The Strange Reason Why the US Owes London £12,598,845
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They should just pay it
Bars.
Nah he got bars.
please stop trying to be funny. it makes me stop watching. check your stats
Is it bad that as soon as I read the title I thought, “Well they’re never getting their money back.”?
But Friends is NOT better than Seinfeld
The opening of this video is really super impressive
Was on the fence until the brick special
You are sooooooo........ annoying
Papoose wrote these rhymes
Nice rhymes
PLEASE DONT RHYME FOR THAT LONG AGAIN. LOVE YOU GUYS BUT NO ....PLEASE NO....🤓👍THANKS..... SERIOUSLY THO PLZ DONT RHYME FOR THAT LONG AGAIN 😐
Pigeons could poop on diplomat's cars, so they are better
Why the other three quarter countries pay when they too have immunity?
Can u stop going off on random tangents
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Who would charge for basic healthcare.... I hate the US
Almost intolerably facetious. Probably very funny for the creators. Remember: humour is hard. If in doubt, don't try to be funny.
The ryming was just too much for me I couldn't even finish the video
now we all want to be diplomats
London and the UK seem to have forgotten a problem they had about 80 years ago with a certain dictator dropping bombs on them. Didn’t the USA spend a great amount of money, in addition to many lives, in partnering with them to win that war?
He's so smooth when transitioning between the video and promotions at the end 🤣
ughh .. disliking because the rhyme was extremely annoying
I would definitely poop on a car if I was a diplomate
I read the title as the US owning London for the entire video wondering when he will get to it
A 40-minute documentary about bricks?! OK, you've finally sold me that streaming service...
You become about "Half as Interesting" when you claim economics and governments only align to your not so subtly implied political affiliations.
Shigg McDigg
12 ditë më parë
He doesn't like paying tax to fund roads and healthcare, and apparently gets upset when someone implies that it's a normal thing.
Mikel Sopelana Durango
13 ditë më parë
What?
HE MADE A BRICK EPISODE?!?!?
Still refusing to paying taxes
FYI parking fines is a good one aswell 🤣
Let me find out half can spit bars..
0:15 Eminem is now scared
I thought I was watching. A CGP grey video at the beginning
04:42 - Absolutely a real diplomat.
Have fun paying a tax for "healthcare" that has over a year wait for surgery or payinh for an ambulance service through taxes what a great idea! It only takes up to 2 days for it for to finally show up... Sounds like such an amazing idea! Fucking morons
Pay up
Government: we need to discourage X, lets tax it! Worker: so why you tax my income, are you trying to discourage work and encourage me to do everything under the table and or work little enough to remain in the untaxed zone? Govt: ummm i like money! Fun fact, when minimum wage was increased in seattle, a good portion of the workers that were previously under the poverty line started to reduce their hours to remain relatively untaxxed and keep receiving welfare. Thus working less and making the same, also not having to work more to keep their standard of living previously fueled by welfare.
I love the way he rhyms the video
Good job I learned and i laughed and you earned a new fan
That rhyming intro was way longer than it needed to be.
That intro was really tedious, and after that "funny" and unnecessary explanation of sintax I quit watching.
Likewise British diplomats don’t have to pay fines, fees, or taxes in the US. This isn’t a one way street. They do it all the time when they are in New York. The US abides by the treaties and ignores what foreign diplomats do while here. Officers are taught to not ticket cars bearing diplomatic markers.
Sam spiting BARS
Nigeria offers to pay, but London has to pay a clearing fee first.
too cringey
Three and a half minutes of you making rhymes before you even start getting to the point..... multiply that by all your views and that's how much human life you just wasted. Don't do that.
This is seriously a very irritating video
It's not a tax. It's a fee based on when you enter the center of the city. If you don't go in you don't pay it. You pay a tax wether you use whatever it benefits or not.
quite a chaotic
So... In us, "charge" = "tax" Ah yes, the classic Karen logic
Tein Meizeshi
11 ditë më parë
@Shigg McDigg I guess you are one of those ppl that refuse to actually answer other ppl's questions, just like the politicians, always avoiding directly answering questions. You are challenging my statement so I imposed a simple question to you, yet you are riding your high horse without answering. This is why ppl make fun of Karens
Shigg McDigg
11 ditë më parë
@Tein Meizeshi I assumed you were capable of using a dictionary, and you were specifcally asking what "government" was in the context of the congestion charge.
Tein Meizeshi
12 ditë më parë
@Shigg McDigg I'm pretty sure I asked you to define "government"
Shigg McDigg
12 ditë më parë
@Tein Meizeshi The mayor of London (the government) implemented the congestion "charge". A tax is "a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services". That's exactly what the london congestion fee is, and diplomats are exempt from paying tax.
Tein Meizeshi
12 ditë më parë
@Shigg McDigg Define "government", London as a city charges you for using her roads.
Simp tax.. you mean only fans?
It baffles me how a channel advertising a streaming service they offer isn’t free. Aren’t we privileged to basic knowledge like we are healthcare, Lamborghinis and private jets? No. No we are not. None of us are entitled to the goods, services or commodities of others because some commie made it sound good.
IDED
12 million dollar for government is noting
I think the US has this debt because it's in GBP.
technically diplomats could poop on cars. I like that
Oh nah bro that rhyming needs to stop
English teachers after listening to that intro
Any reason is a good reason
Simp is an illegal word now. HAI just got cancelled.
It’s kinda weird because here in London my uncle who is the rich Captain of industry idgaf type just parks his cars and drives his cars wherever and however, racks up a million tickets and fines and just forgets about them. On occasions some of his cars will be towed and the release fee would also include the amount owed on ticket penalties, often valued more than the cars itself, so he just tells them to keep it. Probably calls an Uber afterwards. So what is it Boris Johnson, is it a TAX or a FINE???!!
Anyone else at first read the title as "The Strange Reason Why the US owns London?"
I'm dead.
I wonder why they don’t just refuse to issue license plates to us diplomats, the us state dept has been doing this to diplomats not paying parking tickets for years.
"Best rhyme I ever heard in a poem!"🤣
More lyrical skill in this intro than 95% of rap songs😂
Those stock clips are hilarious
Restart the vid and sign that man BARS
Hey, if we could get all that money owed to us, we could spend another fortune on the army! In a few years this comment may actually mean something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
why drive in the left when you can drive on the right
Thanks for the misguided Ed Rhyme
We will call it good that we didn't just acquire them as payback for the Marshall plan.
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Taxes for children and healthcare lol.. and bombs and planes to drop the bombs and lsd test on unexpected people...
This is not just a HAI commentary, it’s poetry.
Very American to not pay a tax to Britain. Great video.
The countries should pay the Uk government
:50 seconds, longer than most rap verses nowadays.
0:16 Eminem has been pretty quiet since HAI dropped this one.
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This video was a waste of time.....
Killed me with the "simp tax" 😂
Sorry, bailed at 3:00.
Its not that much its only $(8000) (5000) times
Friends is better than Seinfeld like diarrhea is better than constipation.
The rhyming absolutely ruined this, get to the point, it didn’t add anything to the video but simply made it more confusing to follow and made me want to stop watching.
awesome intro!
HAHA
Wow
It's not a tax it's a surprise mechanic
Nice rhyme!
1:27 well that’s easy the evil guy that sells air from the Lorax lives there Edit:His name is mr o’hare
That flag is the flag of the city of London. Not London
A diplomatic employee from the Philippines (which was granted diplomatic immunity in Brazil) kept her housekeeper locked inside her home, spanked her and kept her without food and when surveillance footage was release she walked freely in the streets of Brasilia like nothing happened and she wasn’t a fucking criminal. Thankfully after a lot of press coverage the Philippines agreed to summon her back to her country, which then she faced no prosecution for torturing a Brazilian citizen for almost 4 months.
This rhyming is stupid
NYC tows cars of diplomats who don't pay parking tickets. London should just do the same for diplomats that don't pay the congestion charge.
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Who else when saw the title read why the US owns london
How do they enforce this tax? Toll roads on every street into the area?
You sound just like the guy from wendover productions