There are weekly rents for certain types of workers, typically industrial workers. Some low key motels do weekly as well. However it's not the norm if you plan on long term living.
“The snip” is a vasectomy in the US. We don’t call circumcision “the snip”. I was very confused when you started talking about boys getting vasectomies at birth. Lol
For some apartments, especially if they rent to a lot of short-term tenants, and they don't verify credit info, it can happen that rent is due weekly... I've never had it happen, but it can happen...
Not true. Mobile parks and low income housing and some other landlords still do this but it is not common. I rented a 1 bedroom house in central Indiana and paid weekly which sucked when there were 5 payments in a month because my rent was $125 more that month
All my credit cards have now sent me "contactless" cards this year. I put it in quotes because I've YET to find a place where they actually work, even the places that say they do.
I'm on disability now and I get paid once a month. That's not really all that bad. I get the same amount every month. I know exactly what my bills and rent add up to so then I know how much is left over to buy groceries and whatever else I need. I don't have to make payment arrangements anymore because I'm paying everything from one check.
I was on disability for probably a year or two several years ago, but at the time I was living in a very low-rent apartment with no bills. Living where I do now I just feel it would be so anxiety-producing. But I guess it’s as you said, you just have to learn to adjust your way of living to your situation and live within your means
@@johnp139 I've found that getting paid once a month saves me money. I can't over extend myself each pay period and overdraft my bank account. It saves me all of those unnecessary and expensive bank fees.
My first job, I was per hour and I received a check weekly. When I got a salaried position, I was paid bi-weekly and then they switched to monthly. The job I have now, I was paid bi-weekly but then they switched to twice a month. It saves 2 paychecks a year. (Bi weekly = 26 checks per year, twice a month = 24 checks a year)
As a payroll HR manager, I disagree. It depends on the employer or if you are hourly or salary. Weekly, biweekly , monthly or 1st/15th. I’ve run all the differences.
I really love my biweekly pay. I budget to live on just 2 paychecks per month so then twice a year it’s like a little bonus for yourself! One of those paychecks typically falls during the holiday season so that’s a nice perk.
@@Thehighfiberdiet Agreed - and some states have specific regulations - we have to pay our NY and RI hourly workers weekly (so we pay all NY/RI employees weekly), but the rest of the company is paid bi-weekly.
Tipping in the UK! I took a 2 week holiday through England, Wales and a little bit of Scotland a few years ago, knowing full well that USA style tipping was not ‘a thing’ there. But I could not stop myself! It is so ingrained in our US culture...especially as a former waitress/bartender. In a small pub in Brighton the bartender was just so wonderful, giving us lots of pointers, pouring great drinks, snapping pics, etc; I could not imagine not showing my appreciation with a gratuity. She was so sweet explaining to me how tipping was not a requirement at all and to not feel any obligation; but I could not NOT tip her!
I still tip when I'm there because I believe in showing a service worker that you appreciate their attention. If they are rude or don't do their job, I won't tip.
I agree that our public bathroom stalls are not private enough. I love when I go to an upscale restaurant restroom/bathroom that has a fully enclosed stall.
America is quite advance, but we are also MASSIVE. As a result, it takes ages for certain technologies to be picked up everywhere. I didn't get broadband internet until just a few years ago, and I only live in a semi-rural area. As far as credit cards, they are a supremely mixed bag. For example, local stores in my area of Iowa have pretty much every system of payment between them. One store has swipe and sign, another a chip reader, and another the contactless tap. Most stores only update they credit card systems when the old one breaks down. We had a hardware store we frequent where we could not use our chip card for several years because they still have these really ancient readers at the checkout.
exactly this is the thing most foreigners don't understand is just how big the us is and tbh i don't blame them i mean the us is the 3rd biggest country in the world and when you compare it to say the uk for example it is gargantuan i think the us is something like 40 times the size of the uk so again I understand the misconception
It’s the same in Nebraska just worst we only have two actual cities most tows are rural so we don’t upgrade unless something breaks or we have money to burn
Where the heck do you live?? I live in the burbs in the Northeast and I have had broadband internet for well over 15 years. I have had a fiber optic cable for over ten years too.
I’m a teacher, and we get paid once a month. Here in NC, a few weeks ago, we experienced an earthquake and a hurricane, all in one week! It was CRAZY! 2020 just keeps on giving!
Amy Jones - I work for the NHS in the UK and there was a Spitfire Thank you flyover. I rushed outside to see it and broke my ankle really badly! I now have more metal in me than the Spitfire! It’s a crazy time all around the world. Stay safe x
Alex B - Define a lot. For the vast majority of student rentals in the US, rent is paid monthly. When I was a college student we paid monthly like everyone else, I’ve never known anyone that paid their rent weekly. That would have been very rare indeed.
The bathroom thing is something I have a hard time getting especially as a guy. You just don't look in the gaps lol I've never experienced anyone peeping in
The bathroom stalls in my highschool were the worst I've ever seen. When you're standing up you could see straight over the top into the next stall. Super awkward and uncomfortable, but apparently it was done that way because a kid had an overdose in the bathroom a few years before that and nobody knew they were in the stall for a few hours
They took the doors off our stalls when I was in high school because people were smoking/doing drugs. Guys get used to it, because we all pee shoulder to shoulder with strangers anyway.
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 yeah the stalls in my school gym bathroom didn’t have doors. I never used the toilets at school for anything more than peeing though
I would have to say I have seen people glance in that gap. Maybe not walk up and gawk, but I've made eye contact with women waiting in a long line right outside the door. More than once. At concerts, sporting events.
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but in the US, when we say a guy got “snipped” it means he’s had a vasectomy. Same general area but drastically different procedures!!!
No, they’re referring to boys in the video because they’re referring to circumcision. So thankful that my generation is slowly catching on to the fact that circumcision is purely cosmetic.
@@brittneyjohnston1618 Yes, I know that is what they are discussing. I am sharing that if they talk to someone in the US about a guy getting "snipped", it refers to something different.
In England "the snip" generally refers to vasectomy. Also snipping wire, snipping pastry, snipping paper to make a colarge in school. It means making a small cut in anything. Hence Lia being polite about snipping of some poor kids foreskin.
UK guys aren’t normally circumcised ?? 😳 I had no idea. It’s much more common in the US to be circumcised than to be uncircumcised, so much so that girls actually talk about it often amongst their friends as a weird occurrence when a guy they were with wasn’t circumcised.
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Love these videos. When paying - portable chip readers have just started (last 3 - 4 years) being widely used in the US. Many places still have large registers or pay terminals that have the card readers attached to it and can't be removed from the wall to go to the table. A typical restaurant will have maybe 5 terminals that all of the servers take turns using, to process payments from their multiple tables. Earthquakes - don't get named unless they are big enough since they happen very frequently (roughly a few times a month) but are mostly imperceptible to the general public, but picked up by our machines. An earthquake would generally have to cause major damage to get a name.
I will point out that almost everywhere in the US takes cards, however when I was in continental EU, there were SO many places including restaurants that did not take credit cards and only took cash. It was the weirdest thing.
I get paid bi-weekly. 1st & 15th of the month. I have my bills scheduled accordingly, so they are due at those times. Pretty normal. As far as Hurricanes... I survived Katrina. 😔. August 29, 2005. It was sooo bad. I love my Apple Watch, makes me a happy girl in Covid world. 👍🏼 There’s a law here in the US, that businesses can’t refuse cash.
That is not a federal law. It depends on your state or locality. Most states in the US do not have such a law and can indeed refuse cash. And, btw...being paid the 1st and 15th of the month is not bi-weekly. It is twice monthly. Twice monthly means you get 24 paychecks a year, while bi-weekly means 26 paychecks a year.
@@mandaleeross1325 Well, I don't know if I'm loads of fun...I suspect here are a few people who just think I'm just being pedantic. As a former teacher, I can't help it. Hope you weren't offended.
You don't get paid by-weekly if you get paid on 2 specific days a month you get paid bi-monthly. People who get paid bi-weekly get two checks a year more than those who are paid bi-monthly but their individuals checks are smaller to spread their yearly income over two additional pay periods if they are salaried. Bi-weekly is every other week. Typically, these are paid on Friday for most businesses in the U.S.
The gaps in restroom stalls in America are there for public safety reasons. Its so of anyone passes out in the stall they can be easily seen on the floor, and so paramedics can easily get access to them by pulling them out the bottom gap.
I get paid once a month, working for a community college, under the state of California. The only time I was paid weekly, was when I worked as a temp from 1999-2000.
I've never felt they were odd, even in a 1912 business here, or my 1926 High School. Been paid twice a month all my life before. Get cash daily now. Survived 'Iniki here, and an earthquake around ten years ago, caused by an underwater landslide off Hawaii.
They take the card to the credit card machine which is usually near the kitchen. And with bathrooms we don't like the gaps either, but we just don't look.
American government employees are usually paid every two weeks. Many OLD motels have been converted to rooms for rent, weekly and sometimes monthly, as, "economic" housing, often for seasonal workers, such as carnival workers, beekeepers, seasonal fishermen, etc.
“The snip” they’re referring to is circumcision. As a mom who’s got a two year old and who’s 30 years old herself, I want Joel and Lia to know that my generation is slowly figuring it out and making changes. My son is NOT circumcised and I’m so proud that I had enough sense to keep him intact so that he could make that decision for himself. Circumcision is purely cosmetic (unless you’re one of a few cases that need it done medically) and should not be performed until a man decides that for himself. 💙
Brittney Johnston You’re totally right! I’m proud of you! Though it’s not just cosmetic. It’s also a religious preference to Jews, Muslims, and loads of Christians in the US. At one point it was deemed necessary for cleanliness, though that’s changed. We’ll see where it goes in the next few decades...
My brother was circumcised when he was around 10 years old. It was excruciating for him. He wished my mom would have done it when he was a baby so he wouldn’t have felt the pain or remembered it.
@@brittneyjohnston1618 It was under the recommendation of his doctors, so I assume there was a medical need but I don't know the specifics. I just remember it was a tough month for him after the procedure.
That has never happened to me. A kid whos parent lets it crawl around on the floor of a public bathroom has bigger problems that the big gap in my door. Fortunately, I dont believe this is very common.
@@gwillis01 It has nothing to do with any Jewish lobby, and also almost all doctors now will ask parents for permission. The real reason circumcision is so common in the U.S. is that many years ago it was promoted as a preventative measure against sexually transmitted diseases (and also other health issues). In addition, there was also a concern many years ago about boys engaging in masturbation, and circumcision was (wrongly) considered to be an effective deterrent. Today, because of the long history of the practice, circumcision is considered the standard choice, though it has become somewhat less common.
About 30 years ago the reasoning for “the snip” was being questioned and it is no longer done routinely. It is offered at the hospital and the parents must sign a request. It is still fairly common.
Joel & Lia, when you mentioned the bathroom gaps, they are not only found in public bathrooms but also SCHOOL bathrooms! Imagine that! And the showers in my middle school and high school (i don't know about other schools) BUT the showers did NOT have DOORS or Curtains!
I've only known of a handful of companies that pay weekly. Most businesses pay bi-monthly or monthly. I HATE OUR BATHROOMS TOO. I really wish we were up-to-date with contactless payments. I AGREE 1,000% that waiters should be paid a fair wage. I worked as a waitress and earned so little it was pathetic. Even though people here are supposed to tip, many either don't or they tip so little it is insulting.
I’m an American and yes, bathroom stall gaps are too wide and yes, our credit card system is outdated but getting better. Our internet isn’t the greatest either, compared to some other countries. Tipping is expected here, not sure how that got started but it used to be 10%, now 15-20% is expected. When we visiting England, a few things were odd to me; no washcloths were provided in the hotel room, no hair dryer, no air conditioning. Anyway, we really enjoyed our visit there and want to go back one day. Thanks for the videos, lots of fun to watch
I live in America and I hate tipping. It doesn't make any sense. I can go to Outback where I'll spend at least 30$ but so the tip comes to 6$, but if I go to Denny's and get the same service from the wait staff, because the bill comes to 12$ the tip is only 2.5$ So half as much for the same level of service. It annoys me to no end.
Hurricanes are named before hurricane season even begins, with 26 names picked in advance. Each hurricane/tropical storm gets a name off that list when it’s detected. Earthquakes get names only when they’re big enough to make the news and only after the geologists have figured out the epicenter. There are literally hundreds of quakes, most of which are too small to notice. It wouldn’t make sense to name all of them any more than it would make sense to name every little rain squall.
1. Paid weekly. Most employers I worked for pay bi-weekly more than weekly (less paychecks they have to print). Yes, there are salaries paid monthly like managers and teachers. Apartment rent is usually paid monthly unless it is a hophouse/homeless hotel that can charge weekly rent. 2. Yes west coast has earthquakes, south has hurricanes, midwest has tornadoes, and northeast have wicked blizzards worse that the rest of the country. Hurricanes are named by the World Meteorological Organization since 1953. Naming is used by meteorologists to help keep track of storms. Before names, they went by latitude and longitude points but that didn't help track a storm to warn people a hurricane was coming. Earthquakes don't need tracked to warn people anymore than tornadoes do cause they occur quickly and stop. 3. Gaps under restroom doors are there for easy cleaning and safety reasons (like the lock breaks you can crawl out). 4. I don't have Tap cards, swipe cards mostly have been replaced by chipped cards. Most merchants/cards make you sign over a certain amount. Yes, restaurants take your card to their register to enter it in the system. Most credit cards are monitored and I get call/emails if a strange charge appears to make sure it was me using the card. Charges can be disputed and card member only responsible up to $50 of fraudulent charges. I had my card number stolen when someone used my email to reactivated a closed Netflix account. My card contacted me and they sent me a new card when I replied I did not reactivate my Netflix account. The person went on a shopping spree at a motorcycle ship in Minnesota and the card removed the charges. As for updating computer systems to do wireless scanning of cards at tables cost money, most employers will not update their systems until they have to cause upgrading cost too much. Yes, every business takes cash because of discrimination laws and the fact that cards charge fees for processing their card payments (Visa/Mastercard charge 2-3% while Discover/American Express charge 5-6%.) Some merchants won't accept credit cards and only take cash. 5. The snip at birth (aka circumcision) is popular because doctors promote it to prevent disease (like cancer or HIV). Whether that is true or not I couldn't say. 6. Tipping has a long history in the service industry. Merchants have developed service charges in addition to tipping. As you said, servers often are paid less than minimum wage expecting tips. Yes, in places where customers fill their own cup free refills are expected.
The USA is such a huge country, that there are many Americans who are not used to hurricanes and earthquakes. I live in the midwest and we don't experience either too often. Now, tornadoes and winter storms are our game.
In America we not only give tip in restaurants but also a hairdresser, taxis, food delivery, tour guides, etc. Generally we tip for the service provided. Americans are more generous than Europeans by a large margin.
I've been a server and a bartender my entire life. Unfortunately, you're right that servers should be paid a liveable wage to begin with. As a server the law where I am only requires the management to pay $2.13 per hour, so YES, tips are so VERY important! As a bartender my pay went up to $5.00 per hour plus tips, however, both are below minimum wage. We count on tips for our pay. Sooooo many people still do not understand (or simply don't care) the work it takes to be a server, you are running non-stop all day and then come across a table here and there that does stiff you. Most restaurants do add an automatic 15-20% on tables of 8 people or more. They've taken my table and time along with my hard work for a hour to 2 hours where someone that would've tip could've sat, very frustrating. I will NEVER forget one night I LITERALLY went to a table of mine 13 (yes, i counted) times!!! The restaurant was running a special of never ending shrimp refills. This guy gorged himself and demanded all these refills on shrimp so I'm running to take care of him along with my other tables and guess what? The MF stiffed me. So 3 hours of my time devoted to keep this customer happy was all for nothing. Servers also have to cash out at the end of the night with a record of their sales from the day. Depending on the sales percent wise it is required that the server tips the bartender for bar sales as well as the busser for cleaning the tables. I've always said and will always say, EVERY person should wait tables, just once in their lifetime, so they understand the amount of work, time management, and physical as well as mental skills it involves. I've been whistled at like a dog to get my attention and fingers snapped as well. And these are high end restaurants. Servers here are treated as peasants and below and degraded by their customers. It's quite crazy. I could go on and on.... But this was the profession I chose for many years before going back to school to get my degree. Serving is hit and miss, but it equals out for the most part... amazing tips to make up for the bad ones. I raised my daughter as a single mom as a bartender and we did ok. Better cities come with better more upscale restaurants. It's all about which restaurant you work in. We take the card away from the table in order to run it through our computer system, but I have NEVER in my 25 years of serving have ever seen any misuse or fraudulent use from any other servers. I understand your concerns though. Many places now offer at table payment with cards. But to all those out there that have read this, thanks for hearing the vent session. Now, just remember, always tip your server and bartender! Server's philosophy is, if you can't afford to tip 20% of your bill, you can't afford to go out to eat! Order in instead. ☺
The stalls in the UK may ensure a little more privacy. The urinals, not so much. The North of England still believes in the piss troth. As for the credit card thing, I agree. It's strange to believe we're years behind the UK on that.
I remember my first and only earthquake I have ever experienced and it was terrifying! I live in Texas so we never get earthquakes especially ones you can feel. I was in my second floor appartment and all of a sudden our entire tv stand started shaking back and forth and then I felt the building shake. I seriously thought for a second that the world was ending and the Lord was coming back lol!! I was thinking.. Omg this is it, its all over! Living in tornado alley, I'm used to tornados...not earthquakes.
I've never really commented on anything -- but since I know this random fact, and didn't see an answer here -- the reason the US is, as you say, far behind in payment systems has to do with one word: infrastructure. The magnitude of changing over the entire payment system for every single bank and credit card for over 300 million people, update EFTPOS machines and credit card processing points for every single merchant in the United States was immense. It's not that we wanted to stay behind, but things like the Frank-Dodd act had liability shifts from Consumers and card issuers (think Visa/Mastercard) over to Merchants, and merchants had to bare the brunt of the costs of changing over to the more sophisticated (and safer) payment system, and you can imagine large costs like that during the Great Recession were tough and the timeline to switch over was shifted to a later and later date, and took the entire country nearly 15 years to finally adapt past swipe and sign to chip and pin. #TheMoreYouKnow :)
I lived in New York for thirty years and have lived in Texas for two. I’ve always paid rent monthly. Pay is twice a month in the military, department of Justice and NYPD! Now that I’m retired it’s monthly! When as a kid I worked in Ireland and we got a pay packet every week with cash! We don’t have chip and pin! We have chip and go no pin no signature! Contact payment was initiated here but rolled out internationally first because banks and retailers wanted to see how secure it was before starting it here. The snip means a vasectomy in the US! Getting circumcised was an automatic thing in the past as it was seen as more hygienic but not so much now a days! I was teased in Ireland as a six year old at the pool for being circumcised! Trauma! 😂 Tipping is a cultural thing and having worked as a bartender in midtown Manhattan I would much prefer the tipping culture than being paid what Europeans call a working wage because I would have taken a pay cut.
Don't know how one gets paid in the UK when working as a temp for an employment agency but here in NL you get paid weekly. Monthly is only when you are on the payroll of the company you're working with/for.
That's funny. Yeah, you leave your card at the bar to keep your tab open, and then you get it back when you pay. That way if you drink too much and forget, they can still take your payment at the end of the night. And I've never used contactless payment. I don't even know how.
I absolutely understand the nervousness of giving your bank card to someone to take to a register, but that's where the machine is to take the payment. I suppose someone could take a photo of a card and/or fraudulently use it, but our banks will replace the money without question too if that happens. But I do understand the hesitance.
Typically we get paid bi-monthly (every 2 weeks), and rents, mortgages, utilities, etc are paid monthly. Public restrooms- common etiquette is you don't look through the cracks. I actually found the toilets in Paris to have less privacy than the US. Restaurants have the credit/debit card processing machines attached to the cash register, so they have to bring your card to the machine. But yes, it is changing now.
Great video Legends. The reason they don't name earthquakes is because they are so unpredictable and not all areas in the United States are prone to them. They also do not name tornadoes because there is no telling when or where you might have a tornado whereas hurricanes are pretty much are common to certain areas and are easy to see when they are developing. I do agree with you when it relates to tipping. If waiters and waitresses were paid a living wage in the States they could virtually do away with tipping. As always I thoroughly enjoy your videos and I hope you stay safe.
The tipping and contactless issues are intertwined somewhat. Since waitstaff make their income on tips, they would get less if they were standing with a portable credit card machines versus letting the customer add the tip in private.
Circumcision in the US was brought into popularity by people like Kellogg (yes, the cereal guy) who were aiming to stop masturbation (hint: mutilating healthy tissue does not stop that). He also suggested sewing silver thread into the top of the penis to make sex painful, so it would only be used for procreation. It's a long, sordid history, and people have now been convinced there is some medical reason to circumcise, despite clear evidence to the contrary. It's a hot button issue, but a little research will lead you to not only the history, but the quackery that's spread as fact regarding the medical aspect. I don't have to tell Brits that it's not medically necessary by any means. In regard to the religious aspect, some Christians argue that Jesus was circumcised and so we are all supposed to be. However, the Law of Moses was fulfilled in Him, which is also why we don't sacrifice animals on alters at every Christian church, nor do we have scapegoats for the forgiveness of sins. Anyway, the original circumcision didn't even look like what we do to boys today, just look at the statue of David. That's a long sordid story as well. The US is now trending toward more people not circumcising their boys, but it goes in waves, and depends on different areas. There are some stupid arguments for it, even without the medical quackery arguments. Some say they do it so the son looks like the father. Not even kidding. Some say it's so boys don't feel different in locker rooms. Yes, seriously some people say that. And, all of this comes after the study they had to stop because they were looking at the brains of boys being circumcised and it turns out it injures the brain in a permanent way. So, yeah, why anyone still wants this practice has got to be boiling down to the idea that it's easier to fool people that convince them they've been fooled. It's really sad, and all the poor American boys have to suffer for this.
The bathrooms are always a big conversation point when my colleagues from other countries arrive in New York. I get it. How much would it cost to add better doors?! Seems like a simple thing for privacy.
I hear you… the thing is, because this is all some of us have ever known, we have trained our brains and our eyes to black out the cracks… as in, we don’t look at them or focus on them, it’s like the cracks exist in this casual awareness/peripheral vision zone. The stall door is open or closed and that’s all I process mentally. If they are all closed for an extended time, I will start walking and look for shoes. I know the other women in the restroom are doing the same.
So in America some jobs pay weekly & twice a month is very common, even more common than once a month. However, for bills & rent ect... That stuff is almost always monthly.
A lot of us in America feel the same as you about earthquakes because there are regions in the country where they are quite rare. The same is true of hurricanes. In places where they rarely have earthquakes or hurricanes, they tend to have more tornadoes, so it really kind of depends on where you're from what you are used to.
American here. In my current position, I get paid on a monthly basis (i.e., 12 pay periods). While this isn't common, it does occur in the US. In my last position, I got paid on a bi-weekly basis (i.e., literally, every 2 weeks which amounts to 26 pay periods). Most commonly, people in the US are paid semi-monthly (i.e., 24 pay periods).
You two are kind of charming in a lot of ways but you also frustrate me a lot with your questions about really trivial stuff that you could just look up in Wikipedia and get an answer. There are so many earthquakes and the vast majority of them don't really do much more than break a few windows or knock some pictures off the wall or knickknacks off a shelf. The relatively few that cause catastrophic damage and/or great loss of life do tend to get a name. Usually named for the location of the epicenter and probably the year that it happened.
Where are they getting their information on the weekly payments and the weekly rent? I have never heard of that and I live in the US. Typically it's biweekly for working and monthly for rent
Ironically another hurricane just blasted through the south and East, and as someone who has lived in the south and survived many hurricanes and who also travels a lot for work and only recently experienced my first earthquake, I much prefer hurricanes to earthquakes because at least with a storm you can prepare or evacuate. Earthquakes give you NO warning and it freaked me out my first experience and I never want to experience it again
Earthquakes are named based on the epicenter and fault lines. Like, the 1989 earthquake of San Francisco is called the Loma Prieta earthquake named for a mountain in Santa Cruz which is to the east of the epicenter.
"Why don't they name earthquakes?" The short answer: Because hurricanes last anywhere between a few days to maybe a month on average, there can be multiple ones existing at the same time, and which particular hurricane and its details need to be communicated to the masses, so instead of giving the layman/woman a technical alpha/numeric identifier, they use names whereas earthquakes are instant and untraceable; even if multiple ones happened at the same time, they are way too quick to track and one cannot prepare for any particular earthquake; one can prepare only in general for an earthquake. Also, communication efficiency: it takes maybe a few minutes to choose a name for a hurricane or anything and earthquakes lasts a few seconds to maybe a minute; what good is there in naming a particular natural disaster event which is already over? The layman gets no value in naming an already-over earthquake whereas hurricanes can last weeks and one may be fleeing one hurricane into another so name-tracking helps one avoid running into one hurricane while fleeing another. So short answer: Hurricanes are long lasting, can be tracked, and the layman can actually do something about it as long as they know it and is tracked so which one and how many are made easier with names whereas earthquakes are too quick and are generally unpredictable and untraceable; essentially, one can do nothing about so naming them is pointless, therefore when there is a major earthquake which causes significant damage, one refers to it by the year and location. Which would you rather have: hurricane B0025648S3 or Wally? There is a much higher information-dependency length and most would forget that. Analogy: "Hey Bill, Hurricanes Wally and Dennis are coming from the north and Albert is coming from the east, so we should go west! They will keep updating us by the hour if we need to change our course!" vs "Hey Bill, earthquakes Wally and Dennis have hit the north city and Albert have hit the south city! There was a lot of damage!" The layman gets no value from naming an earthquake which has already passed and can do nothing about whereas there is much value in a hurricane or two headed one's way right now can prepare for those in particular. Do you understand the difference?
The reason we have those gaps in the bathroom stalls is in case someone were to pass out or have a stroke while inside. I mean if someone’s looking at you just report them to the business
Tips are so controversial, a lot of the people opposed to ending tipping are restaurant staff. In restaurants that have attempted to end it, incomes actually fell, cause waiters were making more in tips than the higher wages they were being paid. Some waiters make a lot of money in tips.
Weekly rent payment isn’t the norm, any place I’ve ever heard of rent is payed monthly.
There are weekly rents for certain types of workers, typically industrial workers. Some low key motels do weekly as well. However it's not the norm if you plan on long term living.
Those who live in hotels like ExtendedStay America will pay weekly for their rent
Only landlords I've known to allow weekly (other than short term rentals) were in the hood.
When I hear weekly rent I think of a crappy SRO in a large city like New York.
Weekly rent is a thing in crappy motels where the residents are poor and often transient .
“The snip” is a vasectomy in the US. We don’t call circumcision “the snip”. I was very confused when you started talking about boys getting vasectomies at birth. Lol
I was too! Yeah, so @Joel & Lia be careful with that one.
No, I've heard it called that. Snip the tip, etc.
You are correct Beverly.
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snip is vasectomy
Nip the tip is circumcision
I know! I thought it was hilarious when she asked him "Have you had it?" and he was like "NO!". I was thinking , "He's too young for a vasectomy." LOL
The only time you pay rent weekly is if you're staying at an extended stay motel.
I've seen some really shady apartments that charge by the week.
For some apartments, especially if they rent to a lot of short-term tenants, and they don't verify credit info, it can happen that rent is due weekly... I've never had it happen, but it can happen...
@@corryunedited8154 LOL...Short time or long time?
Not true. Mobile parks and low income housing and some other landlords still do this but it is not common. I rented a 1 bedroom house in central Indiana and paid weekly which sucked when there were 5 payments in a month because my rent was $125 more that month
Not true there are many rentals that give the option of weekly or monthly
When we say "tap it" we arent calling it that we are telling you what to do
OMG!!! That is soo funny!
All my credit cards have now sent me "contactless" cards this year. I put it in quotes because I've YET to find a place where they actually work, even the places that say they do.
I can’t imagine the anxiety I would feel only being paid once a month
I'm on disability now and I get paid once a month. That's not really all that bad. I get the same amount every month. I know exactly what my bills and rent add up to so then I know how much is left over to buy groceries and whatever else I need. I don't have to make payment arrangements anymore because I'm paying everything from one check.
I was on disability for probably a year or two several years ago, but at the time I was living in a very low-rent apartment with no bills. Living where I do now I just feel it would be so anxiety-producing. But I guess it’s as you said, you just have to learn to adjust your way of living to your situation and live within your means
Why, would this somehow cause your expenses to increase? You would still be getting the same total income.
John P when thinking logically about it you’re right. I think just the foreignness of the idea is what gets me
@@johnp139 I've found that getting paid once a month saves me money. I can't over extend myself each pay period and overdraft my bank account. It saves me all of those unnecessary and expensive bank fees.
Most jobs in the USA get paid biweekly.
My first job, I was per hour and I received a check weekly. When I got a salaried position, I was paid bi-weekly and then they switched to monthly. The job I have now, I was paid bi-weekly but then they switched to twice a month. It saves 2 paychecks a year. (Bi weekly = 26 checks per year, twice a month = 24 checks a year)
As a payroll HR manager, I disagree. It depends on the employer or if you are hourly or salary. Weekly, biweekly , monthly or 1st/15th. I’ve run all the differences.
I really love my biweekly pay. I budget to live on just 2 paychecks per month so then twice a year it’s like a little bonus for yourself! One of those paychecks typically falls during the holiday season so that’s a nice perk.
@@Thehighfiberdiet Agreed - and some states have specific regulations - we have to pay our NY and RI hourly workers weekly (so we pay all NY/RI employees weekly), but the rest of the company is paid bi-weekly.
My sister's a prof, and she gets paid monthly. I mostly have been paid twice a month or every two weeks, though currently it's one a week.
Tipping in the UK! I took a 2 week holiday through England, Wales and a little bit of Scotland a few years ago, knowing full well that USA style tipping was not ‘a thing’ there. But I could not stop myself! It is so ingrained in our US culture...especially as a former waitress/bartender. In a small pub in Brighton the bartender was just so wonderful, giving us lots of pointers, pouring great drinks, snapping pics, etc; I could not imagine not showing my appreciation with a gratuity. She was so sweet explaining to me how tipping was not a requirement at all and to not feel any obligation; but I could not NOT tip her!
I still tip when I'm there because I believe in showing a service worker that you appreciate their attention. If they are rude or don't do their job, I won't tip.
I agree that our public bathroom stalls are not private enough. I love when I go to an upscale restaurant restroom/bathroom that has a fully enclosed stall.
I would say America is ahead in tech breakthroughs, but definitely behind in tech infrastructure
Made in China.
Basically
America is quite advance, but we are also MASSIVE. As a result, it takes ages for certain technologies to be picked up everywhere. I didn't get broadband internet until just a few years ago, and I only live in a semi-rural area. As far as credit cards, they are a supremely mixed bag. For example, local stores in my area of Iowa have pretty much every system of payment between them. One store has swipe and sign, another a chip reader, and another the contactless tap. Most stores only update they credit card systems when the old one breaks down. We had a hardware store we frequent where we could not use our chip card for several years because they still have these really ancient readers at the checkout.
exactly this is the thing most foreigners don't understand is just how big the us is and tbh i don't blame them i mean the us is the 3rd biggest country in the world and when you compare it to say the uk for example it is gargantuan i think the us is something like 40 times the size of the uk so again I understand the misconception
@@jessiestienstra6350 On a map, the UK is about the same size as if you combined Iowa with Minnesota. Very much dwarfed by the rest of the country.
It’s the same in Nebraska just worst we only have two actual cities most tows are rural so we don’t upgrade unless something breaks or we have money to burn
I was going to say the same thing i take longer to roll out here becuz the US is big
Where the heck do you live?? I live in the burbs in the Northeast and I have had broadband internet for well over 15 years. I have had a fiber optic cable for over ten years too.
I’m a teacher, and we get paid once a month.
Here in NC, a few weeks ago, we experienced an earthquake and a hurricane, all in one week! It was CRAZY! 2020 just keeps on giving!
Amy Jones - I work for the NHS in the UK and there was a Spitfire Thank you flyover. I rushed outside to see it and broke my ankle really badly! I now have more metal in me than the Spitfire! It’s a crazy time all around the world. Stay safe x
@@lt1107 oh NO! How awful! Hope you’re healing quickly!
Amy Jones - Thank you, I’m getting there, got my own kind of lockdown now 🤕
Really hope you're both doing well now, as a fellow NC resident
Jen S - Thank you. Fingers crossed that they find a vaccine soon. Stay safe in the meantime.
Earthquake, hurricanes AND killer tornadoes!
Akoilady And large fires.
Not as bad as those killer Tomatoes
Or the ridiculous rubarb
@@docmarmalade5224 yes. It's terrible. My daughter is living in Portland. The air quality is considered hazardous.
You can get paid weekly Bi weekly monthly, In some cases daily
Living in Oklahoma we worry about tornadoes My rule is don't kiss off God It worked well for me
I’ve never ever heard of rent being paid weekly. That would be extremely rare in the US, it’s not even worth mentioning, it’s so out of the ordinary.
Weekly rent? Clearly they are misinformed.
I've heard of it being paid hourly : ]
ahdoeknogh - Yeah for “working girls”
Don't say that. When I was in University there were a lot of student rentals where you paid weekly.
Alex B - Define a lot. For the vast majority of student rentals in the US, rent is paid monthly. When I was a college student we paid monthly like everyone else, I’ve never known anyone that paid their rent weekly. That would have been very rare indeed.
The bathroom thing is something I have a hard time getting especially as a guy. You just don't look in the gaps lol I've never experienced anyone peeping in
The bathroom stalls in my highschool were the worst I've ever seen. When you're standing up you could see straight over the top into the next stall. Super awkward and uncomfortable, but apparently it was done that way because a kid had an overdose in the bathroom a few years before that and nobody knew they were in the stall for a few hours
They took the doors off our stalls when I was in high school because people were smoking/doing drugs. Guys get used to it, because we all pee shoulder to shoulder with strangers anyway.
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 yeah the stalls in my school gym bathroom didn’t have doors.
I never used the toilets at school for anything more than peeing though
#3. NO ONE LOOKS. And besides, not all the bathrooms are like that.
I would have to say I have seen people glance in that gap. Maybe not walk up and gawk, but I've made eye contact with women waiting in a long line right outside the door. More than once. At concerts, sporting events.
I guess men and women are different.
Jolette Lima I’d rather take my chances haha
It's time for them to get over the bathrooms. It's not a big deal.
Exactly! We learn from an early age not to look! It isn't that hard.
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but in the US, when we say a guy got “snipped” it means he’s had a vasectomy. Same general area but drastically different procedures!!!
No, they’re referring to boys in the video because they’re referring to circumcision. So thankful that my generation is slowly catching on to the fact that circumcision is purely cosmetic.
@@brittneyjohnston1618 Yes, I know that is what they are discussing. I am sharing that if they talk to someone in the US about a guy getting "snipped", it refers to something different.
@joycelina for an adult male, yes. For an infant male it would be a circumcision.
In England "the snip" generally refers to vasectomy. Also snipping wire, snipping pastry, snipping paper to make a colarge in school. It means making a small cut in anything. Hence Lia being polite about snipping of some poor kids foreskin.
Glad to see you both alive and well 🙏🏽
UK guys aren’t normally circumcised ?? 😳 I had no idea. It’s much more common in the US to be circumcised than to be uncircumcised, so much so that girls actually talk about it often amongst their friends as a weird occurrence when a guy they were with wasn’t circumcised.
Guys I appreciate that you want to talk about your sponsor, but between your ad and the two from UA-cam, of the first 6 minutes of play there was about 5:30 of ads.
And a little too much chit chat.
Love these videos.
When paying - portable chip readers have just started (last 3 - 4 years) being widely used in the US. Many places still have large registers or pay terminals that have the card readers attached to it and can't be removed from the wall to go to the table. A typical restaurant will have maybe 5 terminals that all of the servers take turns using, to process payments from their multiple tables.
Earthquakes - don't get named unless they are big enough since they happen very frequently (roughly a few times a month) but are mostly imperceptible to the general public, but picked up by our machines. An earthquake would generally have to cause major damage to get a name.
i always have a cup of (microwaved, sorry not sorry) tea when i watch these videos!
The bathroom stall gaps are there as a safety feature in the event someone is knocked out/dead or hurt and to see who is in the stall
my primary school bathrooms didn’t have stall doors for the toilets-could always be worse
Exactly. Elementary schools here never have doors on the stalls
Where do you live???
Houston, TX. Public schools in the city aren’t as nice as the suburbs haha
Possibly because an earthquake isn’t a singular event, it’s multiple events due to aftershocks and prior tremors, all of which are unpredictable.
I will point out that almost everywhere in the US takes cards, however when I was in continental EU, there were SO many places including restaurants that did not take credit cards and only took cash. It was the weirdest thing.
#2 should include tornados.
Unfortunately, in the past there was a lot of naughty stuff happening in the Restrooms. This is why the stalls are now built the way they are.
I don't know why it's so tightly closed though. Imagine a person who used the toilet before you and he had a massive turd and the whole stall stink???
At Kmart we had to check card numbers to a list of names to see if it was stolen. If on the list we had to keep it. UNCOMFORTABLE
I get paid bi-weekly. 1st & 15th of the month. I have my bills scheduled accordingly, so they are due at those times. Pretty normal.
As far as Hurricanes... I survived Katrina. 😔. August 29, 2005. It was sooo bad.
I love my Apple Watch, makes me a happy girl in Covid world. 👍🏼
There’s a law here in the US, that businesses can’t refuse cash.
That is not a federal law. It depends on your state or locality. Most states in the US do not have such a law and can indeed refuse cash.
And, btw...being paid the 1st and 15th of the month is not bi-weekly. It is twice monthly. Twice monthly means you get 24 paychecks a year, while bi-weekly means 26 paychecks a year.
Jim True it’s law where I live so there’s that. I think it’s cute that you felt the need to “correct” me. I bet you are loads of fun. 🙄
@@mandaleeross1325 Well, I don't know if I'm loads of fun...I suspect here are a few people who just think I'm just being pedantic. As a former teacher, I can't help it. Hope you weren't offended.
You don't get paid by-weekly if you get paid on 2 specific days a month you get paid bi-monthly. People who get paid bi-weekly get two checks a year more than those who are paid bi-monthly but their individuals checks are smaller to spread their yearly income over two additional pay periods if they are salaried. Bi-weekly is every other week. Typically, these are paid on Friday for most businesses in the U.S.
an6wall2 So sweet of you to feel the need to “correct” me too! Awww. So cute! 🥰
The gaps in restroom stalls in America are there for public safety reasons. Its so of anyone passes out in the stall they can be easily seen on the floor, and so paramedics can easily get access to them by pulling them out the bottom gap.
I get paid once a month, working for a community college, under the state of California. The only time I was paid weekly, was when I worked as a temp from 1999-2000.
The public bathrooms are bad here, its crazy, I agree.
I've never felt they were odd, even in a 1912 business here, or my 1926 High School. Been paid twice a month all my life before. Get cash daily now. Survived 'Iniki here, and an earthquake around ten years ago, caused by an underwater landslide off Hawaii.
I didn’t realize how behind we are with card payments!
They take the card to the credit card machine which is usually near the kitchen. And with bathrooms we don't like the gaps either, but we just don't look.
I will say the whole contactless payment has gotten very popular in Alabama during this virus
Most people here in the US we get paid bi-weekly and then we pay out bills (rent, power, cable, phone, etc.) monthly.
American government employees are usually paid every two weeks. Many OLD motels have been converted to rooms for rent, weekly and sometimes monthly, as, "economic" housing, often for seasonal workers, such as carnival workers, beekeepers, seasonal fishermen, etc.
“The snip” they’re referring to is circumcision. As a mom who’s got a two year old and who’s 30 years old herself, I want Joel and Lia to know that my generation is slowly figuring it out and making changes. My son is NOT circumcised and I’m so proud that I had enough sense to keep him intact so that he could make that decision for himself. Circumcision is purely cosmetic (unless you’re one of a few cases that need it done medically) and should not be performed until a man decides that for himself. 💙
Brittney Johnston You’re totally right! I’m proud of you! Though it’s not just cosmetic. It’s also a religious preference to Jews, Muslims, and loads of Christians in the US. At one point it was deemed necessary for cleanliness, though that’s changed. We’ll see where it goes in the next few decades...
My brother was circumcised when he was around 10 years old. It was excruciating for him. He wished my mom would have done it when he was a baby so he wouldn’t have felt the pain or remembered it.
Kat A. Unless there is a medical need for it, it shouldn’t be done at all. Why did it wait until he was 10 years old?
@@brittneyjohnston1618 It was under the recommendation of his doctors, so I assume there was a medical need but I don't know the specifics. I just remember it was a tough month for him after the procedure.
Thanks for the info on Fair Shake. That sounds like a really valuable service. Is 31 Sep the same as 1 Oct?
What's with the commercials??
I also hate paying wait staff less and US public restrooms.
Is there anything worse than someone’s chid crawling under your stall door in a public toilet 😂 It has definitely happened to me 😬
That has never happened to me. A kid whos parent lets it crawl around on the floor of a public bathroom has bigger problems that the big gap in my door. Fortunately, I dont believe this is very common.
@@bbbrunella You obviously did not frequent the same shopping malls I did in the 90s...
in america “the snip” is *sort of* common, but it’s not like everyone has it lol
The Orthodox Jewish lobby is very strong in the U S That is why the snip is the default option for newborn boys in most U S hospitals.
I thought it was done mainly to prevent infection
@@polytheneprentiss1534 That is not the main reason it is done in U S hospitals. But it is a pleasant side effect.
@@gwillis01 It has nothing to do with any Jewish lobby, and also almost all doctors now will ask parents for permission. The real reason circumcision is so common in the U.S. is that many years ago it was promoted as a preventative measure against sexually transmitted diseases (and also other health issues). In addition, there was also a concern many years ago about boys engaging in masturbation, and circumcision was (wrongly) considered to be an effective deterrent. Today, because of the long history of the practice, circumcision is considered the standard choice, though it has become somewhat less common.
About 30 years ago the reasoning for “the snip” was being questioned and it is no longer done routinely. It is offered at the hospital and the parents must sign a request. It is still fairly common.
Joel & Lia, when you mentioned the bathroom gaps, they are not only found in public bathrooms but also SCHOOL bathrooms! Imagine that! And the showers in my middle school and high school (i don't know about other schools) BUT the showers did NOT have DOORS or Curtains!
YOU GUYS just make me laugh so hard.... I love you:.
I've only known of a handful of companies that pay weekly. Most businesses pay bi-monthly or monthly.
I HATE OUR BATHROOMS TOO.
I really wish we were up-to-date with contactless payments.
I AGREE 1,000% that waiters should be paid a fair wage. I worked as a waitress and earned so little it was pathetic. Even though people here are supposed to tip, many either don't or they tip so little it is insulting.
Gezz I've never heard anybody blabber on that much🙄🙄. Vid starts at 3:40
I’m an American and yes, bathroom stall gaps are too wide and yes, our credit card system is outdated but getting better. Our internet isn’t the greatest either, compared to some other countries. Tipping is expected here, not sure how that got started but it used to be 10%, now 15-20% is expected. When we visiting England, a few things were odd to me; no washcloths were provided in the hotel room, no hair dryer, no air conditioning. Anyway, we really enjoyed our visit there and want to go back one day. Thanks for the videos, lots of fun to watch
I live in America and I hate tipping. It doesn't make any sense. I can go to Outback where I'll spend at least 30$ but so the tip comes to 6$, but if I go to Denny's and get the same service from the wait staff, because the bill comes to 12$ the tip is only 2.5$ So half as much for the same level of service. It annoys me to no end.
As an American, I don't like the gaps in restrooms either!
Circumcising boys is changing. Back in the day the doctors were saying that it was unhygienic.
Biweekly (every other week) is the most common pay period in the US. Friday is also the most common day to be paid on.
Hurricanes are named before hurricane season even begins, with 26 names picked in advance. Each hurricane/tropical storm gets a name off that list when it’s detected. Earthquakes get names only when they’re big enough to make the news and only after the geologists have figured out the epicenter. There are literally hundreds of quakes, most of which are too small to notice. It wouldn’t make sense to name all of them any more than it would make sense to name every little rain squall.
1. Paid weekly. Most employers I worked for pay bi-weekly more than weekly (less paychecks they have to print). Yes, there are salaries paid monthly like managers and teachers. Apartment rent is usually paid monthly unless it is a hophouse/homeless hotel that can charge weekly rent. 2. Yes west coast has earthquakes, south has hurricanes, midwest has tornadoes, and northeast have wicked blizzards worse that the rest of the country. Hurricanes are named by the World Meteorological Organization since 1953. Naming is used by meteorologists to help keep track of storms. Before names, they went by latitude and longitude points but that didn't help track a storm to warn people a hurricane was coming. Earthquakes don't need tracked to warn people anymore than tornadoes do cause they occur quickly and stop. 3. Gaps under restroom doors are there for easy cleaning and safety reasons (like the lock breaks you can crawl out). 4. I don't have Tap cards, swipe cards mostly have been replaced by chipped cards. Most merchants/cards make you sign over a certain amount. Yes, restaurants take your card to their register to enter it in the system. Most credit cards are monitored and I get call/emails if a strange charge appears to make sure it was me using the card. Charges can be disputed and card member only responsible up to $50 of fraudulent charges. I had my card number stolen when someone used my email to reactivated a closed Netflix account. My card contacted me and they sent me a new card when I replied I did not reactivate my Netflix account. The person went on a shopping spree at a motorcycle ship in Minnesota and the card removed the charges. As for updating computer systems to do wireless scanning of cards at tables cost money, most employers will not update their systems until they have to cause upgrading cost too much. Yes, every business takes cash because of discrimination laws and the fact that cards charge fees for processing their card payments (Visa/Mastercard charge 2-3% while Discover/American Express charge 5-6%.) Some merchants won't accept credit cards and only take cash. 5. The snip at birth (aka circumcision) is popular because doctors promote it to prevent disease (like cancer or HIV). Whether that is true or not I couldn't say. 6. Tipping has a long history in the service industry. Merchants have developed service charges in addition to tipping. As you said, servers often are paid less than minimum wage expecting tips. Yes, in places where customers fill their own cup free refills are expected.
So I love
That you two did a video about how Americans love to sue people.
And then
You did an ad for fairshake haha whoops 😂🙈😜
The USA is such a huge country, that there are many Americans who are not used to hurricanes and earthquakes. I live in the midwest and we don't experience either too often. Now, tornadoes and winter storms are our game.
In America we not only give tip in restaurants but also a hairdresser, taxis, food delivery, tour guides, etc. Generally we tip for the service provided. Americans are more generous than Europeans by a large margin.
Why don’t houses in the UK have drying machines?! Everyone still hangs clothes out to dry like in the Middle Ages
Then their flats end up with massive amounts of MOLD!
Most people have washer dryers or spin dryers but to save money on electricity, you hang your clothes to dry! Simple
We have them, lots of those who do have them still use the washing line when the weather is good because it's better for the environment.
I've been a server and a bartender my entire life. Unfortunately, you're right that servers should be paid a liveable wage to begin with. As a server the law where I am only requires the management to pay $2.13 per hour, so YES, tips are so VERY important! As a bartender my pay went up to $5.00 per hour plus tips, however, both are below minimum wage. We count on tips for our pay. Sooooo many people still do not understand (or simply don't care) the work it takes to be a server, you are running non-stop all day and then come across a table here and there that does stiff you. Most restaurants do add an automatic 15-20% on tables of 8 people or more. They've taken my table and time along with my hard work for a hour to 2 hours where someone that would've tip could've sat, very frustrating. I will NEVER forget one night I LITERALLY went to a table of mine 13 (yes, i counted) times!!! The restaurant was running a special of never ending shrimp refills. This guy gorged himself and demanded all these refills on shrimp so I'm running to take care of him along with my other tables and guess what? The MF stiffed me. So 3 hours of my time devoted to keep this customer happy was all for nothing. Servers also have to cash out at the end of the night with a record of their sales from the day. Depending on the sales percent wise it is required that the server tips the bartender for bar sales as well as the busser for cleaning the tables. I've always said and will always say, EVERY person should wait tables, just once in their lifetime, so they understand the amount of work, time management, and physical as well as mental skills it involves. I've been whistled at like a dog to get my attention and fingers snapped as well. And these are high end restaurants. Servers here are treated as peasants and below and degraded by their customers. It's quite crazy. I could go on and on.... But this was the profession I chose for many years before going back to school to get my degree. Serving is hit and miss, but it equals out for the most part... amazing tips to make up for the bad ones. I raised my daughter as a single mom as a bartender and we did ok. Better cities come with better more upscale restaurants. It's all about which restaurant you work in.
We take the card away from the table in order to run it through our computer system, but I have NEVER in my 25 years of serving have ever seen any misuse or fraudulent use from any other servers. I understand your concerns though. Many places now offer at table payment with cards.
But to all those out there that have read this, thanks for hearing the vent session. Now, just remember, always tip your server and bartender! Server's philosophy is, if you can't afford to tip 20% of your bill, you can't afford to go out to eat! Order in instead. ☺
I hate that about our toilets here too. I don't recall it being like that when i was young, I think that these gappy doors are a 21 century thing.
The stalls in the UK may ensure a little more privacy. The urinals, not so much. The North of England still believes in the piss troth. As for the credit card thing, I agree. It's strange to believe we're years behind the UK on that.
Earthquakes happen a LOT more often than hurricanes do
I'm American and 100% with you on the bathrooms.
I remember my first and only earthquake I have ever experienced and it was terrifying! I live in Texas so we never get earthquakes especially ones you can feel. I was in my second floor appartment and all of a sudden our entire tv stand started shaking back and forth and then I felt the building shake. I seriously thought for a second that the world was ending and the Lord was coming back lol!! I was thinking.. Omg this is it, its all over! Living in tornado alley, I'm used to tornados...not earthquakes.
I've never really commented on anything -- but since I know this random fact, and didn't see an answer here -- the reason the US is, as you say, far behind in payment systems has to do with one word: infrastructure. The magnitude of changing over the entire payment system for every single bank and credit card for over 300 million people, update EFTPOS machines and credit card processing points for every single merchant in the United States was immense. It's not that we wanted to stay behind, but things like the Frank-Dodd act had liability shifts from Consumers and card issuers (think Visa/Mastercard) over to Merchants, and merchants had to bare the brunt of the costs of changing over to the more sophisticated (and safer) payment system, and you can imagine large costs like that during the Great Recession were tough and the timeline to switch over was shifted to a later and later date, and took the entire country nearly 15 years to finally adapt past swipe and sign to chip and pin. #TheMoreYouKnow :)
I lived in New York for thirty years and have lived in Texas for two. I’ve always paid rent monthly. Pay is twice a month in the military, department of Justice and NYPD! Now that I’m retired it’s monthly! When as a kid I worked in Ireland and we got a pay packet every week with cash!
We don’t have chip and pin! We have chip and go no pin no signature! Contact payment was initiated here but rolled out internationally first because banks and retailers wanted to see how secure it was before starting it here.
The snip means a vasectomy in the US! Getting circumcised was an automatic thing in the past as it was seen as more hygienic but not so much now a days! I was teased in Ireland as a six year old at the pool for being circumcised! Trauma! 😂
Tipping is a cultural thing and having worked as a bartender in midtown Manhattan I would much prefer the tipping culture than being paid what Europeans call a working wage because I would have taken a pay cut.
Don't know how one gets paid in the UK when working as a temp for an employment agency but here in NL you get paid weekly. Monthly is only when you are on the payroll of the company you're working with/for.
That's funny. Yeah, you leave your card at the bar to keep your tab open, and then you get it back when you pay. That way if you drink too much and forget, they can still take your payment at the end of the night. And I've never used contactless payment. I don't even know how.
You should go to a bar on a busy night. If you want to put drinks on a tab, a lot of places will take and hold your credit card till you pay the tab.
I absolutely understand the nervousness of giving your bank card to someone to take to a register, but that's where the machine is to take the payment. I suppose someone could take a photo of a card and/or fraudulently use it, but our banks will replace the money without question too if that happens. But I do understand the hesitance.
Typically we get paid bi-monthly (every 2 weeks), and rents, mortgages, utilities, etc are paid monthly. Public restrooms- common etiquette is you don't look through the cracks. I actually found the toilets in Paris to have less privacy than the US. Restaurants have the credit/debit card processing machines attached to the cash register, so they have to bring your card to the machine. But yes, it is changing now.
They do name earthquakes. They are named after the epicenter. Example: the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Great video Legends. The reason they don't name earthquakes is because they are so unpredictable and not all areas in the United States are prone to them. They also do not name tornadoes because there is no telling when or where you might have a tornado whereas hurricanes are pretty much are common to certain areas and are easy to see when they are developing. I do agree with you when it relates to tipping. If waiters and waitresses were paid a living wage in the States they could virtually do away with tipping. As always I thoroughly enjoy your videos and I hope you stay safe.
The tipping and contactless issues are intertwined somewhat. Since waitstaff make their income on tips, they would get less if they were standing with a portable credit card machines versus letting the customer add the tip in private.
Our rent and utilities are also paid monthly.
Can you imagine having to come up with 30,000+ names for earthquakes each year?
Circumcision in the US was brought into popularity by people like Kellogg (yes, the cereal guy) who were aiming to stop masturbation (hint: mutilating healthy tissue does not stop that). He also suggested sewing silver thread into the top of the penis to make sex painful, so it would only be used for procreation. It's a long, sordid history, and people have now been convinced there is some medical reason to circumcise, despite clear evidence to the contrary. It's a hot button issue, but a little research will lead you to not only the history, but the quackery that's spread as fact regarding the medical aspect. I don't have to tell Brits that it's not medically necessary by any means.
In regard to the religious aspect, some Christians argue that Jesus was circumcised and so we are all supposed to be. However, the Law of Moses was fulfilled in Him, which is also why we don't sacrifice animals on alters at every Christian church, nor do we have scapegoats for the forgiveness of sins. Anyway, the original circumcision didn't even look like what we do to boys today, just look at the statue of David. That's a long sordid story as well.
The US is now trending toward more people not circumcising their boys, but it goes in waves, and depends on different areas.
There are some stupid arguments for it, even without the medical quackery arguments. Some say they do it so the son looks like the father. Not even kidding. Some say it's so boys don't feel different in locker rooms. Yes, seriously some people say that.
And, all of this comes after the study they had to stop because they were looking at the brains of boys being circumcised and it turns out it injures the brain in a permanent way. So, yeah, why anyone still wants this practice has got to be boiling down to the idea that it's easier to fool people that convince them they've been fooled. It's really sad, and all the poor American boys have to suffer for this.
The bathrooms are always a big conversation point when my colleagues from other countries arrive in New York. I get it. How much would it cost to add better doors?! Seems like a simple thing for privacy.
I hear you… the thing is, because this is all some of us have ever known, we have trained our brains and our eyes to black out the cracks… as in, we don’t look at them or focus on them, it’s like the cracks exist in this casual awareness/peripheral vision zone. The stall door is open or closed and that’s all I process mentally. If they are all closed for an extended time, I will start walking and look for shoes. I know the other women in the restroom are doing the same.
Every two weeks is the norm for pay here in America, but finding one that pays every week isn't hard.
At least I can ff thru the 2 min commercial... still love you guys!!!
I live in New York and I totally agree with you about the gaps in the bathroom door. I hate feeling like someone can see me!
So in America some jobs pay weekly & twice a month is very common, even more common than once a month.
However, for bills & rent ect... That stuff is almost always monthly.
A lot of us in America feel the same as you about earthquakes because there are regions in the country where they are quite rare. The same is true of hurricanes. In places where they rarely have earthquakes or hurricanes, they tend to have more tornadoes, so it really kind of depends on where you're from what you are used to.
We have hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, and blizzards.
American here. In my current position, I get paid on a monthly basis (i.e., 12 pay periods). While this isn't common, it does occur in the US. In my last position, I got paid on a bi-weekly basis (i.e., literally, every 2 weeks which amounts to 26 pay periods). Most commonly, people in the US are paid semi-monthly (i.e., 24 pay periods).
You two are kind of charming in a lot of ways but you also frustrate me a lot with your questions about really trivial stuff that you could just look up in Wikipedia and get an answer.
There are so many earthquakes and the vast majority of them don't really do much more than break a few windows or knock some pictures off the wall or knickknacks off a shelf. The relatively few that cause catastrophic damage and/or great loss of life do tend to get a name. Usually named for the location of the epicenter and probably the year that it happened.
It's what they do for the videos..duh
@@thomasmcbrayer8299 You are right and Joel and Leah's videos are not worth subscribing to anymore thanks for that little nudge.
I'm from California and they do name earthquakes. Nothing fancy, but they usually are named after where the epicenter was and the year.
Where are they getting their information on the weekly payments and the weekly rent? I have never heard of that and I live in the US. Typically it's biweekly for working and monthly for rent
Also, it isn’t common to be circumcised in Latin America. I’m Mexican-American, but my parents thankfully did not agree to the snip.
Ironically another hurricane just blasted through the south and East, and as someone who has lived in the south and survived many hurricanes and who also travels a lot for work and only recently experienced my first earthquake, I much prefer hurricanes to earthquakes because at least with a storm you can prepare or evacuate. Earthquakes give you NO warning and it freaked me out my first experience and I never want to experience it again
when you guys said "the snip," i automatically thought of "the clap" 😂
More common is getting paid twice a month, or in my case, every 2 weeks (26 pay periods a year).
We get paid weekly and bi weekly ☺️ Canada 🇨🇦 our bills come out all different days through the month
Earthquakes are named based on the epicenter and fault lines. Like, the 1989 earthquake of San Francisco is called the Loma Prieta earthquake named for a mountain in Santa Cruz which is to the east of the epicenter.
"Why don't they name earthquakes?" The short answer: Because hurricanes last anywhere between a few days to maybe a month on average, there can be multiple ones existing at the same time, and which particular hurricane and its details need to be communicated to the masses, so instead of giving the layman/woman a technical alpha/numeric identifier, they use names whereas earthquakes are instant and untraceable; even if multiple ones happened at the same time, they are way too quick to track and one cannot prepare for any particular earthquake; one can prepare only in general for an earthquake.
Also, communication efficiency: it takes maybe a few minutes to choose a name for a hurricane or anything and earthquakes lasts a few seconds to maybe a minute; what good is there in naming a particular natural disaster event which is already over? The layman gets no value in naming an already-over earthquake whereas hurricanes can last weeks and one may be fleeing one hurricane into another so name-tracking helps one avoid running into one hurricane while fleeing another.
So short answer: Hurricanes are long lasting, can be tracked, and the layman can actually do something about it as long as they know it and is tracked so which one and how many are made easier with names whereas earthquakes are too quick and are generally unpredictable and untraceable; essentially, one can do nothing about so naming them is pointless, therefore when there is a major earthquake which causes significant damage, one refers to it by the year and location.
Which would you rather have: hurricane B0025648S3 or Wally? There is a much higher information-dependency length and most would forget that.
Analogy: "Hey Bill, Hurricanes Wally and Dennis are coming from the north and Albert is coming from the east, so we should go west! They will keep updating us by the hour if we need to change our course!" vs "Hey Bill, earthquakes Wally and Dennis have hit the north city and Albert have hit the south city! There was a lot of damage!"
The layman gets no value from naming an earthquake which has already passed and can do nothing about whereas there is much value in a hurricane or two headed one's way right now can prepare for those in particular.
Do you understand the difference?
There are only 30 days in September.
The reason we have those gaps in the bathroom stalls is in case someone were to pass out or have a stroke while inside.
I mean if someone’s looking at you just report them to the business
Tips are so controversial, a lot of the people opposed to ending tipping are restaurant staff. In restaurants that have attempted to end it, incomes actually fell, cause waiters were making more in tips than the higher wages they were being paid. Some waiters make a lot of money in tips.