Military Time and other Americanisms YOU found weird! 

Evan Edinger you’re the first one to show me that there’s a reason why this system exists… and it makes a lot of sense, well done

Ya, except that in his example he didn't argue for mm-dd-yyyy. He made a year folder first. Which is yyyy-mm-dd. Which is ISO standard date, which we do in fact use in computer programming. And it's sortable.

i mean isnt your example an example of Year/month/day not month/day/year.

I prefer the day first but what really annoys me is that there are 2 systems and if you don’t know which one is being used you could think it’s the wrong month entirely.

Guess we should do it the way they do in Asia, which is yyyy/mm/dd. It's the best of both worlds: sortable AND nice and orderly sorted by "size"

Yeah... I was like... wat... haha. ISO, "year month day" is the only sensible format for sorting and storage. in this context "month day year" and "day month year" is equally horrible and meaningless

Agreed. For sorting purposes, YMD makes the most sense. Otherwise I like to see DMY because, well it's what I'm used to so that's like 90% of it, but also, it just makes more sense than MDY... you're just mixing everything, it bothers me. It's the 11th day of the 2nd month of the year 2020. It just makes more sense than "it's the 2nd month, the 11th day of it, in the year 2020". I'd say it doesn't really matter anyway, but I do work in computer programming and it's never a good surprise when you're losing your mind on why something doesn't work, and the answer is that the system you're on doesn't use the date format you're used to :D

and just because I'm an ISO-8601 fan (yes, fans of particular standards exist): YYYY-MM-DD please, slashes as separators are slightly more cumbersome and don't conform to the standard :) But of course when writing casually I don't care, you do you.

Month folders in your year folders?

AGREED. It's day/month/year normally, or if you're organising things on a computer it's year/month/day. There is *never* a good reason to do month/day/year!

I talked to someone German once and they asked me if prom was a real thing, if cheerleading was a real sport, and if our school buses are actually yellow. To all of which the answer is yes.

@caty moonlight and then the confusion when they find out they own cars made in Germany

Stuttgart busses are yellow though 🤔

@@shishik4571 which is strange because there is basically a German (albeit much smaller, less eventful) version of prom in Germany and cheerleading is also very popularized, you'll find a cheer squad at every street festival, so Ig the person you talked to was just very sheltered and unaware -how do I know this? I am a German living in Germany with German friends and family

@@Cherryxarts I'm also a German living in Germany with german friends and family, and I've never seen anyone do cheerleading. In american Highschool movies cheerleading plays often a pretty big part, so of course german students are curious about it, because it's nonexistent in most german schools. And "much smaller, less eventful" is the reason they wanna know if it's really that big of a deal in the US.

Like Australia lol

Me, a Finn: We are in Scandinavia?

@@Heksu99 Apparently we are

@@Heksu99 To be completely fair, I don't think that is just something american. I am Spanish, and in our official disctionary the first definition of scandinavian is: person that lives in North European countries. Thus, the Spanish do include Finland in that definition too. I had honestly no idea Finland was not a part of it. The more you know!

Nat GR same here. I am French btw

Evan's files: Folder/YYYY/MMDD.txt Then he argues it's month first, what?

Why not just sort by date, instead of name?

Yeah, I thought it was really weird... Says MMDDYY is better than DDMMYY... Then describes YYYYMMDD... Yes, for sorting reasons, year should be at one end and days at the other. Either big endian or little endian is fine. The standard American dates are middle-endian.

@@prosquatter _*"Why not just sort by date, instead of name?"* I guess you are a millennial ;) Photography was invented some time before mobile phones. When old images are digitalized they don't automatically get the correct date.

@@prosquatter Sometimes you don't create a file on the date it's supposed to be labeled as e.g. when your digitizing paper work or photos.

I first read that as "we live in Teas and hostage exchange students"

@@fortheloveofnoise 😂

@@fortheloveofnoise same

Exchange programs are amazing 👍🏼

Spoon Raven To be fair, quite a few people in the UK do that too, they definitely don't tend to acknowledge the role the USSR played

We did win the war and so did the rest of the Allied forces.

BeeDoubleU yeah like the soviets lost twice the amount of people *in a single battle*

@@lithiumvids9448 they still won and it was one of the most important battles in the war against Hitler

ErikSpeck yeah?

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YES... also his argument for organization was year first not month so he made an argument which doesn't help his point

YYYYMMDD is best 👍🏼

But 'its the second of February 2057' sounds worse than 'its February the second,2057'

@@dipdipdop Well, you can still read it that way, if it is the way, you are used to speak. Here we are taking about writing the damned numbers down.

I never even learned about their geography. The only geography I learned about (if you can even call it "learn") besides the US's was Africa. My US History class in high school made us memorize all the countries in Africa. It was pretty useless info because I forgot it all a few days later. But it would've been helpful to at least learn about what major countries were in certain continents. Like some of what's in Europe besides the UK. Our school system sucks. Don't really know what else to say about that 😅

@@casie6609 yeah it is so useless to know what other countries there are 🙄 in the Netherlands we had to study every single country there is on this planet, with their biggest cities, the biggest rivers and lakes, and most important landmarks.

Ngl I am not American but this is my first time learning Finland not being a scandinavian country, well I am still a teen Thanks for the info

@@merenwen4495 Why do you have to be rude? Is it because I'm American? I didn't say it was useless to learn about other countries. If you read my comment, I said that the only countries I ever had to memorize were those in Africa, and that most of classmates and I forgot them a few days later. I didn't learn about any others. I don't think that's right, I would've loved to at least briefly learn about many different countries in other continents, as well. Like Europe and Asia. Everything I know about other countries I wasn't taught in school. The kind of education for geography that you had is one that probably would've been better for me. Major cities and landmarks at least. The only rivers I learned about were the Nile and Niger rivers and some lakes in the US. Pretty dumb if you ask me.

I don’t think it’s only America in this case. I’m from Austria and we learned that too in school.

I was reading the survey with confusion. I never liked strudel.

Its more austrian anyways.

As not german i can say that you even were successful on forcing your culture onto other countries, cooked strudel, still not good at it

We Czech still do have štrůdl and we love it! Yeah, pretty much still obsessed. It's more common for the ex Habsburg Monarchy though. That's why it's more Austrian and Czech. Dough, apples, cinnamon, sugar, raisins, and nuts. Bake till golden brown. Voilá, quick, cheap, and delicious dessert.

Honestly, it's far more fun to *say* than eat. Strudel. Strudel....Strudel...

Would love to see Evan's reaction to Horrible Histories

@@orana03YES he must do itt

This needs to happen!

100% Agreed it would be great

@@georgina01melia but it must not be anything past season 5 because that is jsut a disgrace to the original cast/writers

Europe has slightly more landmass than the US.

i have the same feeling with latin america too, we are many many different countries with different cultures, but i guess we are all one big country (mexico basically, we are all mexico)

@@Hydraclone And more than double the population

That is SO true!

now y'all understand how us africans feel

I feel like a blood vessel just burst

The Irish in me just revolted at the Queen comment

@@autumneagle Just be glad that this imaginary guy was completely clueless and not burdened with dangerous half-knowledge and would have brought up one Oliver Cromwell in the conversation (half remembering that guy was somewhat important in Irish history)...

😲🙄😂😂😂😂 Happy new year from Dublin!

I’m from Northern Ireland, I lived in the USA temporarily. At 6am one morning I was asked “so does Ireland where you’re from have a President?” - This was far too early to explain the whole Northern Ireland being part of the U.K. thing, thus technically being under the Queen, with Republic of Ireland having a President and a Prime Minister at the same time.

Same Britain

Same in Italy, we even analysed Martin Luther King's speech in Eng Lit

I’m from England I haven’t learnt about it. I took history in primary school and Y7 and Y8 but dropped it because I wasn’t taking it as w GCSE. I think in England we learn all the main history events first and about British history and then learn more about global history during GCSES.

In Scotland, we learn about the civil rights movement in history in the second year of high school and revisit it in fifth year for our Higher exams

Same in my French high school English class

Texan here and also American(lol) It seems more so that Evan and some of the Americans commenting were just poor students in history and geography.

And did your teachers drop the oaf of allegiance? Thought not. If they had that in the Soviet Union, if they did it today in Cuba, we would call it indoctrination. And it is too when it happens in the USofA.

True River I’m not trying to say that these problems don’t exist systematically. I’m just saying that I had some amazing teachers who asked us to question the system. But yes, they did drop the pledge. My schools didn’t say it.

I had the same experience in Florida. I even had a history teacher with a sign in her classroom that said “censorship causes blindness”. I feel really bad for the people who didn’t have the experience I did in public schools

Sounds like you’ve become indoctrinated then 🧐 ... It’s too late for this one boys, he belongs to the system now

Yep. 2.54 centimeters per inch is the EXACT ratio, technically the US has been using metric all along, but just without using it.

@@haph2087 America that will use animals and other random objects to measure something before metric. "How big of a hole do you want???" "Make it about the size of a giant rat man" instead of 15-20 cm

​@@DeathProductions200 What? No, that's not how this works, that's not how *any* of this works. Sure, imperial isn't the standard in the US, but it's not like US citizens are burning metric in effigy. Most are fairly familiar with metric, it's most definitely the second most common system of measurement in the US. Most "anti-metric" people are just anti-change, which is a thing everywhere in the world.

@@haph2087 bro, they have used a washing machine to measure a sink hole. Do you know why I said that. And metric being second most used in the country. There are two main measurement systems in the world. They actively hate metric unless are educated and know how to use it. I know. I live in the USA

​@@DeathProductions200 I live in the US as well, and I can tell you either your neighbors are weird, or you don't get out much (which is probably okay given the current pandemic). Most people don't measure things in random BS made up units, sure sometimes comparisons are made to explain things, but it's not like that doesn't happen elsewhere. Describing something as "as big as a truck" or "as tall as that tree over there" doesn't mean you are using a wacko system of measurements. It's a freakin' simile. I wouldn't say "I'm looking for an apartment with at least 7.86 square car lengths of floorspace", but I might say "I stopped half a car length behind the truck at that stop light". It might be reasonable to measure sinkholes in "washing machines" if you are describing how your washing machine just fell into a sink hole twice as wide as your washing machine (although I'm sure somebody has used it in a context not involving washing machines, in which case, they're likely a bit dumb). Finally, I say "metric is the second most common system of weights and measures in the US" because it is. "washing machines" are not a system of weights and measures. They're barely a unit. Sure, there are a good number of Americans you could meet on the street that would be a unsure if somebody being "1.7 meters tall" makes them a tall person, or a short person. But a large portion of them could at least describe metric units half as accurately as customary ones. Very few could give a satisfactory answer for "how much is a joule", but they also likely have trouble answering "how much is a foot-pound force", despite the self-explanatory name, because the real issue there is they don't use units of energy in their daily lives. And it's not like we don't measure a in extensively use millimetres, grams, watts/amps, ( *chuckles* might as well throw in seconds while I'm at it). For most people, it's feet/mi, gallons (derivative of feet), pounds, and cooking units (derivatives of feet and pounds) that we use from customary. If you are doing anything that requires precision, it's feet, pounds, or SI. The only thing America did wrong here was be lazy with common units, and it's not like the UK or Canada are any better there, we just admit most people use "imperial" (customary) a lot. Hate it, love it, nobodies going to drop a few trillion dollars and 3 weeks of school for every citizen to force the use of SI for everything. Slow, gradual, (and significantly more expensive) change is the only way it's gonna happen. I don't hate metric, and don't know anyone who does. Full out "Metric hating" is likely reserved for the radical conspiracy-theorist idiot copy-whatever-they-see-on-their-preferred-politically-biased-news-source minority like a lot of "American" tropes. Most people in the US aren't that. There's my rant on it, so I'm done here. Feel free to disagree, one of us is wrong, and it might as well be me. I don't know where you live or who you live with, so you might see that sort of thing. Neither of us can prove anything without finding some meta-analysis of every survey ever conducted on popularity of metric in the US, and I'm not looking for one of those. Have a good day, and best of luck to ya.

Internet does wonders

Most everyone I know (including me) is like: "yea America is pretty bad"

I think most of us are slowly getting smarter 😂

@@casie6609 yay!! I’m rooting for you :) from 🇸🇪

Yeah I'm American and I love my country but we don't have great policies

To be fair you say is free, but it is not free just to make your teeth look straighter if there is no medical need - it would have to be to the point of causing an issue now or in the future. Not that this is a bad thing, teeth don't need to be straight at all. And the majority of people's teeth will not be anywhere near white, teeth whitening is pretty dumb. Depending on the person it is possible for it to be extremely yellow and be healthy (although most won't be to that extreme, but it is possible). So the tiktok was probably accurate as she was almost certainly showing picture of teeth with heavy cosmetic work which is silly, unnecessary, actually covers bad teeth and makes teeth less healthy (which is why the US is far behind the UK on teeth health tables still), and for now not part of British culture still (hopefully it stays that way).

It's just an old stereotype that you'll probably never get rid off

I’ve always found it weird that almost all healthcare in the UK is free with the exception of dental and opticians. Like why are teeth and eyes treated differently to other body parts?

@@craig19 It is free for anyone who can't afford it. The low income certificate is not based on how much you earn, it is based on much money you have after essential bills. It is free for all children by default. And free for anyone on benefits. If you can't afford prescriptions, dentist and opticians, it is completely free for you. But ignoring that, it is also extremely cheap. Most people on the lowest income spend more per week going out then you would for basic dental work or glasses. More advanced work is still extremely cheap comparatively, and all dental work is capped so if you needed 10 fillings it costs the same as one. If you needed every tooth extracted, it costs the same as one, no matter how many appointments it takes. And certain things are still free for all no matter what, such as contact lenses needed for medical issues.

wyterabitt yeah I’m aware those on low income can apply for free dental/eye care. I just find it weird that if you break your arm and have to go to hospital it’s completely free for everyone yet if you’ve got toothache you might have to pay. Doesn’t seam to make sense.

Also, sort by date has existed in computing for ages now. Using metadata is so much better than relying on file names

THANK YOU! I was thinking of that the whole time he talked about it haha

@@TheTomco11 yeah but that's the date modified, fine for file you only edit in date order.

Dan yeah thats what I used at work for a while but not everyone does. 🇬🇧

I think about it more like Day Planners. First you need the category of days (aka Months) then you can flip to that month & then you need the date of the event to write it down.Even virtual calendars work in this way, and that’s why M/D/Y is superior. However, I prefer to write out my date in MLA style (like 25 July 2021) which follows the British style more simply to avoid writing so many commas! (As most Americans are very used to writing a comma between the date and the year as in July 25, 2021.)

Oh no

Same team dude 😁

Oh god me too 😞

For real tho I just can't with these lessons... I thought it was Sunday btw cos of the vid 😂

I've literally had nightmares about this sort of thing

it's maybe because things weren't great the last time Italians got really really nationalistic

@@babitayadav4806 And I'm glad Italy lost WWII. Luckily fascism didn't last long enough to take roots in our culture, the resistence even inside of Italy was very strong, so that's why that kind of toxic patriotism didn't survive. It only brought misery and death to Italians (and to many other countries of course). But still, we are very proud of our country, not only for the food (which is the first thing people think about), but also for our land, culture, language, art and literature. Italians are proud, they were even before Italy was a unified country, but at the same time we make fun of ourselves a lot and almost never get offended. Patriotism in America is just so strong and they take everything too seriously and as an offense to their country. They are taught they are the best country on Earth, while in Italy we are taught "yeah, Italy has everything to be a perfect country, but politicians continue to fuck things up". So hearing how Americans speak when they say "actually I'm Italian" is so funny. No Italian goes around telling everyone "look, I'm Italian". We are proud, but not in the American way XD We know too well the many problems of our country.

Same with Greeks

Another funny way to p.o. italian-americans celebrating Columbus Day, is to point out that the vikings actually were in the Americas 4-500 years prior to Columbus.

@@lavistelle6031 If Italy was as competent as Germany when it came to military, the world could have been screwed... so thank you Italy 😅

Those things are weird. Like NZ Sign Language has higher legal status than English in New Zealand.

@@marcusmyge English is only really widely spoken throughout the world because of the British even not America. So....ugh I HATE that people have this mindset of "SPEAK AMERICAN" like fuckin shut up karen.

Marcus Myge Yes! No one ever believes me when I tell them that Maori and NZSL have special legal status in NZ though

@@TheRibottoStudios, when people say dumb things like that, I always ask which American language they want me to speak. I mean, the Americas are comprised of two whole continents each containing multiple languages. It gets them angry, and makes me laugh. It's especially funny when they look at me and ask me where I'm from. When I tell them I'm from Texas, they always ask again, emphasizing the 'from'. I keep acting innocent about what they're actually asking (I got down to specific details about human reproduction once) until they blow their lid and call me a moron.

@@marcusmyge The UK itself doesn't have any De Jure official laguages. However, in Wales (which is part of the UK and also predominantly english speaking) Welsh is the De Jure official language. So the only de Jure official language in the UK is Welsh.

Some people don't even know what socialism is either. They just assume it's bad.

Denmark isn't really socialist though. They have some socialist(ish) policies but rely on a freer market than eg. the US have. What I'm trying to say is that politics is not that binary and both people in your scenario are stupid.

Völundr Frey socialism in the US context is just social democracy. We are very stupid.

Dane here, Denmark is not socialist. The policies we have here just give people more welfare and free government programs. It’s actually easier to open a business in Denmark than in the US, and the Danish government actively denounces being called Socialist. May I also remind everyone, Denmark still has a queen. If we were truly socialist there wouldn’t be a monarchy.

fensmarkfarm Tjoo, joken gik tydeligvis overhovedet på dig

Whaaaat is Åland? :O Why haven't I ever heard about this? :O What country is it?

@@tetea7257 read the scandinavia and the world comic, good shit

Åland is an island in the Baltic Sea, a self-governing part of Finland.

@@tetea7257 Åland is a self-governing and de-militarised group of small islands between Finland and Sweden which is technically a part of Finland but they mostly speak Swedish and follow Swedish culture (from what I, a Swedish person, know).

@@tetea7257 It's a bunch of tiny islands between Finland and Sweden (population around 30k). It's a part of Finland, but it's got some level of autonomy. Also, they speak Swedish there, not Finnish (Swedish is also an official minority language in Finland, but in Åland it's all Swedish). They have their own parliament, flag, license plates, stamps etc.

Land of the free lmao

in american hotels ive been to they typically can open just not very wide, and they have screens that cant be opened. i was told the reason was so that people can't jump out of the windows

@@erin881 But America is the best why would anyone want to jump out of the window??

@@erin881 Why is it the hotels problem if people decide to jump out of the window? Maybe if a child fell out by accident the hotel could get sued by the parents but then again any child old enough to reach the window could be expected to have learn basic common sense

@@inspiredby624 America has a culture of law suits where you blame others for your stupidity.

My parents are from one country, I was born in another and then grew up in a different one. I speak British English but don't have an accent from a country. I feel generally western/southern European and a lot of people don't like that lol.

MinimanZero2 although my situation isn’t as extreme as yours, I completely understand what you mean. Sometimes I feel like I’m in limbo, not really belonging anywhere, but I’m lucky because I can just identify as being British which people don’t really bat an eye at. Although, I will say a huge amount of British people do not identify themselves as being British at all, they prefer English/Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish and will get offended if someone refers to them as British, which makes absolutely no sense because they’re still British whether they like it or not, Saying that though, a lot of the younger generations are starting to see themselves as British first, and I think the internet has played a huge role in that. Which box do you tick if you have to choose a nationality on a form? I will tick Scotland 100% of the time if it’s an option despite the fact I’m more likely to say British if a person asked me in person but that could be because I can elaborate on it which I can’t do on a form:

@@leea8706 that's quite interesting. Yeah if asked for a form I just go with my passport, my parents country. But when meeting new people I feel like I can't just say 1 country and saying my whole life feels a bit much but anything else and I don't feel like I get what I want across

MinimanZero2 I love speaking to people like you and getting their perspective on things, it just shows, that even something like nationality, or at least the nationality you identify with, isn’t black and white, there are just so many grey areas in every aspect of life. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question and letting me know your experiences.

@@leea8706 i'm scottish too and I know somebody thats lived in scotland their whole life yet has an english accent somehow...

Hes right doe

As an American I have to say that does make sense.

im british, and this just proves the politicisation of our schools. teach the kids about the world, and let them develop their own views on politics, not tell them that the richest nation on earth with the most resources is 'third world' cause of ur own opinion. i can gurantee also it was a liberal white middled age teacher that said this lol, cause me and many other 3rd world immigrant offspring brits/europeans cringe whenever people make these comparisons- we IMPLORE you, go visit actual third worlds please, and see why the comparison is so friggin offensive. my fathers country has kids dying cause of no food or water or working roads, and youre comparing this to the United States?

he's not wrong lol. theres so much shit and corruption and hate is crazy that we're so "developed". economically? yeah! socially? improved, but not there that's for sure

@@ignorethis6856 yeah the whole video about reddit being too european to understand america proved that. In my opinion, having waiters relating on tips to live, no healthcare and student loans because education is a luxury should be enough to consider USA a third world country

Facepalming so hard rn🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ how can they not know that there is literally a country named after the specifc language they talk? How can they be that ignorant? Americans seriously are a different species

What did you say after the teacher said that?

Catriona Gillespie I couldn’t say anything, I was literally speechless. Just stared at her and then finally said Thankyou and walked away.

A friend of mine while on a summer break from Uni went to the States to work as a summer camp counsellor. Sorry I guess that's counselor. Anyway this 14yr old told her "gee Miss you sure speak good English for a foreigner". She was more surprised that none of the other kids commented -- it wasn't just the one stupid kid, nobody except her thought it was an odd thing to say

"People from ENGLAND colonised a part of North America and then some of the ENGLISH people, who came from ENGLAND, stayed here and then they got taxed too much, so they revolted. Then they won and taught the ENGLISH people in ENGLAND how to speak english" - Your teacher, 20XX

But austria is supposed to be a part of germany according to that one famous austrian Idk maybe we could trade you for the bavarians? We get the strudel they can keep their pretzels?

@@WhirlwindHeatAndFlash Austria is over 1000 years old, Germany... isn't.

@@frankshailes3205 That's not really true and depends entirely on what you count as Germany and Austria. The modern day Austria is very different to the Margraviate of Austria, as different as Germany is to the Holy Roman Empire of GERMAN nation. Then Austria was part of the 3. Reich and a de facto new Austrian state was formed when after its defeat, which means it isn't older than the modern Germany, that too was created then, soooo, yeah, no, get your head out of your ass and get over your superiority complex.

@@WhirlwindHeatAndFlash As I german I strongly oppose trading bavaria against austria ... I'd be fine with giving bavaria away to austria without getting anything back though

AKA the Japanese/Chinese system. But putting it in mm-dd-yyyy makes absolutely no sense

@@Frahamen it actually makes way more sense to have the month first. Think about looking through a calendar you aren't going to look for the day first you're going to look for the month first.

@@Melted-Kuchi-kopi True.

@@Melted-Kuchi-kopi Not if you have multiple years like in file storage system. Then you look for year, then month, then day. Therefore, yyyy-mm-dd is best. And the computer will still store them in correct order.

@@Melted-Kuchi-kopi Yeah but the first thing you search for is actually the year since you won't look at a 2019 calendar in 2020. YY/MM/DD wins again

importing propper (german) windows to north america would save sooo much engery. in summer and winter.

The warmest part of Germany is in the southwest, and it's far less hot than in most of the US. No one in San Francicisco has air con either - because except for maybe one week out of the year there is a reliable cold breeze blowing. There is nothing superior about Germans (in this way) or German windows. It's just not as hot, or worse yet hot and humid. If you mean top hinged windows as often seen in the UK, they are good in that they can be open in the rain, but are terrible if it is too hot in the room because they block the hot air easily leaving through the top of the window.

@@emjayay that's why german windows are not top hinged, but can be opened bottom hinged - to the inside, and still can be opened fully with a side hinged. anyhow: in canada , and yes, it can be freaking hot in summer, and in most areas a window that allows air flow would do the job. what's a tiny slide-opening on a window for? and btw, i am not only talking about ways to open the window, I am also talking about the glass. german friends of mine where told that tripple insulation glass not even invented when they tried to upgrade their house. it insulates against cold - but also heat. And I've heard so many americans complain about missing aircondition in germany. so many. damn, just learn how to use the windows. I'm not saying they are superior (nobody is), just saying it's smart and suitable for a lot of reagions that rely on aircon.

Thats a misuse of the AC in my opinion, when you live in a hot place where you do need an AC it is absolutely a salvation, but in my case I dont put it below 23 degrees Celsius because it would kill the purpose of being in a pleasant temperature putting it any lower than that, which shoud be the point of using them

@@henriquesoares2343 tell this to the whole of australia

Fellow American here, nothing takes me from 0 to 100 quicker than someone saying that. I think it's more a conservative thing than a Texas-specific thing.

I dont think that's specifically a American thing though the same kind of shit happens in the Netherlands

Gosh I freaking hate people like that .....

@@beu9245 who would've guessed it, in Germany too. The idiot boomers say it the most. No, I critic this shit, because you and your generations decisions led to this. Smh. It's blood boiling

​@@beu9245 In Spain too, some patriotic people think patriotic means fanatic centralist

I'm not sure I would characterize it as just the American definition though. I'm from Finland and colloquially we just call the nordic countries Scandinavia most of the time, despite Finland not technically being part of Scandinavia. It just sits better in your mouth than "Fennoscandia"

@@Jalmerk .. sounds like someone’s just jealous they’re not part of scandinavia 🥴

​@@marni3155 Yeah whatever you say buddy 🥴

@@marni3155 Yeah you seem a little condescending and pretentious. Maybe chill out a bit, it's not that deep.

@@cooljoelguy that fact that you felt the need to comment this, is only making YOU give off that impression, lol. It was a joke. It’s not that deep

I don't know if we suck more or less than we used to

Yeah that seems really accurate

Our history is disgusting in many ways

I don't know everthing but from what I've learnt in History in France you guys are cool.

KBinturong🇫🇷 I’m surprised I thought France (like most of Europe) hated us 😂

Or "Can I get this country?" "No, we have a country at home" Country at home... ...usa...

Sam Brown yeah lol

That is SO true!!!

😂😂😂😂 yes!!!

Going to attempt to translate this with my extremely limited knowledge of German "What is life without strudel? Sadder than Twilight."

@@goldegreen when polls still existed, he wrote this in one of them :D

Imported from Austria :)

Yeah sometimes it sounds a bit dysthopian (hopefully the spelling is correct)

cj I’m American and I can see why you feel that way, from an outside perspective it can look like that. I don’t really see it that way myself, I think we Americans are just proud of their country.

As an American I can honestly say...you are completely correct cj

It's not really at all. We just have some stupid people

Yeah it’s definitely crazy, I don’t think the US is the only country that does this though. The one that comes to mind is China. Both US and China have a large influence over their media and school systems (China is a little more authoritarian about it, US just has silly people that believe the media outright). Maybe US is just known globally for it because of the language barrier? I could be totally wrong that’s just my perspective on it. Also I definitely think people in the US are brainwashed into toxic patriotism (aka nationalism) it’s very sad when people get overly offended when someone makes a mistake that want even meant to be insulting but just because it had something to do with ‘Murica, it becomes a hate crime :(

Normandy was a child's birthday party compared to the eastern front.

@@Alias_Anybody I rather enjoy this analogy

At least in my experience in American Public school it was pretty thoroughly stressed that the United States may have been a weight in tipping the scale, but we were not the sole 'hero' if you will. We were taught which nations landed on what beach on D-Day, the espionage projects surrounding landings on Normandy vs Calais... Mostly late war stuff, admittedly, but quite a bit of it internationally focused.

Same for the netherlands, though we mostly have canadianveterans still coming over. And on that point, There aren't many people that know the polish people were important too.

Seconding @@clangauss4155 : at first America was isolationist, then eventually entered the war (much later, as you mentioned) when help was desperately needed by the Allied forces. I was taught that America's entry to WWII, while not the only factor, was pretty instrumental in winning the war-- however we'll never know for sure.

My teachers never actually heard of that war when I brought it up once. I can see why.

Don't you mean EMO's 🤣🤣🤣

That was only briefly mentioned in my primary school but we never actually went in depth.

Pig's arse! It was three soldiers, one army truck, two machine guns and ten thousand rounds of ammunition. Stop talking 💩!

The O.G Scandinavia would be Skåne, just Skåne.

Should we be calling Kalaallit Nunaat Nordic? They’re Inuit and not Nordic people.

I'm learning all the technical terminology for Scandinavian/Nordic countries in the comments, and I'm here for it.

@@Aeuri Greenland is (usually) included as it is a part of Denmark.

@@marcusmyge Yeah I mean it makes sense why, I'm just sorta questioning whether it should be done.

Yeah, at least it's closer to the truth. A surprising amount of things were invented in China. Like gunpowder. A surprisingly little amount of things were invented in the US, when comparing to what is claimed to be. Such as the freaking car... What a turd of a claim...

Everything is Made in China, even viruses...

Doing this the other way can be instructive: what wasn't invented in China, starting from the furthest back in time. Uncertain until we get to the stirrup, then we know for certain that it wasn't invented within the space currently occupied by modern China. To me, this is similar to how the US won the space race, when about the only thing they did first was make footprints on the moon. First satellite: Russia, first man in space: Russia, first probe to the moon: Russia, First and second probes to Mars, Venus: Russia, first sample from the moon: Russia, first rendezvous in space: Russia, space-walk: Russia, first woman and first crew in space: Russia, first eight space stations: Russia, first death in space programme: Russia, second woman in space: Russia... it goes on. The USA defined the argument as being 'first to the moon', declared victory and went back home, ending the crewed exploration of space.

@@papillon5839 cringe

China well didnt invent things, its basically every country's factory

the national standards are in different grades though. so if you go to school in Texas in fifth grade and you're supposed to learn algebra, but you move to New York for sixth grade you might go back to pre-algebra or right up to calculus. you're supposed learn the same things in every state but it's in a different grade, which means if you move states you won't learn all of the national standards

I didn't realize that Texas hasn't adopted the common core state standards -- so you are correct that a student who transfers from Texas to New York might learn different content. I'm not quite sure what you mean about grade level though -- It's relatively common in the US to test into higher math levels (I personally skipped a grade in math and know others who did as well), so it's possible that this grade skipping wouldn't be recognized when a student moved? But I would think their transcript, particularly at a high school level, would help them into the appropriate level for math

@@NatalieK16 for the grade level thing, in my experience they don't test kids when they move. even with my transcripts stating the classes i took and that i earned an A in every class, i've had to take the same english class for 6 years, go back 3 years in math, and never study science or history because i moved between a lot of states. every state cares about their OWN standards, so they don't accommodate for new kids to meet national standards. they don't care about your personal level or the classes you've already taken, they just shove you in with other students your age so you're not ahead of them

@@professordekarios, This may not apply anymore because it was more than 20 years ago, but my family moved multiple times in the same basic area of TX, and I had to go to multiple different schools in the same grade sometimes. We literally moved across the street one time and I had to change schools. So many times I was "behind" in the curriculum because one school district had no idea what the other was doing. I was also ahead a lot of times for the same reason. I took pre-algebra three separate times!

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Technically it can be argued anywhere is the centre of the universe (due to it all having expanded from one point & thus all having sort of having been in that point, I may be over shortening) so your toenail is as much the centre of the universe as New York is.

At least if the aliens invade Earth, they will only go to NYC or maybe LA

Wow, and people say Texans are proud of themselves....

New yorkers are the worst of them all. They truly dont care about anything outside their 5 boroughs. (Speaking of NYC ofc)

@@--julian_ that’s all they go for in the movies

Charlie S in school on the rare occasion that it’s brought up its literally been called Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, that’s another thing where we’re just taught wrong in school

It's not only Americans who use Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, a lot of British people do that as well. Much more embarassing, since it's Europe.

A lot of British people also say Czechoslovakia, especially older folk...

Czechoslovakia hurts me very much as a Czech person.

In New Zealand, where neither really come up all that often, but when it does, that error generally isn't made. Forgetting what they're called entirely, sure, nothing in that part of the world is even Slightly relevant to our lives, usually, but knowing that Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia don't exist anymore is pretty normal (though... So is not being aware they ever did.) At least, in my experience. Which just makes it worse, really.

This.

Lol, this is the official date format in Lithuania. I don't think many countries use this format. In school for exampe, we wrote our dates like this 1998-09-01 (haha, I used this date because it was my first september 1st in first grade and it was written on blackboard that day).

This. Also it makes sense for the long form. YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Sorts perfectly into time order! (I'm British, but always use this format in filenames.)

Pfft. I'm using unix timestamp in my folder naming! How it could go any better! (Yeah, I'm joking)

This is the officiall date format in Sweden aswell. That MM-DD-YY would be better than YY-MM-DD for sorting purposes makes absolutly no sence.

I work in tech installation and we use it

Aviation, science, telecommunication....

I agree with this completely! I always liked history in school so I always payed attention in class. Then I have friends who were in the same class as me saying stupid stuff like "America invented the first car", or not having a clue who won WWI because they simply did not listen to the lesson.

I agree, also from rural midwest/south and most of it has to do with lack of standardization and lack of attention paid to history. Most of my history teachers were very accurate, but I listened carefully and they liked their job, so they taught well.

@@sheridans.859 hold on you did not just say they didn't know who won ww1

as a german, who is now seeing something dangerously closing to a repetition of the racism (n stuff) of the 1940s (which we had MANY MANY history lesson about) in today's america.. Yes, history lessons are important and should probably be standardized

Joey 34710 Yes. I’ve seen it too. (I’m an American.) It’s bad, really bad how little Americans pay attention in general. I’ve even asked people if they know the name of their governor, and half the time they don’t even know their own governor’s name or even their policies.

Scandinavia coming from the mountain range the Scandes (or the Scandinavian mountains according to Wikipedia) that basically divide Sweden and Norway, and put Denmark above sea level.

yeah, we never learn about "nordic" countries in america unless we research it ourselves. we're essentially just told that the nordic countries (except iceland) make up scandinavia.

Yeah in American schools Scandinavia is just any nordic country...and the most I leaned in school is that Vikings went to Canada at some point. It never came up unless we were drawing maps

Maybe the term Fennoscandia should be used more often

AMEN, plus Fennoscandia if you need to include Finland, which makes sense in a lot of situations since the political histories are tightly intertwined.

That actually seems to be exactly what he's arguing for. He's arguing for YYYY.MM.DD, when the argument is actually about DD.MM.YYYY vs MM.DD.YYYY.

They were rebels until they won, then it became a revolution.

@@colinf3963 No, it's still a rebellion, because the government they opposed didn't fall.

Huh, you know don't know why, never thought about it like that before XD Always wondered why we it had different names XD

Interestingly when I took world history in school we were taught about other revolutions along with the “American Revolution” or “Revolutionary War” such as the Haitian Revolution and French Revolution. I’m not sure if revolution is just a word that America likes to use or if those wars are also called revolutions by people in other countries? Is there something that distinguishes between a revolution and a war of independence, civil war, etc?

Yeah really when you think about it, it wasn’t that revolutionary, I think high schools are finally starting to teach this (at least in California). They teach people that the Germans made cars but said they really weren’t any good, so Henry Ford invented the first “real car”

@@jwb52z9 again that's an American speech pattern. British people would say the fourth of may.

So like from a coding standpoint day month year makes so much more sense in fact Im pretty sure that year month day makes the most sense for a computer but what Evan is referring to is file names. If you name your files with dates month day year does work better

@@synthiandrakon How? M-D-Y 06-04-2020 06-05-2019 sorts like above which screws up the order D-M-Y 03-07-2020 04-05-2020 Also make no sense Y-M-D 2020-04-03 2020-06-20 Is the only logical order

Jwb52z they say the Fourth of July though....

Absolutely. If your country isn't incredibly hot, why would you need air conditioning? As long as there is a radiator you can adjust.

@@grasweg3 Even if it's incredibly hot, a well-built house can handle heat very well. I've been in Southern France at 40°C, which was boiling hot outside but lovely inside in the old house we were staying at.

As an Indian, I agree.

@@avantikapathania1363 same

@@DanDanDoe Sadly, the people getting contracts to build most of the housing in America aren't paid to build the best homes, just the most cost effective ones to crank out at the moment. Even if AC will cost THE RESIDENT money long term, that's not seen as a problem for the Contractor/Leasing Corporation/etc

Yeah baby!

Evan uses a Mac, I don't think he knows how computers work

From where I am, we never really had strudel in the first place...

Dont worry i was born in germany and i never had strudel as well. I only heard about strudel existing ffrom stereotypes lol. Guess because i'm so up north

@@Dilara-js7ek It's actualy Austrian and Czech dessert :) And in Czechia it's still common and beloved :D

Since you haven't had Strudel you can't be part of the problem of immigrants taking our strudel.

Please tell me you had it by now. It's great

Haha I was watching the “military time” and going “I call it hospital time”.

Yeah I said the same thing! When my mom became a nurse she eventually changed all her clocks into the 24 hour clock

The 24 hour clock is also used in payroll in a lot of different fields, for ease of calculating hours worked.

I'm an American nurse and I just commented the same thing before just now seeing your comment haha. I'm so glad we use the 24-hour clock in the hospitals....I could hate to have to call the doctor at 3 in the morning because it was unclear if a mediation or procedure was at 4 AM or 4 PM.

I am Swiss and everytime I flew to the USA and said I was Swiss, people will literally ask me how's life in Scandinavia? And I was just like "wtf? Switzerland is in central Europe" and always had to explain that the 2 countries may be in the same continent, the culture is completely different!!! May I add I come from the French-speaking part of Switzerland so I speak French. First I had to correct them about the fact that I am not from France then I had to do some geography to explain Switzerland and Sweden are 2 different countries ! It was tiring 😂

@@ruthnoemibendel thanks for being the education system that we don't have 😂

Nothing beats the American backpacking surferdude type I met in Zurich, Switzerland, who asked me to point him to the ocean and then yelled "I LOVE SWEDEN!" into a public square.

I like the sound of Fennoscandia

@@dgriite Wished I was there to see this xD

Such that stuff filed in numerical order of the date is actually in chronological order. I prefer writing 2020-05-30, and I don't really mind 30-05-2020. It's 05-30-2020 which just seems bizarre to me.

ISO GOAT

It depends where you grew up. For me the it’s day month year. Which makes sense to me because that’s how I was taught

I usually do dd mm yyyy but I’m not fazed by yyyy mm dd Mm dd yyyy is stupid

Came here to say that

Same in most nordic countries, if not all, you don't really need an A/C when all you want is to heat up, a radiator is much cheaper lol

It doesn't even need to be folders. Just a file name of YYYY-MM-DD works perfectly. It makes logical sense going from big to small, is actually more pleasant to search when you have lots of files as you can jump the the correct year quicker and it sorts perfectly

@@SimonWakefieldUK or DD-MM-YY works on my windows comp, it sorts them by the correct date no matter what order you enter them.

Yeah, that was really weird explanation. Evan just forgot his American date format and chose his own :D I personally think we should all use epoch instead ;)

@@pureholy I believe that's dependent on your language settings for windows though. Send the file to someone in the US and it won't order correctly and may also not order correctly on other OS's.

@@Jaiykk But then we have the debate on which epoch date we use as the basis for the calculation. Is it the Unix Time epoch of 1st Jan 1970 at 00:00 UTC or one of the many others that different computer systems employ?

Finland and iceland are nordic countries, not scandinavian. All the scandinavian countries are nordic countries too.

Finnish is actually in the same language family as Hungarian!

@@lisaste5068 Yes they are only distantly related

I will say that in my school (US) they taught us that scandinavia consists of the Nordic countries...basically anything north of the Baltic sea excluding England, but including Iceland and Greenland. our education of other countries is seriously lacking

I think the reason that Finland is often thought of as Scandinavian is because the only other country they share a border with is Russia where I'm pretty sure everyone can agree Russia isn't Scandinavian. Finland is most similar to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania right? And the Baltic Sea just split them apart so then Scandinavia!

Or sorting by date instead of filename

You might be making some new file to put photos on, all in the same day.... That said, daying this system which is best for sorting files in a pc is best to be used in your everyday life seems a very bad argument xD

I name files for meeting notes YYYY-MM-DD_Meeting-Description.

That was my first thought. Either do it Day-Month-Yeah or Year-Month-Day. Month-Day-Year will never make sense to me, since there's no order there. It sounds like he'd actually prefer the Year-Month-Day method, which I use when organising by date.

he's american, therefore thick

Thank you, so I'm not crazy

There's also a Jersie in Denmark lol

ooh that's such a New Jersey thing though! You'd definitely never hear someone from New York say they're from York, or someone from New Hampshire say they're from Hampshire, or someone from New Mexico say they're from Mexico -- well actually, New Mexico is older than Mexico technically, so you could get away with that. But my point stands, its such a Jersey thing lol

They are basically saying “I’m from ’Jersey” (note the implied apostrophe before Jersey indicating the omitted word). Yes I know no one actually spells it with an apostrophe.

@@huwfylt I agree with everything you said except for. New Mexico being older than Mexico.

@@CrumpetCraig it's a technicality. From Wikipedia: "In 1563, it was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico; thus, the present-day state of New Mexico was not named after the country today known as Mexico."

Americans love pretending to be Irish. It's a known fact.

Almost every American I've met tells me they are Irish, it's mad

@@maiasitter677 interesting point. Funny every time the Queen visits the US, Irish-Americans demonstrate against her. When I last heard about such an incident I couldn't help thinking that if she visited Ireland itself they'd probably welcome her. Curiously enough that's pretty much what happened several years later - in 2011 I think. It seems to me that the only Irish who are seriously anti-British are those who haven't lived in Ireland for several generations

I am german and from where I am we never really had strudel in the first place. I think it is more a austrian thing, or is that also a myth?😀

@@Marc-vk7rl It is very common in my region at least. And I think in Bayern.

Robynn Hemmm most of them think the UK and England are interchangeable and mean the same thing so I’m not surprised! They also think Australia is a continent.... they’re just making shit up at this point!

That's how language evolves, this always happens

I'm American and know the difference between between the UK and Britain but I couldn't tell you which countries are in Scandinavia because it was never mentioned at any point in my education.

Emily Ann As an American, I most certainly have always known the UK and England aren’t the same, but Australia is most definitely a continent

Uma Karunakaran that would be why I used the word ‘most’ and not ‘all’ 👍🏽 You also might want to do some research on that......

AbstractScope I can see why you think that patriotism has gotten out of hand in schools here in the states, though I’m still in high school so I can’t really see how it looks on the outside. I know people have been saying things about students saying the pledge of allegiance everyday and teachers being biased when teaching students about our country and others. I personally don’t have a problem with saying the pledge everyday, I like to think it’s honoring those who have died for our country but I’m in a military family so I guess that has something to do with it. As for learning history, I’ve been very lucky with teachers who aren’t biased about history when teaching it, America isn’t perfect and we had/have a lot of problems just like any other country. I do think that to much patriotism has become a problem in some states and that many teachers are biased, but thankfully all schools are not like that.

@Emily Biggs, I agree. I am entering high school, and in my school, some teachers make you say the pledge, but their are a few who will let you sit out. However, the kid that sits out is usually considered weird, disrespectful, etc. I think that patriotism can be great as long as it doesn’t get out of hand. We should not be harassing people who choose not to stand for the Anthem at a game. I think that we should respect a person’s right to disagree.

I live in Texas, and I can say that my school has been pretty unbiased when it comes to our history education and patriotism. Yes, my school does do the pledge everyday, and everyone stands, but i dont ever hear anyone actually say it except for some teachers. Most people just kinda stand and be bored and then sit back down. In history class, obviously there was some instances where bad events were played down and good events exaggerated, but it was very minimal and i feel that most countries do this anyways. We did spend a lot of time focusing on the bad parts of our history, like slavery and civil rights and the red scare, and i believe that we were about to start learning about the middle east before coronavirus canceled school. My school might just be an exception but i dont feel that we were ever taught to be super patriotic and, although i would say that everyone's a little patriotic, i only know a few people that fit the super patriotic 'merica stereotype.

And pints

Food packets, recipe books, measuring cups etc. I've found a lot of the home cooking industry uses imperial and metic

Also horse racing

Planes? Ships?

I remember that happening to me, which is worse because I'm not black. I'm asian, but still the only person of color in the class.

I remember that happening when we learnt about slavery except the teacher would do it too. And it was so awkward

Happened to me too. And I went to high school in Australia (also the only black kid in my class)

same kind of thing happened to my cousin, who is half Vietnamese, when they were talking about Japan in his history class. His response was golden tho "no no no I'm not the anime kind, I'm the jungle kind" he makes these kind of jokes often

I never realized how diverse my town is till I read comments like this, I think there’s just as many people of other races as there is white kids in my school.

Eve Mirmelli same

In California, I learned more about state history than about US history, mainly because US history took place mostly in the East. However, there were still a lot of big events that are drilled into our skulls, like the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement (which is taught every Black History Month).

Im from Colorado but I go to UHM and before I went there I knew almost nothing about Hawaiis history And I have learned soooo much since then. But I dont know as much about Colorado history. We had Colorado history as an optional class in Highschool but I was focused on AP history classes so I never took it into consideration. Honestly Ive learned so much more about the bad parts of America from college, that alone makes me know a college education is important. But with capitalism it makes it impossible for some people to experience that.

Military time example, 1300 pm would be 1pm

@@marydavis5234 yeah we use that all the time here. Referring to the in the afternoon as 1, 2, 3, etc is just for brievity.