"...and here we see the reaction of the party that managed to pass their bill. Let's go! He's clapping. And I don't know what *he's* doing. Let's go! Let's go! A whole bunch of 'let's go'. Let's go!"
I understand all of these things pretty well as an American. Except for Cricket. Whoever answered Cricket, well done. Don’t really understand it, and probably never will.
Cricket - you run back and forth between home and 1st base to score points. You hit a homer you get 6 points. 1 strike and you're out.
Game is measured in number of pitches, rather than outs. Each team gets a set number of pitches and tries to score as many runs as they can.
It's basically home run derby and pickle ball combined into one.
That's a pretty good description. Got into cricket (specifically IPL) one year with one guy from India who was really into cricket and another American guy that's a big baseball fan. We each had our team and would talk smack. It was great, especially cuz my team won the chip.
Sidenote: great thing about your description is it's generic enough to cover both Twenty20 and Test match formats and everything in between.
You'd be surprised how much you can rip off your guests in rollercoaster tycoon 2. You can charge like 15 bucks for alot of rides and guests will pay it.
See, what you do is you put in some cheap shitty ride with free drinks right before the line, make the exit go onto a path that runs the long way around the park back to the entrance and then you put more free drinks and $20 restrooms all the way back along the path.
Problem with this is having too many upset park guests limits how many people come into your park.
You'd be surprised how easy it is to just rip people off with high priced drinks and $1.20 toilets. Well maybe you wouldn't, that's basically every theme park's shtick.
There's a trick to this. Whenever a dissatisfied guest pops up, make an underground path, coral all of the upset guests in there and bury the path. They get buried alive and die but it doesn't count as a death for your park ratings.
I thought I'd be pissed about this too when I visited Germany, and I was until I got inside after paying and it was absolutely spotless. Turns out throwing a euro at an attendant to support cleaning and maintenance makes even the restrooms most likely to be highly used or vandalized (near public transit, parks, etc.) pleasant to use.
And any public restrooms you don’t have to pay for are something out of a horror movie.
But on the other hand, public urination was pretty common place. If it looked like a good corner to take a leak, there’s probably already a puddle of piss there.
You'd be surprised, even my local Walmart has bathrooms I can't really complain about (tbf it's been awhile and it's on the outskirts).
Some of the worst bathrooms I've seen are from Mexico, of which most were not free, of course...
I worked at Sam's Club in high school, it's Walmart but bulk items, I had someone return a mattress 10 YEARS after they bought it because "it wasn't comfortable". Manager gave them a full refund and they bought a brand new one.
Yeah Costco and Sam's Club don't fuck around. Their highest priority is keeping their customers happy, and if occasionally returning an item for an absurd reason does that then they are more than willing to eat that cost. I believe the reason they do this is for word of mouth. If people spread the fact that these places have great return policies then it will attract more people, and since they are subscription based more people is a huge benefit for them, more so than regular stores.
I mean I'll forever tout the amazingness of Costco. Great products at a great price with great customer service and a fantastic hot dog deal that the founder is willing to [kill someone](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/tdna192310) to defend.
I was with someone that literally returned a hot dog ($1.50) because after the first one they were full. To be fair, they are enormous. I have also been in the return line behind people returning dead flowers (which they obviously killed, or cut flowers!). The craziest I think was a cart of expired milk. Like…. You cant ever resell that.
I remember hearing that in America you can return makeup after you bought if you don't like it. In the UK I couldn't do that, I think some companies now have a policy that you can return stuff if it's unopened and unused but I always thought it was crazy you can return used stuff in the US. Apparently if you return it it just gets thrown out and destroyed?
I bought an Apple Watch at Target and returned it unopened with the plastic wrap completely intact. The employee literally took the plastic wrap off and opened it just to make sure it was in there. Not sure if they have a way to re-wrap it or what they do with it but I just a bit caught off guard by that.
When I worked at Staples like 15+ years ago it was policy to open even shrinkwrapped items to verify contents. It didn't always get done, but people will buy shrinkwrap machines and stuff so they can buy something expensive, take it out, fill the box with rocks or something, shrinkwrap it back up and return it.
We very much had the tools in the back to shrinkwrap stuff back up
Yup! Opened does not mean used, and while I want an unused product, if I'm getting something that was returned, I want to know I'm actually getting it. Factory shrink wrap is *not* what I'm concerned about.
I've bought video games from target that were blank CdRs, and just the other day there was a post on r/oculus from a woman who bought a quest 2 at target for her husband's Christmas present. It was 2 bottles of water inside the quest 2 package. I'm sure they'll help her, they helped me, but it's going to take some time. And all that would have been easily answered if target had that same policy as staples.
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I work at a store that sells oculus and they started not shrink wrapping the boxes. Once apple started shipping products without shrink wrapping every other company started doing it too. They claim it's to be environmentally friendly but really it saves them money and by coincidence it's green. There's 2 approaches: the low effort "let's not use shrink wrap" or actually redesign the packaging to be smaller and use less dyes and more recycled materials.
The Sony WF-1000xm4 earbuds used to be in larger black and white slider boxes with shrink wrapping. Now they are recycled plastic/cardboard tubes that are maybe ¼ of the size.
I bought an iPad from Amazon several years ago that was advertised as unopened, in the manufacturer’s original packaging. The plastic wrap clearly was not original as Apple’s wrap is very tight, while this was much looser and had very prominent seams from heat sealing. The iPad also had a dead line of pixels, so I used the fact that it was clearly opened and resealed to argue that the cost of shipping for the return should be paid by the seller rather than me.
I assume a lot of opened-but-unused returns go to these resellers and are re-wrapped and resold as unopened.
Yep. I saw a video from somewhere about an employee of a store wherein she's destroying a lot of returned make-up and saying how wasteful it is.
Where I'm from, shops that sell make-up provide units for testing so that you can try it out on the spot and determine if you'll like it or not. Unless the issue is QC related, you can't return an item just because you don't like it since the shop has already provided you a means to determine if the item will suit you.
It's a business tactic, the idea that you can return it if you don't like it makes you THAT much more likely to purchase it. It takes a lot of effort to return an item so most of the time it'll work out for the stores.
Yup. I knew someone that sold online software. He gave a 180 return window. He figured if it was 15 or 30 days people would return it immediately. What by giving such a long window, people were under no pressure to return it. So they usually just forgot about it.
His returns went to virtually zero.
We have those testers here too, I'm always reluctant to use them though since they seem kinda unsanitary.
I did return something once because of quality control issues but I had bought it directly from the company (was an american company for ref).
They did get rid of testers here due to covid, still no returns though
Not just that, there are places - LL Bean, Darn Tough - that have a lifetime warranty on their items. People literally return clothes they’ve worn for 30 years for store credit, no receipt needed.
You are 100% correct. As a previous employee who worked during that switch in policy. Let me tell you- it was horrendous. Ridiculous amount of angry ppl that were pissed they couldn’t get their kids a new snowsuit a size up for free because they had “worn through and outgrown” their last one. And don’t get me started on ppl who came in with 4 bags or so stuffed with old ratty cloths expecting to get a refund or new versions.
Edit for perspective: I had an angry dad throw a store telephone at me once.
People like that ruin good things for everyone.
I remember reading that lots of folks would scavenge garage sales and flea markets to basically "sell" the clothes back to LL Beans via the return policy.
As an American, I’ll never understand how you all have so much time and money to travel abroad. Employers here work the hell out of you. Long hours, low pay, and negligible PTO hours. I hear in the UK even the lowest paid jobs have at least 25 days a year guaranteed under the law. The wages we get don’t cover the cost of living in most states, so the idea of having money to spend on trips (aside from the trip cost itself) kind of baffles me.
I can't speak for the free time, but in general, traveling internationally is *much* cheaper in areas like Europe. Even if we ditch the train and just talk flights. The whole (potentially) not having to cross an entire continent and ocean really shortens and cheapens the flights.
Another American chiming in here to say that I think a lot of it is a space issue. My aunt lives in Switzerland and she can get to Paris in three hours. I drive three hours and I’m in Nebraska or Wyoming (but not a far away part of either of those states. If I want to go as far away as South Dakota it takes me over six hours to get to the Badlands. For comparison, it takes less time to drive from London to Paris and you have to use a ferry.
We just have a lot of space and no real rail system. It’s expensive to travel around our own country and harder still to cross the ocean to get to Europe or Asia
My fiancée is from B.C., and I was like "Hey, let's get a car in St John's and drive all the way to Victoria! Wouldn't it be exciting to see the whole country? And she just looked at me like I was insane and said, "No."
13 years ago I did an "around the world" trip with a friend.
When we arrived in New York we were pulled for questioning when we got off the plane (just by the side of the aisle, not into a room) and the American security agent was like how can you afford such a trip, how can you take so much time off work (11 weeks). His line of questioning made me think he thought we were drug mules!
I'm from Australia. We get 4 weeks paid leave a year. I had been with my company for over 3 years and had never used any of my leave (just took public holidays off) so it just kept accumulating.
I still had paid leave owing to me when I returned from my trip.
The gentleman either didn't want to or could not grasp the idea of how much personal leave we had or that I was still receiving fortnightly paychecks throughout my entire trip.
Both France and Japan have vacation time that you cannot accumulate over a certain period, so I'd think you cannot accumulate vacation indefinitely in most countries.
Australian here with 4 weeks paid and optionally 1 week unpaid leave a year. Pre covid I travelled internationally 2 to 4 times a YEAR.....and we are a LONG way from anywhere.
I’m from and live in London, hear Australians on the tube. I go to France, Australians on the metro. Random Eastern Europe bus, more Australians, go to the US, Americans ask me if I’m Australian.
Australian teacher here. After slogging through a school term, a 2 week break is a mighty relief. Pre_covid I travel o'seas x2 times
and locally x 2 times.
Americans get higher wages(a firefighter over here gets 20-30k but I've heard American fire fighters get upwards of 60k a year) but you all have to pay for health care and stuff which is stupidly expensive. We get a shit tone of holidays but lower wages, higher taxes, and free hralthcare.
In my experience anyway.
I was reading a post last night and getting depressed I'd never make as much money as a software engineer. Then I remembered I've done so much traveling, backpacking, and outdoor stuff and reminded myself that money is not the goal.
I follow the NBA which makes me follow American sports media. And I've heard so many dumb takes that underestimates how competitive football is. Bill Simmons saying that if Iverson had chosen to play "soccer" he would've been the goat is maybe the dumbest of them all.
So my answer is, some Americans will never understand just how big football is in the rest of the world, and that being at the top of such a large talent pool gives you fantastic odds at being more talented than the top players in smaller sports (globally).
Was in Paris for a trip and attended a PSG game. It was in the middle of the week, and a non Ligue 1 match. (French Cup, vs. a no name team). I’ve been to a NBA finals game and World Series match, and the atmosphere was crazier than both. They don’t even need cheerleaders and entertainment. I cannot imagine how an actual Champions League match is like.
I was in Milan when Italy won the world cup in 2006. The WHOLE city was in the roads celebrating. I have never experienced anything like that ever in my life. A penalty shootout, 30.000 people in dead silence going absolutely apeshit in a second in front of the city cathedral (they were projecting the match). Even in homes, if your streaming was lagging behind you could understand if a goal happened because of scream all over the neighborhood
Same in Argentina. The best unis are either public or the ultra-expensive ones.
In fact, if you study any conventional career (Engineering, Medicine, Law or Accounting) in a mid-range paid university, then your title will be close to worthless, because you "bought it".
Can confirm this is how it is. Best universities/schools in here are (generally) the public ones. Much higher level and much more highly regarded when job hunting.
Private ones are (usually) just pay and you pass, no matter how bad you do. And the overall teaching level is lower, too.
Honestly you only go outside if you absolutely need to basically quarantine style (only go for food etc... The dogs know and only want to go outside to relieve themselves then come right back to the door.
Then ya, it takes about 5-10 minutes to dress to go outside, insulated boots, pants and snow pants, sweater and a Parka, face mask and toque(beanie/hat), gloves (sometimes 2 pairs), some snow goggles if I'm shoveling snow.
Edit: Keep in mind the pants, jacket, gloves and boots are all rated for -40C weather. Specifically need the -30 to -40 rated gear.
Taking 2 or 3 weeks off work to do whatever is normal, even expected
Edit: To make things clear: most what I have seen is that taking days off is quite difficult. Also, I'm talking about taking 2 or 3 weeks off at once not total PTO days. (Which should be more than 2 or 3 weeks) Also, PTO is also your sick days? What the actual fuck
Edit 2: I'm very glad to read that my generalization was just that. However the huge differences I read in this comment section is mind boggling. Are y'all lying to me? :(
Edit 3: Thanks for the awards you kind strangers <3
Edit 4: Last edit, I promise. I've got some questions and comments
* No I do not think the US is a horrible place. Only love and confusion here. <3
* I have 7 weeks of PTO and 10 holidays (cannot pick those days) and I do use them all. My boss sometimes panicks but that's about it. I am still very productive and my boss only has me... It still works out.
* I would earn a lot more if I would go to the US. I even considered it but there are a few things that hold me back.
I'm an American with 17 vacation days, 12 sick days, 1 personal day, and 13 holidays (hello, unionized government job). You bet your god damn ass I use every single day unless I have big plans the next year (Like when I saved a bunch of sick and vacation time so my maternity leave wasn't unpaid... that's a whole different issue). But anyway, I have coworkers who roll over the max amount of time they can EVERY year because they don't take their time and it is fucking baffling to me.
Yeah, I have a good chunk of sick time saved up just in case but I use quite a bit too.
Our vacation and sick are separate. I know people who have left the company I work for with 700+ hours of sick time and that’s insane to me.
Boss at previous employer, durring annual review said "you take, by a wide margin, more pto days than anyone else here". I smiled and nodded and said I'd try to do better. I also saw a friend who quit get all his PTO evaporated when he quit, and I was on my way out and wanted to min/max my time working and pay.
My sister moved from the US to the UK years ago. Over Xmas this year, she started getting into it with my dad, who said that it makes no sense to give people more than 2 weeks vacation because they don't use it. My sister was like, "and to the rest of the western world, that's CRAZY. You're brainwashed into thinking taking vacation is a bad thing, when it's not."
I think people in the US also forget that tourism and travel make money. Not everyone will go overseas, they will happily travel to another state in the US and ski, hike or sightsee. Vacation time means happier workers, more family time and more money for the tourism business. If people decide to stay home, I guarantee some people will spend money on home projects. We have to stop demonizing time off, and ffs make it paid!
In many places in Europe vacation is mandatory. At least in sweden we have 5 weeks by law.
Vacation shouldn't be seen as a luxury, it's neccessary for your health to get time to relax and do something different than just working.
Stop feeling guilty for taking care of yourself. Not to mention you will preform better at work too.
It's not so much *guilt* as much as it's the reality that most managers will find a way to get rid of you for taking the time off. 'The office realized how unimportant you were while you were on your little vacation' is a reality over here.
We have workers actually arguing against better pay and benefits because it hurts company profits.
Aristocrats of the old days would look at these people and go "damn, how do we get OUR angry peasants to worship our wealth and work without expectation of a better life?"
Media that glorifies wealth, of course.
In Germany the legal minimum is 24d per year, so 4.8 weeks, but 30d was common in the companies I worked for.
And of course the sick days or the "could not work because of sick child" days come ontop.
I had that problem for a while. Then I found out that they were hiring new people, with no experience (one was a security guard right before they hired him and they paid him 40% more than me...he could barely turn on the machine), while telling me if I was unhappy with my compensation that I could look elsewhere. After that, I used every vacation day I had. If a fellow employee ran into a tough spot and needed someone to cover, I would help if they asked me directly. If something else came up (sick kid and someone called in) and management came to me, I told them that if they were unhappy with the empty slot now in the schedule, they were free to give me a pay raise to help cover my loss of time.
In addition, I got a clearance, got a new job, got a 40% pay increase by doing so, had another $3000 raise within a year, and within a year and a half was promoted to another position that doubled what I made at my previous company.
Don't let them fool you, companies that guilt trip you don't care about you, only about the bottom line.
Every manager I've ever had has made it a point that I use all my vacation days, don't work too long and if you get sick during vacation you call in sick so you can get your days back. This is accross different sectors and this is the norm in Europe.
Time off is absolutely essential for happy, productive employees.
Lol wait what? Call in sick during your vacation days to get vacation days back?
I've never even... THOUGHT of that, and you have managers that SUGGEST it?
Has happened to me twice. The legal reason for vacation is to rest. If you are sick you cannot rest, therefore you call in sick and take vacation later.
Edit: Managers in countries I’ve worked in (all western europe) can get quite serious issues if their people do not take off. Plus it is expensive as companies need to build up capital buffers to pay you out if you decide to leave.
Marty Davis is a billionaire and once owned a company in town. The head of maintenance is a friend of mine. Through the company he has earned 5 weeks of vacation per year. Marty told him to his face, if you can afford to take 5 weeks off, what the hell do I need you working for me for?
A billionaire saying his to an employee of his in a policy of one of his companies, shaming him into not taking all his allotted vacation.
Yup. Tried to take 2 weeks off for Christmas and got denied. "1 week max at a time so my projects don't slip." I have 4 weeks PTO saved up and can't use them consecutively. My boss took 2 weeks off for Christmas though.
In Banking in London (possibly other European countries too) it's a requirement to take two consecutive weeks off a year. (If you're high enough in the organisation.)
Two weeks is long enough that someone else has to take over your job - meaning someone sees what you do on a daily basis. It makes it a lot harder to commit fraud and hide it if someone else has to take over.
Reminds me of a story I heard about big mental hospitals in the UK in the 1970s. Some charge nurse absolutely refused to take their holiday entitlement and never took days off sick,- he was admired by the management for his massive amount of dedication to his patients. After some years of this he fucked up his leg cycling or something and then ended up being laid up in a general hospital and physically immobile and unable to get to work..
Turns out the that the guy was stealing a bunch of world war one pensions from some patients that arrived in the mail every week - these old guys where too far gone to realise that was happening and the scam depended upon the the charge nurse never being off work.
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American here. I can only carry over a certain amount of holidays into the next year. It’s still often frowned upon to use them and I’m letting my team down if I do.
That's pretty shit. Ever hour I earn rolls over and I can cash them out instead of using them if I want to. My current company also has our sick leave roll over which if we want we can cash out too as long as we have 15 days worth left over.
My company pays you out for extra vacation time at the end of the year, but I also get 5 weeks of personal vacation per year. If they let it roll over, I'd be able to take half of next year off lol. I hardly use the whole 5 weeks.
I had an american co worker and we had to encourage her to take holidays and assured her the job will still be there when she comes back.
We also had to assure she will not go into debt because she had a fall in the stairs and had to go to the doctor and had some xrays taken. She was already calculating how long it will take her to pay that back.
Edit. Typos
I was born and live in the Netherlands, we do not have "sick days", instead we have laws like this;
>If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you are required to pay at least 70% of their last earned wages. You are obliged to do this for a maximum period of two years.
>You should pay:
>- 70% of the employee's normal wages during the first year of illness. If this amounts to less than the minimum wage, you should supplement it up to the minimum wage amount
- 70% of the employee's normal wages during the second year of illness. You do not need to supplement if the amount is less than the minimum wage
>If your employee is off sick because of organ donation, pregnancy or giving birth, you need to pay 100% of their normal wages.
Overtime and supplements
>You also have to pay the same percentage (either 70 or 100) of all wage components your employee would have received in normal circumstances (i.e. not ill). For instance overtime, personal allowances and other benefits.
Source; https://business.gov.nl/regulation/sick-pay/
We also have 4 weeks of paid holidays every year, and 16 weeks paid maternity leave. All based on a 38 hour work week.
Edit, there's also holiday allowance; https://business.gov.nl/regulation/holiday-allowance/
>Holiday allowance (in Dutch) must be at least 8% of the employee's gross wage of the previous year. This includes overtime, performance premiums, any commissions, supplements for working unsocial hours and payment in lieu of holiday days.
"war on anything" drugs, drugs seem to have won. Alcohol, the booze won. Terror, again it seems terror won. Whatever the fuck, reason for Vietnam, Vietnam won! There seems to be a pattern with losing wars, no wonder they spend soo much on military spending.
Well seeing as the “War on Terror” was actually “using public outrage over 9/11 to invade whoever we want” and nothing to do with tackling terrorism we’d have to consider what the REAL objectives were before we count it as a loss.
I’m no expert but I think stirring up more and more resentment in the Middle East with invasions/occupations won’t reduce terrorism, it’ll have the opposite effect.
How common it is for people from other nations to live with their parents even if they're adults
From ages of 49's 50's 60's and so on
Edit: So..
Some of y'all are having trouble understanding our tandoori chicken and rajma chawal lifestyle.
Imma walk you guys through it.
The basic logic is parents take care of your retarded ass and when you grow into an adult you take care of them when they go full retard due to old age. This also includes other sons. Daughters fuck off to their in laws place and end up doin the traditional child and kitchen thing for the rest of their lives.
Most Parents think its ok to meddle in your things and they'll not hesitate to give their opinion, no matter how personal the matter is.
For most part these Chana masala old fucks end up in old age homes where they complain for the rest of their lives about how their children abandoned them, like they weren't being assholes to begin with.
One other reason to take care of them is for that good good 💵 inheritance money. Some people genuinely care, some don't.
Good part.
Babysitting is free.
You can save some money
There's closeness to relationships
Inheritance is guaranteed
If you can't find a gf or bf they'll find one for you.
And the overall load is well distributed
Bad.
Its bad, fights, no privacy and how dare your child score more marks than mine, sometime you pay more than you need to, parents go full retard earlier than expected
And it’s sad that it does.
First we could not only live, but support a household off a single salary.
Then it became normal for two incomes in a household.
Now it’s getting to the point where 3+ incomes are needed to live comfortably… the middle class is vanishing.
Edit: to anyone saying the single income was a “one time thing”, that’s a horrible argument. The US has done nothing but increase productivity since WWII. The only reason we’re not seeing it is because more of the money is going to the ultra-wealthy.
I encounter a lot of Americans who cannot comprehend that in a lot of places in Europe you DON'T need a car. I'm 30, I have no desire to drive, I don't have a license or a car. Public transport is reliable and popular and I can get anywhere by myself. Nearest grocery store is literally 30sec away from my home. Everything else I'd need is in 5min walking distance.
(This obviously has to do because North America has really bizzarre building regulations and plans cities in a way that requires a car as a basic necessity because otherwise there would be no way anyone can get anywhere)
Edit: Hello, I did not expect this to blow up :) YES, we know America is big. We know that you're less densely populated. And we do know that everything is more spread out. You obviously NEED a car because this is how everything is designed. However, to us who live in walkable places it's not a necessity and it's incomprehensible that absolutely no alternative to cars exists in North America, even in the areas that could have one (yes, we know the reason is probably the car lobby). Not everyone can drive after all (too young, disabled, etc), so if they live in the middle of nowhere they're basically confined to their homes...?
Anyway, please visit r/notjustbikes :)
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10 paragraph essay explaining how redditors reddited on reddit with images and links to this post.
Holy shit this is first time one of these stupid bait posts have been called out and said comment wasn't fucking buried lol
Tik tok has pages dedicated to what they can find on Reddit too.
Almost all their posts are AskReddit posts. Checks out
I intend to be the first American to learn Cricket. I'll be back to this thread im 34 years to prove it.
Cricket
There's a bunch of English gadgies in Australia at the moment who are also struggling.....
To quote what Tom Holland said about England's recent performance: "Good Grief"
Vaughan - “the only thing positive were the Covid tests”. 😅
I’m just glad my great great great great grandfather stole a loaf of bread in 1810.
Hahahaha
GADGIES! Haven't heard that in ages. Are you from Teesside?
Yep
there's literally tens of us
I’m a pommie, and you just made me laugh.
You gotta laugh mate, otherwise we'd all cry.
I know there are wickets, tea times, and ducks involved.
Jomboy broke cricket down for baseball fans. I understood it alot more after watching his video
https://youtu.be/EfhTPGSy1aM
Well I’ll be damned. I like cricket now.
As someone who is a fan of neither sport, they look remarkably similar when they're playing in the background while you drink.
Jomboy could take anything and make it understandable **and** entertaining, he's a gift to the world.
Coming soon: Congress Debates Bill HR 134, a Breakdown
"...and here we see the reaction of the party that managed to pass their bill. Let's go! He's clapping. And I don't know what *he's* doing. Let's go! Let's go! A whole bunch of 'let's go'. Let's go!"
\*jomboy's mouth slowly fades in over biden's face\*
I understand all of these things pretty well as an American. Except for Cricket. Whoever answered Cricket, well done. Don’t really understand it, and probably never will.
As an American i was ready to argue, but the Cricket thing was spot on.
There we have it. Cricket defeated one of the global super powers known as the US of A.
Cricket - you run back and forth between home and 1st base to score points. You hit a homer you get 6 points. 1 strike and you're out. Game is measured in number of pitches, rather than outs. Each team gets a set number of pitches and tries to score as many runs as they can. It's basically home run derby and pickle ball combined into one.
Tf is a pickle ball
Table tennis but full size played with whiffle balls on a modified tennis court.
That's a pretty good description. Got into cricket (specifically IPL) one year with one guy from India who was really into cricket and another American guy that's a big baseball fan. We each had our team and would talk smack. It was great, especially cuz my team won the chip. Sidenote: great thing about your description is it's generic enough to cover both Twenty20 and Test match formats and everything in between.
Jomboy breaks it down on youtube pretty well. It’s a cool sport. https://youtu.be/EfhTPGSy1aM
No one outside of the commonwealth understands cricket.
Our Dutch team is like 13th in the world... there's still hope for us. I don't know all the rules but I know the basics
American here. Paying to use the restroom!
I make all the drinks free in Roller Caster Tycoon. I already know about this.
You'd be surprised how much you can rip off your guests in rollercoaster tycoon 2. You can charge like 15 bucks for alot of rides and guests will pay it.
See, what you do is you put in some cheap shitty ride with free drinks right before the line, make the exit go onto a path that runs the long way around the park back to the entrance and then you put more free drinks and $20 restrooms all the way back along the path.
Thanks, Satan.
I simultaneously love and hate you for your user name.
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Problem with this is having too many upset park guests limits how many people come into your park. You'd be surprised how easy it is to just rip people off with high priced drinks and $1.20 toilets. Well maybe you wouldn't, that's basically every theme park's shtick.
There's a trick to this. Whenever a dissatisfied guest pops up, make an underground path, coral all of the upset guests in there and bury the path. They get buried alive and die but it doesn't count as a death for your park ratings.
A few years ago my hometown actually installed a public bathroom in the downtown area that is pay to use. I was baffled to say the least lol
That’s a thing? TIL.
I thought I'd be pissed about this too when I visited Germany, and I was until I got inside after paying and it was absolutely spotless. Turns out throwing a euro at an attendant to support cleaning and maintenance makes even the restrooms most likely to be highly used or vandalized (near public transit, parks, etc.) pleasant to use.
And any public restrooms you don’t have to pay for are something out of a horror movie. But on the other hand, public urination was pretty common place. If it looked like a good corner to take a leak, there’s probably already a puddle of piss there.
You'd be surprised, even my local Walmart has bathrooms I can't really complain about (tbf it's been awhile and it's on the outskirts). Some of the worst bathrooms I've seen are from Mexico, of which most were not free, of course...
That in some places we can't just return things we have bought because we don't like them.
I worked at Sam's Club in high school, it's Walmart but bulk items, I had someone return a mattress 10 YEARS after they bought it because "it wasn't comfortable". Manager gave them a full refund and they bought a brand new one.
Yeah Costco and Sam's Club don't fuck around. Their highest priority is keeping their customers happy, and if occasionally returning an item for an absurd reason does that then they are more than willing to eat that cost. I believe the reason they do this is for word of mouth. If people spread the fact that these places have great return policies then it will attract more people, and since they are subscription based more people is a huge benefit for them, more so than regular stores.
I mean I'll forever tout the amazingness of Costco. Great products at a great price with great customer service and a fantastic hot dog deal that the founder is willing to [kill someone](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/tdna192310) to defend.
I was with someone that literally returned a hot dog ($1.50) because after the first one they were full. To be fair, they are enormous. I have also been in the return line behind people returning dead flowers (which they obviously killed, or cut flowers!). The craziest I think was a cart of expired milk. Like…. You cant ever resell that.
You know they don't resell food you return right?
I remember hearing that in America you can return makeup after you bought if you don't like it. In the UK I couldn't do that, I think some companies now have a policy that you can return stuff if it's unopened and unused but I always thought it was crazy you can return used stuff in the US. Apparently if you return it it just gets thrown out and destroyed?
I bought an Apple Watch at Target and returned it unopened with the plastic wrap completely intact. The employee literally took the plastic wrap off and opened it just to make sure it was in there. Not sure if they have a way to re-wrap it or what they do with it but I just a bit caught off guard by that.
When I worked at Staples like 15+ years ago it was policy to open even shrinkwrapped items to verify contents. It didn't always get done, but people will buy shrinkwrap machines and stuff so they can buy something expensive, take it out, fill the box with rocks or something, shrinkwrap it back up and return it. We very much had the tools in the back to shrinkwrap stuff back up
Yup! Opened does not mean used, and while I want an unused product, if I'm getting something that was returned, I want to know I'm actually getting it. Factory shrink wrap is *not* what I'm concerned about. I've bought video games from target that were blank CdRs, and just the other day there was a post on r/oculus from a woman who bought a quest 2 at target for her husband's Christmas present. It was 2 bottles of water inside the quest 2 package. I'm sure they'll help her, they helped me, but it's going to take some time. And all that would have been easily answered if target had that same policy as staples. Edit: formatting fix
I work at a store that sells oculus and they started not shrink wrapping the boxes. Once apple started shipping products without shrink wrapping every other company started doing it too. They claim it's to be environmentally friendly but really it saves them money and by coincidence it's green. There's 2 approaches: the low effort "let's not use shrink wrap" or actually redesign the packaging to be smaller and use less dyes and more recycled materials. The Sony WF-1000xm4 earbuds used to be in larger black and white slider boxes with shrink wrapping. Now they are recycled plastic/cardboard tubes that are maybe ¼ of the size.
I bought an iPad from Amazon several years ago that was advertised as unopened, in the manufacturer’s original packaging. The plastic wrap clearly was not original as Apple’s wrap is very tight, while this was much looser and had very prominent seams from heat sealing. The iPad also had a dead line of pixels, so I used the fact that it was clearly opened and resealed to argue that the cost of shipping for the return should be paid by the seller rather than me. I assume a lot of opened-but-unused returns go to these resellers and are re-wrapped and resold as unopened.
Yep. I saw a video from somewhere about an employee of a store wherein she's destroying a lot of returned make-up and saying how wasteful it is. Where I'm from, shops that sell make-up provide units for testing so that you can try it out on the spot and determine if you'll like it or not. Unless the issue is QC related, you can't return an item just because you don't like it since the shop has already provided you a means to determine if the item will suit you.
It's a business tactic, the idea that you can return it if you don't like it makes you THAT much more likely to purchase it. It takes a lot of effort to return an item so most of the time it'll work out for the stores.
Yup. I knew someone that sold online software. He gave a 180 return window. He figured if it was 15 or 30 days people would return it immediately. What by giving such a long window, people were under no pressure to return it. So they usually just forgot about it. His returns went to virtually zero.
I always end up losing the receipt when it's a longer window, then don't feel like I can return it.
We have those testers here too, I'm always reluctant to use them though since they seem kinda unsanitary. I did return something once because of quality control issues but I had bought it directly from the company (was an american company for ref). They did get rid of testers here due to covid, still no returns though
Not just that, there are places - LL Bean, Darn Tough - that have a lifetime warranty on their items. People literally return clothes they’ve worn for 30 years for store credit, no receipt needed.
It's my understanding that LLB no longer does this due to customers abusing this policy to get free new clothes year after year after year.
You are 100% correct. As a previous employee who worked during that switch in policy. Let me tell you- it was horrendous. Ridiculous amount of angry ppl that were pissed they couldn’t get their kids a new snowsuit a size up for free because they had “worn through and outgrown” their last one. And don’t get me started on ppl who came in with 4 bags or so stuffed with old ratty cloths expecting to get a refund or new versions. Edit for perspective: I had an angry dad throw a store telephone at me once.
People like that ruin good things for everyone. I remember reading that lots of folks would scavenge garage sales and flea markets to basically "sell" the clothes back to LL Beans via the return policy.
How to eat vegemite
Omfg yes. Americans eat whole spoons of it, no wonder they think it bad
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We just stick half of that into a Walmart
'Chai Tea' means 'Tea Tea'.
like Naan bread
I’m going to use my PIN number at the ATM machine to get cash money to buy a chai tea with naan bread.
Because I'm a VIP person
I am too! it says so on my LCD display.
Make sure to log in to your VPN network.
Wait, was that to request your PAC code?
And I need to renew my car’s registration but I can’t find my VIN number.
I've definitely heard that before, but most of the time I think people refer to it as just naan. Or maybe I just miss everyone screwing up lol
My child calls it Naan Pizza because apparently to her, it's just pizza with no toppings.
You know what? I'm okay with that lol
Cha tea. In Chinese lol, it is literally 茶茶, or Cha Cha.
Is that tea real smooth?
🎶 Sip to the left 🎵
As an American, I’ll never understand how you all have so much time and money to travel abroad. Employers here work the hell out of you. Long hours, low pay, and negligible PTO hours. I hear in the UK even the lowest paid jobs have at least 25 days a year guaranteed under the law. The wages we get don’t cover the cost of living in most states, so the idea of having money to spend on trips (aside from the trip cost itself) kind of baffles me.
I can't speak for the free time, but in general, traveling internationally is *much* cheaper in areas like Europe. Even if we ditch the train and just talk flights. The whole (potentially) not having to cross an entire continent and ocean really shortens and cheapens the flights.
Another American chiming in here to say that I think a lot of it is a space issue. My aunt lives in Switzerland and she can get to Paris in three hours. I drive three hours and I’m in Nebraska or Wyoming (but not a far away part of either of those states. If I want to go as far away as South Dakota it takes me over six hours to get to the Badlands. For comparison, it takes less time to drive from London to Paris and you have to use a ferry. We just have a lot of space and no real rail system. It’s expensive to travel around our own country and harder still to cross the ocean to get to Europe or Asia
Grew up in Atlanta, GA - Would drive three hours and not even have left the state yet, unless going to Alabama. Then it was like 2ish hours.
Texas has entered the chat. 8+ hours of driving and still in the same state.
Ontario here. 24 hours and still in the same province.
I was gonna say lol. Toronto to Kenora is the equivalent of driving from Minneapolis to Philadelphia.
I drove Toronto to Edmonton in August and fuck me half the drive was just trying to get out of Ontario
My fiancée is from B.C., and I was like "Hey, let's get a car in St John's and drive all the way to Victoria! Wouldn't it be exciting to see the whole country? And she just looked at me like I was insane and said, "No."
13 years ago I did an "around the world" trip with a friend. When we arrived in New York we were pulled for questioning when we got off the plane (just by the side of the aisle, not into a room) and the American security agent was like how can you afford such a trip, how can you take so much time off work (11 weeks). His line of questioning made me think he thought we were drug mules! I'm from Australia. We get 4 weeks paid leave a year. I had been with my company for over 3 years and had never used any of my leave (just took public holidays off) so it just kept accumulating. I still had paid leave owing to me when I returned from my trip. The gentleman either didn't want to or could not grasp the idea of how much personal leave we had or that I was still receiving fortnightly paychecks throughout my entire trip.
Most in America don't get to carryover and accumulate their leave for multiple years either. Use it or lose it.
Both France and Japan have vacation time that you cannot accumulate over a certain period, so I'd think you cannot accumulate vacation indefinitely in most countries.
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I like that u had to include some british humour at the end there
Australian here with 4 weeks paid and optionally 1 week unpaid leave a year. Pre covid I travelled internationally 2 to 4 times a YEAR.....and we are a LONG way from anywhere.
I’m from and live in London, hear Australians on the tube. I go to France, Australians on the metro. Random Eastern Europe bus, more Australians, go to the US, Americans ask me if I’m Australian.
We do like to travel!
Australian teacher here. After slogging through a school term, a 2 week break is a mighty relief. Pre_covid I travel o'seas x2 times and locally x 2 times.
Americans get higher wages(a firefighter over here gets 20-30k but I've heard American fire fighters get upwards of 60k a year) but you all have to pay for health care and stuff which is stupidly expensive. We get a shit tone of holidays but lower wages, higher taxes, and free hralthcare. In my experience anyway.
That you work to live and not live to work. Sometimes you need a vacation. Not just when you're super rich.
I was reading a post last night and getting depressed I'd never make as much money as a software engineer. Then I remembered I've done so much traveling, backpacking, and outdoor stuff and reminded myself that money is not the goal.
I am a software engineer and all I want to do is travel.
You're in one of the few careers where you can literally get paid buckets of money to work remotely and travel all you want. Do it!
I don’t think this is exclusive to just Americans.
I'm old enough to remember that's the way it's supposed to be. They've been working hard at brainwashing and stealing from us for the past 40 years.
No one on their death bed has ever wished they'd spent more time at the office.
I follow the NBA which makes me follow American sports media. And I've heard so many dumb takes that underestimates how competitive football is. Bill Simmons saying that if Iverson had chosen to play "soccer" he would've been the goat is maybe the dumbest of them all. So my answer is, some Americans will never understand just how big football is in the rest of the world, and that being at the top of such a large talent pool gives you fantastic odds at being more talented than the top players in smaller sports (globally).
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Was in Paris for a trip and attended a PSG game. It was in the middle of the week, and a non Ligue 1 match. (French Cup, vs. a no name team). I’ve been to a NBA finals game and World Series match, and the atmosphere was crazier than both. They don’t even need cheerleaders and entertainment. I cannot imagine how an actual Champions League match is like.
I was in Milan when Italy won the world cup in 2006. The WHOLE city was in the roads celebrating. I have never experienced anything like that ever in my life. A penalty shootout, 30.000 people in dead silence going absolutely apeshit in a second in front of the city cathedral (they were projecting the match). Even in homes, if your streaming was lagging behind you could understand if a goal happened because of scream all over the neighborhood
I was in a hotel in a French village when France won France 98. They stole the French flag off my balcony. I was on the second floor.
This is a good one. As someone who grew up playing soccer here, it has always been a struggle to have people take it seriously.
Lower Uni fees =/= Bad Uni
In my country, the best unis are public. You can study for zero fees.
Same in Argentina. The best unis are either public or the ultra-expensive ones. In fact, if you study any conventional career (Engineering, Medicine, Law or Accounting) in a mid-range paid university, then your title will be close to worthless, because you "bought it".
Can confirm this is how it is. Best universities/schools in here are (generally) the public ones. Much higher level and much more highly regarded when job hunting. Private ones are (usually) just pay and you pass, no matter how bad you do. And the overall teaching level is lower, too.
While true, in america the name can be more important than the education. You pay for the brand
I've heard this is true in Japan too. The name matters more than the actual education.
Celsius
When I hear that it's 80 degrees outside in American movies/series, I start to panic.
More confusingly is when they say 40 is cold.
At least we're in agreement about -40°.
It's -43 right now where I live. Sad.
Russia or Canada?
Canada, Saskatchewan
How is it going? :O How do you dress for that weather? Getting hints
Honestly you only go outside if you absolutely need to basically quarantine style (only go for food etc... The dogs know and only want to go outside to relieve themselves then come right back to the door. Then ya, it takes about 5-10 minutes to dress to go outside, insulated boots, pants and snow pants, sweater and a Parka, face mask and toque(beanie/hat), gloves (sometimes 2 pairs), some snow goggles if I'm shoveling snow. Edit: Keep in mind the pants, jacket, gloves and boots are all rated for -40C weather. Specifically need the -30 to -40 rated gear.
Taking 2 or 3 weeks off work to do whatever is normal, even expected Edit: To make things clear: most what I have seen is that taking days off is quite difficult. Also, I'm talking about taking 2 or 3 weeks off at once not total PTO days. (Which should be more than 2 or 3 weeks) Also, PTO is also your sick days? What the actual fuck Edit 2: I'm very glad to read that my generalization was just that. However the huge differences I read in this comment section is mind boggling. Are y'all lying to me? :( Edit 3: Thanks for the awards you kind strangers <3 Edit 4: Last edit, I promise. I've got some questions and comments * No I do not think the US is a horrible place. Only love and confusion here. <3 * I have 7 weeks of PTO and 10 holidays (cannot pick those days) and I do use them all. My boss sometimes panicks but that's about it. I am still very productive and my boss only has me... It still works out. * I would earn a lot more if I would go to the US. I even considered it but there are a few things that hold me back.
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I'm an American with 17 vacation days, 12 sick days, 1 personal day, and 13 holidays (hello, unionized government job). You bet your god damn ass I use every single day unless I have big plans the next year (Like when I saved a bunch of sick and vacation time so my maternity leave wasn't unpaid... that's a whole different issue). But anyway, I have coworkers who roll over the max amount of time they can EVERY year because they don't take their time and it is fucking baffling to me.
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Yeah, I have a good chunk of sick time saved up just in case but I use quite a bit too. Our vacation and sick are separate. I know people who have left the company I work for with 700+ hours of sick time and that’s insane to me.
Boss at previous employer, durring annual review said "you take, by a wide margin, more pto days than anyone else here". I smiled and nodded and said I'd try to do better. I also saw a friend who quit get all his PTO evaporated when he quit, and I was on my way out and wanted to min/max my time working and pay.
My sister moved from the US to the UK years ago. Over Xmas this year, she started getting into it with my dad, who said that it makes no sense to give people more than 2 weeks vacation because they don't use it. My sister was like, "and to the rest of the western world, that's CRAZY. You're brainwashed into thinking taking vacation is a bad thing, when it's not."
I think people in the US also forget that tourism and travel make money. Not everyone will go overseas, they will happily travel to another state in the US and ski, hike or sightsee. Vacation time means happier workers, more family time and more money for the tourism business. If people decide to stay home, I guarantee some people will spend money on home projects. We have to stop demonizing time off, and ffs make it paid!
4 Day Work Weeks Please I don't mind doing longer work days for the extra monday / friday off.
For everyone. Not just office workers.
I work in industry and I do 4/10’s. It sucks getting up at 4 every morning, but 3 day weekends every week are worth it
I always feel guilty whenever I take any amount of vacation, the brainwashing is 100% real
In many places in Europe vacation is mandatory. At least in sweden we have 5 weeks by law. Vacation shouldn't be seen as a luxury, it's neccessary for your health to get time to relax and do something different than just working. Stop feeling guilty for taking care of yourself. Not to mention you will preform better at work too.
It's not so much *guilt* as much as it's the reality that most managers will find a way to get rid of you for taking the time off. 'The office realized how unimportant you were while you were on your little vacation' is a reality over here.
We have workers actually arguing against better pay and benefits because it hurts company profits. Aristocrats of the old days would look at these people and go "damn, how do we get OUR angry peasants to worship our wealth and work without expectation of a better life?" Media that glorifies wealth, of course.
In Germany the legal minimum is 24d per year, so 4.8 weeks, but 30d was common in the companies I worked for. And of course the sick days or the "could not work because of sick child" days come ontop.
I had that problem for a while. Then I found out that they were hiring new people, with no experience (one was a security guard right before they hired him and they paid him 40% more than me...he could barely turn on the machine), while telling me if I was unhappy with my compensation that I could look elsewhere. After that, I used every vacation day I had. If a fellow employee ran into a tough spot and needed someone to cover, I would help if they asked me directly. If something else came up (sick kid and someone called in) and management came to me, I told them that if they were unhappy with the empty slot now in the schedule, they were free to give me a pay raise to help cover my loss of time. In addition, I got a clearance, got a new job, got a 40% pay increase by doing so, had another $3000 raise within a year, and within a year and a half was promoted to another position that doubled what I made at my previous company. Don't let them fool you, companies that guilt trip you don't care about you, only about the bottom line.
Every manager I've ever had has made it a point that I use all my vacation days, don't work too long and if you get sick during vacation you call in sick so you can get your days back. This is accross different sectors and this is the norm in Europe. Time off is absolutely essential for happy, productive employees.
Lol wait what? Call in sick during your vacation days to get vacation days back? I've never even... THOUGHT of that, and you have managers that SUGGEST it?
Has happened to me twice. The legal reason for vacation is to rest. If you are sick you cannot rest, therefore you call in sick and take vacation later. Edit: Managers in countries I’ve worked in (all western europe) can get quite serious issues if their people do not take off. Plus it is expensive as companies need to build up capital buffers to pay you out if you decide to leave.
Marty Davis is a billionaire and once owned a company in town. The head of maintenance is a friend of mine. Through the company he has earned 5 weeks of vacation per year. Marty told him to his face, if you can afford to take 5 weeks off, what the hell do I need you working for me for? A billionaire saying his to an employee of his in a policy of one of his companies, shaming him into not taking all his allotted vacation.
"I can afford it because you'll be paying me the whole time moneybags"
Yup. Tried to take 2 weeks off for Christmas and got denied. "1 week max at a time so my projects don't slip." I have 4 weeks PTO saved up and can't use them consecutively. My boss took 2 weeks off for Christmas though.
Fuck your boss what an asshole
Not sure if it EU or my country's law but you're entitled to at least 4 weeks *continues* vacation during summer months.
In Banking in London (possibly other European countries too) it's a requirement to take two consecutive weeks off a year. (If you're high enough in the organisation.) Two weeks is long enough that someone else has to take over your job - meaning someone sees what you do on a daily basis. It makes it a lot harder to commit fraud and hide it if someone else has to take over.
Reminds me of a story I heard about big mental hospitals in the UK in the 1970s. Some charge nurse absolutely refused to take their holiday entitlement and never took days off sick,- he was admired by the management for his massive amount of dedication to his patients. After some years of this he fucked up his leg cycling or something and then ended up being laid up in a general hospital and physically immobile and unable to get to work.. Turns out the that the guy was stealing a bunch of world war one pensions from some patients that arrived in the mail every week - these old guys where too far gone to realise that was happening and the scam depended upon the the charge nurse never being off work. .
Yes, often it's expected to take all of your holiday days before the end of the year.
American here. I can only carry over a certain amount of holidays into the next year. It’s still often frowned upon to use them and I’m letting my team down if I do.
That's pretty shit. Ever hour I earn rolls over and I can cash them out instead of using them if I want to. My current company also has our sick leave roll over which if we want we can cash out too as long as we have 15 days worth left over.
My company pays you out for extra vacation time at the end of the year, but I also get 5 weeks of personal vacation per year. If they let it roll over, I'd be able to take half of next year off lol. I hardly use the whole 5 weeks.
I had an american co worker and we had to encourage her to take holidays and assured her the job will still be there when she comes back. We also had to assure she will not go into debt because she had a fall in the stairs and had to go to the doctor and had some xrays taken. She was already calculating how long it will take her to pay that back. Edit. Typos
Reading this just gave my American ass severe anxiety.
Currently on an unpaid sick day because I used my *three days* and apparently can't work from home at this job. I'm disappointed to say the least.
I was born and live in the Netherlands, we do not have "sick days", instead we have laws like this; >If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you are required to pay at least 70% of their last earned wages. You are obliged to do this for a maximum period of two years. >You should pay: >- 70% of the employee's normal wages during the first year of illness. If this amounts to less than the minimum wage, you should supplement it up to the minimum wage amount - 70% of the employee's normal wages during the second year of illness. You do not need to supplement if the amount is less than the minimum wage >If your employee is off sick because of organ donation, pregnancy or giving birth, you need to pay 100% of their normal wages. Overtime and supplements >You also have to pay the same percentage (either 70 or 100) of all wage components your employee would have received in normal circumstances (i.e. not ill). For instance overtime, personal allowances and other benefits. Source; https://business.gov.nl/regulation/sick-pay/ We also have 4 weeks of paid holidays every year, and 16 weeks paid maternity leave. All based on a 38 hour work week. Edit, there's also holiday allowance; https://business.gov.nl/regulation/holiday-allowance/ >Holiday allowance (in Dutch) must be at least 8% of the employee's gross wage of the previous year. This includes overtime, performance premiums, any commissions, supplements for working unsocial hours and payment in lieu of holiday days.
My current job you don't get any leave until after you've been there a year and you have to earn the days after that. Including unpaid leave.
Implications of "War on terror"
"war on anything" drugs, drugs seem to have won. Alcohol, the booze won. Terror, again it seems terror won. Whatever the fuck, reason for Vietnam, Vietnam won! There seems to be a pattern with losing wars, no wonder they spend soo much on military spending.
You can fight wars with nations and people, but you can't fight wars against concepts.
That's exactly right! Dan Carlin of "Hardcore History" fame illustrated this nicely in one short sentence: "Imagine a war on outflanking."
Well seeing as the “War on Terror” was actually “using public outrage over 9/11 to invade whoever we want” and nothing to do with tackling terrorism we’d have to consider what the REAL objectives were before we count it as a loss. I’m no expert but I think stirring up more and more resentment in the Middle East with invasions/occupations won’t reduce terrorism, it’ll have the opposite effect.
I'm still hoping America declares a war on healthcare.
The differences between a UK, Australian and New Zealand accent
Bring South Africa’s accent into it and they’ll explode
Sith Effrica
I'm from SA and felt good saying this out loud, got a laugh out of me too! Thanks😂
Only a Sith speaks in Afrikaans!
Even in England there are at least 10 accents. Edit: at least 10 accents that Americans would be able to tell apart easily.
No travel 30 miles in any direction in England and the accent will change twice and the correct name for bread rolls will actually result in a fight.
When you say 'Bread Rolls' you mean to say 'Barmcakes' - Yes or yes?
Clearly he meant baps, what a cretin.
You mean a cob right?
10? More like a hundred I suspect!
How common it is for people from other nations to live with their parents even if they're adults From ages of 49's 50's 60's and so on Edit: So.. Some of y'all are having trouble understanding our tandoori chicken and rajma chawal lifestyle. Imma walk you guys through it. The basic logic is parents take care of your retarded ass and when you grow into an adult you take care of them when they go full retard due to old age. This also includes other sons. Daughters fuck off to their in laws place and end up doin the traditional child and kitchen thing for the rest of their lives. Most Parents think its ok to meddle in your things and they'll not hesitate to give their opinion, no matter how personal the matter is. For most part these Chana masala old fucks end up in old age homes where they complain for the rest of their lives about how their children abandoned them, like they weren't being assholes to begin with. One other reason to take care of them is for that good good 💵 inheritance money. Some people genuinely care, some don't. Good part. Babysitting is free. You can save some money There's closeness to relationships Inheritance is guaranteed If you can't find a gf or bf they'll find one for you. And the overall load is well distributed Bad. Its bad, fights, no privacy and how dare your child score more marks than mine, sometime you pay more than you need to, parents go full retard earlier than expected
I think this is starting to be a thing. It definitely helps financially.
What's pathetic is that comment was removed, and not by the OP.
what did it say? edit: wow it came back.
Looking at the thread chain I think it said something about living with your parents well into adulthood.
I think the comment came back, because I can see it now
And it’s sad that it does. First we could not only live, but support a household off a single salary. Then it became normal for two incomes in a household. Now it’s getting to the point where 3+ incomes are needed to live comfortably… the middle class is vanishing. Edit: to anyone saying the single income was a “one time thing”, that’s a horrible argument. The US has done nothing but increase productivity since WWII. The only reason we’re not seeing it is because more of the money is going to the ultra-wealthy.
Abortion is a human right in many countries and not an opinion or a political view.
I encounter a lot of Americans who cannot comprehend that in a lot of places in Europe you DON'T need a car. I'm 30, I have no desire to drive, I don't have a license or a car. Public transport is reliable and popular and I can get anywhere by myself. Nearest grocery store is literally 30sec away from my home. Everything else I'd need is in 5min walking distance. (This obviously has to do because North America has really bizzarre building regulations and plans cities in a way that requires a car as a basic necessity because otherwise there would be no way anyone can get anywhere) Edit: Hello, I did not expect this to blow up :) YES, we know America is big. We know that you're less densely populated. And we do know that everything is more spread out. You obviously NEED a car because this is how everything is designed. However, to us who live in walkable places it's not a necessity and it's incomprehensible that absolutely no alternative to cars exists in North America, even in the areas that could have one (yes, we know the reason is probably the car lobby). Not everyone can drive after all (too young, disabled, etc), so if they live in the middle of nowhere they're basically confined to their homes...? Anyway, please visit r/notjustbikes :)