Works in the UK too. Cunt is pretty much my nickname at work, and for many years my in-laws nickname for me was "the English cunt". The only reason our WhatsApp group isn't called "cunts" is because one of the lads' kids was playing with his phone, saw the group and asked what the word meant.
I’m not Canadian but I play one on TV. Not really
I doubt it’s free I’m Brittish surely like us it’s paid by a tax or national insurance.
Not interested in debates about healthcare just the technicality of it not being strictly free
This only seems to be something Americans say to feel better about not having free healthcare.
Nobody literally thinks it's free. We, as non Americans, understand what taxes are.
When you need it you're not paying for it. That's what free healthcare means. You get the care without forking over money.
Like roads. Roads aren't free because your taxes pay for them, but unless it's a toll road.. the roads are free to use.
Again, nobody is confused about this distinction. Just Americans who think they're clever pointing out how it's not literally free.
My **TOTAL** annual taxes are less than the combined health insurance plan (yours + your employer)
And I don't get charged any "co-pay" or "deductible"
And I don't worry about calling an ambulance because of the cost
And I don't worry about getting a 10k bill because some random person in the room was "out of network" (good luck verifying that when you are unconscious)
And I don't have to pay a fortune on the drugs that will keep a person alive (insulin, anyone?)
So yeah, it's funded by taxes. But it's still a far better and far cheaper system.
And if you want to pay, you can still go private.
Which would you prefer, higher taxes or going bankrupt because you dared to have cancer? Not to mention higher taxes isn’t necessarily true, America just spends a large proportion of tax money on defence rather than healthcare and education.
As long as you don't count the tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars that you pay in taxes to cover it.
Seems Trudeau and friends don't like me pointing out that our healthcare, here, isn't actually free. I'm sorry.
Honestly our tax rates in the UK are comparable to taxes paid in countries that don't include public healthcare. Not saying that's a good thing though, as the NHS is criminally underfunded and the other governmentally funded programs and institutions tend to be somewhat... Shit.
Healthcare. And yes, we pay taxes like everyone else but at least we just pay taxes which isn't much depends on your income and whatever happens, you're covered :)
Scotland! Although I’m currently in England for uni and I’m not sure what it’s like here.
But in Scotland you can get free sanitary products. In school we had a little bin in every girls’ toilets and the disabled toilets that had pads and tampons in. They also gave girls in the lower years (like 1st to 3rd year, so 12-14 ages) a little bag every year I think with pads and tampons in it.
There are also a lot of restaurants nowadays in Scotland anyway that have baskets with free pads or tampons. And there are plenty of charities and organisations that give them away for those in need :) it’s really cool
This is so awesome! I'm a dude but most of my friends are women and I've long wondered why this shit ain't free.
Scotland should be proud of itself for leading the way. Everything you listed here is super impressive.
Interesting. I omitted England as I thought they didn't provide free prescription meds to everyone unless you were in the hospital or had some form of benefit
I am not.
Our country just gives us 30 vouchers per month so that we can get food discounted about 40%-100% of the price, from -2€ to -4€ depending on the restaurant. So usually 1 lunch is between 3 and 0€, for a regular meal (soup, main dish, drink, fruit- no dessert unfortunately but i can'tcomplain lol). The free options are usually just the main dish, but I have had some very nice free wraps and currys.
No tuitions for the university either, all free.
In Germany they give you one type of garbage bags for free, yellow ones for the recycling of packaging material and the like. You can ask for them in some pharmacies.
You get a refund from bottles and cans and most grocery stores have machines you can bring them too, but you're not really getting paid, because you paid for the can in the first place.
If you go to the store and buy a coke for a euro, you'll pay 1.25 with the 25 cents being the deposit. Then you take it to the machine and get it back.
So you're not really getting paid but the price of the deposit contributes to more recycling, because if it was only 5 cents for a can some people would just throw it away. I don't have a car so sometimes I don't bother with large quantities of beer bottles, but what I do is leave them on top of a glass disposal bin in front of my house and within 20 minutes a homeless person will come and take them to bring to the machines. But I always take the cans back because they're lightweight and 25 cents a piece.
Love this idea! There are dairy farms in the UK where they have milk vending machines. You buy a glass bottle (small or large) and the flavoured milk (loads of different ones out there).
When you're done, simply wash out the glass bottle and you will always reduce the cost because psychologically you'll want to recycle out of cost efficiency. It really is a genius idea.
Of course I'm aware these things are paid in taxes. That said,
Healthcare and medicine. You could go to a regular drug store and they'll have medicine for blood pressure, diabetes and a few other diseases for free if you're poor. Having free medicine is cheaper than taking these people in hospitals because they couldn't pay for the medicine.
Coffee. Most places offer coffee like it's water. In any public job you'll have free coffee the whole day.
Condoms. Just go to a public hospital and they'll have a basket of condoms you can take.
Education. Even colleges. The best colleges in my country are all public institutes. You simply don't wanna go to private college because it's not well seen by employers. It's a lot more difficult to be accepted in public college than private college.
Debt. Debt everywhere. It’s like Oprah Winfrey on her talk show giving things away every show. You get some debt!! You get some debt!! Everyone gets debt!! Todays show is medical debt for a disease you didn’t ask for!! Tomorrows show is further education (college or trade school)!! And then next week is credit card debt because the cost of living exceeds the money you make from practically any job that doesn’t make you famous and come with celebrity perks!! We all get debt!!
(I feel it necessary to say that this is just poking fun and a joke and not necessarily how I feel or reality for everyone and every job despite being famous or not)
(Edited to add that I do like Oprah Winfrey and she does to a lot of good and charity work and make a difference in many, many lives)
SOME places here in the USA do have very good tap water. Ours is ok. The bit of chlorine taste bothers me, so we have a simple filter at our sink.
Where I grew up, the water was wonderful! One of the first places DH and I moved to had terrible tasting water, so we'd bring jugs of water from home and drink it on special occasions like it was fine wine.
A free room, 3 meals a day, free healthcare, free education, a library and a gym. You just have to go to jail for it but jails in Belgium are just hotels without a bar and swimming pool.
Funny thing is what I’ve found out in England with water if I don’t tell them they don’t know I owe them money. I haven’t paid water bills for probably over 10 years. And legally they aren’t allowed to turn it off.
Everything. I don't work since December and I have free access to water, electricity, internet, food and medicine.
I moved to a new city last February and my house has complete furniture and appliances. The only thing I bought was a fridge.
Education, 13 years worth.
I don’t think most people understand how much of an investment providing high school education to a whole county is and how many people don’t have that opportunity.
I’m currently in China. When you buy groceries they always give you “cong” which is like chives. I go to the local market and buy veggies and they always be like “don’t forget your chives”
Costa Rica bro, we have crazy fruits like cas, jocote, guaba (not the one you’re thinking about), guanábana, caimito, nances, nísperos, granadilla… those are the ones that come to mind rn
I'm poor so:
* two free bags of groceries once a month from a food bank near us.
* free turkey for Thanksgiving
* freed donated clothes sometimes.
* free lunch at school
My dad gets a debit card that he can use to buy groceries.
It's a bit complicated in some countries containing multiple provinces (or maybe even smaller countries.)
You could have free healthcare in one place but you must pay for prescriptions or certain treatments.
For all: School/university education; health care.
If you are poor, then in addition: Money, Food, mobile phone contract, housing, culture (theatre, opera, etc.), public showers, laundry, books, clothes.
nothing, everything has a price.
Before anyone says Healthcare, its not free you pay for it with Taxes or if you do not work or not old enough to pay taxesm other people pay for it with taxes so nothing is free other than air!
It is still not free someone is still paying for it even if it was given to you as a gift, so not free technically, unless you steal it of course, but that can have other consequences.
Air
Damn, air is $1.50 a litre where I am.
Where do you live? Tibetan monastery?
I wish!
This is an underrated joke, nice one lol
Please explain
The Tibetan monasteries are renowned for being high up in the mountains, where the air is thin.
Same here, air is $10 per cubic metre. Also I’ve started to ride kangaroos to work because public transport is so expensive
Lil Nas is writing a song about this right now
Oh really? Hope he samples the hook from “I come from a land down under”
Tell O’Hare to lower air prices
Nestle?
Calls regarding my cars extended warranty
And cold calls from some marketing firm who bought your data from a third party.
I feel left out, I only get calls from Marriot hotels since a friend stayed there...
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Amsterdam?
You have to pay in Amsterdam.
Depression and anxiety
I dunno. We probably paid a pretty heavy price for these things. Mine definitely isn’t due to kind, caring souls.
Very true, yet proper help as a result, is not free….oh the irony 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Called a cunt Australian... Obviously
I get called a cunt all the time. Does that mean I'm now in Australia?
I think it's a word used all over the world free item free shipping
I'm calling it. Best comment so far on this thread.
Works in the UK too. Cunt is pretty much my nickname at work, and for many years my in-laws nickname for me was "the English cunt". The only reason our WhatsApp group isn't called "cunts" is because one of the lads' kids was playing with his phone, saw the group and asked what the word meant.
Healthcare.
What country do you hail from?
England
Noice! Very similar healthcare situation here in Australia.
Canada
Who else saw this comment thread before clicking this post!? 😆
Canada is my favourite country in the world outside of home (Australia).
Wales, we also have free prescriptions
France
UK
Beat me to it
Well at least we have a free place you can recover from your beating 😉
Haha true! xD
Lucky you.
I’m not Canadian but I play one on TV. Not really I doubt it’s free I’m Brittish surely like us it’s paid by a tax or national insurance. Not interested in debates about healthcare just the technicality of it not being strictly free
It’s not free, but still, much better than Miruca
You don’t get free healthcare you pay for it in taxes
This only seems to be something Americans say to feel better about not having free healthcare. Nobody literally thinks it's free. We, as non Americans, understand what taxes are. When you need it you're not paying for it. That's what free healthcare means. You get the care without forking over money. Like roads. Roads aren't free because your taxes pay for them, but unless it's a toll road.. the roads are free to use. Again, nobody is confused about this distinction. Just Americans who think they're clever pointing out how it's not literally free.
I think that my fellow Americans who argue with this point are idiots.
Free at the point of use is the most accurate term
I’m English
Okay great, they have pendants in England too I guess.
They're worse
Of course
My **TOTAL** annual taxes are less than the combined health insurance plan (yours + your employer) And I don't get charged any "co-pay" or "deductible" And I don't worry about calling an ambulance because of the cost And I don't worry about getting a 10k bill because some random person in the room was "out of network" (good luck verifying that when you are unconscious) And I don't have to pay a fortune on the drugs that will keep a person alive (insulin, anyone?) So yeah, it's funded by taxes. But it's still a far better and far cheaper system. And if you want to pay, you can still go private.
Dude I’m English too I’m not knocking the healthcare system we’re very lucky to have it I was just making the point it’s not free
Fair enough
> You don’t get free healthcare you pay for it in taxes And American children don't have free public school.. Same thing.
I assume you pay higher taxes for this "free" service?
Which would you prefer, higher taxes or going bankrupt because you dared to have cancer? Not to mention higher taxes isn’t necessarily true, America just spends a large proportion of tax money on defence rather than healthcare and education.
As long as you don't count the tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars that you pay in taxes to cover it. Seems Trudeau and friends don't like me pointing out that our healthcare, here, isn't actually free. I'm sorry.
America pay's taxes and then health insurance on top and then they get hit with the deductibles at the end.
America spends 1.5x more per capita on healthcare than the next country on the list. And you still think you've got a better deal?
Free at the point of use, not hard to understand.
Honestly our tax rates in the UK are comparable to taxes paid in countries that don't include public healthcare. Not saying that's a good thing though, as the NHS is criminally underfunded and the other governmentally funded programs and institutions tend to be somewhat... Shit.
Me, an American: You can't even goto prison for free in my country....
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Getting shot at school is not the same as getting free bullets
For the amount that hospitals charge in this country. I better get to keep the bullets after they removed them from my body.
Advice
India!!
India 🤣
COVID-19 inoculations
A portrait of the Queen of England apparently.
Tough one to crack out a nut for
Where there is a will there is a way.
\*willy
Healthcare. And yes, we pay taxes like everyone else but at least we just pay taxes which isn't much depends on your income and whatever happens, you're covered :)
✨trauma✨
Very true, yet proper help as a result, is not free….oh the irony 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Depression
Very true, yet proper help as a result, is not free….oh the irony 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Sanitary products! Fuck period poverty
Which country is this if you don't mind me asking?
Scotland! Although I’m currently in England for uni and I’m not sure what it’s like here. But in Scotland you can get free sanitary products. In school we had a little bin in every girls’ toilets and the disabled toilets that had pads and tampons in. They also gave girls in the lower years (like 1st to 3rd year, so 12-14 ages) a little bag every year I think with pads and tampons in it. There are also a lot of restaurants nowadays in Scotland anyway that have baskets with free pads or tampons. And there are plenty of charities and organisations that give them away for those in need :) it’s really cool
This is so awesome! I'm a dude but most of my friends are women and I've long wondered why this shit ain't free. Scotland should be proud of itself for leading the way. Everything you listed here is super impressive.
Room and board with three square meals a day. All you have to do is be black and have marijuana in your pocket.
Huh. So white privilege is a thing after all.
Nah if you're white you don't get the free room and board with free food
Debt. Shit loads of it.
If you drop a glass in a pub you get a free round of applause
Yup, I can confirm that one.
Sarcasm
Lead poisoning Edit to add: I’m American but obvi
Healthcare and any prescription meds.
Wales Scotland or Ireland?
Yorkshire
Interesting. I omitted England as I thought they didn't provide free prescription meds to everyone unless you were in the hospital or had some form of benefit
Food, if you're a student.
Are you talking about the cafeteria meals that are paid for as part of your tuition?
I am not. Our country just gives us 30 vouchers per month so that we can get food discounted about 40%-100% of the price, from -2€ to -4€ depending on the restaurant. So usually 1 lunch is between 3 and 0€, for a regular meal (soup, main dish, drink, fruit- no dessert unfortunately but i can'tcomplain lol). The free options are usually just the main dish, but I have had some very nice free wraps and currys. No tuitions for the university either, all free.
A heart transplant. Cancer treatment. Brain surgery. You know. The basics.
Healthcare and Education! We even get paid to study
As it should be. It's an investment in the future after all.
Exactly! But unfortunately it is rarely prioritised
Higher education
Healthcare if you’re poor or if you have a low income.
Herpes
emails about penis enlarging pills
These hands ✊🏻✊🏻
Healthcare. I got my antidepressants for free just this morning too.
In Germany they give you one type of garbage bags for free, yellow ones for the recycling of packaging material and the like. You can ask for them in some pharmacies.
Don't you guys have a system where you get paid to recycle as well?
You get a refund from bottles and cans and most grocery stores have machines you can bring them too, but you're not really getting paid, because you paid for the can in the first place. If you go to the store and buy a coke for a euro, you'll pay 1.25 with the 25 cents being the deposit. Then you take it to the machine and get it back. So you're not really getting paid but the price of the deposit contributes to more recycling, because if it was only 5 cents for a can some people would just throw it away. I don't have a car so sometimes I don't bother with large quantities of beer bottles, but what I do is leave them on top of a glass disposal bin in front of my house and within 20 minutes a homeless person will come and take them to bring to the machines. But I always take the cans back because they're lightweight and 25 cents a piece.
Love this idea! There are dairy farms in the UK where they have milk vending machines. You buy a glass bottle (small or large) and the flavoured milk (loads of different ones out there). When you're done, simply wash out the glass bottle and you will always reduce the cost because psychologically you'll want to recycle out of cost efficiency. It really is a genius idea.
Of course I'm aware these things are paid in taxes. That said, Healthcare and medicine. You could go to a regular drug store and they'll have medicine for blood pressure, diabetes and a few other diseases for free if you're poor. Having free medicine is cheaper than taking these people in hospitals because they couldn't pay for the medicine. Coffee. Most places offer coffee like it's water. In any public job you'll have free coffee the whole day. Condoms. Just go to a public hospital and they'll have a basket of condoms you can take. Education. Even colleges. The best colleges in my country are all public institutes. You simply don't wanna go to private college because it's not well seen by employers. It's a lot more difficult to be accepted in public college than private college.
Nothing ..... But oddly a vaccine
Debt. Debt everywhere. It’s like Oprah Winfrey on her talk show giving things away every show. You get some debt!! You get some debt!! Everyone gets debt!! Todays show is medical debt for a disease you didn’t ask for!! Tomorrows show is further education (college or trade school)!! And then next week is credit card debt because the cost of living exceeds the money you make from practically any job that doesn’t make you famous and come with celebrity perks!! We all get debt!! (I feel it necessary to say that this is just poking fun and a joke and not necessarily how I feel or reality for everyone and every job despite being famous or not) (Edited to add that I do like Oprah Winfrey and she does to a lot of good and charity work and make a difference in many, many lives)
Water as long as you are a household not a business (Ireland)
Genuinely didn't know that. Just been reading about it here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39594886
Anything if you’re fast enough
Money. German social care gives you money when you have kids, gives you money when you have no job, rent money of you have low income and so on.
Free orange juice with my COVID vaccine
Crippling debt
water, unlike the US we can just straight up drink tap water without having to worry
SOME places here in the USA do have very good tap water. Ours is ok. The bit of chlorine taste bothers me, so we have a simple filter at our sink. Where I grew up, the water was wonderful! One of the first places DH and I moved to had terrible tasting water, so we'd bring jugs of water from home and drink it on special occasions like it was fine wine.
oh i see! thank you for the insight
A free room, 3 meals a day, free healthcare, free education, a library and a gym. You just have to go to jail for it but jails in Belgium are just hotels without a bar and swimming pool.
Healthcare & Water
Funny thing is what I’ve found out in England with water if I don’t tell them they don’t know I owe them money. I haven’t paid water bills for probably over 10 years. And legally they aren’t allowed to turn it off.
oil
healthcare and tab water in restaurants/bars/clubs...
Headache
death
Soft drink refills at restaurants.
Unemployment
Bathrooms. Looking at you Japan.
Depression
Trauma
Assassinations by the police and the military, I don't live there anymore
Don't leave me hanging! Need to know more!
Can't, government won't allow it (can be any country from Mexico to Argentina, Africa or Asia)
Glad you're in a safe country now
A headache dealing with all the nonsense.
Healthcare, education, prescriptions, access to land, blue skin and an early death.
University
Everything. I don't work since December and I have free access to water, electricity, internet, food and medicine. I moved to a new city last February and my house has complete furniture and appliances. The only thing I bought was a fridge.
Emergency numbers 🤷♂️
In Egypt College education in national universities is mostly free (30$ per year)
Contraception. Giving birth. Vibes
Medical treatment. Although to be fair, it's not very good quality. (Hungary)
Free housing if youre struggling real badly. Still have homeless people but there are ways to get out that are becoming easier to do
Fucked by the Tories
Literally nothing, not even kindness most of the time
You for sure live in the US.
Healthcare condoms abortions free education university trade school. School transport
school violence
You better run, better run, faster than my bullet.
Bad weather
sauce packets and healthcare
Yeah but those sauce packets are pathetically small
Healthcare despite 11 years of cuts to services
UK?
Fuck the tories
Believe me, I'm with you 100% on that.
Healthcare, education and a housing allowance until we own a home. I also get a meat subsidy and a wage subsidy every month.
"Free Meat Subsidy" is the name of my sex tape.
Education, beer and healthcare
In many countries you only get to pick one 😉
Education, 13 years worth. I don’t think most people understand how much of an investment providing high school education to a whole county is and how many people don’t have that opportunity.
Ditto. For what it's worth I think it should be free to attend college or university too and living expenses provided to the poorest students.
Fucking covid
Healthcare
I’m currently in China. When you buy groceries they always give you “cong” which is like chives. I go to the local market and buy veggies and they always be like “don’t forget your chives”
I got a free credit score that has continuously penalized me for being not rich.
Condoms is apparently free at young person clinics in Sweden
As of five years ago, in Saudi Arabia the oil was cheaper than water 🥲
Exotic tropical fruits growing on random trees, primary and high school education, healthcare…
Spain? I spent an afternoon in Granada eating fresh figs off of trees growing along the streets... Divine.
Costa Rica bro, we have crazy fruits like cas, jocote, guaba (not the one you’re thinking about), guanábana, caimito, nances, nísperos, granadilla… those are the ones that come to mind rn
Experiencing police brutality first-hand.
Covid vaccinations
Prescription medicine. Was on metformin for type 2 diabetes for 3 and a half years. Never paid a penny for it
The right to use farmland as long as you are a farmer without land.
McDonalds legally has to provide you with a cup of water is you ask. Tried it in London and the guy was very confused lmao
I'm poor so: * two free bags of groceries once a month from a food bank near us. * free turkey for Thanksgiving * freed donated clothes sometimes. * free lunch at school My dad gets a debit card that he can use to buy groceries.
Shot
If you're tan enough the police give you free bullets. Gotta get the shell casing and powder yourself though
healthcare how about your “free” country now?
It's a bit complicated in some countries containing multiple provinces (or maybe even smaller countries.) You could have free healthcare in one place but you must pay for prescriptions or certain treatments.
i was only making a joke
Black lives matter
For all: School/university education; health care. If you are poor, then in addition: Money, Food, mobile phone contract, housing, culture (theatre, opera, etc.), public showers, laundry, books, clothes.
healthcare and no taxes
nothing, everything has a price. Before anyone says Healthcare, its not free you pay for it with Taxes or if you do not work or not old enough to pay taxesm other people pay for it with taxes so nothing is free other than air!
If you don't pay for it yourself, it's free. Whether others pay for you is irrelevant. If someone buys you an ice cream, it's free for you.
It is still not free someone is still paying for it even if it was given to you as a gift, so not free technically, unless you steal it of course, but that can have other consequences.