Also everyone having guns is not a problem, but a girl daring to wear a sleeveless shirt to school when it's a super hot day? Everyone loses their minds

I know, it's not actually democracy if it doesn't work like this

Yes!! What's up with that??

So the Customers have to feel Guilt about Poverty, not the Employers

Have you seen the ridiculous large portions we get here? In most European countries that's considered a meal for at least a family of 4 at minimum!

The Flat Earth Society exists across the globe- ahem, disc... :D

That's the deepest mystery of all.

This one I also don't understand. I'm not "a drunk" myself, but it's BECAUSE nobody was strict about it with me.

This is so true, what's that all about ?!

Hmmm, a lot to think about there

I find the "perfect" look ugly. It looks like plastic.

It's crazy that American police can straight up murder people based on their skin colour and there's no repercussions for it. In my country if the police uses a gun even once, even to just injure a suspect, there's massive investigation launched into whether that use of force was called for

That whole "right to bear arms" thing was written when it took 15 seconds to load one shot of round lead, haha. They didn't envision AR15's. They need to revisit those laws. Badly.

You have to always calculate tax and tip like we're some kind of math geniuses or something!

This is why my friends love to take me shopping in America. I can figure out the exact purchase price by calculating the tax and discounts in my head. Don't take away my superpower!! LOL

Local and state sales taxes vary from place to place, while some products are nationally advertised. It’s a holdover system. I agree totally that the advertise price should be the out-of-pocket price with the taxes calculated within that price. Especially in our modern computerized age. Also taxes are not universal, some states have no sales tax.

AND in some states (like CA) there's not just sales tax, but then ANOTHER added tax on anything in aluminum cans. So that 12 pack of Diet Coke isn't actually the advertised sale price of $3.99, it's 3.99 plus sales tax (.34) AND the CRV tax (.60/.05 per can) so it's REALLY gonna cost you $4.93 Why the hell don't we just include the taxes and tell people it's $4.93? Stupid as f**k.

I think everyone hates this.

That’s because sales tax is not constant throughout America.

Should be illegal to advertise a price that does NOT include taxes. Tipping should be abolished... businesses need to pay liveable wages, like the rest of the civilised world.

Our tax here is 6%. Yes. You have enough to pay for the drink. By the way what "Fancy" drink costs 3.99? LOL

we never do know, and it's infuriating

I don't get that either!!!

it just makes no sense...

They want to make things seem as cheap as possible to make you consider buying it. Like the whole "It's only $99.99!" BS. 99 sounds better than 100. It's dumb and annoying.

It is impossible to know local and state tax. Tax varies if you're in a city limit

99 pricing is used not only in the US but globally... it's a general mkting psychological trick, not just American

When you select what to get based on how much spare change you have and you have to use your biggest note and get more change than fits tour wallet.

Yes, you do have enough. Place the order and you'll find out. Or just do the math...

Plus tax! Something I also never understood until the taxation system was explained to me. It's easier to add the tax later to an item then it is to change all the price tags if it changes again.

And paternity rights/leave!

And whenever to tell someone that there’s something wrong with how the USA does things, people do one or more of the following: A. Yell at you “if you don’t like it, then leave!” (mindless nationalism, not patriotism)... B.They refuse to believe it’s better anywhere else... C. They tell you that any place with a seemingly better system is still actually worse because it’s “socialism” (and they are fully convinced by obsolete and never correct Cold War propaganda to reject anything that has the scent of “USSR” on it, whether legit or not)... D. They go as far as comparing the USA to some third-world hellhole or theocracy just to make the USA seem better by comparison (sinking to that low a bar is really f*****g revealing!!!).

YES!

Same here, are American houses just made out of cardboard or what?

Many American Christians are so weird, yelling things like "Jesus hates f**s" when if they'd read the bible they would know Jesus never said anything about homosexuality

This is leaking into UK culture too

We all pay for ambulances. The problem with the American healthcare system is how it's handled and the strange effect of liability beyond anyone's control on the prices

They won't even protect their children from getting shot dead. We had one school shooting in the UK and even gun owners were so sickened they supported the changes in the law. In the US children getting shot in the face is less horrifying than not being allowed to walk around showing off a gun.

Flying to Europe and paying full private hospital fees would still be cheaper!

In Australia we do have goods and services tax. The item price shown on the shelf / advertising is exactly what you will pay.

It took me a while to wrap my head around the fact that, if they say that the US is the best country in the world, it's not a joke! THEY ACTUALLY MEAN THAT!!! 😱

well, if i recall it right, the idea is, that it is cheaper to rebuild your cardboard house after every event. The materials are a lot cheaper. but those events will happen more often so i think it is just plain stupid now!

You're not the only one but, alas, it's one of those: "it is what it is" things.

Or put their feet with the shoes on, on the bed!! I mean, hygiene people!!

First off: What makes you think we have a civilized world here? The Civil war here is still going on in some people's mind albeit not physically. In answer to your question about the Rx pricing: Yes, it does depends where you live because we here live the good life of out of control predatory greed.

The religion stuff has always bugged me. It annoys me how people dont see freedom from religion as part of our freedom to religion. Not to mention Christianity is everywhere

I did uni in Finland for five years, never had to buy a single textbook, my library provided all the textbooks for free

In the Netherlands we do our annual taxes in an online app where most of the data is already entered. All you need to do is check, enter your deductibles and hit "Send" and you're done. But that isn't possible in the US because some greedy software companies managed to block the IRS from setting up a similar system as a free service.

this one is sad..

Also children having to pledge allegiance to the flag in school sounds like some North Korea s**t to me. The only time in my country we give a s**t about the flag in school is independence day and even then no one is forced to pledge allegiance to it or sing to it

I love going to my local sauna. Everyone is naked. Boys and girls. You might see your boss or teacher naked. It's just completely normal, and I love it. But for my American friends, when I tell them, the first thing they ask is if people have sex orgies there or how I avoid getting a boner. 😖

This is not an american problem, it happens as well in Europe..Trust me, I am working in the logistics business for over 30 years :-)

We do have student loans in Norway, too, but that's to pay for food and rent. The interest rates are low, however, and I've never heard of anyone not being able to pay it back.

We have voting leave! (not so useful anymore, but used to be voting was 8-6 so if you worked, you couldn't make it, so you get to come late/leave early so you can vote - now voting is 6-22 most places so no need anymore)

I don't know who censoring is supposed to be for, especially in written the text. It doesn't matter whether I write f**k or f*ck, children aren't stupid, they know what the word actually is