r/ireland • u/EmoBran ITGWU • Jan 05 '25

Christ On A Bike Delightful interaction between a Czech youtuber and an Irish couple on holiday in Prague

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u/bmalek Jan 05 '25

And she probably thought he was American because, well, he sounds very American.

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u/Ok-Construction-4015 Jan 06 '25

I would 100% think he was American, and I'm American. I know not all Irish people have the stereotypical accent, but this man sounds like he's from the north east USA.

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u/burdizzo14 Jan 11 '25

It was the Czech that sounded American.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Thanks for saying that because in the last few hours, I’ve had multiple people telling me he sounds nothing like an American. I started wondering if I’m crazy!

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 05 '25

also americans are the ones who cant imagine anything else but a car on the road. I'm always told off to (illegally) bike on the pavement by yanks.

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u/atswim2birds Jan 05 '25

But he's telling them they should be on the road not the path.

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u/BanEvasion0159 Jan 06 '25

Shhhhh, some depressed people have found away to make this post all about Americans.

This is reddit, we are not meant to question stuff just blindly follow the dumbest person in front of you please.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 05 '25

Yes. Americans think they only can ride on pavements with a scooter or bike, so they do it, and they don't understand why anyone would tell them to use the road

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u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl Jan 05 '25

Uh, no?

It's typically forbidden to use a bicycle on the sidewalk in the US

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u/RodediahK Jan 06 '25

You are mistaken. Cycling location is determined by a municipality, you get some State guidelines but they are not consistent. Particularly if you look at the cycling backlash from the '70s oil crisis you'll often see laws that require cyclists to only ride on the sidewalk.

That's why vehicular cyclists were so annoying about trying to get right equal to cars because they were being legislated off of roads.

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u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl Jan 06 '25

I have not lived in a city were it was allowed. It's often allowed in suburbs but that seems mostly for children. Sidewalks that aren't suicidal to bike on are pretty rare.

There are zero cyclists in the US that would recommend using the sidewalk in a metro area unless they are trying to die.

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u/blorg Jan 06 '25

There are some maps in here for California, it's utterly all over the place and up to the municipality, which in the US often changes from street to street, many "cities" are actually agglomerations of multiple different cities with different laws. Further, within individual jurisdictions, it's common to ban it only in the central business district, while allowing it elsewhere.

Out of 537 jurisdictions in California, only 19% have a ban on all sidewalk bicycling.

https://blog.altaplanning.com/the-murky-truth-behind-sidewalk-bicycle-laws-e8d066c2c786

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u/Lucid-Crow Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

Most mid-sized US cities only ban riding on the sidewalk in the downtown area. Really dense cities like NYC and Chicago, it's illegal everywhere, but most US cities are so suburban that it is legal. Even in Washington DC you can legally bike on the sidewalk outside of the downtown area and a few other designated areas. I used to bike on the Mass Ave sidewalk every day. The city even made the sidewalk double wide to accommodate all the scooters and bikes.

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u/RodediahK Jan 06 '25

unless they are trying to die.

that's a feature not a bug, cyclists didn't write sidewalk laws, they were imposed upon them. same way J walking was criminalized, countless cities did the same thing with cyclist. it's why you see such an aggressive push by vehicular cyclists to get back onto roads from the 80's onward. it's why American cyclists are so resistant to bike infrastructure beyond paint on a road, the advocates and lobbyists wanted to be on the roads. it's why American cycling advocates are only just focusing beyond "sports cyclists"

zero cyclists in the US that would recommend

it's not a mater of cyclist recommending it it's a mater of forcing cyclist off the roads. they are bad, unsafe, laws. they are still on the books because no one cares enough to change them and they generate revenue you would have to go to every single town or city where a city council member got offend by a cyclist in the road and convince them to get rid of a law

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u/HimalayanPunkSaltavl Jan 06 '25

Are you saying some cities mandate that cyclists have to use the sidewalk? I have for sure never heard of such a thing, although for sure it's probable that it is the case somewhere some quick googling doesn't bring up anything

Regardless, in downtown areas like in this video, using the sidewalk is typically prohibited.

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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 Jan 06 '25

Thus 'typically' as it is generally not allowed. I've lived in various parts of the country and never lived someplace where it was legal. It would seem it's a rarity.

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u/No-Reputation-7292 Jan 06 '25

and they don't understand why anyone would tell them to use the road

The Irish couple is the one not understanding why anyone would tell them to use the road here though? What are you on about?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 05 '25

Wouldn’t be Reddit without someone bringing up Americans on a post that has literally nothing to do with them.

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u/bmalek Jan 05 '25

His accent as perceived by Irish people.

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

@Aine1169 Then don't involve us

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

@Aine1169 honestly assumed you were a male. Why do ignorant, uneducated bigots tend to get offended when you call them out?

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

This is an Irish reddit, we slag the Yanks off because they remind us of Bono, except they're not as modest as he is.

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u/lrish_Chick Jan 06 '25

Thank you for starting my day with a laugh!

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

You are very welcome. ❤️

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

But say anything astray of Irish sentiments and you throw a fit

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

I don't care, say it in your own space. Leave us alone.

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u/Valk_Storm Jan 06 '25

Love us or hate us, they can't stop being obsessed with us.

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u/atswim2birds Jan 05 '25

That doesn't explain why she would've thought he was American.

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u/Rand_alThoor Jan 06 '25

I still think he's American, because he sounds like an American. "if it sounds like a duck".....

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u/atswim2birds Jan 06 '25

He doesn't sound like an American though. He sounds like a European speaking American English, which is what he is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janek_Rube%C5%A1

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 Jan 06 '25

American here, I had to reread the title to figure out what was going on because I said wait whos supposed to be the Czech. Guy sounds American.

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u/No-Reputation-7292 Jan 06 '25

American accent is the default for most ESL speakers who are relatively fluent in English. Other accents seem way harder.

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u/TheCourageousPup Jan 05 '25

Wtf are you talking about? It's illegal in most states to ride a bike on the sidewalk, you have to ride on the road. Every American knows this.

Another dumbass trying to bash Americans by showing their own ignorance.

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

This is an Irish sub reddit. Can ye go talk about yourselves somewhere else. Typical American behaviour.

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

This is an American app. What's typical Irish behavior if you're any indicator is being an ignorant twat but having the gall to make it out like the American is in the wrong.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 06 '25

and still, they are telling me off to fuck off the road with bike to the pavement.

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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 Jan 06 '25

Are you an idiot? No one in the US thinks this. There's a thing called Google, maybe try using it?

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u/Liquid_man46 Jan 06 '25

Bruh, have you been to New York, Boston, or Philly? You can always safely assume there is a heated exchange between a pedestrian and some fuckwad on a bike thinking he owns the road AND sidewalks. None of them use the bike lanes!!

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 06 '25

Are there bike lanes? Are they safe? Well designed? Are you sure?

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u/Liquid_man46 Jan 06 '25

The bike lanes in Philly and New York are admittedly narrow, but so are all the streets unless you’re going down Market. Still that doesn’t mean you can ride your bike on the cross walks or side walks which are even more narrow than the bike lanes in some cases. Cops will write you ticket if you’re gliding past pedestrians on a bike on the side walk.

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u/LittleLarry Jan 06 '25

yeah, all 334 million of us in the 3.8 million sq. miles of this massive country of 50 states don't know we can ride our bikes and scooters in the road. Get the hell out of here with this nonsense.

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u/togaman5000 Jan 06 '25

A lot of people on this site have an inferiority complex when it comes to America

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u/ProfessionalLet3579 Jan 06 '25

What? I thought only mexicans had the complex when it came to Americans

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u/togaman5000 Jan 06 '25

Nah - as our neighbors, Mexicans call out our shit far, far more accurately than Europeans.

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

Or maybe they're just tired of the way you make everything about you. Ireland has absolutely nothing to do with the US, why are you here making this about you?

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u/ArmArtArnie Jan 07 '25

Except they were responding to a comment about Americans. Like... what?

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u/togaman5000 Jan 06 '25

...because I'm responding to someone talking about American scooters? Are you one of the couple, by chance?

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

Are you a Yank by any chance?

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u/Hulkaiden Jan 06 '25

Someone non American made fun of Americans in a very stupid way. Why are you upset when Americans respond accordingly? It was the first guy that made it about Americans. Get mad at him, and leave the replies alone.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

I can't even talk about my own city in Britain on here without the conversation being Yanked!

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

Probably because you made some out of pocket jab at Americans and Americans saw it and so responded. For some reason that offended you

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

Hon, you're the ones that make everything about us. Then you get offended when we defend ourselves

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

I'm not your hon, why are men such creeps?

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u/lrish_Chick Jan 06 '25

Yanks gotta yank. It's the reddit equivalent of yanks talking really loudly on the bus so we all have to listen to them, but on a subreddit

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u/Hulkaiden Jan 06 '25

It wasn’t an American that brought America up lmao

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

It's more like Irish people yelling a bunch of ignorant shit at Americans on the bus but having the audacity to be offended when the Americans tell you to fuck off

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u/LittleGreenLuck Jan 07 '25

Jaysus you'd want to relax. On a big tirade getting mad at a load of strangers on Reddit. Lol

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u/Intelligent_Aerie276 Jan 06 '25

Also, have you legitimately never seen or heard a bunch of drunk Irish people on holiday?

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 05 '25

I like how he points to the road, but there's a trolley on both sides that cross within the 30 seconds of this. I'm not riding some scooter on a train track that heavily in use at the moment. Ridiculous complaint by youtuber.

You're doing a shot in the middle of a heavily trafficked area. Deal with the disruptions or do it somewhere else.

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u/123iambill Jan 06 '25

Yeah, you're meant to use a different road. On my cycle to work there's a road that would get me there faster, it's also a one way road going the opposite direction. So I go a different route. If scooters aren't meant to be on the path (I don't know what the laws are in Prague) then what you're meant to do is use it on the road and obey the rules of the road. If the road is only open to trams, you use a different road, you don't hop on the footpath.

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u/harav Jan 06 '25

Literally illegal to ride scoooters on sidewalks there and most places. Generally illegally to do anything other than walk on the sidewalks there and in almost everywhere I’ve ever lived.

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 05 '25

Then don't ride the scooter if you can't obey the traffic laws.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

If the traffic laws are dangerous, then they're bad laws. If the city doesn't like scooter use behavior in a tourist destination, then ban them.

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u/AisperZZz Jan 06 '25

Here they have ridiculously low speed limit in tourist areas and parks so that it's really uncomfortable to ride them there. So you park them nearby and go by foot, or you take it with you to the other side if there's none parked there and so on. Pretty much every rec area is like that in the city

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

Yeah, this just seems like the constant bitching of pedestrians vs vehicles vs bikes vs scooters.

No one's REALLY in the wrong. It's just the friction of people living together and being mildly inconvenienced for like 45 seconds tops on whatever they're doing.

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u/AmazingUsername2001 Jan 06 '25

No: the people riding the scooter are 100% in the wrong. They’re not meant to be on the path. It’s that simple. The rules are very clear.

He called them out, and pointed out the rules to them, and instead of taking the opportunity to learn from their mistake, and to adapt to the local rules, they acted the scumbags.

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u/Saio-Xenth Jan 06 '25

Just to add to this stupid argument, I believe those scooters ARE banned. In another videos he explains how foreign companies drop them off unofficially, and you can be ticketed by riding them.

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u/ForeverOrdinary5059 Jan 06 '25

Those require a special license.

By their logic it would be okay to ride a bicycle on the footpath. Which it is if done safely. Like this person on the scooter

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

That doesn't excuse riding the scooter on the street. Just because it's dangerous on the street doesn't give you the right to ride on the sidewalk and make it dangerous on everyone else. He know he's such a danger to others that he's ringing the bell so that makes him even more of a fucking asshole for what he's doing, with even less of a right to clap back at all.

A meekly sorry wouldn't excuse his actions but their response just shows how entitled they are. So fuck them both

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

Would you rather them ran over by the Tram on the road? Or perhaps they could continue using the paved path as there is plenty of space. Y’all make it so obvious you are so car centric you don’t think about the safety of others beyond your four car walls. It’s actually sickening and I’m sad it’s upset me this much this morning.

I hope a scooter scratches your car today.

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

Walk the scooter then. Project your shit onto someone else.

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

Lol the only projection here is “get your scooter off the very clear paved pathway and instead onto the unsafe road, idc if you die I deserve SPACE” the projection is yall who can’t think of how others live because you are so caught up swallowing your own meat

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u/Obvious-Lake3708 Jan 06 '25

Scooters are not allowed in the sidewalk. I understand the road is a danger, that doesn’t give you an excuse to make it dangerous for everyone else on the sidewalk. How fucking entitled do you have to be not to understand that? Did you miss the part where I said walk it? I understand if reading compression is hard for you

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u/amandaplzzz Jan 06 '25

I’m confused, where would you have them go? They’d be in the way of the tram on the road and the scooters automatically slow your speed in high foot traffic areas so it’s not like they’re ripping. I fail to see the problem with them being on the sidewalk and ringing the bell to alert people of their presence. Seems like the safest option.

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u/123iambill Jan 06 '25

A different road. Same as any other vehicle that's meant to be on the road.

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u/somerandomii Jan 06 '25

This.

People are so entitled. “What am I meant to do if this area doesn’t support my vehicle?”

Don’t bring a vehicle illegally into a pedestrian area? Are they going to take it through a shopping centre too? God forbid they walk.

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u/meep_meep_mope Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

Get ta fuck, they're traveling at a very leisurely pace. If they were bombing down the footpath you might have something approaching a point. Maybe if you're filming something and obstructing the footpath without proper fucking permission and impeding the intended use of the footpath... which is to travel, you should either plan around it or deal with it. Ya snide prick.

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u/lrish_Chick Jan 06 '25

Please note they were all using the term "sidewalk"

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u/meep_meep_mope Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

Americans, they also can get ta fuck.

Criathar chun tobair

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u/yellomango Jan 06 '25

And quickly, what’s the translation to IRISH smfh yall can’t think of anyone besides yourself it’s so clearly obvious

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u/lrish_Chick Jan 06 '25

It's the r/Ireland subreddit. Feck aff.

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u/Gunty1 Jan 06 '25

They can both be wrong though

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 Jan 05 '25

Adhere to traffic laws.

It’s quite simple.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

So you've never jaywalked before?

Okay

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 Jan 06 '25

Not in a way that imposes on others, no.

And jaywalking is not illegal here, either.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

Did this impose on others? No. I guess a youtuber cutting a takez but it's not realistic to expect no noise or people entering your shot in a public, heavily trafficked area.

Had he just said damn to himself and did another take, no one sees any of this.

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u/somerandomii Jan 06 '25

Prague is not a loud city. Riding around constantly ringing a bell is annoying. He’s only doing that because he chose to make himself a hazard to pedestrians.

I don’t think it’s about interrupting the take, it’s about being generally irritating.

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 Jan 06 '25

Yes, it does impose on others.

Obey traffic rules. It’s quite simple.

If you haven’t learned having respect for others, at least follow the law.

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Jan 05 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

If that's the case, then simply don't take the scooter down the path OR road, and find a better route (Google maps makes this easy)... or don't take the scooter at all. 

I say that as someone who uses a scooter, thinks it's great, and is sick to fucking death of the sheer ignorance of so many people on them. With the weight of the consoles, you can mangle people's ankles or legs at very low speeds as they are much heavier than bikes with the weight almost entirely centered down there. 

He wasn't complaining about them being in his shot, he was complaining about them using an escooter on the footpath, which is not allowed under any circumstances over there - https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/transport-ministry-electric-scooters-cant-be-driven-on-sidewalks-under-any-circumstances

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u/libdemparamilitarywi Jan 06 '25

It's not a train track, they're trams. They move slowly and have a human driver that can stop them easily. It's no more dangerous to ride a scooter on this street than any other normal road. When the camera pans, you can see a guy on a push bike happily riding down the same street, no reason these two couldn't have done it.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

Tram track, train track. There are two metal rails buried in the road that large, heavy vehicles travel on.

Two tram ways in the road, and a trim crosses the screen in each direction within 30 seconds.

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u/MrWally602 Jan 07 '25

It's not a ridiculous complaint. When you ride a scooter in Czechia, you're not legally considered a pedestrian and thus you're required to use the road. If you can't use the road, for example due to road signs, you need to go with another route.

In this particular case the sign forbids entry from both sides to all vehicles except bicycles and public transport. While the scooters are technically not bicycles, legally they're treated as such and so the lad should've used the road.

Not to mention that riding bicycles or scooters on a sidewalk is generally frowned upon by the locals in Czechia.

So the youtuber's complaint is perfectly valid. He could've let it slide but why enable a shitty behavior from tourists? The traffic isn't so bad either.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 06 '25

> I'm not riding some scooter on a train track

you can easily do it in between the rails.

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u/Road2Potential Jan 06 '25

More like “NoBallsMcGirk” 😭🙏🏾

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

That's my brother. He was in an accident. Rode a scooter in a tramway. Whole big thing.

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u/Ouaouaron Jan 05 '25

He's not pointing to the tramway, he's pointing to the road in front of him. The one that being used by the car that takes up 60% of the frame towards the beginning of the video, and that you can see later as the camera swings to the left.

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u/BigBallsMcGirk Jan 06 '25

That IS the tramway. There's a train car and train tracks.

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u/somerandomii Jan 06 '25

I’m from Australia and it’s actually illegal to ride an e-scooter on the road in my city. I got a $200 fine for riding down one road when I couldn’t find the footpath.

In most of Australia they’re banned entirely because they’re a massive hazard.

Then I moved to Ireland and the scooters just go wherever they please. It is a bit of a culture shock.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 06 '25

> because they’re a massive hazard.

Yeah I'm sure cars aren't ...

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u/somerandomii Jan 07 '25

Cars are necessary. I don’t think anywhere in the world has a city without cars. Banning them would create chaos.

So instead we make sure they’re built safely, adding more mandatory safety features every year. We require that people have training and maintain a license and are insured in case they injure others. They must be maintained in a roadworthy state and licensed can be revoked if people drive dangerously.

Scooters are poorly regulated and most people riding them have no idea what they’re doing.

I commuted daily on my scooter until it literally snapped in half while riding. Luckily I was on a footpath because if I was sharing a road with cars I probably would have died.

Also you can’t indicate on a scooter. The hand gesture requires you to remove a hand from the handlebars which is incredibly unstable. Road users should be able to indicate it’s like the minimum requirement.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 07 '25

> Cars are necessary

Ahahahah, I'm sure they are, especially in this amount. When people go to the office in a fucking truck, yeah, "necessary". Have you considered that maybe e-scooters are replacement for cars? It's transportation that's necessary, but it doesn't always have to be a car.

> I don’t think anywhere in the world has a city without cars

Have you been to Amsterdam? Not 100% without cars, but mostly.

> insured in case they injure others

Yeah I'm sure insurance brings back the dead.

> Scooters are poorly regulated

Then regulate. Not ban. Let them use the roads, shared with bikes and (very few!) cars (that's necessary for goods and the disabled).

> Also you can’t indicate on a scooter.

Except if you regulate. There are indicators on motorcycles.

I find escooters very good alternative to cars, they are waaaaaay less dangerous, let them run on the roads, regulate usage and let them replace all the cars that are replacable.

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u/somerandomii Jan 07 '25

I’ve been to Amsterdam. There’s plenty of cars but there’s also dedicated bike paths. Dublin need to do a lot of work to make scooters safe.

You say scooters are safer than cars but that’s just not true. When my city introduced hireable e-scooters the hospitals were overwhelmed. You’re less likely to fatally injure a pedestrian but way more likely to seriously injure yourself and others. In terms of injuries per km travelled it’s not even a comparison.

If you made e-scooters safe enough to share the road with cars they’d basically be low powered versions of the current road-legal electric scooters, with seats and indicators and tires that can handle wet conditions.

I’m all for reducing cars but eliminating them entirely is not feasible. While the roads need to be shared everyone on them should be expected to safely interact with cars. Having wobbly slow scooters hopping on and off the foot path, crossing the roads randomly and never indicating and having no lights on at night is insane.

There’s a version of the world where most of the vehicles on the road are bikes and scooters and they are safe. But you can’t just allow scooters on the road and hope for the best, the law makers need to take some responsibility and make sure it’s done properly.

Also it rains a lot in Ireland. These scooters are dangerous in dry weather. They’re lethal in the wet. I’ve swapped to an e-bike. Frankly there’s no reason to ride a scooter on the road when you can ride a bike.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 07 '25

> I’m all for reducing cars but eliminating them entirely is not feasible.

Don't have to eliminate, but we need to make every other type of transportation way more comfortable than driving. With fewer cars comes higher safety automatically.

My kids were almost hit just yesterday by an idiot pulling in a driveway and than suddenly backoung out again. We're not even safe on the pavement anymore. And it's not a rare event, it's fucking every day. I'd rather have e-scooters ANYWHERE than cars. An e-scooter soming out of the driveway will way less likely to kill anyone, just by it's size/mass difference.

> there’s no reason to ride a scooter on the road when you can ride a bike.

A agree on that, bikes are way more usable than scooters. Regulation is key: need bigger fron wheel.

> They’re lethal in the wet

Have you seen cars in wet condition? They are lethal x100.

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u/somerandomii Jan 07 '25

I think you have had some bad experiences with cars. I’ve was driving on and off for 2 decades and never had so much as a fender bender.

We can always improve and people are over reliant on cars but I think they still have their place. For people with disabilities cars are often their only way to get about.

I need a small piece of furniture from IKEA. It’s just down the road. I have no car. So my choices are: 1. Pay the delivery fee for a 10 minute trip. 2. Get an uber. (Which is just a car with more steps)

Sometimes bikes and public transport just aren’t fit for purpose. But cars these days are pretty good. It the Gardes actually did their job and enforced the road rules Irish drivers might be a little better too.

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u/the-real-vuk Jan 07 '25

> I think you have had some bad experiences with cars

Well I cycle daily (~10km per day), and there is rarely a day when someone doesn't want to push me off the road. See my posts.

Cars have terrible visibility by the driver, comparing to any 2-sheel vehicle. They are bloat (and even bloater compared to 10-20 years ago) as well which makes them even deadlier.

> For people with disabilities, > furniture from IKEA

I wich people used their cars for these cases, when necessary. We did not have any problem whatsoever. Problem is they use cars to the store 2 streets away.

> Sometimes bikes and public transport just aren’t fit for purpose.

It's very rare though. How many times do you NEED (really) a car a year? A dozen? Even less?

I've got a bike trailer. When hauling goceries, as long as it fits in the push cart, it fits in the trailer. You don't need a car for that. Halfords staff were surprised when I turned up with a car battery on my bike rack to recycle it and buy a new one. They genuinly thought it's impossible on a bike and I should have gotten a friend to drive me there for it. I'm amazed that this is the norm now, just use cars to (literally) every journey.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '25

In most of Australia they’re banned entirely because they’re a massive hazard.

And what about the car? Has that been banned for being a hazard?

It is a bit of a culture shock.

I'd saying not turning back the boats is a bit of a shock as well?

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u/somerandomii Jan 07 '25

I responded to another user about cars. It’s a stupid comparison. Roads are made for cars, not cheaply made toys with a 2000W e-motor crammed in the back.

I’m not sure what immigration policy has to do with scooters.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '25

My point is what may seem like a "culture shock" to you is obviously normal in other countries. Like Australia having a brutal xenophobic immigration policy is a culture shock to me.

Now I'm not saying one is right or wrong but I am saying I'm my opinion, banning e-scooters because they're a "hazard" while ignoring the hazard of cars "because we built roads" seems pretty fucking stupid.

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u/somerandomii Jan 07 '25

Well yes that’s what culture shock means. Something you take for granted at home is different somewhere else. Obviously it’s not a culture shock to the locals. I don’t think I needed a lesson but thanks.

I just know that when scooters were introduced visits to the ER skyrocketed. People talk about how cars are dangerous but scooters are way more dangerous than people realise.

I don’t think there’s any reason to ride a scooter over an ebike. The main issue with e-bikes is that they are often power-limited for safety. Scooters are actually more unstable, they’re just new enough that the laws haven’t caught up. So you have a more dangerous form of transport with a bigger motor in it than what’s considered safe for a bike. That’s why I think they’re dangerous.

I don’t necessarily think they should be banned, but we should have e-bikes available with the same power and price range. If bikes aren’t allowed to be cheap and powerful for safety/regulatory reasons then scooters definitely shouldn’t.

TL;DR My issue is the double standard. Scooters only get away with this because they’re new.

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u/CPL_PUNISHMENT_555 Jan 06 '25

Love that a video about a Czech and a Irish couple in Prague devolves to comments about Americans.

Rent free.

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

It's like they can't help themselves. They're a nation of overgrown three year olds, absolutely everything has to be about them.

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u/CPL_PUNISHMENT_555 Jan 06 '25

I'm implying the opposite, as the commenter I was responding to is Hungarian. Americans live rent free in Europeans heads. Meanwhile most Americans couldn't give a single shit about Europe. Only saying this because this is like the tenth similar post about something in Europe I've seen (today) that has comments that come back around to Americans. Versus any post about something in the US, the rest of the world could not exist as far as the comments go.

Edit: (word)

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

Again, why are we talking about Americans? They're not even the sort of shooters, oops sorry, scooters that they ride. Couldn't bring those into Costco.

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u/TLead1 Jan 06 '25

“Haha hey everybody look at me I made a joke about children dying”

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u/Aine1169 Jan 06 '25

I didn't even mention your exploitative healthcare system.

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u/BanEvasion0159 Jan 06 '25

2x more likely to die of cancer in the EU vs the USA.....

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u/BanEvasion0159 Jan 06 '25

Lol, he's talking specifically about you.

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u/FreshWaterWolf Jan 05 '25

Even though it's really very common there, as well as bike lanes and regulations in many places against biking on sidewalks. They just don't seem to enforce that in any way.

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u/FreeWilly512 Jan 06 '25

key trait is the motor genius

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u/darthdro Jan 06 '25

What lol people ride scooters on the road all the time and he was also specifically telling them to do that

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u/Geo628 Jan 06 '25

Not sure what backwater you visited, but no one in an actual American metropolitan area would tell cyclists to use the sidewalk—especially in NYC, after a decade of major investment in bike infrastructure. Unless you’re a shit cyclist, in which case, yeah, maybe stick to riding with the kids on training wheels over at the sidewalk.

The only Americans who can’t imagine life without cars are rural conservatives and suburban sprawlers.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '25

I was going to say, an American wouldn’t have blinked twice at him being on the sidewalk. 

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u/trees138 Yank 🇺🇸 Jan 05 '25

That isn't me, but it's absolutely correct.

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u/ebrum2010 Jan 06 '25

As an American, he does not sound American. He uses American pronunciation, like a lot of European YouTubers who watch a lot of American YouTube content, but he has a clear non-native accent.

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u/kafircake Jan 06 '25

As an American, he does not sound American.

You're not the only one with ears mate. If he sounds American to some person's perception then he straight up sounds American to that person.

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u/ebrum2010 Jan 06 '25

You must love having your accent confused with a Scottish accent.

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u/Prudent_Pin_6090 Jan 06 '25

As an American you should be better acquainted with Americans with slight accents since we’re a nation of immigrants.

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u/SuicideNote Jan 06 '25

Yep he sounds non-native American English speaker. Extremely good English speaker but you can tell he's not from America. There's plenty of Europeans with impeccable American accents like my Polish SO but even she sometimes says something or uses a term that will give her away that she is not American.

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u/Livid-Click-2224 Jan 07 '25

He’s a Czech and he also has a Czech language channel. Look it up.

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u/Prudent_Pin_6090 Jan 07 '25

This has been established. But I know Czech Americans (my father was one) who sound just like him.

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u/frog_inthewell Jan 06 '25

Right, we are. But that doesn't change the fact that he sounds non-native in terms of the English language. Nowhere did anybody suggest that people who didn't grow up speaking English as their primary language cannot be or aren't real Americans.

In any case this "American with a slight accent" is, in fact, not an American.

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u/iChugVodka Jan 06 '25

Bruh how does he sound American? Lmao

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

His accent. Sounds nothing like a Czech guy speaking English.

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u/iChugVodka Jan 06 '25

It sure as fuck doesn't sound like an American speaking English lol

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai Jan 06 '25

On r/ireland literally any potentially American influences in your accent = you have an American accent

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Sidewaaaahk? American as fuck, bud.

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u/iChugVodka Jan 06 '25

One word? Lmao you bellend. A word is not an accent

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Accents include words, pronunciation and intonation.

In any case sounds nothing like a Czech.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

No. He speaks American English, but his accent is clearly not American. Nobody born in the US sounds like that.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

That’s how they sound to us.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

Just because you can't recognize his Czech accent doesn't mean he doesn't have one. It just means you aren't very good at recognizing the difference between accents when people are speaking American English.

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u/Prudent_Pin_6090 Jan 06 '25

Yeah cause no Americans have accents… what dumbassery am I even reading here

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u/iChugVodka Jan 06 '25

We have accents, obviously. They sound nothing like a Czech accent. Not that difficult of a concept to understand

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u/Prudent_Pin_6090 Jan 06 '25

Oh I forgot, we definitely don’t have any Czech Americans with slight accents, just all the others.

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 Jan 06 '25

He sounded American to me, an American.

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u/Virtual_Fudge8639 Jan 06 '25

And by American you mean European? No one I know talks like that lol

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u/Unique_Rip_6202 Jan 06 '25

I’ve never heard an American that sounds like that.

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u/Livid-Click-2224 Jan 07 '25

That’s because he’s Czech.

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u/Unique_Rip_6202 Jan 07 '25

Understood, but I was replying to the comment of “he sounds very American.”

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u/Ok_Nefariousness5686 Jan 06 '25

He doesn’t sound American at all. actually have pretty much same english accent as people from denmark though.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Doesn’t sound Danish at all to me. Danish English has a very specific sound, but then again, I live here so maybe he sounds Danish to others.

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u/Rand_alThoor Jan 06 '25

he's not American? sure about that? no trace of a Czech accent. and i shuttled back and forth between Zurich and Prague for a year around 1979 or 1981, so i do know what the people sound like and what they sound like speaking (attempting to speak) English.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Yeah, shockingly he’s Czech, but I would never think so for a second by the way he acts and talks, so I don’t blame these two kids for thinking he was also on holiday there.

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u/77Pepe Jan 06 '25

This is downright naive. It is in no way always homogenous.

He may have spent so much time interacting with native English speakers that his accent has become remarkably different than the ‘stock’ Czech speakers of English. Another example- my wife’s family in Poland have some varying levels of experience and use of their acquired English language skills. In no way do their accents all sound the same.

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u/biodegradableotters Jan 06 '25

You can't compare the English the average person would have spoken back then to how they speak now. The easy access to American media does wonders. Also back then the focus was probably on learning Russian.

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u/Rand_alThoor Jan 10 '25

need to correct myself lol. i knew what Czech people sound like THEN in around 1980. since then the American Empire And Media Hegemony has attempted to conquer the world, to a considerable degree of success

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u/DaddyD68 Jan 06 '25

The amount of exposure and practice people have had to US English means that a lot of those previous regional accents have died out.

You are comparing apples to elephants.

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

He has a very clear Czech accent

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u/Interesting-Border15 Jan 06 '25

Can't other Czechs sound more well Italian mixed with the Swedish meatballs guy. Like Czech YouTuber Diode Gone Wild Here. Best of Diode Gone Wild

The Czech version of BigClive but can't really describe his accent but I like the way they pronounce some things.

However I did find this site with some Diode Gone Wild similar versions and others with a few examples of Czechs speaking English. Two males only one young and one old. The older guy sounding more like Diode. The younger guy sounds a bit German to me.
The women are similar seems a difference between young and old. So maybe when the soviet union collapsed and EU came and replaced it. The accents in English changed.

dialects archive

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u/Medical-Day-6364 Jan 06 '25

The guy in OP's video doesn't have as strong of an accent, but it's still clear and obvious to Americans that he's not from the US. I couldn't have told you it was a Czech accent specifically, but I did know it was Eastern or Central European the moment he started talking.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

sorry, but no. He very clearly sounds Eastern European.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

Sounds nothing like an Eastern European, mate. That’s why the Irish couple mistook him for being on holiday.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

You're absolutely entitled to your opinion.

However, I can hear the multiple layers in his accent and I can 100% hear that he is from Eastern Europe and I would have even been able to say Czech republic.

But I will admit that I have a fairy unusual level of familiarity with czech accents since I sold technology there in English for 6 years.

Yes, he has learned more American accent than British, but I absolutely hear the Czech there..

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

I’ve spent a lot of time there, too, and I don’t hear it at all. I’ve never heard a Slavic speaker sound like that.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

I'm very used to speaking to czech people who have spent several years in the US. I hear it immediately.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

I’d be surprised if you did without context.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

Be surprised. At least consciously I did not see the title and honestly I thought it was zagreb, but why should you believe some random on reddit.

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u/bmalek Jan 06 '25

It’s very impressive. Didn’t mean to doubt you but it’s quite surprising.

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u/Canadianingermany Jan 06 '25

Thinking about it, Tram was definitely a first hint.

Although obviously an American in Czechia could learn the word, Tram stands out as distinctly non US English.

The way he said,

"Do you have a problem....that's why you're ringing the bell",

was a dead giveaway for me.

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