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@firefox4206

2 ай бұрын

The issue is the people from WatchMojo they are left-leaning. They generally do not like the militar also you are not required to tip someone if they do a bad job.

@miammissophiapetrillo

2 ай бұрын

MoJo seems to have gone from its earlier years of hunting out unique stuff to its latter years of firing off questionable trivia like a leaky arse after a Taco Bell binge.

@nathanmclaughlin304

2 ай бұрын

Mojo is a dumpster fire, left wing garbage can, rooting for men who claim they are women

@jackwalker9492

2 ай бұрын

Hope you come visit us Adam. The US is similar to the EU in that every State is its own entity with a different culture, laws, Constitution etc. Doubt you will see this, but I appreciate your videos and courtesy to my country. FYI, I am in Bogota, Colombia until next year, then Panama bound. You ever get this way, drop me a line

@Whoozerdaddy

2 ай бұрын

Watchmojo videos generally are out-dated, lefty and *_suck._* There are *thousands* of drug commercials, one after the other. We say, "June 25th" not "25th June." Our country DOES "do one nice thing," both for its citizens and the citizens of most of the rest of the world - *IT KEEPS THEM SAFE!!* You don't think all those tanks, planes, ships and military members come free, do you?

I have noticed Mojo tends to exaggerate some of their info or word some things in a way that are easily misunderstood by non citizens. Like the red solo cups. They found out that a couple of countries found the plastic cups as s novelty and decided it must be common for everyone else.

@Markyajv

2 ай бұрын

TRUTH!

@CatInWonderlands

9 күн бұрын

Mojo is horrible, very clickbait. Like you said, things that apply to more than just the US

America uses the Month/Day/Year format for a very simple reason. The British used to do it that way. I see "British Reaction to America" videos seem to forget is a lot of what we do here, is just what was brought to the states when people came over to the country. Which is why people say "American" English is closer to the traditional 17th/18th century "British" English than "British" English today.

@Hiraghm

2 ай бұрын

America is a British country. When it stops being British, it will stop being America. I give us about another 5 years.

@WingManFang1

2 ай бұрын

It’s also Month-Day-Year because that’s how it’s literally read when you look at a Calendar😂

@ald7282

2 ай бұрын

exactly. most of the stuff we get dunked on for being different on CAME FROM THE BRITS. like the imperial system of measurement and "soccer." the UK just normalized with the rest of Europe in a lot of ways. we got it from our mama

Got to speak my mind about tipping in the US. I worked for more than one restaurant whose base pay (in 2022!!) was only $2.10 an hour! Restaurant workers can NOT live on that. They rely on tips to get them at least up to minimum wage. I will never forget one night, at closing time, I'd taken a load of dirty dishes to the kitchen to wash, and I heard someone crying. I set my dishes down and went to see what was wrong. I found another waitress, in a corner, on the floor, sobbing. I got down and hugged her and asked what was wrong. She had worked for 10 hours that day. And she was the sweetest, most helpful waitress there. She had only made $10.00 for the whole day in tips. Keep in mind this place only paid $2.10 an hour. This poor girl had only made roughly $30.00 for a 10 hour day. So yes, you should tip. Even for bad service. You just don't know how bad they have it. End of rant. Love you! ❤️

@user-dc7xr6ky6y

8 күн бұрын

No offense, l waitressed too, perhaps waitressing wasn't for her

@bonitasmith8880

8 күн бұрын

@@user-dc7xr6ky6y yeah, you have to have the right mindset and physical stamina to do it. My mom , 3 of my aunts and several cousins were career waitresses. They did it for over 40 yrs and although they'd come home exhausted with swollen feet, they'd tell me stories that'd have me laughing or crying or sometimes ready to go smack someone on their behalf lol. I did NOT stay a waitress for long. Not my cup of tea. I have a very compassionate, sweet nature. And brush most things off. But you get to a point where you are ready to explode. I had to quit before that actually happened. Didn't want to spend time in jail lol

@user-dc7xr6ky6y

8 күн бұрын

@@bonitasmith8880 yes, it's hard, & really backbreaking, l moved into management lol, that kinda $ucked to but definitely paid better

This quote will demonstrate one of the important reasons for guns. "We Can Never Invade America. There Would Be A Rifle Behind Every Blade Of Grass."- Japanese Admiral Yamamoto.

@niamh2739

2 ай бұрын

🫡 🇺🇸

@SImrobert2001

2 ай бұрын

Even then, the idea of an armed populace has been incredibly important to African American rights. There was so much anti-black and anti-minority violence that there often wasn't a day where news papers didn't cover a single story about racial violence. People like Ida B wells, and Ferderick douglas have repeatedly mentioned how necessary it was to be armed, often at all times. there's even entire books (Negroes with guns, That nonviolent stuff will get you killed, ect) That cover just the aspect of self defense during segregation.

@mrgclough

2 ай бұрын

@@SImrobert2001 The is a corollary to the famous Catch-22, which says, they can do anything to you that you can't stop them from doing.

@Yuki_Ika7

2 ай бұрын

Yamamoto was wise for being against the idea of going to war with the USA, but he followed orders, a decision Imperial Japan came to gravely regret

@Stevarooni

2 ай бұрын

​@@SImrobert2001Gun control has a very racist origin, yes.

I'm American and I even find this mind numbing

@cln333

2 ай бұрын

It's ridiculously incorrect. They're very politically based and only discuss things that they believe are "facts". It's pretty gross.

@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms

2 ай бұрын

@@cln333 You're spot on. I've long since stopped watching their content.

@cln333

2 ай бұрын

@@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms I was just recently suggested them. I watched maybe a handful of their videos and was done. It's appalling how much misinformation they spread, based on their individual perceptions. Unfortunately, some probably don't realize a lot of their content is bs.

Bro, you have my favorite reactions. I enjoy how you call out the BS of some of these videos.

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Thanks mate!

@alricaneshama

2 ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser If you go to a resturant and get bad service, you absolutely do not have to tip. What she means is that waitstaff get paid less than the U.S.'s minimum wage. They get paid like $2 maybe $4 an hour. The minimum wage varies by state with the lowest being $7.25 an hr and the highest being $16.28 an hr. So, tipping the waitstaff for good service has become highly pushed because they literally do not make enough to feed themselves, let alone pay bills, etc. And this is where flirting with customers and giving them top tier service comes in. You're basically selling an idea to your customers to be able to afford to live. Now, many would say... Just get a better job. Nine times out of ten it never happens because of the situations they are in. So, they end up stuck in a vicious severe poverty cycle. And the owners and managers are allowed to get away wth basically robbing them, by paying them $2 an hr and $4 if you've got a somewhat decent boss/owner. Now, this low pay happens mostly at restaurants. The waitstaff. And on top of what, whatever the server gets in tips. The managers make them tip the back (meaning they have to tip the cooks, dishwashers, etc everyone that works in the back.) The servers are forced to share their tips, every single server has to tip them. On top of that, cooks, dishwashers, etc. They tend to get paid more than the servers. So, they are literally living on scraps. Usually while trying to go to college and afford their needs and this is the closest place that has hours that doesn't interfere with college. Also a just barely 18 yr old thrown out of the house. A teen mom, etc,. The list of how and why you end up there is endless but the fact remains you are not treated as a human being by most people. Including your own boss. And not only that....But the behaviors, entitlement, etc of the customers gets worse every day. Full grown adults have tantrums at places like Walmart, basically any fast food place, nearly every coffee shop in this country. It's not only physically, but also emotionally and mentally breaking labor. All without being really properly paid or treated as human beings. But, no you do not have to tip bad, rude, abusive, neglectful staff. You tip the good staff. I thought I should clear up that misunderstanding and help you understand why tipping has always been such an important issue here. P.S. Love the videos and I absolutely love your accent.

@alricaneshama

2 ай бұрын

And yes, people do absolutely stop and have conversations about te weather. Especially the senior citizens

@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms

2 ай бұрын

@@MoreAdamCouser Not to be overly political, but WatchMojo is pretty indicative of how the "left" in America view reality. Meaning they live in their own version of reality and believe that everyone that disagrees is either stupid or evil. I have long since given up watching them. I apologize for pointing it out.

@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms

2 ай бұрын

Case in point. Notice how when they say referring to the US as America is confusing (alluding to it as being stupid) they immediately cut to a video clip of Trump calling it America. And the sad part is they don't even think twice about it.

We do have free health care for veterans (VA), the poor and destitute (MedicAid), and for retired people (MediCare). It may not be top of the line service, but it's there if people need it and apply for it. Those who pay for health insurance are those who CAN pay for it. I'm a Navy vet, on Navy disability, and MedicAid.

@margaretconnor5623

2 ай бұрын

Where service can be denied coverage as 'not needed' when it is. There is no denial of service elsewhere. Here, insurance can refuse to cover something and you're fucked. That doesn't happen there. No third party without a medical degree deciding if you actually need the treatment. Can you tell I'm sick of insurance telling me I don't need my medical treatments for my disability?

@cln333

2 ай бұрын

It's not the best insurance though and vets get slighted constantly. So getting free insurance, because you can't afford it, equates to... We'll see what we can do, in a lot of cases.

@margaretconnor5623

2 ай бұрын

@@cln333 Exactly. I have the free insurance and they're refusing tests left and right to treat my disability. I'm tired of being denied treatment when I'm in fucking agony and they have no damn medical degree and are saying I'm fine when my doctor is screaming at them that I'm not. Fuck insurance. Nobody without a medical degree should have any say on what's needed to treat a patient.

@cln333

2 ай бұрын

@@margaretconnor5623 I'm so sorry. I watch my mom going through hell and back in the same type of situation. When I had my first child, I also went through hell. I went through 24 hours of labor before they decided I needed a c-section. That's after my sh!t doctor dug inside me to break my water. I'm not one to complain, but she hurt me like hell. I'm about 18 hours in (after a nurse told me I HAD to lie a certain way) and a different nurse comes in and mentions pain killers. I was only sixteen. Scared to death and told I had to be in excruciating pain for the health of my child. After 24 hours they're checking my vitals and my child's heart beat. I have a ridiculously high fever and my son's heart rate is dropping quick. They rush me into the OR, do an emergency C-section. Mind you, I can feel just about everything. There was no time for full blockage pain. I had three children after that. No problem. But my first was absolute bs. I also ended up with a horrible infection in the incision. I could hardly walk while I was in the hospital and they all treated me like garbage. A week after going home I was changing my son and felt something running down my leg. I went to the bathroom and it was green and disgusting smelling. I called my husband and my mom. They called the doctors and my doctor wasn't available. They told my mom that I'm probably fine. That my sense of smell is just heightened because I just had a kid. My mom knew it wasn't right, took me to the hospital and the fill in doctor wasn't there. He was playing golf. Lol good Lord. Dude finally shows up, drains the infection, then lectures me about smoking cigarettes. I swear... Our system is so messed up.

@cln333

2 ай бұрын

@@margaretconnor5623 damn, I'm sorry for the novel. Lol I didn't realize how long it was until after I pressed send. Fr though... Our medical is absolute bs.

I was born in America but I have lived in the UK for a number of years and traveled a bit. This list is very flawed and I am only halfway through. In my opinion, mostly false.

@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms

2 ай бұрын

It looks to be a Watch Mojo list, and they have a bizarre idea of what is considered "normal" in America... or anywhere else for that matter. Lets just say they seem to live in their own little bubble... which tells you more than it should about their world view.

@lieutenantdiamond5601

2 ай бұрын

WatchMojo moment

It's the same here in Canada. The sticker price is never the price you actually pay as taxes get add on at the register. I honestly wish they'd change this and just include the tax in the sticker prize.

@garycamara9955

22 күн бұрын

Tax is different in different places, cities, counties, states.

Bellamy wrote the pledge with the intention that it could be used by citizens of any country. The original words, before being altered a few times by Congress, were, "I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Here’s why the month is first. If you buy a wall calendar when you hang it you have to know what month to put it on first.

@ZakhadWOW

2 ай бұрын

:SLAPFOREHEAD: Uh NO>. Its a product of converitn the old longhand way of writing date on correspondence [September 20, 1987 became 09/20/87]

@snakepliska837

2 ай бұрын

​@@ZakhadWOW Nonetheless it makes sense. When you look through a calendar; you must first flip to the month, THEN you find the day. If someone first tells you the day; you must wait for the month before finding it in the calendar anyway. Where do you think "the old longhand way of writing" came from?

@michaelvandelden563

2 ай бұрын

@@snakepliska837 weird way of saying americans are too damn dumb too think what month it is hahahahahah

@SupHapCak

2 ай бұрын

Quit being such a stuck up know it all.

One possible cause of the enormous pride we in the US have in our military, outside of the fact that they are just top-notch professional, may be the disgraceful way they were treated during the Viet Nam war. At the end of that war people slowly started realizing how valuable each branch of the service is to our country and the pride started to return. I have only personal experience for this thought, totally without other data. My husband joined the military right after college in 1966 and served for 26 years. Our children and I went with him when we were allowed and waited for him when we were not allowed. The respect we received from society stated to grow slowly after the end of the war.

@Hiraghm

2 ай бұрын

Thank your husband for me for his service. And thank you for the sacrifices you made so he could serve.

it's about .02 cents per large soda (fountain drinks) so it actually costs more for the actual cup than the soda.

@HardcoreLevelingBaka

Ай бұрын

Yep, at the place where I work we sell soda for $3.25, which is only 50 cents lower than what I make an hour, tipping culture sucks.

I don't know about Northern Ireland but certainly in Republic we always will start talking to strangers randomly. On a train, plane, bus even on the street.

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Love this brother! People in Belfast are a bit more rude 🤣

@reindeer7752

2 ай бұрын

I've always found Irish visitors to America to be very outgoing and friendly.

@snakepliska837

2 ай бұрын

Not subways.. Too many drugs there, pretend you're sleeping and mentally prepare for conflict. 🤣

@Hiraghm

2 ай бұрын

maybe that's why Americans are so friendly to strangers... we have more Irishmen than does Ireland, I'm grieved to say.

I chuckled a little at the thought of someone from Northern Ireland being afraid of guns. You can tell this fellow was born after the worst of "The Troubles" were over.

I had a stroke in 2019 and had to be transferred from one hospital to another by helicopter. It was a 10 minute flight from one town to another and I got a bill for $25,000. I was so pissed because I don't even remember the flight.

@Marcel_Audubon

2 ай бұрын

should we let you croak next time?

@leannefowler9912

2 ай бұрын

My oldest daughter had open heart surgery in 2004 as an infant and her hospital bill for 1 month was over $750,000

90% of problems can be solved with "So anyway I started blastin'"

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@starparodier91

2 ай бұрын

It’s Nerf or Nothin! 😂

@HalfUnder

2 ай бұрын

Reading this comment and literally looking over at a wall of guns....ahh Texas lol

@libertybell8852

2 ай бұрын

​@@HalfUnderhey! Not JUST Texas. 😂😉

@LeKarrizzma

2 ай бұрын

LMAOO

Watching mojo and criticizing how terrible the list are is a very American thing to do just look at the comments on their videos 🤣

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

He should get citizenship just for this video 😂

At about 5:05 they cut from the pharmacy to a separate, grocery store. If a pharmacy has groceries they tend to be in a refrigerated section along one wall. It's mainly eggs, dairy, and some convenience frozen meals as well as lunch meat.

@jcruz4759

2 ай бұрын

I'm from Arizona and our pharmacies have a relatively large grocery section with several isles of food and coolers and freezers along the wall. It seems like they are always adding more food products.

When I was on school, we said the pledge everyday at the beginning of school.

@krisfinley6706

2 ай бұрын

Us too. Only the J dubs didn't

@danamcgiffin1150

Ай бұрын

I did too and was surprised when we enrolled my son that his elementary school does. I live Indiana which is considered conservative. Maybe that’s why. I do agree with what the school teacher said on the video “we are all on the same team.” Instead of criticizing dumb things about one another let’s reminder ourselves each morning that we are all on the same team. We can agree to disagree.

@CatInWonderlands

9 күн бұрын

We didn't, went to school in the 80s & 90s

Your reaction to watch mojo was one of the most entertaining things I’ve seen in a while 😂🤣 made my day

I’ve watched a dozen reactions to this video, but you gave one response which was the most brilliant of all! Don’t let them drink at the same age the first few times that they’re going to be able to vote!

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Haha thank you!

@ZakhadWOW

2 ай бұрын

Hell in Utah and many other states Alcohol cannot be bought from liquor stores on Election Day, for the obvious reaseon.

@SupHapCak

2 ай бұрын

Voting age should be raised to 25, because that’s when you’re capable of making long-term decisions.

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

@@SupHapCak Would you put an age or tenure cap on political service, out of curiosity? At the moment, the age gap between the electorate and the ones being elected is big, and while delaying voting isn't a bad idea, doing so would widen that gap even further. Speaking of significant life decisions, would you also increase the minimum age for military service and marriage?

for a big gulp (huge fountain soda) the cost of the beverage is around 5 cents- the major cost is the disposable cup. Restaurants can refill your drink without the extra cost of the cup so free refills is just good service

Drug ads are nuts and often silly. Oh and as for why we write the date the way we say it is coz we can 😂

Loved it when we pledged to the flag

@Bancheis

2 ай бұрын

We used to recite it in grade school every day. I was a weirdo in grade school though. I was raised in a Catholic family, but I became an agnostic very early on when I began to question things. By 4th grade I decided I was no longer going to say it, and that earned me a meeting with the principal and a call to my mother. I somehow talked them into letting me not say it without punishment. I always felt is was weird.

@LA_HA

2 ай бұрын

katherinedinwiddie: Me, too. And we used to sing patriotic songs, too. I loved it

@katherinedinwiddie4526

2 ай бұрын

@@LA_HA bless you!

@LA_HA

2 ай бұрын

@@katherinedinwiddie4526 And you. Bless you

I’m from the Midwest in the U.S. 😂 and we ALWAYS make random small talk about the weather. 😅 I just got back from the store and talked to a random lady for almost 3 minutes about the weather. Not very “risky” talking to strangers where I am from.

The sales tax being added to the price shown in the US makes a lot of sense: you become very aware of the percentage of sales tax that you must pay. Unlike in the UK, where VAT is included in the price shown and basically hidden from view. By the way, most sales tax in the US is somewhere about 6.0% to perhaps 9.5% unlike in the UK where you’re paying 20% VAT (!!) and you don’t even think about it - which suits your government just fine I’m sure.

@garycamara9955

2 ай бұрын

Its 8% in California, and mmost states Ive been in. We aer called Americans because United Statesisns doesnt roll off the tongue.

@garycamara9955

2 ай бұрын

The gaps in the bottom of the doors was required by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

@joehung1552

2 ай бұрын

Virginia had 18% sales taxes on pizza orders when I worked in a call center for Vocelli Pizza.

@jstringfellow1961

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Well said. I bought a meal that in the US would be $10 and then I paid $11 due to tax, however, the same meal in Edinburgh, Scotland was the equivalent to $17 and when I was told that literally 20% was VAT I had to laugh. Don't complain that we add it on the backside when you at least know what you're going to pay and why you're paying it. Just do yourself a favor and add 8-9% immediately in your head so you don't freak out at the cashier.

@SupHapCak

2 ай бұрын

I think we should get rid of income tax (the government gets to dip into your wages before you even see them AND instead of minimum wage being enforced it’s listed pay MINUS taxes) We need a blanket sales tax and if the government was forced to stay within budget it would be enough.

A lady in Uruguay got very angry at me for calling it America because “no it’s North America, I also live in America, just South America” like she was legitimately angry

Your health care isn’t free, yore health care comes from taxation.

@okay_chr1s

2 ай бұрын

tbf with how much america taxes the residents, they could very well make it "free" here too :p

@ajjameson154

2 ай бұрын

we have taxes in the US too. We just send all of ours to Ukraine and Israel. 😂

@catlady443

2 ай бұрын

No we actually spent 2 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the upper 1% of the population. That is what Trump did. Meanwhile my taxes went up 4% that year. I'm just a nurse. He cares only for very rich, white men. He says he cares for everyone. He doesn't. I look at what people do, not what they say

@libertybell8852

2 ай бұрын

​@@ajjameson154there's a LONG list of nations that we send our money to. Ukraine and Israel are at the top lately lol!!

@brucem6442

2 ай бұрын

​@@libertybell8852 yea. It needs to stop also. Time to let nations fall. Pay up for protection or be left for the wolves. That's about how I feel about it anymore.

Watch Mojo is sh*t. I live in Canada, we call America... America.

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Yep!🤣

@starparodier91

2 ай бұрын

Not that it’s her fault, but isn’t the narrator Canadian? 😂

@rogerfurlong1535

2 ай бұрын

@@starparodier91 I have no idea, I only get watch Mojo sh*t third hand

@starparodier91

2 ай бұрын

@@rogerfurlong1535 I thought I read it somewhere, but same. I’m not a regular watcher.

Actually, it's not as far-fetched as it might seem. The harmacy in the opening is a CVS. When the company first started in 1964, it was a chain of low-price discount stores known as Consumer Value Stores. Like most "convenience" stores, it sold over-the counter medications as well as health and beauty aids. [soap, shampoo, toothpaste, makeup, etc.] In 1967, it open its first full service pharmacy in a discount store. CVS Healthcare is now a huge corporation, It might be fairly be called the "Walmart' of pharmacies. It does everything from running convenience stores, to filling prescription; to operating walk-in medical clinics; and much more

@kelleewolfe2834

2 ай бұрын

And pharmacies also sell alcohol, lol! Which I'm not opposed to its just funny..😂

I haven't seen any locks that show whether or not it's occupied in most bathrooms. The bathrooms in gas stations sometimes have them even though most are bathrooms for just one person.

I saw a documentary on the Pullman Company just last month and it said they looked after their employees nicely. I've noticed that many of the YT videos about the US gratuitously bring up slavery, just to be sure to keep it alive, lest one consider the country without immediately thinking about slavery. Like many jobs of the time, no prior education was needed, and that's where uneducated people found employment, no matter what their race.

@RevPeterTrabaris

2 ай бұрын

Please provide the scholarship for this argument. I have never seen this point in my history studies. Are you referring to indentured servitude? If so, there is a huge difference. Indentured servants choose to work this way to pay sponsored travel to the newly formed colonies, or later U.S., or as students to receive "on the job training". Today we call that an internship. Chattel Slavery was not voluntary. After emancipation, many former slaves did continue working as a kind of share cropper. While there is a movement on the political right fomenting a kind of white grievance that is trying to argue that slavery was almost a beloved institution that was there to help the poor blacks, let us remember that those slaves were stolen from their homes and often their families and forced into hard labor as property, not as human beings. Please, for the love of God, let us learn from our history and not try to change it so that children don't have to feel any guilt. No one living today is guilty of that kind of chattel slavery, we are, however complicit, at times, in allowing systems, such as law enforcement, or soft segregation, or allowing for different standards of education based on race. And, I hope we can agree that in the world today, and in the U.S. human trafficking is a real thing tied to the illegal drug industry, and sex slavery. Peace

@mels607

2 ай бұрын

WTF???? are you seriously saying SLAVERY was EMPLOYMENT you absolute dingleberry????

@mels607

2 ай бұрын

@@RevPeterTrabaris he knows the difference, he actually thinks slavery was voluntary because it's a deep rooted racist belief. dude's probably a supremacist.

@koreanjesus95

Ай бұрын

​@@RevPeterTrabariswell said

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

@@RevPeterTrabarisbrilliant comment!

As a US vet, married to a US vet, from a family of US vets, most of us also feel the people are awkwardly obsessed with the military, and they make certain interactions really uncomfortable, tbh.

@jcruz4759

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for that statement, it was needed in this discourse.

I agree with you, Adam, that videos from this producer make very broad statements that do not seem to be well vetted. On the other hand, I have often found more people I know living outside of the U.S. who share many of these ideas, though, with the internet and social media, and the fact that people around the world are learning so much more about each other, and our own cultures as well, that these differences are evaporating. This would have been much more true, I think, fifty years ago, than today. American movies and greater trade, things from all countries are often much more available regardless of where we live. I really love your reactions. Thank you, Adam. Peace

In the US as a foreigner, you will likely not see a gun in public. Most people who own guns have a home defence gun which is usually a handgun or shotgun, and a hunting rifle depending where you live. The majority of civs who carry guns on them are carrying them concealed and you will never know they even own one unless they tell you. It's especially rare to see civs with guns in highly populated areas like cities that often have much larger police forces. But ironically the cities are oftent he most dangerous because the gun crime is so much higher there. In rural areas it's much more common to have you neighbor be a gun owner and they often will use it to hunt or protect their property. I myself have recently killed two skunks that have been tearing apart our ducks and chickens.

Y'all have gender reveal parties now. It wasn't always the case. These are things that are normally associated with the US. But not necessarily exclusive to the US, some things have gone abroad. Like gender reveals/baby showers. We can't help it, that our trends or culture infiltrates into other countries. 😂❤

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

One of our main exports is culture, after all, especially movies and TV.

It depends on context. We sometimes say "America" where saying the "United States" because "America" is more folksy while "United States" is more formal.

@Marcel_Audubon

2 ай бұрын

only uneducated young people say "America" instead of "the United States" - they're aping the British who have been doing this for generations

In South America and Mexico, nobody refers to the USA as “America”. I’m half Mexican, half Honduran, born in the USA, and I remember being in first grade when my dad taught me that people calling the USA “America” is wrong, and calling the people “Americans” is wrong. In Spanish, we call “Americans” “Estadounidense”, with translates to something like “united states-ian” (like Canadian or Cambodian). There’s even a song called “This is not America” by Residente where he goes into explaining what America really is and that it isn’t just the US. The world really does forget that the rest of us exist.

@damuffin91

5 күн бұрын

Lol literally only cental/south Americans cry about this. Literally everybody else on the planet just calls people from the US americans.

Oh my gosh, you are so right about this ridiculous channel. It’s all wrong! You are hands-down, the funniest guy and I’m so happy to be a new subscriber as a gal from California. Honestly laughed so loud. I’m sure my neighbors can hear me. Everything that you cover and do and say is just amazing and fun and thank you!

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Love this, thank you so much❤️

I only get a 20 minute lunch break, some jobs only get a 15 minute lunch break.

@ESUSAMEX

2 ай бұрын

Most people get two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch break each work day

@thestentorian9461

2 ай бұрын

I get a 10

@timesthree5757

2 ай бұрын

I work for myself

@libertybell8852

2 ай бұрын

DEFINITELY depends on the state. In AR, when my teenage son was working, his employer told him that if he worked 10 hours, he didn't HAVE to provide him a lunch. I looked, while technically, he was correct, my son wasn't 18, so those rules didn't apply. He ALSO tried to tell his employees that if they did take a break and got food, they HAD to buy from his on-site restaurant or they didn't get the break. Buy at FULL PRICE, even. No discount! 😂😂 I sent a few emails about it to a few people and he changed his practice quite quickly.

@timesthree5757

2 ай бұрын

@@libertybell8852 you mean Arkansas? I looked it up since 2005 every 8hrs is 30minute break or a 2 15 minute breaks. Every 10hrs is 1 15 and one 30 or 3 15.

@12:12 you're correct in that it's an over simplification and conflating two things.. 🤐 yadda yadda

@Twinkler200

2 ай бұрын

Agreed

When we write the date, its because the vast majority of people say the date as "May Seventeenth," and not "The Seventeenth of May". Its quicker to say and not as clunky, so it made its way into how we write it too

No one is anti military. People may have concerns over how the military is used, but we have a great respect for those who choose to serve.

There were so many things wrong with this video I couldn't even figure out what to comment on lol. Good lord.

Adam, you made A LOT of the same facial expressions as I did watching that drivel! 🤦 😂

Fun fact about the bathroom stall gaps below, it's an International Building Code requirement for accessibility. It's clear floor space for wheelchair legs to be able to turn and approach.

Open carry vs concealed carry are very different and often most people conceal carry. Honestly once you do it a few times it doesn't feel that weird it's kind of like just putting your wallet in your pocket.

@HalfUnder

2 ай бұрын

I'm in Texas and I carry pretty much anytime I leave my house. Just normal to me.

@TheCAB207

2 ай бұрын

@@HalfUnder Maine guy here with constitutional carry as well, it's great like you said it's just normal.

@HalfUnder

2 ай бұрын

@TheCAB207 Yup, it's just a part of normal everyday life. Even though we have constitutional carry here I still got my Texas license to carry. I can carry a few extra places with it but that's not why I got it. I got it because anytime I walk into my FFL I just quickly fill out the 4473, pay my transfer fee and walk out. No calling in for the background check at all since it's already been done.

@karenedwards6713

2 ай бұрын

I never leave my home without my gun. I don't open carry but I have the gun toting pocketbooks. My husband open carries but will usually have a shirt to cover his pistol. I was a a store in line and one lady saw a man that was open carrying and she was going to freak out. When asked why she was upset she just didn't think anyone needed a gun. In the line of people of ten six of us had guns. I told her that if someone comes inside the store with a gun to rob/kill someone then I would make sure to yell this lady is unarmed so rob her first. She went from being cocky to actually realizing her stupidity. A man told her that legal gun toting citizens call people like her targets. We will make sure to not ever protect her, but let her go and reason with the bad guy. She couldn't believe noone with a gun would protect her. Told her we have a right to defend ourselves, but those that are against have the right to become targets and let us know who we need to defend ourselves against. She was mad that we legally had guns and really mad that we would choose not to defend her. Can't fix crazy is the lesson learned that day!

On the Metric system. To explain just think of the oil and gas or automotive industry. Custom machinery built off Imperial system would mean a tooling change that would cost trillions of dollars. Gas prices would skyrocket and cars would cost 100K for a base model. It would last a decade or more to stabilize. Thats the main reason. Imagine a simple thing like a ball valve. Hundreds of millions out there in use in every industry. To goto new machines to bore the castings, the size of the hole, the threads, the size of o-rings etc. Would be a massive issue. Not to mention then all the piping for every house, tubing in cars, water pipes etc... When I worked on the Super Collider project they tried this. Either ordering most things from Europe or having manufacturers retool just for the project incurred astronomical pricing. Metric vacuum seals were 50 times the cost of same seal in Imperial. We were paying 5k a seal that could only be used once. And cost was main reason we got shut down in 1992. Ibelievee if wewould have just used imperial you'd have never heard of CERN. It woulda been built in Texas. 10 times larger too.

In the 1980's I was a volunteer rescue squad member. We relied on donations and grants for our upkeep. The county that I served in took over our squad and began to charge patients for my services while I volunteered my time and skills. When I found out from a patient that this was happening (no notice from the county that this was happening), I quit. I thought I was giving back to the community by volunteering to help those in need when they were actually being charged a fee that was not covered by insurance at that time.

On working: At certain office/corporate workplaces, in particular, people are often pressured to work longer hours than what they are scheduled as way of "showing that they're a team player." In some, taking paid time off/vacations is even subtly discouraged, even though more than 2-3 weeks of vacation per year is seen as "generous" at many companies. On drug prices: The cost of those advertisements is folded into the price people pay for the drugs. Note that the vast majority of drug *development* costs are paid for by tax money. Drug companies charge people extremely high prices and make egregious profits per item (e.g. charging $200+ per bottle for insulin that cost them $15 to make until recently) here because nobody in government is stopping them (with VERY rare exception), and they pay bribes...er, I mean, "use lobbying" to make sure things stay that way.

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

Lobbying is such bullshit 🤬

Sales taxes can vary by area (even smaller than states). Some cities or counties vote for a "penny sales tax" (SPLOST) usually to help fund infrastructure. So one city might have 8% sales tax, and next city over has 6%. But really, that's something too detail-oriented to know for a simple visit to the US. Just be ready to pay more than the price you see under the item. For taxes.

@Hiraghm

2 ай бұрын

you can literally walk from one part of Oklahoma City (say, Warr Acres) to another (say, Bethany because they touch) and have to pay a different sales tax.

Canadians will only say "I'm going to the states"

Not every state has a state sales tax. Only minimum tax on prepared goods, such as at the grocery store on hot food you can eat right away. Sales tax on furniture, cars etc. Our government does not offer free medical services.

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

There actually are free health insurance options (Medicare for seniors and Medicaid for low-income people), but they aren't available to everyone, and the coverage can be limited (you might still have out-of-pocket costs even with insurance, e.g. blood tests, specialists, certain medications, medical equipment, etc).

Lol that bamboozled me too...but I do like the month/day/year format and the non metric system 😂😂😂

Adam you are so American! I agree with you and love you bud! Come visit Chicago when your BB is older!

I could write you a book about why the tipping is the way it is. To make it short, most states have a law that restaurant servers are paid $2.13 per hour. Servers are required to claim 100% of the tips that they get, as wages earned. So, they have to pay taxes on all of those tips. If the amount of tips they claim, isn't at least 10% of the total amount of sales that a server had, our government will hound them. Since the server has to pay taxes on the money they make in tips, the $2.13 they make per hour, all goes to paying the taxes. So, for example, if a family paid a bill of $50.00, but did not leave a tip, the server ends up having to tell our government that they got a $5.00 tip. If the restaurant had to pay servers a higher wage, the menu prices would go up, potentially, a lot.

@nathanmclaughlin304

2 ай бұрын

Thats not true about having to claim the $5 tip. I used to work for $3.25 an hour as a waiter and yes you live off tips, but to be fair, most need to treat people nice to get better tips. If you treat people like garbage, you dont deserve a tip. Goto San Francisco, where they get minimum wage and force a tip as part of the bill. Wait staff have no incentive to treat people like they should. I have seen waiters tell people to leave for having a different political opinion, and they still get min wage and a 15% tip. Thus, the reason restaurants are closing down in Commiefornia. Tips are a performance evaluation for every customer interaction. It's actually the best way to do it. If you deserve a tip most people are generous and will reward good service. If you work at starbucks or Subway, you dont deserve a tip. You already get minimum wage. If that's not enough to live on, get a better job. If you agree to a contract, then whine you dont get treated fairly, then Do Better and find a BETTER job. It really is a simple concept.

@darrinlindsey

2 ай бұрын

@@nathanmclaughlin304 It's absolutely true! The IRS requires that a server has to claim 10% of their sales, as tips made. If a table doesn't leave 10% on a $50.00 bill, the server has to make up the difference.

@nathanmclaughlin304

2 ай бұрын

@darrinlindsey I have literally never seen that. If you actually have a receipt that shows no tip, you are not required to pay 10%. Where I worked gave us a printout showing how much we received thru tips every january. And yes, it is income, so you have to pay taxes on it. But if you are making 50K a year as a waiter, then you should. Even with the tips, I always received a refund during tax time. Also, tipping isn't REQUIRED in America unless in Commiefornia where they started putting it on ticket as a service fee. Even then, you can refuse it. I believe in tipping only if you do your job to the customers' satisfaction. Tipping is NOT required in America. And btw if you can show me where in tax code it says what you are saying, I will apologize. The last time I had to worry about it was over 8 years ago, so something could have changed. H&R block always did my taxes back then, and they never said anything like that. Maybe because I had the printout.

@garyporterfield7165

2 ай бұрын

EVERYBODY WANTS TIME OFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, AND EVERYBODY TRIES TO NEGOTIATE AS MUCH TIME OFF AS POSSIBLE

@garyporterfield7165

2 ай бұрын

It is absolutely not about the employees when it comes to how much vacation time and time off they get, it's the goddamn company they work for that determines that!

Is it bad that I found myself watching the Hey Bear video in the background? I'm pretty sure I still know all of the music to all of those videos. Theat used to be the only thing that could get my little man to calm down. I still see dancing fruit in my dreams.

Adam let me tell you my experiences with health care costs. In '07 I had both knees replaced at the same time, and between the surgery, hospital stay, rehab, and home nurse coming to my home 3 times a week came to right around $500,000. And that doesn't include the months off work and the revenue I lost there. Now in '22 I became a double amputee, losing one foot and half of my other foot. For the surgeries, rehab, and initial prostheses, as well as home nurses coming in 3 times a week cost roughly $600,000-$700,000. Now the prosthesis for my entire foot is another $25,000 for a permanent socket (what my stump goes into) which lasts only a couple of years and that will be for the rest of my life. As to the ambulance expense, they won't deny a ride, instead opting to bill the patient directly. These costs are usually $750-$1,200. You see now how we go bankrupt from medical bills? As to the question as to what mojo is smoking, the answer is simple - WAY better than I've ever had. And I smoke weed regularly! If you want to know more, just ask!

@Hiraghm

2 ай бұрын

yes, we go bankrupt from medical bills because of our health problems and the expense of treating them.

thats something i dont get at 18 you can enlist into the military and die for your country but you cant drink a beer

@ruthsaunders9507

2 ай бұрын

You can when you go overseas but not stateside.

@Marcel_Audubon

2 ай бұрын

used to be able to drink when younger, but abused the privilege, so it was taken away .. when I was in college, the drinking age was 18 in my state

@emilyrln

19 күн бұрын

Because beer, unlike war, is dangerous! 🙄 make it make sense

@ruthsaunders9507

19 күн бұрын

@@emilyrln It sounds silly but in the military you're far more likely to get hurt in an alcohol related incident than any war related activity.

The midwest actually LOVES to talk about the weather. I hear 'welp, it wouldnt be so bad if there was some wind' or 'that sun sure is bright today, muggy too' at least 1000× per summer. I held a 10 min convo about the weather with my aunt 😅

@fandomtrash4348

Ай бұрын

Also, the nationalism in America IS rampant, especially when it comes to the military. Propaganda is CRAZY here, and while they praise the military here, they don't take care of them after service. In fact, most of our homeless population ARE veterans.

Toby Keith. . . “Red solo cups, I fill them up. . . Let’s have a party”!

In Japan it is considered a huge insult to tip. They believe that tipping basically insinuates that the tipper was basically bribed to receive better service when it fact that stellar service is the standard. The Japanese take great pride in the service they give and a tip spits in the face of that. Like it or not, its a horrible practice in the US. People should be paid a living wage and not have to rely on handouts to survive, especially since they work just as hard as anyone else.

@fermisparadox01

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but ask any server if they want to go on an hourly wage. Which is what they make if business is slow. It's required. They generally make very well off tips.

@Twinkler200

2 ай бұрын

Germany also can view it as an insult.

@fermisparadox01

2 ай бұрын

@@Twinkler200 Germany has terrible service. 😳

@supersizesenpai

2 ай бұрын

​@@fermisparadox01 First, they only feel that way because people in the service industry don't get paid what they should be so hourly looks like shit compared to the potential amount you can make on tips. Second, not all wait staff do well on tips and you are entirely at the mercy of the people you are serving meaning zero consistency. I was a server for 2 years and it was the roughest working years of my life financially. I remember handling a table of 9 people and they ran up a 1400 dollar bill. I busted my ass for these people and at the end I only made 23 dollars. 23 fucking dollars on a 1400 bill, man I was ready to set that restaurant on fire..😂 Sure, you have the potential to make more from tips but you give up on the consistency which is important when it comes to paying your bills. You think my landlord cares about my 1400 dollar story? No. What he cares about is me having that rent money on time. Every working person deserves to be paid properly. Tips should not make up the bulk of what you live on.

@paulmartin2348

2 ай бұрын

@@supersizesenpai I am impressed you got $23 in tips. With your attitude not only would I not have tipped you. I would have talked to you manager and made it very clear that they would have a very satisfied customer if you were gone. Forever.

I've seen another reaction video to this and I have to say it again... I know plenty of people that are not from the US refer to it as America. Lol that's why everyone knows where you're talking about. Baby showers have been a common occurrence for Idk how long, but people more recently started the whole gender reveal thing.

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Yep!

Adam keeps us all entertained 💚💚💚💚

I'm on the same page with you about the craziness of this video 😂

Bro I live in Canada and every other add is a pharma add. WTF is this chick talking about?

Your my FAVORITE KZreadR

@MoreAdamCouser

2 ай бұрын

Thanks bro’

@Twinkler200

2 ай бұрын

Same!

I totally agree with you! Her saying America obsesses over the military is extremely insulting. My husband spent 19 years in the Air Force, fought in 3 wars and numerous “Government Actions” to aid other countries, and he incurred a traumatic brain injury that ended his military flying career and changed his entire life. When people approach him to thank him for his service, he is very humbled but also very grateful to know people appreciate the life he gave and the years away from his family and all the holidays and birthdays, sports games and dance recitals he missed because of the deep need he felt to protect the people of this Country and that need was greater than the desire to fulfill his love of being with his family. He truly is my hero, and we don’t think America is “obsessed” with loving their soldiers. It’s called gratitude for being able to walk the streets at night without fear of bombs and missiles being fired at us.

I love your video reaction. It's real and not pandering. I Love it!

I will never get back the 28 min of my life for watching this mis information 😂😂😂😂😂

@tarihannah3565

20 күн бұрын

My pharmacy sells a lot of groceries

@tarihannah3565

20 күн бұрын

You dont have to tip. Its called a gratuity but its expected. 20 percent! We dont obsess over the milatery but we respect it

@tarihannah3565

20 күн бұрын

Every state. Is different with sales tax. Ours does not have it. The state next to us is 10 percent

@tarihannah3565

20 күн бұрын

Growing up, we said the pledge every single morning

@tarihannah3565

20 күн бұрын

No ambulance ride ive ever heard of is 450. Its way over 1000

We use DD/M/Y because we started as a british colony, and before the 20th century, Britain used the same format. It was changed in the 20th century to match the european standard.

@paulmartin2348

2 ай бұрын

If no one knows who you are, saying "We use...." means nothing. Now I will leave before I end up saying what I really think of you.

@jonok42

2 ай бұрын

You mean, month/day/year.

@jonok42

2 ай бұрын

​@@paulmartin2348the fact that the topic of the video is thing that people in the US do that others don't kind of make your point moot. It's a given that the OP is speaking as an answer to the points in the video.

@OberWanKenobii

2 ай бұрын

@@paulmartin2348 Well let me say what I *KNOW* of you: You're a sped

T.I.P. stands for "To Insure Promptness", it was done as appreciation for good quick service.

I literally only finished the vid for you Adam...this was torture 😅

Americans do NOT obsess over our military BUT we ARE damn proud and thankful for our military. Whoever this woman is she is so far off base she just dropped off the planet. From watching many videos from around the world here on YT and I've realized we have way more in common than we have differences. We Americans like our free time and enjoy it but the businesses here do not offer vacation time the way many foreign countries do. Sales tax varies from state to state, there are states that don't have payroll tax but their sales tax is higher than states that have payroll tax. We pay federal tax, Social Security withholding and in a lot of states we have payroll tax as well taken out of our paychecks. Freedom ain't free. Metric system, most products we have now have both metric and imperial measurements labeled on them.

@nip9898

2 ай бұрын

We kinda do obsess over our military, especially in the south. Not saying it's a bad thing but it's definitely true

@Marcel_Audubon

2 ай бұрын

veteran worship is out of control in the US ... cringey people walking up to complete strangers (who are paid by taxpayer dollars and have the most generous and complete benefits of any working group in the nation) and saying "Thank you for your service!" as if the were recognizing unpaid volunteers is gag reflex activating!

@chaseseeney6082

2 ай бұрын

​@Marcel_Audubon it's out of respect to be willing to fight and die for your country

@paulmartin2348

2 ай бұрын

@@Marcel_Audubon You can get a job somewhere and get paid as much as they do risking their lives to defend you, while you hide in your office (or bedroom) with your soy latte being a pile of woke worthless trash disrespecting the very people who risk/give their lives to afford you the opportunity to run your pathetic mouth. Well done.

@ElyonDominus

2 ай бұрын

@@chaseseeney6082 They don't die for the country - not since WWII - they die to ensure and protect profits. Thanking someone for their service because they get to play target practice with humans to make sure CEOs get their money.

May 27, 2024 is memorial day. It's a day to honor those veterans that are no longer with us. I believe most Americans forget that. 😕

@sunnihunny

2 ай бұрын

So correct

Best part of drug advertising on TV is when it lists "death" as a side effect Like yeah I'll just have the allergies

Me! I like small talk with strangers because sometimes you learn interesting things 😂

Watch mojo.. honest opinions?

@chrisb9891

2 ай бұрын

Watch Mojo is hit and miss, but some of the videos are on point. It's amazing here in 'Murica that the drinking age is so high, yet if you follow a lot of politicians of a "certain persuasion", they're trying to push child-marriage. So not old enough to drink, but old enough to start makin' babies. UK and Australia are both starting to look like better options in my mind. So stay where you're safe Adam, we may all be joining you.

@memelord3117

2 ай бұрын

It's trash

@misshaps1527

2 ай бұрын

Nah. I don't favor them but you make it times better.

@ThisIsMyRealName

2 ай бұрын

Watch Mojo is a Canadian youtube channel and can be both very biased and ill informed with their content..

@livelifeTOrcr1p

2 ай бұрын

Trash videos because they don't do any research or sometimes even think

when i was young the drug store closest to me had a huge tobacco section ... it no longer does .. but grocery stores that have their own pharmacy still sell lots of smokes

@jcruz4759

2 ай бұрын

I'm from Arizona and it seems like there's a Walgreens pharmacy on every corner, they still sell tobacco. It's crazy.

@shades23

2 ай бұрын

@@jcruz4759 I'm in BC Canada... Grocery stores still sell tobacco. But they are not allowed to advertise or show any of the packages. So you have to pretty much know what to ask for... Everything is kept in drawers out of the view of the customers. In my city we have 6 big grocery stores. 4 sell tobacco and have drug stores inside them. Walmart doesn't but has a drug store... And I don't think iga has either its pretty small in comparison. When I was a kid I'm pretty sure each cashier at the drug store had some behind them for sale.

And in pure Adam Couser fashion, he laughed immediately at the Family Guy

The small talk about the weather is definitely a thing over here, and it can happen anywhere, at the barber shop, if you're a service worker going into someone's house and they just want some small talk, standing on the street corner, in line at the grocery store and just about any other situation you could imagine yourself in where you're standing next to someone you've never met before. Which isn't necessarily a requirement because it could be someone you know and small talk about the weather is still probably going to take place.

Been watching for a while and I gotta say I love the new content but not because I’m from the states but mostly because I think I needed a small break from family guy 😂

On the free refills, there’s an amusement park a couple hours from me that has unlimited free soft drinks and sunscreen

In the south we perfected small talk!!😂😂 We can insult you and you still walk away with a smile! Ie: "bless your heart"😂😂

I've seen a few people on the internet make a fuss over "America" vs "United States" and I'm not sure where they're from. But Canadians, Mexicans, Chileans, Brazilians, etc don't say they're from America or even North/South America. It's not confusing for anyone. It's just something people like to nitpick us over.

As a parent, I was captivated by the HeyBear video in the background lol

Most ambulance companies don’t submit a claim to insurance until the patient contacts them and provides their insurance, and sometimes have to fight with them to bill the insurance. This also a charge that insurance will pay regardless of whether or not they are in network with the patients insurance, this is because the patient has no control over which ambulance company is used.

You normally wouldn't go to the pharmacy for milk, it's more like you go to the pharmacy for the pharmacy, but you can pick up a few things while you are waiting for an order to fill. It is a bit unusual, but you can't deny the success of convenience. Don't need to grab a lot? Have an order to fill? You don't have to go to two separate places. It makes money.

21:46 You're allowed to be wrong lololol

@deadassdgaf100

2 ай бұрын

FACTS why would you say the date 1st?? 😕 mental.

When my daughter go rush to the hospital, I got the paramedic bill when she was driven to the hospital, the ambulance was charging $650 per mile and that was back in 2011. The insurance had to paid for it, once I sent the bill to the insurance company.

I’ve had doctors prescribe me medication‘s before without telling me all the side effects so I like that there are ads to tell me what’s available, what the side effects are, and where I can look up more information. Something you see a lot of ads for are meds for psoriatic arthritis, which is something I suffer from. And thanks to a medication I heard about in a commercial my hands work again and my skin has almost completely cleared up.

Many of life’s greatest questions can be answered with “because politicians are dumb.”

Everyone that I've ever talked to from other countries have always called us Americans and America I mean the USA is the only country with America in our full name how is that confusing mojo is wack

@Marcel_Audubon

2 ай бұрын

try talking to older generations in your very own country - they never refer to their country as "America," only the uneducated generations do that

When I was in West Virginia., the pharmacy chains not only had food but a full liquor store...not just beer or wine.

I had to restart the video cause I realized five minutes in I was just watching the dancing fruits and veggies and not paying attention at all

"Brand Name" soft drinks generally cost about $0.09 for 2 liters. This includes manufacturing, transportation, and retail "storage" costs. Fountain drinks actually work out to a cost of $0.01 for an extra large drink. The "average customer" refills a medium(or larger) cup once. The people who buy extra large don't refill "on average", but it's close. Might as well say they do. So it costs them $0.01 and they charge between $1.45 and $1.90, almost all profit. The only thing the food places care about is making sure there is a decent supply chain in place.

Having lived in Trinidad and Tobago, England, France, Germany , Spain and Belgium, I confirm that 1. I have never heard a Spaniard or a Belgian talk about their army. Germans actively avoid it. 2. Disposable plastic cups are not usually red (most often they are white) and are typically smaller than solo cups 3. You won't find peanut butter in Carrefour, Auchan, Delhaize or any of the big continental grocery chains... unless they put it in the 'foreign goods' aisle for a limited time as a novelty item. Incidentally, it's also super hard to find cheddar cheese 😢. 4. I get a 1.5hr lunch break. I do think my lunch break was shorter when I lived in the UK though.

I've had a few jobs where we only had a 15 minute lunch break. Some jobs will also do two 15 minutes lunch breaks you cant take it all together either. I've also had a job working 12 hour days with no days off.