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Pharmaceutical TV Ads

Pharmaceutical TV ads, what the frick is this? Every time that I've gone to watch TV, there have been at least 15 pharmaceutical commercials. There was one that I was watching yesterday that was for an antidepressant. And it was like this video of this woman holding around the sign of a smiley face to her doctor. Now I'm an absolute believer that medication can 100% help. But why are we putting antidepressants on TV? Why are they commercialized? And then there's like a 15-second list of the side effects of this is everything that's going to happen if you're going to take these medications. Why? Why are these TV adverts? Does America know that the rest of the world doesn't do that?

Simon Kadula , Alexander Grey Report

Final score:

191points

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Zephyr343 1 year ago

I hate this too. "It helps with treating the symptoms but side effects include: temporary blindness, bleeding from all orificies, and growth of tentacles"

104points

The Tipping Culture

The Tipping Culture Okay, just trying to get my head around the American minimum wage and tipping situation. So I confirmed that where I'm from, the minimum wage is $21.20. No matter where you are, if you're a waitress, that's the minimum of how much you're earning. I've seen comments on my video being like, some people in America are making like $2.50 an hour. How, how is that legal? Because the thing that I can't comprehend, right, is that when converted, the amount that we're paying for food in the United States when we go out is pretty much the same amount that we are paying here. Where is the money going? Like when we pay for our food here, the waiters, the amount that they're making is covered by what we pay. And in America, we're paying the same amount, but then if we tip on top, where is the money going?

notjazzthornton , Daniel Lobo Report

Final score:

165points

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Cathy Garcia 1 year ago (edited)

In California, the government did something about it. As of January 2023, the minimum wage for all tipped and non-tipped employees is $15.50/hour. That includes waiters/waitresses, cooks, cashiers, sales clerks, office receptionists, cleaning staff, etc. So, the justification for tipping wait- staff in restaurants is gone, in CA. However, that hasn't stopped the demand for tips here.

66points

Target Has Everything You Could Ever Need

Target Has Everything You Could Ever Need This time a good one - Target. Listen, I went in today to buy a hairbrush. Unbeknown to me that Target has everything that you could ever want. Grocery shopping, Target, clothes, Target. All hair/beauty care, Target. Socks, Target, electronics, Target, smoothies and watermelon, Target. You want to know what else I got from Target? Christmas pajamas. Where I'm from in New Zealand, we have nothing like this. Our closest is like, Kmart, and it doesn't even compare. Take all of my money, Target

notjazzthornton , Max Bender Report

Final score:

155points

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Den Ver 1 year ago

The mother ship

56points

Prices Being Displayed Before Tax

Prices Being Displayed Before Tax The fact that when you go to buy something, right, you go up to the counter, the price that is displayed on the tag is not the price that you pay at the counter because taxes are added on after. Now I understand this is like a state-by-state thing but oh my goodness, it took my head a hot minute to get around.

notjazzthornton , Henry & Co. Report

Final score:

155points

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Higgleton 1 year ago

Americans who think it makes sense that I've asked say it's because they want to know the "real" price. Like, if you include the tax, you might somehow be getting conned by the business. I don't get it as a Brit, the price with tax is the price, who cares whether it's tax or not. But that's a cultural difference I guess.

62points

Waiters Taking Your Card To Pay At A Restaurant

Waiters Taking Your Card To Pay At A Restaurant Why is it that when you're at a restaurant or a diner or something like that, and you go to pay for your food, you put the card on the thing and they take your card away from you? They walk away with your card to the back of wherever they are, to put the payment through. Y'all wonder why you have so much fraud. There is no way that at some point when you've done that, someone hasn't taken a photo of your credit card. Like in New Zealand and everywhere else that I've gone, we just pay at the counter or we pay in front of us. We ain't giving our cards to no one. Surely there is a better system for this in the United States. Like I believe 90% of people would be good, but there's got to be someone that has taken photos of people's cards when they go behind. Why are we doing this? Can’t y'all just pay at the front counter?

notjazzthornton , Images Money Report

Final score:

149points

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80 Van 1 year ago

The simple answer is that this just hasn’t been a major problem in the US at this point. If/when it does, the credit card companies will start enforcing new requirements, as they have with other types of merchants.

30points

The Portion Sizes

The Portion Sizes I just ordered room service at my hotel and I ordered a salad with a side of fries. You want to know what I got? This is my salad. This is my fries. I have fries with a side of salad. Look at the size. Look, I ain't mad because I love potatoes. Dang.

Final score:

136points

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K W 1 year ago

This is why I can't wait to be old enough to order from the senior menu. Smaller portions. If it's something yummy I appreciate the extra for leftovers but some stuff doesn't keep and there's so much and it's also rather spendy.

21points

Toilet Stalls Having Gaps In The Doors

Toilet Stalls Having Gaps In The Doors Why is it that almost every public bathroom that I've been in, like airports or shopping malls or anything like that, has such wide gaps in the door? Like on either side of the door, there is a huge gap, and people can just see straight through it. This is from LAX airport where I was yesterday. But this has been a common thing just everywhere that I've gone in the States. I get so sad. Can someone please tell me why this is necessary? And why are the gaps under the door so high? That's all

Final score:

124points

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Barbara Maloney 1 year ago

Apparently to stop people from having sex. But people who have sex in bathrooms are not going to let the gaps stop them. It is also easier to wash the floors.

40points

notjazzthornton , Morgane Perraud Report

The Measuring Systems

The Measuring Systems This one is something that we're all thinking about, I don't think any of us know how to explain your freaking measuring system, the imperial system of measurement. I have never been more confused in my entire life than trying to understand the weather here in America or how much someone weighs or how tall someone is or how far away something is. But I've come to a conclusion. Okay, listen, I think that America likes everything really big and brilliantly large. Okay. When it comes to the weather, when it's freezing for us, and it's really cold, it gets like zero degrees, right? Make sense? Then when it's hot, it's like, kind of 30s, but in America, cold is like what, like 30/40? And hot is way higher. You just want the numbers to be bigger. Same thing with pounds. Everything just could be bigger. Literally, the rest of the world is using the metric system. Come on, fam.

Final score:

108points

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80 Van 1 year ago

I think there is this idea that the US loves the imperial system, but I don’t think any of us really care passionately about it. It’s just hard to make the change when a whole society has been used to doing it one way, and it takes a lot of intentionality to make the change (as many other countries have done). I expect at some point in the future it will happen, it’s just never been made a priority yet.

64points

notjazzthornton , Ralf Steinberger Report

#10

Alcohol Being Sold At CVS

Alcohol Being Sold At CVS We just went to CVS, the pharmacy, to pick up some stuff and I have a question. Why, in the pharmacy, is there a whole aisle of alcohol? Ya’ll sell massive bombs of alcohol at the pharmacy? Like, at the pharmacy. That is not something that we do in New Zealand or anywhere that I've been. Can someone explain, please?

Final score:

108points

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Glen Ellyn 1 year ago

This is dependent on local laws and ordinances. You wouldn't find this in my state.

67points

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#11

People In La Can't Handle Rain

People In La Can't Handle Rain This one, LA, I'm talking to you. I'm in Los Angeles at the moment and it is raining outside. And it is by far one of the most entertaining things watching people in Los Angeles navigate how to work with rain. It's like, you just malfunction like you don't know what to do. Y'all don't know how to drive in the rain, you don't know how to walk in the rain. But this is by far my favorite. Why were like 80% of the people that I saw when I was walking around today, wearing these plastic ponchos? Like, y'all don't own jackets or umbrellas, so everyone's just wearing a plastic poncho. And look, fair enough. It doesn't rain here, so I understand. But you got to know it's really funny. This is like the third time it's rained in LA since I've been here. Please invest in some umbrellas and a raincoat.

Final score:

101points

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all 4 paws 1 year ago

Im from SF bay are and today there was a lightning strike and everyone just stood there like "Wtf was that" and everybody looked so confused 😭

43points

#12

Toothpaste Being Locked Up

Toothpaste Being Locked Up Why is your toothpaste locked away at CVS? What what? What are people doing with toothpaste that requires it to be locked away? And also how come the aisle next to it had alcohol that wasn't locked away but the toothpaste was locked away? But there was like, a couple of toothpaste that wasn't, but like, most of them were. This is in the CVS in New York. And so if you have any insight, please let me know, what are people doing with toothpaste? What? What is going on? Live, laugh, love America.

Final score:

88points

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Den Ver 1 year ago

The toothpaste is locked up so it doesn't escape.

87points

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#13

Id Being Required To Buy Nasal Spray

Id Being Required To Buy Nasal Spray As you can probably hear, I'm a little bit stuffed up in my sinuses today. So you know what I did, I went over to Target and I went over to CVS to try and just get some nasal spray. Never in my entire life have I been IDed to get the nasal spray. Like, I was just at the checkout and trying to buy my stuff and this big alert comes up and it's like “Please present your ID”. What are Americans doing with nasal spray that requires you to be IDed? It's also raining outside today and I didn't have my ID on me so I had to go all the way back to the hotel to get my ID to go back to buy nasal spray. Can someone in America please inform me as to why? Why we're not trusting you with a nasal spray?

notjazzthornton , Simon Kadula Report

Final score:

80points

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Den Ver 1 year ago (edited)

Amphetamine abuse is a major drug problem in the United States. ... My complaint is that the replacement ingredients don't work as well as Phenylpropanolamine (and people say there are no 7 syllable words).

61points

notjazzthornton , Satish Krishnamurthy Report

#14

The Obsession With Starbucks

The Obsession With Starbucks Now listen, I couldn't tell you how many trips I've now made to the United States of America. But I can tell you that there are two things that I have discovered that people here go wild over. Now, the first one I discovered yesterday, okay, I was walking down the street in New York City, and I see this line of middle-aged men in suits and the line is very long, it wraps around the side of a building. And I'm like, what is going on? There are like, 35 men in this line. What is happening, right? Actually, I go check it out, because I'm like, what exciting thing is making all of these middle-aged men line up? It was a salad bar, like sweet green, I think. A salad bar has men in suits lining up outside around the corner. I haven't ever seen anything like that. The second thing that makes y'all lose your mind is Starbucks. Someone tell me why, when I went to get my starbies this morning, right on the one just on the corner here, the line went out the door and there were like 50 people in the store waiting for their Starbucks. What do they put in this thing that makes everyone go so hype? Including me.

Final score:

80points

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K W 1 year ago

I lived in the Seattle (where Starbucks originated) area for quite a while and I genuinely dislike it. But to answer the question I think it's because it's consistent no matter where you go so you always know what you're getting. Consistently good? Well that's debatable but coffee and espresso can vary from drinking a connection to the divine to drinking some motor oil cigarette ash tasting thing and everything inbetween so I think people are drinking consistency with Starbucks. Plus the combination of caffeine and uber sugar perks the dopamine.

44points

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#15

Seems Like Everything Can Be Put In A Bag

Seems Like Everything Can Be Put In A Bag You guys figure out a way to put everything in bags. Do people in America really not have enough time to cook their own eggs? What? Why? Why are we putting eggs in a bag? Look, I'm not hurting, it just seems a little bit unnecessary. They also have a bag for like, a whole pickle. And that's the package. Goodness led me to discover sliced pickles in a bag. I tried the whole pickle the other day on my Instagram and everyone was like no, you have to get the slices.

Final score:

68points

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sofacushionfort 1 year ago

Wait until you see Japan

61points

notjazzthornton , Seth Werkheiser Report

#16

The Amount Of Stairs In New York Subway

The Amount Of Stairs In New York Subway New York, this one’s for you. Look, I have been here for the last couple of weeks, right? And I just have a question. The subway. Do New Yorkers have a specific kind of calf leg strength? Like every time you go on the subway. There are like 100 stairs. We’re out here puffing, my asthmatic lungs are not born for New York. Like are you getting trained in school? Is there Subway training on, like, your legs? Are y'all out here with just the killer calf muscles? Please let me know

Final score:

63points

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Robert Trebor 1 year ago

The system was mostly built in the early 20th century. the physical plant is totally outdated, but since any construction project in NYC will cost 5x anywhere else, there is no money for updates. Newer stations have escalators, and elevators are being added whenever the good fairy* comes up with some bucks. *aka the Federal Government

29points

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#17

The Shelf Life Of Twinkies

The Shelf Life Of Twinkies Today I'm trying Twinkies. We don't have these in New Zealand, but I've heard a lot about them so I'm going to try them. I've heard that they have a shelf expectancy that's like, longer than my life, so I'm scared. Don't know how I feel about this. What the frick, Americans, why? This isn't it for me.

Final score:

61points

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Den Ver 1 year ago

I've read that the services of a mortician can be delayed a day longer than they once were, because we have more preservatives in our bodies.

16points

#18

These Police Cars In New York

These Police Cars In New York I'm in New York because I have a question. Okay, what is this? And why are there so many of them? This is the most unintimidating cop car I have seen in my entire life. There are so many variations of the mini cars and I can't really imagine a really big tough cop driving in this tiny little car that's literally smaller than a human. Someone, please inform me.

Final score:

57points

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Den Ver 1 year ago (edited)

They are used to ticket parked cars at expired meters. It would be a waste of resources to use a larger more expensive vehicle. ... TRADITIONALLY (meaning years ago), "meter maids" drove these and wrote tickets -- not the, "really big tough cops". ... ps: Don't downvote the meter maid fact, like one Panda did.

108points