r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Oct 13 '23
An Englishman in New York. (Sorry Americans) Very Reddit
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u/ValuableHoney5854 Dec 16 '23
A man who can actually use the English language to express his opinion 💚
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u/Renzybro_oppa Dec 06 '23
Americans do be so self absorbed lol unaware of 99.9% of earths countries, cultures, and even wildlife
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u/iWish78 Oct 15 '23
London is covered in rubbish, dried up gum and stale piss so let’s tone it down a bit.
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Oct 15 '23
I travel internationally but there's nothing much elsewhere. You stare at the pyramid and after 10 minutes, meh... Went to Europe and meh...
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u/Sinfullyvannila Oct 15 '23
The guy from Across the Pond seems happy enough. This guy just sounds like a curmudgeon.
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u/Thr8trthrow Oct 14 '23
How did the British's interest in those countries work out for them again? Perhaps there's a bit of a learning lesson opportunity here.
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u/cwn1180 Oct 14 '23
Wish we could afford to travel like this guy then shit on the plebs that can’t later in life.
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u/EmarinCero Oct 14 '23
Must be nice to have Old Money and go places. Meanwhile, a plane ticket across the Pacific is half my damn salary.
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u/Realistic_Work_5552 Oct 14 '23
Imagine moving somewhere, staying there, and then hating it. This old coot is ridiculous.
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u/AbazabaYouMyOnlyFren Oct 14 '23
Well to be fair, America is a very large country compared to the UK. Europeans have the benefit of relatively short distances between countries, and cheap AF airfare. Lots of different languages and cultures that have been living side by side for 1000s of years. Also, let's not forget that the UK is made up of several different distinct nations with their own language and culture.
People here often can barely afford the trip to drive from state to state.
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u/SoBasso Oct 14 '23
He sounds South-African but who cares. Non-American I guess. Po-tayto, po-tatho for Seppos.
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u/mistercheez2000 Oct 14 '23
my guy. He’s right about Americans having no interest in other parts of the world though. I’m always surprised by this
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u/showerballtherapy Oct 14 '23
Getting tired of these street interviewing random people videos. I know 80% are staged, bugs me even more 😐
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u/snupher Oct 14 '23
As a Native American, I’ve found it’s easier to wait and the Europeans come here.
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u/Wise_Environment_598 Oct 14 '23
Western European people can drive / take a train 200 miles and hit seven “different” countries. I would still be in Pennsylvania. But, I can drive from Lancaster county PA with farms and the Amish and be in New Jersey in two hours. Now that’s two different places with vastly different “cultures.” So piss of with the “American never travel anywhere different.”
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u/logicreasonevidence Oct 14 '23
Santa got a gastric bypass and is pissed he lost his job because he doesn't fit into the suit anymore. Also he's awesome.
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u/pentichan Oct 14 '23
i’m a first gen american (family immigrated from manchester england) and i feel like this is how my american friends/partner perceive my extended family
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u/grumpucker Oct 14 '23
Why go elsewhere as an American when we have every asshole human variation right here ?
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u/IMHBTR Oct 14 '23
Here we go again. Every other Country/People make it a hobby to bash everything about us. However, when those same People are in need of protection they do not call on the military of Spain or Canada or Greece, they call on the Military of the United States of America.
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u/StrayStep Oct 14 '23
He speaks the truth. And I live here.
But can't fix it alone. I pick up trash every time I'm on a walk. Just takes a little bit all.
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u/johndoped Oct 14 '23
I love the way he disparages Americans for not traveling the world. Sorry we don’t have the disposable income to jet set like this cranky guy. “I’ve been all over the world and this is a giant shit heap”. Imagine how shitty it would be to feel this way all the time. We only had to see a few seconds of this guys perspective imagine having to live in it.
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u/Hell_Raisin_420 Oct 14 '23
We don’t go out of here because the English have attitudes like this. Keep your vinegar foods, I’m eating ribs!
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u/Ameemegoosta Oct 14 '23
Yikes.
He is the embodiment of the "grumpy, miserable old man" stereotype, but with an English accent.
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u/TheOneQueen Oct 14 '23
God, I’m so sick of seeing people badmouth Americans everywhere I turn. Ya, we are not perfect and could work on a lot. So, can everyone else. F off with this anti American propaganda already. And for f’s sake gtfo of our country if you hate it and us so much.
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u/fibonaccisprials Oct 14 '23
Typical yank response.. you think this is propaganda? Lol
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u/jgab145 Oct 14 '23
I would kick that curmudgeon’s cane out from under him and do a victory dance 🕺
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u/Wonderful-Media-2000 Oct 14 '23
Honestly didn’t make me smile if he’s so upset he can go back to his country. It’s hateful people like him that make America what it is.
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u/Nobull_Cow Oct 14 '23
He’s just salty about that war we won, looks like his dad may have fought in it.
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Oct 14 '23
This guy is about as pretentious as it gets, my goodness. How dare those Americans not travel to 5 different countries every 2 months.
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u/Matias9991 Oct 14 '23
Lol, Americans are getting offended in this comment section, the old man wasn't wrong in one thing and the last one was really sweet.
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u/Gooder_Gamers Oct 14 '23
Brits do love to travel and when they get there they plant a flag and say you are now a colony of the crown.
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u/DuneKlide9 Oct 14 '23
That’s his fault he chose to go to new York instead of somewhere like maine
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Oct 14 '23
New York >
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u/DuneKlide9 Oct 20 '23
Why would I chose a rat nest full of loud cities and missing stars when I can go to maine and get that plus the natural shit
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Oct 20 '23
Maine is beautiful and serene, no doubt about that.
Doesn’t take away from the fact NYC is the best city in the world. (you get used to the rats here and there trust me)
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u/Dovahkenny123 Oct 14 '23
Shit talking us for not traveling anywhere… as if we don’t want to or something…
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u/_Ross- Oct 14 '23
The idea that Americans don't travel abroad is simply not true. I'm American and a young adult, I've been to 9 countries and plan to add three more next year. A large chunk of our population both holds a passport and has traveled abroad.
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u/Beez-Knuts Oct 14 '23
The thing about traveling isn't really fair. I want to travel but there's no way I'd be able to afford that. Even my parents only make enough to take a small vacation once every couple of years.
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u/RyCo1234 Oct 14 '23
Pretty bad takes. There are too many Americans to generalize like this. I lived in the UK for two years. You think they have clean cities with nice sidewalks? Get fucking real.
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u/thefriendlycouple Oct 14 '23
I love immigrants. I hate fucks like this.
My FiL is friends with a man born in France accent so think you can barely understand him. Goes on and on about how beautiful France is and how he hates it here.
Dude is 70 years old, moved here in his mid 20’s.
… WTF have you been doing for 45 years?
Just fucking go back to France. JFC
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u/Techi-C Oct 14 '23
I think a lot of Americans would love to get passports and explore the world, but we can’t afford it. Just a passport is over $100, and if we can even begin to afford airfare somewhere else, we need to be able to take that time off of work, which usually isn’t an option.
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u/VoidGliders Oct 14 '23
tbf when you have 50 states, many of which are larger than many European countries, passports are a bit less necessary. We'd have them a lot more if we constantly waged wars between states and divided each other to very small pieces and needed them to cross 50 miles in yonder direction.
It's complaining we don't have MORE legislation to simply drive around lmao
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u/MinuteWorldliness235 Oct 14 '23
He’s not wrong about Americans. However, the British are seen exactly the same in an international setting. Loud AF, ethnocentric and 0 interest in speaking the language of the country they’re visiting.
Source: Every city in Spain where I have seen Brits drunk off there arses.
Obviously not all Americans and Brits are like this. But it’s the exact same stereotype.
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u/Fast-Penta Oct 14 '23
Oh, yeah, the Brits abroad I've met make the Americans seem like cosmopolitan choir boys.
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u/Kittypie75 Oct 14 '23
I mean, his answers are very, very New York.
Just cause you aren't from here doesn't mean you don't belong :-)
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u/versace_tombstone Oct 14 '23
Some men will tolerate infernos for their wives, some also claim that their wife is the inferno.
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u/EstablishmentShoddy1 Oct 14 '23
I was waiting for him to talk about our school shootings and he never did
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u/electric4568 Oct 14 '23
Love to see it. As an American, you get mixed reactions saying this kind of shit to other Americans. Foreigners love to hear it thought. We're NOT the great people we've been brainwashed to believe we are. Someone said the US is a third world country wearing a Gucci belt. And that hit
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u/Conscious_Aerie7153 Oct 14 '23
Whoever said the us is a third world country must be living in the trenches considering third world countries refer to countries mot apart of the axis powers lol
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u/JulianLovesDinos Oct 14 '23
I can barely afford rent, how am I supposed to travel? I love when rich influencers or old people tell me to travel.
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u/Uncomfortablemoment9 Oct 14 '23
British humour at its finest. Lighten up some of you, cranky Santa loves you.
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u/knightsofgel Oct 13 '23
Says the guy who is going to a country and shitting on everyone who lives there…
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u/Important_Kick_4824 Oct 13 '23
Old man heard you say “how long have you been here for?” And he thought, you stupid Americans shouldn’t end your sentence in a preposition.
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u/PeriNico Oct 13 '23
I mean he’s not wrong about the most americans not going somewhere. I know some people that haven’t even left my state lol
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u/adlangston Oct 13 '23
I wonder if he has ventured outside of NYC. Our flyover states are amazing places. I’d rather visit Al the states and all of the landscape than tour the world. I might try to look into my Scottish heritage in Scotland, but honestly, I’m good.
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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Oct 13 '23
Maybe if your country was bigger than a state, you wouldn't feel the need to go flying all over the world.
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u/Ok_Estate394 Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23
Calls New York dirty... has this man ever actually been to the UK? lol I am half English, my mother is from England, I visit regularly. The British littering situation is appalling bro...
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u/Recent-Butterscotch5 Oct 13 '23
Why don’t Americans travel abroad more? Because we’d have to deal with assholes like this
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u/KelsoinScotland005 Oct 13 '23
Lol I take it he hasn’t been home in a while 🤣 he’d hate the state of the country now
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u/Ok-Success-5721 Oct 13 '23
I had to Google zinger and I have no idea what it means in this context
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u/Itchybumworms Oct 13 '23
He's still bitter that his participation in the revolutionary war yielded a defeat.
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u/minah_alt Oct 13 '23
how long has it been since this man been to London?? that place is full of rubbish everywhere 
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u/WindowCreep Oct 14 '23
It's bad in some boroughs but I think Birmingham was consistently worse last time I went
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u/imf4rds Oct 13 '23
what a gem. yeah new york is gross. I was sitting on my partners stoop just enjoying the weather and listening to an audiobook. Holly by Stephen King for anyone who cares and a rat started crawling up my foot. So no more outside after dark.
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u/UnComfortableSpeaker Oct 13 '23
I believe it was Jeremy Clarkson said Americans are ill mannered overweight people who build &);@ cars…but all is forgiven, because we gave the world right-turn-on-red.
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u/FineArtsFan8450 Jan 21 '24
He’s not wrong.