Bro i tipped a chick in a pub in the UK after she served us an amazing meal and gave us the best service i ever had anywhere and she was so shocked she almost cried. She tried to say she couldnt accept it but i told her I am American and she deserved it and it would be offense to me to refuse. She gave me a hug. Such a sweet girl. I hope she is well

@nathanmonahan6157

3 жыл бұрын

I personally wouldn't have said it would be offensive to me, I feel that may have put some undue pressure on her. but explaining it's part of our dining culture and she deserved the recognition of a job well done was certainly a good thing.

@recoomedoom6117

3 жыл бұрын

Tipping is mostly just an American custom.

@itshaydenmitchell9958

3 жыл бұрын

As a UK citizen for for 22 years I can tell you this is bs we still tip staff in the UK regularly

@eillo6501

3 жыл бұрын

As a chef in the uk, I can confirm this is bs. Tipping staff is normal. Some places also include the tip in the bill. Most people tip unless they’ve have a terrible time

@lightlysal

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanmonahan6157 i concur completely

CONGRATULATIONS on your citizenship Luke!! Our country is now a little better for having you as one of our own!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

@yoohoo775

3 жыл бұрын

Hey bro, edit the comment lmao. It’s Luke

@sparrow420500

3 жыл бұрын

@@yoohoo775 OOPS

@yoohoo775

3 жыл бұрын

@@sparrow420500 lmao

@roguewasbanned4746

3 жыл бұрын

Glad he can come enjoy the economic turmoil with the rest of us

@Aaron-is8yt

3 жыл бұрын

@@roguewasbanned4746 I was thinking that, probs not the right time for America.

"Who's got that kind of time to be sitting in a café for hours?" *Slowly raises hand*

@rickymarkfebrero9470

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh xD hahajhaja

@bombomos

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh you are one of those

@makfrags14

2 жыл бұрын

Teacher: what is the answer to this question? Me: slowly raises hand cuz I'm shy

It sucks because table-servers at restaurants are *for some reason* exempt from minimum-wage laws, so tipping is more than just polite - it's essentially expected.

@omfggala3913

3 жыл бұрын

it should be criminal, its just greedy businessmen getting away with this crap because they can, and at this point its too accepted and ingrained in the culture that it will likely never change.

Prices for things here in the US definitely depend on where you are. Some states, things are rather cheap, while others can be quite expensive. It would be interesting to view a video about differences between the 50 states, as a state like Maine can be quite different from a place like California.

@chrishouterman4772

3 жыл бұрын

Maaaan i got a $15 meatball sub in NYC, and I was like....”thank you”??? Im used to $8. And im only one state over in N.J.

@beernwork

3 жыл бұрын

One that got me bfe Iowa five bucks for gallon of milk, Avg just outside Detroit 2.79.

@ryanweintraub9448

3 жыл бұрын

Cries in Long Island NY

Man, you have achieved so many subscribers just with reactions and gaming, good job man! I'm also proud for you to be one of us, Don't be hard about sales tax because I'm bad at it and math too!

@jack.20f74

3 жыл бұрын

My grandpa told me the best way is just to pay a dollar extra for everything, or round up the higher the price goes.

@SummerTSD

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention he has gained subs from many different communities including scp, warhammer, gaming, and military.

We refer to "Sales Tax" as "Theft" and don't want the general public thinking we added that nonsense in there.

@backyardshenanagins1720

3 жыл бұрын

Looking at you government...

@bombomos

3 жыл бұрын

For real. It's straight up some bullshit

@dillonguy3536

2 жыл бұрын

XD I spat my drink out reading this! funny yet true.

The only reason for the date thing that I can see is how we say it. "It's June 24tth (2021)". That's just the general order people say it (at least, from everyone I've met). I don't think I've met anyone that naturally says "it's the 24th of June (2021)". The first option just flows better. And presumably, because we say it like that, our writing convention changed too.

The thing about sittin in the back and front of the car, what is think is.. "sitting in the back has the feeling of the driver being your servant" and "sitting in the front seat making it feel like your companions or partners"

@TrippyEagle

3 жыл бұрын

if you'd see cab drivers over here, you'd think twice about that partnership :D

@bombomos

3 жыл бұрын

No one wants to be driving Ms. Daisy

@TrippyEagle

3 жыл бұрын

@@bombomos you are a taxi driver for a reason, it isn't called friends car share :D

@TrippyEagle

3 жыл бұрын

@@bombomos do you sit in front in an Uber?

@thomas2130

2 жыл бұрын

I go on the back seat because the passager front seat have an higher death rate in case of accident than the backs seats. Here i live it's called "the Dead-man seat".

Fried PIZZA??? Where is my bolter? I need to end this Heresy to the emperors most liked food this instant!

@qualitigma7440

3 жыл бұрын

Italian Mafia approves of this comment.

@BigBex

3 жыл бұрын

... Fried pizza is originally a Naples dish tho brother, check the codex astartes more thoroughly and you will find the truth!

@ricwalker6600

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigBex only because something is done in the imperium, does not mean it is not heretical, brother! And as a space wolf i can savely say, that the codex has his merits but is not flawless and can be exploited by the heretics. And for the live of me brother, i refuse to fry a pizza as a supported action by the codex!

@jbj101jbj

3 жыл бұрын

yo NEED! to try a fried mars bar

15:40 apparently its because we adopted it from the British but you changed it later on but we haven't. So we stuck with month day and year while you changed to day month and year.

In regards to the "It takes a village" quote, the full thing is: There is a saying from my home It matters not how far you roam I see the truth of this each day In every small essential way Young child, how this so fits you In every little thing you do No matter how different, strange or wild It takes a village to raise a child

Potential video idea: Doing a taste test of your favourite US and UK snacks!

It seems like we get in trouble when we take vacation or sick leave

@citisoccer

3 жыл бұрын

Considering about 50% of this nation lives around the poverty line, I'd say it's because they feel the need to eat and have a roof over their head. Broke people can't afford to take vacations, in any way, shape, or form.

@wazzupidaug5

3 жыл бұрын

I got "demoted" to a lower grade task for 1 week because i called in sick one day. Def happens

@scarwing2492

3 жыл бұрын

@@citisoccer 13%

@imo8491

3 жыл бұрын

@@scarwing2492 Careful now. Facts don't care about feelings. This is a safe space

@wohlleber6

3 жыл бұрын

@KZread bans me Frfr That’s what I’m talking about. You should not have to feel guilty about it. I personally don’t let this sway me, howeverI’ve had other people come up to me that’s are close friends of mine and say that they always get treated like they caused a problem because they were sick or has taken a vacation even it it was only for 2-3 days for some personal time.

Fried pizza made me spit my drink. Now THAT, that's a level of culinary audacity that'd do America proud. Bravo. Also, tips are a different thing when you're at a little mom n' pop restaurant. Olive Garden is definitely trying to shake you down, but at family run restaurants, the tip system helps pay the employees more than the restaurant itself could afford. And a lot of the time, the difference in that wage goes into your portion and ends up on your plate. It really helps small restaurants to put out an incredible meal while keeping the lights on and still getting the servers paid.

So the free refill on basic sodas, teas (iced), and coffees (hot) in the same way that ice water is free to begin with offering free refills is simple because the single glass of soda is not enough for a diner to ration through waiting for their food to come, eat their meal, and then endure the time waiting for the rest of the group to finish eating and conversing. Because of this the overall pleas of the experience is diminished and is reflected when calculating the tip. ALSO it encourages some of the group to order extra items like desserts and crafts drinks if they don’t see that their opposite at the table is slowly sucking on ice cubes to keep from getting a dry mouth

Interesting fact about US teeth, our diet consists of allot more sugar and glucose than in most other countries which results in us having a fixation on teeth/smiles.

One weird thing (supposedly because of the water), pizza and bagels are next level in the north east. If you end up moving away from the northeast, it’s impossible not to notice.

@ryanweintraub9448

3 жыл бұрын

I will fight anybody who says NY bagels and pizza are not the best in the world

@chrishouterman4772

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanweintraub9448 As an NJ man myself, I can still stand by your statement. We will accept a respectable 2nd place lol.

the month-day-year thing makes sense to me in only one way: months can only go 1-12, days can go 1-31, and years are in the 2020s now. so, even though the actual time isn't as long, the numeric value is still higher.

My best guess for why we do the “MM/DD/YYYY” thing is because when verbally saying the date, we’d usually say “January 1st, 20XX” as opposed to “The 1st of January, 20XX.” So naturally, the way we said the date became the way we wrote the date.

18:00 I once read somewhere that the big gap is there so people don't have to crouch down to look if someone else is in there

You definitely should make a video on the differences! And any sneak peaks on the bus? That sounds awesome! Edit : just subscribed to originaladventures :)

I love these longer Saturday morning videos.

Thank you for joining the US family, your videos are awesome

Okay to answer the Month/Day/Year and Day/Month/Year conundrum: It makes sense when you speak it out loud. If you're telling someone the day it feels more natural to say something like April 16th 2021 rather than the 16th of April 2021. That's why it's Month/Day/Year in the US.

When he said about shoes indoors he made me proud as an Asian

Growing up, I actually adopted the apparently foreign concept of taking shoes off indoors. From wealthy family members trying to keep clean, to my Brazilian/German best friend and his family, I got enough funny looks to cause me to just take shoes off by default. I get looks for that as well and have even had other Americans act somewhat offended when I remove my shoes, as if to say I feel they're overly sensitive or something (seems ironic). I personally wear house shoes at my place now, so my foyer looks a bit more Japanese lol.

You gotta let me know when you're close to the border dude! Congrats on your citizenship from Canada! I'd love to even just get to see you and tell you how much you make my days better! Have a nice day and enjoy life! Also, as soon as I get a bit of money, I'll send you a bunch of Canadian candy and food! We have some pretty good stuff!

Congrats!! Glad to have you!

I think the smiling thing is just the fact that so many Americans have to work in the service industry, so we are just trained to greet everyone with a smile.

The most common theory about the date thing in the US is that it's emulating the most used spoken order. For example: This video came out on May 15th, 2021. Translating it one-to-one would be 05-15-2021, whereas going DD/MM/YYYY requires flipping the order you would take to say it.

18:40 We actually totally do have Jaffa cakes now! It's not the same brand (it's something like Pimm's), but we have them. Even better (worse?), we also have Digestives in some Kroger stores. Like... actual Walker brand biscuits and such.

Great vid love the page. I was wondering if you might be able to do a reaction video of ridiculousness/ or a box opening of food from the U.K

If it hasn’t been mentioned, the date thing is done in the same way it’s used in speech and writing. We rarely say 24th of September 2012. We say and write September 24, 2012 so it carries over into the shorthand.

little story, was working as a drywaller and one odd job we had during the slow season was replacing all of the bathroom stall doors in an office building with shorter ones, the originals came all the way down to about an inch or so off the floor the new ones were the ones that show most of your lower leg, and the reason for the change "too many workers were having sex in the stalls"

Imagine being confused watching this being in the us

@swwwsss7870

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@jamesblaser799

3 жыл бұрын

It's just a joke lmao

@jaycastro6392

3 жыл бұрын

I am in the us

In the USMC we wrote the date in a DD/MM/YYYY format. It took time to adjust to the change when I returned to civilian life.

Fun fact in some countries with tipping its been more and more of a thing where tipping instead of going to employees in place of higher wages it goes to a pool where most of the tips go to the resteraunt and only a percentage is split between all employees basically countering the entire point of tipping.

As far as I know tipping started during prohibition, with out alcohol restaurants didn't make as much and couldn't pay as much but after alcohol was legal again restaurants didn't raise their wages back up

As an American, one of the ones I hear a lot is that we have commercials for prescription medicine and that's weird. To be fair, even for me that seems odd, like if my doctor recommends something I'll just take that. I'm not going to insist on a type of medicine just because I liked their commercial.

The reason we put the month before the day is due to the month being a smaller number normally. 1-12/1-31/0-9999 is a good way to look at it.

What is even more strange to foreigners is just how diverse and complex the USA really is, its grown common to see taxis and garbage trucks and package/food delivery services all have a more hands on approach, deliveries are dropped by doors, garbage picked up from the street, and in the case of taxis well hop in and they'll take you where you wanna go, where as where I live there are no taxis and no citizen servicing garbage retrieval, if we go somewhere WE drive there or we don't go, when our garbage cans fill up, we either pile it somewhere nearby to wait until there is enough to load onto a pickup truck and haul to the landfill ourselves, we have to worry about loading, hauling, unloading, and cleaning up after it ourselves, or we just throw it in a burn barrel and burn it, if it can be burnt and then shovel off the ashes. As for package delivery, they usually just leave it at our mailbox, some are near the houses, in my case its a quarter mile trek down and back up an old jeep trail that isn't fit for a log sled, and there is no Uber eats or Dominos delivery here, if we want "Micky D's" or pizza, we have to drive 30+ miles there and 30+ miles back, an average trip usually consisting of roughly 2 hours travel time, just to get a burger and fries!

2:49 that I balive comes from ww1 and 2 where everyone was encouraged to work to help out with war efforts

love this content!

Would actually love to see a video on your experiences as to what is different between us and uk.

You live in Maine. Until fairly recently it was 6 cents on the dollar. If you're good at math it's not hard to figure out. I am not good at math so I employ the rounding up to the nearest Dollar method. It usually works pretty well and I end up owing less at the register than I've added in my head.

@JMM33RanMA

3 жыл бұрын

The problem is that not everything is taxed, and not all things are taxed at the same rate. In MA food [including candy and soda] is not taxed if bought in a store, but if you buy a sandwich containing the untaxed elements the sandwich will be taxed. Clothes costing less than $100 are not taxed in MA, but are taxed in other states. In MA there is one state sales tax, but in some states, cities and counties add extra sales taxes and some states have different exemptions or none. In MA restaurants there is a meal/sales tax of %6.25 to which you are expected to add a tip of between 10 to 20 percent. Because MA is a major tourist destination, many restaurants add a service charge [especially for groups] to the bill so if this is 10% add an extra 5% to 10%. The US is especially complicated because it is an 18th Century federation, more like the EU than like a single country. Massachusetts, by the way, has the oldest written Constitution in continuous use, dating from the revolutionary regime that usurped British authority in 1774, which wrote the current constitution in 1780, and continued governing. some parts of our government are just rebranded colonial institutions. OH should be sure to visit the Statehouse and tour the historic sites. As a former Royal Marine, a visit to the USS Constitution should be particularly interesting.

@sparrow420500

3 жыл бұрын

@@JMM33RanMA Jesus, Mass is a confusing state. No wonder you all turn into Massholes! 😜 JK. Kinda. 😜

@JMM33RanMA

3 жыл бұрын

@@sparrow420500 Only bad drivers deserve that label. MA consists of two of the three oldest English colonies, it has more traditions, and the oldest government in the country. I'm glad that the Puritans are gone, they seem to have moved west and south, though some may be hiding in the forests of ME and NH. Having local accents and cultures isn't necessarily bad, though the presenters at the Mayflower using a phony [though supposedly accurate] 17th Century British accent is a bit too much.

@sparrow420500

3 жыл бұрын

@@JMM33RanMA I was teasing with the Masshole thing. I have lots of family living in MA and my wife is from Salem. I support NE as a whole. VERY BEST region in the world!

@JMM33RanMA

3 жыл бұрын

@@sparrow420500 MA has a Human development rating in the highest level, between Norway and Switzerland. So yes, it's like Scandinavia, and as expensive to live in, though I think beer and seafood here are cheaper. I was serious about the bad drivers. Boston takes a bum rap, though, as the drivers in Quincy and Brockton are actually worse.

Ok so about the pharmacies. Here in America, we are really fast paced at everything. We walk fast, eat fast, and shop fast. Hence why we have alot of stuff in one store.

I live in Iowa. Everywhere is 7% sales tax except Des Moines which is 6%. It doesn’t just vary from state to state, it can vary from city’s to city.

My theory about the American date format is because there are fewer months than there are days, so it's ordered by the quantity of the date segment rather than the most actively changing segment. Which, if you think about it is kinda funny considering countries want the most commonly changing numbers to be read left to right while time formats are the opposite, with the most commonly changing numbers are last.

Drive up/through everything (pharmacies, ATMs...)

Don't forget about fried ice cream. I'm american and I was 14 when I found out this could even be possible.

I remember going to Hungary and getting in trouble for taking a shower! I stood rinsed, washed, and then rinsed off. Then got yelled at fo it. i was supposed to turn on the water rinse, then turn off, then wash, then turn back on and rinse off! Also toilet's don't flush with an automatic gallon and there was a little shelf where the water should be! I had to rake my waste off and then flush it down so gross! I also remember hookers and brothels where like everywhere. I drove down the Auto-bahn from the Czech Republic into Slavakia and there were 2 mobile homes with naked women standing outside waving in truckers it was crazy! Glad your here mate keep up the videos good on ya!

In the military we did the date as day/month/year. It was weird and confused the hell out of me for a while.

@AdonijahFinch

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Israel and they do that here so now i never know what to put when I do the date

@bulletsandmilk1985

3 жыл бұрын

@Adonijah I hope you’re safe right now.

@sparrow420500

3 жыл бұрын

@@bulletsandmilk1985 I am thank you. I am no longer in the military. But still keep many habits I learned. lol

@AdonijahFinch

3 жыл бұрын

@@sparrow420500 I think he was talking to me because I live in Israel and it's under attack by gaza at the moment

@sparrow420500

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdonijahFinch Oh, well I hope you're safe too. I saw the tweet Gal Gadot put out. I feel the same as her. It's terrible what's going on over there and that she's getting so much negative shit l for wishing peace!

If you come to Texas, make sure to come to the state fair in September. EVERYTHING there is deep fried. I especially love the fried Oreos.

Luke there is actually a reason why they have the stall doors so high it is in case of medical emergency. If someone passes out paramedics can more easily get them out and or open the dooe

So glad you Live in the USA, not that it matters where someone lives, just nice knowing we share the same land.

In regards to Number 11, I live in South East Idaho which is a desert and summers here are hot and dry. It can get 100 degrees starting in July but most often than not it’s 90 degrees. So yeah the AC is a must need or you can endure the unforgiving Idaho summer.

#20 Not using our vacation hours: I believe it’s due the Puritans who were some of the first immigrants to the North America from Europe. The “Puritan work ethic” has been ingrained in our culture ever since. It’s also been reinforced by generations of immigrants who were used to working backbreaking hours in very labor intensive jobs who saw opportunities to get ahead if they just put the work in.

This man is more patriotic than alot of other Americans

Glad ur here bro!!!

I was smiling the whole time watching this vid

17:30 There are some rest stops in Texas that inexplicably have bathroom stalls that are shoulder high...

It's awesome that you are now an American citizen!🇺🇲 We need awesome people like you in this country!🙂

In 1986 I was a Florida State University student, and did my student teaching from January to April in London as part of the London Study program. I took out a student loan to go, and it was one of the best choices I've ever made! I remember wanting to get something to eat when I first arrived, but couldn't identify anything on the menu, so I ordered what the man standing ahead of me ordered. I hadn't studied the money either, I'm ashamed to admit, so I for the first day I had to offer my coins to the cashier and let her take what I owed. I have to admit I was embarrassed by some very loud and pushy Americans that I saw while I was there. Since it took a good amount of money to travel then, I attributed their bad behavior to being spoiled by wealth, because money can often make people self-centered and rude, and I believed these unfortunate Americans were such examples of that. But who knows? I visited Edinburgh Scotland during a long weekend, and it was an AMAZINGLY beautiful place, even though it was cold and misty most of the time. The green rolling hills, the lochs, the cobblestone streets, and the castle were all magical...like being in a fairy tale! But more than once I was reduced to awkward idiocy trying to understand the English as it was spoken by the lovely people I met there. (I was a dumb kid who didn't prepare nearly enough!) I learned first hand the truth of the old saying that America and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. Scotland is a breathtakingly gorgeous country with so many warm and friendly people! SO worth visiting! I sure enjoyed this video, OriginalHuman! Thx for sharing! ❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Outstanding video

Luke, you can find Jaffa cakes in some stores. Also the American version is made by a company called Pims.

In re: voice volume - totally a regional/age/class thing. Even volume and patterns of speech on the phone varies incredibly wildly from state to state. It ends up with 212 being the most hated area code for national customer service centers, unless you understand how to shift your mind into 212 mode (that is talk over the customer if they're doing the standard aggressive holding space typical of New York.)

Here on Brazil restaurants and others places say that tipping is your choice but it is not, its forced on your tab and if you refuse theres a good chance of them cutting parts of the waiter's daily wage and/or get very pissed off

In re: dates. It's because we started with Month-dd-yyyy, eventually becoming MON-dd-yyyy, where in the month was fully spelled out or abbreviated to three letters, and that was in place when we started having to record the month as numbers because of computers. Here in the Pacific Northwest "December 11th" sounds a lot less formal than "the 11th of December", leading to DEC-11-2013, instead of joining in the fun for 11-12-13. (We still did enjoy 11-12-13, though, just in November...)

Pickles are absolutely amazing

Iced tea is so good

As a person from Canada I can tell you that we price stuff similarly except, as far as I'm aware at least, typically, everyone knows what the tax is (13% in Ontario)

Month/Day/Year is just how we mericans were to say it in a convo. I would never say "I was born the 7th of November" but "I was born November 7th is more likely what i'd say."

The thing with tips. You could have one large group come in and spend $400 in an hour. That would be $40 in a single hour, most tables you will only make a few dollars but some people will tip more than 20% and the servers can usually make more money than they would with a set wage from the company. I believe restaurants are obligated to make sure their servers are making at least minimum wage.

Ouch #20, my managers threatening to write me up and fire me because i missed 7 days this year, 6 of which was from throwing up blood The kicker is im from up north Edit: for those wondering its stress related blood vomiting, so ill be fine its just my job is awful lmao

@dogethe1st725

3 жыл бұрын

yup

@mole7601

3 жыл бұрын

Walk it off and get back to work!

@kattleavitt290

3 жыл бұрын

@@mole7601 legit she said i could “put my mind to it and overcome anything” bitch, i stress puke blood from working here

@paulll47

3 жыл бұрын

I heard a lot of similar stories from friends who emigrated to the US, I come from a shitty country (Italy) with few job opportunities and said few opportunities are mostly paid under the table by bosses who would rather see you dead than lose money. If I have to emigrate to another country and be treated the same way I better remain here or, better yet, remain in Europe for something better.

@siralex7876

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulll47 Italy isnt shitty. Solo per il lavoro fa schifo.

My best guess for why we use mm/dd/yyyy, is because when someone asks you what the date is in real life, most people respond with mm/dd/yyyy. "What is your birthday?" "January 2nd 1980" would be the common response. Not very common in USA to say "My birthday is the 2nd of January, 1980"

Fyi the reason for the bathroom stall is so if an emergency happens in the bathroom they have easy access/entry to helo you

Welcome man if you ever make it down to Florida check out some springs they are the hidden gems of Florida that not many people out of Florida know about there are tons of them

Felt the urge to respond to the date thing, lol. When looking at a calendar, do you look for the numbered date first, then the month; or do you find the month first then look at the date?

@KeeperOfTartarus14

3 жыл бұрын

I had the same thought! But we still use empirical instead of metric as well soooo....you win some you lose some

I’m from Maine too i’m sure i’m late to the party but welcome to Maine!

The reason a lot of people here in the US are against free healthcare is because nothing is really "free." The difference is letting the government provide universal healthcare that everyone pays for via taxes, or having private insurance which covers your healthcare on a need-based basis. Public programs like free healthcare, free college, etc. are all similarly controversial since they would typically raise the taxes here significantly. Everyone wants what they think is best for the country, but many people just what is "best" differently.

@TheSpencer1000

Жыл бұрын

I know, old comment, but I just wanted to add that while yes, taxes would raise, but your expenses for health insurance would drop more then your taxes increase because of the simple fact that private insurance is profit driven, public insurance is not. The biggest reason I see people being against public insurance is that they distrust the government. While its true that public insurance should cost less, many believe that the government would screw us over and it would just cost the same or more, while also having worse quality care. I disagree with this, but its kinda impossible to change someones trust in the government. Especially when it shows incompetency so often.

The thing about those working for tips is... they usualy earn way more than they would if they worked for minimum wage and, since tiping with money is really hard to track, most will lie about the amount they received and be taxed a lot less than they should and it's extremely hard to prove. So the tip culture, like you call it, is actually pretty good for everyone. The business pay a basic wage to the employe but keep more money than if they paid minimum wage, the employe get basic wage from the store but earn the biggest part of their earning through tips and weeks of $1800 or not rare, that's a whole lot of money.

For the sales tax one you can add it up like normal and then multiply it by whatever percentage for your state like in Michigan it’s 6% so you would multiply by 0.06 and you would get the price of the added tax so you can add it to the total

The way the stalls are like that is for medical reason in case some one is injured or passed out the paramedics can get them easier in case the door is locked and shoes in doors where I live we do it because snakes and scorpions get in the house

The shoes indoors depends on the part of the country you live in, for instance in Alaska you take your shoes off before you go into the house.

If you're ever near Cincinnati, check out Jungle Jim's International Market. Probably have the sweets you want.

How you were talking about the shoe thing, i live in America and i have lived here my entire life, i was born here, but my family take's our shoe's off at our door to keep mud and dirt out of our carpets but also my sister has a compromised amune system, but still i love your video's.

Servers DO make a living wage, and the employer is not cheating them. It is how our system developed. The employer COULD pay more, and then the price of food would be higher to compensate. They would know their hourly wage is guaranteed and would have less incentive to be extra friendly and attentive (servers in uk/Europe aren't nearly as kind and attentive). Tipping gives the customer the chance to provide instant feedback in the amount we tip also.

We write MONTH/DAY/YEAR because an American is more likely to say MAY 5, 2021 instead of 5 of May 2021. Besides, Americans do not want to be like everyone else. America is a special place and we do things in a special way.

Fun fact but in case if you don't know but the reason in this country tips are appreciated is because they were introduced in 1938 new deal because the us at the time was going chaos at the time and were going through a great depression people needed ways to make money so tipping became the new normal and I do agree that restaurants do need to pay people more regardless how many tips the worker gets as well as that I also agree that the sells tax is a little annoying because you don't know the exact price you pay for food and supplies it wouldn't be bad thing if they included that might also make it easier to figure it out and how much exact change you need or money for that stuff

AC all day? We do that here in Hong Kong too, it is hot as hell here most of the time, rn it's like 30+ degrees celsius! Malls, train station, Hong Kong is the AC haha

If you want to you could buy a smart mug that keeps your tea, cofee, cocoa and whatever you want at the temperature you want.

Love the vids mate. My mom's Scottish. Go to trader Joe's. They have Jaffa cakes. Tea biscuits and all the good candies. Hope that helps.

I would love a video about the differences.

Pharmacies/chemists being one stop shops.... they were made that way to get around blue laws in many US states. Until the 1970s/80s, most places had some sort of laws where stores couldn't be open except for gas stations and pharmacies (due to medicine). Also, Walgreens and Boots UK merged a few years ago.

The farmacy part is mostly untrue in most places in the us the closest thing u will typically find that's closest to the things u find in any other type of store is toylet paper and maby snickers bars but those are everywhere because America

The whole pharmacy is a convenience store is because of the way US cities are planned, especially after the Interstates. In the inner city between "downtown" and "the suburbs" the poorer the area is, the more likely it is to see a pharmacy-convenience than a smaller pharmacy that just does medicine (OTC and prescription.) More affluent areas are more likely to have neighborhood pharmacies rather than chains, and can count on courteous customers and get by on just the medicine. You'll find pharmacy-convenience often in "food deserts" where the only options available on foot are convenience stores and chain fast food.

FYI alot of Americans dont want free healthcare because it would force us to pay an insanely high tax and the wait times that go along with free healthcare are also very high

@19:07 not true “mate” lol and @20:55 not sure who you seeing. It’s Always been a thing with my family. Doesn’t matter who’s house it is. Oh and one last thing @21:55 it’s a touchy subject. Unfortunately people who want it don’t understand the consequences too it. And where in Maine? Have you been to Boothbay Harbor? It’s an amazing place to go.

Sales tax doesn't just vary state to state, it varies by item and even locations within a state.