hi john o'leary and this video is about mindless things that americans do that the rest of the
world doesn't and i know that might sound a bit aggressive but we didn't know any other words
for mindless that involve like not thinking like it's not like oh no mindless things
it's things that americans do that they just don't even think about it like it's mindless
but the rest of the world doesn't do it like the same way that joel and i mindlessly eat popcorn
yeah just just without anything you just have to come out it's like the robot so mindless so
we'll kick off the first one with servers taking your credit card or debit card whatever they take
your card away americans don't think twice about that that's so normal but the rest of the world
that is like the biggest no-no it's so triggering like it's just unthinkable behavior if anyone
not in america took a card away from my site yeah i'd be like right i'm getting scammed call up
cancel the card and be like yeah my card something i'm gonna go through for all someone's having me
over i'm being scammed so i don't understand why they're allowed to do it because the theory is
they can anyone's got your card then so they can just write down take a picture of it write
down the numbers and then they could be using it when they get back home and just log in just
do purchase and do purchases like it's unthinkable to let your card out of your site you should never
let your card go out of your site even if it's with a server so the fact that americans do that
is very odd i still don't get how they get away with it no i don't they could just go home and
do those transactions and never get found out yeah because how many restaurants do you go to
loads how are they going details front and back no one unless there's a thing that we don't know
of and buying things online is hard like unless you have to say your street address and this and
that but ours you just type in the card number the expiry date yeah and the cbb and that's it
all of the stuff that's on the card we use our america cards for those things but our personal
like british cards that we use i can guarantee no one has ever seen my card other than like
in general putting it into a machine but no one has seen the number on my card except me
the same with you it's so weird i find it so strange we all do all of us are like why am
i now filling out 10 pages of paperwork well this is the next thing is needing to sign the
check it feels very 1990s to have to like i sign i know i feel like i'm at a hotel constantly yeah
yeah sign it to my side write a letter to me and i'll send it back i haven't signed the back of my
cards which i know you should do but like no one does no one does no one's ever signed the back of
the card because no one's looking no very hard um the next one not needing to flag down the server
that's lovely that's amazing they just they just arrive at your table and start chatting
to you they're just attentive most of them not in the uk guys no you gotta you go wave
yeah you've gotta do everything you gotta flag them down you gotta send out a search party
yeah where are the meals no and that is we are very anti-tipping culture we think that the us
should be paying their servers a living wage and it shouldn't be up to customers however i can
totally see that you get better service when the servers are motivated by tips because in the uk
they get a proper wage regardless of tips that's why they're less attentive so i'm i'm like i'm
torn like something huge would have to change for them to stop being a tipping nation well companies
would have to pay a fair wage and who's going to do that because then well the government needs to
put in the legislation to be like you have to pay your servers more than 10 an hour but they're not
going to do that no when or if they do that they'll go i'm gonna go there because they
this place like do tips on top i don't know well that's the thing i think actually when you talk to
servers they actually like the fact that they earn less from their workplace and then get more tips
because they can own a lot in tips yeah but i just don't think it's the consumer's job to pay the
wage i know again it comes down to paying for what you eat like i have paid i've eaten 19 pounds 19
worth of food therefore i'm paying 19 why should i then have to pay like an extra like maybe an extra
five or ten yeah i think that the break so if the food is worth twenty dollars then the restaurant
need to factor in everyone who needs to be paid everything needs to be factored in to what you
charge it just means the restaurants are earning so much money because they don't pay their staff
it's just savage anyway i can see both sides to be honest you see both sides yeah the
fourth one having long ass elections it says oh they're gone forever don't know so long media
they love it it's something for the news anchors to talk about yeah they'd be out of business if
there wasn't something to report on and as soon as that's over there'll be something else yeah
like right now john and i were like there's the news haven't had a break brexit covered
the war what's next the bank creates the energy crisis like there's never something they're just
talking about everything yeah it's always bad news going on it's why we don't watch it yeah
we don't watch the news i know i don't want to see elections yeah okay the next one's quite confusing
i haven't got my head around all of these the the words freshman sophomore junior and senior
yeah americans use them just like so quickly yeah it's so normal no one else anywhere in
the world uses these words so it's um yeah it's very confusing so i don't fully understand and
like the grade system grade seven is not equal to year seven in the uk no it's something slightly
different so it's very confusing yeah so if you're like i'm year seven i'm grade seven
yeah totally different thing yeah and the same with this if someone said i'm a sophomore i'd
be like what's a sophomore don't they just cut out the oh and just say sophomore i don't know
i've never heard them say sophomore really yeah this one says sophomore
i don't know freshman freshman junior senior never heard of it i'm gonna guess freshman's
the newest you can be oh cause you're fresh fresh fresh it's true but yeah it doesn't work anywhere
else everyone else has got no idea what you're talking about so if you ever talk to a muggle
like a non-american just an american muggle you've got to just say i'm how old you are yeah just say
your age yeah and if you're in education or not yeah yeah good idea good the next one is because
americans love slogans yeah one very normal thing is americans putting bumper stickers on their car
and like funny little quotes maybe a little naughty quotes and things like cheeky ones oh
my god and it's like in the uk you don't you'd be very rare to see any bumper stickers and if they
are they'll be like baby on board or yeah something to let you know there's a child
on board they actually put on the outside of the car on the inside screen in on the outside on the
outside bumper no i'm mortifying mortifying yeah i can't cope no the only time you put stickers
on your car is if your car is a business and you're like i i sell the dirt yeah phone number
yeah i just wouldn't maybe i wouldn't think enough people would care to like see a sticker and go
i'm going to put on my car because other drivers they'll love to read that i just wouldn't think
that no that wouldn't cross my mind yeah but it is so dead cute man you've got to laugh at
some of the quotes you see yeah some are so funny all the merchandise cringe quotes on t-shirts and
mugs and on the like that topping target that said raising baby oh my gosh raising babies it
was maternity wet it was like raising babies and it was it was cute but it was just green cringe
man cringe cringe also your identity should be more than just raising babies like you are a woman
i've had i've got your whole life and you yeah you've got many talents you're not to be reduced
to just a baby maker that's one chapter of your life yeah there'll be many other things you'll be
thrilled about yeah but no shade to anyone that that's their whole identity yeah that's cool yeah
i mean if it is your identity fine but yeah just little to big you up it shouldn't be just your
identity because you're probably a talented baker yeah as well and you're this and you're that but
i think it's those people that have problems later on where once the kids have grown up and they're
like what is my personality yeah they're just like what do i do then what do i enjoy yes ah
yoga and they're still wearing them raising babies yeah yeah later maybe maybe we're really harsh we
probably are very harsh we are harsh do you know what we people soften with age so probably in
this channel in 2040 will probably be like very mellow very kind maybe yeah or worse or even worse
yeah so the next one is uh jaywalking i don't know what the word for jaywalking is in england i think
it's just crossing a road it's just crossing a road but in america you are you very much it's
seen as odd to jaywalk and like taboo what are you doing it's not time for you to cross
in the uk and in europe you just run across the road whenever it's free very dangerous you
take your life into your own hands but you do it because you're like well i'm not waiting yeah and
you're like if i get hit by a car like someone's getting paid out yeah no i'm joking i mean you do
it all the time in america and as we do it we know we're doing and we're like jaywalking and we like
we run but we know if we get stopped by police we'll just go sorry we're foreigners sorry sorry
we've got no idea um yeah so you just it's just really not okay to do that in the us
so i don't yeah just on that you guys let us know why is it because you're not really a walking
place and we're a walking city walking country we just love walking also there's new laws have been
established where cars we now have to give way to pedestrians if they cross the road yeah
which wasn't always the case and now it is so it's really confusing when you're driving and someone
just steps out in front of you and you're like oh yeah you're actually allowed to do that and i
have to slow down whereas before you be like i've got right away yeah now the pedestrian has arrived
which is only going to make this worse because we'll feel even more entitled now yeah pedestrians
yeah we'll just walk out even if they're coming at like 50 miles an hour just like you have to
stop yeah stop and um there was another one have you seen the new rule about cyclists
they can cycle in the middle of the road yeah you have to treat a cyclist on a bicycle the same way
you would a full-sized car so you can't overtake a cyclist like next to them like this close you
have to give a full cars distance and if you don't and they're wearing like a body cam or something
you can get like points on your license you have to yeah and they're allowed in built up areas to
cycle they used to be you have to cycle like a meter from the curb or whatever or the sidewalk
yeah and now they're allowed to cycle right in the middle of the road right in the middle
so you can't sometimes you can't fully overtake them which is so annoying yeah we should not be
giving cyclists more right i hate cyclists so much except when i'm cycling and then i love cycling
cyclists oh you know you don't want to upset a cyclist they they got attitude
oh they're entitled aren't they apologies for that sorry guys
alarm to wake up for us yeah sorry that was okay that was our alarm it's it costs a five
um and on that note we should we should wrap it up john yeah well let us know if you think we've been
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