I used to do a fair amount of business in London. I became friendly with one of my clients who would meet me out for a drink (or five) when I was in town. We were at a bar on the ground four at Lloyd's and she was telling me how rude her colleagues were in the Philadelphia office (e-mails) which was our intermediary. After a few pints, I told her that my e-mails sent within the US were totally different than those I sent to Europe. Then I forwarded a string of e-mail between me in Chicago and Philadelphia. She was astounded as to how 'brief' they were. They weren't rude, just 'American'.
I laughed when you said "bless your little cotton socks"! A few weeks ago I was explaining the meaning to my UK partner the meaning of "bless your heart" telling him that it could either be meant genuine or sarcastic and he says "ah, just as we say bless your little cotton socks." I laughed so hard as I had never heard this expression before and LOVED it! So this is officially the 2nd time I've ever heard this said 😂
I'm in DC and there are coyotes here too, pretty much everywhere really. I'd imagine many cats and small dogs have become easy dinners with so many pets around.
When I was living in South Korea, I was told very sternly on quite a few occasions that skipping over, in the interest of time, the seemingly endless circumlocution expected in Korean culture was "not the Korean way". I am extremely respectful of other cultures, but trying to curb my American directness became very stressful, especially since I was never intending to be rude just, well, direct. Then I made friends with Koreans and other foreigners who also got right to the point and it ceased to be an issue.
@@shoezomaku in japan, an easy way to think of it, is being respectful comes first before any friendliness or regular politeness would. Although as an american you probably have a pretty free range in most peoples eyes, as long as you aren't openly rude most will understand its cultural differences. Althouggh there will probably be awkward moments, thats par for the course of anyone experiencing a different culture haha.
I used to swear the same about my shelter cat. When there was a storm, my born-inside-never gone out princess was fine. But in general, she always wanted to be where I was, at least in the room. My shelter cat wasn't so needy, but whenever there was a loud storm, she would come running for and needed a snuggle.
@@LindaC616 Someone abandon a pregnant cat near my house. I gave away most of the kitten, and the mother (Word to the wise, fliers in gay bars. Double income, cry when their cat dies." I digress, so I have one cat, and he has live his whole life indoors. If he doesn't get out once a night, he loses his mind. I got a abondon cat. Once it got in my house, never wanted, or care about the outside. If I opened the door, if gave a look of disgust, and walked away.
@@Kikilang60 Yeah, they know..... A beautiful white kitty in my old neighborhood took a liking to me. If I left on foot, he'd follow me half a block, sit down and cry. Knew the sound of my car when I came home and would come running....the born inside peincess said "no other cats". When winter came, he was showing grease on his white coat (=sleeping under cars to stay warm, not good). I got the people next door to take him in (they put out food for strays, the reason he was there in the first place). Once inside, he was golden
My cats don't want out either. We do have a screen room that they like but it's fully enclosed. They were found near an abandoned house in town with about 20 of their family members. The shelter thinks a backyard breeder moved and left them all behind so they have had to fend for themselves before but I don't know how long. I think they remember this too and do not care to relive it.
@@BlackSmokeDMax You think it's fun with 2 teenage cats in the house? My wife and I see the head shrink every week. All he does is bark up a tree, and sniff things that got peed on. Good thing he is only on our weekly walking trail, and not daily. I tell ya, the labs now days think they run the world.
@Thirty-two Count Well thats your problem, you only have 1 cat. Cat's need friends. I think you need 1 more cat, from a shelter. Yes it will destroy your life, and take extra money. But with the proper training, your cat's will have you trained very well in a short amount of time.
In part, to stay 'on topic' I prefer direct & think "stop pussy footing around & get to it already!". I mean, be polite, sure, but direct, b/c it's rude for you to waste my time.... like I tell my mom. Yeah, sure it's polite for a guy to open the door for you, but would you thank them if they unintentionally knocked you down in the effort to get to the door first so they could open it for you? Would you thank him for that? Really? just sayin' (but the pussy footing around.... on topic ;)
I wish Canadians would do so. There is so much passive aggression and sarcasm disguised as being polite or avoiding conflict, but it's not polite to hide what you really think of a person! You're still being rude, just doing it to their back!
As a British person, I legit thought that corporate talk was just used in TV shows for comedic effect, I had no idea that people actually talked like that!
Dude I swear it's absolutely necessary because you wanna get straight to the point and be on top of everything while attempting to sound like you know your job. 😂
British here and have heard more corporate speak than my tiny brain could cope with, hence I have been corporate-less for a long time now. My favourites were "blue sky thinking", "I have a window", heard the "ducks in a row" more than a few times and too many more to mention without barfing up my cheese and biscuits. All this in the UK.
One of my staff members gets irrationally angry whenever a document is labeled a “tool”, as in, “Here’s a project scoping tool” when it’s just a pre-formatted Word template. The American workplace loves calling everything a “tool” and is all about people “expanding their tool kit.”
I felt the same way when I learned that some people actually do the cockney rhyming thing in their day to day life. I thought it was only something that was done for comedy in TV shows.
Yes, I currently have a cat who was horribly mauled by something when he was a stray; my husband found him torn and mangled by the river. He had to have a leg amputated. I thought for sure that he would have to be put down, but they fixed him up and he's a solid, big-eyed, purry fur-boy now. Part forest cat. I'm sure he got away from his attacker because he's huge with enormously long legs.
Exactly. Although I live in a suburban city, we have spotted coyotes and Bobcats in our neighborhood. On top of that, there are way too many dogs on the loose. So yeah definitely keeping our cat indoor. *And we live right next to the highway.*
Coons hung out on my deck in Oregon (and now here in Colorado) with our cats and never touched the cat or showed any sign of aggression toward it. Now our 3 cats are strictly indoors due to coyotes in Colorado.
Here it can be coyotes, foxes, bobcats, feral hogs, owls, venomous smakes, alligators, hawks, eagles, and feral or aggressive neighbor's dogs allowed to roam. It is rumored that we also have black bears that migrate through this area and black pathers that people swear they've seen. (Thankfully, I never have seen either.) We have the intersection of 2 major highways about a half mile away. Pythons are also occasionally caught out loose, and sometimes they are large. I imagine Florida has a worse problem with most of the above. Barn cats frequently dissappear. I also have my suspicions about our horrible neighbors - younger guys who often shoot in their back yard. I wonder how many barn cats have been killed by them.
You know what you don’t do every day? Laundry. American washers and dryers are large enough that you can wash once a week instead of daily because only 1 pair of pants fit in the machine.
In fast food, you still would have to wash daily or every 2 days, depending on your work schedule. This is because they don't usually give you enough clothes to last the week
I initially thought CBT stood for cognitive behavioral therapy too. I was then a bit surprised when I heard another set of words it stands for. Now I’m learning a new set.
BOTH times I've watched this one all I could think of for CBT was a BDSM term I learned while researching BDSM for a character in a story I was working on. C--- & Ball Torture.... so.... lol
The tipping thing extends to the North of Ireland. I tip each and every tour guide I come across, and imagine my shock when the Bucket woman scolded me for being generous to a teen who just finished her eighth tour of the castle, honestly, it ruined my whole day.
Bro wtf 😂 it's one thing to let someone know that tipping isn't customary or that it will bother the person you give it to, it's another to actively bitch out a customer for doing it. Especially to "the wrong person" or because they're "inexperienced" especially if they just did that good a job. That would just make me want to give them more while staring the mf dead in the eye
Friend of mine let our new kitten out and it was gone for a month, held captive by a neighbor’s child. That girl was a also in my 7-yo son’s reading class. He told the story in class of how his kitten ran away, then she told the story of how a magical Princess kitten ‘found’ her and was living with her for the past month. She would carry the Princess around in a milk crate filled with scraps of satin and lace, dance with her, and anticipate her every wish. Neither child knew we were neighbors. Girlfriend also didn’t know her mom had contacted the local rescue place in anticipation of dropping off HRH, because her other child was miserably allergic to cats. In a dream (this is a true story) my escaped kitten told me to go to the rescue place, which I’d not done before. Kitty wasn’t there, but I left them a description and my number. The very next day, I got a call from them directing me to the neighbor’s home. I collected Princess kitty who was so glad to be home that she slept in the same chair for an entire day, and never tried to escape again. Not run over by a truck, just exhausted from being treated like royalty.
In London, I saw an American tourist ask very directly, "how would I get to the closest Tube station? And the person replied about his abruptness, the Londond Eastender, said " I'm not your personal slave, why are you so rude to me." Lesson learned, when approaching a stranger with a question, say, "I was wondering, if you could be so kind..., or If it is not too much trouble, could you please ..., or It would be so helpful to me if you would give me directions, as I am lost, etc. Yes, American's are right to the point, direct, have no prologue, but when I was standing alone in NYC looking for my way, a total stranger stopped on his way to work, and approached me with, " Can I help you find where you need to go? " He wasn't even asked, but he stepped into my space and offered his assistance. Americans can be rude, abrupt and also direct and friendly to strangers. National characteristics.......
I used to work in a touristy area and often stopped to help tourists on my way to or from work, or when they stumbled into our office. However, I still wanted to kill them when they spread their whole group across the entire length of a crosswalk in front of my car (no traffic light).
That's bizarre I guess it's cuz I'm american but I would see no problem with a direct question with no preamble of trying to seem extra polite. Any rudeness would be conveyed through tone of voice. You could say "how would I get to the closest Tube station?" any number of ways with varying rudeness without changing the words at all, the words themselves don't seem rude at all to me on their own.
Americans would see it as rude to spend too much time getting to the point of interrupting a stranger. Or a work email that has a paragraph or two of niceties before getting to the request. Say hello, and what you need. Please and thank you are enough.
I, as a Dutch person, don't see that question as direct at all. We would just ask "where is the nearest...?" or "do you know where ... is?" or just skip the question part and say "I am looking for...". No please added and we say thank you once the directions are given although that gets forgotten sometimes.
I'm from the south in America, and we'd probably be a lot less direct and throw in some polite phrases. But I also wouldn't be offended by someone else being direct and unless they were asking something rude, I would never call them out like that.
I mean, when we were a colony, America drank tea like the UK. Then we all got a little pissed about taxes, tossed a bunch of tea in a harbor, and drank coffee out of spite.
Not an expert, but in my understanding: The ecological impact of domestic cats is a bit different in the US vs the UK because the UK has the very similar European Wildcat as a native species, so an outdoor housecat is less likely to make as big of an impact on the local wildlife since they are already adapted to the presence of small felines.
If you want to see serious corporate jargon, look no further than Japan! They have some of the most complicated multi leveled corporate communication in the world, and it's taken so seriously that if you get it wrong while talking to someone higher in the corporate ladder; it could get you fired! People coming to Japan for work usually takes up a class specifically to learn Japanese corporate lingo, even if they're already fluid in Japanese! "Gaijin Goomba Media" here on UA-cam made a fascinating video on this subject I'm not sure about the details but I've also heard of companies in Japan hiring people from the US as "the American worker", whose main roll is to speak with upper management in a direct way their Japanese co-workers can't do. Edit: Fixed my wording a bit. I've since learned that the word is "fluent" and not "fluid" XD decided to keep it because it might make someone else laugh too 😁
As a teen I lived in Japan for 3 years. The things my family did and said shocked our neighbors and I never understood why. One thing I noticed was their inability to come out with a NO. It was like the worst curse word possible. My brother once asked a friend, who usually arrived on a motor cycle, if he had a dog. He was at a loss for words and actually seemed distressed. He finally said "It is true that the dog...." and left. Days later he came back with a lovely black and white Akita loping behind him. They both looked so happy! Another day I picked some iris by a stream bed, not knowing they were an emblem of the Samurai. I heard a yell and turned to see 3 angry boys running toward me. For some reason I laughed out loud without covering my mouth. They stopped and looked at me with utter disgust, dropped their rocks and left. Sorry about the iris, but I wish I had kept those rocks. To me I was just hanging out in my own neighborhood but surely to them I was a revolting unfeminine foreigner dissing one of their symbols.
My wife and I have long enjoyed tipping as big as we possibly can, and then disappearing before the person gets it. I mean, like, $20. tip for a $5. meal. We especially like tipping people whose service was positively horrible. We figure they may be having a bad day, or, maybe, they might become ashamed of how badly they treated their customer. Nonetheless, it's a habit of ours.
That's thoughtful and sweet. I think wow you really made someone's day maybe week or month with that tip. Just think how much nicer they'll be to each person thereafter.
I'm not extravagant like that, but I will always tip regardless of the quality of service for that reason... who knows what type of day they are having. (and yes I tip a minimum of 15% to all servers) or what is going on in their life. In America when you look at the menu prices, you automatically should mentally add a minimum of 20% to the prices you see for tips and taxes. Anyone who doesn't is just a general a-hole.
I use "could you" and "would you mind" regularly. I think it's just a way to equalize the situation. As a supervisor I think that asking in a way where people feel like they have a choice makes it easier. "Please" is a must, but I lead with "could you". I just think it's more respectful to them.
When I lived in the UK (I'm American) people taking forever to get to the point drove me nuts. Kebab shops are direct, I love it. My mother in law (a Brit) loves to ramble and never get to the point. It's fascinating.
I am retired US military. My last trip to London I (and my wife) thought my head was going to explode when friends just wandered around the point of EVERY conversation AND NEVER GOT THERE. Wife said I actually turned purple a couple of times.
@@LindaC616 attempting to get high school age adolescents to cooperate...they think the hoops you are requiring them to jump through are ridiculous?!? Maybe they are....?
You have to talk about the grocery store experience. I am American and I lived in England. And the first time I went to the Tesco as the checkout clerk was ringing up my order I just stood there. And she sat on her stool and she stared at me. And she stared at me in not a very nice way. No one told me that in England you have to bag your groceries yourself. So we stood there staring at each other and she never said anything and finally the person behind me asked me if I wasn’t going to bag my groceries. As soon as they heard my accent they understood that I didn’t know the custom. And thankfully the Tesco was near Milton Keynes and there’s a pretty heavy population of Americans in that area in the computer jobs during Y2K. Also the fact that you have to put a pound in to get a cart and then you get the pound back when you return the cart. The first time I went to my local co-op I didn’t know what the deal was and I was struggling to get a cart and I ended up having to put everything I wanted in my arms because I didn’t have a pound with me. And why don’t you people have window screens? You must know the spiders can come in the house not to mention magpies coming through your garden doors trying to steal your tv remote... We are absolutely two countries separated by an almost common language.
No window screens? I noticed that when I vacationed in New Zealand. No screens on the windows, but little cans of bug spray fixed to the walls with timers that would give a spritz every few minutes.
Holy YES. I do not understand the lack of window screens. Even those tri-fold doors. All I can think is, "Do they not have bugs there?" Or is there just a lot of defenestration going on?
Lies. The first they ask you in supermarkets is if you are ok packing your carrier bags by yourself. People go prepared to use a shopping trolly so adapt. It isn't hard, you don't go shopping and forget your money to pay do you? Why have screens on the doors? Spiders can get in through open windows and it isn't as if there are any deadly spiders. Plus it doesn't happen that often, probably less that in murica given our temperate climate and your extreme one. Since when do magpies come in and steal the remote? So rare, if it happens, that it isn't an issue. Also what yanks speak is as close to English as your chemical slop is to real cheese.
One my boss used to use: "Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes." 😅 We live on a Cul de Sac so my cats are a bit of both. They're always leaving me little gifts on the back porch. Field mice, garter snakes etc. etc. I guess it's their way of paying me back for feeding them.
That has to be the ancestor of all corporate jargon, going back at least to the fifties. It was already a cliché when Stan Freberg used it in his sketch of George Washington critiquing Betsy Ross's design of the flag.
@@deadfreightwest5956 I try to remember to play the appropriate track from that album on each relevant holiday. He got pretty savage with the political satire in the Thanksgiving one.
I'm from Belgium and moved to the US, and people find me very direct. Luckily, a few coworkers appreciate that (but not all). I think it's better to be too polite than too direct.
So true, I live medium size town but we have lots of safe neighbors. So most people have outdoor&indoor cats, because cats are much safer in a neighborhood. The cars don’t go as fast so no one really worries to much.
My cat got killed by a teen age driver on a cul-de-sac. Nobody drives slow in neighborhoods anymore🤯. She did have the guts to come and tell me, though. I told her next time it might be somebody’s kid, so SLOW DOWN. I didn’t read her the riot act though, she was already so upset. And my daughters cat got into it with a coyote. 1,000$ he’s fine. My cat just stays inside now, the first true indoor cat I’ve had. . He hates it, does the escape thing. But what I do, is let him in my fenced yard for an hour in the morning, while I have my coffee and keep an eye on him. It seems to be working SO far, he’s rather timid.
The world is also a dog pan for all dogs, dogs are walked SO they can sh!t outside. On walks, owners let their dog drop a squat wherever they like. Yes some clean it up but you can’t clean up everything after a dog drops a log next to your mail box. Or pees next to it. Both instances are equally gross, dog & cat. It’s why my cat is an inside kitty exclusively. Honestly I think my cat would be insulted if I tried to get him to go outside, as he never has before.
My neighbor’s cat used to dig up seedlings I’d planted in my vegetable garden. Every night. I put a fence around it, which did no good. I finally told her I’d put antifreeze in bowls in my garden. She finally kept her animals indoors.
Cynthia Merritt You could have just installed a motion activated sprinkler. Threatening to murder someone’s pet it disgusting. I consider my cat a family member. ( she is an indoor cat full-time btw)
If your cat likes to go outside, you should try and leash train them. My cat loves going on walks on the leash and there is no worry about scary/awful occurrences.
I leash train my cats! Once they get used to the idea, they love it! But be very careful with what harness you get. The ones that are like little jackets that “claim” to be safe my cats wriggle out of in no time flat. I prefer the more minimal, thin strap ones that I can adjust to fit snugly. Cats are escape artists and can back out of all sorts of restraints!
I tried to leash train but A) she wriggled out and B) she climbed up a tree and almost got hanged on a short broken branch point. Because we live on 5 acres and my cat really only wants to be outside for an hour or 2 to explore the fern area behind my barn or climb a few trees, I spray her with lemongrass rosemary bug spray she despises and let her out once every other day when she wants to. She mostly goes out when my dog is out and comes in when she notices the dog is no longer outside to protect her XD
Corporate jargon is just code for "We're using these words to cover up the fact that we're wasting time in yet another pointless meeting, instead of actually working."
Being direct is a sign of respect. It means you respect the person’s time enough not to waste it. When someone takes all day getting to the point I assume they’re either afraid or on a power trip.
I have the tendency to over explain things, drives my husband insane, but I now have been noticing him doing it, so I think he is picking it up from me :( lol
Being direct is not a sign of respect, nor is being indirect a sign of disrespect. Your time certainly isn't so valuable as to not be able to afford a few seconds while someone meanders through their thoughts.
@@seaborgium919 I have been doing therapy since the 90s and just call the two therapies cognitive therapy and behavior therapy. I never say CBT and thus avoid the cock and ball torture thing.
Where I work, CBT is Computer Based Training. People on training courses will sometimes be expected to spend about 2 or 3 working days doing little else other than watching them AKA death by CBT.
Coffee was the fancy non alcoholic drink of choice in my tiny Nordic country... until World War II happened and we were occupied by the Brits in what is known as Operation Valentine, but mostly referred to as The Friendly Occupation. It is said that the Brits taught us to drink tea (even these days Typhoo tea is preferred and viewed as normal tea) and we taught the British soldiers to drink coffee.
I was going to say that directness is regional and I use those little "would you mind," type phrases all the time... Until you had the food order example. When the interaction is that functional, it would feel weird to act like there was any question about whether or not the other person would do their job.
@@seemaprasad1383 We don't do small talk, we don't sugar coat, are brutally honest and get straight to the point. If there's something we don't like about you, you'll know. We won't spare your feelings. We would rather have the ugly truth than a beautiful lie. And when it comes to ordering pizza, we wouldn't even formulate a question. We would just say "I want to order this and this pizza." I mean, what's the point of asking a pizza place if you could order a pizza? Off course you can, that's what it's there for.
We are looking for a new home. I want Ecuador, my wife wants Denmark or the Netherlands. A case needs to be made either way. Is murder legal in the Netherlands? Or, at least, are the authorities... unsuspicious?
@@seemaprasad1383 I spent some time there in college. Even at a restaurant, store, bar I would see workers tell customers “you’re wasting my time” when they take too long to order or asked too many questions. A common one was “you’re in my way” if they’re trying to get around you. Although I appreciate the directness, at times it felt borderline rude. The straight forwardness came in handy for me when going on dates or out at a bar. Most Dutch people are very direct if they’re interested in you or not. It just makes the experience a lot easier. So there’s pros and cons I guess lol.
@@picobello99 -- Yes, but FIRST, before you say "I want to order..." -- YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF using your FIRST and LAST (surname) NAMES !! What useless pieces of information in such situations! :) Yes, it's a social convention... good manners, and all. But, please note the Dutch DO us social lubricant (conversationally speaking), so it's NOT *ALL* direct communication. Another correlative, common habit: TALKING ABOUT WEATHER. -- I THINK THAT QUALIFIES as SMALL TALK. :) :)
The indoor cat bit depends greatly on where you live. However, it has become seemingly the standard most places. This is a change that has happened in my lifetime. As a child, we had "indoor / outdoor cats" and "outdoor only cats". A few things precipitated the change: (1) as cities encroach on wilderness, predators like bobcats and coyotes prey on small pets, (2) de-clawing procedures becoming more common for pets--made popular because people got tired of replacing furniture. Once a cat is de-clawed (usually front claws only), it is effectively defenseless outdoors, so it is best to keep them indoors. I don't worry about any of this though--I'm a dog person.
Yeah, it also depends greatly on whether cats are (“only”) kept as pets or also serve their original, practical purpose of helping keeping rodent populations in check, which is mostly an issue in rural environments. Also, I live in a country were cats face pretty much no natural predators (though cars are a primary danger). When I grew up in a rural setting (my upbringing was initially in a suburb before we moved to a rural area), our first cat simply dropped in and took up residence, because we fed it better. The cat’s original owner (or whatever) across the street suffered from an old misunderstanding that cats shouldn’t be fed too well in order to encourage it to hunt, whereas a well fed cat is actually more likely to hunt effectively (as hunting is an instinct and well fed cats are more likely to be effective hunters). Since it was a female cat and cats were generally allowed to wander/stray, we soon had a litter. Most of them did indeed get run over (we lived right next to a fairly busy road) in the space of several years, though one tomcat survived for around two decades (he was still there when we moved away). That tomcat (a huge, red one with ears showing the scars of several fights) ended up being spayed to diminish his straying after he had been absent for an extended period of time before showing up emaciated and with quite extreme claustrophobia. We reckoned that he had accidentally been locked in a barn or something and then had him spayed to keep him closer to home (it worked pretty well, though his bad experience might also have had something to do with it).
Growing up, we had 'indoor' cats that quickly became 'outdoor' cats when they grew up. But also as a kid, there were just neighborhood cats roaming the streets. They usually went home to a household at night (or whenever) and got fed, but were free to roam otherwise, but that's the thing, this was in a neighborhood. Don't let your cat roam if you are anywhere near a busy road, that seems to be the size of the issue. We lived in a small industrial town not 10 minutes from the capital, but growing up poor, we lived in a poor area with no through traffic at all, so it was fine. I'd never think to do it now that I live a mere 5 minutes from the capital, and on a long straight road that people like to race down as well.
My first boss used to ramble on and on about SOP (standard operating procedure). Unfortunately for him, his name was Pat. So amongst the staff, it was Shit On Pat
Great video, thanks! “Touch base” isn’t corporate, though, it’s an idiom used everywhere that comes from baseball where you have to touch the base as you run in order to advance toward home plate. “SOW”...I work for a defense contractor so a SOW (statement of work) is something we talk about every day. Can’t be avoided. Another corporate idiom I overuse is “synergy” and “synergize.” Shame on me! Last one is “get with”, eg “I’ll get with John and we’ll see about finalizing the SOW.” As for direct communication, that’s definitely a big difference between the UK and the US. I was raised in London England and learned to speak in a very polite and indirect way. Then I moved to the states when I was a teenager and I had to learn that Americans just didn’t understand it. For me it went beyond the difference between “just taking longer to say things versus getting to the point“ to Americans not knowing I was making definite plans when they thought I was just proposing things. For example, when I was growing up in England if you said “we should do something on Friday“ and your friend said “yes, we should“, that meant that you had a plan in place. In America it doesn’t, it just means that you’ve expressed an idea and that someone has agreed that it is a good idea. In America you have to follow it with “great, let’s meet at your house at 6 PM“ or something like that. I thought Americans were just being flaky when they wouldn’t turn up but I learned eventually that is because they genuinely thought I was just making suggestions. Once fixed that, I found I had a generally easier time getting on and making plans with people.
Kayla Fox Hahaha I think it’s supposed to mean “everyone having the same energy and focus toward a shared goal” but it’s so overused it’s now basically meaningless!
Indirect speech reminds me of the episode of "Taxi" where some taxi employees call out to Rev. Jim, "we're thinking of asking you to come eat with us". He replies, "Let me know what you decide".
As a Canadian, I would react like the Americans. If I had a plan to do something, I would say it directly, like 'Do you want to go to the movies on Saturday?". If you were talking to me, I would think you want my suggestion(s) as a possible plan.
@@VidIan262009 "the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects." Used often in chemistry or pharmacology.
I think I'm a very charitable tipper. I waited tables and I know it's part of their income. But in no way possible do I tip people for doing their job, ie cashiers at convenience stores or throwing money into a "tip jar."
Except sometimes, at a place like Starbucks, they get complicated orders on top of cranky morning customers , so if they're doing all that and can still be cheerful, I'll round up, and toss my change in the jar. Once I couldn't resist, because a local business labeled their jar "tips for counter intelligence ". I thought that the joke merited a tip
We order pizza via Papa Murphy pizza app. Then we go pick up our pizza order from the rack inside the door there. They actually have a TIP option as you check out. Really? For what?
Tipping: It's because by law restaurants are allowed to pay servers several dollars per hour less than minimum wage, on the assumption that they will be tipped by customers. A lot of us are actually really uncomfortable with being expected to cover a server's wages as an extra cost on top of our meal. But, we know they get screwed over if we don't, so we tip. In most other countries a server gets at least a fair legal minimum wage. Being direct: It's a different sort of politeness. I mean, yes, we are direct, especially in business, but it's because we respect that people's time is precious and they've got other things going. They are already being very polite to give us a minute of their time even though they are super busy, so we be very polite in return by hurrying and making sure their time is not wasted. But if you catch us after work on non-business subjects, we're MORE than happy to talk sociably for a very long time :-)
@@poppyseeds439 well...yes California is one of the most expensive states to live in. living wage there would average over $40/hr. $15/hr is too little too late
I mean tipping is in all honesty beneficial to the customer, it allows you to choose how much the server deserves, if the tipping policy was changed restaurants in all likelihood would raise prices by 15-20% to cover those extra wages.
@@fri9875 Beneficial to customers is the reason that the system has persisted, but the two reasons you list reflect a view that transactional capitalism is beneficial on the whole, which isn't actually true. I could translate your first benefit this way: "allows you to choose how much the server deserves" = "I will be the judge of their performative nature and likewise determine the arbitrary value of that performance according to my own monetary experiences, and still know nothing about the actual needs of my service provider. Making the servers beholden to the whims and emotions of their customers is a better system than providing a minimum stable and predictable income ."because it gives me a tiny temporary position of power over another human being." "in all likelihood raise prices by 15-20%" : This isn't how distributive costs in a business work, and this isn't the only means that a business has to absorb additional costs. Employee pay is usually covered by a rolling line of credit that the business pays back when they have settled pending income. There are any number of new costs and unexpected liabilities that might hit a business, and prices are changed all the time without making too much of a fuss. Small businesses are hit the worst because they have the most difficulty adapting, but small restaurants cycle through every 2 - 5 years, on average and that is *without* wage increases. Paying servers a basic wage and disallowing tips is a practice adopted by many restaurants here in Seattle, such as Ivar's (the beloved sea-food chain.) Prices for the meals went up about 5-8% depending on the item, but customers SAVE money because that 5-8% is LESS than the 15-20% tip they would have otherwise been expected to leave. Don't fear paying service providers a stable salary! These are professionals doing hard work, not monkeys dancing for your amusement.
As an American, I can't stand obligatory tipping either. I'm already paying for said service with the bill I receive. Now I have to pay the establishment's employees' wages too? Pay them a fair wage already. Maybe I'm the only one who sees the idiocy of this practice.
No, you are definitely not the only one. I rant to my husband about it every chance I get. Not to mention, most places already pay their employees minimum wage, so now what's the point in obligatory tipping???(I'm not making a point about whether minimum wage is sufficient, I'm only making a point about the fact that tipping seems to be arbitrarily tied to particular fields of work rather than how much money the person makes. For example, it's seen as rude to not tip the waitress at the needlessly classy restaurant who is definitely make well above minimum wage, but it isn't seen as rude to not tip the cashier at walmart who is definitely making minimum wage, in fact walmart employees aren't allowed to accept tips at all.) It should never be on the customer to pay the employees wages. Tipping should be reserved for outstanding service only.
Rebecca Bamber apparently you don’t know how tipped wages work. Federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. We used to live in PA, it was $2.83 an hour. My husband collected a paycheck of about $9 about 4 times a year working as a server in PA, his income wasn’t even enough money to cover the taxes on his tips. Only a few states pay servers and other tipped employees minimum wage.
maria marie because some of the takeout workers are on tipped wage too, my husband works at outback and literally anyone except management that you can see as a customer is getting paid tipped wage. The servers get direct tips, the hosts and bussers get tip share, bar tenders get both. Their to-go people used to be direct tip but services like Uber eats don’t tip so they had to put them on tip share too at his location.
I once forgot to tip in a small local cafe while I was on a trip. There was one waitress who was pulling a double. I felt so bad when I got to my destination and realized what I had done that I got a card and sent the tip citing the date and time etc. I alway hoped that she got it and I hope she realized there are people who value the work they do even if we are forgetful sometimes. Yes, I sent cash but decided to take a chance to right a wrong.
I keep my cats indoors, and now they are so trained that when they do get out, they lose their minds and freak out trying to come back in immediately. They know where their home is! One got out and we didn't notice it, and after we came back from shopping many hours later, he was at the front door patiently waiting for us to come home!
When I lived in London the inability of the Brits to speak directly drove me crazy. Once, when cleaning up a US tax issue for a company (a UK subsidiary of a US company) I discovered the UK company also had a UK tax issue. One of my UK colleagues was tasked with fixing it. After some back and forth with HMRC, we were given a bad answer. The folks in the US called me to find out what the status of the UK review was, and when I spoke with my British colleague he told me the bad news and said we would speak to the client and that I should not say anything. For two weeks I would get calls from the US and when I spoke with my British colleague he would say he would call and don't say anything. FInally I got so annoyed that after a call I yelled at the guy (he was a long serving well respected partner and I was an American on secondment). He called and apparently spent most of the call with the US client noting that I yelled at him To avoid future issues, I gave everyone in my group and "English to American" chart
Another reason for keeping your cat indoors is that in the USA, those mobsters of the animal kingdom, coyotes, are everywhere. Even in cities! And they love to eat kitty kats and small dogs.
Thank-you for a knowledging that it is not just rude, but INCREADABLY rude not to tip here in America! As a tip earning person, I use whether or not I receive one and what percentage it is as a gage for how well I did in providing service. When I don't recive a tip, its like being told that my service was terrible to the point of possibly deserving a negative review online. It's also BAFFLING when the person acts all happy and thankful only to then not receive a tip. Like, I thought I did a good job oh my gosh what did I DO at the end there that offended them that much???? 😨
No, it is incredibly rude to force someone to pay more on top of what the menu says you have to pay. It is also rude that restaurants and other places do not pay their service staff appropriately so they have to rely on tips. If you find yourself relying on tips, I would suggest finding a job that allows you not to.
@Grey Wolf Climber and @Dustin VanKeuren Tipped workers are paid the same minimum wage as elsewhere with the ability to earn more. If someone tells you otherwise, they don’t know the law or are spineless and find it easier to blame the patrons and guilt trip others (so they could earn in excess, oftentimes without claiming the earnings and committing tax evasion/fraud) instead of reporting their pay correctly to their employer so their employer would pay them the difference to make up for the lack of tips to be equal to the minimum wage.
#1 jargon at my work: "reach out". Never "contact" or "phone" or "speak to" but we always "reach out", and to me, this is straight out of an AT&T ad campaign!
In Oregon I grew up with indoor/outdoor cats. Even though we weren't in a main city they still ended up eventually getting hit by cars. So when I got my cat (Tony) in university I made him indoor only. After university I ended up having to move around a lot and I couldn't properly care for him so he went to live with my mom who lived out in a farm land and wooded area and he became an indoor/outdoor cat. This town has a gas station, with tiny a convenience store, and a small post office connected to it. That's it. Unfortunately non-local people like to joy ride down the one road and he was hit by a car last year. Once I'm more settled if I get a cat again I'm hoping I can get a cattio or get them to tolerate a harness (Tony never took to it) but if I can't they'll be indoor only. I'll just have to make some sort of shelves and cat trees they can climb and play around on.
Speaking of work-speak (see what I did there), when I worked in a big IT department with a bunch of Trekkies my boss might say "John, put together an away team and check out a downed server in the Lamar Blvd sector (a remote location). In other words I worked on a starship for 20 years!
Outdoor cats also compete with the native wildlife as well.... They have a habit of eating ground nesting birds who aren't doing so hot in general. Any cat I have will ALWAYS be an indoor one
I currently live in Texas having moved from Canada. That said, our indoor/door cats disappeared because of Bobcats and Coyotes here in Texas. Our cats are now indoor cats. With regard to "getting to the point", it's common in the US and Canadian corporate cultures.
If the bartender was familiar with tipping in Britain and Europe, he should not be upset since he would understand that what you did was the norm, not an indictment of his level of service.
Once, my European friends tipped a very small amount because the server was not very good, but was also surly on top if it. In fact, her attitude was what bothered them more than anything. The manager of the restaurant actually pursued them onto the street in order to tell them that they had done a horrible misdeed. Omg.
The ones visiting the foreign country should try to know the basic etiquette of going out. A European not tipping means they didn't even bother to Google US culture before they traveled, something they would absolutely hate Americans not bothering with in their country.
We need to do away with tipping. Employers need to pay their workers properly! Yes they will raise their prices a bit but that way the employees get properly paid without having to worry about whether they will get enough tips each night or not.
I worked as a waitress/bartender in the early 2000's in south Louisiana . I would have fought tooth and nail to keep my 2.13 an hour plus tips. We did not want to make an hourly wage - we made WAY more in tips every night. When I quit waitressing and moved to a government job I took a pay cut and had to work more hours.
exactly. And prices may go up, but you would be paying the same because the tips you would have been paying are now just part of the bill. They always say tips are needed so the service personnel works hard to do a good job in order to get their tips. Well, pay them properly and treat them properly and they will do a good job. If not, fire them.
I think they need to get paid like sales people do. Salary plus bonus. Right now they get paid way more than if they were hourly workers so if you turn them into hourly workers you're service will not be that good and your price would go up. I also doubt they'd get a living wage if you made them hourly only. Restaurants have razor thin margins.
Concerning cats "They are constantly plotting their escape." It should be noted that they are also constantly plotting your demise but alas they keep in mind where the food comes from. It's a lovely balancing act really.
It's not rude, it is how restaurants have lower prices for their food. It also incentivizes waiters to be engaged and work harder/provide better service. If they do, they likely are rewarded with a good tip. If you want higher wages for wait staff, the restaurant will offset it in their food/drink prices. There is a brewpub in my hometown that does zero tips for wait staff, and the beers are 1-2 dollars more than other bars. I've been to a couple European countries where tipping is not a thing, and the service sucked everywhere I went, cause there is no incentive to be attentive to the patrons. Ancecdotal examples, I know, but it not purely because employers are rude or greedy.
Perhaps some of it is the era you were born into as well. I was raised in Massachusetts in the 60's and the direct speech was only used informally. If you were speaking to strangers or people older than you you spoke more formally and using proper etiquette. I live in the southern USA now and I find the direct vs. indirect speech is more pronounced depending on whether you are in an urban area or a rural area.
@@TheJwbooth very true, although in every place I have been, both here and on the other side of the pond, often that not 'getting to the truth' is very often a subtle way of saying "it is none of your business". :)
This is mostly true. Before asking a question, we usually ask permission to ask a question "May I ask you a question?". Northerners look at you as if to say, didn't you just do that? :)
This is the truth. Im a native NYer who lived in PA for a while then Tennessee and Ive found the direct way I talked was counter to the way people here are. Its been a learning experience
Paul O'Brien that was truly horrible and terrifying. Trump was bombastic, bullying, belittling, and aggressive. Could anyone be proud of his performance? Chris Wallace was impotent as moderator.
Hello, Lawrence. If you drink hot coffee and cold water at the same time it will wake you up quite well. As for Scandinavian countries and coffee drinking is probably to get through the long dark winters. I live in western Canada and we have 6-9 months of winter, 3-4 hours of daylight, 2 hours of twilight. My husband telecommutes to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and they have 3-4 winter months of complete darkness followed by our schedule on either end. Coffee helps.
Juliana Magg my husband is Finnish and that’s the explanation he received from his grandparents. I would say it’s become a year round habit. Hubby had his first cup of coffee in a child size mug when he was 8.
I'm amused by the british pronunciation of tomato with two soft A's, (makes sense) yet I routinely hear Brits say chakra with the first A being hard and the second being soft.
@Laura B, it comes from amalgamating various different languages into common English i.e. Celtic, Norse, Norman French and Germanic languages. It is also why we have considerably more words than French and to a slightly lesser extent German.
I wanted to ask something that I've always wondered about. The lack of the word "the" in certain sentences. When we Americans say we're going to the hospital we say the hospital. The British say to hospital or to somewhere else. Why is that?
Tipping 100% needs to be abolished as a "requirement" in the USA. Tips should not replace a fair livable wage, just so the management or owner of a service establishment can make more money.
You've never worked in an industry where tipping is standard obviously... also service is horrible in Europe in comparison to the US. Cut out someone's initiative to earn money and they have no reason to give good service.
@@src4409 Maybe their initiative to work should be that they get to keep their job, like any other workplace? Maybe some kind of performance appraisal? Speaking as neither an American nor European/British, in my country we just tip how much ever we feel from whatever small change is in our wallets. The service charge is already covered in the final bill so we just do it because it seems like what you're supposed to do lol 🤷🏽♀️
Servers make more money under the tipping system than they do under a high standard wage. Restaurants that have experimented with switching to higher wages and no tips have staffing issues
As an American cat lover , I never could grasp the acceptance by other western nations allowing them to roam outdoors . American veterinarians strongly advise against it for good reasons . Cats live longer indoors . In America they are vulnerable to so many harmful things outdoors. Getting run over ,being victim to animals of prey ,and being more susceptible to illnesses. I haven't declawed my cats .They have scratching posts and they don't yearn to be outside ,either
I've had my door come open (didn't latch properly and the wind blew it open) and my cats refuse to venture out. I was so scared when I saw the open door but my two were inside waiting to greet me. Far too dangerous for them outside.
And yet the idea and term "coffee shoppe" started in early 18th century London, flourishing among litterateurs like Dr. Samuel Johnson as a daytime hangout, parallel to the French literary salon.
As somebody who's worked in restaurants for several years now, tips are done differently between establishments. In some cases the wait staff does not make minimum wage and are nearly entirely reliant on tips, sometimes the tip goes to only that person waiting on you while others it is split between various members of the staff. Just best to ask before making your decision. I will say it is always appreciated either way.
My in-laws are Dutch. The have coffee ALL DAY LONG. My mother-in-law calls it “coffee time” in a very sweet sing-songy voice. Oh, and the Dutch have amazing pastries.
I live in west Michigan, a large group of Dutch people settled here. I can confirm that even if it's 100 degrees my relatives will be drinking coffee all day long.
I grew up in a small town where almost everybody are the descendants of the original German and Swedish settlers. Everyone drinks coffee all day. I've only recently become aware that some people only drink coffee in the morning. Mind blown.
When you were speaking of "being direct" it made me sit back an ponder all the years that I've been called a b*tch! Lol 😆 Many mistake my being direct as being rude, b*tchy, etc... However, that just isn't it. Or maybe it is. I just absolutely don't have the patience for crazy psyhco-babble and am by nature an extremely "get to the point" kind of individual. Bonus points for me because I'm also a lifelong Chicagoan, so my directness is very much a part of my makeup.
You probably would have received better feedback if you were male...then you'd be perceived as a "go-getter". Gotta love sexism! [insert eye roll here]
Ducks, I've heard, will sleep on logs in a row, such that the ducks on the end will keep _one eye open_ (another common saying) as the other half of the duck's brain sleeps. This, of course, allows them to be the alarm ducks in case of an attack while they are sleeping.
Americans don't like to be asked a lot of questions. First question, answered. Second question, annoyance. Third question, hostility. Fourth question, silence.
People in Nordic countries drink gallons of coffee in order to fight against the fact that they only have four hours of daylight in the winter. The sun rises at 10 am and sets at 2 pm
haha Office speak. " I wanted to circle back and touch base, Make sure our T's are crossed and I's are dotted before we upload the monthly WIP reports. "
Cat's should be indoors for a number of important reasons. Cat feces carry the parasite Toxoplasma gondii . Toxoplasmosis infection affects humans (look it up, it's yucky). Also, sea mammals can be infected when it gets washed into storm inlets. Sea otters (a protected and endangered species) can be fatally affected by it.
Humans usually get Toxo from cat scratches from indoor cats. Litter boxes don't make for very clean paws (poorly cleaned litter boxes, good butlers have nothing to fear). And unless you live very close to a waterway close to the ocean, the sea otters are safe. Not saying it isn't a consideration, just not relevant for a lot of people. Cats ARE spectacularly good predators (by far one of the best on the planet) so letting a cat out puts any endangered animal small enough for them to catch on the menu, and yes, they catch birds. But if it turns out they eat spotted lantern flies...
You are hilarious!! This is a wonderful channel!! God knows we need someone to make us laugh. I truly, genuinely appreciate your awesome sense of humor!
*As a Brit living in a southern rural part of the States I keep my cats 🐈 indoors for one simple reason. Coyotes are in my area and they will kill a cat and eat it.*
The acronyms reminds me of when I worked for AMC, the ginormous cinema chain. I imagine it's changed some since I had quit, but some people in corporate loved acronyms so much that with the employee handbook we handed out to new hires, it the last several pages were just three columns of company acronyms and what they stood for. And a lot of them were things regular hires would never use (like I only knew SRD was the Dolby Digital soundtrack name because I worked in the projection booth). It got so out of hand that once we got a silly little fake rubber tea up colored to look like it was filled with milky tea, that was connected to TCUP, obviously pronounced "t-cup", and short for the Theater Clean Up Program.
Hilarious. I live in Westminster Colorado, my office often has its Christmas parties at the Doubletree, and a part of my job is reviewing SOWs! Also, in Westminster, CO, you can get a ticket for “letting“ your cat out. There’s a leash law… For cats.
"There’s a leash law… For cats." Nothing wrong with that. I've had two cats that I trained to leash, and going out for a walk with the cat in the afternoon after work on nice days was a real bonding experience for both me and the cat.
I spent a month and a half in costa rica studying after grad school... I mean they grow coffee but it's also part of the culture to drink it alllllllllll the time
@@efolinsky I was surprised when a Swedish American told me his parents in Sewden have a coffee plantation. Coffee grows in Sweden? I thought it required a hot climate.
I absolutely tip in most circumstances, and even if it’s questionable if I need to, I try to give a couple bucks if I’m unsure-that being said, I HATE TIPPING CULTURE. Nothing but peer and societal pressure and morals is financially keeping afloat millions of service workers, instead of, you know, THEIR EMPLOYER!!!!! Why in the hell did we let it get this far??????
I used to do a fair amount of business in London. I became friendly with one of my clients who would meet me out for a drink (or five) when I was in town. We were at a bar on the ground four at Lloyd's and she was telling me how rude her colleagues were in the Philadelphia office (e-mails) which was our intermediary. After a few pints, I told her that my e-mails sent within the US were totally different than those I sent to Europe. Then I forwarded a string of e-mail between me in Chicago and Philadelphia. She was astounded as to how 'brief' they were. They weren't rude, just 'American'.
I laughed when you said "bless your little cotton socks"! A few weeks ago I was explaining the meaning to my UK partner the meaning of "bless your heart" telling him that it could either be meant genuine or sarcastic and he says "ah, just as we say bless your little cotton socks." I laughed so hard as I had never heard this expression before and LOVED it! So this is officially the 2nd time I've ever heard this said 😂
We have coyotes and bobcats here, and they are quite efficient at killing cats. Another excellent reason to keep them indoors.
I'm in DC and there are coyotes here too, pretty much everywhere really. I'd imagine many cats and small dogs have become easy dinners with so many pets around.
I had a friend who lived for a while in the hills near LA, and she referred to her cats as 'Coyote Snack 1 & 2'.
We lost our kitty to a coyote this past summer 😢 Our next kitty will definitely be an indoor cat only.
@@StephenH1 if you live in DC you have more troubles than coyotes, DC is just full of slithering snakes, and Terrible reptiles masked as humans!
Coyotes have crossed the East River (or the Sound) to Long Island.
As a project manager for years, my favorite saying from a co-worker has been "I don't have my ducks in a row so much as my squirrels are at a rave."
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When I was living in South Korea, I was told very sternly on quite a few occasions that skipping over, in the interest of time, the seemingly endless circumlocution expected in Korean culture was "not the Korean way". I am extremely respectful of other cultures, but trying to curb my American directness became very stressful, especially since I was never intending to be rude just, well, direct. Then I made friends with Koreans and other foreigners who also got right to the point and it ceased to be an issue.
I live in Japan and this is a struggle for me. I'm direct by American standards. Imagine how the Japanese view me lol.
@@shoezomaku in japan, an easy way to think of it, is being respectful comes first before any friendliness or regular politeness would. Although as an american you probably have a pretty free range in most peoples eyes, as long as you aren't openly rude most will understand its cultural differences. Althouggh there will probably be awkward moments, thats par for the course of anyone experiencing a different culture haha.
My cat isn't trying to escape but that may be because he was feral before being rescued and he realizes what a sweet deal he has.
I used to swear the same about my shelter cat. When there was a storm, my born-inside-never gone out princess was fine. But in general, she always wanted to be where I was, at least in the room. My shelter cat wasn't so needy, but whenever there was a loud storm, she would come running for and needed a snuggle.
@@LindaC616 Someone abandon a pregnant cat near my house. I gave away most of the kitten, and the mother (Word to the wise, fliers in gay bars. Double income, cry when their cat dies." I digress, so I have one cat, and he has live his whole life indoors. If he doesn't get out once a night, he loses his mind. I got a abondon cat. Once it got in my house, never wanted, or care about the outside. If I opened the door, if gave a look of disgust, and walked away.
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Yeah, they know.....
A beautiful white kitty in my old neighborhood took a liking to me. If I left on foot, he'd follow me half a block, sit down and cry. Knew the sound of my car when I came home and would come running....the born inside peincess said "no other cats". When winter came, he was showing grease on his white coat (=sleeping under cars to stay warm, not good). I got the people next door to take him in (they put out food for strays, the reason he was there in the first place). Once inside, he was golden
Mine was feral and always wants outside, but it's only so he can sit in the grass 😂
My cats don't want out either. We do have a screen room that they like but it's fully enclosed. They were found near an abandoned house in town with about 20 of their family members. The shelter thinks a backyard breeder moved and left them all behind so they have had to fend for themselves before but I don't know how long. I think they remember this too and do not care to relive it.
Cat's are just little people, in fur coats. With teenage attitudes.
duce wags, now that's funny!!! :)))
Holy crap, that is some funny shit! Thanks for the laugh!
@@BlackSmokeDMax You think it's fun with 2 teenage cats in the house? My wife and I see the head shrink every week. All he does is bark up a tree, and sniff things that got peed on. Good thing he is only on our weekly walking trail, and not daily. I tell ya, the labs now days think they run the world.
@Thirty-two Count Well thats your problem, you only have 1 cat. Cat's need friends. I think you need 1 more cat, from a shelter. Yes it will destroy your life, and take extra money. But with the proper training, your cat's will have you trained very well in a short amount of time.
@duce wags, that’s brilliant!! Until that, the best saying about cats I ever heard is that “cats don’t have owners, they have staff!
I once watched a sheepdog competition where the dogs...in addition to herding sheep...herded ducks. They actually got all the ducks in a row!
The ducks in a row saying is referring to the metal plows on a farmers tractor.
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It has always bothered me that non-Americans think we are rude because of how up front we are. I appreciate the clarification you gave.
In part, to stay 'on topic' I prefer direct & think "stop pussy footing around & get to it already!". I mean, be polite, sure, but direct, b/c it's rude for you to waste my time.... like I tell my mom. Yeah, sure it's polite for a guy to open the door for you, but would you thank them if they unintentionally knocked you down in the effort to get to the door first so they could open it for you? Would you thank him for that? Really? just sayin' (but the pussy footing around.... on topic ;)
I wish Canadians would do so. There is so much passive aggression and sarcasm disguised as being polite or avoiding conflict, but it's not polite to hide what you really think of a person! You're still being rude, just doing it to their back!
As a British person, I legit thought that corporate talk was just used in TV shows for comedic effect, I had no idea that people actually talked like that!
Dude I swear it's absolutely necessary because you wanna get straight to the point and be on top of everything while attempting to sound like you know your job. 😂
It's worse than you think. Some people use it in every day conversation.
British here and have heard more corporate speak than my tiny brain could cope with, hence I have been corporate-less for a long time now. My favourites were "blue sky thinking", "I have a window", heard the "ducks in a row" more than a few times and too many more to mention without barfing up my cheese and biscuits. All this in the UK.
One of my staff members gets irrationally angry whenever a document is labeled a “tool”, as in, “Here’s a project scoping tool” when it’s just a pre-formatted Word template. The American workplace loves calling everything a “tool” and is all about people “expanding their tool kit.”
I felt the same way when I learned that some people actually do the cockney rhyming thing in their day to day life. I thought it was only something that was done for comedy in TV shows.
Tomatoes? Don't you mean "Maters?! Lol
I think he mean tommy toes.
@Leo My uncle used to say that when I was a kid in the 80's.
You say tomater, I zader matermorts.
In the country, the cats also stay inside because of owls, coyotes, racoons and of course, cars.
Yes, I currently have a cat who was horribly mauled by something when he was a stray; my husband found him torn and mangled by the river. He had to have a leg amputated. I thought for sure that he would have to be put down, but they fixed him up and he's a solid, big-eyed, purry fur-boy now. Part forest cat. I'm sure he got away from his attacker because he's huge with enormously long legs.
Don't forget the skunks
Exactly. Although I live in a suburban city, we have spotted coyotes and Bobcats in our neighborhood. On top of that, there are way too many dogs on the loose. So yeah definitely keeping our cat indoor. *And we live right next to the highway.*
Coons hung out on my deck in Oregon (and now here in Colorado) with our cats and never touched the cat or showed any sign of aggression toward it. Now our 3 cats are strictly indoors due to coyotes in Colorado.
Here it can be coyotes, foxes, bobcats, feral hogs, owls, venomous smakes, alligators, hawks, eagles, and feral or aggressive neighbor's dogs allowed to roam. It is rumored that we also have black bears that migrate through this area and black pathers that people swear they've seen. (Thankfully, I never have seen either.) We have the intersection of 2 major highways about a half mile away. Pythons are also occasionally caught out loose, and sometimes they are large. I imagine Florida has a worse problem with most of the above. Barn cats frequently dissappear. I also have my suspicions about our horrible neighbors - younger guys who often shoot in their back yard. I wonder how many barn cats have been killed by them.
You know what you don’t do every day? Laundry. American washers and dryers are large enough that you can wash once a week instead of daily because only 1 pair of pants fit in the machine.
I usually throw a load in daily. Like fresh towels.
Omg yessssss i couldn't agree with this more.
In fast food, you still would have to wash daily or every 2 days, depending on your work schedule. This is because they don't usually give you enough clothes to last the week
well unless you have a family
@@marshallschaefer9632 Ngl we're the worst because we also clean our laundry once a week because it gets crazy af. 😂
I initially thought CBT stood for cognitive behavioral therapy too. I was then a bit surprised when I heard another set of words it stands for. Now I’m learning a new set.
BOTH times I've watched this one all I could think of for CBT was a BDSM term I learned while researching BDSM for a character in a story I was working on. C--- & Ball Torture.... so.... lol
Some places call it CBLs, computer based learning, and they still expect you to know what the abbreviation means.
Hey @ktkaser1039 I think I may have read your story.
I thought it was Closed Beta Test or some other early game version variant.
The tipping thing extends to the North of Ireland. I tip each and every tour guide I come across, and imagine my shock when the Bucket woman scolded me for being generous to a teen who just finished her eighth tour of the castle, honestly, it ruined my whole day.
Bro wtf 😂 it's one thing to let someone know that tipping isn't customary or that it will bother the person you give it to, it's another to actively bitch out a customer for doing it. Especially to "the wrong person" or because they're "inexperienced" especially if they just did that good a job. That would just make me want to give them more while staring the mf dead in the eye
Friend of mine let our new kitten out and it was gone for a month, held captive by a neighbor’s child. That girl was a also in my 7-yo son’s reading class. He told the story in class of how his kitten ran away, then she told the story of how a magical Princess kitten ‘found’ her and was living with her for the past month. She would carry the Princess around in a milk crate filled with scraps of satin and lace, dance with her, and anticipate her every wish. Neither child knew we were neighbors. Girlfriend also didn’t know her mom had contacted the local rescue place in anticipation of dropping off HRH, because her other child was miserably allergic to cats. In a dream (this is a true story) my escaped kitten told me to go to the rescue place, which I’d not done before. Kitty wasn’t there, but I left them a description and my number. The very next day, I got a call from them directing me to the neighbor’s home. I collected Princess kitty who was so glad to be home that she slept in the same chair for an entire day, and never tried to escape again. Not run over by a truck, just exhausted from being treated like royalty.
She kept a cat for an entire month while one of her children was allergic?!
That is funny
That would make a lovely kids' book.
That's hilarious. Care to write a children's book? 🐈 📖
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In London, I saw an American tourist ask very directly, "how would I get to the closest Tube station? And the person replied about his abruptness, the Londond Eastender, said " I'm not your personal slave, why are you so rude to me."
Lesson learned, when approaching a stranger with a question, say, "I was wondering, if you could be so kind..., or If it is not too much trouble, could you please ..., or It would be so helpful to me if you would give me directions, as I am lost, etc.
Yes, American's are right to the point, direct, have no prologue, but when I was standing alone in NYC looking for my way, a total stranger stopped on his way to work, and approached me with,
" Can I help you find where you need to go? " He wasn't even asked, but he stepped into my space and offered his assistance.
Americans can be rude, abrupt and also direct and friendly to strangers. National characteristics.......
I used to work in a touristy area and often stopped to help tourists on my way to or from work, or when they stumbled into our office. However, I still wanted to kill them when they spread their whole group across the entire length of a crosswalk in front of my car (no traffic light).
That's bizarre I guess it's cuz I'm american but I would see no problem with a direct question with no preamble of trying to seem extra polite. Any rudeness would be conveyed through tone of voice. You could say "how would I get to the closest Tube station?" any number of ways with varying rudeness without changing the words at all, the words themselves don't seem rude at all to me on their own.
Americans would see it as rude to spend too much time getting to the point of interrupting a stranger. Or a work email that has a paragraph or two of niceties before getting to the request. Say hello, and what you need. Please and thank you are enough.
I, as a Dutch person, don't see that question as direct at all. We would just ask "where is the nearest...?" or "do you know where ... is?" or just skip the question part and say "I am looking for...". No please added and we say thank you once the directions are given although that gets forgotten sometimes.
I'm from the south in America, and we'd probably be a lot less direct and throw in some polite phrases. But I also wouldn't be offended by someone else being direct and unless they were asking something rude, I would never call them out like that.
I mean, when we were a colony, America drank tea like the UK. Then we all got a little pissed about taxes, tossed a bunch of tea in a harbor, and drank coffee out of spite.
You should dredge that tea out - probably still tastes better than Lipton's
....and beer.
@@Urbanrealtor333 americans drank whiskey the most in colonial america
Still a better love story than twilight.
@@connorleonard4047 Yup, we even rebelled for it
Not an expert, but in my understanding: The ecological impact of domestic cats is a bit different in the US vs the UK because the UK has the very similar European Wildcat as a native species, so an outdoor housecat is less likely to make as big of an impact on the local wildlife since they are already adapted to the presence of small felines.
That and England doesn't have wolves, bears, coyotes, mountain lions, and more dangerous animals that would kill/eat a cat.
"Ducks in a row" is a polite way to say "Get our sh*t together"
See now there is the problem. I try and I try, but I don't have ducks to get into a polite row. I have squirrels, and they were last seen at a rave.
@@HollylivengoodROFLMAO
Have ducks. Rarely in rows.
You should hear how a Sergeant would convey that message.
@@Heavywall70 *knifehand "unfuck yourself soldier"
If you want to see serious corporate jargon, look no further than Japan! They have some of the most complicated multi leveled corporate communication in the world, and it's taken so seriously that if you get it wrong while talking to someone higher in the corporate ladder; it could get you fired! People coming to Japan for work usually takes up a class specifically to learn Japanese corporate lingo, even if they're already fluid in Japanese! "Gaijin Goomba Media" here on UA-cam made a fascinating video on this subject
I'm not sure about the details but I've also heard of companies in Japan hiring people from the US as "the American worker", whose main roll is to speak with upper management in a direct way their Japanese co-workers can't do.
Edit: Fixed my wording a bit. I've since learned that the word is "fluent" and not "fluid" XD decided to keep it because it might make someone else laugh too 😁
Fluid in Japanese
The word is fluent, not fluid haha
As a teen I lived in Japan for 3 years. The things my family did and said shocked our neighbors and I never understood why. One thing I noticed was their inability to come out with a NO. It was like the worst curse word possible. My brother once asked a friend, who usually arrived on a motor cycle, if he had a dog. He was at a loss for words and actually seemed distressed. He finally said "It is true that the dog...." and left. Days later he came back with a lovely black and white Akita loping behind him. They both looked so happy! Another day I picked some iris by a stream bed, not knowing they were an emblem of the Samurai. I heard a yell and turned to see 3 angry boys running toward me. For some reason I laughed out loud without covering my mouth. They stopped and looked at me with utter disgust, dropped their rocks and left. Sorry about the iris, but I wish I had kept those rocks. To me I was just hanging out in my own neighborhood but surely to them I was a revolting unfeminine foreigner dissing one of their symbols.
and that's why they are all so weird, the pressure build up then their mind goes.
@@DVankeuren Some very big pros and some very big cons to all of that pressure - it's a culture living at the extremes in many regards
My wife and I have long enjoyed tipping as big as we possibly can, and then disappearing before the person gets it. I mean, like, $20. tip for a $5. meal. We especially like tipping people whose service was positively horrible. We figure they may be having a bad day, or, maybe, they might become ashamed of how badly they treated their customer. Nonetheless, it's a habit of ours.
That's thoughtful and sweet. I think wow you really made someone's day maybe week or month with that tip. Just think how much nicer they'll be to each person thereafter.
Bless y’all
Can I serve you?
Weeeeeird ... lol
I'm not extravagant like that, but I will always tip regardless of the quality of service for that reason... who knows what type of day they are having. (and yes I tip a minimum of 15% to all servers) or what is going on in their life. In America when you look at the menu prices, you automatically should mentally add a minimum of 20% to the prices you see for tips and taxes.
Anyone who doesn't is just a general a-hole.
We've got fewer outdoor cats in america cause we have coyotes, cats are like Butterfingers to them.
Good
That's horrible 😞
But it's funny
Yeah if we let out ours they'd be eaten. Too small. Also hawks
Raptors are actually a bigger problem. Coyotes are mainly a problem in the Southwest and Southern CA.
I use "could you" and "would you mind" regularly. I think it's just a way to equalize the situation. As a supervisor I think that asking in a way where people feel like they have a choice makes it easier. "Please" is a must, but I lead with "could you". I just think it's more respectful to them.
When I lived in the UK (I'm American) people taking forever to get to the point drove me nuts. Kebab shops are direct, I love it. My mother in law (a Brit) loves to ramble and never get to the point. It's fascinating.
I am retired US military. My last trip to London I (and my wife) thought my head was going to explode when friends just wandered around the point of EVERY conversation AND NEVER GOT THERE. Wife said I actually turned purple a couple of times.
Heidi Thompson ... I'm British and I get annoyed by people who take forever to get to the point also. Grrrr!
Sounds more annoying than fascinating... I realize YOU cannot say this, nor agree w/ me - it's ok. ;)
Thus cat heavy episode reminded me of a phrase I like to use when trying to move large amounts of children: "it's like herding cats."
Herding children, or organizing academics....
@@LindaC616 attempting to get high school age adolescents to cooperate...they think the hoops you are requiring them to jump through are ridiculous?!? Maybe they are....?
@@robinsonstegard538
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I was talking about college professors, lol! 🙂
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Actually herding cats isn't that hard. Try a can opener and some tuna fish.
You have to talk about the grocery store experience. I am American and I lived in England. And the first time I went to the Tesco as the checkout clerk was ringing up my order I just stood there. And she sat on her stool and she stared at me. And she stared at me in not a very nice way. No one told me that in England you have to bag your groceries yourself. So we stood there staring at each other and she never said anything and finally the person behind me asked me if I wasn’t going to bag my groceries. As soon as they heard my accent they understood that I didn’t know the custom. And thankfully the Tesco was near Milton Keynes and there’s a pretty heavy population of Americans in that area in the computer jobs during Y2K. Also the fact that you have to put a pound in to get a cart and then you get the pound back when you return the cart. The first time I went to my local co-op I didn’t know what the deal was and I was struggling to get a cart and I ended up having to put everything I wanted in my arms because I didn’t have a pound with me. And why don’t you people have window screens? You must know the spiders can come in the house not to mention magpies coming through your garden doors trying to steal your tv remote... We are absolutely two countries separated by an almost common language.
Sounds Like Aldis Here In America.
You Have To Put A Quarter In The Slot To Get A Cart.
And When You Return It, You Get The Quarter Back.
No window screens? I noticed that when I vacationed in New Zealand. No screens on the windows, but little cans of bug spray fixed to the walls with timers that would give a spritz every few minutes.
I'm surprised stores arent charging for carts here actually. They lose so many to theft I feel like it is only a matter of time.
Holy YES. I do not understand the lack of window screens. Even those tri-fold doors. All I can think is, "Do they not have bugs there?" Or is there just a lot of defenestration going on?
Lies.
The first they ask you in supermarkets is if you are ok packing your carrier bags by yourself.
People go prepared to use a shopping trolly so adapt.
It isn't hard, you don't go shopping and forget your money to pay do you?
Why have screens on the doors?
Spiders can get in through open windows and it isn't as if there are any deadly spiders.
Plus it doesn't happen that often, probably less that in murica given our temperate climate and your extreme one.
Since when do magpies come in and steal the remote?
So rare, if it happens, that it isn't an issue.
Also what yanks speak is as close to English as your chemical slop is to real cheese.
One my boss used to use: "Let's run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes." 😅
We live on a Cul de Sac so my cats are a bit of both. They're always leaving me little gifts on the back porch. Field mice, garter snakes etc. etc. I guess it's their way of paying me back for feeding them.
That has to be the ancestor of all corporate jargon, going back at least to the fifties. It was already a cliché when Stan Freberg used it in his sketch of George Washington critiquing Betsy Ross's design of the flag.
@@blindleader42 - Oh, god, Stan Freberg! Just reading his name makes me grin.
@@deadfreightwest5956 I try to remember to play the appropriate track from that album on each relevant holiday. He got pretty savage with the political satire in the Thanksgiving one.
My father still says that all the time. Maybe it’s a generational thing.
The field mice, etcetera are not gifts: they're a warning
I love his humor! He says everything with such a straight face!
I know what you mean. My mother always loved what she called, "English dry humor." Very subtle.
@@marigeobrien I've always rather loathed it, but I love this guy so.... either my tastes have changed, or he's just that good at it.
I'm from Belgium and moved to the US, and people find me very direct. Luckily, a few coworkers appreciate that (but not all). I think it's better to be too polite than too direct.
Your "Direct communication" sounds normal to me, lol. Actually a little bit polite.
As a rural American outdoor, or “barn cats”, are very common. It really just very by where in America you are.
So true, I live medium size town but we have lots of safe neighbors. So most people have outdoor&indoor cats, because cats are much safer in a neighborhood. The cars don’t go as fast so no one really worries to much.
There are are coyotes and mountain lions where I'm at so keeping them indoors is for their safety.
My cat got killed by a teen age driver on a cul-de-sac. Nobody drives slow in neighborhoods anymore🤯. She did have the guts to come and tell me, though. I told her next time it might be somebody’s kid, so SLOW DOWN. I didn’t read her the riot act though, she was already so upset. And my daughters cat got into it with a coyote. 1,000$ he’s fine. My cat just stays inside now, the first true indoor cat I’ve had. . He hates it, does the escape thing. But what I do, is let him in my fenced yard for an hour in the morning, while I have my coffee and keep an eye on him. It seems to be working SO far, he’s rather timid.
@@mangot589 so you are saying, your irresponsibility and recklessness got your pet killed and you blamed a child. What a horrid human being you are.
@@mangot589 how do you know she was speeding tho? Maybe your cat ran out in front of her.
Indoor cats not only for their own protection, but out of respect for your neighbors. Otherwise, the whole world is their kitty pan!
Also to protect songbirds, especially the endagered ones like Purple Martins.
Sue Sylvester Cats bury their poop.
The world is also a dog pan for all dogs, dogs are walked SO they can sh!t outside. On walks, owners let their dog drop a squat wherever they like. Yes some clean it up but you can’t clean up everything after a dog drops a log next to your mail box. Or pees next to it.
Both instances are equally gross, dog & cat. It’s why my cat is an inside kitty exclusively. Honestly I think my cat would be insulted if I tried to get him to go outside, as he never has before.
My neighbor’s cat used to dig up seedlings I’d planted in my vegetable garden. Every night. I put a fence around it, which did no good. I finally told her I’d put antifreeze in bowls in my garden. She finally kept her animals indoors.
Cynthia Merritt You could have just installed a motion activated sprinkler. Threatening to murder someone’s pet it disgusting. I consider my cat a family member. ( she is an indoor cat full-time btw)
If your cat likes to go outside, you should try and leash train them. My cat loves going on walks on the leash and there is no worry about scary/awful occurrences.
I leash train my cats! Once they get used to the idea, they love it! But be very careful with what harness you get. The ones that are like little jackets that “claim” to be safe my cats wriggle out of in no time flat. I prefer the more minimal, thin strap ones that I can adjust to fit snugly. Cats are escape artists and can back out of all sorts of restraints!
I tried to leash train but A) she wriggled out and B) she climbed up a tree and almost got hanged on a short broken branch point. Because we live on 5 acres and my cat really only wants to be outside for an hour or 2 to explore the fern area behind my barn or climb a few trees, I spray her with lemongrass rosemary bug spray she despises and let her out once every other day when she wants to. She mostly goes out when my dog is out and comes in when she notices the dog is no longer outside to protect her XD
Corporate jargon is just code for "We're using these words to cover up the fact that we're wasting time in yet another pointless meeting, instead of actually working."
Being direct is a sign of respect. It means you respect the person’s time enough not to waste it.
When someone takes all day getting to the point I assume they’re either afraid or on a power trip.
The former is like a typical Hugh Grant character and the latter loves the sound of their own voice.
Being from NYC, being direct is in my blood.
I have the tendency to over explain things, drives my husband insane, but I now have been noticing him doing it, so I think he is picking it up from me :( lol
Trying to sound educated! We had a lady at work "this customer would like to utilise his points for a discount on his purchases." Stop it!
Being direct is not a sign of respect, nor is being indirect a sign of disrespect. Your time certainly isn't so valuable as to not be able to afford a few seconds while someone meanders through their thoughts.
I'm retired now and looking forward to not knowing the office jargon of the future.
Never thought I would hear Laurence say "CBT" in my life
cock ball T
Next he'll be saying "Bring out the gimp."
Captains big telescope?
Or cognitive behavioral therapy. One of these things should honestly be changed
@@seaborgium919 I have been doing therapy since the 90s and just call the two therapies cognitive therapy and behavior therapy. I never say CBT and thus avoid the cock and ball torture thing.
Where I work, CBT is Computer Based Training. People on training courses will sometimes be expected to spend about 2 or 3 working days doing little else other than watching them AKA death by CBT.
Coffee was the fancy non alcoholic drink of choice in my tiny Nordic country... until World War II happened and we were occupied by the Brits in what is known as Operation Valentine, but mostly referred to as The Friendly Occupation. It is said that the Brits taught us to drink tea (even these days Typhoo tea is preferred and viewed as normal tea) and we taught the British soldiers to drink coffee.
I was going to say that directness is regional and I use those little "would you mind," type phrases all the time... Until you had the food order example. When the interaction is that functional, it would feel weird to act like there was any question about whether or not the other person would do their job.
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Darn, I was hoping if we moved somewhere else my husband would stop leaving his socks everywhere.
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I have found that placing ALL errant socks directly on top of his computer keyboard has done the trick.
Follow the trail of socks and you will find your husband at the end.
"Direct communication" - Come to the Netherlands. You'll never call Americans direct again...
picobello99 Would enjoy an example of what u mean?
@@seemaprasad1383 We don't do small talk, we don't sugar coat, are brutally honest and get straight to the point. If there's something we don't like about you, you'll know. We won't spare your feelings. We would rather have the ugly truth than a beautiful lie.
And when it comes to ordering pizza, we wouldn't even formulate a question. We would just say "I want to order this and this pizza." I mean, what's the point of asking a pizza place if you could order a pizza? Off course you can, that's what it's there for.
We are looking for a new home. I want Ecuador, my wife wants Denmark or the Netherlands. A case needs to be made either way. Is murder legal in the Netherlands? Or, at least, are the authorities... unsuspicious?
@@seemaprasad1383 I spent some time there in college. Even at a restaurant, store, bar I would see workers tell customers “you’re wasting my time” when they take too long to order or asked too many questions. A common one was “you’re in my way” if they’re trying to get around you. Although I appreciate the directness, at times it felt borderline rude. The straight forwardness came in handy for me when going on dates or out at a bar. Most Dutch people are very direct if they’re interested in you or not. It just makes the experience a lot easier. So there’s pros and cons I guess lol.
@@picobello99 -- Yes, but FIRST, before you say "I want to order..."
-- YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF using your FIRST and LAST (surname) NAMES !!
What useless pieces of information in such situations! :)
Yes, it's a social convention... good manners, and all. But, please note the Dutch DO us social lubricant (conversationally speaking), so it's NOT *ALL* direct communication.
Another correlative, common habit: TALKING ABOUT WEATHER. -- I THINK THAT QUALIFIES as SMALL TALK. :) :)
“You will be kidnapped by Cyclists”... new best threat of the week.
The indoor cat bit depends greatly on where you live. However, it has become seemingly the standard most places. This is a change that has happened in my lifetime. As a child, we had "indoor / outdoor cats" and "outdoor only cats". A few things precipitated the change: (1) as cities encroach on wilderness, predators like bobcats and coyotes prey on small pets, (2) de-clawing procedures becoming more common for pets--made popular because people got tired of replacing furniture. Once a cat is de-clawed (usually front claws only), it is effectively defenseless outdoors, so it is best to keep them indoors. I don't worry about any of this though--I'm a dog person.
Darin, another reason is the rise of feline leukemia (also known as feline AIDS).
Declawing is akin to chopping off your finger at the 2nd knuckle.
@@lovecats6856 They still seem able to walk just fine, I wouldn't be able to hold anything in my hand if my fingers were cut off.
Yeah, it also depends greatly on whether cats are (“only”) kept as pets or also serve their original, practical purpose of helping keeping rodent populations in check, which is mostly an issue in rural environments. Also, I live in a country were cats face pretty much no natural predators (though cars are a primary danger).
When I grew up in a rural setting (my upbringing was initially in a suburb before we moved to a rural area), our first cat simply dropped in and took up residence, because we fed it better.
The cat’s original owner (or whatever) across the street suffered from an old misunderstanding that cats shouldn’t be fed too well in order to encourage it to hunt, whereas a well fed cat is actually more likely to hunt effectively (as hunting is an instinct and well fed cats are more likely to be effective hunters).
Since it was a female cat and cats were generally allowed to wander/stray, we soon had a litter. Most of them did indeed get run over (we lived right next to a fairly busy road) in the space of several years, though one tomcat survived for around two decades (he was still there when we moved away).
That tomcat (a huge, red one with ears showing the scars of several fights) ended up being spayed to diminish his straying after he had been absent for an extended period of time before showing up emaciated and with quite extreme claustrophobia. We reckoned that he had accidentally been locked in a barn or something and then had him spayed to keep him closer to home (it worked pretty well, though his bad experience might also have had something to do with it).
Growing up, we had 'indoor' cats that quickly became 'outdoor' cats when they grew up. But also as a kid, there were just neighborhood cats roaming the streets. They usually went home to a household at night (or whenever) and got fed, but were free to roam otherwise, but that's the thing, this was in a neighborhood. Don't let your cat roam if you are anywhere near a busy road, that seems to be the size of the issue. We lived in a small industrial town not 10 minutes from the capital, but growing up poor, we lived in a poor area with no through traffic at all, so it was fine. I'd never think to do it now that I live a mere 5 minutes from the capital, and on a long straight road that people like to race down as well.
My first boss used to ramble on and on about SOP (standard operating procedure). Unfortunately for him, his name was Pat. So amongst the staff, it was Shit On Pat
SOP is used in military-speak as well, but few civilians I’ve encountered (except for military veterans) in my area use it
@@DoubleACbg I know SOP from being a veteran , but don't use it around civilians .
@@DoubleACbg is is standard phrasing in manufacturing facilities.
Great video, thanks!
“Touch base” isn’t corporate, though, it’s an idiom used everywhere that comes from baseball where you have to touch the base as you run in order to advance toward home plate.
“SOW”...I work for a defense contractor so a SOW (statement of work) is something we talk about every day. Can’t be avoided.
Another corporate idiom I overuse is “synergy” and “synergize.” Shame on me!
Last one is “get with”, eg “I’ll get with John and we’ll see about finalizing the SOW.”
As for direct communication, that’s definitely a big difference between the UK and the US. I was raised in London England and learned to speak in a very polite and indirect way. Then I moved to the states when I was a teenager and I had to learn that Americans just didn’t understand it. For me it went beyond the difference between “just taking longer to say things versus getting to the point“ to Americans not knowing I was making definite plans when they thought I was just proposing things. For example, when I was growing up in England if you said “we should do something on Friday“ and your friend said “yes, we should“, that meant that you had a plan in place. In America it doesn’t, it just means that you’ve expressed an idea and that someone has agreed that it is a good idea. In America you have to follow it with “great, let’s meet at your house at 6 PM“ or something like that. I thought Americans were just being flaky when they wouldn’t turn up but I learned eventually that is because they genuinely thought I was just making suggestions. Once fixed that, I found I had a generally easier time getting on and making plans with people.
What does synergy even mean 😭
Kayla Fox Hahaha I think it’s supposed to mean “everyone having the same energy and focus toward a shared goal” but it’s so overused it’s now basically meaningless!
Indirect speech reminds me of the episode of "Taxi" where some taxi employees call out to Rev. Jim, "we're thinking of asking you to come eat with us". He replies, "Let me know what you decide".
As a Canadian, I would react like the Americans. If I had a plan to do something, I would say it directly, like 'Do you want to go to the movies on Saturday?". If you were talking to me, I would think you want my suggestion(s) as a possible plan.
@@VidIan262009 "the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects." Used often in chemistry or pharmacology.
I think I'm a very charitable tipper. I waited tables and I know it's part of their income. But in no way possible do I tip people for doing their job, ie cashiers at convenience stores or throwing money into a "tip jar."
Except sometimes, at a place like Starbucks, they get complicated orders on top of cranky morning customers , so if they're doing all that and can still be cheerful, I'll round up, and toss my change in the jar.
Once I couldn't resist, because a local business labeled their jar "tips for counter intelligence ". I thought that the joke merited a tip
We order pizza via Papa Murphy pizza app. Then we go pick up our pizza order from the rack inside the door there. They actually have a TIP option as you check out. Really? For what?
"CBT" also has another entirely different (and wince-inducing) meaning in the kink/adult entertainment world...
Tipping: It's because by law restaurants are allowed to pay servers several dollars per hour less than minimum wage, on the assumption that they will be tipped by customers. A lot of us are actually really uncomfortable with being expected to cover a server's wages as an extra cost on top of our meal. But, we know they get screwed over if we don't, so we tip. In most other countries a server gets at least a fair legal minimum wage.
Being direct: It's a different sort of politeness. I mean, yes, we are direct, especially in business, but it's because we respect that people's time is precious and they've got other things going. They are already being very polite to give us a minute of their time even though they are super busy, so we be very polite in return by hurrying and making sure their time is not wasted. But if you catch us after work on non-business subjects, we're MORE than happy to talk sociably for a very long time :-)
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@@poppyseeds439 well...yes
California is one of the most expensive states to live in. living wage there would average over $40/hr. $15/hr is too little too late
@@vaelophisnyx9873 Poor economic policy actually.
I mean tipping is in all honesty beneficial to the customer, it allows you to choose how much the server deserves, if the tipping policy was changed restaurants in all likelihood would raise prices by 15-20% to cover those extra wages.
@@fri9875 Beneficial to customers is the reason that the system has persisted, but the two reasons you list reflect a view that transactional capitalism is beneficial on the whole, which isn't actually true. I could translate your first benefit this way: "allows you to choose how much the server deserves" = "I will be the judge of their performative nature and likewise determine the arbitrary value of that performance according to my own monetary experiences, and still know nothing about the actual needs of my service provider. Making the servers beholden to the whims and emotions of their customers is a better system than providing a minimum stable and predictable income ."because it gives me a tiny temporary position of power over another human being."
"in all likelihood raise prices by 15-20%" : This isn't how distributive costs in a business work, and this isn't the only means that a business has to absorb additional costs. Employee pay is usually covered by a rolling line of credit that the business pays back when they have settled pending income. There are any number of new costs and unexpected liabilities that might hit a business, and prices are changed all the time without making too much of a fuss. Small businesses are hit the worst because they have the most difficulty adapting, but small restaurants cycle through every 2 - 5 years, on average and that is *without* wage increases. Paying servers a basic wage and disallowing tips is a practice adopted by many restaurants here in Seattle, such as Ivar's (the beloved sea-food chain.) Prices for the meals went up about 5-8% depending on the item, but customers SAVE money because that 5-8% is LESS than the 15-20% tip they would have otherwise been expected to leave.
Don't fear paying service providers a stable salary! These are professionals doing hard work, not monkeys dancing for your amusement.
As an American, I can't stand obligatory tipping either. I'm already paying for said service with the bill I receive. Now I have to pay the establishment's employees' wages too? Pay them a fair wage already. Maybe I'm the only one who sees the idiocy of this practice.
No, you are definitely not the only one. I rant to my husband about it every chance I get. Not to mention, most places already pay their employees minimum wage, so now what's the point in obligatory tipping???(I'm not making a point about whether minimum wage is sufficient, I'm only making a point about the fact that tipping seems to be arbitrarily tied to particular fields of work rather than how much money the person makes. For example, it's seen as rude to not tip the waitress at the needlessly classy restaurant who is definitely make well above minimum wage, but it isn't seen as rude to not tip the cashier at walmart who is definitely making minimum wage, in fact walmart employees aren't allowed to accept tips at all.) It should never be on the customer to pay the employees wages. Tipping should be reserved for outstanding service only.
Go somewhere that does not tip. The service sucks.
Rebecca Bamber apparently you don’t know how tipped wages work. Federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. We used to live in PA, it was $2.83 an hour. My husband collected a paycheck of about $9 about 4 times a year working as a server in PA, his income wasn’t even enough money to cover the taxes on his tips. Only a few states pay servers and other tipped employees minimum wage.
maria marie because some of the takeout workers are on tipped wage too, my husband works at outback and literally anyone except management that you can see as a customer is getting paid tipped wage. The servers get direct tips, the hosts and bussers get tip share, bar tenders get both. Their to-go people used to be direct tip but services like Uber eats don’t tip so they had to put them on tip share too at his location.
The reason why we tip is so the servers can live. They do not get paid enough to be able to actually live without a tip.
I once forgot to tip in a small local cafe while I was on a trip. There was one waitress who was pulling a double.
I felt so bad when I got to my destination and realized what I had done that I got a card and sent the tip citing the date and time etc.
I alway hoped that she got it and I hope she realized there are people who value the work they do even if we are forgetful sometimes.
Yes, I sent cash but decided to take a chance to right a wrong.
"Touch base" & "Ducks in a row" have been and ARE far more universally spoken than in offices! Those are used in all walks of life in America.
My dad often said "ducks in a row".
@@sluggo206 I'll bet you'll do it as well. ;)
Hmm, I imagine Japan has their own version of "corporate speak" that could give the US a run for their money.
I keep my cats indoors, and now they are so trained that when they do get out, they lose their minds and freak out trying to come back in immediately. They know where their home is! One got out and we didn't notice it, and after we came back from shopping many hours later, he was at the front door patiently waiting for us to come home!
Lol poor thing, "damn not having opposable thumbs!"
When I lived in London the inability of the Brits to speak directly drove me crazy. Once, when cleaning up a US tax issue for a company (a UK subsidiary of a US company) I discovered the UK company also had a UK tax issue. One of my UK colleagues was tasked with fixing it. After some back and forth with HMRC, we were given a bad answer. The folks in the US called me to find out what the status of the UK review was, and when I spoke with my British colleague he told me the bad news and said we would speak to the client and that I should not say anything. For two weeks I would get calls from the US and when I spoke with my British colleague he would say he would call and don't say anything.
FInally I got so annoyed that after a call I yelled at the guy (he was a long serving well respected partner and I was an American on secondment).
He called and apparently spent most of the call with the US client noting that I yelled at him
To avoid future issues, I gave everyone in my group and "English to American" chart
Another reason for keeping your cat indoors is that in the USA, those mobsters of the animal kingdom, coyotes, are everywhere. Even in cities! And they love to eat kitty kats and small dogs.
Thank-you for a knowledging that it is not just rude, but INCREADABLY rude not to tip here in America! As a tip earning person, I use whether or not I receive one and what percentage it is as a gage for how well I did in providing service. When I don't recive a tip, its like being told that my service was terrible to the point of possibly deserving a negative review online. It's also BAFFLING when the person acts all happy and thankful only to then not receive a tip. Like, I thought I did a good job oh my gosh what did I DO at the end there that offended them that much???? 😨
It’s BAFFLING that jobs do not pay a proper wage.
THAT is the issue.
No, it is incredibly rude to force someone to pay more on top of what the menu says you have to pay. It is also rude that restaurants and other places do not pay their service staff appropriately so they have to rely on tips. If you find yourself relying on tips, I would suggest finding a job that allows you not to.
@Grey Wolf Climber and @Dustin VanKeuren
Tipped workers are paid the same minimum wage as elsewhere with the ability to earn more. If someone tells you otherwise, they don’t know the law or are spineless and find it easier to blame the patrons and guilt trip others (so they could earn in excess, oftentimes without claiming the earnings and committing tax evasion/fraud) instead of reporting their pay correctly to their employer so their employer would pay them the difference to make up for the lack of tips to be equal to the minimum wage.
@@xa5150 In theory, yes, in reality..... it depends, on the state, the region of the state, the restaurant owner etc....
#1 jargon at my work: "reach out". Never "contact" or "phone" or "speak to" but we always "reach out", and to me, this is straight out of an AT&T ad campaign!
Exactly! Anytime I heard my previous coworkers use the phrase reach out that song would go through my head. Drove me crazy! LOL
In Oregon I grew up with indoor/outdoor cats. Even though we weren't in a main city they still ended up eventually getting hit by cars. So when I got my cat (Tony) in university I made him indoor only. After university I ended up having to move around a lot and I couldn't properly care for him so he went to live with my mom who lived out in a farm land and wooded area and he became an indoor/outdoor cat. This town has a gas station, with tiny a convenience store, and a small post office connected to it. That's it. Unfortunately non-local people like to joy ride down the one road and he was hit by a car last year.
Once I'm more settled if I get a cat again I'm hoping I can get a cattio or get them to tolerate a harness (Tony never took to it) but if I can't they'll be indoor only. I'll just have to make some sort of shelves and cat trees they can climb and play around on.
"Here are some unshakable habits I've developed since moving to America."
- Instantly gets a military ad.
Speaking of work-speak (see what I did there), when I worked in a big IT department with a bunch of Trekkies my boss might say "John, put together an away team and check out a downed server in the Lamar Blvd sector (a remote location). In other words I worked on a starship for 20 years!
So you lived in Austin?
"Make it So"
That sounds fun 👻
That sounds awesome.
That’s awesome!
Outdoor cats also compete with the native wildlife as well.... They have a habit of eating ground nesting birds who aren't doing so hot in general. Any cat I have will ALWAYS be an indoor one
"You don't want to get kidnapped by bicyclists do you?"
🤣❤
In NYC, this is a real threat.
@@c.hanley1423 Cyclists steal cats? Is that a new thing?
I currently live in Texas having moved from Canada. That said, our indoor/door cats disappeared because of Bobcats and Coyotes here in Texas. Our cats are now indoor cats. With regard to "getting to the point", it's common in the US and Canadian corporate cultures.
If the bartender was familiar with tipping in Britain and Europe, he should not be upset since he would understand that what you did was the norm, not an indictment of his level of service.
Once, my European friends tipped a very small amount because the server was not very good, but was also surly on top if it. In fact, her attitude was what bothered them more than anything. The manager of the restaurant actually pursued them onto the street in order to tell them that they had done a horrible misdeed. Omg.
@@YaNevrNo If I was that custumer I'd probably give the manager an earfull then shoot off an email to cooperate.
@@tritchie6272
Me too!
The ones visiting the foreign country should try to know the basic etiquette of going out. A European not tipping means they didn't even bother to Google US culture before they traveled, something they would absolutely hate Americans not bothering with in their country.
We need to do away with tipping. Employers need to pay their workers properly! Yes they will raise their prices a bit but that way the employees get properly paid without having to worry about whether they will get enough tips each night or not.
I worked as a waitress/bartender in the early 2000's in south Louisiana . I would have fought tooth and nail to keep my 2.13 an hour plus tips. We did not want to make an hourly wage - we made WAY more in tips every night. When I quit waitressing and moved to a government job I took a pay cut and had to work more hours.
exactly. And prices may go up, but you would be paying the same because the tips you would have been paying are now just part of the bill. They always say tips are needed so the service personnel works hard to do a good job in order to get their tips. Well, pay them properly and treat them properly and they will do a good job. If not, fire them.
I think they need to get paid like sales people do. Salary plus bonus. Right now they get paid way more than if they were hourly workers so if you turn them into hourly workers you're service will not be that good and your price would go up. I also doubt they'd get a living wage if you made them hourly only. Restaurants have razor thin margins.
I live in the southwest and I’ve had two cats that have gotten eaten by coyotes ! 🙀 so it’s not just cars our cats have to watch out for 😢
Sorry :( My cat used to escape the house occasionally too just to give me a heart attack.
Same and I lived in Chicago.
Coyotes, foxes, angry racoons, unbearable heat, ferals....
Many outdoor dangers that don't involve wheels
What about ALF??? Too long ago? (OK, I can show myself out).
I know how you feel. Lost one to a fisher car. Pathetic.
Concerning cats "They are constantly plotting their escape." It should be noted that they are also constantly plotting your demise but alas they keep in mind where the food comes from. It's a lovely balancing act really.
it is inconceivably rude that employers do not pay their staff enough so they have to survive on tips.
It goes back to the bad old slave days. It's kind of embarrising that we're the only country that does it.
1) then don't become a server
2) you'd be surprised how much more servers make in tips, possibly more than many of us on a 9-5 office job.
@@Hollylivengood
have you been to Mexico?
It's not rude, it is how restaurants have lower prices for their food. It also incentivizes waiters to be engaged and work harder/provide better service. If they do, they likely are rewarded with a good tip. If you want higher wages for wait staff, the restaurant will offset it in their food/drink prices. There is a brewpub in my hometown that does zero tips for wait staff, and the beers are 1-2 dollars more than other bars. I've been to a couple European countries where tipping is not a thing, and the service sucked everywhere I went, cause there is no incentive to be attentive to the patrons. Ancecdotal examples, I know, but it not purely because employers are rude or greedy.
It’s worse than rude. It’s exploitation.
The American South also uses indirect communication. If a northerner moves south, he/she is often seen as a bit of an asshole for being so blunt.
Perhaps some of it is the era you were born into as well. I was raised in Massachusetts in the 60's and the direct speech was only used informally. If you were speaking to strangers or people older than you you spoke more formally and using proper etiquette. I live in the southern USA now and I find the direct vs. indirect speech is more pronounced depending on whether you are in an urban area or a rural area.
On the other hand you can wait forever to get to the point, or you never learn the truth because in the south some things are NEVER said.
@@TheJwbooth very true, although in every place I have been, both here and on the other side of the pond, often that not 'getting to the truth' is very often a subtle way of saying "it is none of your business". :)
This is mostly true. Before asking a question, we usually ask permission to ask a question "May I ask you a question?". Northerners look at you as if to say, didn't you just do that? :)
This is the truth. Im a native NYer who lived in PA for a while then Tennessee and Ive found the direct way I talked was counter to the way people here are.
Its been a learning experience
Finally some calm and civility to decompress from that shit show tonight thanks. It was like my drunk uncles at Thanksgiving only with podiums
You should really get them podiums this year, with a nice shelf for their booze. It'll change the dynamic completely.
@@Crazt Sounds like a plan Thanks
Paul O'Brien and one of them is going to be your ruler for the next 4 years. Maybe you can ask the British Parliament if they will take you back?
Paul O'Brien that was truly horrible and terrifying. Trump was bombastic, bullying, belittling, and aggressive. Could anyone be proud of his performance? Chris Wallace was impotent as moderator.
@@afankhan If it's going to be anywhere I'm going to Ireland I qualify for dual citizenship
Hello, Lawrence. If you drink hot coffee and cold water at the same time it will wake you up quite well.
As for Scandinavian countries and coffee drinking is probably to get through the long dark winters. I live in western Canada and we have 6-9 months of winter, 3-4 hours of daylight, 2 hours of twilight. My husband telecommutes to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and they have 3-4 winter months of complete darkness followed by our schedule on either end. Coffee helps.
Well, I drink just as much coffee under the midnight sun as in the dark winter
Juliana Magg my husband is Finnish and that’s the explanation he received from his grandparents. I would say it’s become a year round habit. Hubby had his first cup of coffee in a child size mug when he was 8.
I'm amused by the british pronunciation of tomato with two soft A's, (makes sense) yet I routinely hear Brits say chakra with the first A being hard and the second being soft.
They're very inconsistent in their pronunciation. Schedule (shedul) vs school (skool). Clerk (klark) vs clergy (klurgy). Etc.
@Laura B, it comes from amalgamating various different languages into common English i.e. Celtic, Norse, Norman French and Germanic languages. It is also why we have considerably more words than French and to a slightly lesser extent German.
Also with Mazda
I wanted to ask something that I've always wondered about. The lack of the word "the" in certain sentences. When we Americans say we're going to the hospital we say the hospital. The British say to hospital or to somewhere else. Why is that?
Tipping 100% needs to be abolished as a "requirement" in the USA. Tips should not replace a fair livable wage, just so the management or owner of a service establishment can make more money.
Abolish tipping and raise prices 15% or should the owners take the loss
You've never worked in an industry where tipping is standard obviously... also service is horrible in Europe in comparison to the US. Cut out someone's initiative to earn money and they have no reason to give good service.
@@src4409 Maybe their initiative to work should be that they get to keep their job, like any other workplace? Maybe some kind of performance appraisal? Speaking as neither an American nor European/British, in my country we just tip how much ever we feel from whatever small change is in our wallets. The service charge is already covered in the final bill so we just do it because it seems like what you're supposed to do lol 🤷🏽♀️
Sounds like you have never owned a cafe.
Servers make more money under the tipping system than they do under a high standard wage. Restaurants that have experimented with switching to higher wages and no tips have staffing issues
As an American cat lover , I never could grasp the acceptance by other western nations allowing them to roam outdoors .
American veterinarians strongly advise against it for good reasons .
Cats live longer indoors .
In America they are vulnerable to so many harmful things outdoors. Getting run over ,being victim to animals of prey ,and being more susceptible to illnesses. I haven't declawed my cats .They have scratching posts and they don't yearn to be outside ,either
I've had my door come open (didn't latch properly and the wind blew it open) and my cats refuse to venture out. I was so scared when I saw the open door but my two were inside waiting to greet me. Far too dangerous for them outside.
My cousins from the very deep South call them either tomaters or just maters. That kinda chafes the ears.
It’s just the way we talk. 🤷🏻♀️. Maters. Taters. 👍🏻
And yet the idea and term "coffee shoppe" started in early 18th century London, flourishing among litterateurs like Dr. Samuel Johnson as a daytime hangout, parallel to the French literary salon.
As somebody who's worked in restaurants for several years now, tips are done differently between establishments. In some cases the wait staff does not make minimum wage and are nearly entirely reliant on tips, sometimes the tip goes to only that person waiting on you while others it is split between various members of the staff. Just best to ask before making your decision. I will say it is always appreciated either way.
My in-laws are Dutch. The have coffee ALL DAY LONG. My mother-in-law calls it “coffee time” in a very sweet sing-songy voice. Oh, and the Dutch have amazing pastries.
I live in west Michigan, a large group of Dutch people settled here. I can confirm that even if it's 100 degrees my relatives will be drinking coffee all day long.
I grew up in a small town where almost everybody are the descendants of the original German and Swedish settlers. Everyone drinks coffee all day. I've only recently become aware that some people only drink coffee in the morning. Mind blown.
@@rapids444
I grew up in that same part of MI. Can you do the windmill dance? 😆
@@LindaC616 to be fair my parents raised me in the thumb so I have never heard of the windmill dance!... I need to check into it. :)
@@rapids444
Lol, I'm originally from Kazoo, so v close to Holland...
CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Me, a kinkster: Orrrr......
*Exhales and searches, can't be THAT bad right?*
OH DEAR GOD.
Lmao this experience is common. I mean not cbt for myself as I'm a woman but instantly thinking of the definition not intended.
Church.
😂🤣😅😂🤣😂
As a therapist specializing in the kink community...m
When you were speaking of "being direct" it made me sit back an ponder all the years that I've been called a b*tch! Lol 😆 Many mistake my being direct as being rude, b*tchy, etc... However, that just isn't it. Or maybe it is. I just absolutely don't have the patience for crazy psyhco-babble and am by nature an extremely "get to the point" kind of individual. Bonus points for me because I'm also a lifelong Chicagoan, so my directness is very much a part of my makeup.
You probably would have received better feedback if you were male...then you'd be perceived as a "go-getter". Gotta love sexism! [insert eye roll here]
Ducks, I've heard, will sleep on logs in a row, such that the ducks on the end will keep _one eye open_ (another common saying) as the other half of the duck's brain sleeps. This, of course, allows them to be the alarm ducks in case of an attack while they are sleeping.
Americans don't like to be asked a lot of questions. First question, answered. Second question, annoyance. Third question, hostility. Fourth question, silence.
Sigh! Your rambling bruh. All I heard after "Americans don't like" was bla, bla, bla.
Signed
Annoyed Impatient American
My furry child is in my armpit watching this video with me.
Your armpit hair is your pet?
@@1stAmbientGrl 😅😂
@@1stAmbientGrl Cat. My armpit hair doesn't claw my nuts when it jumps on the bed.
@@donaldcady3839 Eeew! Your armpit hair jumps on the bed?!
@1stAmbientGi You are silly.
People in Nordic countries drink gallons of coffee in order to fight against the fact that they only have four hours of daylight in the winter. The sun rises at 10 am and sets at 2 pm
haha Office speak. " I wanted to circle back and touch base, Make sure our T's are crossed and I's are dotted before we upload the monthly WIP reports. "
Canadian Here..I Can't Stand Coffee. I Like English Breakfast Tea, Also Lyons Tea, PG Tips Tea..
Skin crawler: "Let's touch base when we do lunch."
Cat's should be indoors for a number of important reasons. Cat feces carry the parasite Toxoplasma gondii . Toxoplasmosis infection affects humans (look it up, it's yucky). Also, sea mammals can be infected when it gets washed into storm inlets. Sea otters (a protected and endangered species) can be fatally affected by it.
Humans usually get Toxo from cat scratches from indoor cats. Litter boxes don't make for very clean paws (poorly cleaned litter boxes, good butlers have nothing to fear). And unless you live very close to a waterway close to the ocean, the sea otters are safe. Not saying it isn't a consideration, just not relevant for a lot of people. Cats ARE spectacularly good predators (by far one of the best on the planet) so letting a cat out puts any endangered animal small enough for them to catch on the menu, and yes, they catch birds.
But if it turns out they eat spotted lantern flies...
You are hilarious!! This is a wonderful channel!! God knows we need someone to make us laugh. I truly, genuinely appreciate your awesome sense of humor!
Where I live, cats are food for the coyotes. That's why they stay in the house.
That's probably why we don't see any cats in my neighborhood. We have a trail cam and have seen coyotes on it a few times.
*As a Brit living in a southern rural part of the States I keep my cats 🐈 indoors for one simple reason. Coyotes are in my area and they will kill a cat and eat it.*
We have the same type of verbiage in offices in Canada. Didn't realize other countries like the UK didn't.
The acronyms reminds me of when I worked for AMC, the ginormous cinema chain. I imagine it's changed some since I had quit, but some people in corporate loved acronyms so much that with the employee handbook we handed out to new hires, it the last several pages were just three columns of company acronyms and what they stood for. And a lot of them were things regular hires would never use (like I only knew SRD was the Dolby Digital soundtrack name because I worked in the projection booth).
It got so out of hand that once we got a silly little fake rubber tea up colored to look like it was filled with milky tea, that was connected to TCUP, obviously pronounced "t-cup", and short for the Theater Clean Up Program.
Hilarious. I live in Westminster Colorado, my office often has its Christmas parties at the Doubletree, and a part of my job is reviewing SOWs!
Also, in Westminster, CO, you can get a ticket for “letting“ your cat out.
There’s a leash law… For cats.
When I moved to Arvada I was told that you’re supposed to register your pet?! YEARLY... LIKE A CAR. Weirdest thing ever.
"There’s a leash law… For cats."
Nothing wrong with that. I've had two cats that I trained to leash, and going out for a walk with the cat in the afternoon after work on nice days was a real bonding experience for both me and the cat.
The amount of coffee made in the Swedish "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" series shocked and amazed even my American coffee loving soul.
I spent a month and a half in costa rica studying after grad school... I mean they grow coffee but it's also part of the culture to drink it alllllllllll the time
@@efolinsky I was surprised when a Swedish American told me his parents in Sewden have a coffee plantation. Coffee grows in Sweden? I thought it required a hot climate.
Reading that book I actually got nauseated at the thought of all that coffee.
I absolutely tip in most circumstances, and even if it’s questionable if I need to, I try to give a couple bucks if I’m unsure-that being said, I HATE TIPPING CULTURE. Nothing but peer and societal pressure and morals is financially keeping afloat millions of service workers, instead of, you know, THEIR EMPLOYER!!!!! Why in the hell did we let it get this far??????
Eat at home and avoid the angst.
"tomahtoes."
"tomahtoes."
"tomahtoes."
"ugh, tomaytoes."
"Potahtoes...let's call the whole thing off."