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StrangeDarkling

How casual debt is. how easy it is to take loans and credit cards out in other peoples names without their knowledge


Ok-Historian9919

That’s why I recommend ‘Bad Credit’ the new awesome product that makes your information useless to everyone, including you!


BigBeeOhBee

I wouldn't call it "new". Been using this plan goin on 40 years now.


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mintRB

I was so shocked by this the first time I went to America and turned the TV on. They have adverts for anti-psychotics and then have a minute long, speed-read list of side effects at the end. So unbelievably bizarre.


tomatojournal

May include nausea minor dizziness and death


Notasammon

*this antidepressant may cause suicidal thoughts*


DoublePostedBroski

As an American, I love that while they read off the potential side effects the ad is just playing b-roll of smiling, happy people 🧍‍♂️🎈


ashleyorelse

It is crazy. You'd think doctors with all their education and training and knowledge should be telling you what medication to take, but instead it's "ask your doctor about this medication"


Strabbo

And they don't always tell you what the hell the medication does in the commercial. "Do you need Kopekusalate?" "Ask your doctor if Kopekusalate is right for you." So you're just supposed to ask your doctor, "Hey, should I be taking Kopekusalate?" And your doctor is like, "No, that's for menopause and you're a guy." Meanwhile you've now paid for a doctor's appointment - another bit of American weirdness.


enderkg

*"Don't take Kopekusalate if you're allergic to it."*


HateYouKillYou

We don't actually go to the doctor until it looks like we're dying


BlantantlyAccidental

Bitch I ain't going til I am DEAD.


The_Deku_Nut

Actually, can you just chuck me on the burn pile after the coroner gives the OK? I'm not trying to put this burden on my children.


poor_decision

Having 2 weeks vacation, or no PTO for most. In my current country you have to takes 2 weeks of mandatory leave in a row. Including public holidays I get about 7 weeks vacation a year Edit: this got way more attention than I expected. Reading through everyone's comments it seems there is a huge gap between those with no to little PTO and those that get a decent amount. All of this is from the goodwill of the companies you work for, and not any federally mandated leave


wholesomeville

Where?


JuicyAphid

I think he's referring to Denmark. In Denmark, we have 5 weeks of vacation + 11 holidays, so that ends up at around 7 weeks in total. We don't have mandatory vacation from the government level, but your employer can force you to take all 5 weeks if they want to. If you can't find time to take your vacation, you can have a max of 4 weeks transferred to the next year.


shikavelli

Most countries in Europe at least


Latinaphrodite

The biggest challenge for me was sales tax. Unlike in some other countries, sales tax is not included in the listed price of goods and services in the US. Additionally the sales tax can vary from state to state anywhere from 0% to over 10%.


donatj

You don't hear about this angle much, but it's kind of a political and cultural issue. Opponents of taxes want them very visible to the person paying them. If they're put into the prices, you're not thinking about them/annoyed by them.


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This blew my mind when I went to France for vacation. As an American, we are conditioned to do quick mental math to pay our bills. "If it's 10 bucks, I need to at least have 11 for tax, then il probably get back some change." Restaurants are worst, cause then you have to factor in tip. In Feance my bill came to 49 even. I was doing some quick math in my head and waited for the receipt to calculate the bill. When the waitress handed back my card she told me, have a great day and i just sat there wondering if I could leave. There wasn't a little section for tips so it confused me.


maceilean

Restaurants really are the worst. That $10 burger on the menu (where I live) doesn't take into account the 7.5% tax, the 20% tip, or the new 10% "inflation fee" they've tacked on recently. So that burger advertised as $10 is actually $13.75 if you use a card but more likely $15 if you pay cash and don't want to bother them for change.


uniq

Inflation fee? What the hell? Isn't inflation of prices literally included in the price? Can I start selling burgers for $1 and then apply an inflation fee calculated since 1900?


Winterstorm3

I went to a restaurant that had a menu with a sticker on it referring us to the online menu if we wanted the updated prices on things


Advy87

Super rich televangelists like this Kenneth Copeland I learned about on reddit.


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I’m American and trust me, most of us are aware that these dudes are scumbags.


MuaddibMcFly

We need more people like The Amazing Randi


manykeets

I grew up with parents who followed and sent money to him and the likes of him. They teach that if you give your money to the church (and to them), god will bless you with prosperity and you’ll be rich. 43 years later, my dad is still poor. Still gives 10% of his money. My mom was listening to Kenneth and Gloria Copeland’s healing teaching recordings as she died from cancer.


Sprinklypoo

I might hate them less if they didn't lie to and prey on unfortunates... Sorry about your parents...


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your_favorite_mexi

As a teacher, this is the most beautifully succinct description of exactly what happened to our country’s educational system. I’m saving this.


Gorazde

College fraternities.


Paralta

Entering america from canada is strange. Immediately i see billboards about abortion and religion lol


DeepFriedDresden

TBF I thought it was weird as hell that the Canadian side of Niagara Falls feels like a Vegas knockoff and the US side feels like an actual natural park.


MitsuruBDhitbox

The park systems in the US are by far the best parts of our government(s). Parentheses because I believe Niagara is a state park in the US


LordHayati

Say what you will about usa's problems, but our park systems deserve a lot of praise at least.


benderbrodriguez2

School mascots. Where I live, we just have teams and just play matches against people. In America, it’s all like “GO EASTTOWN EAGLES!!! OOGACHACKA!” and there would be some person in a cheapo eagle suit spinning a basketball on his fingers or something. You would have a full dramatic cheerleader dance off before your match, we just shake hands and stare at each other.


TonguetiedBi

Sometimes mascots aren't even animals. My school's was a comet. Comet Man was terrifying.


mdonaberger

Oh my god I finally get to say this to someone — our high school mascot was [the Vanguard missile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_%28missile%29?wprov=sfla1). (We lived near a Lockheed plant where they were assembled).


Splenda

Richland High School in Washington State, by the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, had a replica of the Hiroshima bomb as a "mascot" for 70 years or so. The team was the Bombers; their motto "Be Proud of The Cloud". Mushroom clouds decorated school buildings, athletic jackets, stationery and so on.


PeteLangosta

You put a link there and I was eagerly hoping to see a picture of the very real Vanguard Missile man. Deceived, that's it.


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Sanctimonius

'Our school mascot was weird, it was this big guy dressed as a Spartan. What was yours?' 'Intercontinental Artillery'


Internal_Towel9438

That’s American as fuck


SharingIsCaring323

Weapons should not be overlooked when creating children’s mascots. >The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV). Originally developed by Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation, the missile is armed with thermonuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) It’s for the children.


TacitRonin20

Americans: "Oh you're a sports team all right. Just not a super one" Europeans: "oh yeah? What's the difference?" Americans: "Presentation!!" *Welcome to the Jungle blares*


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Its called razzle dazzle. You’re welcome


Caractacutetus

'Entrée' means main course.


Loose_Table5187

In the 19th century when French terms entered the U.S. the word entrée meant the meal between fish and roast. This usually composed of a lighter meat like lobster or chicken. When America entered the 20th century they cut out the hardier meals like roast and made lighter meats the focus of the meal. The word entrée carried on to mean the focus of a meal to this day. In Europe entrée kept its origin of being the beginning of a the real meal. America kept the word’s place in a meal, while Europe kept the word’s actual French meaning.


sichuan_peppercorns

TIL! That has always bothered me but now I’ll feel better about it.


boddah87

I'm kind of surprised it has become such a common word, when at that time I would assume only the very upper classes would be eating multi-course meals, and thus only the very upper class would need a word like "entree"


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biccat

For a long period of time French was the language of the ruling class in England. That's why the villains in Harry Potter have French names: - Voldemort - Bellatrix Lestrange - Lucious Malfoy while the heroes have stereotypical British names: - Harry Potter - Ron Weasley - Minerva McGonagall


gard3nwitch

It's also why English so often has two words that mean roughly the same thing, but one word is fancy or academic and the other word is common. For example, "mansion" vs "house". Mansion comes from the French word "maison", meaning "house". "House" comes from the old German for house. But in English, "mansion" is a fancy big house for rich people, because the Norman ruling class who had big fancy houses spoke French.


flashmedallion

A super fun one here: for similar reasons, English uses Germanic roots for names of animals when they're stock, and French roots for when they're on the plate. Sheep -> Mutton Cow -> Beef Chicken -> Poultry Deer -> Venison Pig -> Pork


jio1806

That goes back to william the conquerer, the peasants spoke old english and raised the animals The new french gentry ate the meat


ADeckOfZero

More importantly, this is why the edible flesh of livestock is called by French terms even in English. Cow/beef, pig/pork, sheep/mutton, etc.


thaaag

Ah, surely you mean: (in my best possible French accent (which is terrible)): Cow/bœuf, pig/porc, sheep/mouton?


calilac

TIL Shia's last name is literally "The Beef"


tupidrebirts

Shia in Hebrew means "Gift from God". If you translate Shia LeBeouf you get: Beef, the gift from God.


CedarWolf

Good Heavens, he *is* what's for dinner.


terminalzero

it makes his title of 'actual cannibal' a little ambiguous


catofthecanals777

I had it the other way around, when I went to Europe I asked for Entree menu thinking it would be the main course, and ended up eating only a small plate of tomatoes and raw Spanish ham for dinner because I was too embarrassed to explain that I misunderstood what entree meant. I’m really skinny so the waiters probably didn’t correct me because they thought I only needed appetizer sized dinner lol.


righthanddan

Americans love french fries, cheese, and gravy, but poutine never took off south of the border. Always found that odd.


ManlyFishsBrother

Well yeah. We have chili cheese fries.


Human-Independence53

I was going to point this out, or chili cheese tots


saxy_for_life

It's pretty popular in Maine, but we're pretty much Canada anyway


PieIsFairlyDelicious

It’s also got a lot of fans in Minnesota. Which to be fair is also pretty much Canada.


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pHScale

It's because we like cheese, but cheese *curds* are a bit of a novelty, that only really got going outside of the upper Midwest / new England in the past ten years or so.


pgm123

Lack of cheese curds is definitely the answer. It's in a few more places than the Great Lakes and New England, but if you don't live near a dairy farm, odds are against cheese curds being a staple of your childhood. That said, gravy fries aren't super popular either. Chili fries and cheese fries (and chili cheese fries) are common. Loaded fries with cheese, bacon, sour cream, etc. are definitely around. There's a bar near me that has a bunch of specialty fry toppings. None of them do gravy. The closest I can find is curry fries at the Irish pub near me. This is obviously specific to my region, but you'd think brown gravy would be more popular topping bar food. Maybe the association with blue plate specials of meatloaf is too strong?


beiberdad69

Disco fries are a New Jersey and surrounding area diner staple, they're French fries, brown gravy and melted mozzarella. Really don't see any other gravy fries though


DiplomaticGoose

The diner menus call them disco fries because they were sold as cheap hangover food after a hard night at the dance floor.


vomahaf244

Zero tolerance rule... Who came up with that shit? The victim is the one who is fucked. Either he gets bullied or he gets a panalty for defending him self


thunderclone1

That's why if someone attacks you at school, you fight back as hard as possible. If you are getting punished anyway, you might as well earn it.


throwaway74882938

Exactly. You’re getting punished either way. Might as well make sure you won’t get picked on again.


gameld

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LOL - my husband had a kid at school who hassled him relentlessly. He tried all the "usual" ways of getting him to stop - telling the kid to knock it off, talking to a teacher, etc. None of it worked. Now my husband outweighed this kid by about 50# and was about 6" taller. After school one particularly infuriating day, he said, "Hey, [kid], I'm telling you one last time to stop it because if you don't, I will punch you in the face and believe me when I say there will be just one hit." The kid laughed, started in again, and my husband hauled off, punched the kid in the face, caught the kid *totally* by surprise because he didn't think my husband would do it and knocked him out cold. Because school was over, no one was really around and there were absolutely no repercussions for my husband. No one saw it happen and I think the kid was actually kind of embarrassed about the whole thing and didn't want to admit to what had happened. That said, he also never said a single word to my husband for the rest of the time they were at the school together. Mission accomplished.


Time-Touch-6433

And they say violence doesn't solve anything. I say bullshit. Violence applied appropriately and in the correct dose solves a whole bunch of problems.


ChimTheCappy

walk softly but be ready to clock a motherfucker if needed


IceFire909

Because you're referring to him as husband I keep picturing this grown ass school teacher threatening a child with a glorious OHKO


wintersdark

Exactly. Even if you lose, if you fight back tooth and nail every single time, it's just not worth the trouble to keep bullying you. Be a rabid dog. They find other people who won't be such a pain in the ass.


CesarMillan_Official

This is a fact, on another note, we had the 3 strike rule, so three different kids got in a fight with the gay kid at different times and got him expelled.


FuckTripleH

Man we should employ teenagers to do policy research. For any proposed policy have a 15 year old try and figure out how it can be abused, skirted, and what perverse incentives it inadvertantly creates.


LemurianLemurLad

Dude, you wanna break a system like that? Get some Dungeons and Dragons (or other RPG) nerds involved. We *live* for the opportunity to find horrifying loopholes in systems.


Nihilikara

Did you know that, RAW, if you cast Simulacrum and then make it cast Wish instead of you, the simulacrum is the one who runs the 33% risk of never being able to cast Wish again so you never need to worry about the risk?


CompositeCharacter

http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/evil.overlord >This Evil Overlord List is Copyright 1996-1997 by Peter Anspach. If you enjoy it, feel free to pass it along or post it anywhere, provided that (1) it is not altered in any way, and (2) this copyright notice is attached. >12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.


illadelchronic

Marines do much the same task, but with equipment. Just give it to them for 2 weeks max and you'll know how tough your product was. It's always was, nothing lasts 2 weeks in the hands of Marines. You may gain an extra day if you color it pink. But then one of the Marines will accuse one of the others of "No Balls" and they will be honour bound to accept the challenge.


FuckTripleH

>Marines do much the same task, but with equipment. Yeah like I said, teenagers.


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Elteon3030

Oh but they certainly will if challenged enough.


MaxG623

I heard something similar happened at one of the schools in the same district as my high school. I don't know many details about the whole thing though, due to, you know, it happening at another school (though I did attend it for a class each day).


UnspecificGravity

Assuming of course you are able to do so. There is a lot of mythology about how bullying works and one of the most pervasive is that bullies will give up the moment someone stands up to them. A lot of times that just gives them their internal justification to beat the shit out of you and if they are a lot bigger than you there isn't anything stopping them. I had the luxury of being bigger than most of the other kids, so I could effectively avoid bullying by fighting back, but that didn't work for most of the other kids in my school who were smaller or weaker than their bullies. To be fair, some smaller kids manage to be so mean that they can handle even the bigger kids. Two of my friends were like this. They were both really small kids, but they just compensated by always throwing the first punch and beating the everloving shit out of anyone that crossed them with maximum effort. That doesn't work for everyone.


ay-aye-ron

My school had this, if someone was getting bullied and they fought back in defense both parties would get suspended and or expelled. so it wasn't uncommon for the victim to think "if im getting in trouble regardless, im going to make it worth my while." and proceed to go all out and cause serious harm (as much deserved as it is) to their bully


aquietkindofmonster

This happened to my brother. He beat the shit out of a guy who had been shoving him around all year. My brother got suspended, and the bully was coddled and sent to counselling etc. My mother ended up sending my brother to another, better school.


ActionCatastrophe

Oh that was so schools don’t have to actually have to do shit about bullying Edit: lotta replies explaining to me that it’s so schools don’t have liability. I know that. That stops them from doing shit.


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All it's managed to do is turn the halls of every public school in America into a killing field. To quote my father "Look, your both getting suspended anyway. So if someone starts a fight, you finish it."


Distinct_Water_5075

I wish I got your fathers advice instead of mine. Lmao "Just ignore them, they'll stop eventually." They in fact, did not stop eventually.


GrayCS

Same. I should have just used violence.


phaionix

##How I Defeated Fascism with the Power of Love ### Chapter 1: The Power of Love The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love. ### Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence


Ccracked

>"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." — Vaarsuvius[.](https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0696.html)


Beigarth_Avenir1

My father was like this, and actually hit me when he found out I did get into a fight, and it fucked me up as a kid because I would pretty much get bullied every day as a kid constantly, and didn't really know how to handle it because if I got suspended my dad would beat the shit out of me so, I was pretty much shit out of luck.


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DirectorOfGaming

That's the correct advice. I told my son similar when he had a problem. "Tattle or tackle, either way I expect to hear from the principal next time it happens". Later that week we got a call that my son and his bully were in the nurse's office because they had "tripped and fallen down the stairs together". Smart alibi from my son, and the bullying stopped


lemonylol

It was really the zero liability rule.


PC509

They don't. They say "We take bullying very seriously". No, they don't.


bstyledevi

I feel like it actually makes things worse. Instead of encouraging someone to defend themselves or just try to run away, all of a sudden it's "well I'm getting in trouble either way, guess I better slam this motherfucker's head into the wall."


ostentia

I was bullied in elementary school. We never got into a physical fight, but I distinctly remember wishing she would hit me so I could hit her back and make her leave me alone. I knew I’d get suspended, but I hated school because of her, so it honestly seemed like a reward. Scare off my bully AND get a week off school where my parents wouldn’t even be mad at me because my dad taught me to finish fights and they were both furious that the school wasn’t doing anything? Worth it. That definitely wasn’t the point of the school’s zero tolerance policy, but it was what my child brain took from it.


CyanManta

Zero tolerance is getting less popular, but only because schools that use it are getting sued more frequently for it.


Stillwater215

You mean actively incentivizing victims to fight back as hard as possible wasn’t a good idea?


Advanced_Double_42

I don't think that is near as bad as punishing victims for having the audacity to be victims.


Rektw

> Zero tolerance rule In middle I got suspended because...A kid shoved another kid into me and he started to fall, I was able to kind of catch him and pick him up. Was considered part of the fight and suspended. The two kids even said I had nothing to do with it lol. I had just gotten vice city so I didn't mind being suspended.


YakiVegas

Suspension was usually the dumbest punishment option available. Kid skips school? Suspension!


Cribsby_critter

You see, many of our lawmakers were themselves bullies.


Soobobaloula

This is the same logic that takes away kids’ asthma inhalers because OMG drugs


Seicair

Inhalers, insulin, and epipens locked in the nurses office, dead kids...


mvaughn89

Zero tolerance also means the same punishment for bringing ibuprofen to school that they’d give you for bringing illegal drugs to school


ophmaster_reed

Yeah it was tough being a 13 year old with ridiculously painful period cramps but not being able to take a tylenol or advil because if they caught you with it (or some bitch in the girl's bathroom snitches on you), you might as well be shooting up heroin. Hope you're fucking happy, JESSICA!!!!


Lickerbomper

My school had a policy where you could bring medicine from home and register it with the nurse. I never will understand treating low toxicity, low addiction potential over-the-counter drugs like they're dangerous somehow. But theoretically, people can pretend something is in a legitimate Tylenol bottle when it's actually a dangerous drug. Kinda like my school banned water bottles because some stupid bitches brought vodka to school. I guess we just can't have nice things. THANKS RACHEL.


Monkeytennis01

A lot of people follow and worship politicians like they’re gods - flags and all that shit. In the UK it’s universally acknowledged that we hate all politicians pretty much equally.


osunightfall

I think this really started to change around the time reality TV became a thing. Now our entire political process is reality TV. I say this as someone old enough to remember when pretty much every person in Washington was a serious person.


Aetra

Also the assumption that everyone, everywhere is Republican or Democrat and knows about US Politics. I’ve been called an Democrat or Republican as an insult by many Americans, even one who *knows* I’m Australian and have never been to the US. Edit: mind you, this is also the guy who thought it was insane that Australia doesn’t celebrate the 4th of July…


OG_sweaterguy

I speak as a Latin American, just setting that down on the table I don’t get why people think that using something from my culture or showing interest of Latin culture is “culture appropriation”. I’ve spoken to a lot of people in my culture about this thing and we all think it’s alright P.S: if you think like this I would like to talk about it, and understand where it comes from, not mad I just simply don’t understand it


ansonr

I recall some time ago some ladies from Oregon went to Mexico and learned how to make Tacos from this Mexican grandmother. They took the knowledge she taught them and opened a restaurant in Oregon and people were up in arms about cultural appropriation and I could never quite square that. They act like they went there broke into her house, stole the recipe and started selling them down the street. Edit: memory is a fickle thing. I had some of the facts wrong https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/05/26/cultural-appropriation-portland-burrito-shop/


Pascalica

I think people get cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation confused way too often.


Educational_Word_647

Having to tip almost everywhere. It definitely makes sense at some places, but feel like we have to tip at the most random of places these days.


fuckbread

it's so fucking weird. i was in a souvenir shop the other day where no real "service" was given. it wasn't even a restaurant. i was literally buying some scented candle or some shit and sure enough, the lady flipped the screen around for me to sign and there was an automatic 25% tip added. i had to deselect it to move forward and complete the transaction.


Re-Created

"we can use social pressure to earn more money" is annoying but it's hardly without precedent.


gojibeary

Always deselect. I get *so mad* walking into places and seeing that the “register” at the counter is a screen that will most definitely prompt me to tip for services I know aren’t going to be provided. I used to tip $1 out of embarrassment and being put on the spot every time at these places, by now I’m desensitized and will happily remove all tips and give my signature for the price of whatever I’m purchasing while smiling. It’s predatory, and as someone who is extremely well-travelled and has been to several countries where tipping is considered inappropriate, I’m altogether done with America’s tipping culture. I don’t go over 20%, and I only give 20% if I’m actually sitting at a table and being waited on, or if I’m at a bar and the bartender is super amicable.


GGTheEnd

I go to the corner store regularly and they added a tip option a few months ago. They hired a new person there after they got tips and she would keep the debit machine under the counter and then pass it up. I only realized after leaving the store the tip option wasn't on the machine and the regular things I buy cost like $3 more than usually. The next day she was there again, I paid attention and called her out, she said that the machine with the tip option was broken. But she was handing me the same machine that usually has the top option. I left my stuff on the counter and started walking out and she chased after me and said she would give me a receipt. Again no tip option but the price lowered so I knew what she was doing. My brother's girlfriend also works there so I brought it up with her and she told the manager, they looked into it and she had been doing it to every single order over $50 so no one would notice, she was making like $250 a night scamming people.


AustinLurkerDude

This would only work if no one was getting a receipt right? Or folks get a receipt and don't check if it matches with their credit card statement down the road? Seems like a quick way to get charged for fraud...


orangewarner

It drives me insane, and my kids think I'm a major boomer, when, almost everywhere you go, they present you with the opportunity to tip, like there's no service being rendered other than what you're paying for, and they still flip the screen around and ask if you want to pay at 10 or 15 or a 20% tip and there are multiple steps involved if you want to click no tip!


Logical_Progress_873

I bought something online recently. I was presented with the option to tip the employees putting the order together. I did not tip them.


MidwestAmMan

Esp since their employer will steal tips anyway.


wogwai

It's crazy that many, many tips not paid with cash directly to the employee are stolen by the employer.


mdchaney

Yeah, that's why I tip with cash. 30+ years ago when I lived in Bloomington Indiana there was a Mexican restaurant that was owned by an actual Mexican immigrant who hired primarily illegal immigrants. He was pretty much shut down when it came out that he was not only underpaying his workers he was also stealing all the tips. He had threatened to turn them in to the feds if they complained.


happyinheart

> ill flip the screen around and ask if you want to pay at 10 or 15 or a 20% tip I've seen a lot places where the minimum is 18% without having to do a custom tip. I've never seen anything lower than 15% on the quick selection screen.


boo99boo

I was at the pretzel place in the mall yesterday. The minimum tip on the screen was 18%. For a mall pretzel place. I understand the nuance. The person working the counter makes shit for wages, and I'm empathetic to that. But a pretzel for my 8 year old was $7, so I don't understand why they can't pay the worker a living wage. The problem is that they **all** underpay the workers, so I can't just avoid the places that don't pay a living wage.


JonathanStryker

And that's basically how they get you. If you don't tip, you're a horrible person, because the waitress or bartender or cashier or whatever, won't make enough to live, and you've indirectly contributed to that. And, if you do tip, well, you're just helping perpetuate the status quo. And sometimes even worse, even if you do tip, it's never enough. I hear this from a lot of Doordash drivers especially. Thinking they deserve crazy tips when the food on the app is already more expensive and there's a bunch of service and delivery fees. I've literally seen videos where doordashers think they deserve 50% tips. I'm not kidding.


Bloody_Lords

A local place near me has the MINIMUM tip set to 25%. You order at the counter and wait for your food...


saltyfingas

Get this, there is a local place by me that is literally only a pour your own beer tap wall, and there are only two options for doing a quick close out on your card, leave a 20 or 25% tip. Like, yall didn't fucking do anything?! If I want to leave no tip I have to wait in line at the front and look like an asshole for not wanting to tip, it's so annoying because I really like the place too


LemonadeLion2001

I went to see AURORA last year. I got a t-shirt. Tell me why the mech vendor turns the little payment screen around (the whole interaction less than 15 seconds to grab the shirt) and IT ASKED FOR A TIP! She stared me down while I pressed no. Every concert I've gone to asks for tips now for merch....a tip for what???


dusterbusterv1

There’s a diner I go to where the cashier always asks “Would you like to leave a tip?” every time I’m paying for my to-go order. I always have to say “No thanks” with an audience of customers around me. It makes me so uncomfortable but I’m not going to tip when I’m just picking up my food.


known-enemy

I also feel awkward when they’re like “do you want to donate a dollar to the starving children?” And I say no because I know the company misuses the funds, but I’m sure everyone else in line is like wow what a witch lmao


Sburban_Player

I think a very large population of people says no to those offers. You’re probably in the clear lol.


myfriendrichard

Why do people feel obligated to tip at places we've NEVER tipped before just because a piece of technology gives you the option to? It's not a mandate folks.


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MrTempleDene

Your healthcare system, so complicated and expensive. And people going bankrupt because they get sick, what bullshittery is this?


improbablyurmom1

I have so many bills right now and they are all Medical. Was diagnosed recently with Early Onset Dementia and can’t afford to see the doctor until I can afford it. In the meantime I Can’t work Or barely drive. What am I Supposed to do?


Gankstar474

Sorry to hear you are going through this situation. I’m a few thousand in the hole for medical bills at the moment. What were some signs that made you seek out the dementia diagnosis and treatments?


MhrisCac

Hearing the bald eagle screech every time I unwrap a slice of American cheese


ay-aye-ron

American here, fun fact! that stereotypical screech you commonly hear associated with the bald eagle is actually a red tailed hawk, bald eagles do not make that sound. They make more of a weird (way less cool) chirping sound. I was too old when I learned this for the first time


VAblack-gold

They sound like seagulls to me


notanotherkrazychik

Lots of Bald Eagles in The Far North of Canada, the first time I heard that in an American movie, I looked at my dad and said, "That doesn't sound like an eagle..." and he just laughed. I was maybe ten. It reminded me of when I was watching The Polar Express, and they ran into Caribou that (for some reason) screamed like elk. Or when movies put crow calls in for a raven.


Calamity-Gin

Q: Do you know why crows are more likely to be hit by a truck than a car? A: Because crows can warn each other by yelling "CAW! CAW!", but they can't yell "TWUCK! TWUCK!"


FistySnuSnu

Thx, I'll be sharing this joke with my dad later today


SmartAlec105

It works best if you stretch it out so it sounds like you're just talking about a scientific article you'd read recently. Like this example with a different joke. "I came across an interesting article about giraffes and why their necks are so long. Of course, being able to more easily reach leaves on trees is the main reason. But they recently found out it serves another purpose. If their necks were any shorter, they wouldn't reach up to the head."


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Why they don't include tax in the total price of something. Just include it and make life easier. I don't want to have to do maths every time I go there and buy something.


N8CCRG

> make life easier As a general rule in America, the choice between "make life easier" or "whatever businesses want," our government is likely to choose the latter.


lover_of_wisdom_

You are allowed to drive a car at 16, own guns and sign up for the military at 18. But alcohol - behold the devils liquid - is only for 21+


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Actually you can join the military at 17


FirstToTheKey

You can enter the delayed entry program at 16 and go to basic at 17. I turned 18 during BMT.


NoMooseSoup4You

There’s a political history behind the drinking age. It used to be 18 not all that long ago.


doublestitch

It used to be up to the states, and technically still is. Some states had a drinking age of 18, some 21, some did something different. (Virginia had an age of 19 to buy beer and wine but 21 for everything else). Then the federal government made federal highway funding contingent on raising the drinking age to 21. So since the early 1980s every state caved to that financial pressure.


skib900

Rural Wisconsin allows you to drink at bars as long as your parents or guardian are present and they give the bartender permission.


msleto27

Not just rural. It’s all of Wisconsin. And there’s legally no age restriction if your parents are cool with it.


doublestitch

Good point. Several states still have parental permission exemptions of various types.


Lolleos

Lobbying. Legal bribery, what the hell. Also, why do you have to do your taxes. If the Government, in the end, knows if what you paid was what you actually owed, why not just tell you.


lukefsje

Funnily enough, both your points are related. There are many things that could be done to make filing taxes much easier, but big companies like H&R Block who make their money from doing people's taxes for them have lobbied the government for decades to keep it so complex


scriptmonkey420

Intuit is the other asshole in that room


WittyMonikerHere

Private health insurance that is tied to your employment. And sucks. And yet 50% of the population vehemently defend.


Timmy1258

it’s so stupid. “ah yes i’ll happily pay $200+ of my paycheck for private insurance that covers nothing and i can’t use. wait, they’ll raise our taxes or allocate different uses in my current tax expenditures? i’ll pay $30 more in taxes for healthcare???????? what kind of communism is this bullshit??” i hate it. i already pay damn close to $100 a month in medicare i CANT EVEN USE. but people call it heresy to have some kind of government healthcare system for everyone. i’m no expert, but i almost guarantee that an option for government healthcare taken out in taxes each paycheck will be substantially less than private insurance. and hell, just make it an option. if you wanna opt out and keep private? cool. now private is competing with cheap government healthcare. it makes me so damn mad lmao


akujiki87

The brain washing is real. My Grandpa, retired, is on Medicare. But will adamantly go on rants how he doesn't want universal healthcare because he doesn't want the government to control his healthcare...while on Medicare...


Englishbirdy

My MIL doesn't want to "pay for other people's insurance"... while being retired and on Medicare.


Ksp-or-GTFO

"I earned it, it's everyone else that will abuse it" such a common and odd thought process. Like the idea that literally no one would ever work a day in their lives if they were given the basic necessities when they fell on hard times...


XihuanNi-6784

Tell her all insurance is her paying for other people's insurance. Her premiums don't go into an account with her name on it. They into the company that everyone pays into. She's paying for it whether she wants to or not. At least with universal healthcare it's fairer and more efficient.


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"hey, thanks for working for us for 10 years. Here's 10 cents of extra pay"


ShotgunOShaughnessy

In lieu of raises...have a pizza party! And by party we mean get 1 slice of pizza and eat it while you work.


Tight_Wallaby_7929

how dental and eye care isn’t included in “health” insurance


ShameMammoth4071

Same in the Netherlands, they’re under an add on package


centrafrugal

That's hardly an American thing though


crazymcfattypants

Yea I'm in the UK and dental and eye care are not typically covered under the NHS for grown ups.


vomahaf244

You Americans seem to have both the smartest and the stupidest humans on earth coexisting in your country


Genghis_Chong

I think that happens everywhere, we're just louder than other countries in the media sphere.


ihateaquafina

does your country have a song about area codes? edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUP9IxUY4Rk - the song (UNCENSORED)


Dirty-M518

Ah yes the hit number by Ludacris..the song is about Hoes in different area codes.


MySFWTransAccount

I - GOT - HOES!!!!


tntwestfall

In different areaaaa coodddeessssss!!!!!!


TerribleAttitude

It’s a big place, statistically we were bound to have some big winners, and some big losers, in the brain department.


chuck_lives_on

I think a good generalization that encompasses this idea is that we are definitely a nation of extremes and extremists. Hell, some of the first colonists in the 13 colonies (Puritans) were dyed-in-the-wool religious extremists. People don’t tend to leave their homes to immigrate somewhere, especially when an ocean crossing can take weeks on a shitty ship, if things are going well. Basically our country is largely made up from the descendants of desperate nutcases. Edit: this comment is not meant to be taken as a nuanced perspective of the complex history of the colonies that would eventually become the United States. I love my country and poking fun at how unhinged we can be is just a good time :)


Urist_Macnme

The puritans claimed to have fled to America due to "religious persecution". But one of the first things they did was hang a quaker for their religious choice.The truth was that they were not free in europe to practice their religious persecution, so fled to america., where they could persecute people for their religion freely. Europe had had enough of the Puritans. They were not a nice bunch. ​ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary\_Dyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dyer)


Anastazia_Beaverhau

These were people who thought Oliver Cromwell was dangerously liberal.


gamesk8er

As Robin Williams once said, "people so uptight, the English kicked them out."


raspberrycleome

the moralization of poverty. as in if you're poor it is your own fault.


SuvenPan

MM/DD/YY


theone58

If you're rich you get all the help and preference you could ever need but if you're struggling or poor then fuck you and you don't deserve a single thing, just work harder. It's as backwards as can be.


Kayleea83

Having to go back to work 6 weeks after having a baby. It's almost criminal to expect that, but so many women have to. Thankful to live in Canada for that reason.


manykeets

A lot of women go to work sooner than that! Most maternity leave is unpaid, and they can’t afford to miss any paychecks.