Yet Even More Things Americans Find Normal That Others Find Totally Bizarre

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Anyone remember that dark, dark time when Simon forced Danny to stop making introductions and a lot of us in the comments section were like "Well it's a bit shit now isn't it." And then steadily over time the introductions returned. Skipping Introductions written by talented writers is detrimental to productivity, don't do that.

Simon needs his own ads. "Have you been diagnosed with smooth brain? Take a few hours of Whistlerverse content a day and you will be right as rain. Ask your doctor if Whistler is right for you."

The tangents are brilliant. As a single parent with not many friends, it's videos like Simon's that make folding the mountains of washing on my own that much easier and less lonely lol

I have ADHD and I LOVE Simon's tangents. It's exactly how I tell stories too.

GAWDDAMMIT, SIMON!! I want to hear Kevin's story about growing up in Miami! You can't bring new people to our cage and then not allow them to give us backstory! WE NEED CONTEXT!

I come here for the tangents as much as I come for the actual content. I love Simon's tangents.

28:00 "it's probably a placebo, so don't tell me it's a placebo, because then it would stop working" That was just brilliant

70s and 80s college movies make college look like fun, until you realize that everything you thought looked fun is a felony.

At 7:55 when Kevin wrote, "And since Simon is probably confused," it cut off and I got an ad from YouTube about dementia. The timing. The accuracy.

Simon- rambles for 5 minutes Also Simon- WERE 6 minutes into the introduction don’t make me beat you

The greeting thing is VERY dependent on location. You try that in cities like Chicago, L.A., New York, etc. and you will be lucky to not get in a fist fight. More rural areas it is pretty common, something I have heard is reasonably common world wide. The more crowded an area is, the more you are expected to keep to your self. The more open and spacious an area is, the more likely people will regularly greet each other even when they have never met before. To a certain extent it may be a cultural defense mechanism: If you are passing 500 people per minute while walking, it becomes VERY difficult to greet each other and people start trying to pull back to protect personal space. When you see one person every couple of minutes walking down the other side of the road, it is a lot simpler to nod and say hello to each person without feeling like the world is being forced upon you.

Simon needs to do a Brain Blaze episode when he's drunk. Imagine the rambling stories then!! It would be amazing.

Indiana native here. Tri-Kappa (a philanthropic sorority) is considered to have a funny name because it shares its abbreviation with another less-charitable organization. Tune in next time for another thrilling episode of "Yet Even More Things Americans Find Unfortunate That Simon Finds Totally Incomprehensible"!

I missed the hour long brain blazes. With Simon snorting copious amounts of cocaine

As a city boy in America I absolutely LOVE when I go to the extremely small town my father grew up in and strangers smile and wave to each other for no other reason but to be friendly conversations rarely start up.

As to brutally mismatched teams, Simon have you ever done a video related to our Canadian pastime of ice hockey? I remember at the Italian winter Olympics (because Italy is a wintery nation?), normally Italy wouldn't qualify to post a team to ice hockey in the Olympics, but as the host country, this was waived. The Italian women's team (I'm surprised they found enough people in Italy who even know what hockey is) drew the worst-case scenario for their first match. Canada. The Canadian women beat them 36-0 in that game. To put this in perspective, a normal hockey match at the international level is usually decided by a one goal margin, like 1-0 or 2-1 or something...

I went to visit Italy while my partner worked there on scholarship as apart of a study abroad program. She spoke some Italian, I spoke none. Her advice to me was don't talk to anyone unprovoked, or just mumble "excusa" when getting around. You'll blend right in. Act like you belong and the language barrier pretty much goes away. Which is such a difference from walking around the United States where someone could just completely unprovoked start a conversation with me when I don't know them or care to know them.

6:00 - Chapter 1 - Greek life 14:15 - Chapter 2 - College sports 16:35 - Mid roll ads 18:40 - Back to chapter 2 26:55 - Chapter 3 - Ask your doctor about 35:35 - Chapter 4 - How it's going ?

My favorite is always "Do not Take Lyrica if you are allergic to Lyrica or the ingredients in Lyrica."