@@elizabeth-gt8rv That's indeed a dumb comment :)

I hate these WII/Nazi questions personally...

Have you taken the vaccine? That’s a dumb question. Of course, not.

„ouioui, baguette, croissant“

@@elizabeth-gt8rv please report bots!

Man kennts.Wenn der Aschenbecher voll ist muss ein neues Auto her 😁

Lol.. My brother buys AMGs..... does tune ups...re- sells them for $10,000 more.

Germany is the only country commiting suicide faster than the Blue States in the U.S....other than Austrailia. And you guys question our Second Amendment? Who's the backward fools now? Everyone in West Virgina owns a fuckin' mountain.

I used to see car washes (the big machines with the giant brushes) when I was little, but now I just see car washers (guys with cloths and power soakers handwashing your car). I think they do a better job than the machines. I don't know if it's like that everywhere, or if it's just in my area. UK

I used to see car washes (the big machines with the giant brushes) when I was little, but now I just see car washers (guys with cloths and power soakers handwashing your car). I think they do a better job than the machines. I don't know if it's like that everywhere, or if it's just in my area. UK

Well, we had airports in the 1770s. Trump said so.

LOL

So your lazy a$$ won't have to walk so far! Just jking - I'm a lazy American myself :)

How about some directions, from Ireland? "Turn right half a mile before the post office." Or the company telephone directory, arranged numerically, rather than alphabetically - so you had to know someone's number, to find them... Or the factory, whose out of hours switchboard operator was registered deaf, so couldn't hear anyone when they answered the phone..

This one sounds like it was probably meant as a joke. A funny one, I think

EVERY European LOVES to humble-brag about how many languages they speak! but guess what: we ALL speak English now, dont we! why is that?

@@inconnu4961 not every europeen speaks english! the people who do had to study it! i spent 6 months in London, that cost a lot of money! People thinking we all just speak english so the (native) English speaker don't need to educate themself while visiting our counties, really annyos me!

@@inconnu4961thank the British :D

@@inconnu4961 Well, YOU tell us why we all speak English. What do you think? My opinion to this subject is that many people speak English because compared to other languages it's a very simple one with almost zero grammar: no declination, no conjugation. The only difficult thing in English is the prononciation which has no logic whatsoever.

​@@inconnu4961Hello! Many don't speak English very well. They cannot speak English fluently.

Absurd, but not uncommon.😒😒

Today I've learned that we Europeans live in the future xD

I sometimes jokingly greet my American friends "from the future" at New Year's Day. Now I'm uncertain if they knew I was joking...

Perhaps they were thinking in terms of the realms of the multiverse, non-lineal time and other such dimensions haha

@@elisabethnm4492 living in Australia, we are way ahead of you in that regard! :)

I guess back then that was still true but afaik braun is made in china aswell these days

​@@johnuferbach9166 A lot of the design still happens in the headquarters country of these manufacturers. Things are just put together in China.

Do you have kitchens? Or do wizards make all your food 🤪🥴🤣

Braun is a relatively common name in the U.S. as well. American names tend to come from everywhere.

@@scottfrench4139 Also across Europe it is a very well known brand name.

@Das Fusselwind: beyond* (not "behind") 🙄

Civilization actually starts at their border

@@pablohammerly448 I used Google translate "The lint wind"? I do not understand the meaning of that phrase." so it is more an inside joke...for you & your buds.

@@davedaring9823 Could be too as she was a nanny she did not have access to 230V receptacles for her electric stuff.(they use the round pin type of wall outlet) so she has nothing electrical with her. Australia has 240V but it is the flat tangs similar to 120V but the tangs are bent inward like "/ \" so I could bend my elec shaver tangs in with pliers and turn the setting on the shaver to 240V (from 120 V)and use it.

Somehow i just believe it starts outside of their border

That's funny

hahahaha 😂

The principal of the high school in rural Illinois I attended in 1974/75, who was really a terrific, educated guy in spite of being out in the sticks and running a tiny high school, told me the story that he once was at a party and mentioned that he'd love to go to Europe, but that he felt that the flight was too expensive for him. Then one of the other guests asked him, "Why don't you drive?"

i feel like folks need to give this more likes but yea this aint just americans

She should not be allow to teach!

What you needed to do is turn the map upside-down and observe the one-eighty of her believes.

I'd give her a slight pass on this one. In America, there are basically no rivers of any significance that flow south to north. At least not any that would be delineated on a national map. Some flow west to east or vice versa, but they all basically trend south eventually.

Rivers like... The Nile?

@@johnsilcox8 Well the Mackenzie river is pretty damn large, (and looks _extremely large_ on a flat earther map) and also goes from South to North. Is Canada considered to be in America, or is Amurica only the USA? Yes, most rivers goes horizontally, but when two large rivers goes from south to north, and one of them being _The_ largest in the world, this theory just doesn't hold out...

Neo-Nazi in the U.S. ? Just drive the backroads of Indiana !

Germany has outlawed a lot of the Nazi stuff. Many years ago when the American TV show "Hogan's Heroes" aired on German TV, I read in the papers they had to dub the Nazi salute into German as "the corn grows this tall".

English is quicker and simpler, but german is way more descriptive and precise. Most languages have something going for them, but english is in no way the better or superior to german.🤷🏼‍♀️😂😂

Have they not yet built bridges along the Aleutians to connect Russia with Alaska?

@@scottfrench4139 Luckily, no. That's called the "bridge to nowhere".

In "America"... Well...no. in the US.

Oh well, I went to Vienna with a German friend many years ago. She also struggled to find the „German one“ because the German one had a Austrian flag on it. I think she just forgot at that moment that we were in Austria

​@PollyRizova sure...ww1 and ww2, they said: the central Americans are coming or the Columbians south Americans. NO!!! THEY KNEW. AND SO DO YOU

But you have to damit - there is a difference 🇬🇧🇺🇲 innit?😅

I hear that they have a lot of trouble moving those big stones around when the time changes to daylight savings time.

Well those three items were all invented by Americans. Unfortunately I think Americans believe all other countries are third world. All the poor crossing our borders to the south.

Actually the refrigerator and the first working plane was invented in usa. Also the car wasn't a fully german invention, cause for example the combustion engine wasn't a German invention but an Italian one "Barsanti and Matteucci" combustion engine. I'm European, but stupidity is a global issue.

@@solinvictus1234 thats why I use the phrase "most likely".

then you should've continued before 1795 1793 1763 1762 or 1226 because borders in Europe are indeed a very confusing thing especially the german borders and their Drang nach Osten

@@mikesmith7517 Most people are very ignorant about that in the entire ‘New World’. As a Brazilian from a very German region I find it difficult to find people even with German ancestry who understands that. People just assume borders in Europe are intact since Middle Ages 🙄

I imagine many US people wouldn't realise the German/Poland borders changed considerably after WW2.

the borders of the continental US haven't changed in over 150 years, so it's hard to imagine modern countries changing borders in the last century

I was aware of that as a child, but only because my dad explained it to me - my great grandfather came from a part of Germany that's now part of Poland. But I don't remember that being taught in school. I can see why a lot of folks in the U.S. aren't aware of that.

@hognoxious This was one is not bad! 😅

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@hognoxious 😄😁😂🤣

@hognoxious Huh? German has a similar basic sentence structure as English does, subject - verb - object, with the exception of split verbs and subclauses...

@hognoxious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥

I am also from Bavaria. Here since 1992. LA, CA. Same thing WW2 Hitler Not only Autobahn, LOL, if we Germans can drive without speed limit everywhere. LOL Do we have freedom LOL

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Yes, It is the same nonsense as people who insist that in the US we "speak American". No such language. It is called ENGLISH! My wife is from Peru by the way. She hated English at first!

Oh, so you think US patriots are dumbasses? Nah, even the open borders lot are just as dumb, sorry.

You could have also said that you speak Spanish because the many native languages of Peru: Aymara Quechua Kichwa Ashaninka Jaqaru Aguaruna Arawan Jaqaru aren't used much outside of South America.

Oh wow. Mind blowing :)

My cell phone service won't work outside my country. I'd have to buy one after I get to my destination. Maybe he was thinking that way. A lot of people can't afford the cell phone services that work beyond the borders. All I can afford is about $10 a month for a cell so I use Tracfone (which is pretty useless internationally). Just trying to find a reason why he said that.

@@annbstitched that’s just not very smart as well: why buy a new phone if you can purchase a SIM from a local provider so you can use the local services? People who go abroad regularly do this all the time, but I guess most Americans hardly leave US territory when they travel

I mean, I can kinda understand his confusion. Obviously we all import and export goods, but I’d imagine there are quite popular cellphone manufacturers in Germany that nobody in the us would buy and use here. But of course the iPhone is sooo popular it’s exported to every country on earth, had it been any lesser common phone brand I’d get it.

@@abelgreen5046 It's the same companies in both countries (and most of the rest of the world). The Americas and Europe use (or used?) different frequencies so 10+ years ago some phones wouldn't work in the other place, but modern phones can handle everything.

That's hella wholesome

Had a similar experience when I met a couple of younger German gals in a pub in Colorado...I was listening to them gassing each other when I chimed in with my best high school German....they appeared to be stunned for a moment, when one of them said Ach, das ist Hoch Deutsch....what elder college professors speak....she explained that most common Germans spoke Platz Deutsch....which is the name used for Low German versus Hoch Deutsch or High German.....what that has to do with anything is beyond me

@@davidmclane4145 nah. Although we have at least 7 different dialects, Plattdeutsch (the one they meant) is a very localized dialect. Hochdeutsch, or High German is the standardized variant

so, do you had a date with her or not??

I was expecting a dumb question but that's wholesome of you

Fun fact, even 'muricans are allowed to travel.

But it comes from a place of ignorance and lack of education so it's still offensive

It is not offensive if you politely ask, just annoying. But believe me, most questions are not out of curiosity from children, but people that blatantly assume that Europe is a medieval continent with horsecarts, minstrels and some screeching witches in the forests.

@@Widdekuu91 LOL ! 🤣

@@jamesr1703 I'm serious. Two Valleygirls complained about the lack of goats, others wondered if there was a horsecart from SchipholAirport to the hotel, they were expecting 'mud-roads' and complimented (backhanded) the airport out loud for being 'almost as clean as the USA" (while a cleaner was scrubbing the floor that their heels touched with bleach, of all things.) I've had people ask me where they could get safe water, because 'obviously the tapwater was not drinkable' because it 'did not have any chlorine' and was therefore 'infected with parasites, drugremains and filth' and they also didn't dare to walk into buildings like churches, because those could 'collapse any second.' The church has been standing since about 6000 years, but sure, Hank will walk into it and that'll be the final blow that makes the church collapse. People have panicked about the dangerous streets of Amsterdam, but instead of panicking about the dangers of walking into the bikelane (which they should nót do, and instead just walk onto) they are telling me that they are afraid of getting their food drugged by a café, like 'in the movies' and then they'll be sodomized by strangers and sold onto the sexmarket, 'like in taken.' I assured them nobody would drug you for free, we are famously keen on making money here, so if your brownie stinks of hash, and it costs more than a normal one, and you look around and see weed-leafs everywhere and the sign above you says; 'Coffeeshop!' with weedleafs and people around you are smoking and Bob Marley music is playing in the background, then it is safe to assume you walked into a drugbar. They famously advertise the drugs, otherwise the tourists wouldn't find it. We don't 'drug you for fun' so that we can clean up the floor after an overwhelmed American vomits on it. There is no time for such nonsense, there is money to be made. I can't give anyone guarantees, but I can assure you the chances of the following fears happening are slim; 1. Witnessing prostitutes fuck animals and humans on the street (They famously have windows and they don't fuck animals) 2. Seeing gay people fuck on the street (they famously have wonderfully designed houses and stylish bedrooms for that.) 3. Having people kidnap you like Liam Neeson's daughter to sell your American-style bodies on the dark web. 4. Invite you over for a lovely cup of tea and then announce a spontanious orgy 5. Offer you free sex, with the sole purpose of spreading diseases 6. Giving your tourist-teenagers euthanasia-pills because they mentioned they are depressed 7. Casually killing your grandma with euthanasia-pills because that's what we get off on 8. Marry you and then reveal we are now 3 people in a marriage (Fox News was convinced we did this) 9. Beat you up, because we saw a cross on your neck and we consume Christian blood Street-cons WILL however....pickpocket you, so watch out

Why do you say "US American"? It's like saying "Teutonic Germans". It's redundant.

@fg K I'm Canadian, and it is not only redundant, it's a tad insulting, though we're usually too polite to say it. Why do you think we put our flag on our luggage when we go abroad? We don't want to be mistaken for Americans.

@fg K Thanks, but I don't need a European teaching me geography, much less one who thinks that a viewpoint from across the Atlantic should apply to our culture, about which I'm guessing you're not completely informed. Some of us Canadians aren't terribly impressed with the hypocritical neocolonialist attitude of Europeans. I don't particularly care what my European ancestors decided to call the land they stole from the peoples of these continents. "American" has been the word we've used for citizens of the United States of America for more than 2 centuries. There is well established historical precedent for that usage. I see no reason to change that just because some Europeans need to feel smugly superior. "Did you know you're actually Americans?" That's more than a tad condescending, don't you think? Besides these continents were given other names by the indigenous peoples. Calling them "Americans" is a bit dodgy since they've only been "American" for a couple of centuries. For thousands of years, they were something else entirely.

@fg K Maybe it's because I'm North American that I feel more entitled to be mystified by that. Lol. I mean seriously. I have a few Brazilian friends and I tease them about it.

@fg K I also use the phrase "American exceptionalism", and I feel much the same as she does about it, I just don't see it as applying to that particular word. Besides, it is a convenient way to refer to a specific entity. Granted, stereotyping people is bad, but there is a definite mindset/worldview/culture that we all understand immediately as "American". It is not shared by the other cultures of the Americas. If "American" means all of us, what do we call that cultural entity? The point of using the word like that is to differentiate ourselves from them. I'd be interested in your Argentinian friend's take on that point, actually. I'm guessing she's as keen to differentiate her culture from theirs as I am.

I'm Dutch and an American woman (that I knew through Postcrossing (one time penpal, basically) asked me if we had internet in the Netherlands. I'm supposed to register the card online after recieving, so I did. I then typed; 'No, we don't have internet, greetings, Emma' and emailed it back to her.

Oh, also, I recieved a card from a woman in Florida that seemed convinced I was a descendant from the Neanderthals, because she wrote; Emma Surname Streetname 10 3456 Cityname The Neanderth-lands.

OH and an American guy and girl were talking to me online and I mentioned I lived close to Amsterdam. The woman asked; 'So you live there?' and I said; 'No, I just work there.' The man went; 'Ooohhh how much are you?' I said; 'Don't you mean, how tall are you? Or how old? I'm 27" (at the time.) He went; 'No, no, how much do you cost?' I said; 'Wh...Oh god, no! No! I work there in a shop...it's a city, they have shops!' He went; 'Aaahh ahahaha okay, like with toys and stuff?' I said; 'Oh jesus christ, it's a departmentstore... the street you are refering to is ONE STREET!

@@Widdekuu91 Lol 😂

@@Widdekuu91 I don't believe any of that.

YES! I have lived in Germany on and off for years at a time and the ignorance goes both ways. I've been asked some really stupid questions by Germans and I get it. They watch a lot of garbage American TV. One question: After I said that I'm from Minnesota and that it borders Canada, I was asked, "Do you have an oil well in your backyard"? After further query, they were an avid fan of the TV show DALLAS. I said that Minnesota is nowhere near Texas. 🤣🤣🤣

The traffic lights question can be relevant, though. I traveled through northern Norway in 2016 and noticed that apparently north of Bodø there aren't any traffic lights (or at least, I didn't see any). Quite a strange experience. When I traveled back south and saw a traffic light for the first time in 2 weeks I almost didn't know what to do.🤣

@@wohlhabendermanager you're right about that, that is the case in many remote or rural places. But the guy was being transferred to Frankfurt (sorry for not mentioning earlier). She couldn't understand that Frankfurt/Main, Germany was a heavily urbanized area, and even if they would have moved to a village nearby, there would have been traffic lights. Btw, they ended up living in Niederrad. Talking about culture shock...

Just plain stupid...

@@wohlhabendermanager Well, when there is basically no traffic you don't really need traffic lights.

@@wohlhabendermanager That's frost giant country. People don't go there, so no traffic lights :P :))

That’s an honest answer in Berlin.

Just them why Americans speak English as they are not from England

After I retired I returned to Uni to learn German for personal enrichment. Two of my classmates said they were taking German because they were constantly asked if they spoke it. One was born in München of Bosnian parents. The family came to the US before she started elementary school, but people always assumed she must speak German because of her birthplace. The other is actually 75% German. Her mother is a German who married an American stationed in Germany. Her father's mother is also German because his father also married a German while stationed in Germany. I used to tease her that if they kept it up a bit longer they would be more German than most of the German population.

You can turn this question on its head, when an american who refers to their ancestry says they are german. You then simply ask "So you speak german?" and if the answer is "No" then you simply say : "Then you are not german." ;)

NOBODY says "oh, your from Germany." They say "oh YOU'RE from Germany." SMARTEN UP, NITWIT!! YOUR third grade English teacher is embarrassed by you!!!

Ich verstehe die Eisbär Kommentar nicht. Aber das Fenster-Teil ist sehr witzig.

Another famous story, a German lady walked into the tourist office in Rotterdam and asked: “Wo ist die Altstadt?”

@@Apipoulai What's the point?

@@elmercy4968 The Altstadt of Rotterdam is gone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_bombing_of_Rotterdam

How did I understand the first sentence but I don’t even know German?

As a Czech I can say that the most of the Americans are surprized that Czechoslovakia stoped its existence almost 30 years ago

@@mikulagen I still say "Yugoslavian" food lol.

@@pilotlars Same, I am a huge ww2 nerd, so I know geography considerably well, and I just don't bother trying to remember the Post-Yugoslavian countries since it's such a hassle.

@@mikulagen well if I remember correctly, czechoslovakia split in the year 1993. There are may be people that saw czechoslovakia as a country for half of their earlier life, which coincidently they remember more vividly. So many a times they may forget that czechoslovakia isn't a country any more.

Just wait until she finds out about the fall of the Soviet Union!

Thats like the American woman who was talking to a German woman about the 11th of September attacks and the German woman said she was 6 hours ahead in Europe and the American woman replied, in all seriousness 'Then why didn't you warn us then?'

how...can...they...not...understand it

This reminds me of the George Carlin quote: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Does explain the existence of the Flat Earth Society!

I've found that flat earthers often don't get the time zones issue.

@@MrDisasterboy Really, just saw a video tons of scientist saying that the curvature is wrong. 100km Titicaca lake flat. please explain.

No! No potatoes! Nur Karrrrrrtofel!

What's tatoes, precious? What's tatoes?

@@germanvisitor2 Po-tay-toes! Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew! Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish…

@@AsterFoz hahaha

@@katethegreat4918 Well, you see, its even more funny if you realise that potatos in german are "kartoffeln" and so you can call them in polish "kartofle"

Most Germans, including myself, learn English at school and don't need it afterwards. In Germany itself, of course, everything is German (even foreign films) and in the typical European vacation regions German is spoken everywhere. It is unfavorable if you are then in the UK or the USA and imagine that you know the language. When I came to the USA for a semester abroad, I found that I couldn't even place a restaurnt order. However, I was young enough to pick up the language quickly.

well nowadays people here in germany speak better english than 20 or 30 years ago. because of the internet and overall more exposure to english in daily life and people traveling more. at the same time i am often surprised that a lot of people still manage to hide that well that they don't speak english at all.

@@robopecha naja, Deutsch ist die größte Sprache in der EU. Die Deutschen müssen keine Fremdsprache sprechen. So ist das auch in Spanien, wo ich lebe. Spanier und Franzosen sind in einer ähnlichen Situation. Und die meisten Deutschen wollen noch nichtmal einmal im Leben nach Amiland, wo sie Englisch vielleicht praktisch brauchen könnten (in Florida und Kalifornien gehts auch mit Spanisch).

What the hell is American English?

@@B-A-L English spoken by Americans with an American accent as opposed to British English.

wow... ok, I never saw that one coming.

it is like: But it has electrolytes!

Hah you should see how they react to "german Sushi" aka Mett. They freak out when they see you eating raw pork.

@@hannesromhild8532 They never understand. :D

Indoctrination is STRONG here in the US. Most Americans can no longer rationalize anything. They simply parrot talking points. It's so sad, and sometimes dangerous.

Urgh. I have repeatedly heard the "Oh, you're German? Do you know so-and-so, he's also from Germany" There are millions of Germans and no, I don't know all of them.

Same anything even just in Southern California, as if it's a small area.

My mother told me a story about the time she was in an exchange program in France and another student from America was also there and he talked to my mother about the time he already spent in Germany. He then asked her if he knew a Sabine from Cologne (We live an hour away from Cologne and that city has 1 million citizens, the whole region/state has 17 million people and Sabine was a very popular name in that generation)

@@einflinkeswiesel2695 Ironically, my wife's cousin is named Sabine, and she's from Cologne.

I always end every conversation with "Tell everyone that I said Hello!" It brings warmth and a sense of pleasure, happiness to them? It makes them smile. So little, can mean so much? I really mean it, by the way! lol.

Most Americans have always been mystified by "Wiener Schnitzel". They think it's some kind of sausage, like a weenie.

the owner is from Taco Bell im not shocked yall get this W

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Do people 🤔 not research where they are going?? We were in Idaho falls ( yes in Idaho !) For the 4th of July parade being Canadian it was so fun !! Everyone being able to buy fireworks 🎆 🙄 was a bit scary! Fire crackers in the mall ?

Your reply to the question was perfect. Except adding, "And bring a telescope."

@@ANNEWHETSTONE, hallo from Germany. Untill 2020 you could buy every year fireworks in the last week of December. Cause it is a big tradition in Germany to fire up fireworks at the Silvesternight (31.12. to 01.01). Due to regulations cause of the big C, it is not allowed since 2020. Not all people love fireworks, cause of the air pollution, the noise, the waste and because animals are scared of fireworks. Of course people under the age of 18 are not allowed to buy big fireworks, but there are so called children fireworks, they are very small and burn just a few seconds, these you can use 365 days per year. 🎊🎉🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎉🎊

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Maybe hitch hiking on private jets is a thing in California lol

Well I supposed he could have gone to Hamburg and waved down a container ship?

I'm guessing that second guy was trying to make a joke. Older Americans (boomers) will often make stupid jokes like that. At least I hope he was joking

"Of course, people are always so nice and ready to pick up hitchhikers on the scenic transatlantic Autobahn" ;-)

The second question was either a joke or he really meant it - i've read blogs from hitchhikers who asked sailors if they could come with them or worked as a sailor to pass the ocean. That question isn't dumb in my opinion

Same question here in Australia with the Kangaroos in the street and well yes i have had a kangaroo bound down my street. outside my house.

We occasionally get bears and mountain lions in communities around L.A. that are adjacent to the mountains or foothills.

@NickKryuchkov That's a hilarious coincidence!

I was walking with a Dutch colleague in Holland and asked in anyone ever really wears wooden shoes. He said, 'No', and then we passed a gentleman walking in the other direction wearing wooden shoes. It happens. :)

I thought you had penguins ….. I can just bet that you get a lot of odd question because you come from Russia. I have noticed that when me and my wife (I’m a Swede, she’s a Russian) travel in USA and speak our Swedish-Russian, people often hear we speak two languages, but cannot place them really.

No, we build those cars *in* the caves. With a box of scraps.

I recieved a card via Postcrossing (online website where strangers can send each other mail) from a woman in Florida. She wrote my address right, but instead of Netherlands, she wrote Neanderth-lands. If I'm correct, she thought the Dutch were basically..the evolved version of Neanderthals, but not..youknow...modern yet. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm hungry and I need to milk my pet-bison for the cheese.

I'm from Rome hi. I read that Italian immigrants in Canada (but probably also in USA) in the 60th were asked if we had railways in Italy. I would reply "no, we move by horses like in the movie Ben Hur , what's a railway?". By the way, this happened to me: a friend of mine told me as a child that Americans don't know that Rome is the capital of italy; when I grew up in 1995 became a guard inside one of the most visited monument in Rome, the Pantheon ; i wanted to check and often asked American visitors about the capital of the country they were visiting. One replied "is not Barcelona?". I couldn't belive! By the way many people from USA didn't know actually the capital.

@Ben Dover Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, where do you see the irony? Of course if you are not into elegant, well designed cars with top notch technology, I can definetely see your point.

@@lucaschiantodipepe2015 not only in your country in My country México probably they don't know that México City is our capital and have more cities. Greetings

It would be wonderful if there were! Hopefully, one day, human technology will allow it. But it’s still going to be a vvvvvvvveeeeeeerrrrrrryyyyyyyyy lllllllooooooonnnnnnnnggggggggg drive! 😅

Anyone knows that Hitler was an Australian and that Australia formed a monarchy with Hungary. 😆

> And no, we don't refer to ourselves as "Down Under" I guess "Men at Work" really did you guys a disservice when singing about coming "from a land Down Under".

@@wohlhabendermanager Yes. I first heard the term when I lived in the US for two years. It was never used in Australia when I was a child, although international communication has made us aware of the term since then.

“Down under” is also pretty misleading, we’re partly in the tropics! Way more equatorial than the US/Europe!

I would like to own a kangaroo. Cool critters IMO.

A show may be on in NYC at 7 pm local time there. Three hours later it is shown in LA. Time delayed. Also before satellite the video or film had to be flown across the Atlantic, so Europeans saw it many hours before Americans did.

A lot of Americans probably don’t understand their own time zone situation. They just know that they watch the thing at PST or EST/CST. (Nobody lists anything in Mountain Time which is frankly hilarious.)

Because we're all just that stupid

@@g33xzi11a sad mountain time noises. Can't imagine how the Hawaiians and Alaskans feel lol

huh? many countries have multiple time zones - Australia, Canada, Russia, China heck even New Zealand has two official time zones!

dude, don't expect any intellectual conversation from American girls lol

Next time tell her Americans would almost have spoken Dutch… & US president Van Buren spoke Dutch at home…

I woulda told her there is no such thing as an American language :p

@ Misterkami: Arrrgh! As an American, I'm so embarrassed! Please don't think we are all stupid just because of that one girl!

@@Milesco Don't worry; I fully realize that she was an exception and I have met many intelligent and fun Americans.

I suspect that a certain Mr Macron might like very much for that to be true !

Well it’s the cultural and economic centre of the continent so if they had to believe Europe has a capital (a true capital I mean, not in the EU sense) Paris would be a reasonable guess

@@augth london is europes economic capital

@@buckfidenshop47 Prague is da best though!

No, thats Brussels. Technically.

The only correct answer is "No, we don't have traffic lights, we have Wechsellichtzeichenanlagen!"

That's a silly question, but please don't assume he represents most Texans because of it haha

I don't know, if the story is true... but a friend was once asked in a chat, if Hitler is still our Chancellor. My friend said "No, he's been dead for 70 years." The answer from the american was: "Oh, i'm sorry to hear that."

@@Anthyrion LOL that's hilarious, but also disturbing

lol I think you were trolled

@@lyricberlin , believe me, no, I was not. There are more stories about the guy.

Ha ha the median Australian has more than twice the wealth of an American.

I grew up in the 80s and Crocodile Dundee was huge back then. I imagined all Australians lived in the outback and wore animal skins, carried around huge knives, and were always covered in dust.

@@shaunsteele8244 it’s a worry that some still do think that’s how it is :)

@@newbris its harder when a country have 350 millions of people u know?

@@oscaralegre3683 I think it is the rate of people who have those ideas, rather than the absolute number.

_She also thought France was part of the UK_ Well there was a time when the English thought so too. They and the French had discussions about it on and off for a 116 years, but the French didn't really like the English food so nothing ever came of it.

I had a discussion with an American tourist that proposed we would remove Dutch from our vocabulary completely and just speak English to make it easier for the tourists. She said we already spoke English anyway. So as soon as the last oldies died, we could let the Americanisation erase the last Dutch words and speak English. She said it was already happening anyway. I just turned away and cried about it at home. Sounds dramatic, but I feared she was right about it already happening, after having witnessed young Dutch peers searching for an adequate word to describe their feelings in a Dutch sentence and then settling for something general and vague in English, (while totally forgetting there is a proper specific Dutch word for that feeling) is heartbreaking.

the English was Our OPps as a Native American we click up with the French so yeah

It is German IMHO, but it's probably regional, and outdated, because it took me 60 years (living in Cologne, Berlin, Munich and Nuremberg) to eventually learn about it, via YT. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnachtsgurke is an item in Wikipedia and on the Nuremberg Christkindlmarkt where I bought one a few years ago!

@@paulsj9245 The wikipedia article states that it is unclear if the christmas pickle is an almost forgotten local german tradition or an american import. One thing for sure: it is more well known and practised in the US.

@@IsomerSoma The authors may have been as surprised as I was (?) But, how many US imports were there in 1909? This catalogue page (third picture in the article) puts it well to German origin IMHO - there's no indication of "the latest from USA", it's an item like all the others, 12 various pieces for 85 Pfennig.

Yeah thats true and all, but he would have loved you 🤷🏼‍♀️😂😂😂

@@ololadin91 I'm gay, so no he wouldn't. I would have been one of the first people in the concentration camp. 😀

@@crittah74 lol

@@crittah74 well than he probably wouldnt 😂😂

OK so you've met some idiots Most Americans Know Europeans speak / Learn English. after all Europeans grow up watching American TV, Movies & listening to American Music listen to feli she speaks like a native , she speaks it better than the Scorpions & They been singing in English since 1972.

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I almost started crying at the last sentence

˙uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ʞɐǝds oʇ ǝʌɐɥ no⅄ ˙ʇlnɔᴉɟɟᴉp ʎɹǝʌ sᴉ ǝᴉssn∀ uɐ ɥʇᴉʍ ƃuᴉʇɐɔᴉunɯɯoƆ

How do you do that?

@@alvallac2171 that is Funny

The question about lions isn't completely unreasonable, considering we have mountain lions in a large portion of the United States, so it's possible they were asking about those and if you have them anywhere.

Don't you?^^

@@ImperatorCaesar22 Just no.

@ ?

Lions are the nemesis of Rotaries, aren't they?

Well, as a German, sometimes I just claim to be from Switzerland. Mostly, when I am embarrassed by the behavior of other german tourists. But my familytree is realy european (Germany, Switzerland, North Italy, Balticum, Sweden, Bretagne, Normandy, Gascogne) so I feel in every way "european".

Asking questions of someone from Germany about Nazis or Hitler or WW II is just shameful and ignorant. It would be like a European asking an American if their family has ever owned slaves. Nobody wants to talk about their country’s ugliest episodes. It’s an appalling subject of conversation to raise.

@@richardsmith881 Honestly I do talk about it. I just know very little of my great-grandparents involvement. I know 2 of them where in Stalingrad and while on was flown out days before the devastating loss, the other became a POW. Neither of the two ever talked about it - or suvived the war for long. Hence I look at it rather objectively, I am certain that they were good people (both faithful christian teachers), but I am not too sure they weren't involved in some war crime. Anyhow I do not have a problem talking about it, but it rarely makes for a good conversation, at least if the evening is supposed to stay cheerful.

During studies, I worked as an animator in hotels when I had holidays from my studies. I worked in Greece and there was an entire family from Israel on a holiday together to celebrate one's 50th birthday. I sat with them at the bar, chatting very nicely for almost an hour. Then they asked "by the way, where are you from?" I was a little unsure but I thought they had recognised my accent anyway so I said "from Germany". 19 out of these 20 people immediately stopped talking to me. The youngest explained that family members had died in the Konzentrationslager and it made me really sad and I told him how horrible I find everything that Germans did to others back then but I was born around 40 years after the end of the war - the others didn't want to talk to me anymore anyway. At another hotel, a colleague found it funny to say "Arbeit macht frei" every time he saw me. That's not funny, it's disrespectful to all victims of the holocaust and it causes pain to us Germans as it brings up the shame of our history. One time on holidays, my parents and me wanted to join some French people for breakfast (we always like to get to know new people and didn't want to sit on our own) and they said that they don't want Germans at their table (they had heard us talking German to each other before). The only happy moment was when just after them saying this, another French family who had heard this, invited us by saying "but we'd like you to come join us". It doesn't happen very often but there are some people who still cannot stand the Germans - even those who weren't born when these terrible things happened.

@@richardsmith881 Well the slave trade wasn't exactly the darkest hour of the Americans and they hated the Germans soo much but loved to steal 3000 tons of patents and I mean steal.

That's you mumble something in Polish about a slur for germans the smile.

You realize that history involving World War II isn't really taught in Germany nor Japan. It is so much easier just to pretend that it never happened.

That's a huuuuuge "Ooooff" 😆

@@johnsmetak3751 idk know about that. From what Germans I have talked to they teach it. They may not go into as much detail as they do other places but they all knew they started the war and why and which places they attacked as well as the Holocaust. Japan on the other hand like you said glosses over the whole thing till they get nuked and act like they were a victim when they were as bad if not worse than the Germans.

@@johnsmetak3751 Yes, German history and especially WWII is thought extensively in German schools. It involves all the questions of how Hitler came to power, what were the socio-economic conditions to how other countries were effected. Most schools do take a trip to one of the many konzentration camps turned into memorials. But that is a very common misconception about Germany. But to the original post - yes also Germans ask stupid questions, sometimes

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lol

"No, we still use people wagons"

I have been ask if they have telephones in Germany? Or, if Germans live in TENTS?

Actually, Robert H Goddard (American) is credited with the first rocket in 1926. Although, I probably would have guessed Wernher von Braun.

@@chrisb2535 Goddard work is having built the world's first *liquid-fueled* rocket. That was in 1926. Long before that, the german Conrad Haas built the first manned rocket That was in the 16th(!) century.

@@chrisb2535 Let me guess, he's credited with that by Americans? ;-)

@@chrisb2535 What is the Star Spangled Banner about.

Sorry but that made me laugh so hard XD it's sad though.

That plottwist is funny enough to make even a German (me) laugh. :D

Omg lol 😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Don't know if that is a valid question for Minnesota, but here in Oregon we have a lot of native Russian speakers, so maybe they also do in Minnesota?

@@admerin6961 Of course! He misspoke! He didn't mean "Minnesota", he meant "Oregon"! That explains…

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Honestly, that's something definitely a dumb people would say.

Mr. Garrison from South Park: There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5NxpZNempeYZIE.html

@@MichaelScheele ... that ask questions =P

Just ask the same question twice and this proofs wrong.

yeah well you're coworker got that from somewhere, Man that's an OLD one.

Did she travel there, when Germany attacked the Benelux countries?

I'm afraid of her mental... "state"... WHILE she was in Amsterdam O.O

She went to a Dutch land.

Not right now, that is. ;)

@@sourisvoleur4854 Won’t we just call it the Netherlands, please? A dutch country doesn’t exist.

I live in the UK, which the Americans insist is called England. Germany comes from the ancient Gauls, who called the area to their east Germania, meaning the neighbouring land. It first appears in the book Germania by Tacitus, who was born in southern Gaul. He explains that this was only recently coined. Before there was a Germany there was no need for a name.

@@Joanna-il2ur Ah Americans - so weird sometimes. I live in New Zealand and most of us make the distinction. Mind you a lot of us have parents or grandparents who came from Scotland (and obviously other places) so maybe that's why? Not sure, but yeah, Americans can be a bit funny with how they view the outside world.

Americans sometimes ask British people where we learned to speak English ... doh !!

@@stevesoutar3405 🤦🏻‍♂️ They just a tiny bit self-centered and very good educated. Sarcasm off... What makes me a bit upset that they don't accept our degrees in the same time.

I experienced this. On a flight from Boston to London I overheard the end of a conversation while I was waiting to use the toilet. “They speak American there so don’t worry” “thank goodness for that” was the reply. I went into brain numb for at least 10 minutes.

@@mow3186 There is a saying in German which fit to this, but I'm not sure if the translation will... It would be funny if it wouldn't be so sad.

@@Turbo36de Solche Fragen einfach auf Deutsch beantworten, dann versteht der Andere zwar nichts, aber er merkt wenigstens, dass du ne andere Sprache sprichst. 😁😁

Or maybe the pigeon got shot down by the jets that stupidly got sent to the wrong place 🤔 😬

Holy heck thats a brand new take that ive ever heard! Im proud to be american but people who ask those specific questions just make me a bit embarassed

As can be seen in the movie "Postal" by the famous german producer Uwe Boll.

Odigo messanger did.

That hurts my brain just trying to understand how anyone thought this was a valid question. I am American, but once another American asked me "who wrote Grimm's Fairytales". At least she laughed at herself after I told her.

Well, Root Beer pretty much doesn't exist in Europe. It's not a super dumb mistake.

that's a valid question though, because there are some national parks that close at night time

@@buciallstar kinda. To a German it sounds more like “what time do they close southern Idaho?”

She also has almost no German accent. Listening to her speak, you'd probably assume she grew up in the US.

I am Dutch and was looking for Germans to talk to (just talking.) I then found someone and greeted him in English (the website was also in English.) I checked and said; So, you are German? and he replied; Yep, yep, haha, that's me, my grandpa was German.' I said; Okay, but are you German?' He said; Yeah partially, haha. I consider myself German.' I said; 'Okay, also, wenn ich Deutsch spreche, wirst du mich verstehen?" He said; 'Oh, what the hell...hahah...that's German right? I know the ish. Ish is like 'Me' hahah.' I replied; 'Have you ever spoken German?' and he said; 'Naw man, I only speak American lol. Grandpa taught me that ish-thing. But like, we weren't very close.' I said; 'Have you ever tried to learn more German, visit Germany...youknow, to really... 'become a German' as you wish to be? And he said; 'Naw haha, no, it's too expensive and also I have enough to learn in university lol, like I'm partially German though, but maybe like, also American.' And despite being frustrated because I had been talking with him for 20 minutes for nothing, I tried to politely say; 'Yes..perhaps a bit more American.'

@@Widdekuu91 - your story is exactly what I'm talking about. There are just too many Americans that think they can call themselves German, Italian, Japanese, whatever when they don't even speak the language of the nation, and have proably never even visited it. I understand pride in cultural heritage, and ethnic identity, but, I think Americans are really very bad at misrepresenting who they are.

@@konstantinavalentina3850 Exactly. I'd say you can call yourself Japanese if your parents are Japanese, you actively speak Japanese at home, you honour the traditions, it's just that you were born in America, but the rest of you is fully Japanese. And even then you're just an American, but o.k. I would understand if they said "Japanese" then. Around Thanksgiving/Christmastime, I got loads of commercials for DNA-testing on Facebook, called "My Cultural Heritage" with a picture of a Viking on it (sometimes they swapped it for a Native American or an Aboriginal) that said; 'Your DNA-results in just a few days!" Underneath, a woman said; 'I have adjusted my diet to my original ancestors and I feel so much better now!' Turns out her ancestors from a few hundred years ago, were Vikings and therefore "she wasn't eating enough fish" to keep her DNA happy. I mean, they're not even trying to make it sound legit. (I'm not even going to go into detail about what happens afterwards, because you can only join if you let them store your DNA for 'research purposes.' Hence the arguable-cheapness of it.) And underneath, you had responses such as; 'Hi from Michigan here, sóóóó happy when I got the results back, turns out I am from Eastern Europe, originally, that's where my ancestors came from. I've always known, I'm such a traveller as well, and I like the cold and I guess I like reindeer lol-' (etc.) I just think it's a knee-jerk movement because America isn't really looking so great right now and everyone would rather claim they were 'actually' from Sweden. And whether that be a hundred years ago or threehundred, doesn't matter.

Todays Americans are proud of their history from the 15th century on and because of that and their economy they think they are the leaders of the world. What should they want to know about civilisations that are thousands of years older, as for example in Europe, Mesopotamia or China. That's only old stuff outside the US borders...

Tell him, "No I speak Swahili when in Denmark with my fellow Danes" 😄

The Danes are switching to English as the rest of Euro should as well.

Sehr funny! Liebe Grüße aus Hamburg, wo auch eine ganze Menge Leute Dänisch sprechen! Schönes Weihnachtsfest, kommt gut und heil durch die Pandemie!

Well😌😏I agree but I'm German, my husband is German, living in Norway and we speak norvegan with each other both in Norway and in Germany.

@@biankakoettlitz6979 Norwegen.. Ist daß nicht eine Straße in Norderstedt? 😂 Schöne Weihnachtszeit! Hoffe, eure Infektionen sind nidriger als hier! !

She probably coped as well as any English . They know , well I am not so sure these days, that French is a different language but 90% can't get by in it.

@@johnbircham4984 if a sign is written in English and French, then it's reasonable to expect a native English speaker to understand it.

@@matthewbaynham6286 I was talking about outside the station most English people can't speak a word of french. So it wouldn't make a bit of difference. I guess what I am saying is don't look down on people.

But sortie is (also) an English word. Surely one could guess what it means from there.

@@MrTohawk In English the word 'sortie' has a different meaning than it does in French. In French it means 'exit', but in English the word sortie means what the Americans call a 'mission' as in 'we're on a mission to attack an enemy stronghold'.

clearly they haven't seen the movie Troll Hunter

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@Michelle Too true.

You shoulda answered: yes and we committed genocide as well.

I've also been told "Wow, you speak English really well for a European". I was left wondering what they meant and then said "Australia is not in Europe, it's an island/continent in the Southern Hemisphere". A brief, strange conversation ensued and then I cleared it all up for her.

​@@scoooter78 I live in America, I have to hear this stupid shit constantly. People here barely know American history.

yes, closet racists often bring up Hitler to anyone they think is German or Austrian, the same way that anti-white racists often bring up slavery to white Americans.

I'd have replied 'How does it feel to come from the same country as Donald Trump and tell me exactly what the difference is?'

@@scoooter78little do Americans know that English😂😂😂 is a European language

if the entire class room face palmed? That's a good sign.

@@pep590 well it says nothing of the generations now. I'm 43 and this incident happened back in like 1995-96. i graduated high school in 1998. so still fear for the future ... when my generation is gone (Gen X, i was the tail end of gen X born in 1979) the world is gonna be doomed to the dystopia of Idocracy .

@@DenverStarkey You make great points Denver. I reread your initial comment and apologies as I missed the fact that your class president was the one that asked the exchange student if he spoke Polish? That is off the charts idiocy, sir.

🤦🏻‍♂️ that’s a rather awkward thing to say considering the fact that he comes from a country that themselves started or got involved in several conflicts around the world in the last 75 years 😂😂😂 no offense, dear Americans. I don’t mean to insult you or call you aggressive in any way. Just stating a fact…

Maybe they're thinking of what happens at particularly rowdy soccer matches. 😆

@@greg_216 LOL! well, if he means that he certainly has a point unfortunately

Was probably thinking about Bosnia/Serbia, the angry peasants over there. Still, a bit out of date.

lol and that's why it's called "fake news"

*Sigh* I would bet anything that lack of scientific understanding is, at least in part, influenced by the religious culture in the US. The world has come a long way since burning Copernicus for heresy, but America prefers to take baby steps and wave from a mile behind everyone else.

Does that mean you celebrate 4th July in January, in Oz? That would be wizard. 😁😁

Jesus christ

​@stephenlee5929 lol the US is the only one who celebrates 4th of July it's our independence day not other countries.

What? It makes sense. You have to park your car outside of Venice and you have to take a train in. Cars are not allowed. Why else would he need a car when the rest of Italy is completely connected by rail?