hi we're basically brits and in this video we're talking about things that americans do
that confuse the rest of the world the trouble with me and you is that we get confused quite
easily oh very don't we oh yeah like anything signage roads yeah direction
anything yeah just constant confusion even just someone's face yeah i feel like this is
a frequent face of art oh yeah yeah we're very easily confused that's a good point
what made you think of that well just the fact that this is all about like
things that confuse the rest of the world so i mean maybe it doesn't confuse everyone but
um i mean there are some of these things this is an article from red book magazine
and um there are some like this first one i don't agree with i think we do it in the uk but it
probably started as an american thing because we are getting more and more americanized aren't we
we are so this one is drinking coffee on the go yeah so like the classic like got my coffee
walking along probably not even looking where i'm going scrolling on one the phone on one hand and
drinking on the other hand really hard to do it is brits love in general to sit down and enjoy
their coffee yes but this is different maybe it's a london thing as well i feel like like today i
grabbed a coffee at the station was walking to the train like brits do that now but maybe it
was an american thing i think americans started it everyone else like europeans were like sorry what
coffee needs to be enjoyed because didn't they say you said that they it started as going into
a coffee bar downing the shot of espresso that's a traditional italian way of drinking coffee
and i always remember like it's a strange thing for italians because they started like
get your espresso shot it and leave that's why the bars are so small like bar italian so tangents
guys subscribe for tangents and then you've got like other people like i guess brits greeks love
to sit and make a coffee go for ages yeah and chat so the fact that the americans are like got their
coffee got their phone and they're walking with purpose this is just everything that is wrong with
life and enjoyment and slurs not being mindful isn't it no it's not having a mindful coffee
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yeah the use of a single color currency so weird it's so strange the first thing well when i used
to use cash is the first thing you look for is the color of the note to tell you what color what note
that is how can you quickly get a 10 or a 20 out if you're not going off color i'm gonna test you
what color is a tenor orange what color is a 50. red what color is the fibre bluey green what
colors are twenty purple we know the colors purple yeah we know the colors also all of their coins
are silver as well whereas like we've got so many different types of metal coins so yeah again yeah
we can look visually for the colors and just go oh i know that's a pound coin because no other coin
looks like that yeah it's crazy it's absolutely crazy that genuinely does confuse us yeah the the
notes i mean how how how many times have you guys americans made a mistake maybe you meant to tip
someone three dollars yeah but you gave them like 50. yeah but that happens all the time because not
just the shape as well not just the color yeah the shape like the shade the size is the 50 is
the biggest then 20 then 10 and then five yeah so the thin like the what's that called height the
height of the note is different yeah that's just blows my mind by the way you need to use all your
old 20 pound notes before a certain date because the the plastic new plastic ones are coming in
didn't that happen years ago yeah but the final date is happening now okay well
the point is we're going to the bank and there's some 20s in there so if i
have got any old ones they're going to get deposited before the day definitely i need
to check my piggy bank i need to smash it open and see if there's any old 20s in there
i feel like past joel teenage joel might have been like safer i don't know i need to check
oh your piggy bank has been going i always been going a while there's probably a full 30 quid in
there oh my gosh yeah have you seen that um that guy on tick tock that just puts coins he just
sorts coins out yeah so addictive he sometimes just empties all his coins into those machines
at supermarkets and then just gets i think it gives you like a credit note or something or you
put all your coins and it gives you something you can go and get proper money not proper money but
notes yeah actual notes this is another sorry for another tangent because that is what we do
um so i went for a meal with my american friend that i hadn't seen in like seven years and she
brought her other american friend with her who i'd never met before yeah and um her american
friend was like so what's the difference between a quid and a pound and i was like no there's no
difference a quid is like what a buck is to you she's like no no no for what like she obviously
didn't really listen she's like no no because what is the difference though between them and i was
like queen what are you saying is our version of a buck that a pound is to a dollar and then shoot
suddenly click she's like oh so me it's the same as a pound and i was like yeah it's the same but
it's interesting that she just didn't know that a quid yeah quidditch is a one buck what what else
do you say 20 bucks yeah that's it yeah you don't say 20 yeah 20 quid 20 quid yeah you do it works
you're right but we went as an s so that's how you can tell an american as well because they'll
be like oh have you got 20 quids and you're like don't say the yes it's awful isn't it
no just just say pounds if you're in doubt just say pounds quid never has an s in it never ever
ever ever ever put an s unless you're using the phrase quits in quick yay which means you're in
the money oh i'm quitting right okay the next one oh gosh this next one i feel like i'm guilty of
this myself is trying to customize restaurant orders yeah so being like okay can i get the
caesar salad but can you take away the anchovies add bacon take away the sauce and put ranch on it
so it's like what is what is this caesar salad yeah this salad is just now not a caesar salad
yeah i i get this when we go to america and i order and always complain about the amount of
ice that they put in diet coke yeah and i forget because then i see the comments going you could
just ask for less eyes and i'm like yes it doesn't it's me the customer is always the best yes
like we forget and i don't you find that when you do customize an order in the uk you just feel the
rest of the table cringing at you being yeah what are you doing can i do that but can i add this and
can you not put any mushrooms in there yeah no mushrooms and everyone's like joel just pick the
mushrooms out and i'm like no i don't even want the mushrooms she doesn't want them don't touch it
the prince doesn't want that no sorry yeah i don't know am i quite bad for customization
i don't think you are not extra tomatoes oh yeah everything we order she won't even
order a tomatoey thing and be like could you just chuck some extra tomatoes and they're
like it doesn't come with tomatoes and you're like yeah but just extra
sometimes when i see people pick out a tomato from a burger i feel really sorry for the tomato
i'm just like you are so perfect you were just so good like and then would you be juicy like
nicely sliced sized that like beef tomato i just feel sorry for it like if i was a savage i'd just
pick it off her plate and eat it be like that's come to mama the only time i like tomatoes like
raw tomatoes is with salt and pepper on them yeah they're stunned or balsamic oh yeah but
i was on my laptop and then i put my glasses on and they're like oh
and what did you do next have a cup of coffee and i'm like why are you joking
no yeah they all make fun of me for how handsy i am and i'm like it's because i'm a youtuber
because it's a visual medium it's a visual media no unfortunately i'm from a family of hand
yeah you should be like sorry this is how i make a living yeah oh like if i
sat here like this i can't keep the audience entertained i need to keep them hooked with
what i'm gonna say next you know what i mean i should have been a tick-tock dancer
right okay so what what were we saying for the next one then john oh this triggers me this one
is awful this one triggers everyone in the whole wide world yeah i think yeah i think yeah yeah
why is america the only place that does this so they write the date completely wrong so they would
write so what is it today 20 it's the 29th the 29th of june june what year 2022 yeah so i would
write 29 oh sit 20 22. yeah american would write 06 29 20 22 it makes no sorry what you're telling
me what month it is first then you're telling me the day then the year now i'm gonna play
devil's advocate here i'm not on the american side but i feel like an american would say
and i've heard them say it it makes sense because the first the most important bit of information i
need is the month then tell me the day and then the year but that logic doesn't really add up
i can't because we want to go smallest to biggest yeah we don't want to go medium small big me yeah
exactly yeah i want to know what what the day then the month then the year i don't want to i can't i
can't even when i see it written down i my brain fries and my brain goes i don't know what what
date they're telling me i can't i can't do this especially if the first letter like for instance
you know how like months don't go past twelve yeah so if it's under twelve yeah i had that the
other day with an invoice where it's like it'll be paid on the sit at like oh six oh eight twenty two
and i was like wait do they mean the sixth of august or do they mean the eighth of june like
which one is it yeah i can't i can't figure that out so yeah it's completely confused it
confuses all of us i don't know if any other countries do it but america what the hell i
think the best way to solve it everyone say rock paper scissors robin everyone
that we tend to say the 29th of june but americans would say it's june 29th
so they do mimic it in action words in speech it's june 29th it's june 20. we would never
say june 29th it sounds weird doesn't it it's the 29th of june yeah do you know what else
they do that's weird the way they tell the time you'd never see them say it's quarter to three
no what do they say they say 2 45 2 4 no there's another thing they said it i was watching stranger
things and one of the characters said the time and i was like so weird how she said 15 to 3.
something like the way they say it was so weird 3 45 or but they don't say we would say quarter past
we've got quarter past half past and quarter two yeah they don't seem to use any of those they just
i think they tend to use the digital clock they'd say 3 15 3 30 3 45 and there's another thing they
do as well really when it's time when they say it too you guys got a comment below because i heard
otherwise i'm going to go back and watch what she said on stranger things okay it was
so weird i might have to google it if i think of it before the end of the video i'll say it
let us know down in the comments all right this is the final one we're going to touch
on now so this one unfortunately have been victim to a victim so it's when strangers
chat you up and they're not even chatting you up as like in a friendly way that actually like
think there could be a chance not anything to do with looks but just to do with like with just
we don't even know each other and you're just asking me like my relationship status about my job
like if you want to go out where how long i'm here for if i'm ever a good time asked me if
i would basically after i said i was a youtuber they they didn't obviously understand when i said
i make videos on the internet and then they said oh what like sex videos like only fans imagine
saying that's a stranger imagine i wouldn't not even on a prank show would someone say that yeah
getting chatted up by an american stranger yeah i don't think i was the first person he chatted up
as a total stranger it's just the audacity of american men i think if you guys want to
watch that video yeah that is in our asheville video called first impressions of nationals
yeah so that was the time it actually happened yeah yeah the point on this article is
chat up strangers and we get this all the time as well with strangers where
we say about in the uk we don't talk to strangers and someone was like well how do you make friends
if you don't talk to strangers but it usually is when you've got something in common with
them so if a friend introduces you to a friend or if you start working a new job and you make
friends with your co-workers that's all stranger fine never has anyone in the uk made friends
with someone sat at the bus stop or waiting in line at a coffee shop it'd be very rare
maybe if you're say you live in a small town and you go to the same coffee shop every day
you see the same person every day maybe after like four years you might say hi you'll finally
be live no i see you here every day i'm leader and then maybe yeah the friendship starts but
certainly not straight away and then ask on a date and what i'm doing and no no thanks taken
i mean that was harsh it was harsh wasn't it it's it's harsh up in the moment we get carried
away guys and then we watch the videos back and we're like gosh we've been hard i've got devil's
advocate go on them so what makes so getting chatted up by a stranger right yeah what makes
it weird and what makes it acceptable just say i'm single and just say that was the most good
looking person i've ever seen in my life what differentiates a creep and like prince charming
attractive attractiveness and that's what's sad and shallow yeah about all of us is like you could
be like oh creep just spoke to me or you could be like oh my god the most good looking person i've
ever seen charming that are just so true just in choosing to have me love is like you know love at
first sight exists and that the only thing that differentiates these things is how we perceive
the person yeah so that's devil's advocate so americans you know i give you uh what do i call
it i get you can have like a plus for confidence a plus for confidence like yeah yeah we've always
said it americans are confident oh yeah we sometimes wish we had work with their level of
confidence as we go about our lives yeah we do and that's it and we'll try to be we shall we shall
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