Which banned thing is the most ridiculous?

@endersdragon34

Ай бұрын

Nuclear weapons, do we have the right to keep and bear arms or not?!

@ericbyo9472

Ай бұрын

You realize it's illegal to walk across big highways and multi-lane roads in most of these other countries right? Scrambling to defend something so antithetical to the American idea of "freedom" just sounds like good ol familiarity bias

@Boodieman72

Ай бұрын

Jaywalking followed by Kinder Eggs

@qontroL

Ай бұрын

Your question on traffic being safer cuz jaywalking is allowed is very interesting. There are a bunch of videos out there comparing the nature of traffic in the US with that in other countries (I recall watching one about the way traffic lights work in the Netherlands). Its a very interesting topic which might be related to the history of the US and how car manufacturers played a big role in influencing USAs infrastructure and how that can still be seen today. (funnily the video shouted out Not Just Bikes and you talked about it afterwards) Kinda wonder what your opinion is on it, don't you think that's a massive problem? That the US is not a walking country. Both for accessibility (cars are expensive), nature friendly (no gas) and healthy (walking/cycling = physical exercise)

@dwightk.schrute8696

Ай бұрын

@@endersdragon34 no one ever talks about arming bears

"Im a highschool teacher here in the US and... they would choke" 😂😂

@elfishmoss1457

7 күн бұрын

At highschool? And not just as a jest or dare?

My 8th grade civics teach said lawn darts became illegal due to people playing chicken by standing close together and throwing the darts straight up and last too run away was the winner

@SonicsniperV7

Ай бұрын

Not to mention people mixing alcohol with lawn darts

@Mert_Yanik

Ай бұрын

Arrow roulette baby

@bremc666

Ай бұрын

The winner of Darwin award?

@Willowposting

16 күн бұрын

@@SonicsniperV7sounds delicious

The most ridiculous thing about kinder eggs is it being illegal to even bring 1 with you in your luggage.

@me0101001000

Ай бұрын

You can still bring the toy. Just not the egg.

@ob_dowboosh

Ай бұрын

You can separate the toy and the chocolate.

@major751

Ай бұрын

Nah, the most rediculous thing is that they are banned because of a few kids died, yet they do nothing about guns which are the biggest cause of kid deaths. Just another reason why the USA is a laughing stock of the rest of the world.

@Arltratlo

Ай бұрын

@@ob_dowboosh one in my bag, the other in my belly!

@wessexdruid7598

Ай бұрын

No the ridiculous thing, to all non-Americans, is that Kinder eggs have killed seven people globally in over 40 years. Whereas firearms kill over 2.500 under 19s a year - in fact they are the biggest cause of child deaths - in the USA. And that's just dwaths, it's not counting the children who survive getting shot. But hey, to you it is more important to have the freedom to bear arms. If Kinder eggs, or haggis, or cheese with maggots in, were a US product, you can guarantee they wouldn't be banned. The USA is run for the benefit of big business, not of the people who live in it.

He conveniently failed to mention that the research that "proved" flavored cigarettes appealed to underage smokers was conducted by the American tobacco lobby, and most american company's only flavored cigarettes at the time were menthol which were exempted from the ban, and that independent studies showed that underage smokers overwhelmingly chose iconic brands like Marlboro Reds or their menthol variants. To anyone who was actually paying attention to what was going on at the time, it was clearly American big tobacco using a "think of the children" argument to push out foreign competition..

@jimb9063

Ай бұрын

Pretty much the reason for kinder eggs too.

@alalalala57

Ай бұрын

Can't believe I'm saying this but thank you American tobacco lobby?

@docholtzful

18 күн бұрын

That doesn't account for vapes or the fact the us is not the only ones to bane flavors. The difference the everyone else banned menthol too.

It looks like Mr. Terry glossed over the part where the girl wasn't the one playing with the Lawn Darts. She was playing with dolls when another kid threw the dart too far, sending it over the backyard fence and hitting the girl in the front yard. In other words, some kid next door could be playing behind their fence, where you can't see them, then suddenly your child is motionless on the ground with a dart in her skull.

They also had the gilbert glass blowing kit and the chemistry set. Literally teaching kids to make molten glass and explosive chemicals.

Fortune cookies were a Japanese invention, but quickly fell out of popularity in Japan. When Chinese immigrants in America were making restaurants, they sold them as a form of "asian mysticism" to drive in customers. Also, American Chinese food isn't very Chinese either.

@nanaya7e433

Ай бұрын

"American Chinese food isn't very Chinese" You mean like American Italian food?

@musicsheep9816

Ай бұрын

@@nanaya7e433 Pizza is still popular in Italy. It's just made a little differently.

@nanaya7e433

Ай бұрын

@@musicsheep9816 I'm confused about what you mean. Pizza is an Italian dish.

@musicsheep9816

Ай бұрын

@@nanaya7e433 pizza is typically ehat Americans think when thinking "American Italian food"

@nanaya7e433

Ай бұрын

@@musicsheep9816 Pizza originated in Naples. Americans just changed it beyond all recognition.

"You know how America is the best? Look at all this stuff written in English." 😂 oh, that's too good.

@riculfriculfson7243

Ай бұрын

... said (apparently) unironically too 🤣

@bremc666

Ай бұрын

He did point out Burger King sing in particular. And or English to be as spread internationally isn't just from colonial Britain, colturaly, Hollywood made big impact. And like 3/4 of english native speakers are Americans. Without USA, Spanish and Franch would surpas English internatianly.

@pablostraub

19 күн бұрын

I assume Terry knows English comes from England, or doesn't he?

Missed Historical Context: Jarts are not that different from Roman Plumbata, a "game" where Legionaires threw them at the incoming enemy before closing for ranked combat.

Mr Terry, probably: gimme lawn darts or give me death

I remember that back in the 1980ies, a friend of my parents, who is a concert musician, was on a concert tour in the U.S.. When they arrived in Philadelphia, NJ, they decided to go for an evening walk to downtown Philadelphia to pay the Liberty Bell a visit. They got arrested for loitering, because the police could not fathom how someone in his right mind takes the burden of walking from the hotel to the town center as the hotel surely was able to get a cab for them.

@Arltratlo

Ай бұрын

i used the PT in Philly a lot, been the only white guy for months.... wich is kind of strange, because back home, there been only white people using the PT system!

@docholtzful

18 күн бұрын

So what did they get arrested for walking is not a crime. Also the bell isn't in new jersey and no one gets arrested for just that.

"you can choke on it" ......thing is..... You can't..... They are LITTERALLY too big to fit in a kids mouth/throat and they have holes in them which prevents the "pokeball problem" of them getting stuck onto kids faces like cups or bottles or cans can. They are LITTERALLY safer to hand to a kid than it would be to hand them a cup of water.

@stapuft

Ай бұрын

You LITTERALLY have to be an adult, for the kinder surprise to ACTUALLY be a choking Hazzard. And if you choke on one as an adult, ITS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT.

@stapuft

Ай бұрын

The freaking foil they come wrapped in the the only REAL choking Hazzard for kids, as it can be made into a little ball JUST small enough to cause damage.

@thepsychicspoon5984

Ай бұрын

All that is true except for one thing: Americans. They will find a way. They will always find a way.

Lmao Mr Terry took the ban on lawn darts very personally. I loved that whole segment

Cars wouldn't have to suddenly stop more often. In countries without jaywalking laws you still can't just step out in front of a car, you have to wait for a gap and cross safely. These rules are followed by 99% of people because most people don't want to get hit by a car. The few people who don't care and don't cross safely likely would have just jaywalked anyway.

@docholtzful

18 күн бұрын

You're missing the historical aspect of it when cars first started being used people walked in the streets all the time. When they became more popular many car owners were upset at the people in the streets. Car owners tended to have money and influence and got j walking to be illegal. J walking comes from slang of the times.

If you mean the cheesemite cheese called mimolette this is not actually banned officially its banned when the cheese has a too high percentage of living mites which often is the case, its a very rare cheese to see in the U.S.A but it is there. Also Cazu Martzu not only the U.S.A has banned it, most countries did.

LOL - "You know how America is the best, look at all this stuff written in English"... Ah sarcasm... America doesn't even have it's own language! England is number 1 on language...

I am from the UK and when I was a young child in the early 90s, I started eating Kinder eggs and never choked on anything inside a Kinder egg like the capsule or whatever was inside it.. 27:48 There has been a lot of reports on Rugby and its negative effects such as concussion and brain injuries (also heading the ball in Football also causing brain injuries) so having the kind of padding like a helmet might be a good thing, if you don't do things like tackle harder just because you feel safer as you have the padding compared to not having it.

@Merennulli

Ай бұрын

I've yet to see any comments posted by anyone who didn't survive it.

@IIITheDeadGamerIII

Ай бұрын

I'm also going to point out bigger cars make people feel safer and act more violent because they're bigger than the cars around them. Think giant SUV/pick-ups.

@Merennulli

Ай бұрын

​@@IIITheDeadGamerIII SUVs are also significantly harder to see from the inside of because no thought was given to sight lines. I got forced into one about 2 years ago and it's been very frustrating. I'm now dependent on tiny inset convex mirror to check my left side blindspot because the windows are at a flat angle to the driver's sight line, making them almost completely opaque. And it's not like people want them, people buy them because that's what we're given the option to buy. There are no American reasonably sized pickups and sedans have been relegated to the back lot and discontinued despite high sales all the while we're told "people want SUVs".

@IIITheDeadGamerIII

Ай бұрын

@@Merennulli yeah, it's an effort by car companies to make Americans spend more and make shittier cars. I see the same thing happening here in NZ. Giant cars are becoming an increasingly bigger problem, and I really hope governments start regulating against them. Making cities walkable with robust public transport would help too!

I remember the old crackerjack box that had a toy in a separate compartment.

I heard that jaywalking concept appeared after pedestrians called fast and bad drivers joyriders. In my country (Ukraine) jaywalking is fined by 255 UAH ($8.25). Jaywalking means "crossing a road with more than 3 lanes in every direction or not on the crosswalk if it is visible or where the fence is installed".

I have definitely read somewhere that the width of the road directly corralates with speeds due to subconscious decisions by the driver. Narrower roads and streets leads to lower speeds, regardless of the set speed limit.

The problem with the arguement that cities in America were build post car and industrialisation, in comparison to Europe, is that much of European cities were also build after industrialisation and post car, as per two world wars that flattened plenty of cities in the mid 20th century. Of course you do have a point, but I definently also think there has been alot of lobbyism from the car industry to make sure you have two parking lots for every car, and laws regarding restrictions of pedestrians and pedestrian infrastructure. Also, it's not like walking seized to exist when the car was invented, although again you do have a point that the US did not have the preceeding hundreds if not thousands of years of infrastructure, historical districts etc. To combat the car industry in the legal realm.

@Imman1s

Ай бұрын

Well, that's nonsense. Canada build its cities the exact same way than the US did, and jaywalking is 100% legal there without it causing any significant issues. The code is fairly simple: in case of accident involving a pedestrian, the driver is (almost)always at fault because they are the one operating dangerous machinery. Speed limits are relatively low in where people would actually jaywalk, so if you can't brake on time, you are driving too fast.

As a Dane I can assure you Denmark is real. Sweden however is just an ikea version of a country.

@Armoure10

Ай бұрын

Yeah Norway havent heard about the bloody swedes, thats just throwing all their woodwork around all over the world like they just dont care either o.O

Although I'm a Libertarian, I'm so glad our government bans cheese with maggots in it!

@goldenvulture6818

Ай бұрын

Right-Wing libertarian or Left-Wing libertarian?

@fredashay

Ай бұрын

@@goldenvulture6818 Like most Libertarians, I lean right on fiscal issues, and left on social issues. The Libertarian credo goes something like, "You can do anything you want between consenting adults that doesn't involve force or coercion on others." I don't agree 100% with Libertarians, though. I see good in some limited social safety nets, and recognize that some abuse will occur because of that.

@mandoperthstacker

Ай бұрын

So as a libertarian you wouldn't approve consenting individuals the right to enjoy that if they wanted to?

@fredashay

Ай бұрын

@@mandoperthstacker I don't agree 100% with the libertarians on everything. I do believe there should be health and safety regulations.

@WLDB

Ай бұрын

I think it's ridiculous. Don't want it? Don't buy it. Government shouldn't be making that choice.

2:46 That's also why you can't buy a king cake with the baby inside it, it has to be on the side with some Mardi gras beads

@stapuft

Ай бұрын

I've never seen a king cake that DIDNT have the baby inside it.

@TheCatholicNerd

Ай бұрын

@@stapuft around to where I live in St. Louis, you can't get one with the baby. Like you can make one yourself the ones in the grocery store have it on the side with some beads.

16:50 Falling off the playground onto the sand and getting the wind knocked out of you is how you learn to respect gravity. Also, the brats at the bottom of the plastic slides that will zap you with static electricity.

@Arltratlo

Ай бұрын

if you had seen the playgrounds i used in my youth, the avg American would wonder why i am still alive, also my extensive use of my bicycle, for going to school, swimming and visiting friends in villages around my town.. we even drove to a nearby city...at the age of 12! i never got stopped by a cop in my youth! if i recollect right, i got only stopped by cops while driving a vehicle.... never been ask for my ID in my entire live without traffic stop! and funny thing is, no arrest, a few fines and never got a gun pulled on me... what would be a reason to file a complaint about the cop and him/her getting in serious trouble! our cops have 3 years training, not 6 weeks on the shooting range like in the USA!

Fortune cookies aren't a problem for the FDA because, even though the paper inside isn't food, a small child could eat it and they're unlikely to choke on it, and it's not going to hurt their digestive system either.

LegalEagle either misunderstood or oversimplified the Dutch law. We don't *specifically* have a law against "jaywalking" and we don't have a word for it, but pedestrians are expected to follow the traffic laws: - walk on your designated paths (sidewalk, pedestrian path [that exists here], bike path [if there is no sidewalk or pedestrian path, so long as you don't disrupt bikes] - only cross on the designated spots (unless there are none) - only cross if the light is green (if there is a pedestrian traffic light) Failure to do so can result in a fine, especially if it causes an accident or disrupts traffic. You won't be fined for "jaywalking", but you *will* be fined for breaking the respective traffic law.

@tylerbarse2866

Ай бұрын

Jaywalking is the term given to that particular infraction of the traffic code. You're just not understanding Leagle Eagle's point. 'only cross on the designated spots (unless there are none)' This is actually what's being talked about. In the U.S. if there's no crosswalk, you're expected to walk to the closest intersection with a crosswalk to cross the road. Any sort of crossing not at a designated area is considered 'Jaywalking.' The point Legal Eagle is making, is that in a lot of places in the U.S. Crossing the road in places where it's not designated can potentially result in getting a fine, regardless if it's safe or not.

@LGBTQLegend

Ай бұрын

Isn't jaywalking illegal most places? It's illegal here in Canada lol.

@marciusnhasty

Ай бұрын

​@@LGBTQLegendIn most of Europe it's a traffic violation. But if you look the list of all the countries, it's a minority of nations.

@marciusnhasty

Ай бұрын

​@@tylerbarse2866Difference in not using the term but considering it a traffic violation is that pedestrian can be guilty party in case of "collision". In my country simply endangering the pedestrian on crosswalk looses you a driver's license. On the flipside, out of crosswalk pedestrian is on the hook if you crash the car off road trying not to hit the pedestrian - provided you haven't make any traffic violations yourself and you made a reasonable effort not to hit the pedestrian.

Jaywalking is no longer banned in California. On January 1, 2023, jaywalking became legal in California but pedestrians are still responsible for their own safety while crossing the road. Crossing at a marked or unmarked intersection or crosswalk is still the safest way to get across.

It’s Kyle’s mom fault.

I think the developing after industrial revolution is not the main reason why US is so car reliant and cities so unwalkable. I used to assume that too, but it is not that simple. When you look at old pictures from the 50s and older, the cities are much more walkable and roads much smaller. Most of it has to do with development of suburbs (which started in the 50s). Everything was suddenly much more spread out and the cities changed a lot. Many poor housing neighbourhoods were levelled to make more space for roads and parking lots, which made everything even more spread out creating a feedback loop of needing even bigger roads and more parking lots and so on. And even sadder is that the development of suburbs had many reason, but one of those reasons was racism. I recommend to look up more about it, it's very interesting.

WISCONSIN MENTIONED!!!!!! This is a moment in history

As a teacher, what do you do if you see a student on their phone during class?

Kinder eggs being illegal in the US is a very well-known fact (and source of ridicule) here in Italy, especially considering all the chemical stuff in US chocolate which has got to be far more hazardous than any capsule toy. Jaywalking is a little more complicated however. It's true that you are not committing a crime when crossing where you shouldn't, but you are still encouraged not to cross with a red traffic light for example, and to use zebra lines if possible. I believe if an accident occurs when you were "jaywalking", you'd be considered partially culprit and get less compensation money from the driver who hit you since it was partially your fault. Even in that case it's very much a case by case scenario, depending on car speed, use of mobile phone, dynamic of the accident etc.

@KamiNoBaka1

Ай бұрын

So, jaywalking isn't illegal everywhere in America, mostly just the East coast and California. bonus fact: there's only really one chemical in US chocolate that's not used in chocolate in other countries, and it's the reason British chocolates taste cheap to us and our chocolates taste cheap to Brits. As for me, I just prefer like those 85% cacao solids dark chocolates, they never taste cheap and don't have that chemical in them.

@DragonShiryu

Ай бұрын

@@KamiNoBaka1 best chocolate I had in the US was at the Museum of Native American History, high cocoa % and natural ingredients, expensive but VERY good. On the flipside I had to throw away the service station kit-kats after one bite as they tasted nothing like chocolate, I suppose due to having much less cocoa (10% compared to 25% if I remember right). I'm quite well-travelled and that might have been the worst chocolate I've ever tasted.

@Merennulli

Ай бұрын

Kinder Surprise eggs (the ones with the toys inside) have all the same ingredients as the largest brands of US chocolates. Whatever "chemicals" you're concerned about are in the eggs we ban. Italy also produces milk chocolate with those same ingredients. Based on how you phrased that, I think you're trying to compare milk chocolate to cioccolato di modica, which is about like comparing someone in the US eating spaghetti marinara to someone in Italy crunching on dry pasta.

@DragonShiryu

Ай бұрын

@@Merennulli nope, comparing kit kat with kit kat. The same product tasting completely, immensely, vastly different in the US than in Germany, UK, Italy, Scandinavia, Belgium, Japan etc etc. There's entire youtube channels on the topic BTW. Also it's not only about the ingredients, but also about the % of each ingredient.

@Merennulli

Ай бұрын

@@DragonShiryu The point was the "chemicals" you were fearful of. Of course they taste different with different ratios of ingredients. Though Kit Kat flavor differences aren't because of chocolate. They literally have county specific flavors added to them.

My take on this, as someone who is slightly older than you, I do not know... Young people should be kept away from smoking, or any other substance abuse... But, since nobody want the police to arrest every teenager here and there, I don't know...

Listening to this while gaming and just heard suddenly "The US ban on cloves", but thought he meant clothes XD I was like "Ayo what? Now you've got my attention."

Terry: Imagine playing cricket Me: way more cool than the NFL and Major League Baseball and NBA combined.

@eddy84p

Ай бұрын

The first international cricket match was held in New York, against a Canadian team.

Canadian here. I remember as a kid we had a game called "Cream". It involved a floating fish net buoy found on our beach. One guy would somehow be picked or volunteer to get the Buoy first and the goal was to chase him down and hit (or cream) him as hard as you could and take the Buoy. So then you become the one chased and tackled with no mercy. I guess the goal of the game was to not die. After this and no major injuries and other dumb things we did, I have to ask "how did we survive?"

Love your vids! Keep doing what you do!

Jaywalking was such an odd concept to me growing up. You'd hear it on TV and such but it made no sense to me what it was, since where I grew up, crosswalks just were not a thing that existed outside of school zones.

@ChrisSantino

Ай бұрын

Then its not jaywalking, its only jaywalking where there is crosswalks nearby but you dont use them.

This video was hilarious. I'm already subscribed to Legal Eagle, so of course I'm excited to see what someone else thinks of Devon and his presentations. I get the distinct feeling today that when Mr. Terry woke up, he chose violence, and the lawn darts rant was that violence in action. XD

Why on earth would you use your phone whilst driving??? It's illegal in the UK thankfully!

@chrismoper8191

Ай бұрын

Stupid people do it all the time i call them addicts because if you can't put your phone down for a little while to drive you have a problem and i mean most cars have Bluetooth now so you don't even need to hold your phone.

From what I understand most of the staples like Cashew Chicken are even American-Asian inventions rather than being direct importation of traditional recipes

I'm confused about the premise... can someone clarify? Freedom- is it just the ability to do anything? Like "not being able to steal" is an infringement on my freedoms? Freedom is the ability to do good... right? "To remove the hinderences so that I can do the right thing" (that would be actual freedom right?)

Sounds like treason to me

Mr. Terry saying "poops out some other butt cheese" made my entire day today!

24:44 seems a lot of the pointless laws we are stuck with are the result of politicians and lobbyist.

@sirheathen

Ай бұрын

Isn't every law the result of politicians and lobbyist?

@yugimotobutjacked3231

Ай бұрын

@@sirheathen Probably in the modern day short of large social pressure, they usually have some stuff slipped in the 1000 pages none of them ever read

Imagine banning kinder eggs but not guns that kill children.

@ozarkscarguy540

Ай бұрын

The guns don't kill the children.

@doomsday2_

Ай бұрын

@@ozarkscarguy540 neither do eggs

@Nails077

Ай бұрын

Maybe attempts to ban guns would be more successful if the claim was that bullets are a choking hazard for children.

@Out-Of-Service

Ай бұрын

My dad had a federal gun dealer permit and had dozens of guns around our house, many loaded. Even with 3 boys that got up to a lot of nonsense, we never once touched his guns without his permission and guidance. We were way more afraid of him than the guns. Hundreds of guns went through that house, and not one shot ever fired. No one was ever beaten to death with a hammer or baseball bat, but we had those around, too. No difference.

@doomsday2_

Ай бұрын

@@Out-Of-Service number one children killer in the USA are guns right now.

Of course America is not the freest country. Women in some states are even forbidden from making decisions, concerning their own bodies, livelihoods and (sometimes) lives. I'm surprised that this wasn't mentioned, as it infringes on human rights and isn't just some product being banned, or having stricter rules.

@peterepeatepete2845

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the original video predates the Dobbs decision.

You wanna know what is legal here in Europe? Trespassing. To be precise: An landowner cannot call the police if you cross his undeveloped land as long as you are just walking and behave, so no littering, no damaging crops. In Norway you are even allowed to camp on private owned, not developed land.

I'm Italian. My doctor told me to cut back on cheese. I told him I will find a new doctor.

"what happened to...the kid who swallows the most marbles doesn't grow up?" george carlin

I love this video. The comedic level is through the roof

Mr. Terry, Fortune cookies originated in the city of Chinatown, San Francisco.

The same thing that applies to American Football vs Rugby or Australian Rules Football also applies to boxing vs bare-knuckle boxing. The gloves allow the fighters to hit each other in the face indiscriminately causing way more head-injuries. Normally, you have to limit your hitting someone in the face because the bones of the skull are way tougher than the ones in your hand, so you are likely to break something if you hit too much or too hard.

As your face is settled by about 1000 mites per square inch, a few more mites in your cheese won't kill you.

I loved watching your indignation on this one, but really, I think he chose the worst examples to make his point. As an Aussie, and hearing about lawn darts for years, I am surprised at how small they are. For years, I thought they were about (searches for that other form of measurement) 2 feet long. Jay walking is a stupid concept, sorry. And Kinder Surprise eggs are vile, and people buy them and throw the chocolate away. Also, they are ridiculously overpriced garbage, and the rest of the world should ban them.

When I was a kid there was gravelly sand underneath the playground equipment for the kindergarteners, 1st and 2nd grade (and some of their 'playground equipment' were actual old, gigantic tires from construction equipment or something). Meanwhile, if you were in 3rd-6th grade, there was asphalt under the monkey bars and other playground equipment.

It is a bit ironic that when a couple of kids die to the misuse of toys, there's a big movement to get the toys banned, but when thousands of kids die to firearm misuse, that's completely fine.

I live in Australia which is a similar size to the US, has wide open spaces, a high percentage of car drivers and is also a relatively young country. Our cities and towns are walkable with footpaths for pedestrians and often bike paths as well. We have jaywalking laws but they only apply within 20 metres of a pedestrian crossing. Drivers do keep an eye out for pedestrians knowing they can cross pretty much anywhere and using a mobile phone while driving is illegal. Kinder Surprise eggs are legal. We have restrictions on some foods coming into the country but they are based on environmental biohazards, designed to keep pests and diseases we don’t have from entering and contaminating our animals and crops and destroying our export industry. I’ve never seen a lawn dart and I’m 73, I guess they just weren’t considered as much fun as hula hoops and pogo sticks when it came to imports.

"...oh, and segregation." I did a literal spit-take.

The same logic behind banning lawn darts then should be applied to bicycles. As a child in a very small town I knew kids who were killed riding their bike. I would want to say way more kids who end up in the ER per year for injuries from bikes than lawn darts, even back in 1988 when they were banned

@possibear

Ай бұрын

Sounds like some dumbass kids, probably best they aren't around to bother normal people.

@IIITheDeadGamerIII

Ай бұрын

By that logic, we should ban everything that a kid has ever died from. Keep them in a padded cell locked up.

The kinder surprise thing is ridiculous. One of my favorite things growing up.

do you think you'll react to the wizard and warrior videos, especially the alternative history video on the mongol invasion of europe?

If you walk across a road where there's no crosswalk, the cars will have the right of way. But if there's a crosswalk, the cars have to let you pass. This way people tend to use the crosswalk on larger roads and when there's a lot of traffic. In other words, when the risk for accidents is high people use the crosswalks but not when the risk is lower.

As a non-American who did live there one year, I never tried lawn darts, but foxtail was pretty cool. Also those volleyballs that are attached to a pole with a string or a chain, was fun.

Menthol cigarettes were not originally banned because the black community is the main consumer of menthol cigarettes. it was such a racial issue that menthol was exempt.

This video's great, love the bit.

I was in heaven when I spent a few weeks in Germany and got to eat all the kinder eggs and crazy cheeses that I wanted. I was so sad when I had to leave the open market lunch buffets with all their freshly baked bread and illegal-in-the-US cheese. European cheese is so much better!

@arnodobler1096

Ай бұрын

Greetings from Germany 🍻 🥨

@thunderatigervideo

Ай бұрын

@@arnodobler1096 Guten Tag! Wei geht es Ihnen? Und bitte gib mir deinen Käse! 🧀 🇩🇪 Also, I love your country. It’s beautiful, and the people I met were all very welcoming. (Apologies if I messed up any of the German, but it’s been many years since I was fluent.)

@arnodobler1096

Ай бұрын

@@thunderatigervideo Danke, mir geht es gut, und dir? Dein Deutsch ist gut.

@thunderatigervideo

Ай бұрын

@@arnodobler1096 Danke. Mir geht es auch gut. Was ist “autocorrect” auf Deutsch? Mein Telefon ändert meinen deutschen Wörter. 😆

@arnodobler1096

Ай бұрын

@@thunderatigervideo Autokorrektur, macht mein Telefon auch, bei Englisch.

I always struggle to understand FDA's policies. On one side, like you said, they act like a Karen and freak out about some mites in your cheese but on the other, they let you eat food with chemicals they know are bad for you and only when something bad happen then they act. And here in Switzerland, jaywalking is still illegal but at least here in Geneva, nobody seems to care!

Fortune cookies don't give fortunes. They say useless non commital stuff. I don't even bother to read them anymore. Maybe they kept getting sued when the old fortunes didn't come true.

On Jaywalking. In Norway you can legally cross a road where ever you want(does not apply to highways obviously).. However, you are not permitted to get in the way of a car. But if the car hits you, the driver of the car is in default at fault unless you acted reckless, like unpredictably ran out in the road.

An essential freedom that the US lacks is the freedom to roam (as a pedestrian). It has fascinating historical roots with landownership and feudalism vs. the rights of landless plebs. When Europeans came to the US to become landowners, in their heads they often became feudal lords, but without the compromises and "noblesse oblige"- mindset developed over the centuries in Europe.

Here in Finland jaywalking is kind a "it's in the law books but no one cares" kind of thing. Technically, there is a law where if there is a street crossing within "a reasonable distance" (basically viewing distance as I've understood it) you have to use it or risk a fine for jaywalking, and if there isn't you can legally cross the street wherever. But in practice I've never seen or heard from any source ever that anyone has ever actually gotten a fine for not following that law.

As a Swede, I would guess that our laws about jaywalking work in roughly the same way in practice. While, no, it's not strictly illegal to cross the road here (outside of dedicated crossings, of course), I'm fairly certain you'd still be held liable if you caused an accident while doing so. I obviously can't speak for the American legal system but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked more or less the same across the pond. I can't believe that police picks up everyone that crosses the road when there are no cars around but if there are cars around and those cars get into an accident because of a jaywalker, the chance of them getting arrested probably skyrockets. Basically, causing accidents is presumably illegal everywhere. Exactly how the law is written to make sure that pedestrians can be held liable is just slightly different between different countries. As someone from a country with a culture of stopping (within reason) to let a pedestrian cross the road even if there isn't a crossroad there, I can say that it can be really scary to go to a country where that isn't the culture. I haven't been to the US specifically but I've been to other places in Europe where that has not been the case and it can make getting to the other side almost impossible. I was once in Montenegro and there was a parking lot on one side of the road and all of the restaurants etc on the other side, with no road crossing anywhere to see. The road culture there seemed to be that, if a driver sees someone trying to cross the road, they just floor it in order to pass before them instead of slowing down slightly (or even just keeping their current speed). That almost got me run over since the drivers of the two cars coming at me from opposite sides both decided to gas up in order to zip past me. The rear-view mirror of one of the cars missed me by only a couple of inches. And just to be clear, it wasn't a highway or anything. Just a small one-lane beachside road. Crazy experience!

not being allowed to leave your kids alone up until the age of 14 puts an immense stress on the parents. also kids basically cannot get around by their own because of the car oriented infrastructure. this is much much worse for freedom than banned "kinder eggs".

Teach you and I are around the same age 😂 but the big one we grew up with that had a Toy in it was Cracker Jack's.

Medulla oblongata is in the back of the head near the spine. The picture Dr. Francescutti is showing in that picture is an entry through the orbital socket into the frontal lobe.

A lot of this is basic safety stuff, although the kinder egg thing is stupid. Also a male Karen is a Karen.

Noooo... I was eating my baked camembert when you talked about the Italian maggot butt cheese...

I still have original Lawn Darts. Not illegal to own, but they are to sell. My neighbors do not know the difference and called the police on me when they saw me and a friend playing. We were in out late 30s at the time

You’ve got to watch the old school British show Blackadder, you’d love it

We definitely need to find better ways to address all the traffic violence in the US. I'm not sure that making jaywalking legal would help, but it may be worth a try. I'd hope that drivers would pay more attention if they were sharing streets with pedestrians.

No other country has free speech.

@wadeintonature2975

Ай бұрын

@user-qq6rr2je4qok well that is a lie because the US is the only country that won't fine or jail you for speech.

Just to point out, in case you didn't know- EVERY canned product on shelves today has an allowable percentage of bug parts per serving in the US. Search it up if you think I'm full of it.

jaywalkihg ,we call it crossing the road

28:30 You should have a look into Gaelic Football, which is not played with any protective gear at all (o.k. clothing and shoes are protective gear too if you want to be nitpicking). Gaelic football by the way is very close to the game before it branched into the Rugby/Football and Soccer types of games.

The meggot cheese and the birds are both illegal in most places, thank goodness. As for French food, it's more disgusting than American food.

That dad who ruined the lawn darts is nowhere as bad as the father who ruined Halloween by poisoning his children's candy!!!

I feel like we need a definition of what freedom is. great video😂

it's not just when your cities developed that is the reason, it's also how they were regulated when they did, and they way they are laid out makes them hard to make public transport for. zoning regulation for housing also plays a huge part there. btw, decriminalizing jay walking does not give pedestrians right of way, or the right to cause dangerous situations, just makes it not criminal to cross the road (can still be illegal, or only legal under certain conditions)

American: look it's norway with a english signs. England: ummmm hello

Imagine the horror if a child ever got their hands on a firearm and accidentally shot their family members or themselves? That would never happen in the US right? I bet it would be illegal for adults to import firearms into the house due to childsafety if Kinder Surprise was made illegal. 😢

I have seen Jaywalkers walk in front of on coming busses and car as if they own the road and the busses and cars can stop on a dime

It's not that scientific but it feels even cricket has got more aggressive bowling wise inline with how much protection batters generally wear.

So my takeaway from this is that if you don't like it or don't agree with it then it's ok to make it illegal

about the jaywalking thing, at least here in Norway, walking is a right you have and driving is not, driving is a privilege. Also there places where walking is ilegal like on the highway but it isnt punishable as far as i know, cops will just come pick you up and probly have you do a pshyc test at the local hospital. At crosswalks the walking have an absolute right of way, so anyone driving and not stopping for walking people at a crosswalk is an imidiate loss of liscense, while elsewhere if an accident happens cops will investigate to find out if you had enough reaction time to stop, while at a crosswalk the reaction time doesnt matter its the drivers resposibility to give himself enough reaction time.

@stapuft

Ай бұрын

Sounds like hell.

@jimb9063

Ай бұрын

Same in principle in the UK, although motoring lobbyists have been trying to change it for a long time. Pedestrians, cyclists, and horse riders have the RIGHT to use the road, cars are permitted to use them.

@benedekhalda-kiss9737

Ай бұрын

​@stapuft when you don't have to drive it's not hell

my grandma always brought kinder eggs home when visiting Germany (yearly)

"They're not that sharp"...They're sharp enough! Someone I knew in college got a lawn dart in the head when she was ~12. "Perfectly" placed that it didn't cause any lasting damage aside from a lawn dart sized hole in her skull that took almost a decade to fully heal over...

"Look at all this stuff written in English"... yeah, you can thank England for that.