German here, we had a kind of pledge of allegiance about 60 years ago. Didn t work out very well.

The pledge of allegiance thing is pretty much just an American thing. Honestly, it's super creepy and even kind of scary in it's cultish, nationalist nature.

We used to have a country here in Europe where they had to a daily pledge of allegiance in class rooms. They stopped doing it in 1945 after the guy who they had to pledge their allegiance to blew his brains out in bunker.

we KNOW it's not free ( im from Denmark) BUT when the term " Free " is used it means we don't need to pull the wallet out at the doctors.... let me mention it again for ANY american, who think we'r stupid....it's FREE because we don't need to pay when visiting a Doctor...

I think every tax payer in the UK will agree that we’re happy to pay for the NHS for everyone. No matter who receives it it’s a human right and a human obligation. No one should have to worry about the cost of accessing healthcare.

You asked about the pledge of allegiance. As a european 🇪🇺🇸🇪 when I hear about it my "nazi warnig allarm" starts blaring with all the warnings I can think of. Like it sounds so dystopian and authoritarian to me.

Regarding the first aid thing, here in Poland it's a criminal offense NOT to help someone who needs help, and it can land you in prison for up to 3 years. Calling the ambulance counts as aid too, so you don't need to do more if you're unable.

pledge allegiance is something they do in North Korea and in Germany between 1940 and 1945. I don't think there is any other country where hey do something like that.

I am 64 years old and live in a semi rural in the UK. Apart from a pellet airgun, I have never heard gun fire.

I was taking part in a trail running race, I tripped on an old granite tramway sleeper and my jaw connected with the next one. An ambulance managed to get close with first aid but they called the Air Ambulance that took me to hospital. Surgery the next day with another day in recovery. The total cost was outrageously expensive when my brother had to pay £7 just to park the car when he picked me up! Thank goodness for the NHS.

There was such an oath in Germany from 1933-45 and later in the GDR!🤔 North Korea today too.

I love the slight embarrassment at the word "fuckery"😂😂❤ America IS weird - you can flush and bridle at a naughty word yet think nothing of a gun going off. ...

There is something wrong with society if you're shopping for supplies for your child's new school year and on your list is a Kevlar vest

Just a small correction to the guy who thought he got his prescription in Scotland free because it was "necessary". All prescriptions in Scotland are free, to everyone, and the concept of a prescription that isn't necessary makes no sense anyway.

About university in Ireland: I'm German and went to Ireland as an exchange student in undergrad. I had American roommates who were there on exchange too, and one evening we started talking about Irish tuition and they were so impressed by how cheap it is, and that they considered their exchange fees to be really cheap too, and then tjey asked me how much I'm paying to be there. I was there on an Erasmus scholarship, which means I did not pay a cent in tuition and received 800€ per month as support, and my roommates were fairly shocked to hear that

No, not everybody checks out just to have a day off. Here (The Netherlands) yes, if you are sick you take the day off, but if you are sick for longer as a day getting a doctor involved is almost required. And yes, they can and if they feel you abuse the system, certainly will check if you actually are sick. There is no problem to take a sick day, if you are sick, but if you are not well..... there are consequences. (no unlimited freedom to do what you want, simply because you want it.) No other country does a pledge. One youtuber, a US expat in the UK, don't ask me which one, said and I agree that only one country before did that and that was in the period 1938 - 1940. (Imho the exact ideology applies here.) You want pointers ?? Think about the stereotype thing. Everyone hates Americans !!! Well let me tell you, it is more complex it is mostly untrue as it is mainly US systems that people hate. Getting in debt over education and healthcare, is a system. No decent form of transport other than using a car, is a system. Bad food (not just much fastfood and large portions, but also approved ingredients), is a system. Politics, no matter what view you have, at the national level, there are like only 2 parties that matter as others never get into the play. So it is a 2 party system, not sure how one could call that a democratic system. Look abroad how many parties form a government. Again, this is a system. Ofcourse one could go on and on and on, but see the thing is, that most of what non-Amricans hate about the US, is not so much the people, as the systems that regulate the country.

I've worked with Americans for most of my working life and I've found them to be kind, generous and hard working (with the odd exception). I have family and friends in the USA but I would never, ever, consider living there. The guns, crime, medical "system" (or lack of) and working conditions are horrendous. But the people are OK..... they deserve something better TBH....

I guess the question is - what do you actually get for the taxes you pay???

I'm Scottish, I need to take 13 different pills a day since my brain injury. I dread to think how much that would cost me! I've also just finished a BA degree, which was government funded. (And yes, I'm kind of a big deal, doing a degree with brain damage 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)

A healthcare tip to Americans: If you need prescription drugs from a pharmacy, do not disclose that you have insurance, just buy it "out of pocket". As when you say you have insurance, the pharmacists is legally obligated to mark up the price considerably. So something that would have cost you 2$ out of pocket, will cost you closer to 7-8$ if you say you have insurance. Unfortunatly another proof that the US is not a country built for its citizens, but for its corporations....

I am from germany, we had something like the pledge of allegiance too, 80 years ago... So I am highly disturbed by the fact of pleading to ones country every morning.

What about suing tyre companies after blowouts In England we have a thing called a MOT test to make sure your Car is road worthy to try and prevent accidents like this , and to make sure the car owner is responsible for their safety

Being a european and have grown up in a country that has universal healthcare, means that european has NEVER been worried about recieving healthcare. Your son looks really cute! 🙂

The thing with many other countries and their health care, is that yes it is paid by taxation, (which you hardly notice going out of your salary), but it is free at the point of use. So you don’t pay for ambulances, helicopters, emergency care, cancer treatment, surgery, physio and lots of other things. It makes getting sick or having an accident much less traumatic.

I’ve a feeling that if you did the same exercise in 20 or 30 years, the issues raised would still be the same because the USA doesn’t seem to want to change any of this.

I wish America would at least provide free medical treatment to their children!! Children are not considered old enough to work. If you can’t work and earn a regular income. Then they should not be forced to have insurance! 😊

6:40 Yeah sure. In Germany we call that "Krankfeiern". But I want to add my 2 cents to that. First: I think it is better when people who just want(or need) a day off actually can because of unlimited sickdays then that people that actually need time to cure their health issue, have to fear to run out of sickdays and lose their job or their income for the time. Second: There are some checks and balances against people regulary taking uneeded sickdays in Europe. For example that after three days of sickness you need a doctors note (which then is actually free of charge at point of service). Or if your employer notices that you are taking sickdays "too often" he can demand that you have go to a assigned and trusted company doctor to get your sicknotes for a specific time being. Or also basicly: It might be easier to get a day of in Europe, but we get still work done.

A pledge of allegiance or thing that compares is not a thing in most countries. It's the type of thing I would imagine would happen in a dictatorship not a democratic society. From what I can tell your pledge is to the flag, Or in other words the government and not to the country.

With unlimited sick leave in countries like the Netherlands, ongoing, regular illness of an employee requires a visit from the company doctor. Or authorisation to speak to your specialist. My husband is from the Netherlands and I too, though employees would mis-use unlimited sick leave. But it rarely happens.

The pledge of allegiance is weird to us because it does remind us of a particular time with an Austrian painter. In Croatia we do play our anthem on certain occasions but those are mostly connected to some official stuff.

I’m from the UK and Ive often felt slightly nervous or unsafe when in the US. Ps I’ve never felt unsafe in Europe, ever and that includes nearly all major European countries or cities.

They sing the national anthem at school assemblies here in New Zealand. In relatively young countries built on immigration, symbols of collective identity are quite important. The US just seems to have a particularly large number of these - pledge, flags, anthem, etc.

I have been to quite a few countries in Asia/ Middle East/Europe and America, America is on a whole new level of scary. No other place compared to it. I was in Georgia and Los Angeles. Saw some really crazy things!

Compared to UK emergency rooms I've heard US emergency rooms look like a war zone. People wait until they're literally dying and have no choice before going where in the UK we have to tell people not to go unless it's a genuine emergency. The US prefers having massive armed forces to health care I guess.

In the UK, I can honestly say that I walk at night without giving safety a single thought.

A lot more young americans are travelling, whereas their parents may not have and certainly their grandparents probably didn't do much at all, travel wise (to other countries I mean). Young americans travel far and wide and get to experience other countries and how they do things, this really has opened up the eyes of those people. America is quite far behind when it comes to looking after their citizens, most western countries are well ahead when it comes to health care, travel (ie buses, trains etc), town planning, personal safety, child care.. etc, the list goes on. America is not a bad place by any means, a beautiful country with nice people like yourselves, just needs to catch up with other countries.. Europe, especially.

We had something similar to the pledge of allegiance here in Austria, that was at the time just before WWII.....

I'm American, I spent a few years in the Middle East as a child (late 2000's) and have visited a few more times since then, and I have to say that women rights may be a political and cultural issue in the M-E (more so for Westerners than locals tbh), but women's safety is not. The laws are so harsh that the crime rate in general is very very low compared to America. Hollywood is a criminal source of disinformation and cultural conflicts for Americans. 😕 Arab hospitality is at another level!👍

As an American I would consider a clearly visible tattoo, PLEASE SAVE MY LIFE - I WON'T SUE U!

Social health care is paid for by taxation, but if you take away how much you are paying in insurance and add the extra tax it will be far less for a better service.

One aspect of living in a country with very restrictive gun laws is that there’s no confusion possible : if you encounter someone with a gun who is not a policeman or military in uniform (or a hunter, but that can only happen in a specific context), that’s 99.9% unmistakably a criminal.

I haven't seen you guys for ages. Lovely to see you again.

In Germany we also had something like the pledge of allegiance...from 1933 - 1945

one thing to keep in mind with regards to the habit of suing ppl (the story about the lifeguard) is that alot of insurance require someone to be at fault to cover medical expenses in cases like that, so say for example they preform cpr but break ribs then for the medical costs to be covered the patient might have to sue.

If you swapped to social healthcare after your government finally deciding to do the right thing and regulate the costs properly, you might end up paying less tax for healthcare because right now you pay huge taxes for the current scam costs for the few that are covered by medicare etc

Thing is, we all know that as a woman you have a right to go where you damn well please, and when you choose. I hate hearing that I need to avoid certain areas at certain times because I'm a woman. I suppose that anyone is a target if they're wandering in a remote area, but as a society we should be really doing something about this, and actively promoting anyone's right to roam safely. I can still hear people chanting though "well, what in Earth was she doing out there on her own, she asked for that". 🥵

USA is the only rich country where Health is not a Right! In a lot of less rich ones, Universal Healthcare exists too...

13:02 - From Sweden, and we have no Pledge of Allegiance. Most don't even teach the national anthem (besides maybe one lesson in 2nd grade).

The pledge of allegiance is seriously creepy and kind of freak me out sometimes... It reminds me of Germany in the 30s or North Korea today...

So many gun related incidents in America it is all too easy to forget an incident, it's just on to the next and then the next and on and on it goes

My mom is a nurse here in Poland and she always telling me: good CPR = broken ribs! You have to push chest so hard to break person ribs in order to save that persons life. She did it multiple times and saved people always were gratefull for it!

Prague, Czech republic here. Safety issues never crossed my mind - shootings none, can go anywhere 3AM alone and drunk... Sick days - are meant for hangovers 🤣 How do you live without them? 😂🎉

My parents had a kind of pledge of allegiance in their school years. The country was under a dictatorship at the time. But we have been a democracy for some time now (since a bit before I was born, thankfully), and all that crap is long gone.

We enjoyed our two working sojourns in the US - six yrs with my family just outside DC, and four years alone commuting between CA and BC. After the first six yrs, with now having four younger sons, I was afraid for their safety and didn't take them to CA. None of the schools either my kids, or my grandsons have attended in 🇰🇪🇬🇧🇦🇺🇨🇦 ever had a single shooter drill, and none have locked doors or security checks at entry for staff or pupils. The situation has gotten steadily worse in the US.

I watched a video by International Karl, hes American living in the UK. He talked of his kids pledging allegiance and says now hes experienced living away from the USA, it feels like indoctrination in many ways.

A friend was touring with his friends on motorbikes, one of them crashed just outside a hotel and was bleeding very bad, (skinned one side of his leg) some hotel staff rushed out and wrapped his leg in towels to help stop the bleeding, he later got ill because something from the towels caused an infection, he tried to sue the hotel, now none of his friends talk to him, the hospital said the hotel staff probably saved his life, that is one of the differences between American and many other places, some situations where suing is involved are very looked down upon or it never crosses our minds to sue in these situations, but suing is becoming bigger now to be honest

About 1 year ago I had these two weird skin obtrusions, one on my shoulder, one on my back. Of course, with my luck, they became inflamed. Laying on them at night became so painful I stayed awake the whole night because it was so bad. I had a appointment made with a skin clinic, but the clinic was so outbooked I could only get a appointment in mid December, I made it in September. That morning at around 7 am I phoned the hospital, asking them if I could come in and have it removed. They told me my Hausarzt (general doctor) could take care of it. I immediately got an appointment, and 1 hour later both obtrusions were gone. The cost: 0 €. The last time we had to "pledge allegiance" in Germany was around 1939 to 1945.

5:31 - There are a couple of cases of families suing each other - particularly the 'grandmother sues child for hugging her' style stuff - in the US which were done as a requirement to get their medical insurance to payout, sadly.

The Americans I've known. I've always been very towards me. What you say there is good and bad everywhere but I've never met a bad American XX I've met Americans in the UK where I live. And I am always very happy to speak to them.🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸

Angela's experience in the parking garage late at night is pretty much universal for women everywhere. That's exactly how we all behave if we are alone at night. Of course most of the time everything will be fine- but we can't assume that it will be.

13:00 Yes, this happens in other countries as well. Here in Germany we had something similar. Now guess in which 12 years of German that happened. As far as I know North Korea also has something similar.

About Healthcare: The expression is Free At The Point Of Use. Yes in the UK Healthcare is paid for from general taxation and NOT as some think from National Insurance. The latter pays for your State Pension and Unemployment Benefit.

Good video. Just one thing - 'free' prescriptions in Scotland are not subsidised by England. We pay for them through our own taxes here in Scotland. The reason our prescriptions are free is that it would actually cost more to administer a system where prescription medications are paid for, than it was to have a system where those same prescriptions were free, which is crazy but true!

The other point about universal Healthcare that's not usually mentioned is that because one organization does like 90% of all medicine provision, and their focus isn't profit, they have enormous buying leverage over the producers. Hence the price paid in uk for a particular drug is vastly less than that in Canada at least. Which leads to the crazy situation where Medicare in US costs more per capita than the NHS, yet only covers a fraction of the population

Welcome back! But take it easy guys with your new life🙂

My understanding with the Americans suing people for saving their life is that they are forced to by insurance companies. Like say you have your ribs broken during cpr or what ever, the insurance company won’t just cover that, they will try to shift as much blame onto others. So do you to have your medical costs covered you have to sue to person who saved your life. Similar if you slip and fall at your parents house, if they have insurance, to get a payout you need to sue your parents for damages. Am I wrong?

It is called the American dream, because You have to sleep to dream it

When I was 12 (1968, about 54 years ago), my dad drove my sister and me down to Florida from Montreal (Canada) to visit relatives in Miami. It was a great road trip, on the whole, but driving through Georgia was pretty scary for us. Not only because of the widely visible guns we saw in people's trucks and every gas station but the Klu Klux Klan billboards that lined the highways. As Jewish people just passing through, that was bad enough. I just can't imagine what African-Americans who grew up and lived in those communities felt like. Both scary and scarring, I imagine.

As a french student, since i as in school we have fire drill 3-4 time a year, and in certain areas tempest drill/ explosion-of-the-usine-next-to-the-city-who-release-lot-of-chemicals drill, depending where you live, but since the terrorist attack on Bataclan, and Charlie Hebdo ; they have add terrorist/gun armed attackers drills too. I was already in college when it happened, so I don't know how much smaller student have those kind of drill.

I personally feel America sues people so much is because they’re all about money rather than caring about each other. One reason other countries think the US is quite culty is because of them pledging to the flag. I think most women think like that. Men just don’t realise what it’s like.

A while back I also wondered why America still has nationalism and pledging allegiance to the flag so I googled it. An American had asked the question and the best answer came from another American who pointed out the fact that in Europe we experienced the worst possible outcome of nationalism in World War Two from the Nazis. Since then, most countries here have shied away from it. But America didn't experience the effects of it at home, so their nationalism was never directly brought into question. Not being American myself (I'm English) I don't know if that resonates, but it certainly made the most sense to me and I could see why it was voted the best answer!

Funny enough in France you can be sue if someone is in immediate danger near you and you do nothing. It's called " Non assistance a personne en danger" it translate as " Not assisting a person in danger" Technicaly that mean for exemple if you see an accident and stay on the side video taping with your phone, technicaly you break the law by not trying to help. Is it 100% enforced? no, but you can get in trouble very fast. Even Better a new law got passed recently that protect someone trying to save a life even if that persone is not trained to.

When I was a boy scout I learned the anthem, but it was the anthem of my province (Limburg) and not of my country (Netherlands). Later on when I went to watch a local (Belgium, but same named province) volleyball team play international matches that same provincial anthem would be sung before the match.

Loved the video! Thanks for sharing your insights and views.

Just after the second world war, early 1950s, I just recall at primary school having a weekly outdoor assembly of the whole school, one part of which was saluting the flag. It didn't last long before it was dropped and I suspect that it was a bit of patriotic hang over from the war years. As for the American attitude to their flag I remember once, while on attachment to the US army for a combined exercise that several of my fellow Kiwi officers were verbally assaulted ( by civilians) for not saluting the US flag at sundown lowering of the flag, despite our standings to attention respectfully facing the camp flag mast. We were in NZ uniforms, clearly not US personnel but even when this was explained it made no difference, we should salute anyway. A question from one of us as to whether or not they would salute our flag if in our country was totally rejected, they only salute the stars and stripes. For the rest of our time on that base we just avoided being out and about at that time if we could possibly avoid it.

So, for example, in Poland (we are an EU member), education is free at all stages, including university. Mandatory fees apply only to nurseries and kindergartens, but they include meals, drinks and various supplies needed for learning. Public universities do not charge fees for the tuition itself, of course the student must support himself and if he is from outside the city where his university is located, these costs can be excruciating. We also have private paid education in Poland at all levels. And while many private kindergartens and primary schools enjoy a very good reputation and are often better than public ones, high schools and universities are not. In any case, if you are a Polish citizen or - as a foreigner - you have obtained a Polish scholarship - you can study for free: at the bachelor's and master's level.

UK here. In the 70s we had nuclear bomb drills at school. We learnt how to hide under our desks. Because that would help ..

I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around us.

The only country I know of that had something similar to the pledge of the flag was Germany many years ago. Somehow they don't do that any more.

Canadian here. In 2020 i spent 2 weeks in hospital and had a pacemaker/defibrillator installed. Cost $0. Just last month i spent 1 week in hospital because of blood clots in my lungs. Cost $0.

I took my daughter to the ER in San Francisco 10 years ago. We were there about 3 hours and she got two C/T scans and then we were sent homw. Price: $10,000. But the ambulance was free - a gift to tourists from SFFD.

What really gets me that you actively have to think about a nationwide reported mass shooting. That you can't remember it off the top of your head. A question for you: what's worse: that there are so many shootings , or that the general public has become so accustomed to them that it requires actively tracking them to keep them separated in your mind? Either case, THAT definitely belongs into one of these videos.

Here in the uk, the most you will pay for medice is on a standard prescription and that's only about $18-20. You could go to the E.R spend the night there, have a bunch of xrays and MRI scans, get a bunch of funky drugs stay another night, then leave the next day and it would cost you.... Nothing! If you need any more modicine after that, they might give it to you as you leave (in which case it was free too) or if you need to get it from a pharmacy then you will get it at standard prescription price

6:35 Hi from Denmark. I think most people here like their work, also the working hours are not too bad so you have time to do leisure activities and sports. I play volleyball or coach a team almost every day. If I'm home from work sick, I don't feel like I can do that, so that sucks. Of course, you can go get some food in the supermarket, but besides that, I would stay home. Also, I feel like I make a difference for the kids I work with every day, and that makes me happy. Staying home all day watching TV is nice if you are actually sick, but if not it's really kind of boring and you feel like you miss out on life. Also, if people feel pressured to go to work sick, they will most likely pass whatever they got on to someone else, resulting in far more sick people. If people stay home, fewer people will get sick. From my experience, people are more likely to go to work when they should have stayed home, than stay home when they should have been working. That's what mainly pisses off the colleagues. Of course, there are some really few people who everyone knows probably call in sick to get a day off, but that's an extremely small minority.

The need to personally sue someone else when things go wrong arises partly from there not being a public system to cover costs. For example, is there compulsory third-party insurance associated with licensing a car in the US? 9that is you are insured against having to cover the costs of anyone or anything else you might incidentally damage).

Gratulations for Your son. Recently I did a road trip from Houston to Wichita, I NEVER saw that many fences,I travel worldwide. Even nature is private in the US, what a shame

the synchronization of the audio with the video is spectacular

Here in Canada we don't have any such pledge of allegiance. We just started the class but in assembly we had to stand for the Canadian National Anthem.

I've enjoyed your vids from the start, first time writing. I think you two would find the vid " has the American dream moved to Canada" available on the MacLean's site very interesting it ties into many of your interests, have a great day, Brent.

I actually grew up in Singapore and there is a national pledge for students to say there every school day as well. However, if you are NOT Singaporean, you're not required to do it. The pledge also doesn't pledge allegiance to Singapore, but towards building a democratic society. I thankfully didn't need to say it (though hearing it nearly every morning for years has ingrained it into me). I think it's longer than the Pledge of Allegiance though! It goes "We, the citizens of Singapore, pledge ourselves as one united people, regardless of race, language, or religion, to build a democratic society based on justice and equality, so as to achieve happiness, prosperity, and progress for our nation." Ironically, the USA officially considers Singapore a "benevolent dictatorship". I know through other discussions with friends (keeping in mind that this info is nearly a decade old) that South Korea, Algeria, Japan, The Philippines, India, Nigeria, and Indonesia have (or had) national pledges recited in schools by students. I don't know which of these countries still do it though. Heck, I don't even know if Singapore still does it (but I'm 90% sure they do).

The suing after an emergency treatment seems to be inevitable when you don't have socialised health care, because they need money to pay the medical bills. In Germany it's even kind of the other way round. You get a penalty if you don't help, because it's recommended by law to help. And as long as you don't make a very bad and stupid thing, you can not be sued from the victim by law.

To the comment that people take a sick day to get out of work, in Slovenia (as in most of Europe) you have to provide a doctors note to collect a sick day or days. The doctors usually estimate how long a sickness takes and they reschedule you to come in on the final days of the disease to check your status and if you need extra time or you can go back to work. As for the pledge of allegiance is practiced only in North Korea and through history a famous German regime had it practiced around the mid 30's and 40's of the 20th century, they famously didn't get along well with others.

I'm English and I became ill and was on the sick for ten weeks. I received full pay pay for 6 weeks. Then half pay for 4 weeks. The State made up my wagers to cover the short cummings because of my half pay. When i went back to work it was noted I had 1 sick time on my record.

The only gunshot I have heard since being in Cornwall for six years,was the bloke who came to put down a pig we had on our 6acre smallholding. Before that was many years previous in London when police shot a dangerous dog that was biting everyone. It’s just not a thing here. But straighteners (bare knuckle tear ups) are still quite common. The cowards who use knives now in our major cities are losers who will end up dead themselves or rotting in a prison cell.

I think maybe people sue each other in the US is because you can’t afford healthcare or time off work etc. so maybe people sue others to compensate for that? Would make sense why it’s not so much of a thing here in the U.K. and Europe where we have either free or very affordable healthcare and better sick leave.

That first clip, I have the complete reverse case happened to me. I'm not American, I was visiting US at that time, together with my little sister, basically vacation. I was 25, she was 23, we were on a Peter Pan bus. During this ride from NY to NH, there was this one guy who acted weird and aggressive, probably drunk or drugged, he was seated directly in front of me, together with a man dressed in sailor outfit who I assume is a navy seaman, they are not travelling together. Throughout the travel he was acting annoying, walking up and down the aisle talking up and disturbing strangers, when he wanted to sit back down, the navy guy refuses and they went into arguments. My mind the whole time was just annoyed, I didn't think much about it, except hoping it didn't turn into fight. Until... as the guy talked his hand went inside his jacket, and at that moment my mind completely freezes, "Hand in jacket... this is America, HE HAS A GUN!", that thought flashed by my mind in half a second, the navy guy was sitting right in front of my sister, I immediately positioned myself ready to throw myself on top of my sister the moment I see a gun, as I was in no position to grab the guy. When his hand came out empty, I breathed a huuuggeee sigh of relief and had cold sweat all over my body. He was eventually removed from the bus in the next stop. Apparently my sister was thinking the same thing as I was during the whole thing. It was scary.

I live in Scotland. There's a military training camp near where I live. I honestly can't think of a time where I had ever heard of a gun being shot in real life before I moved here. On days that there are firing exercises taking place, I can clearly hear gun fire if I step outside. It's so alien to me and although I have become accustomed to hearing it, it makes me uncomfortable every time. As to the women's safety thing, that's not something I think of as being particularly United Statesian. Women are attacked everywhere, including here. Obviously there are decent guys and sketchy guys everywhere but denying that is a little bit foolish, I think. I personally abhor violence against women as much as I do men who just don't get it and bash out the 'not all men' mantra!

Always nice to see you two

Been sometime since I watched...think it was the trip to the UK.....And WOW you have had a baby big hugs and stay strong together

I live in Wales. The only thing we learned was our National Anthem, and it’s in Welsh which not many people speak in South Wales. Welsh is taught in all schools. When I started at 5 the only thing I had to learn was to say “Hello Miss Thomas” when she came into the classroom. I have a feeling that US children learn the pledge in a “clockwork fashion”. Do they really understand it? Can children of that age know what it really means and abide by it? In your equivalent of High School we had to greet Sid Harris our Latin teacher in Latin, our French and Welsh teachers in the same way. We had names for them too, the Welsh teacher was Taffy Hughes and the French teacher was nicknamed Gateaux Edwards! We also learned how to ask in Latin to leave the room for the toilet. I can’t remember it now, it was 60 years ago! Our school was quite strict and believed in corporal punishment. Usually the dap (a local word for a plimsoll, or a light sneaker/training shoe). It was bend down, touch your toes and brace yourself. Typically, punishment was for not doing your homework, having dirty hands etc. you didn’t want the dap from Sid, a WRU match official, or Wyn Oliver the Gym teacher, they could swing a dap with force. The more senior teachers were softer, less force.