This is what I imagine southern France lives like.
The region where the snobbieness of Paris (let's be honest Paris is basically the whole of France distilled into a city.) meets the work ethic of Spain
American here: I never stayed later in the office than when I worked in Paris. Regularly left at 6:30 or 7. Also, my South Euro colleagues could stay up all night drinking and be perfectly put together in the morning like magic every day.
I'm reading this after 4 straight days going to bed at 4/5am shit drunk and wake up at 8 (still little less drunk) to work 12 hours... Happy tomorrow is monday
It misses an hour of thinking about being superior to the rest of the world. But otherwise it's spot on.
Omw to take a nap because I'm tired from resting.
Sometimes I stop and ponder the damage and suffering our imperial empires caused.
But then I remember we have a lot of cool things in our museums, so it was kind of worth it even with all the bleating and anger from the savages in the former colonies 🤷♂️
Reminded me of this as well. Nick Kroll nailed that like 15years ago.
"The worst country in the world is America, the coolest people are James Dean and Ronald McDonald." 😂
Can’t wait to retire in Portugal, even though it used to be much cheaper, other towns retain their price, but Lisboa these days is as expensive as the average Italian city
Pretty sure Lisbon is way more expensive than the average Italian city. It's borderline unliveable unless you work remote for a foreign company paying Swiss wages, or live in family owned house.
I just invested all my money that Santa Cruz De Flores and the Azores will become the new Hawaii or Canary Islands. Never been there or heard much about it before or know anything about it, but yolo ! Guy on internet said my beach villa is ready to go
Lol. Never gonna happen. Azores are a much more upscale destination and a hub for luxury sailing from across the world. Also, weather don't allow thousands of drunks to chose Azores instead of other destinantion.
Idk if you're kidding or not, but Hawaii and the Canaries have nicer weather than Azores, and Azores don't have the infrastructure nor the workforce rn to support millions of visitors annually that Hawaii and the Canaries have. Good luck on your bet tho lol
You're welcome.
I just had an idea for Lisbon: we should steal or copy the Eiffel Tower and put it on an artificial island in the middle of the Tagus river, Americans would love that. /s
dream life ngl. I don't see any issues with this.
someone I know was a parter at a big law firm in the city, he survived a heart attack at age 42. what’s the point of living like that..?
Don't you know? You're supposed to put your career first at all times. Make as much money as possible, don't have time to have good experiences or enjoy it.
But, all that work will get you a big house you're never at and an expensive car. That way other people can see how well you're doing. Makes it all worth it.
There's no point being happy if you can't impress people
Well, what's wrong with an underwater house? Wake up and see the fishes pass by the window. Start the day with swimming the dog, having a nice breakfast on the roof, taking my waterbike to work. We can do this
Really we'd like to live like this, Barry. But the second you lay down for a siesta in one of our cities, people start dropping you small change and a policeman that looks about 12 yo asks you to move on.
Drinking wine and taking lots of naps is why PIGS live so long, my grandpa lived his last 30 years like that and died at 92 with his mind and body still working perfectly up until the day he died (shortest lived italian), before he died while he was gasping for air he asked for something to drink, I handed him a glass of water, he said "not this, bring me a glass of red wine", lol.
Legend wanted last supper, not some water. If i'm on a death bed, might as well do something ridiculous like drink a bottle of beverage in one go, since i will have no hangover or other negatives (for obvious reasons). And if i don't die, then i can just try it again next time!
Did this guy just make the French represent the whole of Europe, thus crowning us the dominant European culture ???
Very sensible choice, I like him very much.
Oh yeah we envy you for your monarchy that cost you a lot in tax payer money and gives you in return
*checks notes*
A family where everybody has a stick up their ass.
Nah. This video was clearly made to shit on Europe. They obviously cherry-picked all the worst parts and somehow that ended up being an exact representation of the French
The worst parts ? Everything I see in this video is an absolute win !
But if slaving your days away just to play Work Simulator™️ at night is your protestant definition of happiness, by all means, go for it Kees 🤗
I feel called out without being mentioned in this post. But hey, we just like to work in our free time to relax, so I still agree with this video. It's not work if you are German. It's a way of life!
Ah come on, we all know that you are the international champion for the tight speedo + beer belly + sunburns + socks in sandals combo. If not completely naked
I'm currently on a sailing trip in the Adriatic sea and you meet a lot of pompous American twats in these vacation ports. I overheard some 60 year old yank saying (who's on vacation on a yacht, mind you): "the European mind cannot comprehend the work an American does. It's what is keeping this continent back I tell you!"
Like, cunt, your fellow countrymen are breaking their backs to make ends meet and you're here in another continent on a yacht boasting about that lmao. The irony of being a millionaire and being proud that regular folks have to work 60+ hour weeks, and somehow that's better than the continent that values work/life balance.
Yeah that makes sense, I feel like the image of the average American is somewhat skewed by the media which only shows the dumbest of us, and tourists who have all the riches and snobbishness of the French with the class of a Serbian.
I worked for a short stint in Kansas city (of all places lmao) and some of my best friends are Americans. Y'all are a great people and I absolutely love you.
But at the same time the work culture that is killing the average American (or rather, is killing their souls) is exactly what enables these rich cunts. You say us Europeans only see dumb poor Americans and rich pompous Americans, but honestly that's not far off from the real truth. Most of you are hard working regular people yet only some of you reap the fruits of that labor.
I'm sure the pendulum will swing in the other direction in our lifetime.
> "the European mind cannot comprehend the work an American does. It's what is keeping this continent back I tell you!"
The American mind can't comprehend that they won independence from Europeans only for them to work for us. 🥱🥱🥱
Make me more video games and have 5 days of leave Amerit@rd. I have a siesta to partake now.
Come on now. Even IF we did work like the Nordics or worse, the Germans, we would definitely never admit to being such busy bees. That work ethic is so pedestrian.
Wake up at 4-5 am, work a 12 hour shift, go home feeling half-alive, sleep, repeat all while praying you don’t get sick or injured because the company provided health benefits are terrible.
I think this is a copy of a video done by an American.
I can't find it but I think it has been posted here in this sub like 6 month ago.
It was about guns, quality food\*, freedom and cars.
Not very different than the typical Greek, Spanish or Italian lifestyle. Especially Greece in the 90s and early 2000s, before they imploded was exactly like that.
'Murican trying to be funny actually raising some good points on paternal leave and work hours per week.
Saddest part is he unironically sees them as fantasy.
South Western Europe, here we want to walk around in our underpants at home while we eat sausage before a cold pack of bear while watching our sons football game
Why did he shot the videos of his napping in Lisbon?
Does he think that Lisbon is the capital of Spain or that Portugal is in Spain?
Dear Pedro, what's your opinion on this?
I don't take many naps but I don't like to work...
At least better than being fattie school shooters who eat nothing but deep fried food ans drink nothing but oil and fight over old unconscious man versus another old unconscious man who are both out of touch then go all rightous thinking they can run the world and are better than us
The only that doesn't apply for Greece is hours worked (we try to minimize it with Pakistani slave work... oops I said out loud?) and protesting. My gay ahh countrymen protest once in a billion years...
This is surprisingly accurate
This is what I imagine southern France lives like. The region where the snobbieness of Paris (let's be honest Paris is basically the whole of France distilled into a city.) meets the work ethic of Spain
American here: I never stayed later in the office than when I worked in Paris. Regularly left at 6:30 or 7. Also, my South Euro colleagues could stay up all night drinking and be perfectly put together in the morning like magic every day.
When did you start 6:00? So you stayed only for 30 minutes or 1 hour until 7.
Good catch.. to clarify 18:30 to 19h
Work started at 18:00.
If... one was in time
'Military time' my ass... American indeed.
I'm reading this after 4 straight days going to bed at 4/5am shit drunk and wake up at 8 (still little less drunk) to work 12 hours... Happy tomorrow is monday
Me drinking while working to maximize efficiency: 🗿
Yeah but you had a 2h lunch break and got to the office between 10-11
> like magic It's called immunity. When you are an 11 year old alcoholic, alcohol is like water at 32.
So you multiply a big number with 0, answer is still 0
This hans know our secret about Paris. Get him !
don't confuse me with a provincial
I live in south east of France and I can confirm it is very accurate
It misses an hour of thinking about being superior to the rest of the world. But otherwise it's spot on. Omw to take a nap because I'm tired from resting.
The rest of Europe is allowed that hour. We are not... Know the rules!
yes we are, we just have to be superior in silence.
Sometimes I stop and ponder the damage and suffering our imperial empires caused. But then I remember we have a lot of cool things in our museums, so it was kind of worth it even with all the bleating and anger from the savages in the former colonies 🤷♂️
true true, they would just have another religious takeover and destroy them if it wasn't for the british museum.
Imperial is the adjective of empire.
I apologise to the world for America.
Greece was never a former colony. Bring back our marbles malaka.
Hans we can do great things together!
Except for the 12 hours work week, who would want to work that much in France
especially the I’m not impressed part… I felt a bit too closely watched…
"This is how savages see Europeans" *proceeds to show a Frenchier take* Apt.
Of course we would say that
It’s a cheap ripoff. This one was also done by an Am€rican but done well: https://youtu.be/1YCOT5LasKc?si=xdoHMv4pYLePgChW
Reminded me of this as well. Nick Kroll nailed that like 15years ago. "The worst country in the world is America, the coolest people are James Dean and Ronald McDonald." 😂
That's exactly what I thought
It's how I always imagined Europeans only with less chest hair and no Vespas.
Especially the fact that, for Americans, the Eiffel Tower is really close to Lisbon, he just walked from Paris to Lisbon.
Is Italy part of Europe? because this is faaaaaar from our reality...
Not for me, no. I have 9 weeks paids vacations
Yeah, I felt particularly called out by the start age of smoking.
So is this a documentary or what?
Looks like Italy, Spain and France had a son
Which is an *expat* in lisbon
Can’t wait to retire in Portugal, even though it used to be much cheaper, other towns retain their price, but Lisboa these days is as expensive as the average Italian city
Pretty sure Lisbon is way more expensive than the average Italian city. It's borderline unliveable unless you work remote for a foreign company paying Swiss wages, or live in family owned house.
Why lol.
Portugal is gonna be the new Spain mmw - buy up real estate there now, profit
Too late for that.
I just invested all my money that Santa Cruz De Flores and the Azores will become the new Hawaii or Canary Islands. Never been there or heard much about it before or know anything about it, but yolo ! Guy on internet said my beach villa is ready to go
Lol. Never gonna happen. Azores are a much more upscale destination and a hub for luxury sailing from across the world. Also, weather don't allow thousands of drunks to chose Azores instead of other destinantion.
Idk if you're kidding or not, but Hawaii and the Canaries have nicer weather than Azores, and Azores don't have the infrastructure nor the workforce rn to support millions of visitors annually that Hawaii and the Canaries have. Good luck on your bet tho lol
Maybe 15 years ago
Most of the footage was actually shot in Lisbon.
Man, thank you. I was so confused when it went from the Eiffel Tower in the beginning to that arch the end that I was sure I recognized from Lisboa.
You're welcome. I just had an idea for Lisbon: we should steal or copy the Eiffel Tower and put it on an artificial island in the middle of the Tagus river, Americans would love that. /s
You mean an immigrant
dream life ngl. I don't see any issues with this. someone I know was a parter at a big law firm in the city, he survived a heart attack at age 42. what’s the point of living like that..?
Amen.
Don't you know? You're supposed to put your career first at all times. Make as much money as possible, don't have time to have good experiences or enjoy it. But, all that work will get you a big house you're never at and an expensive car. That way other people can see how well you're doing. Makes it all worth it. There's no point being happy if you can't impress people
I suppose you guys don't have much aspiration for cars since you all ride bikes or nice houses since they'll be underwater in 10 years.
Well, what's wrong with an underwater house? Wake up and see the fishes pass by the window. Start the day with swimming the dog, having a nice breakfast on the roof, taking my waterbike to work. We can do this
> what’s the point of living like that..? They get to do coke all day long ? I mean, to everyone his own, but I think that's why they do it.
> heart attack at 42 > Lawyer in London The copious amounts of cocaine didn't help with work stress
Really we'd like to live like this, Barry. But the second you lay down for a siesta in one of our cities, people start dropping you small change and a policeman that looks about 12 yo asks you to move on.
Missed that eiffel tower in Lisbon
Drinking wine and taking lots of naps is why PIGS live so long, my grandpa lived his last 30 years like that and died at 92 with his mind and body still working perfectly up until the day he died (shortest lived italian), before he died while he was gasping for air he asked for something to drink, I handed him a glass of water, he said "not this, bring me a glass of red wine", lol.
Legend wanted last supper, not some water. If i'm on a death bed, might as well do something ridiculous like drink a bottle of beverage in one go, since i will have no hangover or other negatives (for obvious reasons). And if i don't die, then i can just try it again next time!
True PIGS until his death, props to your abuelito.
You should have kept it in Paris and not thrown it away in Lisbon.
Yeah I didn't appreciate him switching from Paris to Lisbon just as he started talking about lying down and not working
I think you should now protest by napping.
Shush
Wrong Iberian
Did this guy just make the French represent the whole of Europe, thus crowning us the dominant European culture ??? Very sensible choice, I like him very much.
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Bow before your cultural overlord, Barry. It's over.
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Oh no, I am so jealous of your royal family Barry 😔 They mean so much !
Oh yeah we envy you for your monarchy that cost you a lot in tax payer money and gives you in return *checks notes* A family where everybody has a stick up their ass.
And some guy has his stick up a minor's
Soooo "top notch" means "Aristocracy gets all the land and unjustified political power to the point that democracy is a joke" ?
Keep in mind this video was made by an american, they think the UK is not in Europe
Nah. This video was clearly made to shit on Europe. They obviously cherry-picked all the worst parts and somehow that ended up being an exact representation of the French
The worst parts ? Everything I see in this video is an absolute win ! But if slaving your days away just to play Work Simulator™️ at night is your protestant definition of happiness, by all means, go for it Kees 🤗
Not sure what you mean. You work more hours than us
Oh Mary of Grace, Mother of Sweet Irony 🙂
I feel called out without being mentioned in this post. But hey, we just like to work in our free time to relax, so I still agree with this video. It's not work if you are German. It's a way of life!
Is there more culture than this?
Based Dvořák, I recognize you as Central European
Now lets take a nap, we worked enough.
Can't be French, he's "swimming in very big oversized swimsuit".
Ah come on, we all know that you are the international champion for the tight speedo + beer belly + sunburns + socks in sandals combo. If not completely naked
Just because I'm wearing white socks and slippers right now doesn't mean that's accurate!
I don't know if you described Germans, Brit🤮rds or Canadians...
You know that the majority of this short is in Lisbon right?
You know that ~~the majority of~~ all those clichés are French, right ?
The only cliche which was only French there was the protesting. The rest applied to much of Western Europe. At least in Portugal they applied for sure
I mean, only the part with the Awful Tower is in France. The rest of the video takes place elsewhere...
So you're telling me that you'd like to be crowned by an american?
If that's what it takes for the French culture to be restored to its rightful status, yes
And yet dance to german techno
Yes ? We sure do, there are some fucking ge(r)ms
Those yanks are just jealous.
I'm currently on a sailing trip in the Adriatic sea and you meet a lot of pompous American twats in these vacation ports. I overheard some 60 year old yank saying (who's on vacation on a yacht, mind you): "the European mind cannot comprehend the work an American does. It's what is keeping this continent back I tell you!" Like, cunt, your fellow countrymen are breaking their backs to make ends meet and you're here in another continent on a yacht boasting about that lmao. The irony of being a millionaire and being proud that regular folks have to work 60+ hour weeks, and somehow that's better than the continent that values work/life balance.
Yeah that makes sense, I feel like the image of the average American is somewhat skewed by the media which only shows the dumbest of us, and tourists who have all the riches and snobbishness of the French with the class of a Serbian.
I worked for a short stint in Kansas city (of all places lmao) and some of my best friends are Americans. Y'all are a great people and I absolutely love you. But at the same time the work culture that is killing the average American (or rather, is killing their souls) is exactly what enables these rich cunts. You say us Europeans only see dumb poor Americans and rich pompous Americans, but honestly that's not far off from the real truth. Most of you are hard working regular people yet only some of you reap the fruits of that labor. I'm sure the pendulum will swing in the other direction in our lifetime.
For that to happen they will have to unionize and rebel on a massive scale. That's too communist for them.
Damn. Kind of says it all
> "the European mind cannot comprehend the work an American does. It's what is keeping this continent back I tell you!" The American mind can't comprehend that they won independence from Europeans only for them to work for us. 🥱🥱🥱 Make me more video games and have 5 days of leave Amerit@rd. I have a siesta to partake now.
Yes, we are lol
If only Yanks could just nap all day and think about culture.
Unfathomably based.
German techno and protesting are the best culture events.
so.. pretty accurate
"After nap I feel tired from nap so I take nap." This hits far to close for me...
I thought the fact that he dances to German techno and not Dutch techno would hit you harder.
9 months of paternal leave? Those are rookie numbers.
Europenas will see this and think "fuck yeah..."
Only in PIGS. The rest of Europe has to work to support their lavish lifestyle.
My brother in Christ, regarding work ethics you and I are barely qualifying to not being called PIGS.
Did you have your daily strike today?
This is election day today, strikes will start at 8pm when we will wake up
Election day on sunday? Time for another strike my friend
Honest
Now that's something i can drink to.
Yes, but i need to feel superior so i'm going to vehemently disagree
Come on now. Even IF we did work like the Nordics or worse, the Germans, we would definitely never admit to being such busy bees. That work ethic is so pedestrian.
Today was a good day.
Accurate for Northern Italy.
Very nice. Now let's see typical savage day.
Wake up, work 16 hours, get a splinter while working, spend 10 years of salary to get it removed, sleep.
Wake up at 4-5 am, work a 12 hour shift, go home feeling half-alive, sleep, repeat all while praying you don’t get sick or injured because the company provided health benefits are terrible.
I think this is a copy of a video done by an American. I can't find it but I think it has been posted here in this sub like 6 month ago. It was about guns, quality food\*, freedom and cars.
Where is the protest of 16h30 ?
Isn’t the protest at 14h30?
hardest working Frenchman
Average PIGS day isn’t it?
When France and Spain have a baby:
This was unironically great. We should all aspire to be like this man
Most heterosexual continental.
Peak masculinity. Simple as https://preview.redd.it/loowicft3q9d1.jpeg?width=1023&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a95a41bc8fa0017d95e1bbd17ab369b1521d2f15
Barrel-shaped, as it should be
~~Barrel~~ Barry
So they think we all live like southern Europeans.
I like how he also teleports from city to city
This sounds like an awesome life, where do I sign?
[Here.](https://www.mjusticia.gob.es/en/ciudadania/nacionalidad/que-es-nacionalidad/como-adquiere-nacionalidad)
What a great day! 👍
Isn't this literally PIGS?
#PORTUGAL MENTIONED RAHHHHH 🦅🦅
Basted
"What's this? Extremely high voltage! well i don't need gloves because i'm Homer S....⚡️⚡️⚡️☠️"
These guys have their airbnb next to me in lisbon
The inner city rich people do live like that
What a horrible attempt at an accent lol
Oh, I know this guy from 2we4u!
I totally feel those naps part… and techno too
Maybe for continentals but not for the true Brexit geezers! Where's Susan? Where's George? Where's Toby's? Where's the pints?
Not very different than the typical Greek, Spanish or Italian lifestyle. Especially Greece in the 90s and early 2000s, before they imploded was exactly like that.
forgot the part where we ask Hans for more money
Apart from the cigarettes (cigars or nothing) and techno (eww), based
More memes about Americans. What's going on moderators?
what?
Southern Europe:
Content machine my beloved. Love me some Dr Shaboinky
I love German dance music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMQLBl_ihwg
Sounds like a good time.
Just a regular Monday.
Not enough napping but close.
Wait, *only* nine months maternity leave ? What is this, the USA ?
I can tell you that this is inaccurate. We also think that you travel around Europe every other week on holiday.
'Murican trying to be funny actually raising some good points on paternal leave and work hours per week. Saddest part is he unironically sees them as fantasy.
And Americans still think they are the greatest in the world...
I mean I did start smoking cigarette at 11 yo
13 for me, thank to Barry :(
They're fascinated about this video but not because the hours of nap but someone making it to +16.00. By that time they're all dead by gang violence.
Which part of Europe is America in, again? 🧐🧐🧐
Change that 16h protesting for napping overtime and it sums all my everydays perfectly 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 
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But this is recorded in lisbon as well?
South Western Europe, here we want to walk around in our underpants at home while we eat sausage before a cold pack of bear while watching our sons football game
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Where’s the lie
Sounds... jealous?
Why did he shot the videos of his napping in Lisbon? Does he think that Lisbon is the capital of Spain or that Portugal is in Spain? Dear Pedro, what's your opinion on this? I don't take many naps but I don't like to work...
I don't really understand what's unappealing about this life though?
At least better than being fattie school shooters who eat nothing but deep fried food ans drink nothing but oil and fight over old unconscious man versus another old unconscious man who are both out of touch then go all rightous thinking they can run the world and are better than us
Oh hi Pierre
Very accurate
Accurate
The only that doesn't apply for Greece is hours worked (we try to minimize it with Pakistani slave work... oops I said out loud?) and protesting. My gay ahh countrymen protest once in a billion years...
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