knights everywhere you won't find this happening all over the place in the states but you will
likely be called sir or for a woman ma'am at some point in your trip it's very polite
you literally uh i think it's more something for the south um but i think it's spreading
a lot more in america um i i'm not really sure where it actually originated from but uh
speaking for myself it's really the south where i um that's really weird i don't know
i i do it and um it's just a thing that i do like i'm always like ma'am sir you know
and um if you don't really do it as an american if you don't really do it to certain folks they
probably not speak to you like it's like facts so unlike um other countries where they think uh
be called being called sir or ma'am means that you're old and america is for respect like it's
that i asked for let me not say that ass but it's literally for respect like to show your respect
for somebody so you're like ma'am sir like even a kid gets called sir or ma'am like that's facts
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americans do that are weird or any other country in the comment section down below let's get it
guys the word weird has come a long way since its origins in old english it was first related
to destiny or the power to control one's fate and later was tied up with the supernatural from
there it started meaning odd or uncanny and odd and uncanny is what we'll talk about today when
looking at folks and the good old us of a every nation has some kind of collective idiosyncrasy
such as those brits that certainly talk about the weather a lot or those japanese that create
cuddle cafes where lonely businessmen can repose in the warm embrace of a stranger by the hour or
for the whole night male friends in some countries kiss when they say hello women in other countries
hide their faces and this can seem weird for those who don't understand it today let's look
at just one country in particular in this episode of the infographic show weird things americans do
a bucket of coffee please okay so maybe it's not only americans that do this but we reckon
americans excel at it in a story by british author julian barnes in the book lemon table
one elderly british woman points out how waiters in some restaurants habitually keep filling up her
coffee it's quite nice in fact but in britain such service would cost you a small fortune
and americans seem to drink coffee by the gallon go to france or italy and in many
cafes you'll find your cup of coffee isn't cheap and comes in a tiny cup or glass americans are
mass consumers of coffee and without any country let me tell you some of that coffee stuff bro
i was addicted to coffee yeah i was um and it really messed me up like i could not sleep at one
point in my life and once i got off of drinking coffee i slept like almost eternity but for real
though coffee is really deadly and i i i was addicted to it so i can kind of understand where
he's coming from here that it's pretty weird that you drink i i drink like i maybe i was drinking
more coffee than than than the average american right i was drinking like probably six six seven
coffees per day six seven cups of coffees per day yeah i was drinking a lot of coffees a lot
and i'm not talking about decaf i'm talking about the real coffee comedian bill hicks made a joke
about americans and their coffee habit before he died the joke goes he asked for a coffee in one
restaurant and the waiter said you want the 32 ounce or the large how big is the largest
hicks and the waiter replied you'll want to pull your car around back i'll start the pump
the beast of the feast so you probably already know this and you don't need to have visited the
usa to have heard about it but visitors often remark on how damn big portions are there we've
talked about this before but not the real beast eaters you see in the states all over the place
you've got those eat this ridiculously large heart-stopping gut-busting meal in 30 minutes
and you get it for free godzilla would struggle to walk out of that deal without begrudgingly
pulling out his wallet yet there are names on the plaque on the wall but why would anyone
literally make themselves sick and pay for it only an american could explain the question was asked
on quora about this and most people said food is cheap and big portions sell to the majority
of people in everyday restaurants but we like this answer which kind of flips it your question might
well be turned around to ask why are portions and the rest of the world so small the united states
has a good food supply and people expect value for their money nights everywhere you won't find this
happening all over the place in the states but you will likely be called sir or for a woman ma'am at
some point in your trip it's very polite if you if you literally uh i think it's more something
for the south um but i think it's spreading a lot more in america um i'm not really sure where
it actually originated from but um speaking for myself it's really the south where i um
that's really weird i don't know i i do it and um it's just a thing that i do
like i'm always like ma'am sir you know and um if you don't really do it as an american
if you don't really do it to certain folks they probably not speak to you like it's like facts so
unlike um other countries where they think uh be called being called sir or ma'am means that
you're old and american is for respect like it's that i asked for let me not say that ass but it's
literally for respect like to show your respect for somebody so you're like ma'am sir like even a
kid gets called sir or ma'am like that's facts and visitors will have nothing against it but being
called sir will feel strange for most perhaps if you're in the armed forces it might work
calling cops sir seems weird to outsiders for most people you have to be knighted to be called sir
although admittedly some school kids in the uk might call their teacher sir for americans it's
a sign of respect for anyone else it's over the top you'll find it's more common in the
south of the us smokes and drugs this is weird to just about anyone outside of the usa i don't know
really much about um like north uh it's really south um south carolina to be specific um so i
can give you the insights on that really but for the rest i don't i don't really know much but um
yeah it's really a southern uh thingy um i'm not really sure about the other states like
you know i've never really been there for long enough to determine that so i can't really say
for other states but um for the south state which not every every south state i'm talking about just
uh south carolina i can speak for that but i can't really speak for states like new york
pennsylvania you know other states that i've been i can't speak for those because i've never really
been there over a period so you can't you can't speak for that if if you get what i mean the fact
that at some pharmacies or drug stores you can buy cigarettes while many pharmacies in the us
stopped doing this you can still find it it does seem rather odd that the place selling you things
to improve your health would be selling you those cancerous sticks of tobacco in 2014 cvs pharmacies
in the us stopped doing this stating we came to the decision that cigarettes and providing
healthcare just don't go together in the same setting took a while to figure that out beer
everywhere while you must be 21 to buy beer in the united states you can get it in some surprising
places one such place is the aforementioned pharmacy but you can add to that you can find
beer sold in vending machines at some clothing stores some coffee shops add some drive-throughs
and even some special hospitals will have beer for sale these admittedly are rare accident lawyers
if you've watched the show breaking bad you'll know there's a lawyer accident lawyer is broken
i've never heard of accident lawyer in any other country in this world bro who will make sure you
get paid for an accident you had or even didn't quite have in the u.s you can see signs for
these sometimes sleazy guys on tv or even see their shiny white teeth on giant advertisements
this used to be weird in the uk but over the last few years the brits are also getting in
on accident claims and their tvs are also full of nice people saying did you have an accident
did you know you can get compensated for that call this number drug dealers on tv the last thing you
need when all you really need is some exercise and clean living is someone on tv telling you you can
buy a possibly addictive happy drug that can solve all your problems these commercials might have
calming music birds flying over rainbows people skipping and dancing through the park
and then someone saying a wonder drug made that happen the original zoloft ad told you you just
shouldn't have to feel this way maybe not but to many europeans pushing it on tv seems a bit
too much drinking games now for something a bit more fun but still related to drugs
if you visit america and certainly if you're young you might get caught up in any number of drinking
games they have over there beer pong that's gotta be american or what about truth or dare works
better when alcohol has oiled the inhibitions or quarters no cursing no first names no right hand
accepting no chance of staying sober there's even drinkapalooza an actual board game for drinking
in most other countries drinking isn't always that much fun what happens in america stays in
america okay so many of those videos out there on youtube showing the glaring ignorance of some
americans about the rest of the world were made by americans so we don't feel like we
are picking on americans too much here but it's not only just world history that some
folks from the usa might not have read up on we heard a story about a guy that asked an american
friend when traveling in europe what accent she thought she had she replied i don't have one
she thought she spoke your english another tale we heard was of a young man from west virginia
who met some brits while traveling in israel he asked the brits how the highways were in england
the brits jokingly replied they didn't have cars and still use the horse and cart the guy replied
wow when the question was asked on korra why some and we say some americans don't know much
about the world the answers were mostly related to the education system focusing only on the u.s
and the country but even though it's focused on the us it's not like everything from
the us's taught matter of fact like to be honest oh my gosh i just missed on my zoom
i just messed up my zoom to be honest i just messed up my zoom i don't know how to fix that
right now but to be honest the average american is not really uh the most educated like i said
i'm not going to talk about intelligence because a lot of people confuse intelligence or education
and um smart and all of that stuff don't confuse it but most americans aren't as educated and
even if americans are educated it's not like um the european countries because even today i was
learning about education system in finland and they literally had the math teacher had like uh
she knew i think she graduated with a master's to be a teacher and she had uh studied physics
chemistry and math right and that's that's that's not something you'll find in america
right so the average american is not as educated and it's not really a shame to not be
as educated education is a good thing but um it's not like you're gonna like i think personally
being educated about what is important is what matters so learning about um
you know a country that you probably never visit in your entire life it's not as important but
learning about the major stuff i think is really important already being so big and diverse the
american writer and intellectual gnome chomsky wrote that the reason why americans know so much
about sports but so little about world affairs is because that's just the way the system was
set up for most people is it weird you'll find it everywhere but those videos we see do seem to make
some americans seem quite ignorant of the world outside america let's just say if you can't get
close to pointing where north korea is on a map but hate the country there's a problem peeping tom
okay let's stop being i can't actually point where north korea is and i can't label um the european
section but i'm learning slowly every day so harsh now we'll turn to something amusing and ask why
in the usa some toilet stalls have such big gaps between the doors and the outer piece of the stall
so people can virtually watch you do your private business many americans have asked this online
foreigners ask this a lot too one guy on twitter writes when you're sitting on the toilet and you
make eye contact with someone through the little crack in the door a woman asks what's the point
of a toilet stall door when there is a two inch gap on each side most answers we can find were
related to safety to know someone is in there to get you out quickly and making it easier to clean
there's a huge debate on tripadvisor about the topic but no one seems to know the answer
how are you this could be said to be similar in other countries but when americans ask how are you
they are not usually looking for an answer it's just a way of saying hello an extensive reply
about your ingrown toenail your setback with bitcoin and the fact your father didn't give
you enough attention okay let me let me address this part pretty much the how are you statement
it's pretty much a thing where it's like hi it's practically saying hey so in finland you'd say moy
uh in spanish hola stuff like that you know what i mean uh stuff like that pretty much how are you
is practically saying hi so it's not necessarily that it's a thing where you're being truly asked
how are you for some it is some people it is right but um pretty much in america you just if somebody
asks you how are you and you want to be polite you just say good and um good and you and you just
move about your business um you don't necessarily have to answer but some people can get hurt
uh with you not answering and um you have to be a little bit cautious like you got to read the
person to try to understand whether or not it's a person who is trying to say trying to hear you
respond saying i'm good how are you stuff like that but for the average person business-wise
you enter to a business place you just gotta say i'm good and you or i'm good how are you and you
just started to talk about your stuff don't wait for a reply just keep it moving because you don't
want to feel embarrassed because trust me it's not a it's not like a conversation it's more like a
the kid is probably not what your interlocutor was wanting or expecting you can just answer with hey
the real home of football okay as we've just had the world cup of a game called football we might
as well go ahead and say that the rest of the world thinks america is weird for calling its
strange stop and start game football but we should tell you that it was the brits that first called
the game soccer which is a diminutive of the words association football the word sock comes from
association and the guardian tells us brits back then left to put an er at the end of words
later the americans naturally called it soccer just as the brits did then the brits decided
the word soccer sounded too american and let it go now the brits and europeans had been playing this
football thing since medieval times and it was called football back then too but there were many
types of football including rugby that's why the word soccer became a thing americans just took the
word football for their own game just as europeans had done but to be honest american football is
much closer to rugby so it's still a bit weird but let's just finish with saying if any brit or
european gives you a hard time about calling the game soccer just tell them what we told
you they started it you have no defense though for calling a game played mostly with the hands
football so can you answer this list have you visited america i had no idea that it was actually
no idea that soccer was actually originated the word was originated not in the americas i had no
idea but either way that was a beautiful video if you have any more uh things that
you think americans do that are weird please leave those in the comment section down below
and uh i'll definitely be sure to reply to as much comments as
possible but either ways guys we're out of here until next time peace