It is now.

It’s so gross.

I also hate it when they call the u.s. “the greatest country in the world”. No it’s not, and I’m American.

The rational is that customers will think they are lazy and just sitting around, which is dumb. You can still tell if they are working, even if they are sitting.

Hahahahaha, but what if you are convinced that your country is the most countriest of all countries in the world?

All you need is a respect for your neighbors.... and for everyone to mind their own business. If I want to paint my door red instead of white who cares? Maybe it's to find my own house in the vast blandness of suburbia. Karen needs a hobby.

Normally the manager does take care of it. I never worked a job where I had to take care of it myself. But low-paying jobs often don't have sick days or sick leave, so that would probably be where that would happen.

Maybe if we start calling them sex celebration parties, they will die off

In the Netherlands you get 16 weeks paid leave and can get more partial paid or unpaid leave if you want and I am already jealous of the people in Scandinavia...

Tye s****y thing is if you protest this in the US, and you don't tip, it only hurts your server, and not the establishment that employs them.

Most of these people couldn't tell the difference. A comedian hit up a MAGA rally recently and started pitching ideas from Marx's Das Capital, without using the words, communism, socialism, or capitalism and found some very enthusiastic supporters in red hats.

Sex and bodies all perfectly natural bit hey let's not show/talk about it but violence, shootings yeah let's promote death and misery

I know - here (Aust) it's illegal to not include GST (sales tax) in the retail price.

Many of us here agree with this too.

More the having to pre-commit to a party despite the rotation of candidates. The 'undecided' voter thing. Shouldn't that be everyone, each election?

I’d say the weirdest thing is how many side effects that are listed with them

I like that the picture is from Breaking Bad. Another commenter in another thread pointed out that this show’s premise probably could not have existed in another country, and I can’t forget that

If I remember correctly it had something to do with reducing the number of fatalities from teens driving drunk. The statistics were pretty high. I could start drinking legally at the age of 18, but a few years later they changed the age to 19, then 21. My poor sister kept missing the boat.

When I was in 5th grade there was a student who refused to pledge allegiance to the flag. He was made to stand in the hallway every morning because of it and was rumored to have detention once a week because of it, too. From what I remember, he never gave in.

Samer reason "America is the Greatest Nation on Earth". Indoctrinate them when they're young.

it's giving...nazi-esque nationalism

That's still a thing?

there NEEDS to be more separation of church and state

I'm a teacher, and i do not pledge. I don't even stand. Take "under god"out and I'll... still not do it, TBH.

In Colombia we have something similar, juramento a la bandera. In my son's first school, they never taught the kids about this "tradition". When he started fifth grade at a new school, he heard it for the first time and came home shocked and telling me the teacher would call me because he refused to repeat it. He actually cited his social studies teacher a fundamental right in our constitución, conscientious objection. The teacher never called. I mean, he was a 10 yo telling his teacher about his rights.

Yes, brainwashing.

I would recite the pledge but would omit the words "under god". I started this when I was 10 years old.

I dont now what is not to love about the pledge of allegiance. I think in every great nation they do or did that. Like North Korea, Nazi Germany and so on

feels almost nazi-era germany

When the anthem plays at the high school games I attend (the kid is in the band, i could not care less about seizure-ball), I remain sitting down eating a hot dog or whatever I was doing. Ngl I'm always very scared someone is going to confront me and my spouse for it. But f**k those meaningless attempts of patriotism.

This is another weird case of brainwashing. You'd expect it in North Korea but not in the se'f-proclaimed free world..

School?

I don’t stop what I’m doing for the pledge. If I’m sitting down and reading, I’ll just keep doing that. If I’m having a conversation, I’ll stop it so that the other person can say it, but I won’t. I get glared at a lot.

I find it so ironic that Americans hate communism so much, when this is literally the kind of thing that communist countries love to do.

I salute to the family members that sacrificed their lives for the sake of mine. Maybe just once in a while thank all of the wonderful citizens that gave you this country even if you don’t agree with every aspect of America.

At one time it was done using the Roman salute, which also ended up being the nazi salute. Before WWII.

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Yes to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school is a very good, big thing. Whether you hate America or not you still live here! Smh!!!

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It seem logical to pledge allegiance to the country where you are a citizen. I can only assume this is maintained in the US because there were/are so many people from other nations.

The opposite of democracy but the Republicans love it because Otherwise they would always lose.

This!. First thing I did in a Paris airport was hit the restroom to take a dump. Loved the privacy.

Average UK tax paying person: 'Oh look, new financial year'. Carries on with their day knowing that the tax office will tell them if they've been paying too much or too little tax.

And Maga churches 🤮

Oral Roberts was an evangelist from the '60's and '70's. My grandma sent him over ten thousand dollars. He sent her a Bible with our Lord Jesus Christ's words in red-- and Oral Roberts' name embossed in gold. Other than Roberts' name, I could have gotten Grandma the same Bible for less than ten bucks.