 8 or 9.
Yeah but my lunch is only 30 min. I dont have to make it up though i get paid for it which is nice
What percentage of the 50% that have been overseas went in uniform.
Thats a fair point
As an Iowan I had no idea this bill was even passed
It's more like we'd rather having housing and food than get healthcare. It is way too expensive. That's why so many GoFundMe's exist for helping out with hospital costs.
I lived overseas for years and it was WEIRD knowing that I could go to a doctor and not have to declare bankruptcy.
Regarding passports, you europeans dont understand the sheer size of the land and variety of ecosystems we have here in the US. LA to New York is only a bit shorter than the distance from Rome to Moscow. The US is massive and US citizens can travel so far to all kinds of environments.
But they lack an interest in the rest of the world. While the US is large it is all the same culture.
And as for Australia, if I lived there I would be itching to leave as well.
But cultural distance is almost zero. Same language, politics, food and crappy strip malls
@cattus lavandula ok fine. Not the *exact* same culture. But the same is true when say driving 2hrs through tiny Netherlands. Completely different dialect, attitudes and culture.
@@LiveFreeOrDieHrad but even when they live close to.a border they don't really go. They seem to be brainwashed thinking they're in the best place in the world- without having much material to compare with
To defend our travel aversion...America is huge and incredibly diverse, so whereas people in Western Europe would travel abroad to visit different climates and landscapes, we literally have it all. From Arctic Tundra to tropical coral reefs, from plains to jungles, deserts to swamps, alpine glaciers to the rainforests, we have it all.
Plus it takes me 10 hours driving just to leave my state.
Yeah in Europe people visit neighboring countries, but in the US here people might visit neighboring states instead. The US is freaking huge. The travel associated with traveling is so great, it's cost prohibitive
Texas? Because that's where I live; east Texas to be exact. Just under 10 hours to get to El Paso. Thankfully, only about an hour to Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
And of course here you only meet Americans and there is little chance of meeting anyone that actually knows anything!
If I lived in Britain, France, or Germany, I would leave the country as often as I could too...
You forgot the mention all the trailer trash.the millions of homelless and the filth of the American cities.I lived there for a year,never come across such dim witted people in my like. Half the people I spoke tp didn't even know where South Africa was!
We can't go abroad because you can't take more than two weeks off, if you're lucky enough to be able to do even that.
This... Accurate
Or we can’t afford it because we have medical bills
Is that normal in the US? In Australia you get 4 to 6 weeks off per year, which probably explains why so many Australians travel overseas for holidays. Then people who work rosters like paramedics get 8 weeks off as we don't get days off for public holidays.
@@doncoleman4938 sadly yes, its normal in the US, its not that we don't want to take time off, we can't. Its normal we don't get more than 2 weeks off a year, and often that includes holidays. And most lower level jobs, you don't start earning time off till after 6 months to a year of constant employment. I have had jobs where I've been fired because I was with my wife in the hospital or lost a friend and took a single day off for it. US employers really don't care about the employee on a personal level. Were just cogs in a machine, and if part of your machine only works most of the time and not all the time, its discarded and replaced.
@@doncoleman4938 I'm lucky. I've been with my company for about 15 years and I do have 27 paid days off plus holidays. But I do know people who make considerably more than I do and are not self-employed who have much less time.
Regarding beastiality, when you say LEGAL, does that mean there is an actual LAW on the books saying it is allowable, or there is no law BANNING the practice? Most of these laws are foreign to Americans as well.
The laws in those states just don’t mention bestiality, rather than explicitly allow it... But the map he showed is now really out of date and a lot more states have specifically banned the practice.
I think it all started because it used to be illegal in almost every state but they unintentionally legalised it when they got rid of sodomy laws so that it was then legal for homosexuals to have sex with each other. Sodomy also included sex with animals I believe, so possibly they didn’t realise it at the time. I could be wrong but I think I read that somewhere.
@@alexandersalter6686 the thing to note here is that in the Anglosphere, or those places using Westminster style government as opposed to places like France or Germany, anything is allowable unless it is specifically proscribed. In the European Union for example, nothing is permitted unless it is regulated by either the E.U. or the government of the country in which you are located. Makes an interesting point about "the land of the free." No?
He's wrong bout KY. When this was produced, I guy was sentenced for 6 mos. for that offense in the northern KY area near Walton. When he was released, he re-offended and was sentenced to a year in jail. The horse subsequently granted a no-contact order.
@@alexandersalter6686 You are completely out to lunch.
John galush I am out for what?!? I don’t know what that means...
Most of us can’t afford to go abroad or get enough time off of work.
Yes. They act like we just don't want to. Smh....
Vote for better politicians and get the time off a lot of us Europeans enjoy. 4 weeks PAID vacation here in the UK. Plus bank Holidays.
If only it were as easy as voting. We are trying but the political elite have their claws tightly wound around the balls of American politics. In a country where wealth is siphoned to a condensed class and money equals power well... They are the lawmakers who twist policy to get away with.... fu***ing everything
I can't help but think people commenting "Vote someone else" are people who dont wanna hear about your troubles. And as though they themselves had some issues but after voting, everything was sorted? These people project "I know what to do attitude" when in reality they the brainwashed ones. Dunning Kruger effect in action.
Even in the UK, scotland votes to stay in the EU. Guess what, we're being dragged out of it.
Politics works for politicians and their cronies, that's it.
The biggest success of these nations have had is convincing the working people that their vote even matters. It doesnt.
Abroad. Yeah. Canada isn't abroad.
The not traveling abroad has me scratching my head. I would have thought far more people travel outside the US? I asked myself why just now, why I personally haven't. I would say I'm fairly average in my financial means probably more frugal than most my friends but honestly I feel saving the money to go and more over getting time off work to actually go is a tall order. Id have to plan it at least a year out and if life has taught me anything plans fall through more than they don't
the traveling abroad statement is bogus,Here in the US we travel INTERSTATE which in europe is the equivalent of several nieghboring countries,AND HERE WE HAVE SO MUCH VARIETY, AND WHY DO WE REALLY HAVE ALOT OF INTERESTin going to eorope where they hate us and are so jealous of us?My sister told me when she went to germany she heard alot of references to "You amricans"....Germany let a leader talk them into looking the other way for a genocide!!!!!!Millions of people including all the dead americans dying in ww two!,,,then we GAVE BACK WITH THE MARSHALL PLAN,,,REBUILDING OUR ENEMIES
@@leewatkins1610 It's not bogus, and interstate travel is not remotely like travelling in Europe. If you removed all border signage in the US most people would have no clue they're in a different state. In Europe you'd know instantly.
By the sounds of your comment, you've never been abroad.
Most people in most countries don't leave their own country. Europeans can do that because they have 30 countries in and around them they can drive to or certainly find lots of cheap flights and trains.
Europeans take 1 hour flights to a different country. Americans take 3 hour flights to other states.
Americans may very well travel more distance.
This brings up one of the reasons Americans don't fly out as much as others and it's enviable geography and a massive nation.
Australians won't discover a new world traveling around their tiny little world,
however,
As an example, a New Yorker discovers what feels like an entirely new country spending two weeks in Los Angeles and that LA resident can vice-versa visit New York and its a totally different world and they can go to Texas and its a new world for them of different lands and lifestyles and so on.
Yes, its also true Americans work a lot.
Half of Americans go abroad and many are constantly going abroad. They also have a unique nation where millions of them are from abroad, they are from around the world, they can visit Chinatown and they can go to a Pakistani restaurant and meet Pakistanis and they have 10 neighbors from other countries but with a massive swatch of land with remarkably different regions they have their own country to explore.
Sure, lots of Brits like Mr. Whistler and his friends take a 40 minute flight to 'Spain' (a British holiday resort town) and are thus sophisticated worldly-wise woke folks, sure.
You don't need to travel abroad you can find all the types of desirable holiday environments within the USA you want heat go where its hot , you want snow go where is snowy etc etc
@@djimma5080 That's true, the vastness & sheer variety of the USA means it's all at home, but that only adds to the insularity, which is a problem.
*Simon:* "You will never see a flag in every yard in any other country on Earth."
*Northern Ireland:* "Allow me to introduce myself."
I once had a chance to meet Ian Paisley. He was a genuinely great man.
@@andrewbuhman1066 Senior or Junior?
@@gerardcollins80 Senior
@@andrewbuhman1066 Ah. He may have been pleasant personally, but the consequences of his actions during the Troubles are still being felt to this day.
@@gerardcollins80 That may be so, but seeing as the IRA attempted an assassination on him twice, I don't think he is really at the heart of those troubles. He was simply a man of conviction and principle until the later years of his life.
The reason why people don't hold passports in the USA is because it is a luxury to have enough time off from work to travel abroad.
Wil Ketchin is this an argument for or against the United States?
Also a luxury to have the kind of money it takes to take an international round trip flight.
Most of us don't make enough to travel "abroad".
That's so peak
Why don't you get time off
You can visit the near-tropics of Florida, the Mediterranean climate of southern California, French Creole New Orleans, the Rockies, the Appalachians, the vast forests of the Northwest, the rolling prairies of the Midwest, the deserts, the rivers, the big cities of NY, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, LA, Atlanta, etc.... We have barbeque, music, vast highways, bustling cities and vast wilderness.... Why would anyone leave?
Is that supposed to be an ironic statement from such an illustrious Greek philosopher? It's perfectly fine to be happy with your lot, but you must understand that some people might want to explore a bit beyond 5% of the planet's landmass. There's more barbeque, more music, more highways, more cities and even vaster wilderness out there.
I think the point is that it's just cheaper and easier to stay in the states while still being able to see diversity
@@namless3654 The statement "why would anyone leave" seems a bit more extreme than that.
We have the most exotic country in the world.
You do have the most beautiful country. I’d love to visit.
The reason a lot of Americans don’t travel abroad is simple, there are many diverse cultures and communities within the United States. The cultural diversity is probably one of the greatest in the world. If you want to experience the culture of a specific group, you just travel to a place in the US that has adopted the certain cultures you wish to experience.
The lower United States is like 48 different countries. It's incredibly varied and we have lots of parks. Even though I love to travel, many people don't have vacation or money to travel, so they enjoy all the things we have here. We really do have lots of amazing things (except health insurance).
A video about Weird America that doesn't mention tipping or supersizing? Excuse me while I struggle to contain my absolute shock.
In the US nearly ALL medical people are NOT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
zen blas I'm hoping this is sarcasm because the rest of the first world has a single payer system
@@VeKtorVacuum All first world nations that use the metric system also have single payer healthcare. America doesn't. what's sarcastic here?
Depends on what you mean by "medical people". There are quite a few publicly employed nurses and doctors within the VA system. There's also public health departments with doctors, communicators, and support staff for clinical research, regulation, and education campaigns for public health.
We want medical treatment of any and all kinds available when we need it, not when it "becomes available". We also want to make our own choices for our medical procedures, and insist on our medical and pharmaceutical capabilities being the best in the world. That can get expensive, but it also fuels innovation that the entire world depends upon so we feel it's worth it.
I'm sure the millions of Americans who can't get access to the same level of care are amped that all those rich foreigners can. Here's a crazy idea: provide all your hard working, patriotic citiziens, access to the best health care and keep charging those from abroad. Oh, wait, that would cut into profit margins, nevermind.
Lol love whoever did the subtitles for this. 13:35 and Thank you Mr Whistler 🤠
You are wonderful. I had to laugh out loud 🤣
"Their national sport is getting drunk and starting bar-fights" And that's coming from a Brit, seriously?
oy that's the irish
I love how an Americans greatest insult to another American these days is associating them with a political party, tends to ruffle some feathers.
It's even more hilarious when they try to associate a foreigner with one.
It might be anecdotal, but I was out in Manchester on a summer Saturday night a year ago and it was just... pandemonium. Went to Tenerife once and saw the same thing, just drunken, semi-unconscious Brits littering the sidewalks after midnight. So yeah, pot -> kettle
Both countries built world- empires, you don't accomplish that by just asking nicely I guess :)
Runi, Im a brit and fourteen everyone fights
To be fair about the sports coach thing, they aren't being paid with tax dollars. The sports programs make profits and end up making the schools money.
Seven schools in the US have athletic programs that make money. The rest are supported by a combination of tuition and public funds.
@@Nerdsammich I'd be interested to see how that's broken down by sport though. I'd be willing to bet most schools shelling out serious cash for football and basketball coaches and certainly turning a profit off those sports.
Also to be fair, as I mentioned in another thread, in the UK, the coach of Manchester United earns GBP 7.5 million a year. Sports generate revenue (duh) and the money generated is large enough to be able to afford that kind of salary at a private club, then why can't it be large enough to afford the salary of a US sports coach merely because he is state employed? The point on the video is misleading, because the only real difference is the fact that sports teams in the UK are privately owned.
An Australian who would never chose America as a travel destination.
As a Canadian, I can honestly say that there are lots of places I'd like to see in the States, but not right now. I'd love to visit New York City. I've never been.
Erik Swanson Yeah I don’t blame you right now 😓 (I live in California and I won’t be going much farther than the grocery story for the foreseeable future...)
Nearly every item on this list was pretty jaw-dropping for me, too. 😰 The few that weren’t are things that MANY (if not most) of us are fighting against or believe should be fixed asap.
There’s another video they did (which I watched just before this one)-“10 Things the World Would Be Surprised to Learn About the USA” and it diffuses some of the negative stereotypes lol.
Made me feel a lot less crummy 😂
On episodes like this one I have to try hard to remember Simon doesn't write them, so I can still enjoy watching him on Today I Found Out
As the late, great George Carlin said; " When you're born, you get a ticket to a freak show, but when you're born in the US, you get a front row seat "...
Never been to Africa huh?
OR in the U.S it's an interactive show.
😂
George was wrong. When you are born in the USA you are part of the Greatest Freak Show on Earth. Everyone else on earth is the audience
And isn't it amazing that you will not be jailed, tortured, shot, or dismembered for saying that?
To be fair, and this is coming from a dual citizen, there's some bizarre stuff about basically every country.
Yes, but what European would miss an opportunity to sneer at someone doing well?
Yep.
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@B Babbich The shouting "'Murica, the land of the free!" while wearing USA flag underwear is obviously also alive and well.
Define the USA 'doing well' according to you, Jake; I've defended the USA before (and I'm a Canadian doing this) but there are some thing even I can't really defend to a foreigner.
@@JakeJustIs But Jake Mixon, B Babbich, Bob Smith: I thought America was not doing well, and needed to be made great again?
"Americans are more likely to be bitten by other Americans that rats" I have never seen a rat with the exception of domestic rats in pet stores.
The photo at 10:17 of the violence outside the kfc is from here in Sydney, Australia. That photo was taken outside kfc on George Street which is pretty much the busiest street in the busiest city in the entire of Australia.
European: Travels 215 miles from London to Paris, gets lauded for "traveling abroad."
American: Travels 2500 miles from Los Angeles to New York, gets criticized for not owning a passport.
A.J. Hart So much this...
Right?! And it's not like the countries to our North or South are all that exciting. To see anything neat in Mexico, you've got to get far south into pyramid area.
I grew up driving 14 hours one way on an interstate doing 75 miles an hour just to see my Grandfather every Christmas. That would take you through 8 countries in Europe.
A.J. Hart exactly. And the healthcare thing was dumb. “I’m stroking out...no don’t take me to the ER I need to save my money” said no one in this country ever
You don't even need a passport for travelling within the EU if you are a EU citizen.
Traveling out of the US is crazily expensive. Most Americans just can't afford it. In addition, we don't get the same kind of holidays that people do over seas. If I told my boss I was leaving for a month to go on vacation, he'd tell me not to expect a job when I got back.
Americans really seem to get the short stick when it comes to salary entitlements and work conditions.
I get 8 weeks off a year, plus a pretty generous superannuation, all work clothing and equipment is paid for and I can salary sacrifice private health care, childcare, a new car and so much more. My mortgage and utility bills are partly tax deductable, and like most Australians we earn 150%-200% of what Americans in a similar career earn. Take into account tax and everything else our disposable income is much more than the average Americans.
Don Coleman Disposable income basically doesn’t exist in the US 😂
@@overworkedcna412 that's weird. I get Americans telling me "oh, we all do quite well this side of the Pacific, thank you very much. And we don't need to pay "more" tax towards a better healthcare and public services structure like you Aussies".
i guess whoever said "America, land of the free" weren't thinking healthcare or social services.
Sure there are some Australians doing it tough, but when you see how many have new cars, huge TVs, and travel to Bali, Asia, or the US regularly you wonder if that percentage is small.
Take care over there!
Don Coleman That’d be that grand ol’ American ego, I suspect 😂
@@doncoleman4938 "If you say so." I'm a simple security guard (American), and I earn approx 70,000 Euro a year. Most of my German counterparts (Security), earn about 10 Euro an Hour.
Another very useful video. The whole fast food thing is depressing, it is so nice to have a nice casual meal (but that seems impossible most of the time). Thank you for the video.
How in the world is this useful!? 🤦♂️🤷♂️🤣 dead serious. That’s the problem with this world today. I think you are serious and you really do think this is useful which is scary because it’s nothing but lies in this video. Everything is very out of left field. Nobody knew about most of what he even said and when he did say it wouldn’t change anything Lmao. He was really reaching for this one. I mean he’s talking about the population getting bit by rats and humans.. wtf
@@bmorg5190 If you think this response is useful....it is to some extent.
You just don't have the skill to identify anything that is useful, it is not something you have ever developed in your life.
"ok once we have talked about the toddler murders we will talk about the dark stuff"
Certain state laws don’t apply because they are trumped by the federal government. So no one bothers changing them.
Not even from a sense of shame and embarrassment?
In the case of bestiality , many states haven't bothered changing the laws simply because they mean nothing. What I mean by this, is even if it were made 100% legal, it wouldn't protect you from animal cruelty and abuse laws. Basically, it doesn't matter if bestiality itself is legal or not, because the act itself is considered cruelty or abuse and is punishable by law- rather harshly might I add.
@@mightyblaster3320 Hell, if you commit an act of bestiality or animal abuse in rural Chille, let alone in the USA, 4chan or Kiwi Farms will doxx you within an hour, & the next day you will have a thousand death threats in your mail box. This is not an exaggeration.
@@johnnevada46 Alabama has no shame. I'm fairly certain they don't understand the concept. We only just barely managed not to elect someone to the U.S. Senate that thinks the country was better off during the days of slavery. And that was after he had been removed from the state Supreme Court...twice!
@@LikaLaruku you post as though you have tested this theory. XD
talks about americans and shows a picture of kfc at town hall station in sydney australia lol
They have a habit of this, once was about America poisoning water, then cut to a picture that said Irish poison the water
Naybe Australian one is the one available
And its harder to not get copyright america or something
As an Englishman, this is why I love going to the USA. It's the closest you can get to visiting another planet. Just a very odd and surreal place. I love it.
Thats how I’ve always felt about England and the UK as a whole. I am glad not everywhere is the same.
I'm Canadian and yeah, can never figger out how how my neighbours (note spelt with a u) to the south became what they are
to be fair you actually didn't need a passport to get into canada or mexico until recently
That is true. I have a passport, and have traveled to Europe (I'll be there again in 6 or 8 months). But I used to go to Canada a lot, and didn't need a passport to do it. I think, if you've lived along the border of either of those countries, you probably went there in the days before passports became mandatory.
That said, I'm constantly frustrated by my fellow Americans and their lack of willingness to try new things and go new places. Travel overseas is expensive, but not so expensive that it can't be done with a bit of effort. And the rewards are fantastic.
You don't need a passport to travel anywhere within the EU and everyone in Europe's still got one.
I walk into Maine all the time, from New Hampshire, and that's probably farther than Europeans "traveling" in other countries. Seriously. The only difference is the type of boarder we cross more often. Compare the distances. Americans like common sense: we realize that we are in a country so big that it's not likely for us to trip into the next country without a passport- why bother buying something you don't need?
C Mutt agreed when I lived in texas the joke was you could drive 12 hours in any direction and still be in texas
Exactly - In going the length of California is a 12 hour journey at 70 miles per hour.
People always forget how much is costs to travel outside of the US. Most people here can’t afford to spend thousands on the plane tickets alone. So they choose to go to places within the US that are affordable and still offer a different experience than their home state. In Europe, you have more than two modes of travel and to go between most countries you don’t need visas, certain vaccinations, etc. that an American would need to go to the same places.
Actually it costs less to travel outside the US since the currency is worth more overseas just do not use a US airline.
US citizens don't need visas in most of Europe, nor vaccines -- at least none that they wouldn't need in the US (e.g., flu, and even that's not a regulation or enforced at the border). Russia does require a TB vaccine for some case (e.g., to use a public pool), and Russia certain requires visas of US nationals. But not the EU.
Yep! It's REALLY expensive to travel we can't afford that! Most of us would rather save up to buy a house.
ba sillah you dont buy your plane tickets or Hotel reservations outside the US. So it still costs far more.
You can look up the power of a passport of your country on the internet, you know?
With my german passport I can visit 161 countries without having to worry about a visa (but not to the US...). Even with a US passport you are still able to visit 158 countries visa-free.
And your country is connected to two other countries (Canada and Mexiko) and another continent with 13 different countries, so you wouldn't have to take a plane, let alone a US airline which are expensive af.
And in most of these countries the US-dollar is worth more than their currency, so...
And come on, vaccinations? I mean, I'm german, so I'm quite heavily vaccinated by default, but even I have to take a shot or two if I would like to travel to the tropics or east-asia.
Oh wait, there's the problem with your health-care costs... yeah, okay, vaccinations might be a factor.
How about skiing in Canada, then?
Hello, the state you highlighted was NJ not The District of Columbia. No biggie just wanted you to be aware :) Great video!
The first one had my dying #10😂😂😂😂
Funny fact about Americans not traveling abroad: Americans are notorious for not taking vacations. If you're lucky in the U.S. you might have two weeks of vacation a year, more often than not Americans have much much less or none at all. Add to that the cultural bit about Americans generally thinking that taking time off work is just plain lazy. I know, most other countries think that's crazy. The "lazy American" stereotype is kind of false, we tend to work more hours per employee than any other country and put significant social pressure on those that don't overwork.
This fact alone would be a jaw-dropper in the rest of the western world.
glenrkat yeah but Canadians generally get two weeks paid vacation time yet seem to do more travelling overseas
Interesting. Is that circumstance because americans have to work that much to be able to hold their life standarts? Or what is the cause of this non facation pressured workbehavior?
Derek Kent
Prisoners in the US aren't "essentially slaves," they are slaves, slavery was never outlawed in the US. The worst state to become a prisoner in the US is New Jersey, as it has debtor prisons, if you can't pay your debt there you become a slave for life without the possibility of a trial or parole once you're in.
Woman, the same all over the world.
To hear a Brit claim Americans make a sport out of getting drunk and starting bar fights is like hearing a dog say cats like to wag their tails.
I will definitely corroborate that. I live in London, UK. :-) + :-(
lol
I mean... I wouldn't say that he's wrong...
Hooligans
DroverChicago cats do wag their tails tho.... lol
One of my brothers bit his sibling in the hip for knocking over his tower made of blocks.
They start early, Simon.
What I find bizarre is, not that there's an official advice page for Elvis sightings, but that you can copyright your 'sighting'. How can you copyright an event? That makes no sense at all.
Americans don't get America, either.
An average American's day goes like this:
Morning: "WTF is happening now?!"
Afternoon: "WTF are they doing?!"
Evening: "WTF happened today?!"
Night: "WTF absurdities will I wake up to tomorrow??!"
The83rdTrombonist Preeeeeaach
The83rdTrombonist especially Florida
The83rdTrombonist we really don't understand America either
are saying Americans also don't understand America, I also met myself because I don't understand one quarter of what's going on in this country half of the time
and i thought i knew the west but after this
*_____*
I also have no passport so i've never been to another country but then I live in Australia and it's a long swim anywhere and i hate sharks so....I stay at home.
If I lived in Australia, I'd travel abroad just to get video games for $50 less.
Video games are region locked.
@@StreetPeter Most video games are region free or have that option, so you can just buy a cd key online and not spend the equivalence of 2 or 3 games on one game should you live in Australia. If you practice some sense while buying your cd keys you're unlikely to get scammed. Have bought a lot of games that way and I've yet to have my key revoked due to it being stolen etc.
We should take a bounty on you for downing on us I dare the first crazy one who reads this introduces him to American ways properly
watch out for those spiders
I got hit by a car and very literally "walked it off" Go America!
lol 😂That just reminded me of George Lopez lol 🤣
Victim of a hit and walk.
Happened to me in England. Got totaly smashed by a reckless driver, flew over the top of the car, ended up 10 metres away from where I was standing. Got up, walked away and got on with my life. A small scratch on my thumb. Driver sped off.
On why coaches are so highly paid: College football and basketball are INCREDIBLY lucrative moneymakers for colleges. It's actually incredible how popular they are, they're almost on the same level as the NFL and NBA. So, universities and colleges want to attract the best of the best coaches so their teams can win games and rake in the cash for their college.
About the passport thing. Australia has a larger desert taking up a large majority of land and way less in country tourist attractions compared to America. In country flights and trips also cost less then out of country trips. We also have a diverse amount of locations and environments in the US
Australia is geographically diverse the thing is Australians have weeks of paid vacation, they usually take small vacations in Australia for a few days a years but they take one big vacation abroad for a couple of weeks.
Shiva Richmond And Australia has an amazing diversity of fauna. Unfortunately, most of it is out to kill you. Except wombats, they’re really cool.
@@margueritejohnson6407 No, none of "it" is out to kill you, (apart from crocodiles in the very far north). Next you'll be spooking people with tales of the deadly drop bears!
@@deaddoll1361 stop joking about drop bears, my brother was nearly killed by one. Ended up in a wheelchair and got cancer.
@@deaddoll1361 I'm taking no chances. I smeared myself with Vegemite, pissed all over myself and my hair is full of forks. I'm working on the Aussie accent but it keeps morphing into Pakistani, for some reason.
Should be right.
(Especially since I live in England. Although everyone thinks I'm Welsh now).
Truly interesting. Just like to point out that the picture at 10:11, outside KFC, was taken in George St (near Bathurst St), Sydney, Australia.
Ohh snap! You got him
This whole video is pure pap
Shhhh! You'll burst his propaganda bubble.
@@AlanHernandez-jn2mp You seem to have missed the point specified in the title, "10 Facts about America..." The subject matter of the picture was purported to show violence in the United States, however, the image depicted actually took place in Australia. Check a map, Australia and the USA are quite some distance apart. Consequently, I believe that the use of this picture to support facts about the United States is somewhat questionable.
@@johnokjohn5922 I didnt miss your point because I never disputed it ... I'm talking to the bozo who said its propaganda
Regarding the rat issue - in over 50 years of living in America I've never even seen a rat and don't think I know anyone else who has either. New York has rats, but they are probably the exception across the whole country. Its pretty hard to have a statistic where rat bites are higher in many of the states where there are virtually no rats.
Also, the reason there is even enough funding to pay the coaches so much money is because it’s funded largely by donations/endowments and ticket sales. They are public employees but can nearly be treated as if they are not. Whole country has its priorities F’ed up. They donate more money to sports than to academics, the very reason universities exist.
So, in other words, massive cash goes to Universities.
do you mean that you don't really pay for the transport to hospital?
Sad enough.
Funfakt : Harvert and Princton (to lazy to google how they are written) just have a Name in the US. Elsewhere they are just seen as regular Universities. Degrees from there does not mean you are highter ranked... Elsewhere it just means you payed more money.
Only exeption i know is MIT
@@pt3800 Someone did a large survey and determined that students who did NOT get into Harvard (or the other elite names) they went on to do just as well as any Name Brand Grads.
So it seems a lot of that is a lot of 'branding' and name recognition but not as much meaningful difference in actual outcomes.
I'm an American, I was unaware of 8 out of 10 of these
Evilpimp Idiot.
John Saunders Why do you show so much distaste and plain bitterness to American citizens? Blame our government. Our “democracy” has been tainted by idiots like our current “president.”
Well now you know.
Living in America, I still am shocked to hear these 🤣😂
Usa mabaho bit uncalled for, hows he w communist
That’s because he is a liar.
As an American I can totally believe this list.
It's crazy out here, I promise you.
Stay vigilant.
Stay frosty.