Lol. 100% You must have a truck! Here in America, trucks are everywhere. My daughter even has one in my driveway. I was going to buy one, but my partner convinced me that a SUV would suit me better. In my old age, I agree, though I drove a pickup for 25 years in Texas.
@kkaye76 My daughter-in-law hust bought herself a brand new (special order) Ford pickup. She loves it. My son says he's getting one within a few months, but he will be getting a full-sized truck. Before I got my van, I drove a F250 with a topper on it. It needed those 2 fuel tanks.
Great in concept, but we don't have the infrastructure for EVs. We will have it one day, but that day is far from 2024. Plus, battery tech is FAR from optimal...there's a reason Ford lost just north of $8 Billion last quarter on EVs and are scaling back production along with GM
I call Raccoons Trash Pandas. At my army base, they learned our tactics to break contact. They would employ our team tactics to steal our rucksacks and gear.
I've heard a lot of people calling them that. Honestly i don't get it, they look nothing like a panda. I've always called them either Trash Pirates or Garbage Bandits. It's far more fitting fo them.
@@Sadarsa They actually do look a lot like pandas - RED pandas are about the same size and shape as raccoons. And since Red Pandas are not really that well known (at least in the USA), a raccoon is what one usually thinks of when seeing your first Red Panda. However, I think they mainly get the name from Pandas and Raccoons both having 'masks'.
A few years ago, I went to Singapore and visited the huge zoo there. Aside from the free-range orangutan, which was a little unnerving (especially since it essentially snuck up behind me), what I most remember was this one outdoor enclosure that was so popular that I couldn't initially see through all of the school-aged kids surrounding it. When my colleague and I were able to get through the throng of kids, we looked down and saw dozens of raccoons. We both laughed, as raccoons are not something you see in zoos in the U.S. No, you see them on your back porch, trying (often successfully) to get into your trash cans (or, for the UK people, your rubbish bins).
Just a heads up the small business (restaurants) in the states are truly hidden gems. The best food in America does not come via a drive thru. If you can wait a little longer, the take our meals are amazing.
Rascal was a real raccoon; Sterling North's book is autobiographical. Also for the record, Sterling had a great year with Rascal. When Rascal reached about a year old, he was ready to go live with his own kind. Sterling North also only took Rascal in because he was orphaned.
@@simplyhuman3982 That was the first one I thought of! lol...Rascals everywhere! I've never heard of the racoon, I mean it's a word that means something, not a name other than the Little Rascals but that reference is way too old for this channel. Lewis cracks me up.
Keep in mind trucks are bigger then most of your roads could handle over there. As for things other countries like from here, A large part is things from our history, like the cars from the 50s through the 70s. At a shop i worked in, we would have one guy bring in 10 cars a month to get worked on that were going to be shipped to Japan. I also noticed we have things in our timeline that i never hear about in other countries, like the things that happened in the50s, where we had cruising, sock hops, drive in theatres and all forms of auto racing to name a small few.
The Buick cars with the 3800 6 cylinder engine are one of the most dependable longest lasting and easy to work on cars ever made. Ask any honest mechanic.
@@davidwalton3604 No, a third person came along and "proved me wrong", after I already made the point and showed him how. Overstating a point doesn't make it wrong.
You are definitely right about one thing us as Americans dont realize how good we have it compared to other countries with it comes to products companies and rights. I love the channel keep up the great content
We don't, because most of us don't go around the world and see how it is elsewhere. There is also the fact that we're so used to it, we don't really notice it until we're without it somewhere. Then again, we also expect some things elsewhere and learn that it isn't quite that way.
Are you sure about rights? Ever heard about the frog in a pot where the water is heated slowly. Well that and subversion is stealing our Republic right out from under us. Think about FISA court. It is where the government can put people in prison without due process.... Where are those rights... Research targeted individuals. Then get back to me on rights.
There's a famous cartoonist from my town called Don Rosa. He is so well known in Europe, most especially the Scandinavian countries that when he goes to conventions there he has them lined up for blocks. Here in America he has hardly anyone in line waiting to see him and it's all because of how popular the Disney Duck comics are over there. He's most famous for his Scrooge McDuck comics and Europe is always putting out new volumes of his old material because of the fan demand.
I had an old Chevy pickup farm truck. It had 1 break that worked ,I pinched the other 3 off.(cheap fix) The exhaust was held up with clothes hangers. The bed was only hanging on by rust. It spent 3 days under water and it still fired up. (With a little coaxing ). I loved that truck
I live in South Korea and random US brands are popular for clothing here. When I first came, there were so many kids and people walking around in National Geographic gear. Now, I see stuff like Kodak, CNN, and sports franchises like MLB or NBA and not an actual team. I was so confused because I'm like these are such obscure brands that are NOT known for clothes, but a lot of is just the novelty of having something with English on it or being a foreign brand.
Oh, man! I used to love my Buick Century and Buick's in general. Their ride was so easy and smooth. Their interiors were spacious and comfortable. I really miss them. Fun video. Peace
4:33 that’s an electric truck that Ford had to stop production on because it failed terribly in the market. Get the same truck with a gas engine and you’ll fit right in
My mother had 2 Buicks when I was a kid. Bench seats, no seat belts - it was a fun ride. Then she found a fire-engine red Lincoln Town Car that took a mile to get to speed, but weighed so much, you could coast for miles. In my childhood neighborhood, everyone had Buicks or Cadillacs. I remember when one neighbor got an "aerodynamic" car, and I was shocked at how small it was! But in the 1970s, gas costs were crazy, so people wanted smaller cars with better gas mileage. You could totally get a giant truck here and turn heads, and not in a bad way.
The Town Car that my in-laws owned was the longest production car ever made. According to my husband, the speedometer ended at 85 mph, but you could get there and still have a higher gear.
@@barbaramelone1043 Sounds about right. Being in Florida in the 80s, lots of "cars that go boom" were on the roads. My mom, who works in opera, would pull up next to one of these booming cars, lower the windows, and blast Mozart at them. I was embarrassed at the time, now I think it's funny.
The white line on your dream truck is in fact, part of the light system. Because we do weird stuff like that here. And yes, I totally understand you wanting a truck like that, because I do too. (I also need it for work, but that doesn’t make it any less cool)😎
That white part on the Ford F150 Lightning was the LED Headlight strip, Lewis. You couldn't, nor would you want to black those out. But another issue with the Lightning is that because it's an EV truck, it doesn't have that long of a range when you're pulling or hauling things. Just like how EV batteries don't like cold weather, they don't like heavy loads put on them either. The push to go full EV for semis is getting a lot of pushback by truckers. Because as a Trucker it's super easy to fill up your diesel tanks in a few minutes, right? Well to have to stop every couple hundred miles to recharge for hours isn't going to be very efficient. EV semis might work in the UK or in Europe proper, but not so much in the US.
I thought EV's did well pulling a load, but ran out of batteries fast, might not make it up that hill I guess. Is this correct, I never drove one, I drive a F250 and a ram 1500. the ram pulls better. I never post stuff, so
I am convinced that the U.S. auto companies' decision to go all-in on EV pick-up trucks is a thinly veiled attempt to kill any transition to EVs at all. Why would you market this technology to the people who least want or need it? Especially when you are not producing affordable EV cars to the urban population that could actually use them? After 10 years when nobody buys EV pick-ups, and EV cars continue to cost $80,000, they will throw in the towel and say, "Well, we tried. Now back to good old American gas guzzlers that everyone wants!"
I grew up reading Disney comic books, I didn’t know they stopped selling them here. My favorites were Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey, and Louie. I learned to drive in a red Buick Skylark
Yes. As a kid I had a large collection of comic books that I collected in the late 1970s/early 1980s, most of which were second hand. A handful of them were Disney - especially Scrooge McDuck with his nephews. I think I only ever saw (and bought) three of them new - and even at the time that was something of an oddity. Found them somewhat randomly in a toy section of a small store, sold together as a package deal that might have included something else.
"Tat waskally wabbit" ~Elmer Fudd speaking of Bugs Bunny "the Little Rascals" ~depression era show about Spanky and the Gang getting into mischief. "The Rascals" ~band
My father in law had one too. I LOVED that car, when it came time for him to get a new car I tried buying it but he wouldn’t sell it to me because it developed the infamous cracks on the flex plate. I wasn’t SUPER familiar with cars at the time so it probably saved my ass not buying it but man that car was sweet.
My Norwegian cousins like to wear clothes that are marketed as American in Norway. They brought them to the US when they visited and I had never heard of any of these brands.
Chess pie gets its name from the chestnut flour from which it used to be named. There used to be a lot of chestnut trees, hence a lot lot chestnuts, so they were ground into a flour and it was inexpensive. But then there was a terrible blight on chestnut trees, and chestnuts practically disappeared. Recently they discovered why the blight, and some farmers are trying to bring them back.
@@jennifershepherd2145 Let me Google that for you: Cryphonectria parasitica This necrotrophic fungus is native to East Asia and South East Asia and was introduced into Europe and North America in the early 1900s. The fungus spread rapidly and caused significant tree loss in both regions. Cankers caused by the fungal infection cause the bark to split.
Lewis. I had a raccoon pet as a kid. I named him Rosco. It wasn't awful at all. I loved him. He did like to cause trouble. But I guess you gotta like trouble. He was great. The funniest part is that I didn't even know about this story.
@@melindajuszczyk1101 Yeah. I loved mine. Used to let him climb the trees as he wished on the property while I gardened. He also enjoyed digging in the dirt next to me, eating the various insect larva out of our pond, and chillin on my shoulders while constantly and gently feeling to make sure my face stayed intact. When a day was done, if he was off in a tree, all I had to do was call his name and you could hear him scurry down then come "gallumping" as we called it into my arms. (Sort of a weird raccoon gallop similar to a rabbit.) He was good for about two years but then got "horny" so we built him a house on the back of the barn he could come and go from in that third year. He took longer and longer vacations from our home as he got braver and more exploratory on his own. Finally he was just gone and stayed that way about one year until he came back mortally wounded and lived his remaining three days in my care again. I hope he found some lady raccoon to have babies with out there. Anyway. It was a good life and relationship for both of us. 🧡
Dumpsters are pretty ubiquitous in the states, so I'm curious what they're known as overseas. I think they're sometimes called skips, the big garbage bins that businesses have that special trucks empty. A lot of Americans think Dumpster is just a general term, but it's a trademark that became genericized.
Here in northeast Ohio, right by the Pennsylvania border, i have almost 2 of everything and for sure 1 of most eastern USA things. I can get any type of pizza, BBQ, sushi, indian, Chinese, italian, polish, soul, BOOZE to do a leaving "Las Vegas" in hours, drive in movies all summer, gyms galore, and my town is not alone in those options. Its -7 C right now 👽🗿👽🗿👽
Rascal is archaic vernacular as a term for the most part here in the US . Rascal is like a bandit, thief, confidence man, or just a nuisance pest type. Never heard of or read the book, met someone's awesome pet coon, skunk, sheep, and horses so it comes down to how we treat all life on earth 👽👽🗿👽👽
I loved my grandmother's Buick. It was the smoothest riding car with the best gas mileage. It was the car everyone wanted to borrow when going on road trips. Sadly, a woman ran a red light and hit my grandmother's car and warped the frame resulting in the car being totaled. It was a very sad day.
I have a Rascal toy! I had no idea it was from an American book. I just bought it because it was cute. 😂 I saw a tanuki in the wild once at night. We both ended up scaring each other. 😅 Edit: I also have a bunch of Disney comics that were left to me by my great uncle who worked for Disney as an animator. He’s actually the reason my mom’s family moved to California because before that New York was actually where the animation industry was until Disney. I also have some old Mickey plushies that are… terrifying. I keep them in storage 😬
@@christineharrison7815 Oh I’ve always lived near wildlife even though I’m in the Denver suburbs (I only lived in Japan for six years), so I’ve run into a few raccoons here myself!
Back in the 70s the Disney type comics were still relatively common because you could pick us up at your typical corner drugstore or grocery store. Comics being intended to keep the kids quiet while shopping. At least that’s how it typically worked. As kids grew up they asked for more mature comics which is where you get into DC and Marvel ending up with more complex stories and plots. Unfortunately there is a good majority of people who think the same intellectual level of superhero comics is pretty much at the same level as your Disney comic. Which isn’t much. Which is part of the reason why there’s a lot of confusion as to why fans of superhero comics particularly in the late 70s all through the mid90s are very annoyed with the current state of movies right now for superheroes. They got used to really good writing. And it seems that Hollywood executives want to dumb It down
Heck we're a fairly small town and we have 3 Subways within 5 miles of my house in any direction. A McDonalds, Sonic, Jack In The Box, Taco Bell, Weinerschnitzel, Popeye's, Churchs Chicken, Hartz Chicken, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts and Papa Johns within 4-miles of each other. Most are centered around the Highway that runs right through the center of town. KFC is farther away in the next town. I've had a Buick and an Oldsmobile and now I drive a Mini. 😂
You definitely aren't in the same part of the country I am. Never heard of "Wienerschnitzel" (except as a Austrian dinner entree) or Hartz Chicken. We don't have a Church's Chicken places around here anymore, either. Oh, and no Jack-in-the-Box. You must be out West.
@@johnalden5821 Texas and it used to be called Der Weinerschnitzel when I was a kid. It was primarily a hot dog place then but now serves burgers and stuff too.
@@davidwalton3604 considering we're 30 miles outside Houston with a population of less than 30,000 and that just increased to that in the last few years it is. Our whole part of the county is less than 60,000 people including the town. I'm in a county section between the city limits of 2 towns even if I share an address with one of them. Lol.
I live in a city suburb I call concrete hell……there are sooooooo many shopping centers and fast food joints…..BUT also every nationality restaurant. Actually sad for this generation to have anything and everything in at least 3 miles…..nothing is special anymore
I thought the most practical reason for not getting a truck in Europe was the size of the roads, especially a lot of older one-lane streets. Are most UK roads wide enough to easily accommodate lots of trucks?
We do have trucks , lorries , vans , roads can vary you get your residential roads, motorways , country roads which connect towns , villages ( some very old only meant for horse and cart ) but its actually two way but have areas along the road for passing like a hard shoulder but smaller , most of us travel on the main roads and motorways . We have excellent spacial awareness 😊.
@@claregale9011and are your trucks the same size as American ones? I have to literally climb into mine…..love it! But don’t recall seeing anything as big when I did my 2 week trip to Germany, Italy and France…..know that’s just a small portion of Europe, but my experience with vehicles there were like…….holy crap these are small!
I mean if we made mini trucks again they’d be great for the euros but unfortunately I don’t think we’ll ever see minis again due to the fuel and mpg regulations that were put in place in the US. Massive bummer cause who doesn’t want an s-10
@@claregale9011your guys vans and trucks are actually thinner than most American pick up trucks. I can pay across my back seat with just my knees slightly tucked in and I’m 6.1ft tall.
I have owned a Ford F250 for 24 years and lt still looks like it did the day I bought it. No one believes me when I tell them it is a 2000 they want to argue with me or say it has been restored. Nope I have put new tires and new batteries (it requires 2) and I replaced the headlights after they became a yellowish color about 3 years ago. I take care of it like it is my baby. I have looked at new ones and our ford dealer has one listed for 102,925.00 so I think I will keep mine.
I had my last vehicle for 18 years. It wasn't holding up as well as your truck and had to go. I'm 7 years into my next vehicle and it's not showing signs of any issues. I'm always amazed at how people rotate through vehicles so often and at the same time complain about lack of funds.
@@MrCho14 I agree. My neighbor is trying to sell his house because he is deep in debt but in the last 5 years he has purchased 3 new trucks. He tells me his payment on this Ram is 800.00 per month and another 200.00 + for insurance..It doesn't make sense. I do not want a car pmt...my 1st new car was 2900.00 a chevy with 3 speed on the column my pmt was 66.00 per month and I thought it was alot of money! It was a great car and I have been truly blessed with my ford truck.
Here in Ohio, we have so many drive-thru fried chicken choices other than KFC: Popeyes chicken, Chick-fil-A, City Bird, Famous Recipe and Canes all within a couple of miles.
Yeah, this was a very interesting video! It would be cool if there were similar videos made from other countries' perspectives about how popular some of their home-grown stuff is in places you wouldn't expect. I'm guessing the Chinese Buicks are made in Chinese factories by Chinese workers. That's probably why they haven't been outlawed. Similarly we have foreign brand cars that are built in America by American workers. We also have American brand cars (and/or major components of cars) built in Mexico and then sold in America. Kind of weird, but I guess they pay Mexican workers less than they'd have to pay American workers.
A lot of the foreign brand vehicles being made in the U.S. for sale in the U.S. has more to do with our regulations and the different standards here. Easier to build to the American standard for sale, also cheaper to build them here. As for Mexico, it is because they get paid less than what American workers would demand, but is also because that side of manufacturing is also the bulk of Mexico's industrial economy. And it's not just cars, Mexico's tech sector is also large, and they build a lot of our components. At the same time, we also manufacture quite a bit of stuff for them to then turn into finished products for their economy. It's not one way.
From Detroit…..I remember when everything went to Mexico….close friend was in charge of moving massive equipment down there and he bitched and complained how it would never work right after tearing it apart and traveling that distance…..he was right! Took forever and massive amounts of money and time to get them up and running…..or finally just replaced
12m7s mark makes me happy. NE 3 Atlanta 28 with 2m 12s left in the third quarter. New England comes storming back to win the Super Bowl in over time. GREATEST comeback in Super Bowl history.
"You got Subway and stuff, but I'm talking about like meals right?" Geez, chill Lewis. I know the foot-long isn't really a foot- but come on- you didn't need to burn them _that_ hard.
Racoons are an invasive species, non-native animals that can have horrific effects on native plant and animal species usually due to a lack of natural predators. Common House Cats are an invasive species in most of the world, for instance. They are responsible for the extinction of hundreds of mammal and bird species globally because those animals were not prepared to protect themselves. This also led to plant species struggling due to seed propagation issues where certain birds were the only spreaders.
As far as fast food goes, it depends on where you live as to what's near to you. I don't have a KFC near me and I live in Kentucky. I have a McDonald's, a Taco Bell, and a White Castle, near me that I could drive to right now. I'd have to go 20- 30 minutes away to get KFC
Actually Disney has had good luck luck with the Darkwing Duck comics and duck tales comics in America because they are follow ups on the series that were shown on Tv. Kim possible flopped just on the drawing board because it wasn’t a follow up. I know some Mickey Mouse comics did well but they were one off shorts aimed at kids. Some collections of Disney comics do exist but they are like newspaper comic collections. Disney really excels in short story formats in comics. Marvel and DC Are great at long story formats always connecting stories to a bigger narrative. The European Disney comics aren’t really considered canon as they were just limited runs that just had fun with Disney characters.
Blue jeans- invented in Amrrica for miners originally. Then other blue collar workers saw the utility and began wearing them. Over time, everyone wore them. Other countries have lots of people wearing jeans all the time and some collect them.
I loved driving my Buick , Crown Vic or the Cadillac. I just bought my first truck because it was the most comfortable vehicle I could get in the US these days. Heated seats and steering wheel ice cold air and a massage mode full stereo sound system and built in camera. Oh yeah
We have a truck living out in the countryside but I'm still surprised that it seems every other house in town has a big truck too. What the heck do they need to haul ???
lewis talking about option jus within a 5min drive form my place, just place that serve chicken, i got Chick-fil-A, KFC, pollo loco, popeyes, wingstop, buffulo wild wings. thats the large regional and national chain so yea we got lot of option
There's subculture groups in Korea, Cambodia, and Japan for both cholos and lowrider culture. I remember at one time in the early 90s lowrider culture was so popular in Japan that lowrider cars selling for up to $15k here were selling for up to $100k in Japan. At the time it was mostly wealthy children of executives there. For awhile there were a lot of lowrider paint artists and upholsters who went to Japan to do custom jobs for those wealthy kids.
I'm 53 and never heard of that book Racal before today. Also never knew Disney comic books even existed before today. Man, Lewis, your wholehearted defense of the UK's consumption of KFC had me cracking up! That is pure reaction gold! 😂🥰 Get a black truck like that here in Texas, and you'd fit right in. 😊
That right there Lewis is the F150 Lightening and your friends would love you because its all electric. Also with you have a power failure you can plug your house into it. You should check out those videos, pretty crazy
First, I've never heard of Disney comics and I'm 50 years old. Second, it used to be Dodge vs. Ford vs. Chevrolet or gas vs. diesel, now its all of these vs. that electric thing you were saying you wanted. If you get a truck you better get a real one that has a combustion engine, lol.
Honestly having a ford truck is like a whatever thing in the states. It’s really personal preference you know. The advantage is that you do carry more stuff than the average car and you can do a bit more. But you know each their own. Doesn’t stop me from admiring other cars for a few minutes you know.
I'm not surprised about KFC in England and Australia. In Oz that was the only fried chicken chain I noticed. Where I live one can choose between KFC, Bojangle's, Church's, Popeyes, Zaxby's, and even Hardee's which does fried chicken on the side.
Man I weird here in America to want a pick up truck. Not one member of my family over the age of 26 doesn't have a pickup truck. Or is married to somebody who has a pickup truck I should say😅
Hahahahaha. A truck like that is all fun and cool, but BRO. i have a pickup i bought a few years ago (used) because we have a farm and *needed* a truck. I love my truck, but what i don't love is the 13 miles per gallon or the fact that new tires just cost me $1300. They get expensive when you need them to be all-terrain trailer-savvy tires. Lol. To compare, a new set of tires for my Hyundai elantra (which gets me 36+mpg) cost about $560. Tanuki are like a racoon mixed with a fox and have the personality of a Tasmanian devil. They are beautiful animals.
Fast food: you have two options on your list that my small town doesn't. We used to have a KFC and a Burger King, but both of them shut down. Now, we have McDonald's, Hardee's, Dairy Queen (which took over the building the KFC used to be in), In 'n Out, and Taco Bell. By American standards, that's not much for a town our size that has a two heavily used highways running through it.
I learned how to drive in a Buick Skylark. Great car. My parents' car. Plus our 1960s Ford half-ton pickup, which had a wonky clutch that'd engage anywhere in 4" of play, which made learning really...uh, interesting. There was also Driver's Ed at school, but they had Pontiacs. My parents taught me best. And thank god for the truck, otherwise I never would have learned how to drive a manual. Automatics suck. Plus the truck survived me driving it into a wooden fence and a small alder tree. 😄 That happens when you're driving on a farm or forested property. I remember Disney comic books way back, though I preferred DC and some Marvel. I don't remember Disney comics disappearing, though. However, before then my parents had laid down the law that I had to stop spending all my allowance on comic books. (12 cents a pop, except bigger specials at 25 cents.) So I switched to paperback books, science fiction and fantasy, running 50 cents to 75 cents. My parents shrugged helplessly and gave up. 😁 Books were *important*, and they encouraged us to read, so they couldn't very well object, could they? So I spent all my allowance on books!
Ah. We had a skylark but it was raggedy by the time we got it. Also had a truck that had no floor in the passenger side. It had rusted out so you had to keep you feet up on the hump or risk being hurt. Also had a Ford LTD that wouldn't die. Thing caught on fire regularly. My mom ended up running it without oil, trying to ruin it so we could get another. Still ran. Tree limb finally did it in(crushed the whole roof onto the seats so you couldn't get inside. Sold it to someone who took the motor out(the one that had caught on fire more times than I can count and was run without oil for weeks) and stuck it in a dirt racing truck. Thing ran for years until they wrecked and totaled it.
@@sortaamy3003 LOL! The LTD sounds like a very stubborn zombie. If you run into anyone wants to restore a car, you might suggest it to them. 😄 Could be interesting. It seems to have depended on miracles. I would've have traded trucks if I'd been an adult. You could at least put something in as a sort of replacement floor. The trying to get the clutch on ours to engage from a stop on a hill, without killing the engine, was a bugger. I remember rolling completely back down a hill when first trying that. Luckily Mom had found us a parking lot on a weekend, when the business was closed, so I could practice in peace. It was still nerve-wracking! The Skylark was a good car. We actually had two, two years apart. First cars we ever bought new.
@@monicapdx my very first car was similar. If I took my foot off the gas at a stop sign or light(automatic), it died. I still drive with both feet. Lol and the horn was a toggle switch(otherwise it would short out the headlights). But it was mine for a year so that was ok! Bought my next car as a senior in high school and I thought I was styling. It was a 10 yr old, one owner(elderly lady) car WITH AC! Fancy! Ny next one was a brand new car I bought as an adult. It was a manual- my first manual and I had to learn how to drive it in 2 days then drive across 2 states to get back to my place. On the interstate. It was...interesting. But it all makes for good memories now!
@@sortaamy3003 Wowsa, what a combo! The automatic version of holding with the clutch and gas on a hill. Yikes. And I love the horn. Nothing like cars to teach you multitasking! I didn't own any car until I got married in my late 20s. (If you live in the country and both parents use the family's two cars, you can't get to a job.) We got a huge old Plymouth Satelite, scraped-off vinyl roof, dents here and there, and huge. But it ran great, liked to cruise at 70 if you just rested your foot on the gas (no cruise control, but it was automatic), and :pauses impressively: city buses moved out of the way! Those dents, y'know. 😁 It got a whole 19 miles to the gallon. But holy acrarp, learning a manual on the interstate? Sheer terror. I salute you!
@@monicapdx ah I remember those old satellites. Big ole boats! The upside to those big cars, though, were that you could climb inside the engine compartments, have a seat, and fix it under the shade of the huge hood. Can't quite do that now. I still see a few of those old boats on Saturdays when the weather is nice, heading for the classic car shows.
Chinese KFC also did a collab with FFXIV a few years back where you had to eat an ungodly amount of fried chicken to get a code to redeem one of the fat chocobo mounts. You couldn't share and you couldn't leave the table. USA does have those 25lb hamburger challenges where all you get if you win is your burger for free and your picture on the wall, though.
One of the many problems with the racoons in Japan is that they are destroying the wooden temples, shrines and old homes. The racoons are gouging the wood with their claws when they climb, gnawing on them, ripping tiles off, burrowing into the roofs looking for insects or a place to make a den. The majority of the temples in Japan have some damage caused by raccoons, and some of the temples are well over 1000 years old.
In the 70's I had a 69 Buick Skylark, light blue with white top, it was beautiful! During the gasoline crisis, sold it for an Austin America. Great on gas, but every time it rained, it would stop working (electrical problem🫤). Should have kept the Buick!
Another reason to not have an American truck in the UK and Europe is the size. You couldn’t drive them in many villages or find parking spaces over there.
lol this made me laugh b/c Buick is my mom’s favorite brand of car and will only drive them if she can. Her dream car is a Buick Riviera, pearl white. She actually owned one a number of years ago but it was a bit of a lemon. But she’s driven Buicks consistently since at least the 70s. I learned to drive on a Buick regal, hated it, worst boat to drive, ever! Esp in winter!
See you need 2 resturants in the UK. One, you need a Taco Bell. Nice cheap tex-mex food. Next you need a real honest American Southern BBQ place. Decadent meats smoked over 12 hrs and served as sandwices, plates or on a bake potatoe. Texas style if you can. Finally if you can add one more fast food-ish place to the 2, put up a wings place like wingstop or wings-n-things. They are a good counterpoint to the burger joints.
I live in a small area Oregon. Probably around twenty thousand people are less and we probably have thirty choices of fast food places that I could pick on in a given day
