Just to be clear, the UK has not left Europe. We left the EU not the continent.

@QuotidianStupidity

11 күн бұрын

This is a lie, I’ve seen the tugboats. We are headed for the Iberian peninsular and will join the Algave and hope no one notices the extra 50m people on the beaches

@piggypiggypig1746

11 күн бұрын

More's the pity

@josephturner7569

11 күн бұрын

That first idiot can't even put his hat on properly.

@redsquirrel1086

11 күн бұрын

Yes, but the people who voted to remain are too stupid to understand the difference.

@helenwood8482

11 күн бұрын

We were never in Eutope. Continents are landmasses. Islands are not included.

Out for dinner in America and the server said “where are you from?”. “UK” we said. “Oh, yeah. I thought you sounded smart”. Er, ok. I’ll take it 😂

@keelbyman

11 күн бұрын

😂

Hi connor , I don't have much I live in a small flat with my two cats I'm able to pay the bills buy food run my car and have a little left over for days out . I might not have all I want in terms of materialistic things but I have all I need. I'm very , very happy and not many people can say that 😊.

@gio-oz8gf

11 күн бұрын

You can't be happy, the girl doing the interviews told you, we're all depressed. You must be doing something wrong.

@claregale9011

11 күн бұрын

​@@gio-oz8gf😩😀

Do Americans ever go out there front door. Firstly leaving the European union is not leaving Europe DOH and really nothing to do with any country other than the UK. second were not all poor eating scraps. Third London isn't the UK just a very small part of it. We're not all depressed. Bloody hell I feel depressed now after the ignorance shown 😃😃

@101steel4

11 күн бұрын

Most never leave the country, and get all their information from other clueless Americans 😂😂

@sirderam1

11 күн бұрын

Their front door. Their, posseive.

@Wolfways

11 күн бұрын

London is the most un-British place in Britain.

@Trebor74

11 күн бұрын

Americans are afraid of each other and the government. Surprise me if they went anywhere.

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle

11 күн бұрын

London, and the area immediately around it, funds the rest of the country. London, for all its faults, is the engine of the UK.

Apparently the interviewer believes that there's no sunshine in the UK, what nonsense. The weather isn't particularly depressing and is never extreme, and London gets only half the annual rainfall of New York City!

@Bobmudu35UK

11 күн бұрын

She's Scottish. 😮

@Thurgosh_OG

11 күн бұрын

@@Bobmudu35UK I'm a Highlander but we still get to see the sun now and then. It only rains about 143 days of the year, so hardly 'all the time'. This lassie was struggling to sympathise and agree with the lady who brought up depression and said the first thing she thinks brings people down.

@Bobmudu35UK

11 күн бұрын

@@Thurgosh_OG I'm half Scottish,and have spent many holidays in the Highlands. My uncle had a house on Skye. It's beautiful,but when the weather is good it's one of most beautiful places on earth!

@angelaloaiza1021

9 күн бұрын

She's Scottish and it's an actual fact that depression is very high in Scotland partly due to the very short days in winter and the amount of rain throughout the year.

@vickywilliams8320

4 күн бұрын

Looked out of the window? It's been piddling down for months.

Tea and biscuits put us way up that happiness index. 🇬🇧

Americans tend to forget that they were British. Up to 1776 America didn't exist, it was a land mass of 13 British colonies.

Are americans really being told we are full of poverty? That's really strange to me.

@razor1uk610

6 күн бұрын

That student girl assumed so from a niche restaurant in her business class, it sounds like to me from what she said. Which completely misunderstood the restaurant's ethical business model, its recycling of unused, unsold (but fresh indate) food sourcing methods,... ...and showed how little she didn't learn from her lack of attention.

I lived near Menwith Hill growing up, which is an RAF base used by the USAF. I had a lot of American friends at school because the kids who came to Menwith with their parents, mostly went to local English schools. I LOVED going onto the base. My American friends would often take me to Lakenheath as well, another RAF base used by USAF. I have the BEST memories of those times with my American friends.

Most won't even know what the UK is. Or Britain, England, Scotland and Wales.

@cmcculloch1

11 күн бұрын

London!..... and Hogwarts!

@brigidsingleton1596

11 күн бұрын

​@@cmcculloch1 Platform 9 & 3/4 anyone?! Queue ooooh!

@cmcculloch1

11 күн бұрын

@@brigidsingleton1596 from what I understand there usually is a queue to get a photo opportunity , that everyone abides by.... except American tourists .😂

@reggriffiths5769

11 күн бұрын

.....Or Northern Ireland, (or do you think NI doesn't count as part of the UK)? If you're going to try and educate people, you need to first educate youself!

@Wolfways

11 күн бұрын

@@reggriffiths5769 No, he is correct. England, Scotland, and Wales are in Britain. N.Ireland isn't.

I think we need to build a huge wall around London and encourage tourists to visit the infinitely more interesting and beautiful parts of the country 🧐😅

@Jill-mh2wn

11 күн бұрын

No, please keep them in London . Then we in the rest of the UK get only the better educated and INTERESTED ,not just the boxtickers.

@philjones45

11 күн бұрын

London IS INTERESTING, but no one visits those bits! I lived in London for 8 years, not once did I even see Buckingham Palace, I did see Big Ben, only because I passed it on the bus once.

Poverty, daft bint 😂 The elderly man showed intelligence

@philjones45

11 күн бұрын

But there is poverty and she was right about the Cafe. Times are hard for many here in the UK, now time to kick out The Tories FINALLY!!

I’m pleased that you know that Rhode Island is equivalent in latitude to Spain and the the UK is as north as Canada (people living in London, UK, are further north than about 90% of Canadians). That puts the weather into context. I would argue that the weather in the UK is not bad or depressing, what it is is variable. Yesterday I was at a classic car based thing, it was raining for about half the day. Today I’ve had a lovely day with friends on a clay pigeon shoot in glorious warm, bright sunshine. That’s a normal weekends weather here.

@QuotidianStupidity

11 күн бұрын

Sounds like you are doing some good countryside living.

After WW11 Americans and British had a huge military presence for many years especially during the cold war when Berlin and Germany were split with the Soviet Union

@Alex-sw6sh

8 күн бұрын

When Berlin and Germany was split? What do you mean by that? Genuine question. Do you mean east and west Germany? Seems very simplistic the way you described it!

As a fan of Yes Minister you may remember the episode where Humphrey was explaining to Bernard how to manipulate the questions when making a survey or poll into having the answers comply with the political desired outcome which says so much about which is the "greatest" country or which is the most "happy" country when the questions are vastly more complex and time consuming that should be asked to get anywhere close to such impossible concepts.

There are quite a lot of bases in Germany I used to work on 2 of them Ramstein air base and Rhine Ordnance Barracks also used to be a few British army barracks in Germany too

"People have accents"... Who doesn't? 😂

@piggypiggypig1746

11 күн бұрын

I'm detecting a Geordie accent in your comment.

@razor1uk610

6 күн бұрын

I'm hearing Edmund Blackadder reading in my head....

Both US and UK militaries served in Germany. It was about the percieved threat to Europe from the USSR through East Germany which was aligned with the USSR before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

We left the EU 2016, but we were never part of the Euro, we were certainly not owned, but our proximity to Europe can't be changed.

Happiness has more to do with state of mind and acceptance than surroundings and material wealth imo, it seems to me that those with a more simplistic life and outlook are often happier...

Have you ever looked into the battle of bamber bridge Connor? I think you’ll find it interesting. When you said my woman I thought you had confused her with Big Suze 😂❤. I work in the nhs and I have to screen people for history of depression & when I discuss it with people form India and Eastern Africa they tell me it’s no where near as common as here in the west

What comes to mind when I think of the UK is Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead…and all the rest of them.

got many memories of uk ,, study abrod , interail , the brit awards and london fashion week

I loved the way the whole of the UK with all our rich history of thousands of years was summed up with 'Soccer!' 😅

What McJ hasn't seemingly grasped is that following the war, we entered into the "Cold War" period, so the occupying armies of the Us, UK, Francce and Russia were essentially there in force, protecting the transition from a Nazi State, and this lasted for fifty years or thereabouts. The US (as usual) took the priority position, especially because there was literally and physically an "Iron Curtain" dividing West Germany from East Germany -placed there by the Russians. All the western forces had bases all over West Germany, and are still used today by American and British troops jointly with German troops. Without them being there, the likelihood is that the Russians would invade at some point. It is therefore a common practice for US troops (and their families) to visit the UK, but unless there is some special occasion, US troops are not allowed to enter the UK in uniform.

London is expensive, that bit is correct.

@user-zu6ir6kj5g

11 күн бұрын

Is it? Housing is expensive for sure, but I'm not sure about other stuff. I guess supermarket and energy prices are the same across the country, public transport in London is pretty cheap, and a pint of Amstel in a nice boozer's £5.40 (outside "happy hour"). London salaries are usually a bit higher too.

@individualmember

11 күн бұрын

@@user-zu6ir6kj5g you’re right about energy and supermarkets, public transport is inexpensive compared to most of the UK, but property prices affect most things. Eating out is considerably more expensive than elsewhere, and although wages are better, the proportion of one’s income that goes on rent or mortgage mean that most people have less of their income left over to play with. Every family do that I attend I’m being berated with “why do you stay in London? It’s a much better lifestyle in such-and-such place, sure you’ll earn a bit less but you don’t need it because it’s so much cheaper here”.

There was a time when the French thought we all wore bowler hats...Rode horses and said tally ho whist fox hunting.....it's been banned for years...

@piggypiggypig1746

11 күн бұрын

Bowler hats have been banned! When did this come in?

@russellfrancis6294

11 күн бұрын

@@piggypiggypig1746 I think he meant fox hunting was banned.

@piggypiggypig1746

11 күн бұрын

@@russellfrancis6294 Phew! I’m relieved to hear that as I have a collection of bowler hats, one for each day of the week.

Back then, Germany was split into West Germany - democratic, part of NATO, definitely a Western nation - and East Germany - communist, part of the Russian-dominated Europe. It was basically the front line in the Cold War. Because of that, most American troops in Europe were in West Germany, waiting for the USSR to invade from East Germany. There were a lot of Airbases in the UK which was well in-range of West Germany and would probably be invaded after mainland Europe had already been conquered. So USAF based in the UK and US Army (really, all NATO Armies) in West Germany. So most Forces by count of personelle would be in West Germany, but still quite a few in the UK (and places in between).

In the US if someone gets bad news about a death or such or is involved in a not too serious accident they immediately offer them Xanax or similar. In the UK we offer a cup of sweet tea.

In higher latitudes, you get longer days in the summer, which is nice. But the short winter days, can get you down.

Americans drink shed loads of coffee!! But the British drink tea that's a stereotype for the Americans always drinking coffee

@RobinAsp77

10 күн бұрын

American Coffee is weak as hell

@razor1uk610

6 күн бұрын

We Brits were drinking boatloads of coffee before we 'found out' about tea, hell the Anglo-Dutch period of the 1600s that created the stock market system, was empowered and fuelled by coffee houses, long before tea.

The weather is great here i love cold days and rainy weather, it's hot today and I'm not a fan.

Tea, biscuits, depression, bad weather, castles, and the royal family. Gotta love these in-depth revelations. Mind you, things have got a whole lot more interesting since we left Europe.😁

@katyroseable

11 күн бұрын

More interesting but not for the better.

@miamonan9627

11 күн бұрын

@@katyroseable I was just messin’ at the notion that we’ve left Europe. Where’d we go?😁

A slight correction: You may not always understand what they're saying, just like me as a Swede don't always understand what they say in some areas of Sweden. The accents/dialects, and slang can be crazy!

Some thoughtful comments here. Nice one.

America. as well as Britain, had many troops in west Germany after world war 2, but has reduced that number since the end of the cold war. There were quite a few US bases in thE UK, & several of these remain, especially Air Force bases. So many US servicemen were based there, with their families over the years.

@individualmember

11 күн бұрын

I think it’s still the case that when American military personnel do service in Europe, Britain and Germany are the main countries they are based in.

@gillianhollins3003

11 күн бұрын

Germany still has 20 American bases but they've closed about 240 so they had a huge number there mainly due to the cold war

@gillianhollins3003

11 күн бұрын

We have the most in Cyprus 17 of them we have 4 in Germany

After the War Germany was split into 4 zones American, British, French and Soviet Union, (Berlin was also in 4 Zones) and then there was "The Cold War" and those counties stationed their Forces in their zones until the Berlin Wall came down and less army, Air Force was stationed there. I spent 6 years in Northern Germany which was the British Zone, the American Zone was the South and the French the west with the USSR in the East. hope that helps. 🤔😁😎

We can't move our country out of the fricking continent

Connor don’t forget to watch the England game it’s half time 😅❤

@caroldelaney4700

11 күн бұрын

We won

West Germany hosted both a very big US army and BAOR (British Army Of the Rhine) in the Cold War. A lot of middle aged Americans who as children had parents serving abroad will recall living in Germany and maybe attending school there or in Britain.

TheGermans have an important base. Many British solders go to Germany for training etc.

There are USA bases in Germany and Britain, there's a U.S. airbase not far from me. Touching on the subject of happy countries, stress plays a large part, America revolves around work, making money for your company, generating debt (30% of gofundme is for medical needs) it is not healthy but is considered UnAmerican to question that. America is so rich that tomorrow the government could bring in universal healthcare and pick up the tab while forcing hospital to lower the excessive amounts they charge (or face millions in fines), they could legislate a maximum working week of 40 hours, basic workers rights, paid holidays and paid sick leave and still be the richest country in the world and possibly be the number 1 happiest... but the goverment is never going to put citizen happiness above big business and big pharma profits.

So the woman came to London for a week and ate a cheeseburger??? She didn't try English food? And yes London is expensive. So is Paris, New York, Berlin, Rome and any other capital city.

Because you seem to switch tabs in your vids sometimes and forget which is the right one to go back to, little tip for you, ctrl + shift + a will bring up a list with the last used highlighted at the top, then just hit enter or click or click on whatever tab from the list

Happiness is contentment

5:45 im from a british military family and lived in germany..(had american neighbours and school mates as it happens)

Poverty in London. here's me with all my gadgets and tech and haven't even a job and don't go without anything. Poverty. lol Makes me laugh when you hear that. Poverty is relative we are talking about slums of india here lol.

The former allies used to man the walls in Berlin when it was split with the USSR, and also just hung around to make sure they didn’t get any ideas and start a 4th Reich

Very difficult to define a country in such a short question which is also generalized but some good attempts. Germany is the go to for the U.K. and the U.S. military in which history plays a part. When i was young some of my brothers friends worked at one of two U.S.A.F. bases in R.A.F. Upper Heyford and R.A..F. Croughton and my sister married an American airman from Upper Heyford. I believe Croughton is now a satellite communication base.

"My cheeseburger was expensive" says it all tbh. My dad was in the army and we lived in Germany in the early 60s, moved back to england in 64, then he was sent to Cyprus for a few months.

You seem a very level headed young man, sadly many of your fellow countrymen/women not so when it comes to what happens in the world beyond your two land borders or shorelines. We don’t still live in caves, we are and always will be part of Europe we only left the European market place ( EU ).

Interesting! There were many US and UK bases in Germany, now not so much. The happiest societies are in Scandinavia.

We don't care for their incorrect opinions. GSTK.

Germany just after WW2 was split into various zones, one of which was American, those military zones would have been where the USA personnel would have been stationed.

"exiting the Euro" The UK never had the Euro.. The Euro and the EU are 2 different things.. This guy has no idea what hes talking about.. classic

Given what brits think of americans why on earth would any brit care what americans think of us?

I was hoping one of the replies to the question would be "I'll react to that sure"

Well, would you look at that! Intelligent informed answers, not the usual dumb hand-picked responses we usually see.

Britain was never owned by the EU, they wanted to but we fought it, that’s why we still have the pound and not the euro, we went in wanting to be partners but the EU started getting possessive and wanted everything doing there way and the public started demanding that Britain should leave so that why we had the vote on if we should stay or not

@Jill-mh2wn

11 күн бұрын

Several votes over the years . The very first was a proposal for a single trading market ,so we joined the Common Market in 1973. Then politicians in Europe, as is always their way, saw that greater revenue meant more political power and pushed it in such a way that it became( in their eyes) one huge Union ,with the laws passed in Brussels and gradually the countries involved lost a good deal of independence with regard to laws which pertained to just their citizens . Also ,a lot of discomfort about the amount of administration necessary ,as since 1993 the European Parliament moves lock, stock and barrel every month between Brussels and Strasburg.

@dee2251

11 күн бұрын

@@Jill-mh2wnthe first ref in 1975 asked us if we wanted to Remain, or Leave the Common Market aka EEC, a trade only agreement, knowing full well it would become a political union. We were already in the Common Market prior to that. It became the fully political EU in 1992 after the signing of ‘The Maastricht Treaty’ under John Major. No-one ever voted to join the EU and we had to wait 40+ years for another ref on June 23rd 2016 to make that decision.

American troops were based in West Germany and West Berlin from WW2 right up to the 1980s.

The UK left the EU on that date but we were/are still bound by some of their rules and agreements. There's still treaties and agreements to be signed which isn't easy because the EU are still butt hurt.

The EU thing, in the beginning the EU didn't want Britain to be involved in it. Then the EU got annoyed that Britain wanted to leave, mainly because Britain was one of the main contributing factions/countries towards the EU (money wise). It's still perplexing to some degree to me that people want to go back to it. The GDP gradually rose in Britain above afterwards, even after that little blip that happened. Independent trading happened, through military and such. Basically building decent submarines, instead of those diesel powered submarines that the EU wanted to build for the Kiwis etc. In other words, Brussels beginning numpties.

Don't think we officially ever left just an illusion by making things difficult gives the illusion we left.

The politicians have never implemented brexit, just left us in a state of limbo. While we are still signed up to the echr, the European union can still tell us what we can and cannot do.

Yep

Some good ones, except for "tea" "soccer" "bad weather", i love our English weather. Plus, don't go to London, it's going to be expensive.

I was surprised that there were no negative comments.

The chap with the cigar obviously does NOT understand the EU

many US Soldiors was stationed in Germany duo the cold war. Not only US Soldiors...as well Sovjets (East Germany), France and UK soldiers.

Where did the pilgrims come from.

5:40 the answer for that is in video Why does the US have 800 military bases around the world?

London and tea new York and guns

@piggypiggypig1746

11 күн бұрын

We should trade

BREXIT....PROGRESS.... NOT YET !! " The British accent" !? WHICH ONE !?

I think that lady's 'but' was referring to the cost. Just my guess.

UK is so free that will exit even a UK .. as he said 😁

My grandpa is Arkansas born n bred. Served in the US Navy and was based here in Scotland in Dunoon.

London and poverty?

Germany was the boundary during the cold war. It was literally divided in half. That's why lots of NATO bases were/are there.

Or Southern Europe

i think second guy was talking about europe and not england, Europe has been freed from the uk and now they are getting used to it.. I think that's what he is trying to get at.

When you ask someone what they think of something that is expressed as an acronym such as the UK or USA I think its reasonable to think they should say more than giving the full name. For example if you asked what do you think to the UN? and they said United Nations - would it be fair to say they have limited brain function?

That last one jesus Christ, we could say the same about you lot lady, literally every state in america has a different accent

What do you think of the United Kingdom? UK, ???? WTF!!!!!

its football not SOCCER

@gavingiant6900

11 күн бұрын

Technically the term soccer was used by the posh London University lot as a knickname for Association Football, and was used by the BBC on the TV. But Sheffield folk and most didn't use it, where Association Football is involved. Sheffield FC for a clue.

“London & its poverty”?? 😂 PS… it’s FOOTBALL not soccer! 😅

@Alex-sw6sh

8 күн бұрын

As a brit I hope you understand factually that Britain called it soccer way before the United States ever did? They just adopted the language at the time.

@somerandomkid9438

8 күн бұрын

@@Alex-sw6sh we know it *Was* called soccer… many moons ago.

@Alex-sw6sh

8 күн бұрын

@@somerandomkid9438 it would appear not son

@somerandomkid9438

8 күн бұрын

@@Alex-sw6sh I’m not a boy… I’m not a kid!! My grandson set this account up for me 😂. I’m a 65yr old nan 🤣

@Alex-sw6sh

8 күн бұрын

@@somerandomkid9438 65 with the name somerandomkid that uses emojis. OK then. Each to their own

That second guy ,should have kept their dignity and said , ive heard of brexit, but thats about it. The African lady ,was holding, something back for sure.

I was a UK military child & lived in Germany for fout years. After the war the Allied forces occupied Germany & the bases & military presence is the tail end of that . I think NATO is partly responsible for the present circumstances.

thats international drive ?

Germany has more American bases than anywhere else.

alot of if not all alli3d forces train in germany

That older guy at the beginning, where you replayed him a couple of times, seems to have no idea of the history of the United Kingdom. When the European Union was formed on November 1, 1993 in the Netherlands, everyone was hopeful that it would work well for everyone. Alas, as time went on, the UK started to see that they had lost a lot of their control over their own people, that laws were starting to change, that they were being pressured to relinquish control of more and more things, and then discussions in UK Parliament began, mainly about the benefits Vs the losses, about what was best for them as they moved forward. It caused a lot of division amongst people, some felt better off and others wanted out. 1993 to 2020 is a long time to study, test and analyse what the UK should do. Wisely for them, they pulled out. Now things could finally go back to normal. No one else could run Britain the way the Brits had done throughout modern history. Some things, I guess, are still finding their way back to normalcy, but they will do that too, eventually. History repeats itself and UK has its authority back. No more EU for them!

this whole idea the UK is so poverty striken and begging for food banks is hilarious - the UK 'poverty' is still in a house eating 3 full meals a day not working and on benefits and sat watching tv in a warm room with creature comforts.

I live near two US military bases, one has closed down but the nearest one is still open. I have known lots of American people over the years. A friend or two married US servicemen and moved over there. There are a few US bases in the UK.

@4:33... why Northampton? It's got a shoemaking industry, a struggling football team and not much else.

@richardjones4466

11 күн бұрын

It's a shithole and I'm from there. The Northants countryside is beautiful though.

@sarahclifford2015

10 күн бұрын

It’s got a great rugby team. She may have meant Northamptonshire rather than Northampton itself. There is a US airforce base in South Northants, so she may have been there.

LONDONISTAN

the young lady conducting the interview does not appear to be particularly good at maintaining a professional attitude, she is letting her personal misapprehensions about the UK colour her comments. It's not all good here but there IS NOT a depression epidemic!

The reason so many land based military families (US Infantry etc) were stationed in (West) Germany is that for so many years it was on the frontier with the Communist bloc. USAF families will have been more used to being in the UK as a result of the many airbases in eastern UK .

The best one was to learn a new language. Omg the American education system is poor

It was dam tough moving the UK to a new place on the globe out of Europe, biggest downside of BREXIT 😅

@brigidsingleton1596

11 күн бұрын

Hence the need for tectinic plates*... (To go with the cutlery*?!) 🍽️🍴🥄🍽️😊

@user-gx3mw7rx4n

11 күн бұрын

What a lot of bullshit

@reggriffiths5769

11 күн бұрын

@@user-gx3mw7rx4n Agreed!

@piggypiggypig1746

11 күн бұрын

If we could move it a little closer to the equator, that would be great.

@brigidsingleton1596

11 күн бұрын

@@piggypiggypig1746 Methinks the global warming is bringing equatorial weathers our way without our movement one way or t'other... :-/

Just to be clearer. Britain has NEVER been part of the continent of Europe. It is a series of islands that are sovereign states that just happens to be near Europe. We were dragged into the European Union (a non elected body of overpaid faceless bureaucrats who are only interested in furthering their own ends) by a misguided government. Fortunately the population eventually saw though it and voted for us to leave the EU. Sadly the governments since that vote have ensured that we see no benefit from leaving the EU only the bad things. This is their way of punishing a population who had the temerity to challenge their overarching authority.

@geemo4284

9 күн бұрын

Oh, right. Which continent are we part of? Asia, America, Africa or Australasia. We’ve obviously drifted a lot further than I thought 😮