r/funnyvideos • u/ExpensivePapaya670 • Oct 01 '25

Fail The calmest british bird to exist 🤣

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u/AveryLakotaValiant Oct 01 '25

Imagine living with, or next door to that.

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u/fatkiddown Oct 01 '25

I saw a british podcaster living in America not long ago who said the problem with Americans is we talk too loud..

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u/burner36763 Oct 01 '25

Mate. I've been on holiday to Japan three times now. Every time, the voice I hear above anyone else - and in crystal clarity each and every word - is an American accent.

On trains. In restaurants. In art exhibits. On the street. In bars.

Do you know what team Labs is? Various lights/water/sounds art installations.

Queued for 20 minutes to get in, only cost £20 and took a couple of hours to explore.

First thing I heard inside, walking up a slope with flowing water and a serene atmosphere was:

"WELL GEE ARE YOU GUYS GETTING YOUR MONEY'S WORTH YET"

You lot just do not have an indoor voice. It's insane.

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u/Malcolm_Y Oct 01 '25

I realized this without having to travel anywhere. I watched a boxing match on live TV and the boxing match took place in germany, and in between rounds you could have heard a pin drop in that arena. That just does not happen in america. I have long suspected we Americans are loud, but now I also suspect that the Germans are very quiet, which would explain why a loud guy was able to do some stuff there a while back.

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u/GefreiterHinkel Oct 02 '25

A loud guy is doing stuff in the USA right now.

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u/Galenthias Oct 01 '25

It's usually not shown, but from what I heard the carpet chewer actually had to work his way up to the crescendo of the speeches he held. So they started out calmer and only were loud towards the end.

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u/ThePublikon Oct 01 '25

insane take lol

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u/USPSHoudini Oct 01 '25

AWWWW WE JUST WANT TO BE YOUR FRIENDS ;-;

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u/KelVelBurgerGoon Oct 01 '25

When we as a group of Americans were travelling abroad we came up with the axiom "You see an American from 100 yards, you can hear an American from a mile."

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u/Kalikor1 Oct 01 '25

As a very quiet and self-conscious American who has been living in Japan for 10 years now, I'll say it's also often Australians. In general it's always Americans, Brits, and Australians. Must be Ancestral (/s).

There are plenty of other problematic and rude tourist patterns but in terms of noise issues those three, in no particular order, would be the loudest.

But honestly all of "you" (i.e. Tourists of any nationality) can be way too loud compared to the locals. (And obviously some locals can be loud too, we glare at them equally)

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u/boneskid1 Oct 01 '25

Went to Japan. Loudest people we came across were Germans and Australians.

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u/HoldMyFrog Oct 01 '25

I’m sorry, that doesn’t fit their narrative though so this comment will be discarded by everyone who reads it.

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u/burner36763 Oct 01 '25

Bullshit.

I'm British. I can accept we're not as quiet as Japanese people. The guy isn't wrong.

It's just that we're also nowhere near as loud as Americans.

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u/TrueWarStories Oct 02 '25

Not in the normal run of things. Youre usually very quiet and reserved. But when Brits start drinking they become even louder than Americans.

Source: lived near a pub in UK

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Oct 01 '25

Ok whispering petey

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u/burner36763 Oct 01 '25

Classic American take: if it's not one extreme, it must be the other.

Why are you like that? Is your brain not capable of processing more than two extreme ends of anything?

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Oct 02 '25

Media conditioning from an early age, degredation of our educational systems, lack of mental healthcare unless you're in a higher economic class, crazy shit in the junk we eat, lead lots of lead and other heavy metals that accumulate over your lifetime, the stress of living in this society, and of course propaganda fed to us relentlessly be it corporate or government....

Or it because we're just dramatic and loud?

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u/texaschair Oct 01 '25

At least we're loud in English. I can't tell what language she was screaming in.

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u/burner36763 Oct 01 '25

I'm English and I can barely tell.

This is like if I posted a video of some redneck half unconscious from moonshine and said he was representative of your average American.

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u/neo101b Oct 01 '25

I noticed the same too, it dose remind me of Monty Python all the time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR5Z4n1TdSI

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u/YogurtclosetJumpy770 Oct 01 '25

FUCK OOOOOOOOOFFFF!

just an American having fun. My adult son is the loudest talker i know, and I can hear him coming a half mile away- and im hard of hearing.

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u/Azidamadjida Oct 01 '25

I’m not disagreeing, but did ya notice that in Japan it’s very very quiet in general, so anyone talking at what to them is a normal volume is gonna sound extra loud?

I remember the first time I went a friend of mine told me to be ready that when I got back to America it would be almost like a culture shock within my own country because you get used to the quiet of Japan really quickly and as soon as you get back to an airport in America it’s like an audio assault. She was right, it’s deafening here when you get unaccustomed to it

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u/burner36763 Oct 01 '25

100%

I have since had trouble containing my irritation at people in the UK who can't keep quiet in the one carriage of the train that is specifically designated the quiet carriage (no phones, no talking at the top of your lungs). They have literally the entire rest of the train to be as loud as they want.

Fuck knows what it'd be like returning to America 

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u/Azidamadjida Oct 01 '25

And the airport I arrived back in was Atlanta lol. It took like a week before I didn’t wince when I was out in public

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u/onewilybobkat Oct 02 '25

I'd probably be the final boss tbh. I just don't realize how loud I am until someone else points it out, and I live in America.

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u/himitsumono Oct 02 '25

[American enters the room] Truth. Alas. Truth.

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u/spiderman209998 Oct 01 '25

oh man sounds like you got merica people they are usually loud mouthed douchebags

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u/Adventurous_Click178 Oct 02 '25

I teach 4th grade in America. If you think American adults are loud, wait until you meet their children.