Comments by "Jeni10" (@Jeni10) on "American Reacts to Fascinating Pictures of Europe I Can't Explain.." video.

  1. Ian, you misunderstood it. It’s a haystack for feeding the animals, but if it gets wet, it goes mouldy, so the thatching makes sure the rain water drains away, exactly the same principle as a thatched roof on a house. The thatching strands are hollow like straws, and act as drainage for rain water. With the whole thing being elevated, the wet ground doesn’t impact the hay either. Look on YouTube for thatchers making a roof! You’ll be fascinated!
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  2. Chainmail. It consists of thousands of jump rings linked together, impenetrable by blades.
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  3. The fields being different colours is not weird at all. Some plots have crops while others are fallow. “Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts.” It ensures annual crops and harvests, with revitalised lands always ready to sow into the future. I’ve spent my life in Sydney but we learned about these things in school as part of Social Studies.
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  4. I found it on Google Earth: Suloszowa. From what I can see when I zoom in, there are houses all along the street, but also many houses behind those houses, like what we call in Australia, a dog leg block, with the dog leg being a road that only grants access to the house behind the one facing the street. Behind the houses on both sides are vast areas of farmlands that might be owned by the home owners, or they could belong to other people. It’s one long street between two points that branch out into other areas. Think of a rope with a knot tied close to each end, where the frayed ends are other streets leading off in new directions. That’s as close an image as I can give you in writing.
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  5. Many Asian countries have also had coins with holes in them since ancient times and many still do today. The reason was to save in material costs. I used to see a lot of them when I was a kid, because the Chinese migrants would have them and so they would wind up in our pockets, even though they’re not legal tender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_(Chinese_coin)
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