British Brothers Reacting to Things Americans Do That Confuse The Rest Of The World
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The reason many people don't use all their vacation days is that a lot of times it is lumped together with sick days as PTO or paid time off. You don't want to use all your PTO in case you get sick.
And another reason is that Americans are simply more into work and less into vacations. I get about 40 days between PTO and company holidays. I seldom manage to take more than 30 because I have work that needs to be done and only I can do it, and the work is fulfilling, and if I take more than a week off I get stir crazy and anxious. And it baffles me, if someone can take a month off from work without everything going to shit, why does their job even exist?
I worked for 26 years in a call center. I worked up to 2 full weeks of vacation but due to service levels not allowing you to use them that way I only managed 10 days off in a row ONCE.
@@Big_Tex My husband has a work situation similar to yours and feels the same way you do. He rarely wants to use his PTO for vacation. I always hoarded mine because it was hard to get a vacation anyway, and I was scared that I (or a family member) would get sick and I'd need those days.
@@SGlitz I feel you. When I worked it was in the medical field and it was hard to get a week off, and good luck getting more than a week. Supervisors didn't want to have to work the floor to cover you if they couldn't get someone to work overtime in your spot.
@@Big_Tex I think the issue here is you and not people that take a month off. You have to realize that most people dont find their job fulfilling and they are only working to have food and a roof over their head. If you ever become a boss then dont be one of those that dont let people take long vacations just because you cant comprehend it. Loving your job it's fine, but your life is will be wasted if you think that's all theres to it.
I am in the U.S. and when I was in elementary school in the 80s, we learned both imperial and metric. I notice a lot of foreigners on UA-cam seem to think we are totally ignorant of the metric system.
this. in any science related class, it's a given. nobody uses the imperial system in science.
True. Almost all of our measuring devices (tape measures, protractor, rulers, etc) have both metric and imperial measurements. As do most of our drink products.
I was in public school in the 1990s and 2000s and we had to learn both. My Father also said he had to learn both in the Washington State public school system in the 1960 and 1970s. So I think it depends on the area you live in the US if you are taught it or not.
Exactly, people act as if we don’t use the metric system at all and that couldn’t the further from the truth. It gets used in science, certain areas of engineering, the military, and in packaging to name a few. Hell, technically American imperial units are defined by their metric equivalents. Never mind that almost all the measuring devices have metric markings in addition to the imperial ones.
Honestly, the only time this hybrid system even becomes an actual issue is in engineering if you aren’t careful because you’ll have to switch between the two since your science and math is in metric but the actual product will likely be in imperial. Aside from that the only issue I can think of is that at least for me I tend to not have very good frames of reference for metric units, aside from boiling and freezing Celsius temperature measurements tell me nothing about how hot or cold it is, I have no idea how “fast” Km/h is without a static reference, and weight measurements are entirely abstracted for me. Although if I think about it I actual have a decent idea with regards to distances… probably from rules of thumb such 3 feet ~ 1 meter, gun calibers, and video games which typically measure distance in meters and klicks. Regardless, I can still use metric easily if given proper equipment and/or if operating entirely in metric such as during a science lab, honestly metric’s simplicity makes it super easy to measure with even if it’s abstract because due to a lacking frame reference for what the measurement would feel/look like.
Yeah also even if some school systems don't teach metric (mine did and they taught us how to actually do the math and everything to convert from Fahrenheit to Celcius... unfortunately I don't remember how to do it because I learned it in middle school lol) we still use stuff like liters for liquids as well as fluid ounces
College sports are HUGE in the U.S., especially football and basketball. Many of these college football games are packing in 100,000+ people every Saturday. March madness is huge as well for basketball.
Go Blue!
March madness is better than the nba tbh
Bigger than the NFL since they went woke.
@@quasicrystal5166 for sure. Dissing the flag and the anthem...
@@SGlitz lmao what’s the anthem and flag even mean to you guys? Probably “Freedom” but our country is a contradiction, with the highest population of incarcerated people on the entire planet. America values profit over freedom. Our work culture is terrible in comparison to many countries with a fraction of our wealth, but corporations and billionaires are in our politicians pockets, so really our flag should be a giant dollar bill. I’d just like to apologize for my rant, I love my country, I just can’t ignore what it is behind the facade.
Fact Check: America as a whole nation like it is today was NOT a colony of Britain, ONLY the former 13 colonies in the east coast were part of Britain. The majority of the rest of America was either native Indian lands or French and Spanish territories. A very small portion of America was actually a British colony until the War of Independance when that came to an end. The vast majority of America during the British colonies was native Indian lands, French territories, Spanish(then later Mexican) territories. I say this because most people believe America as a whole was part of Britain when in fact a very small portion of America ever was. Just some FYI for the ignorants.
Bro what? I've never met a single American that thought the entirety of modern US was a British colony most of our history in school is about the 13 colonies and American revolution. The next majority of our history is native American wars manifest destiny Civil War Texas annexation then Hawaii and Alaska the vast majority of our history in school is how the US came to be I'm sorry but I think you're just talking out of your ass in my opinion.
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He could be more clear but he wrote "Most people" not " Most Americans".
Agree with you that Americans do not think the entirety of the 50 states were once British colonies.
I think the confusion if there is any is in the wording. All of America was part of the colonies but that's only because the colonies was all that actually consisted of American the rest was the wild lands or the west to white people that lived in the colonies and had actually ancient native names to the various native peoples.
Which Fun fact is why states like Iowa are known as the midwest, when you reached them states you where already midway threw the western Country
Sorta wish NYC area stayed with Netherlands much longer than they did. And Brits essentially created New Jersey from the part of New Netherland across the 'North River' LOL.
The Month/Day/Year thing is easy to explain. It still follows smallest values to largest values. Yes a day is shorter than a month, and a month shorter than a year. HOWEVER, if you were to base that value, not on the length of time as you do, but instead on the number of possible inputs in the sequence, you would see it's a difference of perspective. Example. Month comes first because there are only 12 of them. Days come second because there are up to 31 of them. And years remain at the end because it is forever increasing. So we have 12-31-yyyy, based on number of input values. day-month-year is based on length of time.
Yup
… and I want to know the month first. That lets me know the time of the year. Sometimes, the actual day is irrelevant because the month tells it all.
Exactly what I was thinking. I see a lot of Europeans confused by this, but as an American it's always made more sense to me. Tbh I think the solution to how a date should be written is to use letters rather than slashes or dashes. So instead of 1/30/2000 it'd be 1m30d2000 or in European style 30d1m2000, then the format literally doesn't matter since even if both the month and day are less than 13, you could tell which style it's written in (e.g. 5m6d20y)
It gets confusing if you are searching for, say a livestream, and you have 28/4, 3/5, 15/5, 2/6 instead of 4/28, 5/3, 5/15, 6/2. Computers can't automatically organize those dates either, you'll probably get 2/6, 3/5, 15/5, 28/4 in a youtube autoplay system.
I'll be quite honest, as a fellow American, that sounds like an over-engineered and complicated reasoning for something rather mundane, haha. The way I see it, we don't really need any justification for why we format our dates that way. That being said, I've long-since gotten used to formatting my dates Year - Month - Day because I organize my digital files that way, and have seldom had to write down a date by hand in the past decade since I left school. That way it's unambiguous no matter who's reading it :P
I'm glad to see your brother joining more and more and can't wait for future videos 🤙
I think the ice use explains the large drink sizes at restaurants. They fill the cup with ice to the top before adding the drink leaving less from for drink. You're not getting as much drink as it looks
How does spray cheese always make it into these videos?? Lol I couldn't tell you the last time I saw a can of it outside of the grocery store. As often as it's brought up in these kinds of videos, one would think we were all eating it on a regular basis.
It’s more a big thing I see in stores and gas stations out west, like in Nevada or California
I was happy to be able to drive legally at 16. Buying booze before 21 may be tricky, but drinking booze before 21 is easy as pie.
Yeah, the whole 21-years-old to drink, but 18-years-old to be drafted to war, bothers most of us Americans:) I'm not sure which age should be which, but I and the majority of Americans would say if there old enough to do one then there old enough to do the other:)
The real problem was the states not agreeing on one or the other. Then you end up with 18 year olds from New York driving to New Jersey on Friday night, binging, then driving back
Theres a difference though in drinking and being drafted at 18. When people were allowed to drink at 18. Theres was no supervision for that teen when he got in the car that would end up crashing or killing someone. While in the military they are in constant supervision
@@ernestogastelum9123 Okay, so make it 21-years-old. Once a person reaches the age of 21 they can legally drink alcohol and serve in the Armed Forces:)
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Besides, your whole "supervision" argument is flawed and here's why. First, you're letting all the owners and sellers of alcoholic products off the hook. Second, and most importantly, without saying so, you're argument makes the "Military" seem (edit here:) mature and responsible. If that were the case, you'd be better off, but there's a need for military police, soldiers all the time are being discipline and paying for crimes against the military, same as in civilian life. It's illegal to drink & drive for an 18-year-old just like a 98-year-old. However, I do get your point, but it's not as compelling, (IMO) as being old enough to die for something, but not old enough to consume something. I don't care about the "age" as a number, just the fact of the matter:)
There is no draft and it won't be coming back either the US spends way to much on military and its been voluntary since 1973.... USA would just hire soldiers of fortune like they did against the Taliban/al qeuda.
Get your brother to watch some Geography King videos!
Love seeing you brothers' reactions you do need to get him a mic so it is easier to hear both of you
My mom used to bring home around $200 a day in tips a day when she was a waitress at an Italian restaurant. That's about a thousand dollars a week on top of her hourly wage.
Hooters? LOL
@@kingcarlos7048 u mean the bootie restaurant
Glad your brother is joining you again both of your reactions are amazing, also very glad to see you put up a P.O, Box for next time you do an unboxing I hope to be able to send something but I will wait for when you decide when you want to do one.
I mean considering how big the US is its really not that confusing why only 42% have passports the US is huge whereas even if you lived in Britain all you need is a boat ride to the coast or just driving from Germany to Poland or Belgium for example in the US half the country is such a vast distance from either Canada or Mexico it's hard to just visit whenever you want
And it’s a 10 1/2 hour flight from New York to Honolulu. 7 1/2 to Europe.
@@pacmanc8103 Most people have never been or ever will go to Honolulu
@@vdoggydogg3922 The point was that it is closer to fly from New York to Europe than it is to fly within the United States. Most Americans have never been or will ever go to Florida either - not sure what your point is.
Your brother mentioned seeing FC after football team names. NFC stands for National Football Conference. AFC stands for American Football Conference. The top teams of each battle each other at season’s end for right to play the super bowl.
Pro games are expensive, so that adds to the list of reasons why college games are so popular. One other reason is the excitement of seeing a player you cheered through college games get picked to a pro team.
That drive time cross country doesn’t count sightseeing, but does include time for sleep and meals. If you drive shifts with a partner it takes less time, but it seems more like chore than pleasure.
Some people rent a car when they take a vacation, then fly back home. That way, they get to see the sights, but don’t have to be slave to the road. More time can be spent at destination.
Just because 58% of US doesn't have a passport doesn't mean that 58% haven't been out of the country. Before 9/11 you could go to Mexico Canada and a bunch of Carribean islands with just a US driver's license.
I’ll point out the obvious, that the stat that 42% Americans have passports obviously does not mean the other 58% have never left the US. Passports expire after 10 years. I currently am in the 58% who don’t have one, because the two passports I previously had expired, and I don’t currently need one. But I’ve been to 20 countries in the past. Also many people do international travel in the military and may never need a passport in their situation. I’d guess that Americans are more apt to only get a passport during some phase of life when they think they’ll travel, like when they’re in college or get a job with a multinational, but then be in no hurry to renew when that expires.
I think you two should come up with questions and do a live and let us try to answer y'all's questions the best as possible
One note on cup sizes: The amount of soda one receives is essentially the same no matter what country you go to, if you visit a McD's or Burger King. The difference is the ice. The US allows the sale of "large" drinks which are often filled about half way with ice. So a US large at 500 ml, you only typically get about 200 ml of actual soda. Ironically enough you only get about 180 ml of soda in a US medium, and 100 ml in a small. It's the Fast Food industry's way of giving you a massive middle finger and charging you more for frozen water.
That’s why I never order soda with ice. I get more soda and I don’t have to worry about the ice melting down and making the whole thing taste like water
Doesn't mcdonalds do any size $1 drinks lol
@@rileyhaley3848 Not anymore generally speaking. Some franchise owners might still do that.
@@XtomJamesExtra in my state it's still every single mcd's that's why I figured it was everywhere.
Lmao, when you and your brother get to talking to each other, he gets hard to understand. Love it
When I was a waiter I found out that it is illegal to nor pay your staff at least minimum wage. So, even if the restaurant pays you less than minimum the tips will cover the rest unless you don't make the equivalent of minimum wage for your shift.
I am glad to see you and your brother together again. Over here we used cementers and 12 inches is a foot.
They didn't mention the fact that, even when our employer provides vacation days...they have the ability to deny us if we request to use them. I know someone who built up nearly 5 weeks of vacation over the course of several years because every time they submitted a request, it would be summarily denied with 'Staffing levels do not permit you to take leave at this time.'
Lol 5 weeks over the course of years? You guys need to find another company
@@ernestogastelum9123 This is America, we're lucky that our employer even offers PTO. In my current role, it takes 52 weeks of work with no PTO taken in order to accumulate 10 days off. If I take any PTO, I forfeit the vacation hours that would be accumulated for that entire week.
It doesn't take 9 days to go from New York to LA.... Maybe 4 days and that's if you aren't driving nonstop. Non stop it's like 43 hours with good weather the entire time. It really doesn't take long to get across the USA. I recently drove from San Fransisco to Nashville TN and we stopped each night to get a hotel and it was a little over 3 days.
Truckers take six days to do this legally within their daily time limits... Of course non truckers can do this drive in five days, maybe four days depending how long they drive each day...
Last month my bf and I had to drive from Massachusetts to Miami, FL and the traffic on the roads was so bad that it took us 3 full days of driving about 12 hours a day.
If the US invest in public transportation like the rest of the world, it would take you less than 2 days.
@@alohatigers1199 The cost of investing in public transportation in such a massive country would be astronomical and it's just not feasible atm.
In Japan, just placing money in the workers hand is seen as a rude assessment of their work. Generally, IIRC from Let's Ask Shogo-Your Japanese Friend in Kyoto, it's more polite to place it in a envelope. He had a video addressing rude behaviours committed by foreigners.
I was just playing with the true size map website and for comparison, if you take the mid-sized state of Pennsylvania, the distance from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, which is slightly less than the length of the state itself; that distance is roughly from the tip of Cornwall to London or Norwich to Dumfries Scotland.
School teacher here! 🙋🏾♀️
1. School busses drop kids off and leave to transport other students.
2.Many schools have all the kids meet in certain areas when they arrive until they go to lockers and their first classes.
3. Now many school districts give all students of all ages a laptop.
3. Vlogging in school: The kids wouldn’t care, but as a teacher I would hate it, lol. 😂
4. Schedule: We often don’t have breaks other than lunch and we CERTAINLY don’t have hour lunches! 😩
5. Gym: American football and other sports almost a religion here. Kids start lifting for sports as early as 14. It’s important for athletic scholarships.
6. Start times: most high schools start between 7:00-7:45.
Great reaction! We’re on summer break but now I actually miss the kids a little earlier than usual…🥹
The worst part about medication is that it cost practically nothing to make but they can charge as much as they want especially when people really need it. Like when I had cancer and needed shots to boost my immune system. The cost to make it was REALLY cheap, but it cost $6,000 for ONE shot. I had to get 12 shots all together. I had insurance to cover most of it, but still.
Road trips in the US are looooong.
When I was 10, my family drove from Minnesota to Arizona, and it entailed I believe 3 overnights at hotels along the way before finally arriving.
Roughly 5 days and 3 nights of travel time both ways. We spent about the same amount of time on the road as we spent in Arizona (the destination) itself.
It takes about 41 hours of nonstop driving to get from NY to LA. You add in stops for rest, sleep and eating. You can do it in four or five days comfortably and in fewer days if you drink a lot of coffee and drive at night.
Drinking age in US: In New Jersey the drinking age is as follows: 1973 from 21 down to 18, 1980 raised to 19, and in 1983 raised to 21. [ I live in NJ] The drink age in the US varied by state until 1984.
2:12 Eating loud in China is considered polite as well as Japan my grandpa was Japanese and he told me that slurping your food is a sign you’re enjoying it and praise to the cook, especially in a household setting
Here in Texas we don't measure car rides in distance but in time.
If you guys lived in a country with mid 90 degree F summer temps and high humidity also, you’d understand the iced drink thing.
I worked as apartment maintenance for years and here's a little tip. Be nice to your maintenance guys/gals because we see and hear everything. My good tenants would not only tip me but would cook me breakfast/lunch and even give me Christmas presents. In return I would do free unreported repairs and not report illegal "activities" I witnessed in their apartments and even hook them up with free cable. Remember maintenance sees everything not the office mngt. So be nice to your maintenance people.
I couldn’t fathom saying “yeah it’s 1 January 2022” out loud lol
I'd definitely say that the ~9 days to get from NYC to LA is due to stopping a lot and not driving a good portion of the day. We did so many road trips growing up that we could drive from central NY state to the west coast (Oregon, Idaho, Washington) in about 3 or four days. We'd stop to see national parks, zoos, historical monuments, etc. to take up time, once we got to each of the places we had planned to stop for the night/along the way, but we did a lot of driving every day. The one time we drove to Las Vegas it took 2-2.5 days.
yeah i work in a pharmacy as a technician- Ozempic is a big drug now adays for Type 2 Diabetes; there is about a commercial every hour for it. costs $1600 retail and Insurance or Patient Assistance Program usually brings it down to $25 per box. On health insurance itself, my Septoplasty costed $18,000 and my insurance paid $14,400 of it; my mother's broken pelvis was $56,000 and insurance paid $40,000 of it
Spray cheese is always mentioned, because it's gross, yet it's got very few consumers compared with real cheese. Europeans make fun of our real cheese, too - and I mostly agree!
Many people in the US just travel within. We have fabulous skiing, beaches, mountains, deserts, lakes, oceans, forests, swamps, glaciers, numerous big cities, theme parks, hiking trails, sports and other events. In addition, we have 423 National Parks, 567 National Wildlife Refuges and over 6,600 State Parks.
I flew from the middle of the country in Chicago to Dublin in 2019, before the world went to shit, and it took me 9 hours to get there. Depending on where an American is flying from and where they're flying too, it can take like 7-13 hours if not more to get to Europe. When I flew from Chicago to Seoul in Korea for my exchange student program, it took me 18 hours in the plane. 4 hours just to get to Seattle and the rest was over the ocean.
I think what a lot of people outside the U.S. don't stop to think about is the fact that we're flanked by two of the biggest oceans on the planet. As of today July 23rd, a flight from NYC to London in September is anywhere from $400-600. Tack on to that any flight inside the country just to get to NYC and it could cost up to $1k and you haven't even done anything but travel.
Why would I spend that much when I could take several vacations with the same exact amount of money and do everything from skiing to seeing historical sites to camping to swimming in the ocean and anything in between?
I think that more of us are starting to use the metric system, even if it's just having a basic conversion in mind as a rough estimate. Sometimes it just comes in handy to know that 10 feet is about 3 meters, or that a liter is just over a quart.
I had a horrible experience when I was traveling in a Texas Roadhouse that had 4 customers in it. The waitress completely ignored my kids and I, kissing up to the men that had come in. Our order was wrong, I had to go to the bar to ask for help. I tipped her $1 and wrote a note on the back of the bill what was wrong and told her I left her a dollar because she showed up for work. I was FURIOUS.
I started at a new job in February of 2021 and I get 16 paid vacation days which is considered more than average. Luckily they allow us to get more if we do volunteer opportunities through work so that’s nice
Ya'll listing off all the vacation spots we have has me thinking "dang I need to take a vacation to America!". Then the realization hits...I'm here. :/
One ride in an ambulance for non life threatening event was $4210.00 (US) and a bed for 2 hours at hospital was $1370.00 (US)
The US did try to convert to metric. We were in the very slow process of switching (with a lot of pushback) until Reagan stopped in the 80s.
I heard a huge burp in the middle of this video, which may indicate that one (or both) of the brothers were drinking beer.
"Peanut butter is a strange unpalatable curiosity. "
Meanwhile, marmite .
26:03 It takes 47 hours drive to get from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Maine which is roughly coast to coast
Of course with more than one driver driving... I doubt whether anyone drives that long without sleeping somewhere along the route...
@@ronclark9724 The best that I have managed is Boise ID to Baltimore MD in 3 days of driving (one driver).
Driving 4 hours doesn't even get me out of the state. I live near Seattle, I would get to central Washington (not even the eastern side yet)
It takes four to five hours to get from Dallas, TX to San Antonio, TX.
Where my family lives in Washington state it is a 30 minute drive to get from their house to the grocery store.
@@SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish. I live 40 miles outside Seattle, it take up to an hour and a half to get there during the day to get to the city
As for distance, the distance from Boston, MA to Los Angeles, CA is about 4800 km.
In my state it takes 10 hours to get to the closest Coast. So only beaches are in polluted fresh water beaches. Takes 5 days to go travel to LA. A plane trip to Hawaii is more expensive than a flight to Japan or Europe. Our vacation days do no allow us to do anything other than drive to a location and turn around and come back normally. Its why we dont go anywhere.
I flew from LA to Honolulu and it was around 5.5 hours. So I was over the ocean for 5+ hours and I was just visiting family in another state! Also, the states can be so different that each region of the states is like visiting a different country. Different cultures, accents, and climates. I do love living here for that very reason. Even though international travel is expensive for us, domestic travel isn't too bad. I've never left the country, not even to Canada or Mexico, but I've been to Hawaii and didn't need a passport! lol
I would like to mention that for the metric system bit, Canada and the UK are not fully metric either, all 3 of them did try to switch but the US was the most dramatic fail. JJ McCullough has a video about this named "The Enemies of the Metric System" explaining this pretty well.
I was very fortunate that i traveled in Europe and Asia while in the Military from 1981 to 2001, we didn't need Passports we had Military Id's, Orders, Form 80's and Leave paperwork which allowed us to travel basically world wide as long as the Country had a SOFA Status of Forces Agreement. In the Military we use Day month year and the Julian calendar.
Eating everything on your plate is a big thing in a TON of countries... but at a Filipino gathering, gather your own plate, start small. Those gatherings, it's very impolite to not eat everything on your plate, so, I always brought my mom's tried-and-true to everyone food & brought something for the Filipino in-laws to try (and chicken adobo, pancit, and lumpiang are generally, good to everyone who likes awesome chicken & rice, noodles, and eggrolls - but most Filipino egg rolls are ground pork based with some veggies).
Spray cheese with crackers are so good
You too have the best sibling chemistry 😆
Moral of the video....'Merica!!!
Louisiana and the states north of it were all once a French colony, but it was sold to America by Napoleon in order to help fund the nepoleonic wars. When the land was sold, many french citizens stayed behind which is why Louisiana is still culturally very french up till today.
Michigan into Florida (Interstate 75) is around 24 h drive directly N to S
I commented on the one you did by yourself, but I like the fact you included your brother in this one as well. (I have even commented on that old video you did before lol, but I went more in depth this time). With that being said, as I said, I really liked you had your brother react to this along with you. My brother and sister are the two closest people in my life, and anything either of us finds interesting, we usually share with the other which reminded me a lot of this video. I've watched your videos since you were a very small channel, so keep on doing your thing man. I don't think you have gotten the chance to visit the states, despite your many videos on it, but if you ever do and are near the Chicago IL area hit me up. I'll be happy to chat with you and buy you drinks all night. 😆 Keep the awesome videos coming, it makes people like me who are beginning to hate this country (started in 2016 with the election of the 🤡) appreciative just a little bit more lol.
Yup, no paid vacations when you're your own boss. I feel your pain, Mr. Thurston's brother.
As others have said, servers at decent, busy places can easily pull in more in tips than they could at a "reasonable" higher base wage.
High school (American) football players regularly play in front of a few thousand people on Friday nights. It's fun.
I was born and raised in Waterford, Ireland. I then moved to the USA when I was a young teenager, and I have mostly lived in Missouri. For size reference: Missouri is 62,715 square miles/112,195.42 square km and Ireland is only 32,595 square miles/52,456.47 square km. So the state of Missouri is nearly twice the size of Ireland, and it is only one of the 48 continental states (and Missouri is not even close to being one of the largest states)!
I just looked at a trip to the UK and from the Washington DC area a flight to London and Hawaii are about the same cost depending on the time of year but it can take up to a day traveling to get to Hawaii vs 10 hrs to the UK, just for context. Also, we don't have livable wages so it can take years of planning to afford more than a road trip or a few states travel for many people. Lastly, there are a few US cities that are frequented more than most because the airlines are able to offer cheaper rates due to the ability to fill the planes and have multiple trips daily maximizing profit. So for example going to Las Vegas is usually very cheap no matter where you are in mainland US.
Some people have a 2 hour daily commute (from Oakland to San Francisco, mostly due to traffic)
Phoenix to Vegas, San Diego or LA by car is roughly 5 to 6 hrs. (depending on speed). 1 way.
"I think insurance covers it" bro I fucking wish
What's ironic is that the word "soccer" is actually something the British came up with and used for a while. Now they look down their nose at it and say anyone that uses it is wrong. It's their word! Lol.
My 30-year-old son has a rock band and to support his habit he's a server at one of the most famous and busiest cafes in Nashville. It's a southern style home cooking eatery. They do a whopping business and he makes a lot of money in tips. Good servers in popular restaurants can make 300-500 a nigh easy,t especially during tourist season. It's not a fortune but it's a good amount of money where we live you can certainly Live well on that.
You guys were chatting when they were explaining why a lot of people who are servers and who eat out a lot don't want to see the system change. If the restaurants raise the base pay observers, that will pass that increase along to the customers by charging more for the food you order. They would have to make up the different somewhere. So either way you're going to pay it. Would you rather the extra money go into the pocket of the server or into the pocket of the owner?
You should look up the cannonball run. It’s a race from NY TO LA. Last time I heard about it, I think someone did it in 26 hrs
Most Americans don't even like spray cheese. But there are many Americans and if enough of them like something it won't just go away.
Here are some medical related trivia unique to America - 1) We don't have socialized healthcare (surprise, surprise). We're one of the only developed nations without it. 2) Most boys in the United States are circumcised when they're born (over 50%).
a lot of the time it's not that Americans don't want to take a vacation it's that the average employee can't afford it since there is no requirement for vacation days to be paid
At 4:09 lav luka becomes a waiter in a fancy suit serving champagne lol
Yes, I was hoping I wasn't the only one who saw that!
Only reason I don't take more vacations is because when I go on vacation, I want to go somewhere nice and that requires money. I tend to save up for a vacation over 2 years and then I really only get about 7 days in a row off so I can't go far.
Insurance doesn’t always pay for medication. It can be very expensive.
My sister was a waitress for a while at a high end part of my city where many rich people lived and retired too. She made bank for years there.
4:07 pretty fancy looking suit you got there ;D
The fastest time driving from New York to LA is 26 Hours And 28 Minutes.
Date order in the US: Actually, there is both a very simple, and oddly logical reason for the way the US does dates as we do. It comes down to a linguistic quirk that ended with the second great vowel shift, and the way we do dates was independently derived linguistically rather than following a British trend.
If we go back to the colonial era, the date was always presented year month day. You might read a date from that era as; "In this the Seventeen hundred and first year of our Lord, August the First." Which, if written out was, 1701-08-01. However, during the second great vowel shift in the US the date was rearranged and dropped "...the year of our lord." So by 1830 most people would have said: "This day, August first, 1830". This shift was translated into numerical dates, 08/01/1830, and as a format it stuck. The particular cause for the shift isn't exactly known, but it is likely to do with the politics of the time. The US Constitution and the Framers of the country found religious regiments abhorrent, even going so far as to write the First Amendment which outlawed a State Religion. So former linguistic constructs, such as "in this year of our lord" were dropped from formal political speech and that of course was presented to the public in published articles and laws.
Tipping may seem like you rely too much on people to be generous, but the truth is that _most_ people will at least tip 10%. That can add up really quickly, and actually lead to better wages than if you had an increased flat wage from the restaurant without tips. Bartenders can make great money from tips, too. We're talking like $300 a day. Of course it depends on the restaurant and the area, but even in the suburbs, a pizza delivery driver can make pretty good money, like $180/day. That's over $20 per hour for a fairly simple job. The only drawback to being a delivery driver is you do need specific coverage from car insurance, which can eat into those tips.
We also have Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. We go there a lot. Outside of America most common is Mexico as its right there so doesn't take up too much vacation.
My husband only gets a week of paid vacation. I just don't feel like that is enough for a job where you work 12-18 hours a day and sometimes only gets one day a week off.
We love food!!😍 Yummmmmmmm!!🤤 If you come to Ohio we live off of peanut butter and chocolate everything 🤣🤣🤣
A lot of Americans don’t travel abroad because there is so much to do and see here. Most college athletes started playing whatever sport they’re into at a young age. In college these guys or girls have been doing this all those yrs. hoping to make it to the pros. Sports period are big in the US. I was a paramedic for yrs. before I retired and I can definitely tell you that it’s expensive as hell to be treated and transported to a hospital in an ambulance. Yeah, I have to say I want drink anything that doesn’t have ice in it. I just don’t like room temp or hot drinks.
I’m a 42 year old American and have never had a passport in my life, I’ve only visited maybe 7 states in the USA lol
FYI, Soccer is actually an old British term.
When I was in the military I was stationed close enough to home I could drive on a 4 day weekend....it was 11hrs 1 way. That's midwest logic.
I feel like our fast food cups might be bigger because we love tons of ice in our drinks. Also, our own military writes the date day,month,year. I don't understand that one
Army veteran here, we write the date as year, month and day.
@@boricuadude26 you are right. Army vet and I spaced that one I've been out since '10.
@@labhrais6957 😂 Don't blame ya! I've been out since 14 but I still up to this day use this format of year, month and day 😂
The energy between you two is infectious.
You guys missed the part twice and not rewind that we tip because good service and it is custom because of the server's wages but food is a lot cheaper than man nations
I’ve had both warehouse and office jobs. I got 15 days starting off (which is 3 weeks) + 12 paid holidays to start, and once I hit 4 years I got 20 days (4 weeks).
The main reason I’ve rarely traveled internationally is that it’s too expensive. I’ve never even been to New York or California in the 31 years I’ve been alive. The best vacation I can get is Destin Florida or Myrtle Beach South Carolina 😂
As someone who waitressed my way through college.......I made a LOT more money and worked way fewer hours because my tips were amazing. A lot of food workers would flip out even if you paid them another 10 bucks an hour. I easily made $20 a table and averaged about 3 tables an hour......sometimes only two.....but even two tables an hour was better than any full paying job I could get and work only 20 - 30 hours a week. They think they're doing big things by offering people $15 an hour.....forget it. For folks at drive through places they absolutely deserve it.....but for those waiting on tables......leave them alone!
Vacation: many of us in America are living paycheck to paycheck and even if we have paid time off saved up we can't afford the cost of travel. Some feel pressured to not take time off by their employees and coworkers. Especially if you work for a small business with limited employees, taking a week off can put your coworkers in a tough spot trying to cover your work. I've traveled very little outside of the American southeast. I've never traveled west of St Louis.
Americans do always wish they could go to Europe for vacation in France and Berlin, London its usually just more financially doable to go somewhere close
I love the fam 🔥🔥 keep ya bro in he’s cool. You both are legends🥶