I've been asked by more than one American in various internet forums - "Why are there so many foreigners on our internet?"

Yes, stupid people all over the world, but I agree with the young man, 'Americans do it well'

As an Aussie, the big spiders aren't the dangerous ones, it's the little bastards you need to keep an eye out for.

years ago I made friends with some Americans through online gaming, still speak to some of them now. Some of them had me on Facebook and I uploaded a picture of my dog enjoying a day out at the beach and one of them commented (keeping in mind he was in his 30s) "wow, I've only just found out the UK has beaches". We're an island surrounded by water. That was a puzzling interaction.

I was visiting Florida from South Wales a few years ago. At Cape Canaveral the lady on the ticket desk asked where I was from and I said Wales. She went ‘oh yes, King David!’ I told her there was never a King David but our patron Saint is St. David and maybe she was confusing the two. She replied ‘ No, you’re wrong. I’ve read books, your ruler is King David!’ I honestly didn’t know what else to say because I apparently have no idea about my own country and she was not backing down! She even told me to go and learn my history, she just couldn’t handle being told she was wrong!

I have watched an American gentleman quoting from the American Constitution when stopped by British Police - amazing memory with a complete lack of understanding for where he was - he was arrested with extreme politeness. Doubtless the Duty Solicitor explained his rights and wrongs. Probably let off with a caution. The thing that does anger me greatly is the way some tourists treat our military Guards and I have heard Americans arguing with our police that they are just a tourist attraction like Disney, well they are not they are Regular Army.

I grew up in China and went to an (American) international school (95% of the staff and about 65% of the students were from the US). Every year the senior class would sell tshirts to raise money for their senior trip. One year, they sold one that said “I ride a panda to school”. I just thought it was funny and just a silly thing to say 😂 But then I went to the US for a month when I was 16. I wore the shirt around the ADULTS I was volunteering with, and they all asked me what it was like to ride a panda. They didn’t ask if it was true, they just wanted to know how soft they were, how slow they are, if everyone has one… I genuinely thought they were joking at first

On holiday inn Barcelona, I was watching a bunch of American tourists coming away from a docked cruise ship. One guy looked confused and asked his friends why all the locals were speaking Mexican.

I lived and worked in the US for a while. We had a new (US) employee in the office and he asked where I came from "Cambridge", I said. "Oh", he said, "Mass". I said no, the original one in England. Whereupon a long discussion about how many of the places in the US were, to his complete surprise, named after places in the rest of the world. Worse, this was in Atlanta which is halfway between Rome and Athens... Nice guy though! :-)

European here: On every trip to the USA, I feel like I enter a twilight zone from the moment I cross the US border until the moment I leave the USA. During my stays in the States, without missing a week, I am asked questions like: Do you have cars in your country?; Have you seen fireworks before?; How come you speak English, and you haven’t been in the States?; You used PC’s since the early nineties?! Did you get them as a donation from America?... It seems that it is hard for many Americans to comprehend that there are parallel technological advancements in other parts of the world that do not feel the necessity to copy America nor are necessarily falling behind.

Visiting a friend in New Mexico some years ago, I went to Walmart to buy Xmas stuff and presented my UK Credit Card at the checkout. The cashier looked puzzled by it and I told her I was from England. She had not seen one from UK before. Then she said..." You speak very good English, do they speak English in England" I politely said "yes, they do" and left. My American friend was mortified and so apologetic but I thought is was hilarious!

As an European, I'm starting a petition for the whole world to come together and build a wall around the us, PLEASE!

In 2015 I (an Australian) was travelling down the east coast of the USA and I remember in New York I was asked by a waitress how long I'd been away from "Austria". I told her I had never been, I was from Australia. She replied, " Isn't Austria short for Australia? You know like an abbreviation."

My friend bumped in to an American in Glasgow many years ago. She bumped in to them on George Square. The American thanked her for us naming the square after their president "it's such a nice thing to do" 😅. My friend had to explain that not only has the UK had a couple of kings called George, but also the streets and squares were built and named long before George Bush 😂.

had a holiday in Vegas many years ago and caught the monorail whilst talking to my father in-law an American guy heard our accent and got all excited and asked if we were from Northern Ireland as well.. we said yes and he asked did we know his friend and proceed to grab a man a few feet away from him to present him to us... we all burst out laughing at the idea that a country of over 1.8million people and he thinks we all know each other by name....... but turned out the guy only lived a few miles from us 😂😂😂

My daughter who lives in York went on a school trip to New York At JFK airport they caught a bus. The driver said. “You guys speak amazing English for a bunch of Europeans”

I'm originally from Wales, now living in North Carolina, a work colleague asked where I was from, I told him Wales, he thought I drove home every day, another thought Wales was in Chicago!!!

I was teaching English in Japan and when a teacher from America found out I was from the UK she loudly asked "Do you teach proper American English? You should be teaching American English so the students understand both" I asked her if she teaches British English as well as American and she replied "No, because she is American"

"The British are so close to Europe." It's almost as if...they're IN Europe.

In 2015, days after arriving in Maryland, a bunch of us were out one day and there was a very loud and opinionated guy (friendly though) who was chatting with a group near ours. At one point he starts saying how many black people never go to Africa and turns around and singles me out and says, "Like you, my brother, I can tell you've never been to Africa!" My response is the one thing that got him to keep quiet, "Dude, I'm from Zimbabwe. I just got here on Monday". Everybody in that place laughed and his volume was low afterwards.

I know a lady that lives there in the US I'm from AU anyways, this was like 15/20 years ago we used to chat on Skype and her & her hubby at the time was talking & she said we need to come over to Australia some time and to keep this short... She asked what's the best way to travel here & we said by plane and she goes " What about by car & she looks at her Hubby & said we can just drive there can't we?" The look on her Hubby's face was priceless HA HA HA we all said to her where do you think Australia is? I can't remember where she said but somewhere down south of the US.

Comedy gold! From now on I will not be able to help thinking of our new king as Aquaman! Swimming around beneath the waves, talking to seaweed and addressing his whale subjects!

As an American that has been in the UK for nearly eleven years - The dumbest questions or comments my fellow Americans have said or asked me. How can you stand waiting months just to see your GP? (I do not) The longest I've ever waited is 10 days for a non-emergency concern. This was on the tale-end of the plague. I've waited longer in the US to see my GP. How can you stand living under Socialist Rule? (Please go back to school or google what Socialism is.) ...And my favorite. (I'd rather live in Scottland than the UK) This one made me laugh so hard... I'm sure there are more, but those are at the top of my head. Thanks for the fun video!

I've only been to the USA once, I spent 3 days in New York in 1989. I'm from Birmingham, I was asked if Birmingham was in London, I was asked if England was in France, I was asked if I was Australian because I called somebody mate and Crocodile Dundee says mate, I was told Birmingham was tiny compared to Manchester by a taxi driver who reckoned he'd been to both ( no it isn't but he knew more than me apparently ) and I was told to speak English, but I'll let that one pass as I do have a broad Brummie accent.

To me an American who once said you have those quaint sports that no one really plays -like cricket. Dude there are 4x as many fanatical cricket fans in Asia than there are citizens in the US.

“It doesn’t make sense to speak Spanish if you’re not Mexican.” Spanish people: “…QUE?!”

What made me feel a bit annoyed at times when I was travelling through the USA that for the mere fact of being German I was considered an expert on Nationalsocialism and expected to be always willing to talk about this topic. Others thought it would be a terrible taboo for us. I often thought, gosh, you've got an obsession with this issue not me.

When I was a kid (I'm an American from Kansas), I didn't really believe that anyone lived in Rhode Island, because it was too little on the map. The state name wouldn't even fit on it. Fortunately, that ignorance didn't last long.

I helped an American tourist in Frankfurt to the right platform for the Airport. He said my English was really good. I said thanks but I am English. He didnt understand what I meant even when I said I come from England this is my first language...

I was In America and Had been there three weeks was at a lunch and was asked by an American how long have I been In America I said three weeks and they said that I do speak very good English for being over here In America I come from Scotland.

Durring the early 1990s I worked taking "more mature" people round The Peak District national park Derbyshire England Too many too mention here are a few .... it was so nice that places serverd coffee just because Americans where visiting ....we took bets on who from each tour would be the most surprised when we drove passed McDonalds ....being asked what we did for Thanksgiving and 4th of July but being surprised we celebrated Christmas .... why a house dating from 1570s was built over looking a freeway .... why did we use a bus with a door on the left side as that was very confusing .... but my favourite the first words said to me by one lady..... "I hope everyone in the hotel is like you and can speak English, they didn't last time I was in Europe"

I was recently in the US and a woman noticed my English accent, she asked me where I was from and I said “I’m from England” to which she replied “I think you mean New England, honey…” 🤦🏻‍♂️

I lived in Michigan for a few years, and told one American I'm from Wales. They said you're Australian. I said no Wales the country. They said yes... In Australia. They would not have it that Wales was not in Australia.

Guys, stupid is totally universal. I live in Aus. and work in retail, so believe me, I hear stupid every day.

And a country with such intelligent people has atomic bombs. So sad.

As I'm from Finland I don't expect Americans to know anything about my country. Even the Swedes don't really, ACTUALLY know anything about Finland, and we have a land border to them, and used to be a part of Sweden for like 600 years. So I'm happy if someone from Europe knows something about us, and outside of Europe it's going to be a celebration on the streets 🎉

Even in Spain, they speak different variations of the language e.g. Castilian or Andalusian. In fact there are 11 recognised (distinct), 'Spanish Dialects' spoken across the world; while they can all communicate with one another, they speak different types of Spanish. One in the 'UK BOT'* is the Gibraltarian, Llanito. It's a combination of Andalusian Spanish and British English (but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Maltese and Portuguese). EDIT: *Sorry, meant to say a BOT = a British Overseas Territory (and a holder of a UK Passport can just travel there as if it where part of Great Britain & Northern Ireland).

The coworker with the snapped ID? Should have asked the cashier and/or manager for their ID. To prove that any ID can be broken like that. Since *they* claimed a real ID can't, only fake IDs can be snapped, there wouldn't have been any risk, right? But of course, people like that are not reachable with logic.

My uncle used to work in US as dishwasher, and people was surprised we have houses in Czech Republic. He told them everyone live in house (or apartment), he used to live in brick house and had Škoda car, which are pretty common in our country (almost all houses are brick ones, and Škoda is made there). But were extremly expensive in US. They thought he is rich and so he don’t need that work, they fired him for it.

The one with the Irish girl being told she's not Irish because she's black that series is a good one

I get so upset when I tell people I’m from Narnia…. 😂😂😂

I visited Miami back in the 80’s and called into a store to buy some gifts. The woman behind the counter asked me where I was from and I told her I was from Wales. She then asked me if I knew the address of Eric Clapton’s accountant???? like I was suppose to know everyone in Wales.🤔🤔🤔

I was recently in Tokyo and while I was there I witnessed an American at the front desk of the hotel I was staying at and neither side could understand one another, so since I knew a decent bit of Japanese I offered to translate. Afterwards we got into the same lift along with a Japanese woman and the guy asks me questions about where I'm from and when I said I'm from Australia he asked if I had driven or flown to Tokyo...

I'm from Europe and I was traveling in the USA. A US-American woman asked me if we have shops and cinemas in Europe. I was shocked by her ignorance.

It’s not the big spiders you have to worry about. The small ones are more deadly.

Speaking of TSA, I was visiting America for vacay and I had a brand new passport. You know those things do expire. Something that completly confused the TSA agents. They asked if I had been to America before, and I said I had. TSA: BuT yOu hAvE nO StaMPs!!1 ME: it's a brand new passport. Stamps don't get transfered over to the new one. I ended up spending over an hour being interogated by Imigration officers about why I didn't have stamps in my passport if I had been here before.

You have a lot of dangerous animals in America. Most of them carry automatic weapons.

I knew that guy was a Dane as soon as he opened his mouth, and I think I can even tell what region in Denmark he's from based on his accent alone.

"It doesn't make sense to speak Spanish if you're not Mexican." I am reminded of the classic Bud Bundy observation about what happens when "you pour a gallon of knowledge into a shotglass of a brain. Something's gonna spill."

First device that could be fully identified as programmable computer, was developed in early 19th century by British engineer Charles Babbage and programmed by Ada Lovelace. It was mechanical machine, but it featured all concepts that we associate with computers. Generally speaking, computers weren't invented abruptly, the idea was familiar to mathematicians for centuries, and a lotof prototypes were made around the world during mainly 19th and 20th centuries.

In high school, a girl asked me where I’m from and I said I was born in Taiwan but raised in Hong Kong. She was like “oh Hong Kong? Cool, you guys speak Chinese right?” I replied “we speak Cantonese there yes”. She looked confused and said “I thought you guys spoke Chinese?” I was like uhhhh and said “Cantonese is a Chinese language, there’s over 300 languages in China”. She was like “wow I had no idea!”….yeah clearly

I had someone from Baltimore who asked, "do you celebrate Christmas in England"?!

I remember going to a play on Shaftesbury Avenue in London in the early 1980’s. The only two people in the audience was a young American man and myself, however for some reason they sat us both together. He said he had a couple of hours spare the following day and wanted to know, where Stonehenge was and how to get there without a car. I suggested that was a tad ambitious as it is in Wiltshire and not easy to get to by public transport. As soon as the play started he fell asleep for the entire performance including the interval. Funny, I still wonder to this day if he ever got to Stonehenge.

My sweetest "American moment" was when i was visiting the USA and a friend asked me why i did not drive and i said that i did not bring my drivers license, to that she asked me "But how do you get on airplanes then?" As only around 12 % of United Stater's have *PASSPORTS* i can understand how it can be confusing.

my first visit to America in the 70's , aged 10, I was asked do you have television... I politely explained (whilst laughing) we invented it!

I'm from Switzerland, and there's one american guy said that I could not claim myself as a European because according to him Switzerland and Europe are two different countries. Sigh.

that cashier could have gone to jail or at least been fined heavily for breaking the ID like that. I believe it's considered a government document and is technically still owned BY the government and what she did was highly illegal.

I'm British 🇬🇧 (English) I was on holiday in Greece a few years ago and got chatting to a couple while we were on a fishing trip - I said whereabouts in Australia are you from - because of their accent - they said South Africa lmao 😆😆😆😆😆 I felt a proper dumbo how did I mistake South African accent for Australian 🙄🤷

Hi Team v entertaining nb The excerpt of a clip from this series I can't get over is An American woman out in a Uk street telling whoever just had brill breakfast @ G R eggs a brit walking by corrected her ( it's Greggs) But undeterred she went back to say how gr8 GR eggs were 😆

“Wait, so he’s like Aquaman?” 🤣🤣😂😂😂

3:24 and 6:55 I love the Australian's and the Kenyan's responses 😂

i can relate to the spanish thing...i once practisd latin with a friend of mine in a cafe - then this woman comes along and listens in "your spanish sounds weird" "ahm...yeah because its not spanish its latin." "Honey naming it something else doesnt make it less racist" "huh?" "White people speaking spanish is offensive" "....how?" "you are appropriating the mexican culture" "....you are aware that...SPANiSH....was spoken by...SPANIARDS....in places like....SPAIN....centuries before it ever got to the americas right?" "oh dont be silly spain is a language not a country"

If it's any consolation, Americans aren't the only ones kept ignorant about the rest of the world. When I lived in China, I once had an older Chinese guy try for 15 minutes to convince me, a Swede, that Sweden isn't a country but a city - the capital of Germany, in fact. Though I will say it irks me a bit when, for instance, someone writes 'the country' online without specifying further, or say things like 'the internet is American, so please speak English'. Thank you so much for doing this reaction, it gives me some hope for the US, at least. :)

Hilarious 😂!! Thanks for your great reaction 🤗Greetings from Finland 😄

Love the chemistry between you guys , you absolutely bounce off each other 👍

That student had to be going for laughs! The old 'playing dumb seeing how far you can push it without getting rumbled' routine. I'm sure the students enjoyed it.

Thanks for being open to the option of variations of the same language! Spanish, Indonesian, Chinese and even English (UK, USA, New Zealand, Canada etc and of course Australia)! Also thanks for calling out racism. Americans can be too insular and god knows their limited knowledge of the wider world can be - to be blunt - scary. I blame the militarised schooling system... Subscribed! And OMG King Charles III is the Prince of Whales? (Actually that is William now...) Sigh!

I was told that I have a nice accent, 'so I replied, I like your accent too! That woman went of the wall by saying she wouldn't have an accent.

Angela yes we speak English in the UK, but don't blame us by saying that we started it 😁

Ethan, you had me spitting my tea all over the computer with that Aquaman line!

The clip you picked is awesome and seemingly (sadly for you) true I think our Geography and History education covers a wider spread of knowledge.

Someone from USA told me I wasn't latina because I'm white. They also didn't believe Argentina is a mostly white country 😐 they actually didn't know Argentina was in south America tho 😅

I lived in Nashville for 4 years. Whilst in Lowes, the server asked where in Australia I was from, I said London (being ironic), she said 'London is in Australia?'

I'from Portugal, and the first time I went to the States, a guy in a bar asked me if in my country we have dinosaurs amung us. And I kindly answered - Yes, we have! Actually, I ride one to the office! On this trip to U.S. I was with an Austrian friend, and a taxi driver asked us where we came from. Austria and Portugal. He stopped the cab truns to us and, very angry, he said, " In English is Australia, not Austria." We couldn't believe in what we herded. Funny times in the States.

I like this a lot" english are close to europe" thats right, 40 km away. Even though they have a tunnel, still drive on the wring side of the road😂😂😂

Australia is a very nice place, and I wouldn't worry too much about the spiders here. We have some beauts, I will not deny, but it isn't like they are commonplace in the cities. It's like refusing to visit the USA because you are worried about getting bitten by a rattlesnake or eaten by a bear. Prince Charles as Aquaman? The mind boggles/ :)

Regarding the Alabama couple it should have been pointed out that there is a difference between Wales and whales!

You are so right about Spanish! There is a place I go to in Gran Canaria where the language and accent is so different from Spain. I also have a friend there from Argentina, who specifically teaches us Canarian Spanish and says how different it is 😊

The US is the land of the free.Cracks me up every time.

Everything that wants to kill you in under 30 minutes lives in or around Australia you should probably visit New Zealand I hear that the fellowship has the whole "orc" thing pretty much under control.

Canadian here. My sister in law works at the local McDonald's and she said American's come in and speak very slowly when placing their order. The cashier said, "okay...what..can I...get ..you." They were so shocked. They said, "I thought you all spoke French in Canada. She also said that they get very mad that they can't order the same thing in Canada as they have in America.

You can use buttons to change the language on websites but they use other means, too. Things like geolocation (basically a host of techniques that include GPS, IP lists with assigment to countries, communication with internet services and so on) or system settings. that makes actually really annoying to set up a new system when one is outside of the US but is fluent in english (since many services are natively in english it is better to use that instead of having to endure lackluster translations). When installing the operating system one chooses the language. Then one has to look where one can set the location so the right units and formats are used. Then one has to visit all the websites and find out what one has to do to use them in the language one wants because the sites can use any of many ways to set the language. And, if one is very lucky, one then has to set the used units on the websites, too.

It is a crime to actually destroy a valid ID...I would have called the police and pressed charges on her. Cops could have looked at the info on the license and verified it was valid.

The lad questioned as to where he learned how to speak English must have impressed the Border Force Agent in how well he speaks English.

Dumbest thing an American ever said to me “you’re speaking American” when we were both in England 😂

Spider bites don’t hurt as bad as being shot whilst sitting a history exam.

"So he's Aquaman or something?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That guys comment at 6:55 - absolute classic!

Paris isn’t “almost as well known” haha it is just as well known as London, New York etc. It’s one of the most famous cities in the world 😂

Here's a little something for you both to enjoy and it's something of a reversal. I lived in Canada for almost seven years as a landed immigrant from here in the U.K. and I returned to this country with a very broad Canadian accent. After this experience all British people can take my word for it that the guaranteed best way to p!ss off any Canadian is to ask them where they're from in the U.S.A. On a similar theme I remember when I first returned over here that it was a real nuisance when I used to go out clubbing and I got asked similar questions to that such as " When are you going home? " or " Where do you come from? ". It eventually got to the point that I got so fed up with those questions and I just said in answer to that first question " Like anyone else when this place closes and we all get kicked out of here! " and in answer to the second one I got a lot more sarcastic and very graphic in that I replied with " Like any other man....from my 'knob'. " The icing on the cake for me was when my own mother came out with the term " Gee whizz...." one day several weeks after I returned and I had to tell her to stop it because it just made her sound silly. It's a sorry state of affairs when she did that because she thought that all Canadians regularly used that phrase and she was trying to sound 'modern' so as to fit in with her perception of the way that Canadians spoke and it was her way of helping me to readjust to living back here in England. She obviously learned from that experience with me because mercifully she never did it again. So you can see for yourselves that it is possible to insult three countries all at once, i.e. British people assuming that a Canadian or someone with a Canadian accent is from the U.S.A., isn't it? If it's any consolation to you two, stupidity such as that isn't confined to the U.S.A. - it's sometimes an international thing, isn't it?

The big question is : HOW do you put Puerto Rico there ? Just use some big Sikorsky Skycranes who lift it into the air and fly it to its new destination ? 🤔 Thats just so damned crazy 😄😄

An American tourist visiting Windsor asked why the castle (almost 1,000 years old) had been built on the flightpath for Heathrow airport. Ours are genuine buildings built way back, not some recent copy like you find in a theme park.

haha hit like at "so he's like Aquaman or something?" excellent!

When I was in California I was talking to a girl who said “oh you’re from the UK? My friend Peter is in the UK. Do you know him?” ….. um there are 60 million people in the UK, can you narrow it down or something ? There must be at least a million people called Peter..

Actually I haven’t had an American say anything really dumb to me. The closest is surprise at how old some of the stuff is in the UK. But when you don’t grow up with buildings that are centuries old all over the place it’s probably natural to go wow a lot when you visit somewhere they’re common, and when you do grow up with that it’s easy to forget about it and assume everyone knows that this style of church is Saxon or that palace was Henry VIII’s or this sea-fort was built for the Napoleonic Wars. Most Americans abroad are probably nice people and genuinely interested in finding out about the place they’re visiting. And of course they usually tip well.

You guys are so great! Greetings from Antigua!

Once in South Carolina me and my wife were asked if we were from England, since we were not speaking English to one another.

Last summer I came across a couple from America in Portaferry in N Ireland.They were searching for 'the ferry. So I pointed directly above their heads They were literally standing under a sign approximately 5 feet by 1.5 feet that said 'TO THE FERRY'. I sort of burst out laughing. Lucky for me so did they . Great people. We had meal that night.

I told a guy in a pizza shop in Florida I was British, then he started ranting about Kings and Queens, so I backed out slowly....

I taught several US-Americans my language in my country (Germany) and the vast majority was super nice, polite, educated, sweet and fun to be around.