I once had an American ask if I'd ever been outside of the UK... while we were both in Spain.
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
Жыл бұрын
LMAO
@Bear_the_shepherd
Жыл бұрын
Oh dear 😂
@winterbas8927
Жыл бұрын
Laugh or cry hmmmm, definitely laugh 😂🤣😂😆😅... Bah, not enough emojis
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
Жыл бұрын
@N7 🤣🤣🤣
@nothanks1239
Жыл бұрын
Haha! Brilliant 👏 👏
@RobertHeslop
Жыл бұрын
I'm British, and the dumbest thing an American has said to me was "oh wow, you have a great accent and speak English so well!" and I just looked at him as British as I could and went "I know. I'm British..." and he went "oh yeah, you guys also speak English" and I replied "we don't just speak it, we're the primary native country where it comes from", and OH MY LORD he said back looking so confused "I thought English was from Europe?" and I responded "That would be because the UK is in Europe... I'm European"
@dnen54
Жыл бұрын
And what he said 😂
@matth419
Жыл бұрын
You’re not European you’re English ! Good grief
@trueaussie9230
Жыл бұрын
How can you be British AND European AND speak English?! 😱😱 Oh dear. Information overload! Instant meltdown. 🤣🤣🤣
@nataliasalmanova6020
Жыл бұрын
Are you from UK or Great Britain? So confusing! 🤣
@wendykelly8551
Жыл бұрын
@@nataliasalmanova6020 England 😂..... shouldn't confuse them
@watkhuntfwudat6944
Жыл бұрын
I used to be a coach driver and I once heard an American ask a tour guide who was taking them to Fraser Island, "so does the water go all the way around the island?". The tour guide responded, "sir thats the definition of an island."
@debbietaylor5183
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@TuliusDestructivus
Жыл бұрын
🤣 but not the full definition, that would be: "all land surounded by water and smaller than australia"
@AliceEade-st2yc
2 ай бұрын
That's hilarious
@newprofilesowhat1339
Жыл бұрын
An American tourist in London once asked me where he could get tickets for the Titanic and when I told him he can't because it sank, he said "I meant the real one, not the one in the movie".....🤦♂️
@megz1direction
Жыл бұрын
No stop
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
Please tell me you're lying, please
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
@@breezy3392 I second your "Please" !!!!!
@blackcountryme
Жыл бұрын
Ahahahahah😂
@TGIF82
Жыл бұрын
😂😂killed it.
@janineadrianareguengagomez3708
Жыл бұрын
Mine is hilarious honestly, I am Mexican and I have living in Mexico city all my life. I had this online friend from California who i talked with frequently about fandoms and shows until we said about sending each other goodies and I said that if she'd be ok bc it can get expensive to her (I'm used to send packages a lot but was a first for her) and she didn't understand what I was telling and I was explaining that sending to another country was more expensive and took more time to arrive than to same country address, that they pass customs bla bla... But she didn't got it and asked "but what do you mean? New Mexico is in America" and I was in shock but understood the misunderstanding and said "no honey, I'm from Mexico, the country" and she wasn't catching it and was getting mad until she said "but you speak English so you live in America, is another Mexico in America that's not new Mexico?" Oh god, i was in shock! I was explaining her that English was my second language and I learned it in school, but i speak Spanish then she started to ask me if I was mocking her because why would I speak 2 languages and why English would be taught as a second language in school because it was always Spanish or french and i explained "we speak Spanish by default in Mexico, so we are taught English, is like reversed" and after like 1 hours of nonbeliving she just dropped it "but you are white! You can't speak Spanish! People will cancel you! Stop saying you are Mexican, they'll think you are racist" and i said "honey! You saying Mexicans are all browns and can only speak Spanish IS racist!" And she started to cry because she didn't wanted to say nothing racist and i had her all night explaining how the Spanish conquer brought to their colonies all sorts of mixed races and after WWII a bunch of refugees came too and also mixed with people living here so latin America is full of diversity from African, asian, native, Europeans, Arabics and more and more history. The next day she told me her mom said i was a gaslighting bitch and to never talk to her again bc Mexicans are all drug dealers and i was just trying to get her addicted xD
@boqndimitrov8693
Жыл бұрын
bottom line: don't deal with incorrigible idiots.
@filipasales9291
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
There's no cure for that kind of stupid, smh
@davidflores7181
Жыл бұрын
Ok, well, that one at the end.... wow
@redelfshotthefood8213
Жыл бұрын
Your friend is fitting better into the world than her mother. Hope for the future.
@rhiannonseabolt9340
Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in America: “What’s the dumbest thing a foreigner has ever said to you?” “This one girl told me It was Summer when it was Winter!” “An Italian tried to tell me the Mafia isn’t taking applications!” “One girl from Australia couldn’t even tell me WHERE in America Australia IS!”
@edwinvermeulen8187
10 ай бұрын
You really think they understand what foreigner means?
@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
7 ай бұрын
Yeah 😂😂😂
@janedaniel7288
Жыл бұрын
My husband and I was walking g around Florence in Italy looking a all the amazing architecture when these two American ladies behind us started saying "There is so much history here, I wonder if the pilgrim s came here before they came to the states!!!" my husband and I where literally crying with laughter. Keep them coming JT.
@hellen__1
Жыл бұрын
Omg 😂😂😂 from the Netherlands btw
@Swooshez90
Жыл бұрын
I was in Rome a few years ago visiting the Colosseum. There was a group of American tourists next to me, we were all looking at the Colosseum and I heard one of them say to the other "did these guys never finish building anything here?" 😩
@hellen__1
Жыл бұрын
@@Swooshez90 Hahaha. I gues
@themarbleking
Жыл бұрын
An American asked me where in Africa is Jamaica? I asked him where did he think Africa was. He said “Asia somewhere”. I said do you know how big Africa is?” He said “Is it bigger than Texas?” I asked him his job. He said he was a school teacher!!!
@tgdomnemo5052
Жыл бұрын
explains a lot 🤦🏼
@noraoros9974
Жыл бұрын
Not surprised
@PizzaLord
Жыл бұрын
I really hope he was the PE teacher
@GustavoSouza-gf6ty
Жыл бұрын
@@PizzaLord geography
@tinalettieri
Жыл бұрын
My head just exploded!
@lynnewebb4573
Жыл бұрын
I'm an Aussie who has lived in 5 countries (Canada twice). My accent is very mixed. While working in Canada, I once had an American tell me I'm a liar because he could tell a Columbus, Ohio, accent anywhere. He visited our office quite often and kept the argument going for months. I finally presented my passport but, unbelievably, he still wouldn't concede.
@melcarter4180
Жыл бұрын
I had the same thing happen to me. An American guy heard my accent (which is softer than my partner’s), asked where I was from, and then proceeded to tell me that there was no way I was from Australia, and told me that I was British. Like, ok. Sure. Guess I don’t know where I was born... silly me. 🙄
@corinna007
6 ай бұрын
On one of my trips to visit Finland, there was an Aussie couple on the same connecting flight as me. I guess they weren't quite sure what my accent was because the husband asked where I was from. I said Canada, and he said "That's why I asked. I didn't want to call you American by mistake." 😂
@vereybowring
Жыл бұрын
I worked in hospitality for many years and for about half of it we used to get coaches of USA tourists stay in our hotel. The thing that was so hard not to laugh at was just about every morning at breakfast some would be asking in serious tones "Do you fry your fried eggs ?". However there is a reason for this, the UK we use a shallow pan with oil to fry an egg where lots of these people have only ever had them "fried" on a hotplate with a little bit of oil sprayed on it so they keep thinking we're not serving them what they ask for. We had a manager that didn't believe us this happened. One day we were short staffed so he came in to help with breakfast and the very first table asked him this. He just threw the pad and pen in the air and walked away through the doors to the kitchen and burst out laughing. Note due to the coach departure times this was usually at 6AM sometimes even earlier so everyone is not running on full cylinders yet. Bonus story. Due to these coaches being run by a large specialist company there would occasionally be some Australians in the group. One evening we had poached salmon as a main course (the hotel is in my Scottish home town near the Spey River) and one table had an Australian couple and a USA couple. The American chap asked if the salmon was fresh. My reply was yes, the chef had been out with some hand grenades just that morning. The Australians were laughing their arses off while the Americans were deeply confused. Here's to the ancient Oz pastime of dynamite fishing ! ( I, like many, have Australian relatives).
@YezaOutcast
Жыл бұрын
as an american once said: "not all americans are stupid, but if we do it, we do it very well."
@MiroslavBegov
Жыл бұрын
Poor people.
@AlbertaGeek
Жыл бұрын
*_That's_* some good old fashion patriotism!
@kimberlyh.5023
11 ай бұрын
I thought that was said by the young Kenyan who was paired with the Haitian kid at School.
@amyw6808
Жыл бұрын
Recently had a conversation with a man on Facebook. He said that English should be called American because only people in Britain speak british English and everyone else speaks American English. An Australian, a Canadian, a South African and Singaporean person all backed me up to say that was a huge over generalisation and that most native speakers speak what is essentially more like British English. He wouldn’t back down. A German and a French person even tried to tell him that they learn both, and use British English for academic and business English, but he was adamant that we were wrong.
@Hiforest
Жыл бұрын
English is the dumbest language ever!! Just let the Americans have it and we can have something that makes more sense.
@akankshapatwari4167
Жыл бұрын
@TedbundyPlaysCallOfDuty I know. It is so illogical. The day changes , while the month and year remain constant for sometime. So why would I need to know the month first.
@vaudou74
Жыл бұрын
a french wil never back up a british but if they have an american in front of them.after that...truce is done and burried..
@lightfootpathfinder8218
Жыл бұрын
@N7 that gets to me aswell. It should be smallest to largest (day/month/year)
@cigmorfil4101
Жыл бұрын
@@lightfootpathfinder8218 or largest tp smallest (year-month-day) - in ISO format - as that way when sorting dates (as text) they are in chronological order
@ollivainikainen9388
Жыл бұрын
I've been asked by an American if we have polar bears in Finland. Just not to spoil a good story with real facts, I told him yes, but they normally eat penguins. He was happy with that answer.
@shantar
Жыл бұрын
This one I heard from a Colombian but I was asked if Finland was the country where it rains gypsum during winter. Now THAT would require some extra sisu :D
@Davemurray2880isaindian
Жыл бұрын
But you do have Polar bears
@Davemurray2880isaindian
Жыл бұрын
@@vesaseppala5260 I thought because the top of Finland is close to the Arctic circle I thought you "might" have them. We only have penguins
@Davemurray2880isaindian
Жыл бұрын
@@vesaseppala5260 cool. We're as hot as balls but have lots of penguins and seals, oddly enough it's because our sea water is very cold.
@ollivainikainen9388
Жыл бұрын
@@Davemurray2880isaindian Nope. The closest would be Svalbard, 500km. north from our north border.
@ZAmpedNZ
Жыл бұрын
I’m from New Zealand and was teaching in Fortworth for a week and someone asked where I was from so I told them... they then proceeded to speak horrendously broken Spanish to me... turns out they thought New Zealand was in South America, which I could overlook, NZ being a small island nation... however, when I corrected them they argued with me as if I didn’t know where my own country was 🤷🏽♂️
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
😭
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
@@misanthrophex Too complimentary.
@Davemurray2880isaindian
Жыл бұрын
You should have thrown some Te Reo at them Bro
@Carehuea
Жыл бұрын
“They argued with me…” That is SO American
@tomkeegan3782
Жыл бұрын
Definitely not a Rugby fan!!😁😁
@paulchilds1893
Жыл бұрын
When my wife and I were at the airport flying back from New York, we were getting some coffee and donuts. We casually mentioned to the person serving us that we were using up our dollars so we didn't have to exchange them when we got home. She was confused and asked "don't you use dollars in Britain?" This wouldn't have been such a big deal if she hadn't said she had a trip booked to London for her birthday that year.
@missnesi4525
Жыл бұрын
I’m not surprised because I ve seen Americans trying to pay with US dollars here in Europe
@micmac274
8 ай бұрын
@@missnesi4525 There's also the people who try and go to the Alaskan bureau de change when they're from Indiana or Florida. "we need alaskan money." There's a US flag on the Post Office, you think that would give it away.
@Basslessonsuk
Жыл бұрын
At a thanksgiving dinner in the US I was asked "do British people celebrate 4th July?" I replied "Yes, but we call it 'independence from the US day'". Looking at the mess your country is in, I think we dodged a bullet. No pun intended.
@lina9535
Ай бұрын
I had an American friend ask me that as well. I'm from Sweden. He was offended when I said no. Same thing happened with Thanksgiving (like, why would we celebrate it with some of the things that happened?) Then I turned it on him asking if he was gonna celebrate on June 6th (National Day of Sweden). He said no, obviously, so I got to act mock offended. At least he understood afterwards.
@jamesguy790
Жыл бұрын
My little story I have that can relate to this was when I was working in a Restaurant in Edinburgh (UK). American said "Your city is beautiful, There is one thing I don't get though..." I decided to play along "What is that then?" I ask. American "Well... I am an urban planner back home...So I have a bit of experience... but I really can't beleive that the urban planner in Edinburgh decided it was such a good idea to build the Castle right next to the train station." I opened my mouth to respond and decided to stay quiet and just walk away! Edinburgh Castle started to get built in around the 11th century.... 800-900 years ago! First passenger train.... 1825.... What came first then do you think!
@tgdomnemo5052
Жыл бұрын
Amercan responds Just a sec, i'll check on Google
@m0t0b33
Жыл бұрын
that explains why their infrastructure sucks then...
@hrma6313
Жыл бұрын
You should have told him : ' Why don't you ask the man himself, he's here every Thursday for a brew..'
@dilligaff1979
Жыл бұрын
I'm Australian btw. I remember when I was in high school we had American exchange students and they had no idea that milk comes from cows. Had one come up to me and ask if milk comes from cows then how do you get choc milk? I was like it's simple. We just feed them chocolate.
@jaiuchiha6191
Жыл бұрын
Lol yup I love spreading the false info myself, had an American man in his 50’s asked me if we have cars in Jamaica 🇯🇲 I told him no that we walk or ride donkeys lol I want him to got tell all his friends that until somebody who has some sense correct him.
@misslday9848
Жыл бұрын
Ha! I had the same thing I was asked if we had pet cheetahs, I said absolutely! Duh africa doesn't have cars 🙄
@clivenewman4810
Жыл бұрын
@@jaiuchiha6191 American ignorance, the gift that keeps on giving.
@graemejohnson9025
Жыл бұрын
nah mate, milk comes from cartons... oat milk, haven't found a a oat with tits yet? almond milk, do almonds breast feed?
@clivenewman4810
Жыл бұрын
I told an American that cricket was played on horseback.
@swrbassamp
Жыл бұрын
I'm Croatian, a lot of tourists come over through the summer. This didn't happen to me but to a friend who worked as a receptionist in a hotel. He got complaints from the guests at the hotel and some were really unbelievable, the funniest one was:"The sea is too cold here, what can you do about that?"
@tomkeegan3782
Жыл бұрын
Help global warming.... does that answer that?😁
@wfcoaker1398
Жыл бұрын
Canadian here. A friend owns a B and B. He had an American tiurist ask if they coupd turn down the noise of the ocean, it was keeping him awake.
@NessieNice
Жыл бұрын
An American tourist in Bali was staying in a very cheap local inn in a village area and complain about the neighborhood's roosters noises every morning (it's common for every house to own a rooster and several hens and chicks, sometimes even goats) to the point making a petition to the village leader to remove them 🤣 He only got warning despite the locals demand him to be deported tho. It's weird when not only a foreigner but a broke one as well thought they could demand the locals to change to accomodate for him and him alone
@bexanne99
Жыл бұрын
My best friend was Black Irish. I just want to let people know what that actually means, The term “black Irish” refers to persons of Irish descent who are supposed to be descendants of the Spanish Armada, which sailed around the middle of the 15th century, and had dark hair and or eyes. The term is used among people of Irish descent and sometimes confuses people since it doesn't refer to dark skin color.
@wfcoaker1398
Жыл бұрын
Do you use "saucy as a black" to refer to someone rude? Because "black" there is "black Protestant", so called because their Protestantism blackened their souls. Lol.
@trevormillar1576
Жыл бұрын
Samantha Mumba ("The Time Machine") has a Nigerian father and an Irish mother: she gas an Irish passport so she really is Black Irish.
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
@@wfcoaker1398 Didn't know that. (I'm 73 - still lots to learn, I see.)
@wfcoaker1398
Жыл бұрын
@@TREVASLARK I'm 60! At least, I've been around the sun 60 times, I guess. My knees and hips have kept the tally of those years, I've had better things to do.I don't know about you, but I think I'm 23 till I have to stand up or move and my knees and hips suddenly get old and grumpy! But it's actually been fun having hair the colour that invalidates your opinion. And it is soooo cool to be the quirky old guy who puts a smile on the faces of the young cashiers and waiters. I am an old antiKaren, and the garden in which I used to grow my "f÷^/s" has been paved over. It's amazing what you get away with when your hair is grey! Lol
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
@@wfcoaker1398 Really true !! - As an old(er) 😁- lady, I'm doing all sorts of things I would never have dared to do when younger. You wouldn't believe them if I told you ! Two days ago, my 30- year- old nephew asked me if I felt "young". And I said - "Yes, absolutely. I feel like I'm 20 all the time, except for when my medical problems flare up ." That's not a bad thing , is it ??
@rich_rich90
Жыл бұрын
I have an American aunt. Some of her acquaintances in Texas repeatedly stated I was a "communist" as I, a Brit, called our own NHS a great institution.
@keepdancingmaria
10 ай бұрын
It IS a great institution, and I hope you keep it.
@louisestevenson5102
8 ай бұрын
Thank god. Just yesterday an American man had a heart attack 1 week in hospital and his care $150,000 nope no way I don't have that kind of money thank god it's free in Australia
@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
7 ай бұрын
@@louisestevenson5102But it's not free to foreigners though unless they paid there one off payment
@Jill-mh2wn
6 ай бұрын
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Why should it be free to foreigners ? The money for the NHS comes from the taxpayer, that's why it's `free` to people of the UK.
@silviamunoz6863
27 күн бұрын
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13In Brazil, where I live (I'm Chilean), the public health system is free for locals and foreigners.
@goulash75
Жыл бұрын
I worked as a waiter at a resort in Australia. I was once asked where the sun came up, so I pointed over the hills and said, "Just over there." To which she responded, "But what direction is that?" When I lived in Edinburgh, one of my friends overheard some Americans expressing how thoughtful it was to build Edinburgh Castle so near the train station, so they didn't have to walk far to get to it!?!
@keepdancingmaria
10 ай бұрын
For some reason, your Edinburgh story reminded me of Eddie Izzard and his take on our (USA's) notion of history and time, "50 years ago! No One Was ALIVE Then!" hahahahaha! For the direction of where the sun rises story, I'm certain it is because so many of us don't understand how globes and hemispheres work, so everything is subject to being changed on us. Instead of us realizing that it is our motion relative to the sun's position that causes our difference in dates and seasons, AND keeps our directions the same, we'll think, "It's a different day, and a different season, so the directions are going to be different, too." As a USian, I apologize to the world.
@anyathepanther7977
10 ай бұрын
@@keepdancingmariaso you dont learn it in School? We in Germany have a Poem that every child knows! Im Osten geht die Sonne auf, im Süden nimmt sie ihren Lauf. Im Westen will sie untergehen, im Norden ist sie nie zu sehen. (The Sun rises in the East, travels through the South. She goes down in the West, you never see her in the North.)
@keepdancingmaria
10 ай бұрын
@@anyathepanther7977 I learned in school, but when I was in school, decades ago, teachers weren't afraid to teach science. Now, if they teach science in a school district that won't allow it, they can lose their jobs. Also, I don't know if students are learning what they are told. I'm not connected to current education. I want to add, that too many families are choosing to school at home, not to teach the children well, but to avoid the children learning facts that conflict with the parents' religion. We are a mess.
@tonycasey3183
Жыл бұрын
YThis is a very recent one - like last week. In an online discussion, a couple of the candidates were talking about visiting York - it's only about thirty or so miles from me. One guy said that York in the UK must have been named after New York in the USA. Everyone told him it was the other way around. Even when somebody showed him an article saying that York (UK) has been in existence since 71AD when no white person even knew that the American continent even existed. NOPE - he wasn't having it, even when someone explained that the clue was in the name "NEW" York as opposed to the original old York.
@nothanks1239
Жыл бұрын
It's one thing not knowing and being ignorant. It's a whole new level of stupid if you're literally shown the facts and still deny it. That must have been frustrating and hilarious.
@Overwijn01
Жыл бұрын
And to think that New York was once called New Amsterdam… that information must be even more difficult for this person… 😅🤣🤣
@MrScottev
Жыл бұрын
There's a place near me (NE UK) called New York, it's named after the American New York.
@tonycasey3183
Жыл бұрын
@@MrScottev I've heard of the New York in Lincs, near RAF Coningsby, but I didn't know there was one in the Northeast. Where is it, and how come it's named after NYC?
@MrScottev
Жыл бұрын
@@tonycasey3183 it's in North Tyneside and it had something to do with Britain taking control of New York.
@carinstrandenquist
Жыл бұрын
I am Swedish and lived in the US for 7 years. I could probably write a book about all the strange weird questions the the Americans asked me. Often it was about geography. Where is Sweden? It's in northern Europe. Once I got the question "where is Europe?" Another really stupid, in my mind, question that I got was "aren't you afraid to live so close to Russia?" I dragged that person to a large world map and pointed out where Alaska is and how really close it is to Russia from there! Do you celebrate 4th of July? Do you celebrate Thanksgiving? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I knew I would never let my son attend school there, sorry! At my work I constantly had to help my American born co-workers ask me how to spell and phrase letters.
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
Write the book. Make it a comedy. You'll make a small fortune 💸
@carinstrandenquist
Жыл бұрын
@@breezy3392 I proably would ha ha
@jackwaycombe
Жыл бұрын
Working with Scottish tourism years ago, I often simply gave up on Americans who simply couldn't grasp why Thanksgiving isn't celebrated in the UK. A common response was, "Why not? Don't you have any patriotism at all?!"
@Eden-nd7rg
Жыл бұрын
@@jackwaycombe patriotism 🤣🤣
@Eden-nd7rg
Жыл бұрын
but we can't deny the fact that they are by far the most entertaining people on earth. Whether its good or bad,they are so addictively entertaining.
@beauteoussounds1156
Жыл бұрын
I first questioned the quality of my daughter’s education when my brother told her he was moving to Pennsylvania and she excitedly responded, “Oooooh, vampires!” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@draculakickyourass
Жыл бұрын
me....laughing in transylvanian with the fangs out😆
@geraintwd
Жыл бұрын
Imagine if the two were actually transposed - Pennsylvania has vampires and Transylvania has... Tran State University????
@draculakickyourass
Жыл бұрын
@@geraintwd Actually there are some prestigious universtities in Trasylvania, in Cluj Napoca and Brasov
@geraintwd
Жыл бұрын
@@draculakickyourass for sure, and if Penn State wasn't immediately the first thing that popped into my head, that is associated with Pennsylvania, then I'd have used something other than educational institutions in my hypothetical foreign exchange scenario.
@tacfoley4443
Жыл бұрын
😁
@envy99976
Жыл бұрын
Im from the UK and spent year in New Zealand. Was working in a restaurant at the time and some American woman noticed my accent and asked ‘ Are you from England?’ Yes I said. To which she replied ‘OMG can you speak some English?’ 😶🤣🤣
@Connor6569
Жыл бұрын
You were being trolled
@jdogg448
Жыл бұрын
Crikey old chum I ain't got time got me fish and chips to scran.
@Kref3
Жыл бұрын
1:35 oh yes, I have seen that coming. I‘m German and I work for a big German company as a commissioning engineer and installation supervisor. We installed a lot of our stuff in the USA and I never had a problem with people understanding that I am German. They always were really nice: „Oh, I am German, too….“ - „Ach echt? Wo kommst Du her?“ - „ Nononono… I don‘t speak German, but my Greatgrandfather came from there.“ - „Ah, ok.“ After some time another German colleague came to site. He was born as a German citizen in Duisburg, grew up and lived there all his life, married a nice (and actually blond) German girl. But coincidentally his parents had immigrated to Germany from Vietnam 15 years or so before his birth. He cannot even speak Vietnamese well. People on site were really nice to him at first. Then they asked him, where he was from. His reply „I‘m German“ really confused them completely. An American can have German roots or Vietnamese roots, they would not have cared at all, both would have been fine for them. But a German having Vietnamese roots? no, that cannot be. I realized that to most Americans American is the only nationality they really understand, everything els is not really a nationality, but an origin. A Vietnamese American, now that they can cope with. But a Vietnamese German somehow challenges their reception of reality and they go into immediate denial. As if they had seen a 9 ft tall werewolf (2.75 m for the rest of the world).
@vanessagilbert5235
Жыл бұрын
My husband (British) travelled to the USA often for work. One evening he was chatting to a supermarket cashier as she heard his accent. When he came to pay in cash, she was astounded that the UK also had the dollar! She then said that she wanted to travel around all the European states like London, Paris, Barcelona, Rome, etc. He patiently explained that they were all different countries with different languages, cultures, history. I'm not sure what she imagined.
@LAGoodz
Жыл бұрын
As a Brit for me. In Cancun, I politely chatted to a drunk Texan man in the hotel pool. He could not believe I could fly to Mexico. He started shouting to his family “guys, this guys from England, can you believe that?” Same holiday, I was talking to my friend in the hotel reception and an American couple asked each other “what language are these guys speaking?”. I politely turn round and said “English”. At work my US colleagues often ask what I’m doing for July 4th. 😂
@Hiforest
Жыл бұрын
A divorce party maybe? I mean, if you wanted an excuse for a party! Haha
@chriskelly9476
Жыл бұрын
When I lived in the US (I'm Australian) some of my colleagues were amazed to hear that we didn't celebrate the 4th of July in Australia. Why would Australians celebrate it? It has nothing to do with us 😂😂
@LAGoodz
Жыл бұрын
@@chriskelly9476 Chris, mate - I get this every year, it’s July 4th. God kill me America, just please. T
@iriscollins7583
Жыл бұрын
If I was asked,,doI celebrate the 4 th of July, I would reply, Definately. 🙄😂
@cigmorfil4101
Жыл бұрын
As them what they're doing on 5th November.
@oddpoppetesq.3467
Жыл бұрын
The dumbest thing an American said to me was along the lines of .... 'what religion are you?' I merely told them I am a Muslim, to which they replied 'but your from Wales and you're white' so I asked them back what's your religion and they said Roman Catholic, so I merely replied 'But you're not from Rome so you can't be a Roman catholic'...... That Uno reverse spun them right out 😁😂😂
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
Did they actually get the point you were making?
@oddpoppetesq.3467
Жыл бұрын
@@breezy3392 Yeah they did surprisingly. I still chat with them online to this day, we are actually quite good friends now 🙂
@geraintwd
Жыл бұрын
Surprised they knew that Wales is a country.
@oddpoppetesq.3467
Жыл бұрын
@@geraintwd they may have only known about Wales caus they knew me 🤣🤣🤣
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
My compliments !
@Ubercut
Жыл бұрын
There's a lot to choose from. I am from Norway, and spent a year as an exchange student in Oklahoma. For some reason, several of my classmates wondered if we had electricity and running water. Most thought Norway was located in one state or another, mostly Texas for some reason. When I tried to explain, Scandinavia was a dead end, but most people knew Sweden. So from then on I was Swedish. Which is a deadly insult to a Norwegian (not really, but also kinda). Some wondered if we had polar bears roaming the streets and if it was dangerous to be outside because of that. One person actually knew about Norway, which was a pleasant surprise, but almost immediately asked if we still went on Viking raids?! I mean, I'm happy you know about Norway, but that was almost 1000 years ago.
@jimrodda
Жыл бұрын
I was working with an American carpenter in the 70s he asked me to cut a piece of wood two eights shorter I returned and said " I have cut a quarter of an inch off " and he replied " I said two eights " 🤣🤣🤣
@keithtaylor3347
Жыл бұрын
Yes, but you forget that in America "two eighths" is "one sixteenth", so you cut it three sixteenths too long - or something.
@themoviedealers
Жыл бұрын
@@keithtaylor3347 two eighths is four sixteenths dummy
@markbernier8434
Жыл бұрын
I'll admit you had me going there for a minute. I often work with rough milled lumber that comes in thicknesses such as five quarter or nine quarter so you can finish them into 1" or 2" thick, so being told to take off 2/8ths I would have planed an 1/8 from each side.
@dotconnector76
Жыл бұрын
During government class in high school in Merica, we were divided into groups based on which political candidate we supported. One group came up with a solution to the National Debt. They said a certain billionaire candidate should donate his billions to completely pay off the national debt. I tried to explain to the group that the National Debt was in the trillions, and billions would not cover the National Debt, but they couldn't understand it, no matter how many times I explained it. The teacher didn't understand it either, or was happy to let me explain it. It was a "National School of Excellence". I'd hate to see the other schools that weren't "Excellent".
@davidareeves
Жыл бұрын
So being an Aussie myself, the temptation of replying with, "I drove here, why I had to fill her up", would have been too much for me to hold back ;)
@carlgharis7948
Жыл бұрын
Ya. I was thinking even IF they could somehow build such a bridge spinning Australia with the U.S. you could only drive a fraction of the length of it before running out of fule.
@turquoisebubbles2042
Жыл бұрын
Lol I’d of said I drove … absolutely
@sofiaronnback5861
Жыл бұрын
I once witnessed an American student trying to convince our professor in international law that U.S laws was applicable in other countries because they had been "voted for in Congress." How can you study at a university, in a class named International law, in a foreign country and believe this? He couldn't accept being wrong either.
@tummytub1161
Жыл бұрын
I really love these dumb American videos. I'm from the Netherlands and had an American tourist ask me why nobody was wearing wooden shoes. I told him we only wear them on workdays. I just love the stupidity gullibility combination 😂
@Roth2775
Жыл бұрын
yeah...same here in germany....every US tourist wonders why nobody is wearing Dirndl and Lederhosen ...like Germany is everywhere like Bavaria.
@conspiracypanda1200
Жыл бұрын
A good 1/4th of Australian culture is just lying to tourists and gullible outsiders about our country. But 3/4ths of said tourists and gullible outsiders are USAmericans. We love those research-averse idiots.
@hellen__1
Жыл бұрын
Geweldig 😅😅 They still think we live in the 1800
@someguy2744
Жыл бұрын
Wodden shoes aka Clogs 🤓 The wikipedia page gives "Klompen" as an example of clogs. Clog as a word has other meanings: 1) impediment/encumbrance 2) block
@Goursome
Жыл бұрын
Nooo, that's just ignorance! You didn't have to do them like that 😢
@Kirkland-rv5jf
Жыл бұрын
I was at EPCOT, in the Japanese department store. You were able to buy a pearl, taken directly out of an oyster. A whole room full of people watched a short ceremony. The employee opened the oyster and showed everyone watching the pearl inside. An American woman was totally shocked by this. She asked "if that it hurt the oyster?" The employee explained to her that this actually killed the oyster. The woman then demanded that they "restart its brain or something!?"
@AnnaRamstrom
Жыл бұрын
😂
@hungariangiraffe6361
Жыл бұрын
I mean, at least she was emphatetic and not rude.
@Kirkland-rv5jf
Жыл бұрын
@@hungariangiraffe6361 At a risk of sounding incredibly racist, the Japanese department store was, immaculate, quiet and calm. The American woman, was not! She literally shouted her questions aggressively!!! Do you take your name from the Giraffe's you can feed at Budapest Zoo? its been a while since I have been. Maybe 6 years?
@hungariangiraffe6361
Жыл бұрын
@@Kirkland-rv5jf oh, so she wasn't that nice. I expected too much from someone who didn't know that this will kill the oyster and thought it has a brain. Btw no, giraffe was pretty much the totem animal of our class in 7th and 8th grade and I'm Hungarian, that's why I've picked this name. Did you like Budapest?
@Kirkland-rv5jf
Жыл бұрын
@@hungariangiraffe6361 I love Budapest! I have visited it 8 times from England! My wife and I would visit the zoo and then go to the baths!! It doesn't get better than that! :-)
@alisonbowie4264
Жыл бұрын
So, I am from Canada. I did my master's degree in the US. In preparation to move, I thought I should find out if there was any paperwork I needed to have for my cat, as he was coming with me. I thought I'd call the ASPCA to find out since they might know or be able to point me in the right direction. The woman on the phone told me I didn't need any paperwork as I was moving INTERSTATE. I had to then explain to her that Canada was, in fact, its own country.
@scousemouse9715
Жыл бұрын
Me and my partner were camping in North Wales. One night were in a local pub were we got taking to an American couple. The woman asked why the Welsh language was mainly composed of consonants. I told her that hundreds of years ago there was a war between the Welsh and the Irish, in which the Irish were beating the Welsh. As a compromise the Welsh agreed that the Irish could have most of their vowels. Her response was ' That's amazing,
@deepti1709
Жыл бұрын
@MadDog23236
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@bramvanduijn8086
Жыл бұрын
That's my head canon now.
@vincentlevarrick6557
Жыл бұрын
This is Aussie level shit-stirring and I am here for it.
@chrissiemacalister6835
Жыл бұрын
God, I love it!
@dianedee7919
Жыл бұрын
My first encounter with Americans happened when I was about 10 years old. I was picking wild strawberries near the highway, not far from home, when a camper stopped and a teenage boy walked up to me and asked where all the snow and igloos are. I must have had a very confused look on my face, and I told him to keep driving north. He told me his family is from US. It was summer in Nova Scotia.
@keepdancingmaria
10 ай бұрын
You mean the US--Canadian border doesn't change the climate? Hahahaha.
@rogerroberts5167
Жыл бұрын
In an elevator in Las Vegas, my wife and I were talking when a man interrupted us to tell us how he loved the English accent. I said to him that I liked his accent too. He replied that he did not have an accent because he was from Chicago.
@dazza501wgt9
Жыл бұрын
I'm from the UK and while i was in Florida an American told me he had an aunt who lived in Italy and then said her name and asked if i knew her. He looked at me strange when i said Italy was a 4 hour flight away from where i live.
@metalnerd1979
Жыл бұрын
im from germany. a friend of mine worked for 3 years in the us and came back married with a child. i have talked to his wife a lot. and she is sometimes a little naive. but she realized for herself, that it was stupid, when in school, she and most of her friends all thought "why should i learn this? it doesnt concern me..." while sitting in school during history/geography/etc classes. and she said, in hindsight, she should have learned. but while growing up in the us, it just didnt matter...
@clairewillgress2221
Жыл бұрын
I live in London and I am on a few London travel tips pages as I am happy to help people navigate our public transport and generally assist, a lot of Americans come on looking for help or offering advice after their visit, most are not dumb but more than once an American has posted their summary tips including not to worry about the language barrier, everyone speaks English!
@redelfshotthefood8213
Жыл бұрын
Lol. In 🇨🇦 I’m used to multiple bus routes sharing the same stop. Fighting jet lag, I was not able to bend my mind around multiple train routes using the same stop. In the rush to get on a train before it leaves the station I have accidentally taken an express train to the airport. And in the underground, took a train on the wrong colour line to a different section of London entirely. Jet lag scrambles brains. So even crossing at traffic lights can be dangerous for a Canadian in the UK. (The red don’t walk symbol is a person... but the red degrading to a washed-out muddy red made me think the light was white with rust stains... so I thought it was saying walk instead of don’t walk. Fortunately the drivers refrained from mowing me down. (Fast drivers in Glasgow or Edinburgh. I can’t recall which city.) We all can have moments of stupidity... but more so when 8 time zones (or more) have been crossed. Which is why tourists are often targeted by criminals. Vulnerability.
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. You've given me some respite from my depression over American stupidity.
@aprildudko3981
Жыл бұрын
Oh dear Lord. As an American may I say that not all of us are that stupid. A great many of us do pay attention, know our geography, are thoughtful and polite. Sorry world, you've seen the worst of us.
@noteanotell937
Жыл бұрын
Take comfort in the only reason it's allowed is because you're American you can take it. It's not considered punching down. So in a way it's a compliment, some of the nations out there you can't even mimic the accent.
@patrickalford1278
7 ай бұрын
You ain't seen nothing yet if a certain character gets back in office.
@chrisjackson9978
Жыл бұрын
Story I saw on Facebook by a friend within the past 2 days from Ireland. There were two American tourists on a local service bus, when a group of Spanish children got on the bus. Of course the children were boisterous and loudly talking away in Spanish. One of the Americans piped up and loudly commented they love to hear the local children talking Gaelic.
@thesloaneranger1
Жыл бұрын
I remember speaking to some locals in a non-touristy bar in NYC around 15 years ago, and one of them was amazed that we had the internet in Scotland.... and another was annoyed that I didnt know his Aunt as she was from Scotland too! That one night taught me all I needed to know about the American education system lol! I have been to the states many times, but those guys will live long in the memory lol!
@paulsharp8359
Жыл бұрын
we have some people like the aunt one in the UK i was in the army in the REME which at the time was 16,000 strong and a lady asked if i knew her nephew as he was in the REME also.
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
Ask them if they know some random relative of yours living in whatever state they're from, and then get huffy when they say no. Maybe it will sink in ... or maybe not
@redelfshotthefood8213
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been on both sides of this. I’ve had people ask me if I know 1 specific individual of the 33M people in my country. I’ve also asked people if they know someone I know from their country too... because the coolness factor of unlikely connections overwhelmed me emotionally. So. Now I get the attempt to connect with someone you like can make you foolish.
@the98themperoroftheholybri33
Жыл бұрын
"do you have cows in the UK?" While next to a field in England full of cows. I just replied "no"
@hrvojebutkovic
Жыл бұрын
Mad cow disease got them all.
@joosyjulie
Жыл бұрын
Should have replied, no, but we have these great short necked giraffes and pointed to the cows.
@BobTheBorracho
Жыл бұрын
I had a yank try to celebrate the 4th of July with me in a pub in Southern England. That turned out to be "popular" with the locals in the pub, considering just what and who he was trying to celebrate independance from. Sometimes, it is not just the lack of education - sometimes it is the complete arrogance that gets under people's skin. I might do him a favour and go to his hometown and suggest in his local bar that we celebrate the victory in Vietnam or something. Whilst i don't begrudge the USA it's identity and national pride - it would be nice if US citizens recognised other people's as well.
@keepdancingmaria
10 ай бұрын
I believe a lot of them think they are recognizing other people's identity and national pride, because they think it is the same. Their identity is the identity of everyone. Their holidays are celebrated everywhere... It isn't true, of course, but they think it is. They live in that kind of bubble.
@knowEyeDeer
Жыл бұрын
I've had two American experiences that couldn't be more different. I served in the AU military and spent some time with USAF - those guys couldn't get over the amount of training and knowledge we had. After the military I went to university, (UQ St Lucia campus) and met the USAF counterparts who were intelligent. It depends on the individual, not all Americans are idiots however the majority of the ones I have spent significant amounts of time with generally were. That's why they get a bad name, the dummies out-number the smart ones.
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@PolarBear4
Жыл бұрын
To make you feel better, it's not just Americans! I was in Canada (Toronto) on holiday when I was 16, went to buy something and didn't hear what the lady on the stall said so said "Sorry, I didn't hear you, can you say that again please? (or words to that effect)". She then said "Oh, you don't speak English" and looked away from me. I am English. I know I'm from Newcastle so have a bit of a Geordie accent (mine is pretty mild compared to most from the area) so it's a bit harder to understand but it took me about a minute to convince her I spoke perfectly good English as I'm from there. She did look suitably horrified once she realised her mistake. It was pretty funny at the time as nobody else had had any problems with my accent.
@helens3693
Жыл бұрын
I was once in a meeting with an American on the phone and many other nationalities in the room. The American could understand the Polish, Glaswegian, Dutch, Spanish and German. But she never got a single word I said. I'm Geordie but have quite a mild accent. When I kept speaking clearer and louder she still didn't get any of it, but all of my colleagues were just sitting in stunned silence.
@lordpuppyrd7989
Жыл бұрын
The truth is she probably couldn't understand you and assumed that English was not your native language lol.
@alosialee
Жыл бұрын
The girl from Spain had me. "Like honey... We are the colonizers..." Spanish inquisition anyone? "Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope..."
@NickHunter
Жыл бұрын
poke her with the soft cushions!
@darleneblakely7726
Жыл бұрын
My husband was in the US Army and we were in Germany. I learned to count to 10 and a courtesy phrases. I could point out and tell them how many. If it got too complicated they would switch to English. Some other Americans kept saying but they speak English! True but we are in THEIR country. Be polite!
@kariissmol9172
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for trying to learn our complicated ass language!
@kariissmol9172
Жыл бұрын
@Anthony ih I wish I was there
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609
Жыл бұрын
@@kariissmol9172 It IS a complicated ass language. I happily (or stupidly) speak "German" despite having had only one lesson (the French teacher was ill, so I went to German class instead). I once tried to tell a story beginning with my mother (who spoke German like a German and also Dutch, and to whose chagrin I never learned German; however, whenever I said something smart, she said: "Das hat schon Goethe gesagt.") standing outside her workplace waiting for the bus. I have learned from reading German texts (I am Swedish, so I actually get some of what I read) that Betrieb can mean some kind of business, so I said: Meine Mutter war ausser Betrieb. (Hysterical laughter ensued.) You can't blame a girl for trying!
@neddyseagoon9601
Жыл бұрын
Even at 4 years old I learned basic German phrases and my address and my Sergeant dad's contact number on base. Most of us did. Our parents did even more. They claimed it was basic decency. Although some families didn't bother, to their own loss and often urgent difficulties too. Even now 59 years later I can tell when English subtitles say something subtly different on German movies and TV dramas.
@neddyseagoon9601
Жыл бұрын
@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609In Bulgarian I tried to talk about a dog and kept mispronouncing the word, without realising that my constant referral, (in the crude vernacular), to prostitutes was causing the tears and hilarious head shaking going on around me. But my attempts at pigeon Bulgarian always won me friends there.
@sueKay
Жыл бұрын
I'm Scottish and can relate to that Inverness guy in the video so much. I used to work in tourism, so I've got a ton stories, but these ones stick out: I live on a loch (a lake), and was asked what time the tide went out at... I had a guy who wanted to do the whole of Scotland as a daytrip and flipped his lid when I told him he couldn't. Like Scotland is small, but it's not that small! This guy comes in and asks me if I know Ian from Inverness (it's a city about 4 hours away, I know no-one there). I replied "no, I don't know anyone called Ian who lives there", "are you sure?", "yes", "but it's a small country", "yes but I don't really know anyone up that way", "I think you're lying, Sure you know him", "no". Then he lost his temper. Also had someone claim I wasn't Scottish because when he asked me to tell him the story of his clan, I didn't know it off the top of my head...
@evelynwilson1566
Жыл бұрын
I used to work in the tourist trade in Stirling and one question I always got was ' I want to go to the Highlands this afternoon, what's the best way?'. To which the only sensible answer is 'The Trossachs are nearby but it'll take you a little longer to get to Caithness....'Plus, 'you know we're related to Robert the Bruce, our surname is Bruce.' Good luck proving that one😃. Saying that, when my sister lived in London she was often asked where she came from. She'd reply 'Alloa' and the Londoner would say 'oh, you're Hawaiian then?' (usually when they were drinking in a pub owned by the Alloa Brewery Company with the words 'An Alloa Pub' on the shingle😂).
@heldertorres4296
Жыл бұрын
The most dumb thing an american said in front of me , was not having her passport with her on the border between switzerland and france and instead to apologise she actually shouted and said "im am american" well you can imagine where she ended
@muddlepond
Жыл бұрын
I was in a petrol station somewhere in Illinois when I asked if I filled up then paid or paid before I filled up. There was a woman with a child in the queue who was still there when I came back in to pay. I heard the little girl say to her mum, "I think that lady is English but she doesn't speak like us" Her mother replied, "they don't speak proper English in England like we do!". I had to remind her that they spoke our language and not the other way round.
@tinyvanuffelen7918
Жыл бұрын
The little girl smart !
@csanadmate-fesus4020
Жыл бұрын
Bruuuuh 😂
@UFO-047
Жыл бұрын
Dont worry, you don't speak 'proper english' in Australia either.
@christinafotopoulou8524
Жыл бұрын
Do they speak English in the US?I don't think so!😂😂😂
@Blue_3rd
Жыл бұрын
An American university student asked my friend where he’s from (he’s Spanish). When he said he was Spanish, the guy said ‘yeah, I know, but what country are you from’? My friend repeated he was Spanish a couple more times and the guy got really angry and asked if he was from Mexico. My friend then told him he was from Spain and the guy had no clue that Spain was a country or where it was.
@t.a.k.palfrey3882
Жыл бұрын
Whilst living in the US, my oldest children were attending schools inside the Beltway from Mon to Fri. The first weekend home at our house in VA, my son told me some younger bugs at his school were surprised he spoke English so well. Did he speak any other languages in addition to English and British? When he told them he also spoke Kiswahili and Kibukusu, they insisted he'd made up those words! He was 9 at the time, which suggests the bugs (first years) were probably eight.
@myopicautisticmetal9035
Жыл бұрын
in the U.S. 8 year olds are usually in grade 3.
@t.a.k.palfrey3882
Жыл бұрын
@@myopicautisticmetal9035 When I referred to the 8 yr olds being first years, it was because the school he attended only accepted pupils from the age of 8 in junior prep boarding. At 9, my son was enrolled in grade 5, as schools in our home country begin at 5.
@bills7595
Жыл бұрын
Just shows how dumb they are
@bernadettelanders7306
Жыл бұрын
I’m Australian and have had wonderful online American friends for many years who have never asked me one dumb question. We ask for translation for different terminology or different objects etc and usually crack up laughing in friendship. I’ve made friends with her family and friends, all lovely people and they’ve made friends with my family and friends. I told her to swim on over for a cuppa the other day lol, she lol’d and said, “on my way” lol. We’ve spoken on the phone but now use messenger to send voice msgs. I love hearing her accent, she likes mine. I keep telling her, I don’t have an accent, you do lol. We are still learning things about each other’s countries only when they come up in conversation. We’ve watched each other’s children grow up. My daughter went to USA re work many times over the years, I have about 15 or so key rings from many states in USA. My daughter missed her every time she went as both not being free re weddings, holidays and work. Will we ever meet - who knows, hopefully 😊
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
In really, really hope you do.
@helterskelter2020
Жыл бұрын
I got my American sister-in-law an expensive silk sari as a wedding gift. She liked it a lot and wore it for her after-wedding party, receiving many compliments from her family and friends. Only her eldest brother didn't look too happy. Later he came to me and asked if I or my family expected his sister to dress in traditional Indian dresses after the wedding. I was tempted to pull his leg; with a straight face I said it was up to her to decide. Mind you, this happened in St Louis, Missouri. What is funnier is that another brother and sister-in-law as well as a cousin were guests at the wedding and both the ladies were wearing very elegant and formal Western outfits.
@SchnuffiJames
Жыл бұрын
I am Canadian and over 60 years old I lived 2 km from the US border. So this happened a long time ago. I was stopped by an American on a July day when I was about 10 years old. Walking home barefoot from the swimming pool it was about 25°C ( 77°F ) asking me and my friends where the snow was. We just started laughing you should have seen the expression of his kids in back seat as to say our parents are idiots. I later thought it was funny that he had no snow tires and it was good that it wasn't snowing.
@alansmithee8831
Жыл бұрын
@Rick Hawkins. I am English, but came to Thunder Bay from US as spring started. The snow disappeared and within a week it was hot, like summer in UK. The strange thing was that you could kick away the topsoil and it was still like ice underneath, though it seemed too far south for permafrost. On spotting a massive bear, we English jumped straight into the car. Our Canadian host was unconcerned, stating they had them regularly on the family farm as kids. She had previously visited us in UK at Christmas and could not believe just how far north we were, it being dark so early and not light until late. My relatives used to live near Windsor and work in US. They moved to Vancouver, but when I arrived there, they had just moved up the coast. I found I only just missed them, on my tour of North America, when one later phoned to see how my parents were doing. That city is beautiful and I would not have moved from it, being from a city myself. My timing did seem right though, as I caught someone on roller blades, who was overwise heading for a long fall from a path in Stanley Park.
@heonieluvr6781
Жыл бұрын
so many stories of Americans driving over the border with ski racks looking for the snow.
@martinemartin4779
Жыл бұрын
Lol I'm from New Zealand and I met an American once who thought that the English language originated in the US and that missionaries had gone to the UK to teach them English!
@countzero1136
Жыл бұрын
I'm British, living in the UK and we've long had the term "stupid Americans" that we occasionally use to mock the US education system. Having said that, I know quite a lot of Americans and, on the whole, I don't find them to be dumb - most are pretty smart and well-informed, but when I do actually encounter a stupid one, I think it's fair to say that they take their stupidity to a completely new level. I'm sure that the fault lies with the education system over there, which seems to be constantly failing. That's not to say that ours doesn't have serious problems of course, but in general, our system is geared to teach kids in a way that inspires them to want to learn things for themselves. There's too many people (not just Americans) that have no willingness to learn anything after they leave school, yet learning is a lifelong endeavour - I'm 60 years old and I learn new things every single day because I've always been a curious person that wants to know things. I was lucky that my parents taught me a ton of stuff - even before I went to school I could read and write and do basic maths... Unfortunately, too many of today's kids are content to pass the time on social media rather than actually go outside and see what wonders the world can offer to those who are willing to find out about stuff. Add to that the proven fact that dumb people tend to have more kids than the well-educated ones, we're in serious danger of breeding intelligence out of the human species, and that holds true worldwide, not ust in America :(
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
Great comment, and amen ! (An old American.)
@etherealbolweevil6268
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. I have just learned that Australia is in Texas or something. I do feel safer for no real reason.
@rbarnett3200
Жыл бұрын
oh the irony...
@andrewcallaghan5044
Жыл бұрын
While in the line for pirate of the Caribbean in Disney Florida. My family were in the line shuffling through the dark passageway. We ended up chatting to the family in-front of us due to them hearing our accents. We explained that we live just outside Glasgow Scotland. Now given the fact we were on holiday having shorts and T shirts on the next thing we were asked was “do you like were kilts all the time”!!! They were so serious After explaining to them that kilts are classed as formal clothing, something you were to a wedding, funeral, international rugby/football game ect it’s not a day to day form of clothing. When I said that it’s heavy, I could not were it in the summer especially in Florida they got the message lol
@40_yutakajoshua70
Жыл бұрын
To be fair that doesn't sound that dumb, i mean it was a pretty innocent question but they could phrase it better
@maria_2350
Жыл бұрын
I once went to America for a job thing (I am from Greece) and I rented a car to move around. So there was this "all American girl" co-worker who, I personally think, is straight up stupid. So this one time she sees me get out of my rented car and she comes up to me all happy and giggly and the conversation went something like this 👇 Her: OMG good morning Me: hey, good morning Her: how do you feel? Me: emmmm... Fine?... You? Her : aren't you excited you get to use a car? Me: wdym? Her: I bet it was the first time you get to use one!!! Me: no, I have one of my own back home... Her(IN SHOCK) : WHAT? Me: Yeah... Her: I thought you went around on donkeys. I just laughed it of... And left... I couldn't do anything else other than laugh.
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609
Жыл бұрын
I would be more excited to get to ride a donkey. Much more exotic. Besides, they seem charming.
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
I would have indirectly called her a moron by questioning her about the origin of cars, etc. until she hopefully realized how stupid she was. I am not putting this one as ignorant. It's just stupid
@MiroslavBegov
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha ha ha. This is good one.
@user_you2
Жыл бұрын
Stupidity is not a crime, so you are free to go😂
@jubmelahtes
Жыл бұрын
In the tourism industry in Northern Norway one of the most common question Americans ask is If the midnight sun is a different sun revolving around the Arctic There you can see the northern lights during the summer Where are the polar bears
@rumbarrels1183
Жыл бұрын
Had an American ask where I was from and I said England and they asked whereabouts so I said "Liverpool, well, technically a town just over the river from Liverpool but yeah" they replied "So you're from Ireland?" and when I tried to explain that I was not from Ireland they would not believe me.
@SchnuffiJames
Жыл бұрын
So you must know the Beatles right 😀😀
@geoffpriestley7001
Жыл бұрын
Do you know cilla 😁
@steevenfrost
Жыл бұрын
I-m from Liverpool and everyone knows it's the capital of Ireland!
@alansmithee8831
Жыл бұрын
@RumBarrels. I get replies on comments from a chap not far from Bromborough, who just happens to be Irish and watches the same channels as me on KZitem. I know the town from both a pal at university and also someone on my course there. When a friend and I toured US we had to disappoint several proud Irish Americans who mistook us for Irish and could understand we were English, having heard us speaking with Yorkshire accents. Mind you, the lad on my course who was from Bromborough heard me and another lad on our course speaking in dialect and declared "don't you talk funny!" in high pitched Wirral with "talk" emphasised and ending trebble "h".
@geoffpriestley7001
Жыл бұрын
@@alansmithee8831 could be worse im from Yorkshire they thought i was Scottish. I had to explain how generous the yorkshire people are
@TheGennen
Жыл бұрын
My favourite one was when I told someone I was from New Zealand and they responded confidently that they knew exactly where that was: It's a little island connected to Australia via the Sydney Harbour Bridge. 🙄
@andreajames7096
Жыл бұрын
I had an American once ask how long is the bridge, thinking she meant the Harbour bridge. Nope, she wanted to know how long the bridge was between Australia and New Zealand!!
@kathydurow6814
Жыл бұрын
Shorter than the bridge between LA & Honolulu.
@TheWctman
Жыл бұрын
I'm from Alberta, Canada and our immediate southern neighbour is Montana, USA.. While in china, I met a young guy who said he was from Montana. I said hey, great, I'm from Alberta and he looked at me and honest to god asked "where's that?"
@cgluck
Жыл бұрын
As a Winnipeg Canadian, I have to give a shout out to WDAZ/Y from Grand Forks, Fargo. They are on our cable feed. And when it comes to the weather, they often mention Winnipeg, and even Regina, Well, we share common weather. But their coverage does not always end at the US/Canada border. I have to imagine Detroit/Windsor is the same.
@mojobag01
Жыл бұрын
"...and then she calls me a terrorist!" is such a good line.
@NeilJR
Жыл бұрын
When explaining to an American that when it was winter in the USA, it’s summer in Australia he couldn’t understand why we didn’t change the names of the months.😳
@paulcullen814
Жыл бұрын
Not something said to me but a clip I saw on YT. A woman on the American version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The first question for $100 was which is bigger, she used a 50/50 lifeline and ended up choosing between an elephant and the moon. She said if you look at the moon it's small, and an elephant is huge, so the answer she gave was the elephant. Out on the first question and no prize money.
@rwilsonweir5697
Жыл бұрын
This comment is actually for those from the United Kingdom who are on your channel. My husband and I lived in England and travelled around the UK for two years and without exception everyone assumed we were from the U.S. because we frankly sound like we're from the US, so I understand the assumption but when we routinely corrected people and said "no, we're from Canada" we often got this response: "well, same thing."😮 I hope that now you understand why Canadians hate that response. There surely is a large difference.
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
I'm an American ex-pat living in Italy. Born in Vancouver, Canada, but eventually my parents moved to Los Angeles and we became naturalized Americans. Hope you'll forgive me, but I often tell people I'm Canadian if I know/feel that they don't like Americans.
@rwilsonweir5697
Жыл бұрын
@@TREVASLARK just a thought but maybe they need to have the stereotype of the loud and ignorant American Tourist broken for them by you behaving differently from The stereotype and revealing that you are indeed American. I was just in Vegas for a week and met many many Americans from all over the United States and without fail they were every one of them delightful. Those friendly and engaging Americans are the ones the rest of the world needs to see.
@TREVASLARK
Жыл бұрын
@@rwilsonweir5697 Why yes, you've made a great point. It's clear I have often being playing defense.........😏😏😏 Maybe I'll give it a whirl !
@johnpmchappell
Жыл бұрын
Usually, they're just being snarky. Pretty sure everyone I ever knew back in the UK was well aware that Canada is not the USA, and that it's historically part of the British Empire and retains close links. Alas, for many, especially if they have never really left the UK, all (north) Americans are "yanks".
@rwilsonweir5697
Жыл бұрын
@@johnpmchappell Yes, probably they were just taking the mick! 😃
@TrogART
Жыл бұрын
Well here goes, I was trundling down the river in a punt owned by a friend in Cambridge in the UK, there were some Americans with us, one of the Americans said looking at the buildings around us “Is that pre war” my friend replied very quickly “No it’s pre America” 😂😂😂. Another for you when I was in the US, this chick asked me if I lived in a grass hut, think she may have been referring to a thatched cottage 😂😂😂.
@tacfoley4443
Жыл бұрын
We were driving a couple of American friends around our local - very rural - area and as we left the town and went back out into the countryside we drove along a load of allotments, with their little plots of vegetables and little huts. 'Oh look, honey', said the woman, pointing at the allotments, - they DO have poor folks living in huts and growing their own food, just like we do in Louisiana!' I never explained.
@andrewlaw
Жыл бұрын
My friend used to run Dunkin' Donuts factory in the UK. His regular driver went sick on him and he asked me to drop some deliveries off for him in London. I was approached by an American guy asking me to take a picture of me with my "truck" as he didn't realise DD were in the UK. He then asked me if I knew the Queen! When I told him no he replied with, "how about Elton John". 🤦
@lightfootpathfinder8218
Жыл бұрын
Iv never seen a dunkin donuts in the UK
@izibear4462
Жыл бұрын
Weirdly saw one in Stockport the other day. Was a tad gobsmacked. Also Tim Hortons is everywhere. All shite coffee compared to the UK chains.
@fancyfree5307
Жыл бұрын
An American told me once that I have a really European accent. I tried explaining to her that there are many different languages spoken, however I could not change her mind about my very "European accent".
@Llama_charmer
Жыл бұрын
I mean shes not wrong, she just didnt specify which one lol
@fancyfree5307
Жыл бұрын
She also asked me once if you would translate a poem from English to dutch if everything would still rhyme. I thought that was a pretty funny question. She is a nice and kind person. Just a bit USA oriented.
@izibear4462
Жыл бұрын
Many think that Africa is one country. I just gave up.
@micmac274
8 ай бұрын
@@fancyfree5307 probably seen that fake Dutch crap on twitter.
@lynnewebb4573
Жыл бұрын
On a flight from Sydney (my hometown) to L.A., my seat neighbour expressed her amazement at how big and modern Sydney turned out to be. She said, "I really expected to see kangaroos on the main street...instead, there were CARS!!
@redwrld547
Жыл бұрын
There was this guy who kept on insisting that Portugal was South America, when I told him it’s in Europe he kept on telling me that I was wrong,then I showed him the photo of Ronaldo winning the euros a European competition he told me it was photoshopped 😂
@doyouhearthepeoplesing2
Жыл бұрын
What a muppet
@bramvanduijn8086
Жыл бұрын
I'm no expert on geography but I think the closest you can get is the Falkland islands which are near South America and they're not Portuguese, they're English.
@jaimemicelotti8539
Жыл бұрын
My grandfather, my mother’s stepfather, was 1st generation American. His parents were from Portugal. He’d get irritated when his coworkers would tell him he was Hispanic. His coworkers were from Mexico. I’m named after my grandpa, hence the spelling of my name. Regarding the lady in the video who was from Italy and was asked about the mafia… I’d get asked if my family was in the mafia throughout elementary- high school. My last name is Italian. My great grandfather came from Italy. I’ve experienced the same thing as the Spanish woman in the video, I’ve been told I’m not white because I have Italian ancestry. My hair is naturally dark blonde and I have brown eyes. It’s only ignorant Americans who have said that to me. I’m American. Like a majority of Americans, I’m of mixed European ancestry. I received my Ancestry DNA kit last year as a gift from my daughters. My results were pretty much what I expected them to be. Italian, Irish, Scottish and English.
@clairewillgress2221
Жыл бұрын
I bet he thought Portugal was in Brazil as they speak Portuguese. Some Americans think Spain is near Mexico because they both speak Spanish 😂
@etorepugatti9196
Жыл бұрын
As a French, I can assure you it's photoshopped.😭
@xxxprincessxxxjay7104
Жыл бұрын
9:40 “Honey, WE are the colonisers” was such a great line 🤣🤣🤣
@AguedaG
4 ай бұрын
Spanish were the first white people in North America.
@atzonaftaniel4798
Жыл бұрын
My story about stupid questions asked by Americans really takes the biscuit: I'm from the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and an American guy once asked me for directions to the Anna Frank House (Anna Frank was murdered in a concentration camp in february 1945, during WW2), so I explained him and than he asked me whether I thought she would be at home. I really couldn't utter any word or sound for seconds straight. Btw I also met very intelliget Americans, so the set the balance.
@Llama_charmer
Жыл бұрын
How can he know enough to know who anne frank is but not know... you know what nevermind 😂
@heyjuanfra
Жыл бұрын
I'd an Austrian friend living like 19yrs in USA and unfortunately she couldn't even see a difference between Italians, Portuguese, French or Romanians. For her we were all Mexicans, Brazilians or Colombians... something like provinces but in a place named Europe (what…?!) I really felt that pain in my chest like something shattering. My fellow Austrian was Americanized and 7 years of friendship explaining her l'm Spanish and European, not Mexican, Colombian or Brazilian
@chsparkle
Жыл бұрын
I had a disagreement about gun control with an American and it ended with him saying he 'couldn't take me seriously as i have no concept of Freedom, as I live in a police state with a curfew'. I'm from the UK.
@ginibelle1416
Жыл бұрын
All countries have dumb people in, although I did say I am English to an American once, and he said ''no such thing ,English is a language '' lol ( I am from England)
@obpihhipbo888
Жыл бұрын
school is a scam in my countries haha
@ebonynaomi1085
Жыл бұрын
Hahahaha did you correct them, or let them live in their own ignorance ??🤣😂 Ps I'm from Surrey, England 🇬🇧
@carlgharis7948
Жыл бұрын
@naomi reading many of the comments I've come to the conclusion that these comedy skits I've seen from British T.V. as apposed to making something up for people to laugh at you'd get material as easily as turning on the fosat for a glass of water just by talking to some Americans. Truth is oftentimes stranger then fiction. You don't even have to make up script to have something to laugh at. I've seen a handful of thoes shows. I realize hey wait a minute this can't be something serious not too far into it. Which leads the question of Americans asking such questions if they think the comedy skits are real. Like the guy who had walked through the ladies living room because her house was a top of an ancient Roman grave sight.. I realized about 45 seconds into it.. this has to be something fake to laugh at... just talk to Americans you don't have to think up fake material
@bonnyknoxville9439
Жыл бұрын
I remember some americans loudly kicking off when viewing the magna carta because it was on "dirty ass old paper" they couldnt read and were complaining it hadnt been updated 😂😂 In all fairness another american couple behind us politely asked us not to judge all americans by what we were seeing 😂😂
@alexandermills9965
Жыл бұрын
From and live in the UK and I am the stereotypical white British man that is portrayed on TV so you'd think that an American would immediately presume. Don't worry this is revertant. So I meet this American couple who looked that they had retired and they commented on how everyone is able to speak English so well. Three things go through my head. 1. What language did you think we'd be speaking 2. Our language literally has it's name in the country we're in 3. What language do you speak if it's not called English. I mean do you call your language American? Have Americans forgotten about the American war of Independence it was the British verses the Americans. The British invaded a lot of countries and that's why there a lot of English speaking countries.
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
The War of Independence was a civil war between Brits living in the American colonies and Brits living in Britain, plus some dodgy french types.
@myopicautisticmetal9035
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Giving 2018 in the United States, my Grandma says " Everyone in the world is celebrating today!" To which I replied, Thanks Giving on this day is a United States holiday, Grandma, the entire world is not celebrating. She argued with me over it. Then she started to criticize the floats in the Parade.
@wizardsuth
Жыл бұрын
While it's true that Thanksgiving is not a global holiday, it's also not exclusively American, and in fact it originated in Canada.
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
@@wizardsuth Also true but Canada and USA is hardly, the world either.
@anneclough7064
Жыл бұрын
I was in a group chat discussing the moon landing in 1969 and I mentioned watching it on tv live while at school. Next thing I know this American accuses me of lying because ; "It was July and in the middle of Summer vacation." He then compounded his stupidity by adding that even if I had failed and was in Summer school, it was a Sunday night and there was no way I could be in a classroom at that time! I wrote back that I was shocked at his lack of education and that he had no idea about hemispheres and time zones. I informed him that I was in Australia, that it was Winter in July there and with the time difference I saw the moon landing on Monday.
@jamiegrimes2462
Жыл бұрын
Haha seen lots of your videos and not commented before but when you said "it's these people that us Americans don't claim" that absolutely killed me, it literally made me laugh out loud 😄😄😄
@dussssszz
Жыл бұрын
We were checking in at a hotel in Miami Beach and there was this very attentive and polite young lady receptionist who asked us where we were from. We replied ‘from the Netherlands’. Her response was a gold medal in this category: ‘How long was the drive?’ I think we needed time to recover from this genius question before responding something like ‘long drive and we got quite wet crossing the Atlantic’
@sophiemartin547
Жыл бұрын
When I visited America with my friend to visit her boyfriend at the time (around 2012), we met his brother-in-law's family. One of the lads there asked 'so, do you guys, like, know the queen?'.... (because sure why not, I have tea with her every Friday morning!! wonder if there's an ounce of him actually believing that if we'd said that!) 🤣and 'have you ever met Simon Cowell' - oh yes, that too, he was there when I had tea with the queen. I then had someone else say to me, 'oh, you don't sound normal English'.... errr, normal English?? We don't all sound like we're from London, or from Downton Abbey. we do have different accents from one place to the next. 🤦♀
@oddpoppetesq.3467
Жыл бұрын
You can drive less than an hour in Britain and sometimes not even understand the locals.... We do live in a crazy country 🥰
@Helena-ou8ry
Жыл бұрын
Oh so so many 😂. I had an American argue with my self (an Australian) and a Canadian that Canada was a state of America, it took us awhile but we both worked out she left out New Mexico. Then had an American guest tell me he was going to the Gold Coast for the weekend, I said which flight are you talking and he replied he was driving, it was a 4 day drive one way. We where driving in the country in a the American in the car became very upset and demanded we pull over, he demanded we save a flock of finches because they had escaped from a aviary. We tried to assure him it was fine and they are native but he would not believe us.
@XxJoitchxX
Жыл бұрын
I love how your dog is looking at you while you're talking to the camera. It's like "What are you barking about to nobody? Hoomans are weird, but I still love you"
@filipasales9291
Жыл бұрын
I was in a pub and the owner of the pub asks where I'm from. So I told him I'm from Portugal and that's a Country in Europe ( I already knew Portugal is small so maybe he didn't know about it). The guy looks at me and goes " ah Europe, you guys don't have supermarkets there, you have to go buy food far away and by foot right?" At that point I was so desperate I just said: " well we go by donkey😂😂😂😂".
@placebo106
Жыл бұрын
A few years ago I worked in a hotel in the Lake District, in the UK. We had American groups coming twice a week. One time we got a call at reception that the microwave oven didn't work in the room, could someone go and fix it. Three of us went there to see what was happening as none of the hotelrooms had microwave ovenin them. These Americans were trying to use the safe, a coffee mug was put in it. Well, not surprising that the safe wasn't a microwave oven.
@tantelila7464
Жыл бұрын
And after that they deposited their jewellery in the microwave at the kitchen of the hotel?
@breezy3392
Жыл бұрын
How...?
@tinyvanuffelen7918
Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609
Жыл бұрын
At least the mug was safe.
@hungariangiraffe6361
Жыл бұрын
@@breezy3392when I was in London my sister thought that the safe is a microwave too, it looks quite similar and she have never been in a hotel that had a safe. Although I might add that she was probably 9 at the time.
@janfick7260
Жыл бұрын
South African here. I used to have a US pen pal who on the regular would commend me for living close to a river...He would tell me how brave I am for living where I do because if he lived as close to a river like I do he would be too afraid to go outside, because hippos are dangerous...admittedly they are, but it's not like they walk down the streets in town and so forth...I tried explaining that...didn't work
@claverhouse1
Жыл бұрын
Any American who has never left their own little neighbourhood yet their great great grandfather once had a red headed woman smile at them "I'M IRISH!!!!"
@davidt-rex2062
Жыл бұрын
Once had an argument online about the troubles in Northern Ireland... (I am from NI) asked them where they got all their information from... turns out it was the crying game. They were a big fan of the film.
@jacquerablack
Жыл бұрын
An American once told me I might like to edit a post I’d make because I’d spent words wrong… I had to point out that the words she thought I’d spent wrong were spelt correctly, just not the way Americans spell them, she was around 20 years older than me so it felt really strange to have to correct someone who should already know that most of the world spells those words my way…
@cunningstunt9226
Жыл бұрын
Ok well this time it’s an English person telling you you’ve spelt words wrong… please try harder. 😊
@petersp63
Жыл бұрын
Well you've spelt spelt spent!! so maybe they were right!
@gravelbags2479
Жыл бұрын
Wow, just speachless 😂
@anta3612
Жыл бұрын
I went to college in the US and had American professors correct my British spelling. Since I was in the US I'd mostly spell the American way but the odd British spelt word would still slip through. I get it (as in when in Rome) but the professors would actually ARGUE with me that I was wrong (not merely acknowledge that there were differences). Annoying.
@shizukuhajime2392
Жыл бұрын
@@anta3612 which is ironic as they were actually wrong as most of the rest of the world spells things our way as you know we INVENTED it so our words are quite literally officially the correct way to spell words while American although technically correct as they spell them their way officially they are not correct
@drewkoenen8334
Жыл бұрын
I had a car load of 4 back in 1970 from the USA, I lived in Oshawa 30 minutes east of Toronto .It was July and if I remember almost 100 degrees f out. They were dressed in skiing gear with equipment all on a roof rack. They asked me where the ski hills were . I was kinda stunned and said we only get snow in the winter like December or January. They were kinda stunned sitting in their car with winter coats ,windows rolled up and air conditioning running. Imagine driving almost three hours from Niagara Falls or 5 and a half hours from Windsor,Detroit area. No snow anywhere …it still makes me giggle to this day.
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