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I don't know who filmed the fruit and veg section, but as an American I have to correct that. We have enormous fruit and veg sections in our supermarkets! We also have farmers markets and road side stands. The film provided above had to take a lot of searching to find. I have never seen any produce section of any supermarket that is that weak and paltry in my entire life. Other than that, yes, I do love peanut butter, and no, we don't get enough vacation days in the US. When I was in school, we were told the metric system existed, but we weren't taught it. However, we were taught the Dewey decimal system which is now defunct. Looks like the drinking age can be attributed to the UK.
I didn't get that either We have so many farmers markets as well as grocery selection it's normally the first area upon entering store and it's massive and I live in Cleveland.
I was taught the metrics system in 5th grade in PA
@@jacobjones4766 me too
It looks like that was taken from Foodland, Fastcheck, or another very small store, very misleading.
Hear hear. The main difference in America vs anywhere is size. But then you also have to consider that a produce section with less than 5 different types of apples or onions is considered insufficient.
The only thing I learned from this video was that everything weird with America can be traced back to England. IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
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Fruit and Veg is usually the first large section of a grocery store and they're usually cheaper than processed foods. Farmers Markets and Farm Stands are big too. I suppose it's regional. Peanut Butter became very popular because of the protein. If you couldn't afford meat it was another cheaper way to give your kids protein.
Yeah peanut butter is probably the equivalent of ovamaltine and Vegemite in the states, it's cheap, tasty and has a decent shelf life. It originally became quite popular with the troops as well
Peanut butter is popular because it tastes good.
It’s because of how we verbalize dates, we don’t say “it’s the 5th day of October” we would say”it’s October 5th” so that for me is the most logical reason we use the mm/did/yyyy system …. We are also jackasses sometimes so who knows jaja
I get that but nobody is ever confused about what month it is unless you're a meth addict 😆
@@KevinKillaKam You would be surprised. Some people work a ton of hrs each week like 80+ hrs and so sometimes you do not even know what day it is, and near the end of the month, it can get confusing. It is like you wake up, eat, drive to work, get home, eat, go to bed. Do that week after week and it is pretty easy to not know what day or even month it is, your mind and body just kind of go on Auto-Pilot.
@@aj897 idk happens to me quite a bit but I also used a lot of drugs so that’s probably why😅
@@aj897 Today is October 30th two days from now it will be November 1st, SO a person who works 80+ hrs a week can not only forget what day it is but also not realize that it is no longer October. maybe you should go back to school since you have trouble understanding simple concepts. Also ever hear of people going on 3-month expeditions to the artic, or into the Amazon Jungle or some other remote location on Earth? I am not saying you are stupid, you are just not putting ANY thought into what it is you are saying. Also, there are millions of people who are homeless, who not only don't know what day it is but what month it is. PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO THE THINGS YOU TYPE.
It's October 5th would be mm/dd, so yyyy/mm/dd which is the best system by far.
Tiny fruit and veg sections in US supermarkets? Not in any that I've ever seen. In fact, most tend to be larger than European ones and the prices tend to be better. The US produces a lot of its own produce, whereas most smaller countries need to import.
we also have a much larger variety
If you’re an American we on half of a vast continent so the need for international travel is not as high. We can travel to different parts of our country, thousands of miles from where we live and see totally different things.
Yep. Especially since we can travel to places like the Keys, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and other possessions without a passport, use the US dollar, speak a common language and are protected by US law which we are familiar with. I'm not against foreign travel at all, what does suck is the lack of all-inclusive US options.
@@craigchastain7016 exactly, if we want big exciting cities we can find them, if we want huge vast mountain ranges we have those, if you want the desert you can find them, if you want beautiful beaches those are around, if you want swaps or grasslands we have it all. You can stay in America, remain safe, have your health insurance available and know that you’re going to have a great time and not have to spend the money to go hundreds of miles over oceans to find something fun to do.
American supermarkets have enormous fruit and vegetable sections- this is silly
But the fruits and vegetables are not always cheap, is what I think it was saying. It was talking about our “weight problem,” but was explaining that for the majority, it costs less to eat the unhealthy foods.
@@marief8584 that’s because most of us don’t have time to cook 🤦🏾♀️ if you work more than 40 hrs a week then you don’t have time to cook every damn night
@@MishaSims I’m not disagreeing with you. I average in about 54 hours a week with only one day off - not necessarily by choice - and I certainly don’t want to come home and cook, for sure! I’m not excluding myself from the masses. It’s definitely easier for sure to just pick something up on the way home, or do a quick and easy meal that’s not necessarily as healthy as it could/should be.
Agreed. Dave just LOVES it when America is dissed. He joins right in with his backhanded compliments, if you can call it that. 👎
In general football is huge! Even High School (especially in Texas where I live). I went to a local high school game with my dad and it was first responder night. An Air Evac helicopter flew in to deliver the game ball for a High School game!
That’s insane. Who footed the bill for that? The taxpayers clearly.
That's cool, and my high school literally did the same for our rivalry game, it delivered the rivalry trophy.
In South Florida the Miami Dade vs Broward County highschool ALL STAR game is a huge deal, with local celebrities showing, and other "interesting types" with large all cash gambling happening right there in the stands, it's a big deal because South Florida produces so many future NFL stars.
@Natdl I agree. Let the rest of the states vote on it. We don't need that place.
The only issue i have with Collage football is, they need to be paid
Drug ads here in the states are a common source of humor for us.
Also, Age 21 is also a thing because scientists apparently found through long studies that body development is considered to be enough to handle alcohol without negatively altering brain development, which was also discovered around the time that 25 was considered to have been the completed adult development age.
Not to mention the death rates caused by drunk driving, and the cost of hospitalization and highway repair. After all, it was highway funding that was threatened to be taxed. Money is almost always the main motivator.
@@madeincda Oh please you are crafting a false narrative, the highway funding is simply an easy and adjacent form of leverage.
Sources? Since when do politicians use science?
@@andrew348 You don't have a day job do you? Put the bottle down and step away from the monitor... hahaha
@@andrew348 You are wrong on this. Highway funding is directly related to how those roads are used. Speeding fines, traffic tickets, DUI tickets, all that money goes towards the Highway funding. States use those funds to repair roads, build new ones, and build bridges.
In my lifetime, the drinking age has gone from 21 to 18 then 21 again. I think they raised it due to drunk driving deaths among 18 to 21 year olds. Americans drive more and farther than Europeans.
I think there even more DD deaths when you include 16-17 year olds. There were plenty of 18 year olds that were(are) still in high school.
And we dont have that much public transportation in some places so driving is the only bad choice one has
@@marioelburro1492 I know it's terrible. That's what people don't understand especially in small town America. They're like, "Why would anyone ever drive drunk, just Uber or Taxi or Public transport." They don't know that's not an option. It's either drive or you don't go.
Age limits won't prevent people from drinking.
@@copperhead6132 If you have a good fake ID.
"6 inches mate" a modern classic quote! I look forward to your videos every day as a bright spot in an otherwise awful world. Thanks for the laughs guy's!! Cheers mates!
Daz just secured himself the best wait staff around town to serve him now.
He'll be the Pied Piper
BROOOO I NEED THAT PROFILE PIC MY IRISH BROTHER!!!! AND THE NAME. MAGNIFICENT!!!!
@@vinniewheeler5441 appreciate that.
We were taught the metric system in high school. I remember the teacher telling us that we really needed to learn it because the US would convert one day. That was over 40 years ago.
I remember we were taught it for science class and science class only, then once I graduated, I immediately forgot cause the science teacher said it'd basically be useless unless I got a job in science.
lol, I just commented, that I was told the same back in the 70s and it still hasn't happened.
Yeah, science is the only place you'd use metric. In engineering you will until you get a job and then you realize that engineers only use US standard lol.
The whole video is a hit piece full of stereotypes and misinformation. For example, they said we use the imperial system. The US does not use the imperial system and never has used the imperial system. We have never used any standardized measurement system other than the US customary system, which was developed just a few years after the metric system. Before that, colonies used a hodgepodge of measurements, not standardized system was in place.
As a waitress if my tips had been stopped and my employer had DOUBLED my hourly wage I'd have made dramatically LESS money. I loved my tips and they got me through college.
I worked in food service and got no tips. I got a higher wage. That was a much better system.
@@themoviedealers That was a better system for you. Many waiters prefer the tip system. You literally are ignoring what the OP said: she prefers a higher income via tip than a higher wage.
A lot of things differ from state to state because the states have powers that the federal or national government can't take away from them. It stems from the fact that the states (the original 13) existed before the national government, and they created the national government. The Constitution that they wrote gives the national government certain powers, and then reserves anything not specifically granted to the federal government to the states. That's a big reason why in some cases the states have different rules, because in those areas they can decide for themselves.
@Natdl I'm sure many people outside of the US don't know that. Why should they? But I wrote it for the three blokes from England, who might not know that.
I hate the cup comparisons. They may be larger, but they're packed with ice in the US.
As an American I think a better guage of travel is to ask if an American has visited other states.
With most American companies there are standard yearly given holidays (between 10-12) and earned vacation days. New employees can receive 2 weeks a year. Depending on years of service, additional weeks are added. I currently have 6 weeks + 12 holidays yearly. I have a passport but have only left the country twice and never to Europe. There are so many offerings in each state (even seasonal) and there are more I plan on visiting. Very satisfied.
Yea, some Americans aren't aware of this and non-Americans definitely aren't aware of this. My brother works in finance where he's been with the same company for a few years. His vacation is almost equal to mine (8 weeks). It's not nearly has bad as people make it out to be. It's definitely "ya gotta earn it" mentality. Many don't like that - they want it as a national standard.
I work in public schools as a school social worker so technically I have 8 weeks "off." Now, I choose to work part-time during these weeks because why not - I either do summer school or work for a private agency to do therapy. It ain't bad at all. Some summers I did choose to travel where I dedicated 4 weeks to International l travel and then two domestically.
I’m in my first year at my company and I get 7 days of PTO/Vacation days and 40 hours of flex time. That’s it
In Delaware, there is no sales tax. But next door in New Jersey, sales tax is 7%. I live across the River from Delaware and the sales tax in just my county is only 3.5% to discourage us from crossing the bridge to buy everything in DE. FYI, I can go to DE to buy a car but NJ taxes me when I register and tag it here in NJ.
I think most states do that car tax thing, California for sure.
@@surviver5738 It is because the system has in place a rule that "you" cannot be taxed twice on your labor. Some states have a sales tax, a "voluntary" tax on what you want to buy and in others they have a wage tax. In some states, like California, they say F you and do both.
BTW: Rereading that I felt I sounded like a right wing hater of Cali..I am not. Just stating the facts. Cali is breaking the rules taxing people twice. They even have an entertainment tax which is a higher tax if it is something not "necessary" like eating out or going to the movies.
The sales tax in say, Salem and Cumberland County, is half of the state sales tax because of how many people live in poverty. Not because they don't want you swimming across the Delaware Bay. lol
@@04m6gto NJ has the highest property tax in the country. Maybe start there. And the DE Memorial Bridge crosses the DE River. Not a bay. And Cumberland County?? The poverty theory makes sense.
0% tip - very poor service
10% tip - below average service
15% tip - good service
20% tip - very good service
25% tip - exceptional service
And I don’t care what Cornell U says, traveling abroad I can tell you that service in the US, or even in US restaurants abroad, is much better than foreign waiter service, and I’m certain tipping is a major factor in that.
Totally agree. What a moron saying that monetary incentive doesn’t work lol
That’s true. My state’s NFL team is 4.5 hrs away whereas my town’s university arena is 5 minutes from my house. My own alma mater is only an hour from me
18:26 Firat time I saw anybody walk into The Office Blokes Dungeon 🤣🤣 🚪
scared me at first lol
I’m in Canada, and I’ll always say the month before the day first!
As a fellow Canadian, I agree. But, as usual, Canada always gets ignored. Everything is ALWAYS JUST ABOUT THE US.
@@terryomalley1974 Want some cheese with that whine? Thanks for hockey, btw. THE BEST SPORT EVAH !! 🏒
@@TheRapnep No whining
It's true. Canada always gets overlookes compared to the States, because the US is bigger and noisier.
When I was working in London a few years ago, the date thing became an issue. Someone saw my birthday was 11-5 and thought I was born on May 11th, but it's actually November 5th. Bought me a cake, surprised me with a little birthday party. It was a little awkward, but in the end funny. We converted it into an anti-birthday party and had a blast anyway. Oh I also learned that day that my birthday was on Guy Fawkes Day.
Remember remember the 5th of November!
That's my birthday too, Scorpio! 🦂
They just changed the age requirement to buy tobacco products in US from 18 to 21 recently as well
What they fail to mention is a lot of Americans don’t leave the us because of how large it is. In Europe the countries are small and numerous international travel is common there because of this. Driving from Paris France to Zurich Switzerland would be like someone in America driving from New Orleans to Atlanta. Also there are tons of different climates and cultures around the country as the United States is built by immigrants. And I think at least for me personally with the sad state of the world at the moment why take the risk of traveling to countries where you aren’t as safe as at home.
When I was a child in school in the 60s we were told to get ready for the imminent switch to the metric system. I'm still waiting.
Make sure to duck and cover too.
It was abandoned in the 70s.... there's more than enough information out there of the USA Federal government trying and people just not caring, so they dropped it.
To me month before the day makes sense because I want the less transient number in a string of dates first so it's easier to organize. But I don't know if it's easier to organize simply because that's the way I've always done it. YYYY/MM/DD actually accomplishes this best, but you don't really include year that often anyway.
Yup, year first doesn’t make sense at all as the year doesn’t really matter unless the date you are looking for is over 1 year away. Personally I think day first or month first both are fine and if people are upset about it they should get over it.
As someone who worked in the restaurant industry, I pretty much always tip 20% even if the service is just so-so. Waitstaff tend to be paid pretty poorly in the US, and dealing with customers all day can be exhausting.
What happens if a tourist just doesn't tip? Or forgets to etc.
Does America not have a minimum wage ?
If the workers dont get enought tips to reach minimum wage employers do have to make up the difference. They tend to make well over minimum though in bigger restaurants
@@iejejduc8379 if they don’t make enough tips to get minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hr, the restaurant has to make up the difference, we also talk major shit about the fuckers that don’t tip
@@iejejduc8379 in my restaurant I have to share my tips per $100 In food I sell its around $7.25 per hundred if I don't get tipped I have to pay that $7.25 out my own pocket
Taxes are really different from location to location, by design:
1. A state may vote on a 0.5% sales tax to fund any number of services, and a 0.05% tax on cannabis to fund infrastructure
2. A county (within that state) may vote to tax gasoline, dining and hotel stays 0.25% to pay for a new NFL stadium
3. A city (within that county) may vote to tax alcohol and tobacco 0.15% to fund the fire and police departments
4. A special district (within that city) may vote to repeal an old 0.05% tax on soda
5. A local public school district (partially inside that special district of that city, and partially outside of the city and unincorporated) may vote to tax everything 0.1% to build a new middle school
6. etc., etc.
You may drive into a new state that has no sales tax, but a local school district there passed a 0.01% levy to pay to install lights for night games at the High School football stadium. The next school district might have passed the same tax, for the same reason, but as a property tax, and no sales tax -- there are infinite scenarios.
When you buy something, all taxes relevant to each item purchased in the particular location is tallied up, resulting in the actual tax rate for each item at the time of the sale. And, any of those taxes can change anytime there's an election at any of those municipal levels with a vote involving sales tax(es)...
If you owned 3 gas stations on the same road, each 5 miles apart, you may have to charge a different tax rate at each one for gasoline, a different one for groceries/food at each, a different one for soda at each, and a different one for alcohol/tobacco at each. It gets complicated really quickly, but it's nice that the local residents can decide, by voting, what's important to them and what's not.
I think the confusion is a small price to pay for that level of control over the process. On the other hand, visitors don't see any of the benefit. They just get the confusion, and I get why it's annoying, but tough! Figure it out! 😁
There are a few very important reasons why the drinking age in America is higher than in other countries. First, it is a scientific fact that the human prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that can assess risk vs. reward, isn't fully developed until a human is 25 years old. Secondly, this is a big country, and because of that America is a culture of highways and driving, frequently long distances. In the United States in 2020 there were over 42,000 fatal car accidents, and the fatal crash rate per mile driven for 16-19 year-olds is nearly 3 times the rate for drivers ages 20 and over. Risk is highest at ages 16-17. The number of under 20's that cause accidents or have non-fatal but injurious accidents is even higher. Adding alcohol to the mix makes it even deadlier. The drinking age of 21 is not out of punishment, but of health, survival, and economic cost. However, the undeveloped prefrontal cortex aspect is perfect for sending 17-21 year olds to war, hence the enlistment age. Therefore the idea that "if you're old enough to go to war you're old enough to drink" doesn't hold water in American society.
So ur gonna say it’s okay for 17-20 year olds to risk their life and psychological health because politicians can’t agree and/or want to line their pockets but they can’t have a drink because of other irresponsible drivers. When drunk driving how long ur on the road for, many DUI accidents happen within the first 25 mins. of the drive.
@@nallymannebach7933 Well Mr. or Ms. under 25, I didn't necessarily say it was "ok", but the reasoning has always been logical. How many Americans lost their lives in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021? That would be 2400. How many people lost their lives on US highways between those years? Almost 400,000. More than half (many more) of all car accidents are caused by those under 21. So, which is more dangerous to 17-20 year olds, war or automobiles?
@@helgar791 Just about. And even without the loss of life and limb, you have the issue of those highways and byways being clogged up while the messes are cleaned up.
i always thought the reason we write it mm/dd/yyyy was for organization. for example if i had many papers that were dated and i wanted them in chronological order, narrowing it down to the month being first because there are only 12 months in a year in stead of the on average 30 days in a month would be faster.
Finally, someone else that understand a dying system
We in the US use the metric system more than we (and others) realize.
do you work on foreign cars?
Absolutely... like soda is in metric like 2 liters, 20 ounces... all meds are in metric 20cc... even our cars have 4, 6 liter engines and we get gas in metric units! We just don't think about it cause we're so use to the imperial system!
If I remember correctly, the rover mixup was due to parts being made by different companies, and some of the companies did the parts in metric, and some in imperial.
Mike-"Or 10. He said between 10 and 20 percent.'' Daz "Do 20, mate." Had me rolling... lol
Don't forget we also have bad ass mountains! I don't leave the state of Colorado very often. But I love the mountains and Colorado is one of the best in the lower 48 state's. And there's plenty of the state I still haven't seen yet.
I'm Canadian and would jump at a chance to visit Colorado. That place looks incredible 😍
Montana is right up there, the Yellowstone and glacier parks are sights definitely worth seeing
I have lived in Alaska for 15 years n only saw half of the state as of how big the state is. The mountains are beautiful.
defending the month going before the day: for office/ organizational purposes it makes sense. like, youd never need to comb through a list of receipts and match them up by the day they were bought, youd do it by month. so it makes sense to have that first
"Unlike fun sized European countries" damn this dude straight up dissed a whole continent
The fruit and veg sections of our supermarkets are sometimes larger than entire European grocery stores.
Yeah, I don’t know about prices, but US has massive vegetable markets.
Yeah, like so many others I don't know why the video commentator suggested otherwise. Sounds like a personal agenda to me. In this country there are massive supermarkets with equally massive fruits and vegetables sections. Plus, there are farmers markets everywhere. It appears this guy went to the closest convenience store to do his filming.
NASA was working with Lockheed Martin. NASA used metric units, and Lockhead assumed Imperial units. So the orbital thrusted were programmed using Imperial units, and this inconsistency caused the crash. $125 million mistake. I think it was in 1999.
This happens alot. WHen they built one of the first stealth fighters the fly by wire computer system was programmed backwards where up and down was left and right. ON the planes first flight the pilot pulled back on the stick to go up and the plane immediately flew off to the right and crashed
The vacation days in America vary upon where you work. Some places you have to earn then. 1 week after a year. 2 weeks after 2 years but then can only take a week at a time which makes it difficult to travel very far. Then people who have low pay/ minimum wage jobs get none at all.
I know at my old job, I got a week after a year, and then I was allowed two after FIVE years, three after ten. Fifteen years, and you had to cash in on that last one. They didn’t allow you to take them back to back, you had to separate them throughout the year. I could barely travel even if I wanted to because we didn’t receive our schedules until - literally - the day before. It was hard to make plans if you didn’t even know if you’d GET your vacation. You’d more or less have to verbally fight them in order to be able to those vacations because the turnover rate was so high. They didn’t have enough dependable employees that those who HAD been with them for years were denied having the time off more often than not, and this resulted in burnout and eventually a mass walkout. If they treated their employees better, they would HAVE more employees that would stick around.
@@marief8584 yeah, I never knew for sure either We would have to request vacation time at least 3 months ahead.. They would cancel your vacation time you put in for if work got busy.
@@briankirchhoefer Same. Knowing we had to separate them, we’d put in our vacation request forms at the beginning of the year (by that, I mean the anniversary date of when we were hired, which starts our “year” over) We’d try to space them out evenly - every 3 to 4 months or so - but if one was denied, it’d push all the others’ back as well. If we came up to the end of our “year” and a vacation hadn’t been used, we’d lose it because they didn’t roll over as other companies might do. We’d get paid for them at least. But for those of us long timers, we were denied our vacations more often than not the last few years. What we decided to do when we DID get our vacation denied is, we’d put in for the next week, and then the next and so on until we were finally approved. Then the pandemic hit. Remote wasn’t available for our job and a lot of people quit. The rest of us were averaging 60+ hours of work, lucky to get one day off each week. This is what exacerbated the burn out and the eventual loss of their best and most dependable employees. We’d gotten ONE $50 “hazard pay” towards the beginning of the pandemic and that was it. The longer the pandemic stretched out and soon we were receiving less than a penny a day for our work through it.
The drinking age was an issue because of having young drivers have booze and driving. When I live in Arizona they lowered the voting age to 18. My 1st vote was for the drinking age to be lowered to 19. When I was 21 I voted to have it raised to 21. After loosing my 1st wife in a car accident involving a teenager who had been drinking.
I don’t think I know a single person who actually waited until they were 21 to get drunk. Even law enforcement don’t typically do much for minors other than have your parents come get you.
Florida takes underage drinking very seriously.
My husband's dad is from Portugal so we went there 2 years ago to visit their family and it was amazing!
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to see Mike suddenly appear or disappear in the middle of a video.
To make it even more confusing our military still write the date, day/month/year. I worked on a air force base in high school and learned this way.
Sales tax is different presumably because there are different standards of living in different states. Also, if you live in a state, you’re likely to already know how much sales tax is. Like I live in Georgia and I know sales tax is 7% for standard goods. It’s 3% for food products. So I really can calculate how much it’ll cost before I get to the register.
the saddest part of the pill commercials are the anti depression drugs that have the side effects of suicidal thoughts and depression 🤔 luckily i refuse to take a pill.. because they don’t care if i die 😂
Drug dealing came up and Daz looked straight at the cam. I see ya homeboy!
Yeah. I've noticed this in the past.
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Dave had a point. The voting age used to be 21 but you only had to be 18 to goto war. So they passed the law of 18 to sign up for service, 18 to vote, and most places 18+ with a military ID, at least in the south, they’ll let you drink in certain places.
I enjoy these kinds of videos. They are always enjoyable to watch. Thank You for sharing these videos with us.
8:12 Daz was complaining about 6 hours in coach to Turkey, and I laughed because flying coast to coast in America takes 5-6 hours of flight(mostly due to very few direct flights from coast to coast. Most have layovers in a city in the middle somewhere.)
Here in the US vacation days go by job rank. Entry staff get 10 days in larger companies. Later on people get 15 or 20 with seniority. Senior corporate executives Vice President or higher usually get a calendar month, 22 days, 25 day or even 30. Some government employees get more and "roll over" the unused vacation and may have 100 paid days or more stored up at the time retirement and cash these in at age 65. So again this is misleading. You negotiate this at the time you are hired so you don't lose days off when you switch jobs- if you had 20 days at your former job and interview at a new company they'll match that 20 even if other people in that job have 15
I can tell people who complain about the non-standardized 30 day vacation days in the US probably have never worked for a private company in their entire life, at least not long enough to know such things. Or they're just working minimum wage jobs OR are too young to gain some proper perspective.
Nailed it. Americans don’t travel internationally because the country is so big and there’s so many places to see.
Yes , but because those places are quite similar ( culture, food, people habit, scenery, ambience ), it makes americans are not exposed to diverse way of thinking and usually experience the most culture shock when travel to abroad ,even just go to europe ( aka most judgemental/arrogant tourist, sorry )
USA basically only have 2 face : east coast n west coast in term of scenery, but everything are basically the same
@@moshesafdie8628
"but because those places are quite similar ( culture, food, people habit, scenery, ambience ), it makes americans are not exposed to diverse way of thinking"
You assume that there isn't much diversity in thought in the US. You also assume that those who travel actually engages in ideas different than their own - this is a false assumption that should be stomped on. People travel to mainly relax, take social media pictures, eat good food, drink alcohol and just wander around foreign cities. That's ironically quite a similar pattern to vacationing.
"and usually experience the most culture shock when travel to abroad ,even just go to europe ( aka most judgemental/arrogant tourist, sorry )"
This is also false. Now you're just pulling shit outa your ass.
"USA basically only have 2 face : east coast n west coast in term of scenery, but everything are basically the same"
Ironically you speak like someone who hasn't traveled to the US and gotten to learn about the country besides the east and west coast (even then your description is nowhere near accurate). You are what you claim Americans to be and to lack.
In an Italian American home lasagna is definitely a starter for most holidays and usually a ham is made too even on Thanksgiving
Where do you live? I want to eat at your family's house. I LOVE lasagna and make it far too often, yet not often enough. Ahhhhhh dammit, now I want to make it today.
my family's all Puerto Rican and even we do the same haha maybe my mom learned it from some Italian Americans. Her specialty meals are actually Italian too. Chicken Parmesan is my favorite
There's nothing better than having the grocery store clerk bag your groceries for you 😍
I got an ad on this video for the navy and it made me wonder, do other countries have adverts for service? I'm from an area with lots of military bases, so we will even get them before movies at the theatre.
Some winter ski resorts try to stay open till Independence Day. So you might be able do anything on a summer vacation.
Trust me id love to have 30 days of vacation lol and not every job offers vacation pay nor are they willing to give you anytime with out excuses why you cant take it
Same. I’d have no problem using 30 days of vacation!
They need to put "BANG OUT OF ORDER!" on a t-shirt LOL
International travel in Europe is kind of a given. It’s a bunch of tiny countries the size of our states smushed together with decent transportation connecting everything. We pretty much have to fly over an ocean to get anywhere besides Canada or Mexico.
Some small states parts of those states literally HIGH SCHOOL sports are more crazy than pros or college. "Friday night lights" hs football In Texas/South, some high school stadiums cost now 8 figures $10M+ and sell out of 10,000 seats every game.
I went to a local high school football game (in Denison, TX) and they had a first responder night and an Air Evac helicopter flew in the game ball.
The 50 largest HS stadiums in TX seat more than 10K, with the largest being just shy of 20K.
We tolerate more people than we should!
This is why you tip 20% at my restaurant as a server for every $100 in food I sell I have to tip out 3.5% to the busboy and 2.0% to the food runners, I also have to tip 5% of all alcohol sales to the bar.
So if that $100 bill had $30 in bar drinks
I have to give $5.50 to staff and $1.75ish to bar so I lose $7.25 off the bat, if I don't get tipped I have to pay for that out my own pocket.
That $20 tip ppl hate don't understand restaurants have the 2nd smallest profit margins behind grocery stores. If they paid us a "living wage that $100 bill would be way more than that $100+$20 tip.
Why do you have to tip out of your own pocket if you don’t get tipped? Wouldn’t everyone just be out of the tip? Doesn’t seem fair to you.
That sounds like some Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich action. I mean, you should have to tip out your bus and especially your runner because otherwise you should be doing that work. But the whole paying out of pocket things sounds highly sketch to me. Is that legal in your state?
When I bussed, I was constantly running food, refilling drinks, etc. Not to put the wait staff down, but, you took an order, put it in and maybe 2 times asked the table how they were doing.
As a software engineer, we tend to use YYYY-mm-DD HH:MM:SS.MS -- Largest unit -> Smallest unit. In normal life, month, day, year, baby 😀
This is the Best way to use time, and not just because it's how SQL servers want it. When I build reports I will add (mmm) to the end of the format as people screw up month and day frequently.
Have to agree Air travel was pleasurable, less crowded, in cabin food service ,many more flight options ,less crowded. The lines,security, cramped conditions, make for a fairly miserable experience even domestically. There used to be so many more direct flights. With less airlines ,less hubs,therefore more connections. . Almost easier to drive Didn't take your tone as British ,TRUTH.
Illegal tablets eh office bloke daz.
I knew it...I fuckin knew daz was a raver back in the day haha 😄
Regarding Americans traveling abroad…money and travel time are big factors as well. Not sure why the video suggests it as confusing.
In Illinois it was 19 in the 70s but Indiana the drinking age was 21. I grew up in Illinois and drank at home as well as at parties. Just not always in bars…🥴…but in high school friends & I went every weekend. Our bars are not the same as your pubs!
Some of these “facts” are completely incorrect. A typical US grocery store dedicates probably 20-30% of the whole store just to fruits and vegetables. Not just some small stand
That is not the case here in rural Illinois. Our produce section at IGA is quite small. We have to go to the farmers market on Saturdays or to the Amish if we want more options.
@@reecee2941 It's the Rural part, that's why. Smaller an area the harder it is to keep produce fresh because they don't have the proper population turnover required. I notice that here in Rural MN, if you go to a proper city the produce is always fresher, the expiration dates are further in the future, like if you're going to buy a bag of lettuce for easy salads in my hometown store you gotta pay attention to the the date pretty closely otherwise it's going to expire before the end of the week and you haven't even touched it yet.
Our kids in the US are able to drive at 15 and a license by 16-18 (when many own their first vehicle). Now this may not be a problem in smaller countries but in the US the roads traveled are very long and sometimes very busy. If your kid is 'buzzed' what little discretion they have can be lost. Kids can find work arounds to rules but not in as great a number as if you turn them all loose to drink at will. The MADD (mothers against drunk driving) movement kept everyone aware of why we need to keep the age limit. Teenage road accidents were once higher. Losing young teens by carloads has set restrictions to not allow young drivers to even have underage passengers in the car with them. The US is a automobile culture. We all have to have one vehicle, or two (maybe three or four!). We try to get our kids 'Road' savvy BEFORE the 'Drinking' skills. --I'm sure every country sets their standards by culture and even geography not just an archaic law. Protecting your young is not a exclusive US feature. No one should have to outlive their child if their society can help reduce the risks.
What the hell is so ‘confusing’ about peanut butter? Its ground up peanuts ffs 🤷♂️
Peanut butter is delicious and I will fight anyone who denies it
American GI’s can drink on base if they’re under age. Some states allow active duty GI’s to drink if they’re underage.
I’m 20 years old and American, all my friends are over 21 hanging out at the bars , so I never can really hang around after work . it is weird that you can smoke at 18 but drink at 21 , when 18 you can go to war , and both smoking and drinking at the end of the day can kill you , I have patience to have my first drink and I got one year to go so , no rush in my mind .
it has to do with drunk driving.
I personally don't find it weird but then again drinking alcohol was never a norm in my family let alone social circle. I did drink a couple of times underage during university , mainly because the alcohol was bought by someone 21 but still - as I matured I stopped asking people to buy me alcohol and just accepted it until I turned 21. Even then I didn't frequent the bars every weekend.
The whole "but I'm 18 and can go to war" I never found compelling. Two aren't equivalent, really, let alone not even the same thing.
As an American, I don’t get the prescription drug advertising. Most of the doctors I’ve had, had a bit of a smart ass about them and would ask where I got my medical training to decide what meds I should be taking!
Doctors hate those commercials even more than the average person. There's the expression, "they webmd'd themselves" when referring to patients who come go to their doctor claiming they have some crazy rare illness when it more often than not is something basic like a sinus infection. They have to take re-education courses every year to learn about new medical advances including new drugs, so they know much more than your average person, even when it comes to new drugs. After seeing patients like that everyday, it becomes incredibly annoying.
@@SomethingSeemsOff Also people are just genuinely fucking stupid, and lie to their doctors about shit to seem more manly or cool. Like cmon your doctor isn't gonna give a shit if you tell him you smoke marijuana, but he needs to know that if you're on certain meds.
College football is much older than the NFL, which is another reason why it's so popular. Many schools have rivalries that have been played for over 100 years, and ivy league universities have played every year for the last 136 years.
The drinking age is based automobile accident data and on brain development concerns. Deaths by automobile accidents are fewer because of the law.
Good point about the brain development part. 99% don't acknowledge that. They just complain that 21 is too high and point to Europe as "the way."
Tips, at least in America, started after slavery as a way to not pay African Americans a wage. It did allow them to eat but not thrive.
The biggest stadium in the US (#3 in the world) is the University of Michigan football "Big House" with a capacity of 107,600. The biggest NFL stadium is MetLife outside NYC with a capacity of 82,500.
talked to a legit hobo back in the day. while talking about life and the world, he said, ''well, people all do the same shit, just in a different way.''
Tipping has become more annoying with covid and cashless payments, with many checkout screens now asking how much tip you want to leave. A 15% tip for buying a doughnut seems high, and today I was asked if I wanted to tip at the carwash where a machine does all the work.
We tend to say "October 30th" rather than "the 30th of October" so we just write it in that order
Did you not watch the video? It literally says that.
True, with the notable exception of the 4th of July.
The drinking age was raised because of lobbying groups like mothers against drunk driving, because young people were dying in car accidents when they were driving drunk.
I love how they mentioned Americans eat 1 kilogram of peanut butter per year. As an American, I have no idea what a kilogram of peanut butter looks like, but I probably eat that.
My one brother was lucky. There was at the time a bar by the high school and the year before he was in his senior year/18 yrs old. So, on lunch he'd go to the bar.
consider this - many, many drug commercials don't even tell you what the drug's for but, on the other hand, liquor and cigarette commercials are prohibited.
Some people take advantage of different sales tax rates especially if they live near other state borders that have lower sales tax. For example: I live in North Carolina near the Virginia border, for big ticket items, it is worth a little trip to cross into Virginia for a lower sales tax. My county is 7% and the adjoining VA county is 5.3%.
I remember being drafted at the age of 18 in 1968. Even though I was trained to be an expert (got the medal) rifleman shooting cutouts of human beings I was 3 years from going into town and having a beer.
Sales tax varies by county. I grew up in Southern Saratoga county in NY. Sales tax there was 7%. But if you drove 3 miles southwest of my house you were in Rensselaer County the sales tax was 8%. 4 miles directly south and you were in Albany County, where the sales tax was 6%. You get so used to sales tax that you just calculate it or estimate it in your head. If your item is $49.99 you will pay $53.42 (most places that have sales tax keep it at 7%).
The month before the day comes from wall calendars. The US also isn't the only place to put the month before the day, Japan does too. It's just that Japan uses y/m/d... but often people in Japan leave the year off and just do m/d.
I started drinking at like 12, so did all my friends...we couldn't of course go to the bar, but we always had older people buying for us, and we just had party's back then or a group of us would go hide somewhere, and drink, also took my parents alcohol here, and there, and then blame my father when my mother asked about the alcohol...lol, hell even a few of us used to put vodka in iced tea cartons and walk around drinking it, and even took it on the school bus!!
Might want to add that Americans are confused as to why the rest of the world is so fascinated by such minor details about American life.
Basically this.
No other country is put under the microscope like the US - its politics and its way of life. It's not really fair, honestly.
If my immigrants parents from the East can make a living and get use to most of the cultural differences than many Europeans find "weird", then so can they.
Take for example the drinking age in the US being 21. That's literally a first world problem. To me, it really doesn't matter if it's lowered or stays the same.
As a Texan I've been outside the US but that was years ago. I've been to California because I have relatives there. However when I do go on vacation I stay mainly in the state. Remember Texas is three times the size of the United Kingdom. And there are still places in the state that I have not seen.
Holiday time... I live in michigan. Most ppl around the detroit area either vacation in Florida or we head north because summer here still can reach 100F.
I am American and I hear the same thing about tipping on all of these videos...I don't agree. There are a lot of Americans like me...you can screw up my order 6 times and if you are apologetic and friendly, you will get a tip. You can serve me the best food I have ever had but you are rude...you get nothing. I feel no obligation to leave a tip...earn it or don't, that is your choice.
10% would be considered an insult. Tip between 15 to 20%. 15% for good service, 20%+ for excellent service.
Americans use the metric system more often than most people think and all STEM fields use metric. And I've also notice a lot of UK people give directions in miles, and tend to express their height and weight in imperial.
For most of my 65 years, we Americans tipped 15% of the bill in restaurants. For exceptional service that goes up to 18-20%. In my area of the state, tax on food is 8%. I double the tax and add $1.00. So if the tax is $4.50 I tip $10. On another topic, I was legally allowed to drink at age 18 but later on that was changed to 19 and then eventually 21.
The nearest pro team of any sport growing up was over five hours away in Minneapolis, so I can attest that college sports were way more accessible (plus state rivalries aren't dependent on the whims of pro team owners)