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Posted on 06/23/2026 7:50:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The World Cup has brought real excitement to these American shores, and not just in the form of soccer, but in the innocent, wide-eyed discoveries of European tourists experiencing the United States for the first time.
Here are some of their most surprising discoveries:
1. Football is actually called "soccer": All this time, they were calling it by the wrong name.
2. Americans prefer a sport called "baseball" where no one kicks anything: How can you have a sport with no kicks?
3. It's surprisingly difficult to be stabbed by a Muslim: You can find it on any street corner in the UK.
4. The police won't raid your house if you share a meme: Go ahead and be funny, Europeans.
5. Currency is not multicolored and the size of a manila envelope: You can actually fit it in your pocket.
6. Americans are even fatter than expected: Given the abundance of delicious food, it's no surprise.
7. Trump is not actually out on the streets murdering minorities: The BBC has been lying this whole time.
8. No one has heard of many small European countries: Most Americans just assume Moldova is a prescription drug to fight plaque psoriasis.
9. Americans don't take six-hour lunch breaks or have a designated nap time: What are they, machines?
10. There are designated places where highly trained professionals will clean your teeth: What type of sorcery is this?
11. There's a strange concept here called "liberty": This is likely a reference to an old wooden ship from the Civil War.
12.Knight Rider isn't real: This is among the most disappointing revelations.
13. Everyone hates Meghan Markle here, too: Maybe America has more in common with the rest of the world than previously believed.
America is truly the greatest country on earth.
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Knight Rider is a lot more real today than it was ten years ago!
For goodness sake, my lawnmower talks to me now. It’s crazy.
Europe became a Footnote of
History after World War Eleven.
I guess I'm just lucky enough to have spent a few decades living where one of the sister cities was Balti (pronounced "belts"), Moldova, and one of my favorite nutcase violinists is Moldovan Patricia Kopatchinskaja, daughter of famous-everywhere-else-but-here cimbalom player Viktor Kopatchinsky.
But they're right: my son was the Florida state rep for the National Geo Bee in '98, and he fell out of contention when they listed the three Baltic republics and he called them the Balkans 🙄.
Nothing more aggravating than my printer telling me I’m out of paper. That printer is like sooooo gone.
The BEE got me royally...Saw a lot of stories that they loved our food.
“3. It’s surprisingly difficult to be stabbed by a Muslim: You can find it on any street corner in the UK.”
>>>>>>>>>>
In America women get stabbed in the neck by non-Muslims as they sit in a bus / train.
When I was young I saw some guy walking down the street talking to someone who was not there, My mom said that he was a crazy person they must have let out of an asylum.
Today apparently it seems everyone has let out of the asylums, they walk down the street talking to themselves while wearing masks and cannot even define what a woman is.
Tons of videos on YouTube about world cup fans going bonkers over our food.
Upon tasting Popeyes fried chicken for the first time one female from the UK was actually brought to tears.
“For goodness sake, my lawnmower talks to me now. It’s crazy.”
I didn’t know about lawnmowers, but I think it’s creepy when my car talks to me.
From deliciousness or from being pepper sprayed by a chicken?
I thought it was a part of the female anatomy that Dr. Ruth talked about.
I think your channeling a Seinfeld episode 😁
Americans let their insane murderers “walk” because they were never taught courtroom etiquette while growing up and piss the judgies off when they call them “homie.”
When they fly back to Europe next month and waddle off the plane, they will at least understand why America has an obesity problem and their countries don't.
Mine provokes existential crises.
Your door is ajar
Whoooaaah!
We have an obesity problem in part because processed foods haven’t had much oversight the way they do in other countries.
That and our government in their infinite wisdom gives God knows how much free money to people through SNAP benefits every month, until recently they could use those benefits to buy the most unhealthy foods imaginable.
No, that doesn’t explain all of it but that certainly is a part of it.
Heard one Brit exclaim, the flight from California to New York to is like flying from New York to Heathrow
“Your door is ajar
Whoooaaah!”
I recently pushed the Onstar button by accident.
Freaked me right out.
TBH, I’m surprised the europeans are this behind the curve on geography.
I guess nothing illustrates how massive the US is like actually seeing it and traveling through it.
When your own country is only the size of one of our average sized states I guess it would be a bit overwhelming. Lol!
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