Irish Girl Reacts to 20 Things ONLY Americans Do (and think it´s normal)
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- Ever wonder what things Americans do that make the rest of the world go, "Wait, what?" Well, today I’m diving deep into 20 things ONLY Americans do, and let's see how many I am now familiar with as a tourist to your land. As an Irish girl, I’ve definitely had my fair share of "Wait, is this real life?" moments in the States, and you guys frequently point out oddities from me so this was a blast to react to.
🎶 Cue the Soundtrack:
"Born in the USA" - Bruce Springsteen vibes coming through.
"American Pie" - I couldn't help but think of it!
"Sweet Home Alabama" - Yes, I went there!
"New York, New York" - Sinatra was spot on with this one.
So buckle up for some culture shocks and prepare to have a laugh along the way as I take you through some of the quirkiest habits Americans have. Maybe you'll even recognize yourself in some of these!
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0:57 Don’t know why any of the campaign promises don’t include “import Chewie Jennings”😂
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@@DianeJennings I don't agree with most things America does as much as I am an American, also TV is one of the worst things you could be looking at.
The gender reveal sh@#$@#% is the 21st century woman sh#$%#@!
Pharmacies that sale groceries, I don't care for them but at least I'm able to buy groceries if that is what is close by.
Tipping sucks but the bill was less because free drinks and tipping, I don't tip much or in some cases at all and it saves me money lol. I agree with you they should get paid better and we should not have to tip.
I don't give a damn about red plastic cups, what can I say, at least they don't have to be washed. If you just have white ones that works too the point was to not have to wash a bunch of cups after a party.
All forms of taxes suck, sales tax is annoying and I wish we had the full price on stuff.
The things we had to do in school, we just wanted it to be over and also we said other words instead to be funny.
Commercial are annoying in general, and nobody in their right mind cares to tell their doctor about some drug they heard of on the TV.
@@DianeJennings Before you make up your mind about tipping culture, talk to some competent waiters and waitresses.
They get paid less than minimum wage BUT they make way more on tips than if you gave them minimum wage or a buck or two more an hour than that.
They get cash money that it is up to their conscious to declare properly on their taxes. Lots of them would lose money if you gave them the legal wage. Bad servers don't make as much as good servers, but they all take wads of money home at the end of their shift that Uncle Sam can't track. It is usually fancy rich people that complain about how unfair tipping culture is because they have no frame of reference for the working man or woman. Restaurants would have to charge more, and people will eat out less.
@@bluebird3281 "Restaurants would have to charge more, and people will eat out less."
I despise this argument. The prices would go up, but then there wouldn't be an extra amount on top of the bill.
And no, it's not "usually fancy rich people" who complain about tipping. Things might be different for you, but I've never known a person working for sub-minimum wage and tips that didn't think the system was crap.
27:06 Farenheit and inches obviously did get us to the moon. Where's everybody else?? Oh, it took a while to do all those conversions!! HAHAHA In all seriousness NASA, SpaceX, etc. do use metric, it's just the rest who don't.
In Canada, it's mostly just chain restaurants doing unlimited refills for soft drinks. The big chains have the edge on bulk discounts on almost all centrally ordered supplies.
Our government is great at thanking our troops verbally. Takes them a liiiiiiittle longer to thank them with action.
Indeed. Lots of lip service but veterans still get treatedly badly by the VA or for any other government help they need.
"under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, not from its origin in 1892.
Yeah, it was McCarthy-era bull***t, added as right-wing virtue-signaling but sold as a way to winnow out "Communists" whom the propnents claimed were all immoral atheists, but yet still (somehow) unable to lie about such things. 🙄
Once I learned the history of the pledge, I stopped saying, "Under God," although I have no real issues with the rest of it.
I skip those two words not because I'm an atheist (although I am); and not because I'm a Communist (I am *not* ; it's an utter failure of an ideology); and not because I'm "anti-American" (as noted, I have no problem with the rest of the pledge).
No, I leave out "under God" because the decision to add them was utterly idiotic, and I'm pretty seriously "anti-stupid." 🤨
Yeah, but it also wasn’t written specifically for the U.S. either. It was intended to be usable by any nation.
And it should be removed
@@chemquests Absolutely. It goes against the Establishment Clause in the Constitution.
@@kenwheeler3637 It was because of the Red Scare so we wouldn't seem communist,
I have a pair of "house" shoes (New Balance Walkers) which I only wear inside my home. This is mostly for comfort but also to make sure I don't slip on the stairs or any of our tile surfaces. No one who enters our home wears outside shoes in the house.
When my sister ran the local Walmart's snack bar (before it became a Subway), she said that the straw & the cup both actually cost more that the soda within the cup they were selling. Thus free refills is not a big deal.
Voting before drinking doesn't bother me too much, but I find being able to serve in the military before drinking a bit odd.
True!
Enlisted personnel on a military base/post, the drinking age is 18.. fyi.
As a Canadian, I do remember back in Elementary school reciting something about the Queen. I can't remember the words but it was every morning after singing Oh Canada. I think we stopped doing it in grade 2.
I will defend tipping culture for waiters to the end. First off, not all states pay a sub-minimum wage for tipped staff. And ALL states MUST pay the equivalent of minimum wage if the tips fall short for some reason. Secondly, waiters make way more with tips than they would if they were just paid a flat "livable wage". Menu prices would also have to be increased to pay for this flat rate. So basically, you are tipping in the 'livable wage' model, but it is just built into the price. At least with tipping you have a say in the matter. And generally, I think the service is better when the staff gets tips. They tend to go the extra mile. The only negative thing I will say about tipping is this fairly recent trend of prompting for a tip when ordering at the counter or anything that doesn't involve at least some level of actual service.
Diane, drug stores are where Americans buy last minute holiday gifts as it's one of the few stores open on holidays
Honestly, Diane, this watchmojo video is about 50/50... 50% exactly right, 50% insane.
Honestly, average watchmojo video lol
23:31 Any health insurance I have ever had (probably 20 different insurance carriers over 45 years of work, since insurance here is tied to your job for no particularly good reason) _requires_ the generic version of a drug. They have a list called a _formulary_ and that contains all the drugs they will cover, anything not on that list - you are on your own paying for it.
Taking off your shoes when you enter a home is big in Asia. I remember seeing my mom for the first time in 4 months, running into my parents' house in South Korea to hug her, and her immediately yelling: "Take off your shoes!"
I live in a very Asian American area. You take your shoes off in many people's homes even if their grandparents were born in the US. You know by seeing a shoe rack inside the front door.
Hahaha thats such a mom moment!
Depending on where you go in the southeast taking your shoes off is extremely common.
Sales taxes are annoying here too. But, the US has federal, state, county, and municipal taxes. The town I live in has a tax on restaurants we locals call the "hamburger tax." Outside the city limits in the same county, that tax doesn't exist. It's like that all over the US. That's just the way it is in a country this big with so many different levels of government independent from the federal government.
Some minor facts about prescriptions in the US: a new medicine can only maintain its copyright for 7 years, after which generics can be made. When a prescription gets written, if the prescriber writes it for a name brand and doesn't affirm that a generic can be used instead, the fulfilling pharmacy may only dispense the brand indicated. The final cost you pay for a prescription depends not only on obvious things like the brand and quantity, but also on your insurance provider (which may be the government).
I love your creativity and fun! Still after over 1,000 videos! Yea!
Yay! Thank you!
Having eaten out in Canada, where tipping is not as freely given as in the USA, I can tell you I wholly support tipping for good service. So go tipping! Yeah!
I luv that!
I'm all for tipping, but that should be IN ADDITION to the server's base wage, instead of PART OF it.
Watch mojo is kind of a hit or miss for me. There are some things that they get right. I honestly think they get a lot of things wrong too
Probably on purpose for engagement tbh
@@DianeJennings some of it is REALLY lazy research since they are pumping out a million videos.
Non-tippers very often pay for their frugality. Wait staff and food delivery people will put you last if you have a record of low or no tipping. I used to deliver pizza and the $3-4 tippers came first and the non-tippers waited 20-40 minutes longer for their pie. It is common for staff to give coupons for free products or perhaps 30-50% off to good tippers. I would always give $3 coupons to pizza delivery tippers so their tip was basically free. No tip, no coupons ever. Same thing in restaurants. Wait staff may give out free desserts and bonus items to people who tip well. And if you don't tip, don't expect those free refill visits to come very often.
You're paying for it one way or another. Either you tip the waitstaff, or the meal costs more because the owner has to pay the waitstaff more. The thing about the tip is that if you get bad service, you can stiff them, which you can't do if their salary is built into the price. On the whole, what I hear is that customer service is far better in the US than in Europe.
In the 1960's young Americans fought the idea that 18 year-old men could be drafted and sent to fight overseas by politicians they were too young to vote for or against.
while i agree that you should have been able to vote on the president who might draft you, this logic really suggests the voting age should be 14.
@@sirmoonslosthismind Why 14? I think my logics professor would have disagreed. Have you read Aristotle?
@@JamesPolichak
yes, tho what aristotle has to do with the price of tea in china i don't see.
if you're 14 on election day, you'll be 18 during the tenure of the president being voted on. if you don't get to vote in that election, you can be drafted by a president you didn't get to vote for.
@@sirmoonslosthismind You realize the Nixon ended the draft over fifty years ago, don't you? No 14 year-old has any reason to worry about it.
@@JamesPolichak
do you also think that every law that repeals a particular tax "ends" taxation?
As a proud American I'd just like to chime in and say "Watch Mojo Sucks"
It's such trash
Mojo*
Thanks for doing this even though you're sick. Take care!
Thank you, you too!
American restaurants make their money on the drinks, too. Fountain soda costs maybe $0.35 per cup (counting syrup, cup, water, labor, ice and so on) but they charge about $3; so even with TWO refills they are making a (literal) killing.
It's kind of funny, the day I turned 21, a waitress that had asked me if I'd "like a glass of wine" with my meal carded me for the first time (ever), because her manager was out in the dining room. She later asked me "I've served you wine before haven't I?" I, of course responded "No. Never. 😁"
Youre a good person hahaha
🤣 When I was 19 and 20, stores never checked my ID. First time I tried to buy alcohol after turning 21, the store asked for my ID...I didn't have my license on me so I handed them my passport. They refused to sell me beer because they claimed a license from our state was required and that a US passport wasn't good enough.
Tipping also seems to increase the quality of service. If the wait staff wants to get more money, they have to provide better service. If they have a shitty attitude, and are rude to their customers, they don't get as much money. If we got rid of tipping, we'd end up like restaurants in other parts of the world where you get totally ignored, or worse, are treated rudely.
The prescription drugs that are heavily advertised have time left to go before their patents expire, so there are no generics. I guess that the advertisers are expecting the patients to brow beat their doctors into prescribing these drugs rather than an alternate class of drug that treats the same condition (such as one whose patent has ended and is available as a generic). Non-prescription drugs, also known as over the counter drugs, also get advertised, but nowhere near as heavily as drugs still under patent, for which the patent holding drug company can really gouge the patient's insurance carrier.
No restaurant worker who earns tips would ever choose minimum wage.
Because unless you're absolutely terrible at your job, tips will earn more than minimum wage.
Minimum wage was just raised by $1 an hour. Also, the price for everything else has now been raised by $1.50.......
what blows my mind, that was ignored, is that pharmacies also sell alcohol. talk about a contradiction. they also use to sell tobacco, but they seem to have stopped doing that.
Many people get the TIP thing backwards... they are not getting tips because they paid lower wages, the LAW says that workers receiving tip income MAY BE paid less than minimum BECAUSE THEY ARE COLLECTING TIPS. If workers were willing to give up the tip income, they would legally be entitled to higher wages.
I've been a server, like most Americans, at several times in my life. You're normally started at minimum wage but only share your tips with the busboys. If you do your job well, you not only get better tips but usually raises and promotions. My grandfather was a bellhop (what the Irish call a hotel porter) and my grandmother a maid in good hotels here in Los Angeles. They made enough money, despite being fairly recent immigrants, to buy a small house less than a decade after their marriage and moving to LA.
It seems only rich progressives think tipping is unfair. You can make good money waiting tables.
I agree on tipping. If you get really good service, its nice to give a tip. But it being obligated, sometimes you get really crap service and still have to tip?
I think most people agree with you on tipping. But many people interpret that as an excuse for tightwads to not tip where it's obligated, and are hesitant to admit tipping setup as an obligation is a bad idea overall.
9:28 Ironically the photo of a train (supposedly in America objecting to the prohibition of tipping) is of a BRITISH train, the "Blue Pullman".
Tipped workers LOVE tips, they make 3-4x as much as full minimum wage would provide.
Grew up eating Nutella and loved it. But about 10-15 years ago, they reformulated it to take most of the chocolate out and jacked the sugar content WAAAAY up so I dont anymore.
As far as tips go, in USA, the business owners widely feel that service by the employees will increase exponentially so the employees can get bigger tips. And will also make less service oriented employees find another job if they don't get tipped well. The catch is, if in a restaurant and they kitchen is really backed up, many customers will reduce the tip because of the wait. That penalizes the server instead of the kitchen.
As a US citizen I agree with you about tipping.
Living wages are not paid in the US. For example, I live in Nebraska where the current minimum wage is $14 hour but a living wage in my area is $19.06. Trying to get an employer to consent to that is ridiculously difficult
Unless there are countries that put the year 1st, then month, then day, all countries do the 'date thing' wrong. Because when time (hour/min/sec) is added, the most general part of the date - year - is just before the hour. So it should be some version of yyyy-mm-dd hh(24):mi:ss. Even if the time part is omitted, the format for day, month, and year should still be year 1st for consistency.
But I did switch to the metric system for my height and weight. It makes me look taller, and not as heavy compared to feet/inches and pounds. 😁
We learn at an early age pay up but fill up that cash register also. An Economic engine.
Happy Wednesday to you Diane. It sounds like you have a cold. I hope you feel better soon!
Thanks so much
We use the metric system here extensively. Go look on food packages here when you buy them. It's mostly in metric. We use metric in our military. We use it in the sciences. We use imperial measurements for certain things like automotive travel and cooking, but it's a lie that we don't use metric.
About advertising drugs on TV and elsewhere - These are mostly, if not entirely, newer drugs that are protected by patents and copyrights so that there are no generic equivalents. Older drugs do have generic equivalents available, and I don't think I've ever gotten anything else. But with the advertised drugs you don't have that choice. I haven't been treated by a large number of doctors, but all of those I have seen will prescribe generics. If you want the advertised drugs, you usually have to ask for them.
As a corollary to what you said, my wife uses thyroid meds and has tried the generics. They just do not work for her. We have had to argue with insurance companies (caused by job changes) to pay for the name brand.
Good job D! Hope you feel better soon. I guess Chewie’s tummy got better. Take care, be safe! ❤
Yes, thank you!
they overcharge for the first one, the actual cost is around .25 to .50 cents. still make a profit when you charge 4 to 7 dollars for the first
What's even worse about "tipping culture" and underpaying wait staff, is managers stealing their tips.
That’s gross. I’ve seen that happen here too
I think everyone here in America hates that tax is added after the sale.
We hate it, but they are not going to change this practice for two reasons.
First, it makes it sound like things cost less than they really do.
And secondly, every state has a different amount that they charge for sales tax (however this reason shouldn’t stop them from including the tax in the listed price). But I guess it’s easier for them to just add it at the register.
For whatever reason why they do it… we hate it too.
Online retailer objected to collecting tax because of the complexity, but now they must. What you see is what you way is convenient.
I've done service work in restaurants. Family restaurants not fancy ones. Because of the excellent work I did for customers I more often than not earned more than the federal minimum wage. I've done pizza delivery and by planning out routes I could take three to four deliveries where others would take one and get them all delivered on time and get tip totals up to $200 a night over my base wage. Its about the hustle and the interactions. For instance I got a massive tip from a family of four that had their vehicle break down on the interstate on their trip to the Western US. The father was completely exhausted, disheveled, dusty and plain miserable. The family not much better off. The first thing they ordered was water. So I said I would get three waters and for the father I said I would bring him our special dehydrated water because he looked like he needed it. I brought back three waters and an empty glass on a tray. Gave the father the empty glass. But then said I was kidding and I actually had an entire pitcher behind my back for him. They all cracked up laughing. From misery to happiness because I'm a good server. Not only did I get a huge tip that day but on the way back from their trip they made it a point to come back and see me again. That's how you make your money and feel good about it too. You know the irony is that if it weren't for having to have a job I would totally be that shut in and never leave the house kind of person.
Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money and effort convincing doctors to prescribe the "new" medicine, sometimes a near derivative of the drug it replaces, and generics aren't allowed to compete with new drugs.
A lot of this is state dependent though, here in Oregon waiters get paid minimum wage and tips on top of that, also we don’t have free refills and have not since the 90s
We actually DO have bathroom stalls available with no gaps at all - they even kerf the doors so there is an overlap. But they are more expensive than the standard partitions, so most places don't have them. Also, you can get them set as close to the floor as you (or your cleaning crew) like.
Where I live in Southern California, someone did a gender reveal party using fireworks near a national forest. They ended up burning down a good portion of the forest!
10:00 most servers in the US, in the state of maine anyway, only make a little over $3.00 per hour... so yeah they rely on those tips! I don't agree with it but thats how it is.
I remember seeing independence day in the theaters while in Michigan's upper peninsula (that is militia country). When the beam destroyed the Whitehouse the entire room erupted in cheers and applause
As a Brit who came to America said, "The temperatures of Fahrenheit make more sense because America gets hotter. When it gets to be 90 degrees, you KNOW it is like 90% Hot! If it gets OVER 100, you know it's 'Hard to live' HOT! 38C just doesn't have the impact!
Yep, as an American, I concede that the metric system is better (whether universal or not), but I'll defend Fahrenheit if only for the reason you give. Just more impact.
I've lived overseas, so I have experienced both systems.
Seems pretty straight forward: 0F = bloody cold. 100F = hot as hell. Anything outside that range: STAY INDOORS!
@jamesbrown4092 and yet Americans live with 40 below in Winter in North Dakota and 117 in Summer in most of the Southwest
Five states have no sales tax: NOMAD. New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, Alaska, and Delaware. I live on the PA/DE border so I shop a lot in Delaware. It's usually a tax for 6 or 7 cents for every dollar you spend in the other 45 states.
The problem with generic drugs is even when they are cheaper than the name brand our insurance company may only cover the name brand and not the generic and even better than that but depending on if it’s in a capsule or liquid or any other variation can effect the cost and if the insurance company covers the medication or not.
I have people in my house with a TON of prescriptions and I’ve found the opposite to be true, some drugs are not covered by insurance at ALL if they don’t have a generic.
@@Wud-f2r I don’t know if it’s because of the medication or my insurance company or what but it doesn’t make any sense that all my pills are generic but anything that’s my ADHD medication and is the most expensive medication I have has to be brand name. What really makes no sense at all is when there was a shortage of ADHD medication after a hurricane destroyed one of the places that made the medication in Florida that my doctors and I were looking for alternatives or similar medication and found a few places with the medication in stock but that even though it was the same manufacturer and medication but because it was or wasn’t in a capsule that my insurance would cover the medication or not. It’s so the entire thing makes no logical sense but I’m sure that there is some kind of agreement between the insurance companies and the companies making pharmaceuticals that is the reason for the insanity. But I’m only guessing because I don’t know what else it would be.
@@bigmikekipe at the bottom of it, the reason any medication in pill form costs more than $20 a month is “greed.”
The healthcare issue seems to be from two major points...
The lack of pricing controls.(is why some chance crossing into Canada to fill out prescriptions.)
Hospital stays can be expensive a/f.
Doctor's visits alone, can be so expensive, that victims often opt to chance not going..then die because of it.
And from everything I've heard and read, medical insurance, if supplied by employer, can be woefully insufficient. And those that can afford get privately purchased health insurance, can be ambushed by the fine print.
Secondly, privatization of medical care.
Hospitals CEOs and the pharmacies, reap billions annually in profit, and have lawyers and lobbyists constantly fighting, influencing, paying, government officials, to fight regulation, and keep the status quo.
*"THE LAND OF THE $25 ASPIRIN"*
IT isn't the hospital it is bad regulations and insurance companies. Things like the Affordable Healthcare Act jacked up costs and rates. With smart regulations that would make insurance companies compete, we would see prices fall. When the government gets involved they mess things up, like Healthcare, College loans, and Home loans. Those are the three industries that the federal government has dumped money into and they are the three things most out of whack in the USA right now. the Fed should deal with the Military, boarders, treaties, and interstate issues, but they keep jumping into things like health insurance and messing everything up.
@@meatbyproducts No thanks. I'm Canadian and very thankful for it. My mother had major medical issues the last decade or so of her life and I have no doubt at all that if we were in the States we would have lost our house and gone bankrupt. I once broke my leg in a traffic accident. I got an ambulance ride to the hospital, surgery to put a pin in my leg, a cat scan to make sure there was no head injury, a cast, a week long hospital stay, crutches then a cane, and six or so months of physiotherapy. I paid nothing out of pocket. Blindly trusting private companies is at least as insane as blindly trusting the government. The American "healthcare" system is disgraceful.
The advertised prescription drugs are newer ones that are covered by a patent. Other companies cannot make generics for them without paying a license fee so they wait until the patent expires (17 years I think).
Yeah, I have met people who drive from one state to another to save on sales tax that is less or nonexciestant in a nearby state.
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Weird Wonderful World Wednesdays is Video is Here Whoo Hoo! Thanks for the Premiere and Video bringing lots of Joy to the day. Happy Wednesday Sending Gifts and Good Vibes.
thanks. You too!
@@DianeJennings It's a Super Wednesday going to have some chicken and pasta for dinner
I remember as American turning legal age to drink twice. First time was at 16 yo. in Spain. The second time was at 21 in the US.
I've always called the United States of America, the "U.S.". When asked, I do say I'm from the "United States" or the "U.S." and I say I'm "American". I think that does work because I think all the other countries in North, Central & South America refrer to themselves as country of origin citizens, like Bolivians or Mexican.
The “imperial measurement system” in the video is a misnomer. The UK and Canada, maybe Republic of Ireland used the imperial system. Their liquid measures pints, quarts, gallons were not equal to US pints and such. The weights and lengths were the same for all, except that crazy measure of weight in “stones.”
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
Another Thing in America is celebrating lots of Holidays. Since it's Ocotober its time for all the good candy, chocolates, costumes, and decorations. Treat Yourself to some good Food and Chocolates today. I hope You and Chewie find a good costume to enjoy this year. I wonder if Chewie could pick the costume himself what would Chewie want to dress up as?
a sausage
@@DianeJennings I was thinking it would be something food related. Chewie 2024.
I've heard a lot of European UA-camrs (including the UK) comment that there's a 27% VAT added to everything. So you not only pay your service employee's a higher wage but then you add the VAT and still get snooty service. Hyp...... IMO
With the sales tax, you have to remember that each state pretty much take care of their own financial needs because the federal government doesn't have much involvement in what states spend the money on.
That isn't really an issue, the problem with the US sales tax is:
1 - It sometimes varies inside the state (between counties?) and even few Americans seems to know how and why.
2 - It isn't on the price tag, so you can not see what the item will cost you.
None of those are caused by the fact the tax is set by the state.
@cynic7049 Neither of your points negates what I said. The county argument is pretty much is pretty much for a second similar reason as with the state vs. federal payments on things. With the sales tax not being on the price tag, most items are produced in one location, but distributied to several states if not nationally, which would be a logistical nightmare to try to have the sales tax on each item.
@@Running_The_Shadows Another thing to consider with the sales tax not being listed: depending where you live in America, food might or might not be taxed, but if you use food stamps, even in a place where it IS taxed it won't be.
You don't grocery shop at a drug store. The prices are high compared to a regular grocery store. Its a convenience if you need something and nothing else is opened or near
Or if you’re already there to pick up prescriptions etc.
I know a lot of my fellow Americans who probably don't do 10 things total these days. Sloth is at a premium now in the US, sadly.
My home state allows permitless weapon carry. Btw, unprepared food like produce and raw meat, packaged commodities are not taxed while stuff like premade sandwiches and hot foods are
9:42 I very much agree that the "tipped wage" is not ok!! It's one of many reasons why I'm proud to live in the Great State of California, where ALL workers must be paid at least the local minimum wage. Here in San Jose it's 17.55 USD (15.88 euros), and any tips are on top of that. 🙂 California, Oregon, Washington State, Nevada, and a few others are like that. 🙂I still think the tipping culture is out of control though. I refuse to tip for subway or other fast food restaurants. I can understand it for historical reasons at "full service" or "sit down" restaurants, but it makes no sense for a place like McDonalds. btw, they will typically make an extra 100 USD a day in tips, at least. 🙂
aren't lots of restaurants going out of business in CA?
@@bluebird3281
"aren't lots of restaurants going out of business in CA?"
Nope. California isn't going away any time soon, maga. We are the most prosperous state in the union and we have the highest GDP of any sub-national jurisdiction in the world.
Also, as I said, surrounding states have the same rule: Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Nevada, several others.
I think we write the date the way we say it. Today is October 11th, 2024. Maybe elsewhere they are in the habit of saying today is the 11th of October? Different strokes. *shrug*
The Europeans were the ones who started calling people of the U.S.A., Americans.
Where would we be without our differences? Some are great. Some suck. Some are dumb & some are just plain hilarious. Its what makes us all interesting!😊😊😊😊
This!!!
The drinking age and voting age was 21 for many years. My home state of North Carolina was one of the exceptions allowed 18 year olds to buy beer. Eighteen year olds could vote in Georgia. The drinking and voting age was pretty much reduced to 18 during the Vietnam War era. The reasoning was that it seemed rather odd that a person go could to war and kill be killed but couldn’t buy a beer or vote on leaders who control the military. Later there was a huge push to reduce injuries and deaths cause by drunk driving. The drinking age was raised to 21 again with exceptions in some states.
The year I lived in England (age 9-10), everybody there referred to the US as "America." Granted, the people in a Buckinghamshire village are a pretty small sample ...
"Medical debt is a thing in Europe. It costs 250 euro"
Here in the US we're sitting trying to figure out hhow to pay off $250,000. So yeah. It's not a thing elsewhere.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is why the drinking age was raised to 21. They lobbied politicians to change it. The Federal government threatened states with the loss of highway funding if they didn't comply.
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One idea behind sales tax is that it is a consumption tax. The more one spends the more tax is paid. There is somewhat of a movement now to eliminate sales tax on medicines and food. Wealthy people are able to get states to keep the state income tax low and gave the state depend on sales tax to raise revenue.
1:30 When I was in Germany, it seemed like most people called it "America" and us as "Americans".
Nearly every Canadian uses American as a descriptive term all the time.
Where I grew up, near Chicago, taking off the shoes before entering a house was about 50/50. We had a lot of immigrants and immigrant children that enforced that rule. However, we had an equal amount of people who were not worried about that. I never had a problem with that rule as a child. However as an adult when in the middle of our harsh winters and I was wearing boots with many laces after carefully dusting off the snow outside of the house and then wiped my boots on the interior rug of the entry way and was only wanting to pickup my child at 6:00 pm to go home and have dinner, then being invited into the house. In that situation I never took my foot wear off.
I wish you and Chewy could move here to Florida!
That's not a very nice thing to say whst did she ever do to you huh ? huh?
some states like the one I live in Montana, have no sales tax
How do restaurants do drinks over there. Here in America most of it is a system so that all the company really pays for is the syrup concentrate which is really cheap and the soda is technically made "in house". Are you guys selling them by the can? lol
I've heard someone say "The metric system can't measure freedom."
All women I know say that inches are better than centimeters🥸
I only work 4 days a week myself, though they are 12 hour days.
Pure Americana? You don't tug on Superman's cape! You don't spit into the wind! You don't pull that mask off the ole Lone Ranger! And you don't mess around with Jim! (Have fun figuring that out!)
Yes you can order a generic, if they have it.
Well, I agree with you Diane about tipping, but if the customer doesn’t tip the server and the restaurants were obligated to pay them a decent living wage then the restaurant would just tack the wages of the servers onto the customers price for their meals so the restaurant doesn’t have to pay them out of their own pockets. So you’re going to be forced to pay for the servers wages anyway, because as unfair as it is and wrong, restaurant owners refuse to pay them simply because they’ve been allowed to get away with this BS for so long. But when it comes down to it, any government, company, or business that incur any extra expenses always ends up falling onto the customers out of their own pockets. I think restaurants are one of the only businesses that I know of in the US that is so blatant about refusing and expecting their employees to be paid by the general public instead of their employer. A ridiculous example I could give is if you went into a grocery store and bought your food and you were expected to pay not only taxes, but a 15% to 20% tip out of your pocket to the cashier and the employees of let’s say Walmart every time you went in and bought something!
At least, if the restaurant would include the tip in your cost of dining at their establishment instead of leaving the tipping of the servers to us it would seem less intrusive and forced, like as if it was our responsibility.
When you think about it, all governments and businesses have made it the consumers burden to bear any added or extra cost and not the big corporations and businesses. Government and big business corporations are in cahoots with each other. Big business is running government and if anyone doesn’t realize that, then they are totally naïve out of touch and been living under a rock their whole life.
The tipping part depends on where in the U.S., too. In many states, if the employee did not make enough in tips to equal the regular minimum wage for the state, the employer is required to make up that difference.
Here is a little question. Why don’t people in Ireland and UK go to a pub and ask for 568ml rather than a pint (imperial)?
Why do we buy a fifth of whiskey? We don’t buy a fifth of milk.
28:00 I wonder how much of the expense of switching to the metric system would have been recouped by NASA not splattering a space probe all over Mars because some of the subcontractors worked in metric and others worked in furlongs/cubits/footballfields or whatever?
When I was teen you had to be 20 to drink in my home state of Delaware; 18 to drink in New Jersey; and 21 for Pennsylvania. So kids would drive over to New Jersey to get drunk and die in car accidents on the way home. Making it 21 solved that problem.
Thanks for reacting to it Diane!
My pleasure!!
You may not realize this, but most servers get paid double, triple or even more than minimum wage when you factor in what their tips are. My friend used to work at a fancy restaurant, between bar back and waiting tables just between Friday and Saturday Saturday he makes up to $2,000
0 degrees is cold 100 degrees is hot. easy
America does use the metric system but not exclusively. (Metric and US customary system are used together. ) 12 oz Aluminum cans and 2 Liter plastic bottles.
9mm and .45 ACP bullets .
And Time measured in seconds is Metric.
I never take vacations, I always just take the extra cash at the end of the year
I've seen some Americans wear shoes in the house but go barefoot outdoors. That didn't make sense to me.
Thats very odd
I will gladly take my shoes off outside someone's place...IF.. they have some hermetically sealed container to put said shoes so spiders can't crawl into them.. if they want me to just set them outside the door...I'm the hell out of there
The only time I wear footwear, is if I'm going shopping or restaurants, if I'm outdoors beaches river streams crickes I'm going barefoot