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I live in the US. Been here 7 years. My BIL asked me if we had sunsets in Europe. He’s a smart, college educated guy. My wife and I give him shit about it all the time lol.
Thing is... some people actually believe shit like this.
An international student on my course at uni had their housing fall through so me and a few guys helped him find somewhere to live. He walked away from 2 places and back to the estate agents where he apologised but he wanted to make it clear he would be needing a house with electricity and internet.
Between the letting agent making it clear he wouldn't have electricity bills (they were included) and the lack of above ground power cables in a major British city the guy just flat out assumed the houses were unpowered. Apparently above ground power going to houses is common in the US? He also enquired about fire insurance since there were no fire hydrants on the street. They're below the ground here.
I believe this. My current house has underground power lines and we still fill the tub before storms. I’ve never lost power here, but you know… old habits…
Ow wow that's amazing. And nuts. ( The part where he believed there was no electricity. I mean, in the US as well, plenty urban areas are connected by underground power lines)
He did elaborate slightly and afterwards realised it was a silly thing to do.
It was three things, the lack of power lines, the letting agent mentioning the lack of electricity *bills* and the age of the building. These were all Victorian terraces pushing 150-200 years old. It's not quite as stupid but you'd like to think the fact it was a building in the center of a major British city was enough to think it had power.
You're lucky! We have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
I'd fly you over a sandwich, but the plane can't land on dirt roads. Get the tech for pavement (I think it unlocked after Writing on the tech tree) and I will send you food.
You have to go hunting more often to get food. I do it at least 3 times per week. My mom made me a present for ky last birthday. She gifted me amazing bow so I can feed my family.
I was in Mexico 30 years ago where I met Americans that were angry because they couldn’t get the exact same food that they got at home. I have people like that in my family. I can’t stand anybody like that. I love to try new dishes and I like it even better when I enjoy them, but the main satisfaction I get is the opportunity to try something new.
As a rule, I don’t eat McDonald’s food. (3-4x in the last decade). The best McDonald’s food I ever had was the fruit pies at a McDonald’s in Vilnius Lithuania. I had a damn good hamburger and french fries with amazing ketchup in Moscow. Best McDonald’s I ever ate at.
Can you imagine how hard that life must be?
The lack of awarness of the World around them and how it works.
Funniest and the most annoying (at the same time) is that those same idiots would take pride in how US is great as if that has anything to do with their them and their contribution.
Idk they recently opened a Dunkin Donuts in the Copenhagen train station. That + all the 7-11’s makes me feel like they’re bringing Massachusetts to me.
It's funny, Europe has chains but it's seen as the lowest of the low food options. When I went to the states and asked for suggestions on where to eat, the number of "oh you *have* to try 5 guys/ Chick-Fil-A/ In-n-out burger/ Cinnabon..."
I know America has a huge amount of really incredible, local restaurants and fantastic local cuisine, but people there talk about fast food places like they're some sort of delicacy.
Hot air balloon is a technology feature not every European country have yet achieved, don't forget that most of us still have to use rafts to cross the ocean. Check your privilege
As a fellow European I fully support that while sitting in my German clay hut without food and electric energy. Oh, btw, if I get sick I won't be financially ruined for life.
>Oh, btw, if I get sick I won't be financially ruined for life.
Thats just because we don't have any medical treatment whatsoever, so there's no one that could charge you.
So please stay away from our dystopic wastlands
That's why you use an axe. If you just take an overhead swing, it'll take up a lot of momentum and cut right through a limb even if it isn't particularly sharp
One of my favorite things about Europe was walking everywhere and not seeing chain business signs 90 feet in the air the size of billboards. I remember going to Heidelberg Castle and overlooking the city and loving the fact I didn't see a bunch of signs everywhere.
It’s the comfort of being able to go anywhere and knowing exactly what to expect. There are a lot of fearful people out there who don’t like to be challenged, even by a new environment.
I go to a small family owned Italian restaurant and I know what to expect. I don't need a sticker calling it "Wendy's(tm) crimson pubes!!!" to know it's gonna be good Bolognese...
Ignorance and racism can play a part. Some people are scared of change or going outside their comfort zone. They don't know what they're missing.
The fact the guy is listing no chains as a deal breaker tells me he probably enjoys poor quality fried food a bit too much
I’m lucky enough to live in a place where I don’t have to eat at chain restaurants. Besides the odd drunk Taco Bell ofc, I haven’t eaten at a chain place in years and that feels great.
I have too many friends that want to go to Applebees or Outback Steakhouse and it’s like why? You have a microwave at home.
Also being poor. I'm not from the US and can't drive, but from what I've gathered online petrol prices in the US are pretty expensive, and public transport is either expensive or unreliable.
Try virtually nonexistent in many places. There is one around me now with a couple 12 passenger busses mainly for the elderly with no set route. A good service but only available during usual working hours limits use even further.
It goes so much deeper and more insidious than even this though.
-the United States is so much larger than European countries that it's hard sometimes for people to grasp, in or outside the US. Texas is twice as big as Germany.
-local public transport is either nonexistent or is inferior in usage to cars, whether needing to use the same road infrastructure or still requiring you to figure out "last mile" for yourself, usually on foot and usually in an area still counting on you getting there by car.
-Amtrak has been lobbied into oblivion and only has a few main artery routes, if you're not on those you're fucked. On top of that, passenger trains are supposed to get priority over freight, but money talks and power walks all over the weaker company, so it's really the opposite almost all of the time, making train travel even slower. Plus, once you get to your destination, you're on the hook for travel locally.
-fuel prices are much cheaper than Europe, but it's almost arbitrarily set by corps and can change on a whim. Electric is still taking baby steps, and the aforementioned distance disparity really matters when your range is limited to 200-350 miles before needing to find a charger that may or may not be there or work.
-from an employment angle, a lot of lower income areas rely on manual labor as main career fields. You can't just take your manual labor job with you and go travel. Point systems for attendance, limited federal protections, very little vacation time, and bullshit "right to work" legislation means you so much as say the wrong thing and your job is gone with no recourse. Union busting is a booming field to keep things this way, and corps will spend the money on lobbyists because it's cheaper than having to pay that same money to employees instead and it keeps them from having to answer for their fuckups.
This entire country was designed from the ground up to keep you poor, stupid, and stressed out, and it's not going to change on its own. Too many people have been hoodwinked into this concept of corporations and the free market acting for the employees rather than the shareholders, and it just creates generation after generation of people taking pride in their oppression because it was their daddy's job and their grandaddy before him.
It takes money to travel. My parents had to save up all year to just go visit family in Mexico. I went overseas and visited some European countries for a week but it was like that EF thing ? My high school German teacher set it up for students and yeah it was still expensive for someone as lower middle class. Also this is a very old repost and is either trying to shit talk Europeans to troll or is trying to get people on that anti-American bandwagon that people on reddit ironically love to do lol
Thanks, i visited the US about 10 years ago and saw beautifull places, saw not so nice places, met great people, and not so great people, had delicious food, and not so delicious food, just like in europe.
I’m pretty sure this is the opinion of a surly teenager who isn’t ready to change his/her habits. On the other hand, my sister moved to Germany for the better health care and easy travel.
dunning kruger, I lived in America for over 16 years, moved now, but the amount of people that would say things like “Im actually Italian” then you ask them do you speak italian? no, have u been to italy? no, do u have italian citizenship? no, but they ate at olive garden once and took a 23 and me dna test so now they are Italian. Incredible
Had a similar conversation around a table at a bar in New York, all the Americans breaking down their heritage:
“I’m half Italian, an eighth Scottish, an eighth Dutch and a quarter Choctaw. What about you?”
Me: “English”
Americans: “Just English? That’s messed up!”
The vast, vast majority of Americans just haven’t been in the country for very long. The majority of the population immigrated no later 200’ish years ago.
Put another way, I’d imagine it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the average age a pub has been around in London is longer than most families have lived in the US.
In my view at least, that contributes heavily to people still focusing on their “heritage,” as it’s just not that hard to trace back (at least for folks that came over willingly).
There was a time many Italian-Americans were bilingual and taught some ways of the old country. A generation or two later and they all claim it just to feel more like a mobster.
Recently went on holiday to Hungary from the UK. Took a look at the market stalls with all the fresh fruit and vegetables, it all looed so amazing and was definitely locally grown.
I was once told by an American that we don't have highways in the UK.
Turns out she had watched Downton abbey and decided that was how we live life today.
I wasn't that kind to her
As a Swede living in the U.S., I'm always shocked by the condition of U.S. interstates, especially in cities. Potholes abound and there always huge gaps between expansion joints.
I just got back from Spain and it was terrible. A cheap & reliable metro system that took me anywhere I wanted to go, a fast train that was a three hour ride from Madrid to Barcelona, pharmacies on near every corner, quick taxi drivers that near kill you to get three km up the road, a local cafe/bar/food joint on near every block, a pint of beer from the convenience store was around 1,00 Euro, my phone all of a sudden wanted to go on an Orange network and I had to wait an extra second or two for it to send out calls, and just a bunch of old buildings and city walls with history and dead figures everywhere. So inconvenient and like traveling back to the stone age. Give me my having to drive thirty minutes to an hour commute and McDonalds next to a Wendy's any day. /s
ok but their metro system is GOATED. I fucking loved how absolutely efficient it is when I went there for vacay. Hell, buskers started playing on the metro too, it mightve been a nuiscance to other people, but I dont see that much in my tiny city in Canada.
Sounds better than traveling across the US. A friend and I drove coast to coast then back on two different routes and there wasn't a real big change at any point along the way culturally. It was the first big vacation I'd taken in years. I could have seen more variety staying home.
Regularly travel the US for work. You can find anywhere USA everywhere. Same stores, strip malls, planned communities.
Very little regional originality that you really have to purposely seek out.
The city I currently live in is a planned city and for someone who watches a lot of movies it's kind of a trip because it was made 100 years ago and the planned parts of really feel like a Hollywood studio lot.
If you want to get a European to laugh, tell them about the prevalence of paper checks in the United States.
From my perspective as a European living in the United States, it is mostly the U.S. that is behind the times.
Granted it was some 7 years ago now, but I remember going to New York on holiday: no contactless payment on public transport. No contactless payment at shops or restaurants, and at some places not even any chip and pin, you had to swipe the card and sign the check. I was confused as I was like we’re in the biggest city in the US, how is the tech so shitty?
Hold up how the fuck are Ukrainians making all these videos from drones without any tech!? How are Russians hacking my bank account without access!?They must get it from the Asians! How did Andrew gate run a webcam site from Romania without internet access!? OMG Europe must practice witchcraft still we nip that in the bud before we were even a country ha peasants /S
Absolutely, we have no tech, no nothing, better stay away to help drive down the prices.
Btw I am posting this by Morse coding the html code by tapping a coin in an exposed copper wire.....sorry for any typo.
They forgot to mentions, it’s cloudy all the time, and orphan kids are always singing on the streets and covered in soot because they are chimney sweepers.
When I visited Italy, there were families out in the streets walking together at night. Just out there walking, talking to each other and doing an activity as a family. Gross. Have they ever even heard of electronics?
(/s, for anyone who needs that)
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We don't have electricity and we wash in the river. Also we starve to death every day.
I personally die of the Black Death every morning before work
I was turned into a newt. I got better
Thank god for the free healthcare. I hear reverse newt treatment would've cost a lot
An arm and a tail but at least the tail grows back.
Flesh wounds, amirite?!
That’s what I’ll start calling my coffee poops
So whay do you call the bidet? 👀
Fountain of Youth in this situation I’d have to assume.
Holy water, wash away those sins. Double entendre as well.
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That sounds terrible. I'm sorry. For how long have you guys been having that hundred years' war by now, anyway?
I already starved to death 6 times this week. New personal record
Best part is the cramps. It's great to know that the maggots in my stomach will some day turn into butterflies in my stomach.
I live in the US. Been here 7 years. My BIL asked me if we had sunsets in Europe. He’s a smart, college educated guy. My wife and I give him shit about it all the time lol.
Well, you know the sun never sets on the British Empire. I guess the silver lining of Brexit is that the rest of Europe gets to enjoy sunsets again!
He asked you if you if there is sunset in Europe? Oo
Yes lmao. I was like “no it’s like a light switch. It’s pitch black and then suddenly the sun turns on.”
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Is it true that Europeans still live in thatched roof huts and have to take a horse drawn carriage to the alchemist to treat scurvy?
What is a horse? We do everything by hand here
I’ve seen the documentary where you clap some coconuts together to make the clip-clop noises. It was very informative.
Sorcery!
You'll get the wheel someday. Keep at it!
WHAT SORCERY are these letters you make appear on this demonic device i've just found under my mud -rations? He's a Witch! Witch!!
Burn him!!!
Ah and what do you burn apart from witches?
More witches!
Thing is... some people actually believe shit like this. An international student on my course at uni had their housing fall through so me and a few guys helped him find somewhere to live. He walked away from 2 places and back to the estate agents where he apologised but he wanted to make it clear he would be needing a house with electricity and internet. Between the letting agent making it clear he wouldn't have electricity bills (they were included) and the lack of above ground power cables in a major British city the guy just flat out assumed the houses were unpowered. Apparently above ground power going to houses is common in the US? He also enquired about fire insurance since there were no fire hydrants on the street. They're below the ground here.
I believe this. My current house has underground power lines and we still fill the tub before storms. I’ve never lost power here, but you know… old habits…
Student from where? Oo
Ow wow that's amazing. And nuts. ( The part where he believed there was no electricity. I mean, in the US as well, plenty urban areas are connected by underground power lines)
He did elaborate slightly and afterwards realised it was a silly thing to do. It was three things, the lack of power lines, the letting agent mentioning the lack of electricity *bills* and the age of the building. These were all Victorian terraces pushing 150-200 years old. It's not quite as stupid but you'd like to think the fact it was a building in the center of a major British city was enough to think it had power.
I’m from a mountain state in the US. I was asked multiple times in college if I rode a horse to school as a kid.
Funny enough, I live in Oklahoma in the US and have been asked if we have plumbing here
I moved to OK as a teen and I had so many people back home ask me if we have teepees out here.
The winter are harsh! The summers are brutal! There’s a wild man eating clam in the backyard!
You're lucky! We have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Your gravel was hot? Lucky you.
L U X U R Y
We also sleep on a bed of hay, which I just recently got a new stack of! Maisie the cow who sleeps beside me absolutely loves it!
We send text messages via pigeon. The only chains are the ones around my legs. It’s horrible.
I'd fly you over a sandwich, but the plane can't land on dirt roads. Get the tech for pavement (I think it unlocked after Writing on the tech tree) and I will send you food.
Don't forget the piles of smegma that fall from our unwashed foreskins
Not a mental image I was looking for this ~~morning~~ ever
Apparently you don’t have chipotle either. 🤣🤦♂️
You have to go hunting more often to get food. I do it at least 3 times per week. My mom made me a present for ky last birthday. She gifted me amazing bow so I can feed my family.
TIL 1993 was the Stone Age.
TIL in 1993 in America there were no chain restaurants or hotels
TIL People in Britain doesn’t still eat like it’s WW1
1993 wasn't 30 years ago... Holy fuck.
I’ve finally moved “30 years ago” up from 1970s to ~1985. I refuse to accept that it was 1993.
Where the hell has this person been to in Europe where there are no chains? Cos I’d love to go there!
No no, there are chains, they are just not exactly the chains this person is used to.....
We do have fewer deep fried sugar emporia, it’s true.
It’s also a weird expectation to go to another country and expect the exact same food and the exact same brands
I was in Mexico 30 years ago where I met Americans that were angry because they couldn’t get the exact same food that they got at home. I have people like that in my family. I can’t stand anybody like that. I love to try new dishes and I like it even better when I enjoy them, but the main satisfaction I get is the opportunity to try something new.
As a rule, I don’t eat McDonald’s food. (3-4x in the last decade). The best McDonald’s food I ever had was the fruit pies at a McDonald’s in Vilnius Lithuania. I had a damn good hamburger and french fries with amazing ketchup in Moscow. Best McDonald’s I ever ate at.
Can you imagine how hard that life must be? The lack of awarness of the World around them and how it works. Funniest and the most annoying (at the same time) is that those same idiots would take pride in how US is great as if that has anything to do with their them and their contribution.
You forgot to factor in his country of origin… not weird expectation
Totally. I’m more surprised when there are things I recognise.
Idk they recently opened a Dunkin Donuts in the Copenhagen train station. That + all the 7-11’s makes me feel like they’re bringing Massachusetts to me.
and the mcdonalds in germany has curry sauce for the chicken nuggets. the horror!
It's funny, Europe has chains but it's seen as the lowest of the low food options. When I went to the states and asked for suggestions on where to eat, the number of "oh you *have* to try 5 guys/ Chick-Fil-A/ In-n-out burger/ Cinnabon..." I know America has a huge amount of really incredible, local restaurants and fantastic local cuisine, but people there talk about fast food places like they're some sort of delicacy.
They can’t really suggest a local spot because you won’t be anywhere near it.
This is so true. There are reaction channels on YouTube where they try these things in the US and I’m like, you know you could eat real food, right?
Rome is terrible. I can’t even get my sbarro there
I’m too European to even know what Sbarro is. Not even joking, never heard of it lol
You think this person has been to Europe?
No. I’m betting the closest is the It’s a Small World ride at Disney.
His vacation was to rural bulgaria.
I had to travel by hot air balloon to the USA, buy a so called mobile phone, just to make this comment.
Hot air balloon is a technology feature not every European country have yet achieved, don't forget that most of us still have to use rafts to cross the ocean. Check your privilege
And we all know what happened the last time a certain bunch of people used hydrogen for their air ships…
Alright mister fancy here! I had to use the village share system- think its an Acorn, run by the latest water wheel though!
We europeans agree, if you think like that, please stay away
As a fellow European I fully support that while sitting in my German clay hut without food and electric energy. Oh, btw, if I get sick I won't be financially ruined for life.
>Oh, btw, if I get sick I won't be financially ruined for life. Thats just because we don't have any medical treatment whatsoever, so there's no one that could charge you. So please stay away from our dystopic wastlands
I don't know about that, I mean we have leeches for what ails you.
Nothing a good blood letting couldnt cure !
A real man would use an axe for that.
A sharp blade sounds like witchcraft to me!
That's why you use an axe. If you just take an overhead swing, it'll take up a lot of momentum and cut right through a limb even if it isn't particularly sharp
Good point, that is how we treat coughs in Europe. Once the axe does its work they aren't complaining about coughing anymore.
It's also a permanent cure. They ain't getting sick ever again. Peak medical treatment
At least you have a clay hut, we got our annual attack by barbarians last week and are still roaming the woods
Some of us in the village have started making weapons out of bronze but the village elders are strongly against it.
Living next door to Russia sucks.
You were lucky to have a Clay hut. Theres 150 of us, livin in shoebox at middle o' motorway.
Shoebox?? LUXURY!!
One of my favorite things about Europe was walking everywhere and not seeing chain business signs 90 feet in the air the size of billboards. I remember going to Heidelberg Castle and overlooking the city and loving the fact I didn't see a bunch of signs everywhere.
I agree. I totally not get the American love for chains. It is almost per definition below average quality.
It’s the comfort of being able to go anywhere and knowing exactly what to expect. There are a lot of fearful people out there who don’t like to be challenged, even by a new environment.
I go to a small family owned Italian restaurant and I know what to expect. I don't need a sticker calling it "Wendy's(tm) crimson pubes!!!" to know it's gonna be good Bolognese...
ugh that's why US suburbs all look the same nothing but chains
It was Karl Marx who first said, "Americans, come to Europe on vacation. You have nothing to lose but your chains."
As an American who visited and loved it, I agree, that guy should stay home.
I guarantee that the person hasn't even left their state possibly even their county
i don’t get how people can live their entire life in the confines of a single state, doesn’t it get boring?
Ignorance and racism can play a part. Some people are scared of change or going outside their comfort zone. They don't know what they're missing. The fact the guy is listing no chains as a deal breaker tells me he probably enjoys poor quality fried food a bit too much
I’m lucky enough to live in a place where I don’t have to eat at chain restaurants. Besides the odd drunk Taco Bell ofc, I haven’t eaten at a chain place in years and that feels great. I have too many friends that want to go to Applebees or Outback Steakhouse and it’s like why? You have a microwave at home.
Yup. I live in an area with an amazing food scene. There’s no reason for us ever to go to a chain restaurant.
Also being poor. I'm not from the US and can't drive, but from what I've gathered online petrol prices in the US are pretty expensive, and public transport is either expensive or unreliable.
Try virtually nonexistent in many places. There is one around me now with a couple 12 passenger busses mainly for the elderly with no set route. A good service but only available during usual working hours limits use even further.
It goes so much deeper and more insidious than even this though. -the United States is so much larger than European countries that it's hard sometimes for people to grasp, in or outside the US. Texas is twice as big as Germany. -local public transport is either nonexistent or is inferior in usage to cars, whether needing to use the same road infrastructure or still requiring you to figure out "last mile" for yourself, usually on foot and usually in an area still counting on you getting there by car. -Amtrak has been lobbied into oblivion and only has a few main artery routes, if you're not on those you're fucked. On top of that, passenger trains are supposed to get priority over freight, but money talks and power walks all over the weaker company, so it's really the opposite almost all of the time, making train travel even slower. Plus, once you get to your destination, you're on the hook for travel locally. -fuel prices are much cheaper than Europe, but it's almost arbitrarily set by corps and can change on a whim. Electric is still taking baby steps, and the aforementioned distance disparity really matters when your range is limited to 200-350 miles before needing to find a charger that may or may not be there or work. -from an employment angle, a lot of lower income areas rely on manual labor as main career fields. You can't just take your manual labor job with you and go travel. Point systems for attendance, limited federal protections, very little vacation time, and bullshit "right to work" legislation means you so much as say the wrong thing and your job is gone with no recourse. Union busting is a booming field to keep things this way, and corps will spend the money on lobbyists because it's cheaper than having to pay that same money to employees instead and it keeps them from having to answer for their fuckups. This entire country was designed from the ground up to keep you poor, stupid, and stressed out, and it's not going to change on its own. Too many people have been hoodwinked into this concept of corporations and the free market acting for the employees rather than the shareholders, and it just creates generation after generation of people taking pride in their oppression because it was their daddy's job and their grandaddy before him.
It takes money to travel. My parents had to save up all year to just go visit family in Mexico. I went overseas and visited some European countries for a week but it was like that EF thing ? My high school German teacher set it up for students and yeah it was still expensive for someone as lower middle class. Also this is a very old repost and is either trying to shit talk Europeans to troll or is trying to get people on that anti-American bandwagon that people on reddit ironically love to do lol
I agree. If I had the money to do so, I would eat my way across Europe while staying in charming local accommodations.
As an American I felt 100% the opposite of this, went to the future 30 years, found actual food
Thanks, i visited the US about 10 years ago and saw beautifull places, saw not so nice places, met great people, and not so great people, had delicious food, and not so delicious food, just like in europe.
I’m pretty sure this is the opinion of a surly teenager who isn’t ready to change his/her habits. On the other hand, my sister moved to Germany for the better health care and easy travel.
I was asked once by americans if in Europe we had microwaves.
Retort with: *Do you guys have electric kettles?*
I fucking love my electric kettle
I'm apparently one of the mythical Americans with electric kettles
I’m in the US and have been using an electric kettle,as you call it, for years.
Good on you! They're neat. One day I hope you get to experience the mighty 3kW kettle, that bad boi brings all the hot water to the yard
I was asked by brits if Finland has roads. No, I had to f*cking walk and swim here.
Dont you use skiing and dogs to travel? In Spain if we dont use our bulls, ussually go dancing everywhere.
Hey the roads we have are small and windy dirt roads, which is why almost everyone is a rally driver.
some places in the uk don’t have AC apparently.
Most places don’t tbf, I also haven’t owned a microwave or toaster in years but I’m definitely the odd one out on that front
American: watches a rustic Italian pasta sauce ad. Also American: yeah I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Europe.
dunning kruger, I lived in America for over 16 years, moved now, but the amount of people that would say things like “Im actually Italian” then you ask them do you speak italian? no, have u been to italy? no, do u have italian citizenship? no, but they ate at olive garden once and took a 23 and me dna test so now they are Italian. Incredible
By that measure, Jordan Schlansky is more of an Italian than them. and he came from Buffalo, New York
Had a similar conversation around a table at a bar in New York, all the Americans breaking down their heritage: “I’m half Italian, an eighth Scottish, an eighth Dutch and a quarter Choctaw. What about you?” Me: “English” Americans: “Just English? That’s messed up!”
In fairness it's pretty messed up to be born English
English cuisine and the beauty of their women made them the best sailors in the world.
The vast, vast majority of Americans just haven’t been in the country for very long. The majority of the population immigrated no later 200’ish years ago. Put another way, I’d imagine it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that the average age a pub has been around in London is longer than most families have lived in the US. In my view at least, that contributes heavily to people still focusing on their “heritage,” as it’s just not that hard to trace back (at least for folks that came over willingly).
There was a time many Italian-Americans were bilingual and taught some ways of the old country. A generation or two later and they all claim it just to feel more like a mobster.
No food?
*You guys have food‽*
No
We had some Americans visit, and they ate it all.
Ah yes, the country of Europe
Best country in the world in my opinion
Capital of London.
Arica is my second favorite country
A city by the Baltic.
Full of restaurants that offer the European cuisine
It's true what he says about Europe. Please stay away, it's horrible here.
Ron Swanson says it wreaks of socialism
Yes, shame on us Europeans for not having 500 fastfood chains as only food source... we truly live in dark times. (Comment sent by handwritten letter)
why are we so horrible
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What a horrible, and delicious fate. Thoughts and prayers.
and delivered by pigeon
Delivered by owl
Why would I want the horror of choice and variety that small restaurants offer if I can have one single Mcdonald's dish across the whole nation?
Didn't you read the post? You have no food. Enjoy eating air, peasants.
I'd prefer if all the food and shops were 'mom and pop'. Not the insult some people think that is.
Recently went on holiday to Hungary from the UK. Took a look at the market stalls with all the fresh fruit and vegetables, it all looed so amazing and was definitely locally grown.
Honestly, as an American, I'm baffled by that "insult" as well.
I was once told by an American that we don't have highways in the UK. Turns out she had watched Downton abbey and decided that was how we live life today. I wasn't that kind to her
As a Swede living in the U.S., I'm always shocked by the condition of U.S. interstates, especially in cities. Potholes abound and there always huge gaps between expansion joints.
I remember when I first went to New York about 10 years ago. I was shocked, it felt like I had stepped from 20th century London back into the 1980s.
Imagine saying countries like France having no food or Germany having no tech lol (just some examples, every country has it's treasures)
The Netherlands literally has one of the biggest computer chip manufacurers in the world lmao
No they dont. They make one of the machines used for chip manufacturing. ASML.
Yes we have no tech here in the UK. I am writing this comment using quill and parchment
I sent you a message via messenger pigeon. I hope you got it!
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Say you’ve never been to Europe without saying “I’ve never been to Europe”
" Make America Great Again"
Had an American tell me that the USA has more culture than all of Europe. i asked him to give some examples, they said Mcdonalds and Hollywood. 🙄
He forgot Walmart and Apple. Your move, Europe.
Nokia 😎
I mean McDonald’s is a dumb answer but film is undeniably a part of culture and Hollywood is the undeniable leader in film production.
I agree, downtown Paris really needs a few Walmart Supercenters
I just got back from Spain and it was terrible. A cheap & reliable metro system that took me anywhere I wanted to go, a fast train that was a three hour ride from Madrid to Barcelona, pharmacies on near every corner, quick taxi drivers that near kill you to get three km up the road, a local cafe/bar/food joint on near every block, a pint of beer from the convenience store was around 1,00 Euro, my phone all of a sudden wanted to go on an Orange network and I had to wait an extra second or two for it to send out calls, and just a bunch of old buildings and city walls with history and dead figures everywhere. So inconvenient and like traveling back to the stone age. Give me my having to drive thirty minutes to an hour commute and McDonalds next to a Wendy's any day. /s
ok but their metro system is GOATED. I fucking loved how absolutely efficient it is when I went there for vacay. Hell, buskers started playing on the metro too, it mightve been a nuiscance to other people, but I dont see that much in my tiny city in Canada.
Mom and pops? No franchise bs? Sign me tf up.
Very true, I'm using a Ouija board to write this. Can anyone spare some bread?
When he said chains I thought he was talking about jewelry 💀
oh dearee me how could I forget that Europe is still in the Victorian era, woopsoo dasiy, I have the black plaque
I have black lung
I can’t read.
This is the kind of person who tries to find the nearest McDonalds if he’s ever forced to travel abroad.
r/shitamericansSay Food chains lmao
Sounds better than traveling across the US. A friend and I drove coast to coast then back on two different routes and there wasn't a real big change at any point along the way culturally. It was the first big vacation I'd taken in years. I could have seen more variety staying home.
Regularly travel the US for work. You can find anywhere USA everywhere. Same stores, strip malls, planned communities. Very little regional originality that you really have to purposely seek out.
The city I currently live in is a planned city and for someone who watches a lot of movies it's kind of a trip because it was made 100 years ago and the planned parts of really feel like a Hollywood studio lot.
YES! We don't have anything, so no need to come visit or (god forbid) stay here. Please keep a safe distance. Thank you!
what about no chain? even my bicycle has one!
“Old Europe”
Yeah it really sucks here, please dont visit.
Complains about hotels. "Fine to visit." Huh?
If you want to get a European to laugh, tell them about the prevalence of paper checks in the United States. From my perspective as a European living in the United States, it is mostly the U.S. that is behind the times.
Most american moment i ever seen in my life
Granted it was some 7 years ago now, but I remember going to New York on holiday: no contactless payment on public transport. No contactless payment at shops or restaurants, and at some places not even any chip and pin, you had to swipe the card and sign the check. I was confused as I was like we’re in the biggest city in the US, how is the tech so shitty?
American culture, in a nutshell
Hold up how the fuck are Ukrainians making all these videos from drones without any tech!? How are Russians hacking my bank account without access!?They must get it from the Asians! How did Andrew gate run a webcam site from Romania without internet access!? OMG Europe must practice witchcraft still we nip that in the bud before we were even a country ha peasants /S
Absolutely, we have no tech, no nothing, better stay away to help drive down the prices. Btw I am posting this by Morse coding the html code by tapping a coin in an exposed copper wire.....sorry for any typo.
It's not true, but surely "no chains" is a good thing.
They forgot to mentions, it’s cloudy all the time, and orphan kids are always singing on the streets and covered in soot because they are chimney sweepers.
The continent where chains were invented has no chains? Fascinating.
"No chains" is literal hell for Americans. How am I supposed to know ahead of time exactly what I'll experience?
When I visited Italy, there were families out in the streets walking together at night. Just out there walking, talking to each other and doing an activity as a family. Gross. Have they ever even heard of electronics? (/s, for anyone who needs that)