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2 November 2025

Stuff Americans say
Europe part 7

Stuff Americans say

Snow-covered Alpine peaks and ridges stretching into blue haze above Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland — Lauterbrunnen, Bern, Switzerland

YouTube comment thread with Spanish-language interface ("Respuestas", "Anade una respuesta..."). Mobile. Video thumbnail showing aerial view of highway with text "And since this new speed camera also made him". Parent comment (highlighted): "Edit: What a shame one edgelord made this devolve into a US vs Everyone argument." Reply (green hace 1 d): "But two lane inter-sate highway" with laughing emojis. "The truck will take months to reach their destination?" with laughing emojis. "They showed us some backward looking county backstreet to a farmland and called it an interstate highway? These europeans joker. They don't understand it when we call them 3rd world. We go there only to learn about our culture and root because our parents insist we go to Europe. Europeans are still the same people stuck in time for the last 250 years and neither do they have the money nor the time to do anything about it. So their time saturation has become a permanent hell."

Social media post. Text: "Important things I learned on vacation: nobody took the US dollar and they hate Trump. I'm glad I got my euros before I left. Even the kids pickpocket...(a lady got her purse taken)" with sad face emojis "I had my RFID crossbody purse and wallet ready." Photo showing a quilted grey crossbody bag and below it an open leather wallet with a US passport visible.

TikTok/Instagram comment with German-language interface ("Kommentare" header, "Antworten", "Ubersetzung anzeigen"). Username scribbled out, grey 2Wo. (2 weeks). Text: "I recommend REAL Italian food made by American Italians. I was in Italy and very small portions, not much taste (no hot sauce in any restaurant for example), pasta always very undercooked plus I saw many times the chefs did not use gloves when preparing food. When you get a sandwich you get ONE meat or ONE cheese, but in the US you get many different meats and cheeses in the same sandwich..." Antworten, Ubersetzung anzeigen

Instagram/TikTok comment thread. "Comments" header. First (username redacted, 11w): "Buy American" US flag emoji "made weapons" with laughing emojis. Reply, Send. Second (username redacted, red heart, 7w): "Funniest joke I've ever heard" laughing emoji "You know we're talking about Germany? we don't need your bad quality guns, we make our own, only better" laughing emoji. Reply, Send. Third (username redacted, 7w): "you're weapons are trash seen it first hand in Afghanistan. Don't even sneeze on them or they'll jam. Stick to making beer" beer emoji. Reply, Send

Reddit post from r/UnethicalLifeProTips. 61 people here. Post title truncated: "ULPT request: my work is installing camer...". MiserableWin-6402 (2h): "Where is he wrong?" jim-james--jimothy (1h): "Seems like everything is way better here. In Europe Homes are small, people are weak physically and they depend on us like small children. Europeans suck balls. If we stop protecting them Russia will eat them alive. Maybe we should. They show zero respect. But again if they don't like our American products, maybe they can stop using them. Because they're so much better than us right? LMFAO" Three-dot menu

YouTube comment thread. Multiple comments with US flag avatars. First (US flag, username redacted, 1 year ago): "Lol, you will get laughed out of any Greek restaurant if you say Yeerow...." Second (username redacted, 1 year ago): "what? This is the correct way of saying it. Not gairos, yeeros" Third (US flag, username redacted, 1 year ago): "dude, I live in NYC, which is basically the food capital of the earth, there's more Greek people here than there are in Athens....no one says YEE-ROW, not even Greek people!!!!" Fourth (username redacted, 1 year ago): "oh damn you were so confident that I thought you were actually greek. WHAT THE HELL, I missed the part where you said you actually heard a GREEK FROM GREECE LIKE ME to say it. Lol what a clown, telling a greek person how to pronounce a Greek dish. Get outta here" Fifth (US flag, username redacted, 1 year ago): "lol, like I said, my neighborhood has more Greeks than the entire country of Greece. My landlord is Greek, my girlfriend is Greek. I grew up around Greeks my entire life. Never once have I ever heard anyone say YEE-ROW..."

TikTok/Instagram comment (username redacted). Text: "here are regions that are more stuck up than others. People in Paris are very stuck up and look down on Americans(even tho we saved their asses) but other areas, like Lyon or Bordeaux, are more relaxed"

TikTok/Instagram post. Video showing Australian Shepherd dogs walking on a forest path with full tails. Text overlay: "POV: You travel to France and realize Aussies have tails". Comment (username redacted): "Did you know? Most Australian Shepherds in France (and across much of Europe) have their full tails!" dog emoji "That's because tail docking is illegal there!" French flag emoji

TikTok/Instagram comment thread. Three comments with username redacted. First: "I live in Germany and had to learn all American states at like 5th grade and the last 10 American presidents in 3rd grade. Now American, name 4 of the 16 states in Germany, I dare you" Reply. Second: "No one cares about your made up country." Reply. Third: "What happens in the US affects you directly. Us learning the details about Germany is like you writing an essay about the major imports and exports of a 3rd tier Ugandan village." kissing face emoji. Reply

TikTok/Instagram story. Photo showing ornate European building interior with marble walls, decorative molding, and a stone corridor. Text overlay: "the culture in europe is very similar to new york honestly. i really dont get the hype LMAO however, the people in europe have a carb heavy diet and don't lift muscularly, whereas us americans have a protein heavy diet and store it as fat because most americans dont workout. make a list: europeans dont have muscle mass since they actually workout. theyre also thinner than the avg american because they smoke cigs, which are an appetite suppressant." Username scribbled out at top

Reddit comment. sime_vidas (1 hour ago): "I watched a clip the other day where a cop from the Netherlands responded to a question about American tourists with 'They fear us,' which was unusual to him."

Reddit post from r/AmerExit. Title: "I worry the ideal time to leave might be behind us..." Tenoch52 (7d): "There are plenty of countries worldwide which have much to offer, but none of them are in Europe. All of Europe is a downgrade from US. Some countries (Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden) are less of a downgrade than others (Italy, France, Germany, Spain), and some are much worse than the most backwards red states (Poland, Hungary, Turkey, Albania, Malta and of course Russia). Compared to US, Europe is aging population (on average 10 years older than US), lowest birthrate worldwide, shrinking population, very far behind technologically, shaky economically, more exposed to climate change, and very much less diverse. Europe has serious reckoning to do in order to survive another century. Instead of Europe, try Australia, Canada, and for certain situations Asia or Latin America." hahyeahsure (7d): "what do you mean by downgrade? why is everyone trying to vacation in europe if it's so shitty? you have no idea what you're talking about dude, and this is from someone that has lived in both continents. the US is so behind on so many things that actually make life worth living"

YouTube comment thread with Spanish-language interface ("hace 2 m", "editado"). First (username obscured, hace 2 m, editado, heart from creator): "Am I supposed to bag these myself?" Almost everywhere in Europe: Yes! Move ur hands ppl are waiting!" Second (hace 2 m): "Why would I do that when someone else is supposed to do it" Third (hace 2 m): "Not in America, that's the cashiers job" laughing emoji. "Baggers literally get paid for that reason. So thankful I don't live in Europe."

Facebook post. Emma Gonzalez page (2,895 LIKES, Public Figure). Comment: "Oh boy of course this guy doesn't like my comment... he's from the U.K. where there is no freedom, no guns, no fun, nothing. There's no Vegas, there's no Colorado, there's no Alaska... just nothing. Sorry pal but you losers of the revolutionary war have no place to say anything about our guns... simply because we beat you in a war almost 250 years ago about guns and freedom. So stay in your nihilistic country with nothing to do, no freedoms, and you're ugly old queen. Your country is literally ran by an old lady and a baby, I'll take the television orange guy over that anyday. Have fun being a country of farm animals, walking around drinking tea, eating crumpets, and being depressed because there's no adventure - no way to get our your natural aggression -"

Facebook post in "EUROPE Travel Community" group (EU flag emoji). username redacted. Text: "Hi all! American here. Here is my 2 week itinerary for my Europe trip. Nov 11 Ireland. Nov 12 Scotland. Nov 13-14 London. From here I'm not sure where to go next. Thinking? Nov 15 Paris. Nov 16 Brussels. Nov 17 Amsterdam. Nov 18-25 Italy. Edit: I onlt have travel and accommodations booked for Ireland, Scotland, and London. I have nothing else booked." DUPLICATE of sas-europe-3-18

TikTok/Instagram comment thread. Three comments from same user (username redacted, 5m, 4m, 4m). First: "Europe is a small insignificant place and anyone good from there became American.the vestigel historical attachment is the only relevance it holds." Reply, heart, thumbs down. Second: "economically we could buy and bring over all the historical marvels of architecture. frankly we should. let that back water we came from be left to" Third: "the barbarians we left behind" Reply, heart, thumbs down

Reddit comment thread. NsaAgent25 (2 hr ago): "I say Prague. It is such an underrated destination with great architecture, history, culture, etc. I can't stress enough how beautiful it is." Reply, Share. Several collapsed replies. MarduStorm231 (16 min ago): "What state is that in?" Vote, Reply, Share

Reddit comment thread. Rafaeliki (17h): "Irish people love it when Americans call themselves Irish because their grandad went to Boston once." Reply, gift, Share. GrandmaesterFlash45 (27m): "I like traveling to Ireland. Great country, greater people. But nobody gives a fuck what the Irish think." Zombieaterr (24m): "I love it when people talk for 'everyone', are you American? It seems like a really American thing to do" winking emoji. GrandmaesterFlash45 (17m, 0): "Thank you for the compliment. Yes I am."

Social media post with BoredPanda article screenshot. Comment: "Scandanavian socialism! It's so great that your kids get to ride their bikes in dangerously freezing temperatures, on ice, in the dark of Arctic circle winters, in order to get to school BECAUSE YOU CAN'T AFFORD A CAR! Golly, that's just swell!" Below: BoredPanda article with photo of snowy Finnish school with rows of parked bicycles, headline: "Kids In Finland Continue To Ride Bicycles To School In -17C (1.4F) Weather And It's A Lesson In Commuting". Red text overlay: "1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in Finland, arrive by bicycle"

X/Twitter thread. First tweet (21h): "Ameribros... What's our response?" Quoting Holo (1d): "Here now it's US inclusive" with McDonald's Japan tweet showing anime-style illustration of family eating McDonald's, Japanese text. Reply (17h): "Well, europoors can't afford enough food to even get fat"

Facebook/Instagram post. Photo of a toilet stall with large gap at the bottom, text overlay "GIVE THIS MAN A RAISE!!!" Comments section. First (username redacted, 3w, 4 laughing/thumbs up reactions, View): "Do Europeans have things in their pants that are so different that they can't possibly risk anyone else seeing? Being prudish, or bashful about an act of nature that every human being on earth experiences a few times a day is something you should try to overcome." Second (username redacted, 1w, 1 thumbs up): "we don't understand either sir. I've always assumed it was a peeping tom that created them 'stalls'" with face-palm emoji. View more replies. Third (username redacted): "Yeah in most European countries this is pretty standard. The US is the only place i have ever seen that doesn't provide privacy in a public restroom"

Facebook comment thread. First (username redacted, 9h, 31 thumbs up): "let me guess no passport, never visit other countries for more than a week?" Reply button. Second (username redacted, 9h, 30 laughing reactions): "I toured Europe for 4 months. I'll never go back as every town is like California in America. A shit hole."

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