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THIS! I remember a time that my dad had gotten laid off and my mum was dealing with health issues. They were simply down on their luck and filed for food stamps. Due to their Canadian pension they only qualified for $18 in food stamps a month and made too much to have health insurance, just adding to the health issues.

This! Pay everyone a living wage and do away with tips!

Oh, we Germans kinda do that, too, actually 😅

Everything in American-English too rather than British-English. things that are translated from almost any other language into American-English rather than British-English regardless of the subject matter

We’d call that indoctrination in the UK. I remember speaking with an elderly Italian man who was a child when Mussolini came to power. He told me they were forced to do similar things at school.

And lobby for laws that put more people in jail

Most Americans think they're ridiculous too tbh.

It's so much more than that. It's not that they dont want healthcare, they dont want to pay for SOMEONE ELSE'S healthcare.

Most places use chip-and-pin where they *have* to take the card at the table since you need to enter your PIN. USA credit card banks decided Americans aren't smart enough for chip-and-pin, so we just have chip and an archaic signature.

Yeah, I kinda agree with this one.

When I was in school, the USA was supposed to be preparing to switch to metric, so we learned both units. Which has been very helpful since my wife grew up in a country that uses the metric system, so I am all the time converting units mentally when I talk with her. She is still super confused with our fractions. "1/3 cup!? Just tell me how many ounces that is! What do you mean 2-2/3 ounces, how am I supposed to measure 2/3 ounces!?"

Ads, that's exactly why I got rid of cable, and haven't watched regular TV for the last 10 years. Get about 2 minutes of show followed by 7 minutes of ads. Most being for prescription pharmaceuticals.

Has anyone noticed that we all say 2 metres apart for social distancing and Americans say 6ft?

I live in France and once I wanted to watch a American TV show live because I could not wait for the episode to be translated and uploaded online. It was my first time watching American TV and the ad breaks were sooo long that I had completely forgotten what happened in the show prior to the ad break XD. And honestly it was awful to be stopped so many times during a show. Like you're all emotional and invested and bam loud and annoying ad break in your face !! Wouldn't be so annoying if they were fewer.

We almost converted back in the 1970s, because I remember the government scrambling to get it taught in schools. But the old farts in charge at the time didn’t want to learn a new system, so we didn’t convert. Seems like all we got out of it was 2 liter soda bottles, instead of gallon bottles..

Medication ads on tv...

Re: imperial v. metric...it's even weirder. Soda, for example. In cans, it's measured in ounces. In bottles, it's measured in liters. Beer is measured in ounces, but wine and liquor are metric. Being a democratic socialist, I feel certain that the reason for the partial adoption of the metric system is money. I wish we would switch once and for all.

I actually understand the issue with changing the system now. Also, we in Europe also do not really implemented the SI system so far

You probably never watched The voice France, like there is a ad Evry 4 people or something like that, and you have time to do the dishes for the week during it

Haha, I live in Canada in Windsor which borders Detroit. Because most of our tv was American we always say we are bilingual, we speak both metric and imperial. My dad worked in Michigan and he loved to tell the whether in Celsius to confuse his coworkers. It was in the middle of August and my dad making small talk nonchalantly said can you believe is 32 degrees? His coworkers thought he was insane. It's funny, I still remember the formula from Celsius to Fahrenheit , take the temp times 2 and add 32

Strangely I prefer the Fahrenheits measure against Centigrade, my country is centigrade. I know if it is 32 degrees is is cold but also 0 deg. but if it is 80 it is hot for me, not sure what that is in C

YES!!! There was a movement to switch to the metric system back in the 70s, The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, but it didn't get done. Seems like we're creeping in that direction though, give us another 100 years or so.

Fahrenheit is good for baking, more exact mid range breakdown. But 0 degrees is still freezing!

Ok people in America also find the massive ad breaks infuriating.

The adbreaks... Whew. They are so long. I don't understand why anyone buys cable/satellite here??? For how many ads that you're forced to watch, the cable company should be paying you for it. Instead customers are paying 100s of dollars to be bombarded with ads. o_O I'm an American and I don't get this either.

Not sure I want to know how the imperial system and fahreneits are related to your production...

Can not understand the big fuss over this, so it is different to others, tuff, grow up!

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On the the throne. British, aren't we?

Polish television is terrible for ad-breaks. One channel actually has a break in the middle of the ad-break to show upcoming programmes. A 15-20 minute ad-break in the middle of a programme is seriously crazy. The norm in the UK is a 2-3 minute ad-break every quarter of an hour, which is irritating, but does mean you can go and make a cup of tea. ;-)

A lot of us here wish it would change too

Yeah it’s super annoying and you have to pay extra just to have no ads

So what ? Whst the big deal?

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The USA is one of only three countries that doesn't use the metric system, which is so much more logical and easier to use. We need to get with the program, or be left behind.

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The Fahrenheit system system beats the hell out of C. You go to F, I'll work on getting us to switch to metric everything else.

This is sad

Add "who is paying their debt while also stopping treatment because they can't continue accruing more debt"

yeah...

i know- you can literally stare someone in the face while they are going to the bathroom

How else can they keep up the illusion that they live in a country worth celebrating?

Different taxes in different states. But yeah.

Work to live, don't live to work.

we get sooo many ads too; they're literally everywhere and most of them are attack ads with questionable information

it's disgusting the amount of money my school spends on sports, and we're not even remotely a sporty school

the meal in the picture is not an American one.

Yeah in my country, if you don't take your minimum of 5 weeks of holiday per year, it will be scheduled for you. Literally your manager will force you to relax :D.

Yeah it is pretty weird. Why not just say 9th, 10th , 11th, and 12 grade? Seems much more simple. I am going to be in high school next year and I am Indian but I live in America. I am used to saying junior, sophomore, etc. but my mom finds it really confusing. This seems so unnecessary.

I'm good with it being a weekday, but it should be a national holiday

This is a bad policy because everyone comes to work sick so they can still take vacation days.

Way too much religion everywhere and about everything.