LMAO

Oh dear 😂

Laugh or cry hmmmm, definitely laugh 😂🤣😂😆😅... Bah, not enough emojis

@N7 🤣🤣🤣

Haha! Brilliant 👏 👏

@Matty had same experience with an American lady because I dared to sell her 18 year old son a beer

Wow so nuts 😳

Murica fu*k yeah! /s

JFC. It's utterly ridiculous. They think they govern over everybody... It's infuriating! O__O

I wouldn't have been speechless. I'd have told her to f**k off back to America. there are a lot of Americans who seem to think they are the only country on Earth and don't understand that nobody who lives outside it gives a damn what their laws are

Thick as a Sequoia log and even more arrogant...........

Brilliant 😂😂😂🙌

I would be talking Danish for the rest of that conversation out of pure spite. 😂 "Jeg er turist, kvindemenneske. Hvilken del af det, er det, at du ikke forstår?!"

​@@helenetrstrup4817 hvis jeg havde været alene, havde jeg kørt den meget langt ud. Men min daværende kæreste var meget rystet over situationen, hun er ikke vant til at fremmede fuldstændigt uprovokeret går amok på en, og hendes velbefindende kommer før mig have det sjovt. Så vi forlod bare situationen, det tog hende resten af dagen af ryste det af hende og hun var utryg ved at snakke dansk på resten af turen. Edit: men jeg vil sige i de 2,5 mdr. vi var i staterne var det den eneste dårlige oplevelse vi havde, vi hang enda ud med nogle bandemedlemmer fra "the crips" I 3 timer og drak øl fra en pose, de var super flinke og interesserede i os, og havde aldrig hørt om Danmark og havde så mange spørgsmål. Men for en dansker er det lidt sært at sidde med folk der tydeligt er bevæbnet.

Yt hid the the last part after she said, we speak American, and I was screaming to myself no you speak English. Then I hit the Read more part and seen you put her in her place 🤣 The best one is when people ask what language do we speak in Britain and they stumble..... It's near enough the same freaking language as you guys!!! Just we speak the Queen's (sorry King now) English where as they use a bastardised version of it 🤷 Love and peace from Wales my man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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🤣 but not the full definition, that would be: "all land surounded by water and smaller than australia"

He probably was a Southern American who thought all English speakers in the world would sound as if they had a little sweet banjo playing in their mouth. 🗣🎶💕

However ☝️🧐 Here in Germany Heidelberg I bump into US tourists a lot and they are really really polite.

English, England, it's in the name. I will accept no defense of any functional adult who can't figure that out on their own.

@@breezy3392 but English origin wasn't in England because there were parts in Europe who talked English words in a different form first. The Germanic tribes who brought those words to the island known as Great Britain today. Bfw to call you yourself Great is smug thing to do though, just saying🤷🏿

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 I made no comment about the deeper origins of the language. The origin of any language can be a case of deep study. My comment is stating that it's pretty damn obvious and no functional adult should be surprised that the county called England speaks English 🙄

Agreed. We're all ignorant about something, it's when they argue with you about your own country it gets weird.

We had American exchange students at my university many years ago, and I remember them telling me that they learned pretty quickly when travelling internationally to tell people they're Canadian 😆😆

My neighbour (who's since moved) is from Slovakia. If I heard someone speaking with a similar accent, I never asked "Are you Slovakian?" I usually said that I couldn't quite place the accent, but it sounded similar to my Slovakian neighbour.

That last sentence may be the most accurate description of Americans I've ever seen. The crazy thing about Americans to me is how okay they are with being so ignorant to the rest of the world like if I dont know something I go and learn about it where they never seem to have that willingness to learn about anything except America

I love it when they start to argue with you about where you’re from. Like me, I’m Finnish but I’m ethnically also half East Asian. So if I were to say that I’m Finnish, they’d be like “yeah but where originally?” And if I consent and say that my other parent is Asian, they’d always go “I knew it! You’re Asian!” 🤦🏻‍♀️ like no sir, I’m Finnish.

You really think they understand what foreigner means?

Yeah 😂😂😂

And what he said 😂

You’re not European you’re English ! Good grief

How can you be British AND European AND speak English?! 😱😱 Oh dear. Information overload! Instant meltdown. 🤣🤣🤣

Are you from UK or Great Britain? So confusing! 🤣

​@@nataliasalmanova6020 England 😂..... shouldn't confuse them

I was asked if I had met the Queen by an American and I asked why do some Americans assume everyone has met the Queen and their response was "Well, it's such a small place you probably see her about quite often"

You could just say she is a regular at the local pub and sometime play around of Darts 😀

I was in too was in Florida, when Princess Diana died. When an American Lady heard my accent - she said she was sorry for my loss and asked if was I going home for the funeral...I said no, I don't think she would cancel her holiday too come to mine ...she looked shocked

Now that I think of it it would totally work with King Charles he is not as well known 🤣

Some criminals do

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. 🙄

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." 😂

It IS a great institution, and I hope you keep it.

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

​@@louisestevenson5102But it's not free to foreigners though unless they paid there one off payment

@@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR 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.

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Oh, wow... that's sad

There are videos about this on KZfaq but the Americans claim that they only took a select group of people which is bulshit

Um... my jaw has dropped

Their own country?? 😂 I mean, I'll forgive a lot, I suck at geography myself, but America is huge, wtf 😅

No stop

Please tell me you're lying, please

@@breezy3392 I second your "Please" !!!!!

Ahahahahah😂

😂😂killed it.

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.

​@@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.)

@@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.

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

But you do have Polar bears

@@vesaseppala5260 I thought because the top of Finland is close to the Arctic circle I thought you "might" have them. We only have penguins

@@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.

@@DaveMaroldahasatinydick Nope. The closest would be Svalbard, 500km. north from our north border.

Live near Stonehenge and this happens to me a lot. The area around Salisbury is a very big military area and I have seen the glorious yanks get ripped a new one trying to enter military bases as they have paid to “visit” Normally all the neighbours have signs say our dogs have a taste for dumb tourists. Ye it makes the locals in the pub have some good pissed up chats

maybe they thought that a stately home means one owned by the state. Still not entitled to visit though.

Hahahahaha

@@Mex1c070 At 85 he's earned the right to call us what he wants - well within reason 🙂

Well with what Sturgeon is doing at the moment you could "identify" as being a scotch :-)

The Second Lady got some damn eyebrows lol

@@TicketyBoo. no mate regardless of age it is the wrong terminology for a group of people Scot’s Scottish Scotland WTF part of this de ye no understand ?

@@bobbyscott2123 old people get confused sometimes.

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.

You ain't seen nothing yet if a certain character gets back in office.

explains a lot 🤦🏼

Not surprised

I really hope he was the PE teacher

​@@PizzaLord geography

My head just exploded!

Poor people.

*_That's_* some good old fashion patriotism!

I thought that was said by the young Kenyan who was paired with the Haitian kid at School.

Help global warming.... does that answer that?😁

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.

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

lmao lmao omg

Omg whahahaha

Working with Scottish tourism (years ago) I was more than once congratulated on my command of the American language. In contrast, apparently, to so many other countries who "couldn't be bothered."

haha, I might have said Elvish.

Since becoming aware of what my country and its people are really like, I accept we deserve all the mockery we get. American's always think they're the best in every way and I couldn't disagree more. Anything they're even the top 10 for is for nothing positive. Collective ignorance is likely one of them. I'm not sure if the ignorance was always there, never improved or if it was somehow worsened. I imagine, but I'm not sure it is the case, that the older they are the more ignorant. While not the best, the youngest generations are better informed but it's not because of the schools but the internet - which is a double-edged sword. Most American's don't seem to have any interest in learning or improving their knowledge. Studies indicate that most of America's youth want to grow up to be an influencer or celebrity. Obviously, a huge concern. Americans value fame too much.

Omg 😂😂😂 from the Netherlands btw

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?" 😩

@@Swooshez90 Hahaha. I gues

me....laughing in transylvanian with the fangs out😆

Imagine if the two were actually transposed - Pennsylvania has vampires and Transylvania has... Tran State University????

@@geraintwd Actually there are some prestigious universtities in Trasylvania, in Cluj Napoca and Brasov

@@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.

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bottom line: don't deal with incorrigible idiots.

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There's no cure for that kind of stupid, smh

Ok, well, that one at the end.... wow

Your friend is fitting better into the world than her mother. Hope for the future.

Did they actually get the point you were making?

@@breezy3392 Yeah they did surprisingly. I still chat with them online to this day, we are actually quite good friends now 🙂

Surprised they knew that Wales is a country.

@@geraintwd they may have only known about Wales caus they knew me 🤣🤣🤣

My compliments !

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.

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@@misanthrophex Too complimentary.

You should have thrown some Te Reo at them Bro

“They argued with me…” That is SO American

Definitely not a Rugby fan!!😁😁

The geography questions that come up in these videos and these comment sections are things I could answer by age 10, smh. Jamaican btw

Most Americans think that any country that ends in 'stan' was conquered by them ten years ago.

I'd imagine people think Kazakhstan is fictional because of Borat.

Сказала бы "бери книгу географии и читай"

It is called central Asia now. Middle Asia is a direct translation from Russian, nobody except Russians call it middle.

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I are'nt having that, acon face, ya'v just made it up, surely ?

@@blackbob3358 To be fair, ive seen plenty of stories in this comment section far worse than that one and im not sure to beleive em

This is the best comment, by far!😂

​@@blackbob3358it's likely true. Thick folk exist everywhere... I had a learner in the car about to go in for her test. There was an obbiously deaf candidate with a signing intrtpreter going in the office. To reassure my candidate I mentioned the fact and how much tougher it must be than for her. Then I asked just how much harder it must be if someone was blind... She fell for it. About to take a test with no wits about her at all.

poke her with the soft cushions!

English is the dumbest language ever!! Just let the Americans have it and we can have something that makes more sense.

@@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.

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..

@N7 that gets to me aswell. It should be smallest to largest (day/month/year)

​​@@lightfootpathfinder8218 or largest tp smallest (year-month-day) - in ISO format - as that way when sorting dates (as text) they are in chronological order

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.

Ha! I had the same thing I was asked if we had pet cheetahs, I said absolutely! Duh africa doesn't have cars 🙄

@@jaiuchiha6191 American ignorance, the gift that keeps on giving.

nah mate, milk comes from cartons... oat milk, haven't found a a oat with tits yet? almond milk, do almonds breast feed?

I told an American that cricket was played on horseback.

Amercan responds Just a sec, i'll check on Google

that explains why their infrastructure sucks then...

You should have told him : ' Why don't you ask the man himself, he's here every Thursday for a brew..'

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.

Samantha Mumba ("The Time Machine") has a Nigerian father and an Irish mother: she gas an Irish passport so she really is Black Irish.

@@wfcoaker1398 Didn't know that. (I'm 73 - still lots to learn, I see.)

@@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

@@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 ??

Sorry but the telephone was invented by the italian Antonio Meucci 😊

@@lannalisa2925 erm no

@@PizzaLord oh yes 😄

Wasn't telephone invented by Alexander Graham bell.

@@ashwinvk4124 Yes it was. He was British. Did you think he was American?

yeah...same here in germany....every US tourist wonders why nobody is wearing Dirndl and Lederhosen ...like Germany is everywhere like Bavaria.

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.

Geweldig 😅😅 They still think we live in the 1800

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

Nooo, that's just ignorance! You didn't have to do them like that 😢

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.

And to think that New York was once called New Amsterdam… that information must be even more difficult for this person… 😅🤣🤣

There's a place near me (NE UK) called New York, it's named after the American New York.

@@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?

@@tonycasey3183 it's in North Tyneside and it had something to do with Britain taking control of New York.

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I mean, at least she was emphatetic and not rude.

@@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?

@@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?

@@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! :-)

You mean the US--Canadian border doesn't change the climate? Hahahaha.

Write the book. Make it a comedy. You'll make a small fortune 💸

@@breezy3392 I proably would ha ha

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?!"

​@@jackwaycombe patriotism 🤣🤣

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.

I wonder why she equates horses to Germany?

@@Llama_charmer That was the same person asking whether we had electricity, so they probably assumed we didn't have cars, trains or buses either. ;) Everybody outside the US living in caves. :D

@@Panbaneesha hah imagine being that foolish. Anyway im off to gather water from the well!

@@Llama_charmer Good luck, don't fall in. I'm wittling arrows, so I can hunt for my dinner later. ;).

You should've said yes to Hitler being in charge just to mess with them

• European people You’re on an American made website (KZfaq), you use American made social media, American made internet and you’re probably using an American made phone (Apple) unless you’re using a laptop or computer which was also American made. Your country listens to American music, follows American trends, culture and celebrities, copies how Americans dress and American slang, American abbreviations like “Lol” “Lmao” “omw” and you wear American made clothes, always copying American style The highlight of non American youths (probably whole life) is when Americans artists, American concerts and festivals come to perform in other countries. I know you hate to admit it but the world knows how much America has carried humanity. IN ONLY 244 YEARS AMERICANS HAVE ACCOMPLISHEDz 1.) became our planets world power. 2.) landed on the moon and lead humanity in space travel science and technological advances. 3.) Americans invented. Inventions by Country 2023 The United States The U.S. is the hub of all innovative inventions. Most new technology was invented in America -- from personal computers, lasers, mobile phones, video games, photocopiers, and even the internet. Other inventions from the U.S. include hearing aid, micro-ovens, steamboats, submarines, refrigerators, telegraphs, dishwashers, vacuum cleaners, cash registers, electric cookers, electronic TV, credit cards, air conditioners, and much more. Source: worldpopulationreview Here is an overview of inventions by country for the top ten most inventive countries in the world as of 2022, focusing on inventions that have been fundamental in shaping modern society. 1. The United States 2. Japan 3. South Korea 4. Germany 5. Taiwan 6. China 7. France 8. United Kingdom 9. Canada 10. India Source: worldpopulationreview Nobel Prizes by Country 2023 First issued in 1901, the Nobel Prize is one of the highest honors a person can receive in their lifetime. The Nobel Prize was founded by Swedish engineer, inventor, and chemist Alfred Nobel, whose will established the Nobel Foundation and directed that the prizes be awarded annually "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Nobel further instructed that "no consideration be given to nationality, but that the prize be awarded to the worthiest person, whether or not they are Scandinavian." Nobel Prizes are awarded in five areas: peace, literature, physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine. In 1969, an additional prize, titled the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" (SRPESMAN), was established by Sweden's central bank and has been incorporated into the Nobels as well. Here are the 10 countries with the most Nobel Prize winners: 1. United States - 400 2. United Kingdom - 137 3. Germany - 111 4. France - 71 5. Russia - 32 6. Sweden - 32 7. Japan - 29 8. Canada - 28 9. Switzerland - 27 10. Netherlands - 22 Source: worldpopulationreview We built America from the ground up and accomplished all of this in only 244 years. We took the world out of the dark ages and we are literally the reason humanity is so modern. Every other country in the world hasn’t accomplished shit there’s no comparison when it comes to America and the world knows that, that’s why they wish they could live with us. I don’t know why European people feel the need to impress us Americans or try and prove themselves to us or try so hard to make themselves noticed by us Americans or try to make themselves feel better by trying to downplay humanities greatest nation… Americans are obviously elite in everything that we do. You guys don’t realize how embarrassing you are to Americans. Americans laugh when little European people try and call americans stupid knowing americans literally are the reason why the world has advanced. Now imagine life before America existed? You’re welcome. Americans carry humanity so how you gonna hate from outside of the club? YOU CANT EVEN GET IN 😂 🇺🇸 I’m just glad my ancestors moved to “the new world” and I’m not still stuck in Europe because I can’t blame you guys. I’d be mad and probably hate on Americans too knowing I got left behind and could’ve been born in America instead. 😭😂 I know you hate to hear it but we all know Europe youth secretly wishes they lived in America so they could go to Travis Scott shows and experience “the American dream…” like the rest of the world does. So yeah Europeans, you definitely do copy us lol. like the rest of the world does, it’s funny you all “hate” Americans until you meet one then you’re all asking us all about America and what it’s like to live here complimenting us non stop lol. (by the way that was so wild that some of you say Americans copy the Europe? copy WHAT exactly? Gross haha gross haha never! 🤮 You guys are like a lame weird boring wannabe version of us. Americans been trendsetters but you already knew that lol. We also think of those corny ass wannabe gangsters you guys have in the Europe who TRY to copy American rap and throw up American gang signs. 😂 Like boy sit yo crumpet eating, king and queen having, European accent having ass down you ain’t no blood 🩸there’s nothing funnier than seeing videos of European wannabes with European accents throwing up American gang signs trying to act like he’s from LA and even wearing Lakers jerseys lol see? Even your lame ass rappers and wannabe gangsters straight up copy us too. Corny asses I wish you could see yourselves through our eyes. 😭🤣 You probably live in the EU with crooked teeth in your moms basement, cope harder, the U.S. is one of the most technologically innovative countries, if not the most, the EU have been irrelevant for over a century. Good for you, you all are irrelevant with crooked teeth, I promise you we don’t like you guys either, as well as many other parts of the world, very snobby arrogant people with a superiority complex even though you haven’t been irrelevant since ww2, when one of EU’s countries kinda killed 6 million jews, which the U.S. HELPED LIBERATE!!

Yes Yes it is I suspect it’s because America is so young and they essentially don’t have much national identity Hence all the flag waving anthem singing peaches of allegiance reciting type stuff Like they’re trying to speed up their culture/history Funny one is when they tell an Irishman they’re Irish and then the actual Irishman asks where they’re from and they can’t answer

We don't celebrate independence day

@@andrewbragg504 Whoosh

@@PedroConejo1939 Straight over the top with that one LOL

​@@PedroConejo1939 Al Murray was correct 🤣

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That's my head canon now.

This is Aussie level shit-stirring and I am here for it.

God, I love it!

You were being trolled

Crikey old chum I ain't got time got me fish and chips to scran.

I love this fantasy sheep monster!

I’m not surprised because I ve seen Americans trying to pay with US dollars here in Europe

@@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.

Mad cow disease got them all.

Should have replied, no, but we have these great short necked giraffes and pointed to the cows.

A lot of the whites I knew in South Africa have their houses in the bush with the wildlife, it is a lot quieter, cleaner and safer than living in a big city or a township.

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I get the moer in with their stupidity

I was asked if we had lions as pets when I lived in the States. After a while I just said yes.

the rest of the world for them is like 3rd world countries but in the medieval ages...

Thank you for trying to learn our complicated ass language!

@Anthony ih I wish I was there

@@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!

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.

​@@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.

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.

@@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.

@@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 !

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".

@@johnpmchappell Yes, probably they were just taking the mick! 😃

A divorce party maybe? I mean, if you wanted an excuse for a party! Haha

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 😂😂

@@chriskelly9476 Chris, mate - I get this every year, it’s July 4th. God kill me America, just please. T

If I was asked,,doI celebrate the 4 th of July, I would reply, Definately. 🙄😂

As them what they're doing on 5th November.

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.

Lol I’d of said I drove … absolutely

I like how you instantly gave up 😂😂😅, you knew it was a lost cause 😂

A Belgian coworker of mine helped an old lady carry her bags in the US; She asked him where he was from (he had an accent) and then said "Oh yes, my niece went to Belize last year!"

@@mgparis Well, in all fairness , THAT could have been a problem of hearing loss.

Yes, but you forget that in America "two eighths" is "one sixteenth", so you cut it three sixteenths too long - or something.

​@@keithtaylor3347 two eighths is four sixteenths dummy

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.

History is the key !

Yeah That’s pretty bad If they’d have asked why do they speak Spanish in Mexico but Portuguese in Brazil it would have been a better question

It's not that far away.... for seafaring at least.

The little girl smart !

Bruuuuh 😂

Dont worry, you don't speak 'proper english' in Australia either.

Do they speak English in the US?I don't think so!😂😂😂

And you replied: "yes. we fled on the back of a kangaroo with playing Mozart's "magic flute" on the violin." Officer: *overload*

Beethoven on a kangaroo

Vacation is on the top of your list when you flee.

Does your Austrian passport bear the word "Austria" in English (or perhaps Latin) ?

"To have a holiday" is exactly why I always am fleeing my country.....

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!!

Shorter than the bridge between LA & Honolulu.

As an american, i have only one thing to say about that Hay que pinche gringo.

and what they would do if they told that there are Singapore dollar and Hong Kong dollar???

In really, really hope you do.

They might teach where the oil is

They think America IS the whole world and universe.

ESClad. I don't think they teach ANYTHING that is not U.S. based in the U.S, full stop!

True, but they don't study history either, and they study it poorly.

Some of us know about the outside world. However honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the typical person in North Korea actually knows more about the outside world then 1/2 of U.S. adults. Which of course is sad

Until they meet someone from the west midlands

😂most British response possible. I think I could say the same about my homeland Hungary too.

"state of disunity" considering Brexit. A disunited Kingdom has never been more true.

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😂).