So sad in the modern world.

We have to convince ourselves we're better constantly, because deep down, we know we aren't.

Puritans / fundamentalist Christians did this s**t. Public executions = Fine. A naked body = The DEVIL! To be fair, this is something we inherited from medieval Europe...You guys just outgrew it, and we haven't yet.

I laughed when Will Smiths son wanted to celebrate his 18th birthday in the UK because he would be allowed to drink legally!

Paying for healthcare (or internet access, IMO) is absurd. There's a reason all the smart countries socialize things. the US easily could too, if we started putting actual people before the wealthy and their profits.

The US always has exemptions to such laws, and the whole service industry thrives on it.

Yes, i would hate it too.

When scientists talk, politicians should shut their mouths and listen, period.

In 1983 canadian airplane had a lucky escape when fuel was calculated in pounds not kilograms. 1 kg is 2,2 pounds. So more than half of the fuel was missing.

It really shocks me whenever I travel back to the US just how loaded all the food is with excess sugar and salt. Bread tastes almost like cake.

Many Americans are afraid all the time. It's a horrible habit, and our media/politicians reinforce it. It stems from the fact that our country was founded on genocide and slavery, IMO. White people fear BIPOC revenge that's never going to happen, and gun companies own the right wing of the government.

When you think about it, this turns out to be the root cause for so many other problems. If not all of them.

It is absolutely ridiculous that not the final price tag is put on products. The European Union now rules that any taxes and mandatory fees need to be put up front. Thing like flight ticket = 30 EUR but then having to pay mandatorily for seating are ruled illegal. The opposite in the US. I have literally seen: hotel room: 200 USD/night. + mandatory resort fee, 30 USD, + mandatory service fee, 40 USD, + mandatory gratuity, 12,5% + local tax 4,1% + state tax 3,7% (number from my head). Thus, this really is a ~325 USD hotel room. No comparison possible.

YYYY-MM-DD, please. Its an international standard, unambiguous, and sorts alphabetically. And equally uncomfortable for everybody :)

While living in Texas (I am Finnish) I saw huge people and huge portion sizes, rarely a healthy option available. It was unbelievable how big the portion sizes were!

The inefficency (do not mistake for ineffectivity!) of the US healthcare systrem combined with a missing social net is indeed unchallenged.

Not to mention the hospital bill after having your baby. Like children aren't expensive enough without having to either pay for an at home doula\midwife, or a hospital birth.

It does surprise me that the USA can be so proud of their flag and history, when their history is actually quite shameful and very short. A country less than 250 years old that seems to just ignore the native american history before that just astounds me.

You people seem to conveniently forget what your country's have done in the past,yet that is okay for you but it is a crime for the U.S.

What's wrong with pride? It's not like we're ignoring what happened before, or haven't tried to make amends. People forget that there have been huge strides made, the US is not the only country who mistreated the initial natives (Australia, anyone? How about Canada?) We've accomplished a lot in 250 years, and we never went through the royalty thing, or the peers/peon thing. We don't still have Earls and such. And we weren't the last to rid our country of slavery. In fact, there are countries where it is still the norm.

The ironic part is that printing it on disposable/wearable objects is actually against the flag code, yet we see it everywhere!

I am surprised that you call your own flag s**t.

Must be trying to compensate for something. On one trip to the US, while driving through Melbourne, Florida, we saw the biggest US flag we'd ever seen hanging from a huge construction crane. Next day, at the Kennedy Space Center, we saw the flag on the side of the Vehicle Assembly Building. That flag is so big, our bus driver said, one of the stripes is wide enough to drive his bus down.

it's like they're trying to constantly validate themselves or just plain egotistic thinking everyone wants to see it

You know where you can shove it.

Yeah we love our country. We are proud of our country. We believe this country is the greatest in the world! Don't like it? Too bad, deal with it! Let me ask you this, if this isn't the greatest country in the world, then why are so many immigrants from all over the world dying to get into this country? More than any other country in the world, people want to come to America!

I agree that most countries have shameful pasts, but most countries do not have their flag plastered out front of houses, on buildings, magnets, cars, schools, etc which is the point the original question was making.

Name a major country where natives and their histories are respected....Canada? No. England? No. In Central or South America? No.

In the UK people who put up flags in their gardens or on thir houses are thought somewhat weird.

Perhaps a feeling of insecurity.

overbearing much...

I don't recall there being nearly so many before September 11, 2001.

Ive never seen another country that has as many rules (and laws) about how a flag should be treated either.