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.

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.

I won't set foot outside on Black Friday.

Wait, why is there sugar in your bread and casseroles?!

It is confusing for many of us too. A lot of our technical work does try to use metric instead

I don't understand this as a business owner...granted my employees are on salary but I've actually never really counted the days taken. Its officially 2 weeks but honestly so long as I get great performance from my employees I don't mind if they go over

Absolutely. Fraternities and Sororities used to have a purpose, now it just seems like an excuse for bad behavior.

I don’t see how it’s a big deal for sone people just because a few other people think it’s bad luck. You’re going to want stuff before the birth to be prepared, that’s all.

Mainly in certain parts of the country, and often in rural areas. To be fair, in rural areas they have their uses, but it has also become a status symbol in parts of the country, like the South.

It’s not usually anything the children are doing that causes this. ☹️

Many US students don't live within walking distance from their schools.

There are a number of reasons for this. Some are practical and some paranoid: -because so much of our infrastructure is car centric, it really isn't very safe to be a pedestrian or cyclist in many places -after a couple of high profile kidnappings in the late '70s and early '80s adults became paranoid and did a 180. Before that generations had a lot more freedom afterwards less so -there are not a lot of third spaces that prioritize children that are also free, so where are the kids going to go without their parents? -parents that don't comply with these rules particularly if they are people of color tend to be penalized by the law, meaning that others who think that these cultural norms are ridiculous are going to comply regardless

Everyone has a gun over here. Children are sexualized. The cost of Healthcare means mentally ill people go untreated and roam the streets. Religious law means people are sexually repressed.

Kids in my country are in no way as free as they were when I was small but they still get to walk to school and go to playparks and to friend's houses unaccompanied..

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If my child walked to school it would take her 4 - 5 hours

Oh how HORRID to not want creeps to kidnap children! If the rest of this list is to be believed this is the worst place to be so we should want to walk out kids to school.

Exactly. I'm a teen, and like 5th graders are biking to school, on one of our busiest roads in our town. Me and my friend still have to take the bus. What. The. Hell.

In the US kids get shot at school , grocery stores, very often. So you find find many little ones unattended. Poor kids can't even play outside safely anymore , in public areas. Our " Great American " system has imploded. Even grocery stores seem to be a likely place to get shot. So, yeah we hover tight by our little ones

My parents moved to Fredericksburg, Texas in 1978 and when I went to visit them, I saw kids out all over the place. By the time I moved there in 1988, I never saw a kid outside, except maybe in a fenced back yard. I'm not talking little kids. I'm talking of 12-15-year-olds. The 'stranger abduction' fear fueled by the media had set in, in spite of proof that most child abductions are by a family friend or family member. Parents of 15-year-olds were reported to Child Protective Services for letting their kids ride their bicycles to school. I'm glad I grew up back when I could be free-range. At ten, I could be gone all day, as long as I was home for supper.

That's because here, you let your 6 year old walk to school and there's a real good chance they may get snatched!

I visited Starbucks for the first time in July. I didn't see the appeal.

Movies make them seem like a much bigger deal than they actually are, though "prom-posals" and the like becoming a thing is awful.

It warps by brain that people are accepted into college/university based on their sports/athletic performance, and not their academic. It makes my blood boil that the highest paid public employees in 43 of the USA's states is a sports coach.

Yes, in the U.S, some people actually do live off tips.

There are advantages and disadvantages to each system. The kind of system described here works well for a communal society, but it can also be stifling. I wouldn't have wanted to continue living with my very dysfunctional, overprotective and critical family far into my adulthood.

Paying your rent or your normal bills doesn't show up on your credit report is stupid.

An American lady once said to me '...of course, i'm Swedish'. She had been born in the US, no-one in her family had lived in Sweden since the late 19th century, she'd never been to Sweden, and spoke no Swedish. But, she maintained that she was 'Swedish'.

Whenever I can I actually avoid getting ice because it just waters down the drink