@d4m4s74 The war's a much bigger part of the British national psyche since we were on the receiving end of the German bombing campaigns for so much longer than... basically anywhere else. Particularly the United States, who had the gall to show up late with a few boatloads of womanising, trigger-happy lunatics and then claim to have won the war single-handed. It's that last part that grates - Americans tend to forget the roles that other people play in their heavily-armed wank fantasies...
@leaguesmanoframsgate The mass majority of the ground troops that liberated Western Europe were American. The UK did more for its size, but it is so much smaller so its impact became eclipsed after we entered the war. The USSR did more than either of us, but they didn't liberate areas, they conquered them.
@wyjioc Utter and complete rubbish. That is the comment of someone who has got their entire knowledge of WW2 from Call Of Duty. For one thing, you've managed to miss the fact that at the time there was still the British Empire covering large swathes of the planet; the troops from that made up a hell of a lot more of the Allies than you lot did. Of course, I wouldn't expect you to know this. You probably think that assassinating Hitler early on in the War would have been helpful...
@leaguesmanoframsgate Hitler was a horrible general and therefore it was better to leave him alive. I don't play Call of Duty. You talk more like a patriot than a historian. The US contributed more than 12.3 million soldiers to the war effort whereas the UK contributed about 4.6 million. Even stealing credit from the Indians and from Canada and Australia, the UK still scarcely breaks 8 million. So no, your wrong.
I'm from the U.S., and I agree with all the guys saying that the Allies would have won without our help. Our contribution was important, but only because it helped end end the war sooner.
I'm sure that there are a few people who are going to say that we had no business joining the fighting, or that we are hypocritical in our nuclear policy, but oh well. We stayed out of the war until Pearl Harbor was bombed. It was only after the bombing that we opened a can of heavy-weapons-grade whoopass.
@sparta981 who was fighting in the pacific on the allies behalf other than America? (and yes i understand the irony of the song, how America sees itself superior and stereotypes and belittles all other nations)
It's been a long time since i was in history class, but if I remember, there wasn't a whole lot happening in the Pacific until the later part of the war. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Battle of Britain was 1940. America joined in 41. We were perfectly capable of defending ourselves because we had well trained Polish pilots as well as our own aircrew, coupled with Radar, and Hitler's amazing capacity for making terrible strategic decisions. Russia would have annihilated Germany without any help from anyone if they had to, which they wouldn't if Hitler hadn't betrayed his treaty with them.
@Zarafien Yes. Russia would have annihilated Germany without any help from anyone. Gather around kids its time for a history lesson. Russia had been pushed back to Stalingrad, and had even lost control of the city a few times. While Stalin was worried so much about protecting it he was oblivious to the fact that Germany was less than a month away from Moscow. Hitler also was able to keep England at bay and out of real fighting with his air campaign. Keeping both of them from doing anything.
@swordo21 Many people agree that that the USSR would have lost the war if it was not for the lead lease act and if it was not for the co US-UK bombing over germany wwii would have lasted much longer
@Zarafien The UK had amerian civilian pliots too, the uk could of fallen in wwii before the battle of britain but after and during the battle of britain the UK had Really strong defenses so i doubt if germany could take over britain but Russia needed out side help many supplies from the USA and the UK saved russia in 1941-1942 but i doubt if the UK alone could ship and defend all that without US ships because even in 1940 the Uk had around 100-150 US destoryers
@IamTheiPhone America joined the war late, after France was taken and hope was diminishing... not only that, but America is also the one who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which led to Japan's surrender 6 days later, and since Germany had already signed the Instrument of surrender it ended the Pacific War and thus WWII.
@forsurenoob True, but (I'm not fully sure of this) was Europe generally not fighting the Japanese? And I thought that the Battle Of Britain was generally the turning point for the war, not America's intervention. Thanks for helping by the way!
@IamTheiPhone Americans were fighting the Japanese, and Britain was fighting off Germany in Europe. The Americans got some isles and Japan responded with the now-infamous Pearl Harbor attack (there's a movie on it, in fact). Battle of Britain was one of the turning points, but there were many more that were aided by Americans, and the biggest of them is, sadly, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@IamTheiPhone That is one of the things I wish he specified on. We quite literally saved France's asses, but as for the rest of Europe it is a bit more debateable. You see, when America entered the war, we provided a good bit more than more bodies. We also provided men who were not yet exhausted, which means all the difference in a long war. Also, Hitler had taken almost all of Europe's nations who were at war with him, after America joined they were liberated. Perhaps thats unrelated, but stil
@Carcerat If they would it would definately have taken longer, but when we entered we attacked them in in Africa and Europe, not to mention the Japanese in the Pacific and the Italians in Africa and Italy, which spread their lines super thin lol. Most of that message was for IamtheIphone to clarify on who and where we fought. If I missed anything please chime in.
@ThisisBosaccount I know, WWII's just one of my favorite history topics. I couldn't resist lol If America were defeated altogether it probably would've ended with Russia or Japan winning. Italy was never militarily strong and Britain probably would've held Africa due to mistakes on Hitler's part so Germany loses no matter what. I can only speculate about Russia and japan though lol
@ThisisBosaccount "That is one of the things I wish he specified on. We quite literally saved France's asses" so you're the guys we gotta blame for having to be stuck with the french? Gee thanks....
Furthermore, what almost all americans forget is that america did not declare war on Germany, but Germany declared war on america. Just as they forget that America could not afford to simply ignore Germany, they had no choise but to invade, also because they thought the nazis were making nukes.
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Why didn't you choose pictures of people in Europe doing silly things when he said "over there?" Because, you know, he's singing about Europe. The song is about Europe. Western Europe to be exact. I don't know why you chose images of people pointing. I guess what I'm saying is that the images you chose were really literal and uninteresting. And doesn't iMovie have a crossfade feature?
@Sebthenking Russia has has the ninth largest population at around 139 million and the USA has the third largest at 300 million, however 90% of the Russian population live on around 10% of the land because much of the portion to the east is large and unihabitable so Russia actually is more densely populated in the populated area than the US is
@Sebthenking except the dental hygiene, and the dark colored beer, too much mayonaise, and not having twinkies, not having enough soup, wearing clogs, putting massive amounts of people on a train because of overpopulation, eating underpants that cost $1.92, walking around with ding dong's hanging down. But yeah other than all that he's totally describing America.... oh shit......
btw i just wanna say that you can walk from north america to asai and from asia to africa and europe. so everything except antartica and australia everything is connected
"When you're in Belgium you can eat a lot of mayonnaise with your frites, and no one will say 'Hey, that's too much mayonnaise.'"
Really, with lyrics like this... If you can't tell that this is non-serious song playing on stereotypes, you should probably step outside, look at the sky, take a big breath, and calm down!
I see through him. I always knew Coulton was a fucking communist. That's why he has a song about FUCKING in MAY which is the same month as MAY DAY, which is COMMUNIST.
And this cute, ironic song about how Europe is irrationally despised is even more proof! I BEEN to Europe and it's BAD. Nothing but yodeling atheists and big government!
i dont like that part about saving there asses in the war... assuming he is taking about america, who didn't join till the final year of it... and not even all of that final year and the war would have been won either way, they just came in for the glory : /
@Roach1593 You mean with our large forces, big arsenal, and OH YEAH the atomic bomb that took Japan out of the battle? Not to insult other countries, but France was run over and England was in a terrible position due to troop levels. With the US forces and armaments the Germans were defeated (yes, fighting along with English and other nation's forces). To say the US just was there for glory and had no real effect is incredibly ignorant of world history.
@Tahlorn ok i would firstly like to say... fair enough, usa did take out japan, but, though the english had low troops they were the best trained in the world and still are they could handle anything thrown at them, you cant dissagree with that its fact, the sas even train most of the special ops in usa, and the atomic bomb was basicly a retalliation of pearl harbor and was cruel, they killed 140,000+ innocent people. Another 2 million died in the next 5 years because of radiation.
@Tahlorn The US forces never really fought the Germans. Roach is right, the British were the main reason the war was won. All the US did was slaughter millions of innocents with a big explosion.
If JoCo had ever been in Italy, he would've included something about Italian waiters. I'm just guessing that he hasn't been to Italy because I don't recall anything in the song about Italian waiters. There is no life-form more inefficient than the average Italian waiter. In my experience with Italy, I have only heard of one good waiter, and he was hired by Disney to go work at Epcot. Yes, Disney found and hired the one good waiter in Italy. That's what I call good H.R.
Well, if that's the case, then I don't wanna go to America either... Who am I trying to kid, me wanna go to America :3
Great song. I don't get why some people find it offensive >.> It's for fun, for Christ's sake. Do you think any bacteria got mad when Joco made Bacteria? :P
This video makes me furious. Every time I listen to this song I am reminded that we don't have twinkies. I wonder what they taste like...? they look good.
@jim150454 you're really not missing out, tho if there is a nuclear war you'll def be wishing you had a twinkie factory; as family guy has taught us they're the only food that can survive a nuclear holocaust :P
@BlacksPrower as JC said, we regret saving their asses in world war 2, though we saved them in world war 1, it's funny how much they hate us though they owe so much to us
@paimail21 just thought I would give you something to remember. You say we "stupid american fucks" get involved in everyones bussiness? Like when Kaiser Weilhelm invaded France? Or when Hitler invaded everything else. The way I see it...if we "stupid american fucks" had stayed over here. Then you would all heil ze thouzand year REICH! Oh and if you are German then...eh sucks for you I guess.
@swordo21 meh? and yes we are thankful for your ancestors (Leaders of the most resourceful country in the world) being forced into the war by japan. but I was mainly referring to the Iraq war which your CRAZY old president dreamt up.
@paimail21 I do agree that the Iraq war could have easily been avoided, and that George Bush isn't our greatest president (not the worst either mind you there have been worse) but lets look at before and after. Before we invaded it was ruled by militaristic dictators that subdued their people with violence. We gave those people freedoms they never have had.
@BlacksPrower traitor of the British Empire? If it is such a great empire then why did lowly rebel farmer peasent traitors beat it? If you are so strong then why didn't you deal with Germany...both times they got out of hand. How come We have grown over ten fold your size, strength, and influence? Face it England wouldn't exist today had America not decided to rebel.
sure america didnt contribute as much to hitler's fall as USSR, but we were fighting Japanese empire at the same time, and do you really think Russia would have given a shit about the western European nations being liberated? you would have all STARVED
Exactly, Europe wouldnt have been ruled by hitler (the USSR had that in hand) but Europe would be a communist area. and most of Asia would be controlled by japan.
@FallenRise2012 the only reason the USSR held their ground is because they beat Germany in numbers, but not in skills, USSR had people with pitchforks in their army, eventually all Hitler would have to have done is hold the rest of europe and wait for the USSR to run out of resources and give up
@vurtualboy Don't forget that in attrition, the germans didn't stand a chance. They had to put torches under their tanks to prevent them from freezing, troops were dying from the cold and every once in a while a tank would explode from aforementioned torches. They should have stuck to their own territory until summer, but instead they charged into pretty much the coldest contested land on earth at the time.
Just enjoy the song. If you watched this and are angry because this seemed offensive to your country. Realize that this song is making fun of human beings and how they stereotype other countries culture because they judge by their cultural norms. It's ludicrous, but true that ALL people stereotype and act ignorant. What is important is what you personally do about it. All countries have good and bad points, but when it comes down to it we are the same animal.
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Americans did nothing in the war, only Russia, Britain and France have any claim to that victory. Such a retarded opinion born of even more retarded patriotism.
@Thazot not them but you know what im getting to. Russia was able to defend themselves but couldn't really stop them without our help and we did kinda save the asses of the germans by stopping the nazis so they had control.
I was gonna say yeah we did save germany and italy too, we saved their citizens from crappy fascist governments. But they ended up under the thumb of bureaucrats in Brussells, so maybe that's a worse fate. I'll let Europe decide... if they were permitted to vote on their fate, that is.
and world war 1 lol america had just started mobilizing and the war that had dragged on for 3 years and had wiped out europes young men for almost no gain was won in like a year
@jocopro you don't have to tell us that the UK is in Europe...I mean we have had a very extensive history with you. Kicking your ass... twice, saving your ass...twice. But all joking aside I have nothing against Europe and it is a very beautiful continent, even if some customs seem a bit strange to me.
@jocopro I would have to disagree with the stereotype part. I think this song is not meant to rather stereotype the average American's point of view of the rest of the world. Commenting on this video in order to reinforce these ideas dos not pound this idea into us American's thick skulls any faster. I'm not sure what the original comment was saying, because the artist himself is an American.
@suiciderobotmonkey Actually, I have spoken to Jonathan at length on this song (have even have a video of part of that conversation on here, search for "Jonathan Coulton Interview - Part 3 of 4 "), . He is indeed playing on stereotypes.
I am not even entirely sure that is incorrect English but at any rate you understood the gist of what I was trying to convey. Nobody should be able to correct others spelling when they use short hand like that. Thanks for the lesson.
There is quite a bit of variation when it comes to treating collective nouns as either singular or plural, so I wouldn't say it is incorrect English either.
Consider taking the opposite case. "Everybody on the Internet is allowed to spell check other people if they don't spell 'you' as 'u.'" If we assume "everybody" and "nobody" have the same number when fulfilling the same role in more or less the same sentence syntactically, then this appears to entail that your sentence is correct English.
Lol, I'm from Norway, and I love this song ^^ I don't like French people.. Why can't they learn English?! Their like "Every country know English, but if you want to come here, you have to learn French if you wanna be social" Hate it..
I think all beer is shitty..not sure, never had anything other than what we got here, i guess ill have to travel some time haha. You want nasty beer? Naty ice, my friend. That'll make you never want to drink beer again. You'll puke every time its mentioned, haha.
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T0xicChopstiX 3 weeks ago
I wonder why during the London show everyone booed at the ww2 thing, but nobody in Amsterdam.
d4m4s74 4 months ago
@d4m4s74 The war's a much bigger part of the British national psyche since we were on the receiving end of the German bombing campaigns for so much longer than... basically anywhere else. Particularly the United States, who had the gall to show up late with a few boatloads of womanising, trigger-happy lunatics and then claim to have won the war single-handed. It's that last part that grates - Americans tend to forget the roles that other people play in their heavily-armed wank fantasies...
leaguesmanoframsgate 3 months ago
@leaguesmanoframsgate The mass majority of the ground troops that liberated Western Europe were American. The UK did more for its size, but it is so much smaller so its impact became eclipsed after we entered the war. The USSR did more than either of us, but they didn't liberate areas, they conquered them.
wyjioc 3 months ago
@wyjioc Utter and complete rubbish. That is the comment of someone who has got their entire knowledge of WW2 from Call Of Duty. For one thing, you've managed to miss the fact that at the time there was still the British Empire covering large swathes of the planet; the troops from that made up a hell of a lot more of the Allies than you lot did. Of course, I wouldn't expect you to know this. You probably think that assassinating Hitler early on in the War would have been helpful...
leaguesmanoframsgate 3 months ago
@leaguesmanoframsgate Hitler was a horrible general and therefore it was better to leave him alive. I don't play Call of Duty. You talk more like a patriot than a historian. The US contributed more than 12.3 million soldiers to the war effort whereas the UK contributed about 4.6 million. Even stealing credit from the Indians and from Canada and Australia, the UK still scarcely breaks 8 million. So no, your wrong.
wyjioc 3 months ago
I lol at the whole "Europe vs. America" in this comment section.
UntitledHome 4 months ago
I'm from the U.S., and I agree with all the guys saying that the Allies would have won without our help. Our contribution was important, but only because it helped end end the war sooner.
I'm sure that there are a few people who are going to say that we had no business joining the fighting, or that we are hypocritical in our nuclear policy, but oh well. We stayed out of the war until Pearl Harbor was bombed. It was only after the bombing that we opened a can of heavy-weapons-grade whoopass.
sparta981 5 months ago
@sparta981 who was fighting in the pacific on the allies behalf other than America? (and yes i understand the irony of the song, how America sees itself superior and stereotypes and belittles all other nations)
TheBahamaLlamas 4 months ago
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It's been a long time since i was in history class, but if I remember, there wasn't a whole lot happening in the Pacific until the later part of the war. Correct me if I'm wrong.
sparta981 4 months ago
Battle of Britain was 1940. America joined in 41. We were perfectly capable of defending ourselves because we had well trained Polish pilots as well as our own aircrew, coupled with Radar, and Hitler's amazing capacity for making terrible strategic decisions. Russia would have annihilated Germany without any help from anyone if they had to, which they wouldn't if Hitler hadn't betrayed his treaty with them.
Zarafien 6 months ago
@Zarafien Yes. Russia would have annihilated Germany without any help from anyone. Gather around kids its time for a history lesson. Russia had been pushed back to Stalingrad, and had even lost control of the city a few times. While Stalin was worried so much about protecting it he was oblivious to the fact that Germany was less than a month away from Moscow. Hitler also was able to keep England at bay and out of real fighting with his air campaign. Keeping both of them from doing anything.
swordo21 5 months ago
@swordo21 Many people agree that that the USSR would have lost the war if it was not for the lead lease act and if it was not for the co US-UK bombing over germany wwii would have lasted much longer
Imperialusername 5 months ago
@Zarafien The UK had amerian civilian pliots too, the uk could of fallen in wwii before the battle of britain but after and during the battle of britain the UK had Really strong defenses so i doubt if germany could take over britain but Russia needed out side help many supplies from the USA and the UK saved russia in 1941-1942 but i doubt if the UK alone could ship and defend all that without US ships because even in 1940 the Uk had around 100-150 US destoryers
Imperialusername 5 months ago
It would be silly to have more trains than people, surely?
Zarafien 6 months ago
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MrAaronforpresident 7 months ago
17 people from over there were offended.
BenjaminWirtz 7 months ago
I'll trade you some soap for some cheese.
BenjaminWirtz 7 months ago
that thing about cheese is actually true XD
soularrows 8 months ago in playlist coulton
Sorry, I'm not mocking anyone's opinions or anything but how did America "Save their asses in WWII"? Thanks!
IamTheiPhone 8 months ago
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@IamTheiPhone America joined the war late, after France was taken and hope was diminishing... not only that, but America is also the one who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which led to Japan's surrender 6 days later, and since Germany had already signed the Instrument of surrender it ended the Pacific War and thus WWII.
forsurenoob 8 months ago
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@forsurenoob True, but (I'm not fully sure of this) was Europe generally not fighting the Japanese? And I thought that the Battle Of Britain was generally the turning point for the war, not America's intervention. Thanks for helping by the way!
IamTheiPhone 8 months ago
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@IamTheiPhone Americans were fighting the Japanese, and Britain was fighting off Germany in Europe. The Americans got some isles and Japan responded with the now-infamous Pearl Harbor attack (there's a movie on it, in fact). Battle of Britain was one of the turning points, but there were many more that were aided by Americans, and the biggest of them is, sadly, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
forsurenoob 8 months ago
@IamTheiPhone source: Wikipedia.
forsurenoob 8 months ago
@IamTheiPhone Go watch Captain America, it's the best example of how the WW2 actually went.
Ryomaslade45 7 months ago
@IamTheiPhone That is one of the things I wish he specified on. We quite literally saved France's asses, but as for the rest of Europe it is a bit more debateable. You see, when America entered the war, we provided a good bit more than more bodies. We also provided men who were not yet exhausted, which means all the difference in a long war. Also, Hitler had taken almost all of Europe's nations who were at war with him, after America joined they were liberated. Perhaps thats unrelated, but stil
ThisisBosaccount 6 months ago
@ThisisBosaccount Thanks for that, but I'm just confused because I thought America was fighting Japan for almost all of the war!
IamTheiPhone 6 months ago
@IamTheiPhone We fought both at the same time. Japan took longer though.
Carcerat 6 months ago
@ThisisBosaccount Truthfully Russia would most likely have beaten Germany without our help. We just sped up the process a bit.
Carcerat 6 months ago
@Carcerat If they would it would definately have taken longer, but when we entered we attacked them in in Africa and Europe, not to mention the Japanese in the Pacific and the Italians in Africa and Italy, which spread their lines super thin lol. Most of that message was for IamtheIphone to clarify on who and where we fought. If I missed anything please chime in.
ThisisBosaccount 6 months ago
@ThisisBosaccount I know, WWII's just one of my favorite history topics. I couldn't resist lol If America were defeated altogether it probably would've ended with Russia or Japan winning. Italy was never militarily strong and Britain probably would've held Africa due to mistakes on Hitler's part so Germany loses no matter what. I can only speculate about Russia and japan though lol
Carcerat 6 months ago
@ThisisBosaccount "That is one of the things I wish he specified on. We quite literally saved France's asses" so you're the guys we gotta blame for having to be stuck with the french? Gee thanks....
Furthermore, what almost all americans forget is that america did not declare war on Germany, but Germany declared war on america. Just as they forget that America could not afford to simply ignore Germany, they had no choise but to invade, also because they thought the nazis were making nukes.
DarkTider 6 months ago
Nice one with the freedom pic, couldn't have been better. :)
Itachopper 8 months ago
good pronounciation of friet =o
weckar 9 months ago
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Why didn't you choose pictures of people in Europe doing silly things when he said "over there?" Because, you know, he's singing about Europe. The song is about Europe. Western Europe to be exact. I don't know why you chose images of people pointing. I guess what I'm saying is that the images you chose were really literal and uninteresting. And doesn't iMovie have a crossfade feature?
LordFendleberry2 9 months ago
You Americans never cease to amuse me with your hilarious sterotypes :)
kirbyfire888 9 months ago
OMG.... THE TEETH... GAG
Wulfydragon 9 months ago
What?!
NO HOSTESS TWINKIES?!
Dartyus 9 months ago
Brilliant Satire. Randy Newman would be proud.
goji2099 11 months ago
okey maybe europe isnt that great but... at least under half of all our girls isnt fat!! :D
Thealbinos 11 months ago
At 1:03 one of the magozine stands has a porn magazine XD!
maxaslagolis 11 months ago
@Sebthenking Russia has has the ninth largest population at around 139 million and the USA has the third largest at 300 million, however 90% of the Russian population live on around 10% of the land because much of the portion to the east is large and unihabitable so Russia actually is more densely populated in the populated area than the US is
TheFuzzyBlanket 1 year ago
hey everyone the song is being sarcastic making fun of Americans perception of Europe so stop crying about how mean the US is.
AmazingEwok 1 year ago
@Sebthenking except the dental hygiene, and the dark colored beer, too much mayonaise, and not having twinkies, not having enough soup, wearing clogs, putting massive amounts of people on a train because of overpopulation, eating underpants that cost $1.92, walking around with ding dong's hanging down. But yeah other than all that he's totally describing America.... oh shit......
TheFuzzyBlanket 1 year ago
OMG... no twinkies those communist bastards ;)
gameforfame121 1 year ago 7
btw i just wanna say that you can walk from north america to asai and from asia to africa and europe. so everything except antartica and australia everything is connected
nybotheveg 1 year ago
@nybotheveg I doubt you can walk from North America to Asia. The Bering Strait is in the way.
silveRxG 1 year ago
@silveRxG actually in the winter the sea between alaska and sibiria can freeze, thats how the first people came to america
nybotheveg 1 year ago
I like the part where he said over there
CrapAttack42 1 year ago
16 people live over there
pancakedeath365 1 year ago
Boys and girls, calm down: We're making fun of OURSELVES this time.
McLeod54 1 year ago
@McLeod54 yes and we need to LAUGH at ouselves to!!
booasaurus 1 year ago
Wait... Inst Meatballs Swedish?
marmelade8 1 year ago
@marmelade8 Threre are a number of countries that make meatballs, Sweden is one of them, Italy is another.
MagnificentBurger 1 year ago
Brooklyn Lager! Not a bad choice. Although I do generally prefer darker beer.
Tauraunt 1 year ago
I love it!
GmasterRED 1 year ago
"When you're in Belgium you can eat a lot of mayonnaise with your frites, and no one will say 'Hey, that's too much mayonnaise.'"
Really, with lyrics like this... If you can't tell that this is non-serious song playing on stereotypes, you should probably step outside, look at the sky, take a big breath, and calm down!
SmallGreenPlanetoid 1 year ago
I see through him. I always knew Coulton was a fucking communist. That's why he has a song about FUCKING in MAY which is the same month as MAY DAY, which is COMMUNIST.
And this cute, ironic song about how Europe is irrationally despised is even more proof! I BEEN to Europe and it's BAD. Nothing but yodeling atheists and big government!
hymnofashes 1 year ago
i dont like that part about saving there asses in the war... assuming he is taking about america, who didn't join till the final year of it... and not even all of that final year and the war would have been won either way, they just came in for the glory : /
Roach1593 1 year ago
@Roach1593 also the war was won thanks to england mainly.. best trained soilders in the world !
Roach1593 1 year ago
@Roach1593 wait didnt we kick britains ass a long time ago?
ThozmleDomre 1 year ago
@Roach1593 You mean with our large forces, big arsenal, and OH YEAH the atomic bomb that took Japan out of the battle? Not to insult other countries, but France was run over and England was in a terrible position due to troop levels. With the US forces and armaments the Germans were defeated (yes, fighting along with English and other nation's forces). To say the US just was there for glory and had no real effect is incredibly ignorant of world history.
Tahlorn 1 year ago
@Tahlorn ok i would firstly like to say... fair enough, usa did take out japan, but, though the english had low troops they were the best trained in the world and still are they could handle anything thrown at them, you cant dissagree with that its fact, the sas even train most of the special ops in usa, and the atomic bomb was basicly a retalliation of pearl harbor and was cruel, they killed 140,000+ innocent people. Another 2 million died in the next 5 years because of radiation.
Roach1593 1 year ago
@Tahlorn The US forces never really fought the Germans. Roach is right, the British were the main reason the war was won. All the US did was slaughter millions of innocents with a big explosion.
MrAlkalinity 1 year ago
@MrAlkalinity
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Zimtastic 1 year ago
@MrAlkalinity You are too funny for words and incredibly stupid if you actually believe that.
u2vandy 1 year ago
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@MrAlkalinity You are too funny for words and incredibly stupid if you really believe that.
u2vandy 1 year ago
@MrAlkalinity I think you never picked up an issue of Captain America
or Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos.
Nick Fury notably beat the sh!t outta Hitler on at least 3 separate occasions.
Ryomaslade45 1 year ago
omg the lyrical genius that is JoCo
Moosemansam1 1 year ago
If JoCo had ever been in Italy, he would've included something about Italian waiters. I'm just guessing that he hasn't been to Italy because I don't recall anything in the song about Italian waiters. There is no life-form more inefficient than the average Italian waiter. In my experience with Italy, I have only heard of one good waiter, and he was hired by Disney to go work at Epcot. Yes, Disney found and hired the one good waiter in Italy. That's what I call good H.R.
FestusOmega 1 year ago
"and no one will say hey! thats too much mayonaise"
metalheadmusician 1 year ago
I can imagine someone falling off that train XD
manicethemage 1 year ago
Well, if that's the case, then I don't wanna go to America either... Who am I trying to kid, me wanna go to America :3
Great song. I don't get why some people find it offensive >.> It's for fun, for Christ's sake. Do you think any bacteria got mad when Joco made Bacteria? :P
SanityIsForTheWeak0 1 year ago
This song reminds me a lot of "Political Science" by Randy Newman, in its spirit. Both good tunes that a lot of people just don't get.
x0AuG0x 1 year ago
1:20
oh my God, did.. did that happen?
lolbandwidth 1 year ago
@lolbandwidth Yes. In India they have more people than trains!
jocopro 1 year ago 9
@jocopro Evidently.
lolbandwidth 1 year ago
@jocopro Most places have more people than trains...
Met54321 1 year ago
@Met54321 If you didn't say it I would've.
1McMurph 1 year ago
@jocopro No offence, but isn't that rather normal?
SanityIsForTheWeak0 10 months ago
@jocopro i would hope that there are more people in america than trains in america. o.o
wolfboy0723 9 months ago
@jocopro You normaly have more trains than people.. How would it look if for example US had 400 million trains?
Baurles 7 months ago
@Baurles Something about the phrase "400 million trains" just sounds really nice. It should be a prog rock album title or something.
CNSTCasualty 7 months ago
@Baurles Try reading the most liked comment ;)
SanityIsForTheWeak0 6 months ago
mmmeh. no where near as good as tom cruise crazy. and europe is freaking sweet :)
kfetter16 1 year ago
I wish we had Twinkies :(
phishwithextracheese 1 year ago
Guys... just stop arguing about who saved who, who is what, or what means what... just enjoy the song.
Munjeej 1 year ago
This video makes me furious. Every time I listen to this song I am reminded that we don't have twinkies. I wonder what they taste like...? they look good.
jim150454 1 year ago
@jim150454 you're really not missing out, tho if there is a nuclear war you'll def be wishing you had a twinkie factory; as family guy has taught us they're the only food that can survive a nuclear holocaust :P
kfetter16 1 year ago
@kfetter16 And as Zombieland has taught us, Twinkies do, in fact, have an expiration date.
chickentavern 1 year ago
i want to go overthere because the drinking age and the cheep smokes and cheep bear that doesnt taste like crap like molsen canadian
dethsknight 1 year ago
What's wrong with Europe? I like it over here -.-
SanityIsForTheWeak0 1 year ago
So many things....
FallenRise2012 1 year ago
omg this is soo true XDDD
Spikedgoblinz 1 year ago 2
@Spikedgoblinz Don't talk shit about Europe fucking immigrant traitor rebel of the british empire
BlacksPrower 1 year ago
Geez, it's a joke.
HatchAngel 1 year ago
@BlacksPrower as JC said, we regret saving their asses in world war 2, though we saved them in world war 1, it's funny how much they hate us though they owe so much to us
vurtualboy 1 year ago
Maybe the reason we hate you stupid american fucks is because you have to get involved in everyo-
aw fuck it.
Who actually bothers giving a shit?
paimail21 1 year ago
@paimail21 lol as an american i agree, i hate getting involved in everything, but when you are a world super power, it is kind of our job
1nfinite972 1 year ago
@paimail21 just thought I would give you something to remember. You say we "stupid american fucks" get involved in everyones bussiness? Like when Kaiser Weilhelm invaded France? Or when Hitler invaded everything else. The way I see it...if we "stupid american fucks" had stayed over here. Then you would all heil ze thouzand year REICH! Oh and if you are German then...eh sucks for you I guess.
swordo21 1 year ago
@swordo21 meh? and yes we are thankful for your ancestors (Leaders of the most resourceful country in the world) being forced into the war by japan. but I was mainly referring to the Iraq war which your CRAZY old president dreamt up.
paimail21 1 year ago
@paimail21 I do agree that the Iraq war could have easily been avoided, and that George Bush isn't our greatest president (not the worst either mind you there have been worse) but lets look at before and after. Before we invaded it was ruled by militaristic dictators that subdued their people with violence. We gave those people freedoms they never have had.
swordo21 1 year ago
@vurtualboy
nice troll
Thazot 1 year ago
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Thazot 1 year ago
thne dont talk shit in youtube
giganoto 1 year ago
@BlacksPrower traitor of the British Empire? If it is such a great empire then why did lowly rebel farmer peasent traitors beat it? If you are so strong then why didn't you deal with Germany...both times they got out of hand. How come We have grown over ten fold your size, strength, and influence? Face it England wouldn't exist today had America not decided to rebel.
swordo21 1 year ago
sure america didnt contribute as much to hitler's fall as USSR, but we were fighting Japanese empire at the same time, and do you really think Russia would have given a shit about the western European nations being liberated? you would have all STARVED
CarolinaSkunkApe 1 year ago
Exactly, Europe wouldnt have been ruled by hitler (the USSR had that in hand) but Europe would be a communist area. and most of Asia would be controlled by japan.
FallenRise2012 1 year ago
@FallenRise2012 the only reason the USSR held their ground is because they beat Germany in numbers, but not in skills, USSR had people with pitchforks in their army, eventually all Hitler would have to have done is hold the rest of europe and wait for the USSR to run out of resources and give up
vurtualboy 1 year ago
@vurtualboy Don't forget that in attrition, the germans didn't stand a chance. They had to put torches under their tanks to prevent them from freezing, troops were dying from the cold and every once in a while a tank would explode from aforementioned torches. They should have stuck to their own territory until summer, but instead they charged into pretty much the coldest contested land on earth at the time.
Enigma1790 1 year ago
@Enigma1790 yeah, it's how Russia has been defended throughout history
vurtualboy 1 year ago
Just enjoy the song. If you watched this and are angry because this seemed offensive to your country. Realize that this song is making fun of human beings and how they stereotype other countries culture because they judge by their cultural norms. It's ludicrous, but true that ALL people stereotype and act ignorant. What is important is what you personally do about it. All countries have good and bad points, but when it comes down to it we are the same animal.
Ketchupblaster 1 year ago 53
@Ketchupblaster
By the way the wars are over, and done with. Don't start a new war because of some stupid notions
Ketchupblaster 1 year ago
Jek21 is right during the live he stated the opinions are cleverly rhymed fallacies and it is a COMEDY
jimmylickabow 2 years ago
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Fun fact:
About every white American have european ancestors, except for the asian immigrants :P
Fredrik1ST 2 years ago
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Fredrik1ST 2 years ago
Jesus Christ, settle the fuck down. It's a comedy song.
jek21 2 years ago 8
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Americans did nothing in the war, only Russia, Britain and France have any claim to that victory. Such a retarded opinion born of even more retarded patriotism.
halfbakedc00kie 2 years ago
wat?
Thazot 2 years ago
Australia did more the britain
Hadowmelt 2 years ago
@halfbakedc00kie
LOL yikes man, it seems like you missed the point of the song. it's a joke.
Fivelemental 1 year ago
@Fivelemental Would be funny if I wasnt aware of the fact that near every American thinks along the lines of this song.
halfbakedc00kie 1 year ago
I don't.
I'm American and ashamed to say it. xP
Maelstrom787 1 year ago
we did save all there asses in WWII
Johnx014 2 years ago
The asses of germany and italy?
Thazot 2 years ago
@Thazot not them but you know what im getting to. Russia was able to defend themselves but couldn't really stop them without our help and we did kinda save the asses of the germans by stopping the nazis so they had control.
Johnx014 2 years ago
Lets not forget Finland getting kicked to the curb. That is one country that Allied Powers decidedly did not save.
joshuaborn 2 years ago 2
I was gonna say yeah we did save germany and italy too, we saved their citizens from crappy fascist governments. But they ended up under the thumb of bureaucrats in Brussells, so maybe that's a worse fate. I'll let Europe decide... if they were permitted to vote on their fate, that is.
cjwynes 2 years ago
and world war 1 lol america had just started mobilizing and the war that had dragged on for 3 years and had wiped out europes young men for almost no gain was won in like a year
CarolinaSkunkApe 2 years ago
Lol trust the youtube community to find a problem with anything.
Snakeguevara 2 years ago 3
That's half the fun of being here!
dragonskyblast 2 years ago
If people didn't realize the main character is supposed to be an idiot, people would probably be quite offended.
Vadergeek 2 years ago
meatballs is swedish!
marmelade8 2 years ago
@marmelade8 Well, Sweden is a part of Europe...
RubyBladeAwesome 2 years ago
@marmelade8 Oh, wait, you meant the part about Italian meatballs.
...They're not a Swedish invention, you dolt!
RubyBladeAwesome 2 years ago
LOL Jonathan coulton!
Talk about Patriotism
paimail21 2 years ago 4
European here, thinking this shit is 'awesome'! :D
Tardcake 2 years ago 7
As the author of the video, it's probably worth pointing out I am from the UK (which is Europe for our Americans ;)
I love the song, and can confirm the song is meant to be funny, and over the top on the stereo-types.
jocopro 2 years ago
I dont think its over the top at all.
xtheshame 2 years ago
@jocopro you don't have to tell us that the UK is in Europe...I mean we have had a very extensive history with you. Kicking your ass... twice, saving your ass...twice. But all joking aside I have nothing against Europe and it is a very beautiful continent, even if some customs seem a bit strange to me.
swordo21 1 year ago
@jocopro I think people are confused, because they don't expect Americans to understand irony. :)
BillionSix 1 year ago 37
@BillionSix I think you got it spot on. This comment made me laugh.
jocopro 1 year ago 2
@BillionSix Understand? I fucking invented it dude. . .
DabroodThompson 1 year ago
@BillionSix Ouch. That one hurt. In here. *Points to Spleen.*
Borohockey28 9 months ago
@jocopro way to agrevate my OCD boy combing the face with the close parentheses
pedobearhansen 1 year ago
@jocopro I would have to disagree with the stereotype part. I think this song is not meant to rather stereotype the average American's point of view of the rest of the world. Commenting on this video in order to reinforce these ideas dos not pound this idea into us American's thick skulls any faster. I'm not sure what the original comment was saying, because the artist himself is an American.
suiciderobotmonkey 1 year ago
@suiciderobotmonkey Actually, I have spoken to Jonathan at length on this song (have even have a video of part of that conversation on here, search for "Jonathan Coulton Interview - Part 3 of 4 "), . He is indeed playing on stereotypes.
jocopro 1 year ago 5
what a think europe is better because we have better history and everything is better sry buts my opinion =D
p.s: im from gemrany
NuklearWarhead94 2 years ago
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P.S.: No one gives a flying fuck about your opinion.
TransfixatedBR 2 years ago
Nor yours, nor I suppose mine. Ah well
darklordxavier 2 years ago
False.
TransfixatedBR 2 years ago
Seems alotta people from the US assume alot of european people have bad teeth because they don't brush.
False, it's cos we have better candy here with more e-numbers in it.
lastsaneman19 2 years ago 17
Yep, sugar tariffs in the US have ruined candy over here.
c0l0nelp0pc0rn 2 years ago
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Wow that woulda been really powerful if u hadnt spelled "nearly" wrong...
outlandish idiot
wickedirishboy1 2 years ago
We can all make typos.
jocopro 2 years ago
I am decreeing this right now. Nobody on the internet is allowed to spell check other people when they spell "you" as u. You fucking moron.
Enochcainx256 2 years ago 7
When he or she spells, not when they spell. Singular. But good try, I applaud the noble effort.
jasperthejackass 2 years ago 2
I am not even entirely sure that is incorrect English but at any rate you understood the gist of what I was trying to convey. Nobody should be able to correct others spelling when they use short hand like that. Thanks for the lesson.
Enochcainx256 2 years ago
There is quite a bit of variation when it comes to treating collective nouns as either singular or plural, so I wouldn't say it is incorrect English either.
Consider taking the opposite case. "Everybody on the Internet is allowed to spell check other people if they don't spell 'you' as 'u.'" If we assume "everybody" and "nobody" have the same number when fulfilling the same role in more or less the same sentence syntactically, then this appears to entail that your sentence is correct English.
joshuaborn 2 years ago
Yeah we have a lot of cheese but we also have Octoberfest!
its like the best beer in the world and it costs nealy nothing!
but still i love the song
MRSupernova100 2 years ago 2
Lol, I'm from Norway, and I love this song ^^ I don't like French people.. Why can't they learn English?! Their like "Every country know English, but if you want to come here, you have to learn French if you wanna be social" Hate it..
Great video ^^
Riliel1 2 years ago 2
Seems like they have it right IMO.
If you're in a different country..
Learn the language, or hire a translator.
Dordrius 2 years ago
no one likes the French
stopthatfool 2 years ago
Because French people are obviously superior to anyone and anything on Earth.
Durr.
Bronzzennsea4ever 2 years ago
I certainly agree about the cheese.
There's no city in the Netherlands where there isn't a cheese shop or two in a shopping street.
And let's not talk about markets.
MelficeSilesius 2 years ago
I think american beer is drinkable, but not much more than that.. :P
It's ok tho, I love beer. Nom nom nom.
Perryoo 2 years ago 3
I love this song and I'm english.
But I have to say American beers is shit. Grow some balls, drink European beer!
phishwithextracheese 2 years ago 5
I think all beer is shitty..not sure, never had anything other than what we got here, i guess ill have to travel some time haha. You want nasty beer? Naty ice, my friend. That'll make you never want to drink beer again. You'll puke every time its mentioned, haha.
InFlam3sW3Trust 2 years ago
i liked the part where he said "bonk"
TheDarkWolf31 2 years ago
why is evreh1 so offended, its a joke, get over it.
PS. awesome sawng, faved, and a 5/5
TheDarkWolf31 2 years ago 4
lol why is everyone getting so touchy lol its a song all no reason to get mad.
mpsoldier0788 2 years ago 3
HAHAHA. Jonathan coulton rules.
Asscheex 2 years ago
hahaha the guys on bottom of me are offended hahhahaha i guse they cant take a joke "over there"
ratchclank1 2 years ago
in europe we actaully brush our teeth, yes.
and about the american beer...
I´ll quote monty pythons:
"Its like making love in a canoe. It´s fucking close to water."
RatafakTehPlachta 2 years ago 7
lol its k, hes only making fun of Germany and France really... and its the French... we hate them too.
"what do you call a french man in a ferari, who gives a S@#T caus we have the Olympics and they dont"
liamgreen101 2 years ago 2
American commercial lagers like Miller definitely taste like rotten cat piss, but our craft beers are among the best in the world!
McLeod54 2 years ago