Non-Americans, What About America Sounds Fake But Is 100% True? (1 Hour Reddit Compilation)

non-americans what is the most shocking thing you saw when visiting the United States woke up early on vacation in Florida and the sidewalk outside my hotel was absolutely covered in lizards and it was amazing today I was in a shopping center and there was a woman pushing a push chair around however it wasn't a baby in there but two dogs that's more common than I'd like to admit Rite Aid I can get a full shot HIV test a bottle of tequila Snickers bars and pizza pockets all from the same store awesome I hope I can get an entire days worth of calories in one meal also having one dollar notes made me feel like I was rich I had a huge wad of notes with like 20 of em were one dollar bit still it's a nice feeling I'm Vietnamese and when I moved to the US cars outnumber motorcycles so it was like going to the Future the less shocking was seeing white and black people because I have never seen other races before I was surprised that I couldn't buy over-the-counter cough syrup without it went to a Walmart in Maine that was so huge the ceiling met the floor at a horizon also they sold liquor there on the cheap Peruvian here the first thing my mother and I said was Wow everything is so quiet I'm from Singapore and we're pretty much a conservative and Reserve Society I visited the US for an elective program at UCLA go Bruins and the thing that struck me most about America was everyone's friendliness or social mess people just strike up conversations with you ask how your days beam and really connect with each other based on whatever is happening around them the weather how long the wait for the bus is etc and somehow these fleeting connections were very real and genuine to me I came back home a much more enlightened person with my horizons very much broadened so thank you Americans for showing me simple human kindness I was told I speak very good English I'm English French living in California American are super friendly and will engage a discussion whenever they can oh and Americans speak very loud too I was walking to Target the other day and this woman was shouting at me asking for directions she wasn't panicked or angry or anything she was just shouting whole camps of homeless people living under highway overpasses in New Orleans in New Orleans those people are referred to as the middle class clean air clean tap water people even drink it WTF I came here from Russia people wishing me a good morning and saying hello when I didn't even know them always had a misconception that Americans were mean and rude wouldn't say would be shocking but just a tad startling basically flags flags everywhere on the pavements in the windows on the side of buildings up polls on cars on doors on posters pretty much anything it could be stuck to oh and the real comfy feeling of diners genuinely felt welcome in any I went for a cup of tea in always got a raised eyebrow and a question when I asked for hot tea instead of iced tea that seems like such a strange idea to go into a diner just for a cup of tea I'm from Australia and I couldn't believe how high the water levels are in your toilet my balls nearly touch the water hammer also your drive-thru ATMs crazy yep when I went there I suddenly realized why their toilets overflow when they get clogged in Australia the water in the flesh isn't enough to overflow the bowl how freakin big the cars are I'm Italian if you like those prices you should go to Costco four point five gallons of ketchup one dollar and thirty cents so much types of fast food Canadian as well I'm used to like max for choices but in the States there's like 15 and there's a definite hierarchy of quality I'm American that I live in Hawaii and visited virgin air which was more than just a time change I have never in my life seen so many restaurants they are everywhere it felt like every second business was a restaurant and there weren't any hills where I was so directions were given thus take a left at the Golden Corral then right at the Cracker Barrel if you get to the Olive Garden you've gone too far the u.s. is huge and even states adjacent to each other can be very very different from each other the experience is a person who visits San Diego California compared to rural West Virginia or Houston Texas or Wyoming is very different if you think McDonald's is cheap you should go to Speedway you can buy like three hot dogs and not even spend a dollar these hot dogs will probably kill you if you eat too many of them but still they are cheap sam's club hotdog for 99 cents 30 ounces drink 89 cents combo one dollar and seventy cents it's like a huge ass hotdog - coming in from China it was amazing how not crowded the public transportation was well after I got over the lack of public transportation sure rush hour was busy but I didn't have to wait for three trains to pass to rudely push my way into the subway also no one stole my stuff drive through banks my cousin from Vietnam flew into America sometime in December and she recalled that her first reaction was wow there's so much sugar covering the ground it was snow but she really thought we sprinkled sugar everywhere for shoots and giggles why she's never heard of snow I don't know but it was adorably hilarious yep we frosted the North just for her this is probably the most interesting thing I've read in a while I love to hear people's views on our country I just came back from three weeks USA and I remember being shocked by the huge amount of diabetes products in your average Walgreens glucose meters everywhere here in Holland people don't just get diabetes and if they do it's mostly type 1 and then I tasted butterfingers Frick then I understood as an Australian who just came back from America this year what a freak man you guys have pretzel M&Ms share that crap around Frick give us Tim Tams Brit with a short list after visiting Florida one felt very very weird not recycling MDS 2 baffled by savory food getting a sweet accompaniment pancake batter corndogs pizza and cookies et Cie 3 the cars being so big driving a Crown Vic felt like being a bus driver for everyone being so friendly took me two days to figure out how to react to random conversations with strangers awesome trip I never expected a culture shock I lived in China until 1999 grade five in elementary school they're now a family moved to Dallas Texas within the next year the following things were very surprising to me one everything is ridiculously big from the size of our apartment to people's houses to the size of roads to the length of time it takes to get downtown we lived in North Dallas near Arapaho and Hillcrest to school classrooms resembled something like a wonderland there were bright colors everywhere tables are put together into clumps instead of ordered and neat rows from back to front then there were stuffed paper mache animals on the walls with people's names on it cute little mailboxes for everyone TVs and computers in every classroom a cafeteria filled with tasty foods and snacks and playgrounds with swings three we were learning 405 e equals 2,000 in math class for the nice people at church actually took their religion seriously like actually believed it to be real I always thought religions were stories you learn because they were important cultural stories that had some education value like the story of Prometheus giving fire to humans for example I used to teach English in China I can see why you are so impressed about the state of American classrooms considering what the average Chinese classroom looks like your students are amazing to teach though even the naughty kids were a welcome break from the average British pupil how hard it is to get a drink I'm Irish and over 21 and in California even with a passport and driver's license I was treated with skepticism blood started to enter my alcohol stream a few times while I was there shudder Brazilian here everything is so freakin cheap from food to soda to cars and computers everything is 1/10 of the freaking international price there were a few things both awesome and scary which shocked the obvious ones are food-related obesity-related which have been said to death here and in other threads for me in a road trip across America it was the sheer size of cities towns et Cie along highways coming from Australia the sheer number of people and large cities was astounding NB I haven't been to China or India and while I have traveled elsewhere nothing compared to USA for me with regards to this children on a leash never seen that in Europe Confederate flags on trucks in Vermont yet that has become a redneck thing it's weird I have even seen black men rocking Confederate flags tax why not put a freaking price sticker that includes it so I don't have work out if I have enough money for everything you have to freaking drive everywhere Canadian here I first went to the u.s. in the 90s when I was in my early teens I had assumed that people would be rude and worst-case-scenario shoot me I was shocked when people were friendlier than they were back home so where yell from followed by a big grin was the most common occurrence it was awesome the water pressure in American showers is so freakin high you could seriously kill people with those showers whether that is cheap MacOS meals here in New Zealand cost at least eight dollars and are upwards of $10 for a hunger Buster or anything bigger a huge sing advertising ham come with a big cannabis leaf in Mexico we are killing each other and a stupid drug warrant in the u.s. is so casual that they have conventions it really shocked me I was on the west coast for about two months a couple of years ago I'm from the Netherlands things that struck me one portion sizes your small pizzas our large pizza your medium Pete says our family pizza your large pizza doesn't fit inside our borders to clean streets I saw a lot of $1000 littering fine signs must have worked because there wasn't so much as a cigarette oh but on the streets 3-space you have a lot of it everything is bigger taller larger wider and further apart for food is cheaper than in Europe alcohol is more expensive five I figured out why you don't see a lot of American cars outside of America I'll stop here before I insult people six no aggressiveness at sport matches I visited a Giants game in SF and couldn't believe my eyes when a Giants and Cardinals stand we're sharing a couple of beers and eating hotdogs together while cheering for different teams in Europe we have to separate soccer fans from the moment they arrived in the game city until the second they leave to stop them from bashing each other's brains heads in also the entertainment value with all the songs and games is much higher than in European sports matches it's just football fans who can't be trusted in Europe rugby fans are allowed to sit next to each other and drink alcohol et Cie there were not posters of Castro everywhere head zing head means duck in Tai Xing means Virgin Racing depending on the accent those signs are warnings so you don't get caught up in a duck race that's some dangerous crap I was in the M&M superstore in Times Square and saw a woman so fat just so fat she used a scooter sigh that's unfortunately not exceptionally unusual when I came to the States from Bangladesh I was shocked how rich people are so skinny and poor people are so fat in my country it was the opposite waffles from New Zealand and I've only ever seen them in America Europeans what is something you've heard about America all seen on television and wondered if it were true the yellow school buses I couldn't believe they were actually a thing when I first went to the US my friend from the Netherlands couldn't stop taking pictures of them it was hilarious can you really turn right at a crossroads even if the traffic light is red usually yes it looks as though in all the American TV movies I have seen that all Americans have to file their own taxes is this true in the UK this is done automatically by your employer our prices in stores marked tax-free and they tell you the full price at the checkout until this afternoon the gun shops my mate is in Vegas at the moment and he just posted a pic of him in a shop that looks almost identical to the ones in GTA I had just assumed that GTA was exaggerating GTA V is almost exactly like driving around Southern California my friends and I marveled at how close it looks to real streets here our house part is common and are they like in the movies with +30 drunk people and freaking everywhere I've never been to a house party where freakin was everywhere but yes 30-40 Plus drunk people with a few rooms where people kind of disappear too and come out awkwardly can you really end up at an elite university when you're done as a brick but good at sports yes is the short answer his New York City really as busy as it looks in movies on TV it looks like there's a billion people jammed in there with everyone moving shoulder-to-shoulder in one huge angry mass and you could lose a child if you blink is that just put on for the cameras to look busy none of the cities here are anywhere like that yes and no usually in my experience that's only around Manhattan and although not as extreme as a lot of movies show it there are a lot of focused people walking around generally the only time I see that many people huddled around is near a large subway station I had a couple from Seattle stay at my flat for a couple days as couch surfers and I was quite surprised to hear them call each other honey or hon just like in the movies it's easier to get a weapon I read walmart sells weapons so how is the process to get one in Texas buying a firearm is pretty easy you go and whoever is selling the firearm will do a quick background check but if you're clean you can walk out with a gun in under 30 minutes is it really that risky to walk into a ghetto neighborhood in a big city or is it more something people just say always wondering as we have bad neighborhoods here as well but if you walk through them at night you really aren't that much more unsafe than in other parts of cities in short are there really no-go areas crap I don't even live near the city and there are areas I don't even like going to in the daytime jaywalking how likely are you to get in trouble for it and what are the punishments like I'm British and as a kid had no idea what jaywalking was it was mentioned in American TV but never explained so I assumed it was some sort of overly flamboyant walking do people really have air conditioners just hanging out of windows only held in place by the window itself it seems crazy and safe yes but window units are designed to be held in like that and are generally really safe when installed right is there really such a strict attitude towards teenagers drinking alcohol and uk0 Frick's are given legal drinking age is 21 nationwide and if a teen gets caught by the cops they can get in some pretty good trouble do the police rarely come to parties where people under the age of 21 are drinking and arrest everyone not arrests but they will hand out citations to the easy targets mostly they just break it up do you guys seriously use those red cups at parties why not just drink straight out of the bottle or can we do they are cheaper to use than real cops and usually kegs are present which really aren't easy to pass around are the portions of food as big as everyone makes out I've had a lot of people come back from the states and tell me that the amount of food you get on a plate is insane I'm not talking about fine dining here I'm flying over in a little over a week and I need know if I should prepare myself is it really flat dry and arid in some places I've seen pictures or shows of colleges and towns that look like they're in the middle of nowhere and there are no Hills or mountains for miles also what is a Klondike bar America is incredibly diverse you name the climate and it is here somewhere I can go from cold snow in the Rocky Mountains to the hot dry desert of Phoenix yes the desert looks just like the cartoons told Ike Barre is a hunk of ice cream covered in chocolate this is a common novelty and comes in many forms I haven't had one in years but now I think I need one do you really tip everyone for everything even if the service was terrible my son ran outside to stop the ice-cream truck yesterday my Italian exchange students Dhokla head out her bedroom window and yelled oh my they do exist just like the movies not European but always wanted to know just how popular is this spray cheese in a canned stuff over there in the US it's called Cheez Whiz I think do many people actually eat that or is it a sometimes food USA is the only place I've heard of that as this product asking the important questions today our weeks of paid vacation really that uncommon yes the average corporation starts at five paid days off per year as you get promoted you graduate to ten days then 15 etc but Americans don't take us many days off as Europe do Caucasian is that just a term for white people yes at least on official forms or if you're very PC white is way more common for actual conversations have you really had that TiVo TiVo telly on demand things are like 15 years it came out in the UK like three years ago what's going on when it comes to watching as much TV as we can I think us Americans have the rest of the world beat but do you guys really pay everything when having dinner with a girl that is pretty typical when you first start dating since you're trying to woo the girl once you're in a relationship things tend to get split a little more if my girl and I do dinner and drinks I'll typically pay for dinner then we will go someplace else for drinks and she'll pay why does everyone live in dormitories on campus at University in Australia that is pretty much completely unheard of you either stay living at home or live in a share house off campus in Britain we live on campus too then in second and third year most likely moved to an off-campus house with mates do you really live in shared rooms at university I couldn't imagine sharing a room with a stranger past like 15 years old is there really that many obese people yes do you guys really like our accents not badly yes yes yes I was always wondering if people really work so many towers like far over 50 60 hours per week up to 80 and more like bankers lawyers cops and especially doctors those working at hospitals seem to have no life and be working night and day and always I'm interested in any occupation I only named those which I come across most on TV I've shown in pretty much in any TV show suits Grey's Anatomy any crime show in Europe most of this jobs would not even be allowed by law to work more than 38 stroke 40h per week and we have so so many bank holidays where everything apart from bars and restaurants is closed so apart from five week holiday you get do many bank holidays in addition is there really a social stigma against being an exist it depends what area of the u.s. you I'm in the Bible Belt people care but here in SoCal no one gives a crap why are Americans obsessed with saying us all the time everything was badass this or big-ass that and every insult seems to include our sake jackass etc I'll refer you to some mix alert our national expert on all things but does everyone really identify themselves as Irish American or Italian American or German American or whatever as opposed to just plain old American the thing with America is that most people can trace their heritage back several generations since we can it is not uncommon to have grandparents or great-grandparents at our immigrants while many Americans have never been to their homeland we know where it is plus when you have a new yen Hernandez and oil as good friends that is easy to guess where everyone is from do all of your high schools have that corridor of lockers I've never seen that in any schools around here but in American movies they're everywhere I saw a question about University dorms our fraternities such a big deal it is totally a line to me in Scotland they can be but it doesn't have to be some people join fraternities most people don't if high school really has the tendency to have some main groups who mainly hang out and sit together in the cafeteria like there are the cheerleaders the footballers the Nerds the punks the scatter Boyz etc and I would like to know if girls are really so mean at high school like if one girl or group of girls is popular she is really a being treats others girls maybe less pretty nerdy badly since I take more interest in culture and society I really wonder if white Americans and African Americans are really not hanging out a lot together like you have so many shows where all main characters are white uncle Charlie gilma girls new go Hawk California well almost any show which has maybe one token black or Indian or Latino guy and you have shows where everyone is African American Prince of Bellaire Bill Cosby Show every hates Chris non-americans who have been to the US what is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird I went to SeaWorld with my mum when I was in my mid-teens halfway through the show the performer not the whale asked everybody in the military to stand up and the whole crowd gave them a round of applause they sat back down in the show continued as if nothing had happened couldn't imagine anything similar happening back in Blighty I love that you specified it wasn't the whale asking questions how your medical ads show an old guy living life well because of ex-drug he has the best time the wife is having the best time and it's all because of the drug making things better the end of the ad is full of warnings about how this happy drunk can potentially kill you and your family nuke your dog and make cats impotent recap the cliffhanger episode of life in Alaska before another outbreak unwatchable TV not seeing toilet brushes in hotels I know I know room service and stuff it is my family expected to look at my skid marks meanwhile that poison ivy not only exists but it's a ubiquitous now that Thanksgiving and Christmas is over the weirdest thing is that Americans will ask what you are doing for Thanksgiving are you going to your family etc when you say no they invite you to their home I was a student my family was thousands of miles away and I'm happy that the local Cracker Barrel is open and looking forward to a meal there my professor did Matt invited me to his home I had a good time but it was strange I'm meeting his uncles and aunts and one little girl threw a tantrum I had to take her to calm her down etc it was weird but also wonderful in my country things like this would never happen you don't bring a stranger to a family event but I'm thankful things like this happen here on behalf of my wife what's up with the gaps in the toilet stool doors in noble a and a B day to you sir when we were flying between cities I found it weird to look out of the side of the plane and see towns mid flight in Australia once you leave the city's airspace the landscape is completely barren until you arrive at your destination car dealerships have huge flags I don't get why you'd have a flag the size of 10 RVs so many roads don't have streetlights not weird but portion sizes are also huge I struggled with finishing my food sometimes when you have ads for drugs and half of the ad is telling you how the drug will kill you while also showing poppies it's weird side effects may include proceeds to list side effects worse than the issue oh you have allergies well take this medicine side effects may include runny nose itchy eyes and possibly death everything in America is huge I don't just mean the people or portion sizes because we all know about that but the roads the buildings the ceilings the space between everything America is gigantic it just feels larger than it does here I'm Australian but I've been to Asia and size-wise it's similar to Australia and I've seen Europeans say the same about America everything is bigger American that just traveled overseas I went to a great bookstore in Edinburgh and the cashier asked if I wanted to sign up for a Rewards membership this led to a conversation about how their CEO or something just took over Barnes and Noble in the States I stated the closest be an end to me as an hour away and the other cashier jumped in saying how easy it is to forget how far apart things are in the States he was just kind of baffled and said it often blows his mind I move thirteen hours away from my hometown and I still manage to be in the same country which seems like a foreign concept for most Europeans when in reality I could have moved even further away and still been in the u.s. depending on the country you can probably pass four countries in Europe in 13 hours I'm not sure if they find it weird or not but as a Canadian who has been to a few states gambling at gas stations in Montana so dang weird ranch it is somehow both delicious and revolting and changes which with every mouthful a friend of mine asked what ranch was in Texas the waitress was stumped well it's its ranch manner I love the southern accent in the states though Americans are super friendly to the point that I Australian thought it was sarcasm or fake free refills went to a restaurant with my dad both German and all of a sudden the waiter took away my drink with another perfectly good sip in it and I must have looked pretty shocked it was only then when my dad explained to me that you guys have free refills that there are a lot of squirrels went to the zoo with a Polish girl once and was super surprised when she found the squirrels more fascinating than all the large animal clearly the fact that there are people to put your groceries in a bag for you I've never been so stressed and uncomfortable that while I was watching this young girl taking care of my groceries I went to Germany and was shocked that the cashiers are seated they all stand here in the US which is unfortunate there's no real reason for it my Brazilian wife says she was amazed that we actually respect pedestrians here as someone from the UK who visits the US I find this statement staggering and God knows what happens in Brazil not me but my cousins who had lived in Kuwait and Australia for many years came to visit my family back in Texas and laughed at how we said y'all Hawaiian here but I never noticed that we didn't have billboards until I moved out of Hawaii turns out they're illegal so that's weird it's awesome cause I get unobstructed views but still weird they are also illegal here in Alaska when I moved to Florida for a while last year I realized how much I liked not having them everywhere for me as British bloke who only travelled for six weeks in the US your public transport is largely put that everything is built for cars and your cars are big you advertise not businesses but personalities a lot so it's not that kgh estate agents will well your property but Mary Hutton will personally sell your house with a big picture of her face random people will talk to you I'm a Londoner so it is different up north in the UK but especially when I got to the southern states people were so happy to talk to random strangers you guys actually sit at the bar in bars when we go to a pub bar we'll go with friends and rarely interact outside of out-group really you guys jump up at that bar and just start chatting way homelessness is visible it's bloody awful San Francisco was horrible for this me and my now wife ended up making a load of extra SPAC bol to give to the homeless people outside our hostel because it was shocking to us if I think of any more I'll I'll add them that it's Christmas Day and I should probably talk to my family there is also completely flicked with homelessness someone from my country who lives in USA told me that without a car you are crippled in America most of the time yes that's why getting a car as a teenager is a thing having multiple cars in one household the amount of commercial breaks in a TV show ads in general actually it is so hard to go anywhere without having something an obnoxiously large text trying to get your attention whether it be on the road on TV on the internet and heck even in people's phones Canadian here I was blown away by how weirdly social people are with strangers like some random guy I've never seen before just starts telling me his life story on the street he is super normal and doesn't seem crazy just wants to talk to me for some reason but then also the dude at Wendy's is loudly threatening some sixteen-year-old cashier in front of like 45 people my god the impression the Wendy's guy was uncool bill the other guy seemed normal and where I live I generally assume that a stranger talking to me for no reason is either crazy or high I lived for a long time in different places around the world and something that I really missed when moving to a new town was the lack of a u.s. style bar where it was easy for a stranger to meet people outside of the US it is rare to find a bar where everyone just sits and faces the same direction whether or not a sporting event was playing on the television instead they have a more public environment where everyone is sitting in groups of their individual tables this makes meeting new people extremely difficult think about it with a table style bar in order to strike up a conversation with a stranger you literally have to approach them while they are sitting at their own table with their own friends it's almost impossible to not look like a total freak in a proper Cheers style bar you can just say some random phrase to the bartender and if the person sitting next to you wants to talk they'll just join in on the conversation or basically in non-us bars if you aren't invited ahead of time by someone you are damned to sit alone in some corner of the bar this makes sense I am NOT American never understood how Americans went to meet new people at bars I only ever go with friends I live in the south and one time I was hanging out with a friend smoking by a lake in late spring early summer he was Egyptian and had just moved here over the winter all of a sudden he freaked out saying he was seeing weird lights in the trees I thought he was too high or something before I realized he meant the lightning bugs he never seen them and didn't know what they were so I started catching them and he was mind blown that they were just a normal seasonal thing my ex was a native of Colorado and one summer night was completely awestruck by the lightning bugs that myself as a native Nebraskan just took for granted crazy how drastically different places in the u.s. can be Canadian here Canada's fast-food restaurants have signs at fairly normal height just enough to get the point across while not being obnoxious cross over to the USA and within five seconds of leaving customs you can see fast food signs hundreds of feet in the air on giant poles two-three times taller than here in Canada while also finding peanut butter and jelly swirled into the same jar was shocking so they can be seen from the highway portion-size saw a kid drinking a pop the size of his head child sized drink it's roughly the size of an average child if he were liquefied neon signs for a freaking funeral home will always stand out funeral funeral funeral holy crap so me and my wife are here for our honeymoon right now been here for two days and what I've noticed you'll bathroom stalls have like a 3-foot gap at the bottom WTF your food portion sizes are frickin huge Walmart is freaking huge everyone wants to talk to us were British so we're used to sitting in uncomfortable silence we keep making friends I'm driving for the first time over here you guys just turned right through the red lights WTF how TF does four-way junctions work so farm I've been going for it and hoping for the best seems like a mad free-for-all to me I actually really like how driving here works all the roads are like Bob on straight ten mile back home would take me fifty minutes here it's like ten minutes through town your houses are weirdly unsecure like there is a glass window pane all the way down the side off the door I could break my hand through and unlock it in all of three seconds the back doors have a tent around the pool and the rear door is a glass sliding one single glazed I could force it open with a toothpick I ordered chips had got a weird look at a restaurants night the waitress brought me some glazed chips bless that's all I can think of right now was staying in Orlando for anyone wondering the pool tent is for mosquitos this time of year not a problem during the summer they will destroy you how far apart everything isn't how little is within walking distance location dependent but I moved to a suburb in the Midwest as a kid and everything was so far away without access to a car and without reliable public transportation it was pretty much impossible to get to a friend's house unless they lived on your street or something or go anywhere fun as a kid without relying on parents for a ride maybe things are different now with uber and whatnot but back then it felt pretty isolating that's why the 80s looking stranger things ascetic of a group of kids on bikes is so prevalent for a lot of folks it's the only way to do anything as a kid legal drinking age of 21 it's really weird especially at age 18 people consider you as an adult yup you can star in a pono at 18 and own a house but having a beer is out of the question so stupid everything so big from the Supercenter walmart store to food portions the parking lot pickup trucks house cup of coffee airport even the people if you think that's big check out Costco lemon Dave made with real lemons and it's like super sour but somehow sugary sweet at the same time then Australia lemonade is the same as sprite so when I was there my mom and I ordered Jack Daniels and lemonade and they made it with the real lemonade and it was awful it was also weird because they sold pre-mixed bottles of Jack's and lemonade with the real lemonade Robert and Australia you buy the same ones with sprite lemonade free refills was the other big one everywhere has free refills as many times as you like never seen that before free refills are great for everyone monetarily not healthily because you can drink however much you want without going up and paying a game and each refills only costs the company a few cents so they will always have big profit margins sometimes restaurants even take a loss on some food items hoping that people will buy a drink with it to more than make up the difference in Germany how are you is an actual question and you generally only ask it if you know the other person it was super hard to explain to my mum that the answer is always fine thank you and that cashiers don't really care about how you actually feel when we visited the u.s. no.8 the bottom of the toilet cubed or is higher than a limbo bar i want to crap in peace as an american it bothers me to fancier restaurants have low doors which should be standard you have people who have visited the u.s. what is your WTF america story when i went to the u.s. the first time and ordered a meal from Burger King ordering a large fry coke and a whopper I was blown away by the size of it all each item was larger than the same item back home I was already like what in the world but then the cashier said I could have a second whopper for $1 again I was like what the heck signed me up another time while I was in Daytona I went to a restaurant and the woman kept refilling my drink again and again being a bit shy I did not tell her to stop and expected a bill with $15 for sodas but then I found out the refills were free incredible free refills I'd only seen that at places like subway but so many restaurants in the US had free refills I love the u.s. for restaurants and food in general the portions are massive and very reasonably priced I'm from Canada and went to see CEA's pizza in Florida holy crap five dollars for an all-you-can-eat buffet which was basically a fast purse to witness a crap ton of gluttony that was on another level had a similar experience at a bar we ordered a pitcher of beer and when it came out of five dollars and fifty cents we all looked at each other in bewilderment the waitress then apologized for how expensive it was for those that don't know a pitcher of average beer typically costs $16 20 Canadian dollars I'm from America and I have a friend from Australia it amazes him that there are so many flags everywhere apparently that is a distinct to us a thing he'll make jokes about how we all forget where we are on a three-week trip to the US last year I counted over 1,000 u.s. flags I don't think I've seen that many Australian flags in Australia despite having lived here for nearly 30 years French checks exchanged teenager in Cali hair summer 97 I was young and missed the field trip bus to Disneyland from San Diego so I did something pretty stupid I hitchhiked to go there by myself dude who took me looked like a plaintiff corpse but a good buddy when he heard I was French he told me to never ever hitchhike in USA because it's pretty dangerous plus people could assume I am a serial killer so I boasted look at him you don't think I am a serial killer I am NOT that dangerous looking or you are careless he told me to open the glove box in front of me there was a sip Hospital loaded freaking Desert Eagle inside he dropped me at the bus station and insisted to give me $10 for ticket I had cash and waited for me to go in the bus I saw fifty chicken nuggets for five dollars went to Walmart the fabled creatures there are just as the internet portrays them as nonetheless still mind-blowing my first trip into a Walmart I saw a man in a brass button blazer with perfectly Brylcreem hair sparkling white teeth orange skin and white slacks that looked like he had stepped right out of an advert from the 1950s he was with a very large woman wearing I love my gay daughter t-shirt I was so happy so do you live in East Germany or in West Germany sorry my World Encyclopedia set is from 1985 a woman was quite surprised to learn that we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK to be fair they celebrate Thanksgiving in Canada when I first moved to America one of the first things I saw after leaving JFK was a homeless man masturbating outside of Union Station it wouldn't have been that strange except I had heard a lot of things about Nick from people who had been there or knew someone who knew someone etc' and I was worried what I was seeing was just going to be an everyday everywhere thing all throughout the country those gaps in your toilet stool doors what are they even for peeking when I started chatting to a cashier she squealed and asked where I was from I told her Australia and she instantly dumped down how she spoke do y'all speak English down there I replied sporadically she laughed and informed me that wasn't a word Singaporean here I feel your pain you speak really good English foreign Asian Korean friend who just got off the plane in Atlanta so men a big fat black women yes he said it loudly and in public but my favorite was a Japanese fella who went to a buffet with a group of us in Vegas he sits down and his plate looks like a normal little meal we all have heaps of crap all over ours and his eyes blog out that we have so much food I said he's really going to freak out when he realizes this is only our first plate so many big fat black women I would like to imagine that this was expressed with great joy I was 12 years old when I spent a month in Minnesota I remember going what the heck or at least a French equivalent when we went to Mall of America and I saw the frigging roller coaster inside of it me paying at gas station attendant he as I have an accent smiles at me you speak English so well Thanks although I should do I'm from England cue confused look wait they she trailed off speak English there her colleague stared at her an open mouthed disbelief and then broke out laughing with the other customers she looked mortified to be fair I felt terrible for her she was only trying to be friendly to a foreigner how spread out everything is like it's pretty much impossible for me to survive without a car while everywhere I needed to go on a regular basis back in London was in a 10-minute biking distance it's also the number of pickup trucks people owned without needing especially out here in the West the metro area I live in is like 8% the size of London population wise but it'll take you 45 minutes by car to drive from one side of town to another if you live anywhere in America outside of Washington DC New York Boston downtown Chicago or a few other places it's vital to own a car do you have cell phones in Norway this was in 2012 kids nowadays get an iPhone and/or iPad before they're born must be very painful for the mother I asked an old lady if it's true all Americans carry guns she smiled and pulled a revolver out of her purse she was a nice lady they're complimentary with your birth certificate here I visited from Canada a couple years ago everyone was very nice and had the exact same mildly interested reaction to a credit card with a chip we've finally started transitioning to these in the last year or year and a half we're a bit behind when I first came to the US and my dad took us to a restaurant I ordered a fish dish and when it came out I asked my dad how come the fish doesn't look like a fish I was used to whole cooked fish so deep fried fish Phil it looked really strange to me I had the opposite dining in France I was not expecting my dinner to stare at me I was complimented on my excellent English by a girl from Ohio I'm Canadian she thought we all spoke German after moving from Africa as a teen I am repeatedly asked why I moved to Africa in the first place to which I reply that I've always lived there I am also asked so why are you white to which I reply oh my god Karen you can't just ask people why they're white however when they reply with blank stares I realize they aren't referencing Mean Girls was in northern New York near Buffalo and a waitress over her that I was headed back to the Pacific Ocean she asked where I was going and I said Vancouver no honey Vancouver is in Canada and that is on the Atlantic Ocean I said Canada is from sea to sea just like America she replied no that's not right only America's from sea to sea the combination of her being absolutely sure about something into her total ignorance was surprising enough but the fact that she felt she should basically interrupt our conversation by telling me I am wrong about what ocean I live beside was weird that's western New York I'd never been out of Australia before in Australia only farmers and cops have guns and some criminals I guess so I had never seen a gun that wasn't in a cop's holster in my entire 30-year existence we go to the US for our honeymoon and have the honor and privilege visiting a Walmart the guns are just on the shelf you can touch them a fellow was he friend who was with us at the time asked the cashier if she could hold one he looked at her as if she had asked if it was okay to breathe the store there can I hold one this big one she asked incredulous sure if you wanted the guy said confused and bored at the same time she picked up this big gas gun sorry not a gun guy don't know what it was it was about the size of a shotgun but was bulkier and was getting us to take photos of her with it if I had a gun like that at home and walked outside my house with it someone would drive past and see me in about 10 seconds they would call the cops which would take about thirty seconds the police station is just up the road so I asked him at a cop car would arrive in about three minutes and it would take about ten seconds for a cop to ask me politely to jump in his car and come for a nice chat down at the police station but it would be fun for four minutes about the size of a shotgun but was bulkier that sounds like her a shotgun canadian was in a gas station waiting to pay before prepaid took over and a couple of guys with handguns in holsters were in line in front of me resting their hands on the guns not so much what the heck I knew to expect it but it's a memory I think of often as a Texan a group of people with their hands on their holsters would make me extremely nervous it's one thing to carry or even open carry acting like you might draw that gun is another thing completely when I went to Florida I was stopped by the police for jaywalking I protested that the road was clear so therefore safe to cross he said I don't know how you do it in your country we here in the US we take road safety seriously aghast I explained I was from England and my only knowledge of jaywalking was from Lethal Weapon 3 and that I believed it was just a made-up law that they used in the movie to sass people he chuckled and said that's a great movie I prefer the first I agreed and said it was by far the best after a brief chat about the entire Lethal Weapon saga he said in future make sure you use the crossings I agreed but asked in a pretty decent South African accent what if I have diplomatic immunity he chuckled nodded head and pointed to the crossing and said cross there enjoy your vacation and off he went it was the highlight of my holiday he said I don't know how you do it in your country we here in the u.s. we take road safety seriously as someone living in Nick I can't help but laugh at this jaywalking is aware of life that said I got the nastiest looks in Japan for doing the same and would be terrified of getting fined in Switzerland apparently that's a thing though I've never gotten fined when travelling there asked a girl in the hooker lounge if she knew where New Zealand my home country was she replied asking is that the country above us well it is a globe if you get the angle right you'll hit New Zealand eventually a couple I went to university at Cal State Fresno I was the country boy from Canada when I was there the entire downtown of Fresno was boarded up and who did not go there after dark actually any time and a full blown gun gang fight outside of my apartment in Clovis a suburb near the University for a kid from small-town Canada that was mind blowing a couple I went to Fresno that was your first mistake even Californians avoid Fresno especially Californians was at an all-you-can-eat buffet with a soft-serve ice cream machine as kids we thought we were being Little Pigs by swelling as high as we possibly could while our parents weren't looking or they certainly would have stopped us the guy after us grabbed a full sized drink tumbler and filled it up with ice cream no shame at all no childlike Glee at making the mother of all sundaes I suspect now it was something heated regularly the first rule of all-you-can-eat buffet there are no rules only the strong survive I'm Canadian and I went down to the u.s. to do a little shopping I accidentally pulled out some Canadian bills in the cashier asked why I kept monopoly money in my wallet there was a place called Norma's in Washington state somewhere rural anyway it was like a shrine to George Bush the owner was guy in the back of a menu had his face with the quote just call me normal on the back best burger I ever had called the George W Berger a universal what the heck for both foreign and US citizens the Golden Corral everything was submerged in liquid butter the patrons were larger than some cars one time at Golden Corral many years back I saw an overweight guy in suspenders whose chest primarily due to the suspenders was a freaking square he wasn't round instead he was wide but flat he was only about five feet five inches so that likely played a role into his geometric shape as well was the most mind-blowing thing I'd ever seen from a Golden Corral first night in LA watched his a stolen cop car and a million cop cars flew past me down Hollywood Boulevard at 60 miles per hour at 10:00 p.m. then I turned and walked back into the Thai restaurant where I watched the fugitive get Pitt maneuvered and shot dead live on the news via helicopter chase cam dude sitting next to us was excited to tell us we had officially experienced la over-the-top car chases action chase cam news nian lights in Hollywood an Asian restaurant that made me feel like I was in an art film he was right I've told this story on reddit before but my biggest what the heck was in fall 2005 Google Earth had just come out and my colleague at the University lab and I were looking at it she was a blonde bombshell from San Diego and I'm a portly Indian boy when I showed her Mumbai my home city she was blown away you have buildings look there's an airport oh my god you have cars how the heck do you think we get around I asked her reply still rings on my head not walking not cows not elephants not bicycles not a horse-drawn carts she said camels if I ever saw camel in Mumbai I had stopped everything I'm doing and say holy crap that's a frickin camel I went to Disneyland in Anaheim and it just struck me that there were a large number of disabled people out and about enjoying the rides I'm from India where there is no shortage of disabled people but it was just a sheer number of disabled people that made me extremely happy that the park was accessible to everyone you done good America I said to myself as I ate some horrible expensive fried thing I later realized that most those people were not disabled but fat people on scooters who did not feel like walking where do I sign up you non-americans of Reddit what is the craziest rumor you heard about America that turned out to be true surfer dudes actually speak like that Californians speak like that too so apparently yellow school buses are actually a thing in America I honestly thought it was just a cartoon thing but nope I'm from Quebec and when we went down to Boston for a school trip I sneezed in public and heard two or three people say bless you quite a weird rumor I had heard not two months prior to that I thought it was nice I really want to check something in the movie series schools have a Frick ton of extracurricular activities and clubs basketball football swimming cheerleaders chess and a lot of more how true is that also how serious are those games between schools my best friend is a teacher and runs a pokemon card game after-school Club poker club or something he actually gets stipends from the school to run it so he gets paid to play pockemon after school it's also the most popular club in the school with a waiting list to get in that people actually get attacked by alligators which got in their pools specifically referring to Florida here there are boa constrictors in Florida as well I'm still not 100% sure is true so hopefully can confirm boy is pronounced Bowie yup it's Bowie looked on fonox doesn't work with a lot of maritime terms like Leawood is pronounced lured and bosun is pronounced bosun the dolly parton has her own theme park in Tennessee I thought it was a joke that woman is a singer she has a book program for children where once they are born they will receive a free children's book once a month until they turn five that is unraveling I always thought that the Olive Garden in the Simpsons was just code for generic restaurant I studied in Maryland for about half a year back in 2017 I'd always heard that Americans alike super good at pie I was pretty much all alone during Thanksgiving since everyone else was with their families one of the Roz I'd befriended knocked on my door and brought me all different kinds of pie dear Lord I've never tasted anything that delicious from blueberry to Apple to pumpkin every single pie they were all amazing all the food is bigger free refills I actually don't properly know if this is true but you have like a whole hour in your supermarkets dedicated to just their hundreds of cereals you have mostly true it's cereal and other breakfast items like granola and oatmeal but mostly cereal I'm from Australia and all my life I believed Red Solo cups were like 555 area codes a Hollywood prop when I emigrated to the US my mill was making dinner and offered me iced tea in a Red Solo Cup I lost it made everyone sign the cup I've still got it masked people come to your house knock on your door asking for candy mostly it's just packs of kids but sometimes whole families this was my friend's Halloween culture shock it's a ton of fun to hang out next to the walkway in a costume pretending to be one of the decorations and scare people as they walk past you sports bars are actually exactly how they're portrayed on TV just much less attractive people drinks sizes holy crap when my family visited in 2017 we landed in Texas for a stopover first thing I saw in the shops part of the terminal was a dude who was drinking from what looked like an actual freaking bucket here in NZ our large drinks would be considered an American small or maybe medium Texas is known for basically having double sizes of anything from any other states biscuits and gravy is a legit thing also you can ride motorcycles without helmets in some states and your eyes tears and sweet and unless you ask for sweet a good sausage gravy with sage and black pepper with some good flaky biscuits is one of the best southern comfort foods along with a cup of strong sweet iced tea $2 bills crazy hospitable turned out to be true talkative turned out to be true as well American state and national parks are some of the most beautiful places on earth all parks can use more funding but American parks are well staffed and maintained there's real pride I love our national and state park systems one of my state parks recently got a herd of bison which I haven't seen in the wild since my trip to Yellowstone the week I graduated I'm going to go see them and relax in nature the minimal amount of paid days off you get from work a friend of mine from Wisconsin was very proud he got 20 days off per year if someone in Germany would often the only 20 days I would laugh at him and leave I get like 14 max and I have to accrue them as an American I think you could also ask this question to Americans cause there are some weird-ass States man dry counties cities where places aren't allowed to be open on Sunday where there are only certain hours on Sundays not being able to pump your own gas Americans are nice and will stop to talk to strangers Canadian here living in Alberta to anyone who has never been you will be blown away by the general Americans generosity of their time knowledge and helpfulness I have done a few summers of road trips from Calgary one time I went to as far east as Ohio Tennessee as far south as New Orleans and Dallas went through the flatlands and rode up the Rockies the rest of the way home I have visited almost all the landlocked states five more to go and four along the Gulf states all by car I have been through a lot of big American cities and a lot of tiny towns all of you north to south make Canadians look like bloody savages I expected something worse probably because of television and the inter I ended up leaving your country after the first time I visited blown away and with a newfound very real love for my southern neighbors being five times on multi week trips will spend time and money there again ten stroke ten I've had several German friends who were amazed at at house parties everyone actually does drink out of Red Solo cups they thought that was just a weird thing people did in movies and now they think it is a huge conspiracy or something so student loans how does it work in USA in the UK when you go to university you take out a student loan and after uni when you earn a certain amount per year a percentage above that threshold goes towards paying it back however if you don't earn that much idk how much maybe twenty twenty-five K per year then you pay nothing then after a while if you haven't paid it back thirty years maybe forty then it just disappears and you don't have to pay it in America do you have to pay regardless of income is there a time limit after which debt expires and disappears that you can identify Texans with the simple phrase the Stars its night are big and bright parents were from the USSR they were freakin shocked on how nice you Americans are they said that you're a weird type of nice but nice regardless it didn't even matter they were from the USSR moved to the states post collapse you Americans seem to accept them anyway that Hawaiians really like spam yet and there's a perfectly good reason for it too after Pearl Harbor the effects of World War two started in the US and rationing became a thing well it turns out that it's kind of hard to get fresh rations to an island that imports a lot so for meat they had to make do with spam human ingenuity prevails and dishes were made and that's how Hawaii learned to love spam the honking I thought it was a movie stereotype and then I went to New York it's rare outside of big cities limo before I moved to America I heard about dishwashers that crap sounded too good to be true well imagine my surprise that was me with lawn mowers people where I was used shears and scythes lawn mowers were magical to me that American kids eat straight sugar walked onto the playground and saw kids chugging these long thin sticks I try and it was just colored sugar lol called them pixie sticks oh boy wait till you find out about fun dips you have a hard candy stick so all sugar that you lick and then dip into colored sugar to make it stick to the sugar stick then you lick the sugar powder off the sugar stick after you finish you'll the powder you eat the stick the take me out to the ball game song that apparently sung at baseball games still not entirely sure that guy wasn't taking the pee out of me yep it's a thing at the seventh-inning stretch not everyone sings it but they play it on the PA you can see into the public toilet cubicles female here I've been in bathrooms where the gap between the stall and door is so big I felt the need to cover it with my purse just to get some privacy but the absolute worst is when some mother brings her grubby handed son on the bathroom and you see a frickin eight-year-olds eye staring at you from the other side or the door not really crazy but I just learned you guys have like outdoor sirens that get tested somewhat frequently I've only heard those noises and video games and movies until my friend sent me a clip because I had no idea it actually happened in the Midwest before tornadoes 2017 in Athens Georgia I passed out at work and was fine but my boss had already called an ambulance and insisted I get checked out a less than two mile ambulance ride cost me nine hundred and fifty dollars with insurance I was only dehydrated my friend has seizures everyone knows how to handle them one day he was with a girl who didn't know about them and she called the ambulance he doesn't have insurance and they did a full round off he's since had to get a third job and he's still paying off the visit they have milk and gallon cartons when I visited America I went a supermarket for some breakfast stuff cereal and milk all they had was milk and gallons who could possibly have that much milk I asked for a smaller carton than the lady who worked there just laughed at me and made a remark about don't we like milk in England many supermarkets have half gallons and quarter gallons but honestly I'm surprised that's an issue I live alone and go through a gallon of milk in just a few days free soft drink refills in restaurants like wth before I came to the States as we called it I lived in Germany the area I lived in had no fireflies so when I got to the States I did not believe my eyes as I finally saw fireflies light up the world as I fell asleep I also thought that New York City was a popular fictional city I didn't believe it actually existed at the time it seemed too large and extraordinary to possibly exist that there are many libraries of all kinds in the United States that they are able to drink from the sink I tried that and spit the water a taste like crap in my country but when I went to America it tastes great people at Walmart one of the nicest people in one of the town's I lived in is pictured on people at Walmart he's known as Willie the pimp or just mr. Willie older gentleman just likes to dress flashy because it makes people smile to see beautiful things before he got too old to drive you could spot his car by the flower arrangements he attached on the side of the front bumper how much people smoked weed UK here as a Brit living in America the amount of pharmaceutical commercials on TV is creepy smiling person living life to the fullest narrator side effects include anal bleeding gigantism lupus skin shedding and death ask your doctor about products today that public transport is almost non-existent in many smaller towns which makes it a necessity for teens to have their own 100% so if you want a job when you're 16 you better live walking distance to your job or have your parents get you a used car of sorts the sass exam being multiple choice multiple choice exams in general that you can get into university just by being good at sports like WTF Europeans who visited America what was your biggest WTF moment did a house exchange in New Jersey from UK and on the second day a neighbor came to the door with an actual cherry pie to welcome us and asked us to dinner was one a huge confirmation of stereotype to really touching and sweet pie was also wonderful bTW 3 a bit weird because we knew our neighbors wouldn't give a flying freaking we felt bad : not a WTF moment but nevertheless a moment I will remember it was my second trip to California I was only 18 years old when I got out of the plane as usual I had to go through all those security checks at the last checkpoint the officer asked me whether I have anything in my suitcase that I didn't mention on his CBP thing then he asked for drugs and then for alcohol I honestly answered all questions with knowwhen surprisingly he asked me why not a bit confused I told him that I knew I wasn't allowed to take drugs or drink alcohol in his country he got interested and asked whether it was different where I'm from Germany here the minimum age is 16 for light beverages like beer and wine and 18 for the other stuff like spirits he was so interested he kept asking stuff for like five minutes not even minding the 100 people behind me when he let me pass he instantly turned towards the guy in the other checkpoint was like hey did you know double-quote damn I just realized a lot of people's first experience in America are these clowns at saw first thing I saw after sitting down to have my first beer in Portland was some guy walking in the middle of the street half Bob dressed as a ninja with two swords on his back and before that some homeless guy told me and my friend to go back to your country then some slightly hippie looking girl apologized for his behavior we just laughed at how scripted the situation felt and when to have a beer above all so when you play Grand Theft Auto you hear strangers on the street yelling and talking about weird crap that just felt exaggerated until I went to the US and realized it actually happens all the time ironic that a homeless guy tells you to go home in 2015 I went to Florida we walked past a crazy golf place and a guy was holding an alligator in his arms he also told me he had an eight-foot alligator in the back I'm from England so I don't think I'll ever quite get over just how casually he was having a freaking alligator in his arms that's very much a regional thing my wife is from Florida and isn't fazed by alligators I'm from Georgia Alabama and I won't go near the dang things I went to pay with card in a restaurant and the waiter just took it and walked off sometimes people just give me their card while I'm working and from Canada and once they hand it to me I panic and have to explain to them that they pay themselves with the machine and that we don't do it for them we have a lot of Americans coming down from Alaska because I live on a highway that goes from Alaska down to Washington State not European but Arab went to some diner in Portland Oregon and I ordered coffee halfway in my coffee she asked me if I wanted a refill I politely declined telling her I was short on cash she laughed and said refills of free of charge and to top off my amazed reaction she complimented my shirt needless to say she cured my hangover and I fell in love had my cousin's come over from Latvia for a few weeks they never got over the absolute size of stores like Walmart and the sheer amount of products offered excuse me I ordered a small my dad was in tennis last year he said it was really strange that everyone says hi to you I am vacationing in Denmark right now and it feels so cold that nobody says hi to me even in the elevator all the prices are pre-tax when I ordered a cappuccino as IHOP and it came in a bowl sized mug with cream on top and was filled with sugar and vanilla my hope was madness I think my order was about 9,000 calories not European I'm Australian but went to a Walmart in Arkansas it was just like stepping into the people at Walmart page comma walnut Conner Arkansas hah you jumped in with both feet right there European gone to Texas the difference in religion is astounding it's so much more prevalent in people's lives here there are some beautiful churches in Europe but they don't seem to have the same spirit as Texas also holy flick the driving distances are immense an hour commute in the morning is normal for people 24 hours open grocery stores so no excuse if you forgot to buy milk in Netherland some days markets closed at 6:00 p.m. till Europeans all visit Texas it's the America of America back in 1987 and asking for a burger and chips then sat wondering why the hotel waitress looked at me funny then my food turned up on the other hand if you asked for fish and chips everyone in the US will know what you mean the only time that chips means french fries in the u.s. is if it's preceded by the words fish and so I've been living in the States for three years now originally from England I turned to my coworker one day and asked can I borrow a rubber she proceeds to do a double-take and said what I asked again and told her it was to rub out the mistakes I made with a sketch I was working on she proceeds to burst out laughing and explains to me what a rubber really means I should have said eraser well in Florida we went through a drive-thru and the lady couldn't understand what I was ordering regardless of how slowly and carefully I spoke so I decided to go inside instead where the lady behind the counter couldn't understand me either I am a northern Britain not too too broad an accent my little sister had to put on her Florida accent to order for us the manager who eventually took the order said she was sorry as the staff were we used to normal English law Boston didn't notice I had left Europe Houston the people were as friendly as they were huge and loud hugely loud and loudly huge I guess Nashville and other places I went kinda blend together in my head except for the delicious food oh and the person who asked if my country had coins and traffic lights I what yes I mean what I was extremely surprised that in fast food restaurant you will find unlimited soft drinks from time to time like a refill cup yet people pay extra for a bigger cup so they don't have to walk too often I guess so much water in your toilet bowls it's like you're taking your turd for a swim no we just loved the splash of toilet water on our buttholes when pooping we make our own B days thank you very much while walking around Austin random people would just give me a hey how's it going as they walked past in the UK if someone even looks like they might glance in your direction it probably means they're about to try selling you something I probably offended a couple of them with how defensive I seemed come to New York you'll like it we won't even look in your general direction there's frickin flags everywhere the American flag density per square km is so much higher than any other place I've been it's like every other house has a flag the number of American flags on display very very dramatically shot up after nine stroke 11 your commercials on TV for prescription drugs we found the disclaimers for the side effects hilarious yes oh do Americans this is not me I read a story of four Germans who had just finished high school and were going on a us a road trip of beer and herb in some places they didn't find out the drinking smoking age was 21 until they got there I had a foreign exchange student friend come from Germany when we were about 19 stroke 20 and he ordered a beer the first time we went out to eat but he was shocked when they asked foreigner and denied him a drink we laughed and asked if he knew that 21 was the ring a Jer he just replied yes I heard that but it seemed too ridiculous I thought no one would care Jacksonville Florida 2010 during some jazz blues street festival a lady across the street shouts hi there I shout back hello she clocks my accent immediately Britain will guru brihat Elaine I nod slightly I go back there in a month for the first time since I left my hotel in Texas at 7 a.m. stopped at McDonald's and got enough breakfast sandwiches to last me through lunch I then stopped at a gas station to get gas and cigs and 2 cokes I Gandhi through Texas sometimes going over 90 miles an hour I stopped one more time to go to the toilet and get gas and snacks at 7:30 p.m. I stopped at the hotel to spend the night I was still in Texas from Vermont to El Paso is almost as far as Paris to Budapest a guy casually selling scorpions on the Vegas Strip probably was it a 4th of July party in the middle of the woods chillin having a great time and some beers ziplining from a tree into a lake it was like a 90s film come true out of nowhere this redneck comes in with an ar-15 slung over his shoulder shouting let's shoot some crap up naturally i shat myself and made to run into the woods before realizing that he was just a guest who turned up a bit late he turned out to be a really nice guy I'm Canadian not European it's still the first time I saw a dude walk by me into a bank no less and he stood near a cop with a gun on a holster and not cause crap it blew my mind but I went into a Pizza Hut in Nevada and the guy working the register was open caroling it's normal here all arguments for or against aside the space you guys have so much unused InTouch space it's crazy in Europe there is barely anywhere that isn't owned or isn't being used in Europe we have protected forests in America you have some unrestricted uncontrolled forests that are massive tell that to Scandinavia they have all this freezing cold land and no people to populate it with it blows me away that stock has less than a million people in it and it's the biggest city in Sweden I grew up in suburbs that were more populated than that I'm actually in Nick right now so that was good timing I'm from the UK yesterday I went to Central Park and there were literally two guys just driving around on swag ways with giant butt snakes around their necks occasionally they'd take them off and dangle them around the nearest random person I was actually frozen with horror in Florida how amazingly friendly people were whilst talking absolute nonsense to make us happy we are from Wales in the UK this guy had a burger store asked where we were from and started to tell us how he loves Wales then went on about how his mum lives there we asked what part of Wales does she live his reply Paris I think I'm an Aussie who visited USA hope it's okay for me to crash this thread we loved our visit loved the whole bloody place but I was absolutely gobsmacked when I found fruit loops with marshmallows I genuinely did not think it was possible to make fruit loops more unhealthy but you guys did it love your work we're here for a good time not a long time initially it was people not understanding my accent but I am used to that now IDK i can understand you just fine so many flags they were everywhere i used to live in canada but live in the US now it was really weird to me that when i use my debit card it can be ran as debit or credit didn't make sense and to my knowledge doesn't really make a difference in the u.s. there is a law protecting credit card users from back in the early 70s i think that gives you legal recourse against theft and other things you don't have those protections with a debit card since the credit card companies charge less for debit transactions the store would prefer you to debit as a US consumer you are much safer using credit this in 2013 paying water bill by sending a check in the mail giving credit card information trough the phone the entire tipping concept when I was in LA s Vegas I saw this 300 kilogram specimen pouring three packets of sugar sweetener into his Pepsi at the breakfast buffet most Americans would think that whole sentence is freakin disgusting I went to Vegas and saw a homeless guy with a sign that said kicked me in the balls for $20 this huge dude was well up for it he had a bit of a run up and hoofed him right and Bernanke's this poor [ __ ] was rolling around in agony but got his money as an American this bothers me too I had that moment in almost every restaurant way too much food on my plate and even a small coke is a large coke in my opinion what's interesting is to see the differences from north to south as well when I visited the South for he first time I ordered a medium meal at a Mexican place and was handed a tray full of food and a drink that was definitely a large up north later on for science I bought a large drink and honestly they're like a liter or more but dang I love me some sweet tea now went to Florida for holiday and he felt like every third car was a Toyota Corolla I think there was an absurd amount of the exact same car in mostly the same color red and it was blowing my mind D couple we stayed with were hugely nice but very religious and overweight they voted for Obama and then Trump also drove this for hours for a day trip the bread is inexplicably sweet a nice healthy pancake with blueberries for breakfast was actually five pancakes with blue syrup and whipped cream I could get used to root beer floats though I could get used to root beer floats though a rare sentiment from the European mostly I hear that Europeans think root beer tastes like toothpaste my brother lived in Tampa for a while when I went to visit any American I spoke to told me their life story their military career how many jobs they have kids they have how old they are etcetera I took a 40-minute trip in in bathin the keys to ever end I'm not kidding this guy talks seemingly without taking a breath the entire time as a Brit this was very very uncomfortable AG I'm American and I hate talkative Yubel if drivers I'm hoping in the future the app has an option to choose quiet ride every time I fly into JFK I'm appalled at how rude and incompetent all the employees are so many freaking homeless people in SF SF was the first place I went in America and it wasn't just the homelessness that struck me but how many of them were amputees we have homelessness of the UK but they mostly have legs you have been visited by the wealth wrath subscribe in 12 seconds and he will share his wealth with you thanks for watching if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

Channel: Updoot Studios

Views: 135,025

Rating: 4.774941 out of 5

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Id: 87eFnyAeGeI

Length: 82min 4sec (4924 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 25 2020