ARE WE CRAZY?! Americans React To "American Things Europeans Can't Understand"
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It’s crazy to me how many Americans ACTUALLY believe it is the greatest country in the world
It's so strange because different parts of the US are almost too different to compare because it's so big. So a sweeping statement like 'greatest country in the world' is meaningless because your quality of life massively varies depending on which part of the US you are from and whether or not you were born into money. In many other countries, there isn't such an inequality of wealth/life because they are smaller. Japan springs to mind, they don't even have a class system, basically everyone is middle class
They are well brainwashed and ignorant
I think it still is from the founding days when in Europe people dreamed about this new world where you are free and everything is possible. Over generations this image stayed without a possibility to verify it... it stays until now...
They dont believe it really, just like when they stupidly say, I Love my Country, another pile of Crap.
I’m amazed by how many Americans think America IS the world!
Ok guys, you specifically asked us what we think about guns! Ok, here goes....
"A gun is just a tool!" - I agree, but it is a tool with only one purpose in life...to kill! A hammer hits nails, a screwdriver turns screws, a gun kills. Nothing more.
"People need to be trained in their use" - Cool, let's make everyone more efficient at killing. The death rate won't go down after that! (That's sarcasm by the way. Lol)
" If you want to hurt, you'll find a way" - Sure but not with such efficiency and lethality. Stabbing someone is much more up close and personal and way less likely to be involved in mass killings. A gun is lethal from, what, 100's of yards away and will penetrate buildings etc, putting EVERYONE at risk.
"This is the way" - Nah, that was the Madalorian, sorry.
The only way to reduce the death rate is to severely restrict the acquisition and ownership of weapons. If it takes 3 months of investigation to get a gun, what's the problem? If you qualify, you will still get it, if not then forget it. Then keep it securely locked away. If you breach the conditions you lose your licence and your weapon. Simple as.
I still enjoy your vids though guys. Keep it up, and stay safe.
As another European, very well said.
100% agree. There is no other meaningful purpose for a gun other then killing/hurting people (or animals). Tools are made to help workers and people in households to do necessary and common activities more safely and more efficiently. It's literally a tremendous difference.
Impeccable comment. Many americans are just complete dingdongs when it comes to guns. I still cannot believe it was suggested to arm teachers in schools. Unbelievable. Utterly ridiculous.
Yup, you put it quite clearly, agreed.
Well said. As someone who remembers Dunblane, and as a Scot, I really don't want to see that happen EVER again.
y’know, here in England we got rocks in pretty much every garden, every street, everywhere really. Yet I cannot remember the last time some kid took a rock into school n caused havoc! Can’t remember the last time I heard a bank being robbed with a rock. Surprising really!
You say that, but in my primary school there were villains who purposely picked up snow with rocks in them during snowball fights
Aside from my stupid jokey reply, I do agree with you. If someone has something that can cause them to get what they want, it makes evil actions a hell of a lot easier to carry out, and much less time spent thinking of the consequences I guess.
For instance, if I want to shoot someone in the UK, (to start with I wouldn't know where to even start) I'd have to go through so many steps, and fear, and distrust of criminals selling illegal guns. And fear of the police finding out I had a gun. There are so many steps to deter or otherwise make me realise my intended actions.
So I completely get you
LOL, put the most English way possible, dripping with sarcasm and facts, As an Aussie I approve.
I’ve worked in a bank 13 years and I can absolutely confirm we have not had a single rock incident 😂
And it’s not a ‘nice’ town really, rough af, also thanks to the fact we don’t have guns available at our local Tesco/Asda .. we don’t really get incidents with those either - at least we don’t walk around thinking we gonna get robbed at gun point
I’ve had that once and it was dealt with in an extreme way! Like so rare …. Hell they’re removing all the screens in banks now - all open plan (well till covid of course but that’s not a security or risk issue)
@@ohlookitsmikey Ngl… we did have some ‘gravel’ snow … but dirt snow was more common … just a ball filled with dirt so made it horrible
But come on - we got a snow day probably once in 2-3 years here - had to make the most
"Can you imagine, 4 weeks of vacation"
Swedish workers got 2 weeks vacation in 1938, in 1951 they got 3 weeks, and in 1963 they got 4 weeks, since 1978 everyone gets 5 weeks vacation, and some gets even 6 weeks.
"Imagine how much you could get done and how little guilt you would have if your son got sick".
If your kid get sick? What does that have to do with vacation? Taking care of a sick child is hardly a vacation. If your kid gets sick you use your "VAB-days" ("Vård av barn" which means "Care for kids"), not your vacation days! Parents get to share 120 VAB-days per year. If you're on vacation, and you get sick, you call in sick, so you won't waste your vacation days on that, so you get your vacation later. Same thing if your kid gets sick during your vacation, then you change it to VAB, and get your vacation days later on.
And when you get sick you get 80% of your salary!
Brainwashing works!
If I tell an American that life expectancy in Cuba is higher than it is in the U.S. or that virtually ALL COUNTRIES outside the U.S. have something like parental leave, he thinks I'm a communist nut.
Exactly! I was shocked they thought about touching their vacation with a sick child. I am a Czech, and we have VAB (OČR here) too.
Was coming on to say that. Sick day and sick kids days are in addition to vacation days. It truly baffles me that Americans accept the crappy workers rights over there.
I actually don't call in sick if I get sick on my vacation, but maybe I should. I didn't even know I could do that. But it's not a big deal for me. I have 32 vacation days (6 weeks + 2 days) so I have plenty of vacation anyway.
I'm from a European country, and I don't understand why you Americans are still crazy about guns?
It endangers your children whether they are victims or perpetrators...a child makes and will make mistakes, and then if a firearm is available, a child's mistake can be fatal, with many families destroyed .
And all that for the right to firearms...isn't your children's lives more important?
Your children have to go through metal detectors, here in Europe children go through a colorful gate, which is then welcomed by their teachers.
Your kids are allowed to pass a cop first.
This is just incomprehensible.
And looking at firearms as a tool, I personally think it's a weird vision... tell me a tool of the common man... who can mow down 60 children in less than 10 minutes?
I agree with you fully- a gun is a weapon moreso than a "tool." It's purpose is to maim and kill, it doesn't even really "protect" as at the end of the day someone will end up hurt, whether that be the victim or the perpetrator.
That said, "a tool of the common man capable of mowing down 60 children in 10 minutes" could probably be any old SUV or bigger car honestly. Which is another problem America has- how needlessly huge their everyday cars are.
I've never even seen a gun that wasn't being held by military or a huntsman.
I read a statistic a while ago that, simply by having a gun in the house, you raised the probability of yourself and others who live there to get shot by a factor of 11. This includes suicide, accidents, sudden attacks of "GOD TOLD ME TO KILL THEM!!!" and someone else breaking in and shooting you with it. So - nope - a gun in the house does NOT protect your family.
Even if you completely ignore that fact - all that "protecting myself or my family" stuff never works. If it did there should be significant numbers of "good guys with guns saving the day". And way, WAY less gun deaths.
And the solution to this WOULD be easy - you guys just don't want to. Because "murrica! Muh freedumb!".
The rest of the world has places where everybody carries a gun too. We call them "warzones". Outside of those in a civilized society everybody carrying a "tool" that is made to hurt or kill others (and *nothing* else) is grotesque.
@@BritishPolak_303 Or an American.
Jup a weapon is not a tool! In german criminal law there even is a distinction between a weapon and a dangerous Tool for the actus reus of dangerous assault.
The "if someone wants to hurt people he finds a way" is bs as well as its a pretty f*in big difference if someone easily gets his hands on an automatic rifle and mows down his classmates or if someone can‘t get his hands on anything comparable and has to use a knife or whatever a knife is dangerous but it is not in any way a comparable danger to any gun thats why most uk cops only run around with a baton or why the Last "shootings" (Bit fucked up that an assault on a school in the us is immediately tied to gun usuage dont you think?) in german schools were commited with knives and a crossbow and an alarm pistol and the death tolls were waaaay lower then any us shooting in some cases even nobody was killed but "only" hurt. Between 2013 and 2022 there were Zero Shootings in german educational facilities (in 2022 we had three since January which is enormously weird and the reasons for the sudden increase are being invesigated but still there were "only" 2 deaths) and still the us holds onto its Guns for dear life even after maddening events like the uvalde shooting where 21 people died 19 of them Kids its insane!
Any business that can't pay a living wage to its staff is not a viable business. Tipping to make up wages is a crazy system. Put the prices on the food, or whatever, up front so the staff are guaranteed a living wage. That way, customers won't be rushed out of restaurants because the staff want to quickly get another set of customers in to get their next set of tips. In Europe, we sometimes spend hours enjoying a meal and a chat in restaurants and won't get hassled to move on (within reason).
Just returned from Florida. It was so expensive and then they add 18% service charge. It’s extortion!!!
Halve the size of the portions, increase the quality and pay your STAFF!
We personally like hanging out in restaurants or bars a while, so it's crazy you mention how that's totally cool over there!
Almost every single "Americans rect to" video that mentions how restaurants DON'T have to pay their waiters an honest wage has the reactors trying to justify it. So what if it's younger people who are waiters!? If they're doing the job and putting in the hours, they deserve to be paid. Imagine your college professor standing at the door of the lecture theatre, cap in hand, waiting to get their wage from student tips. What if you had to bung your politicians a wad of cash to represent your views in.... Oh, wait. Scrap that last example!
Also any government that condones the practice of paying less than a person needs to live off whilst the company in many cases makes more money than they'll ever need is evil.
I'm not against people getting rich but businesses like McDonalds, Walmart and Starbuck should not be allowed to make billions a year and at the same time have staff that can barely make ends meet those businesses are the ultimate demonstration that trickle down economics doesn't work, because if they did the employees of all the major retailers would be among the best paid people.
It is insane that a country is so adamant on not having social healthcare but refuses to make sure that it's poorest can at least afford to have the insurance they need if they do get ill.
Correct me if I’m wrong but aside from hunting, most Americans keep a gun for protection against a gang of nutcases breaking into your home to do you & your family harm. This poses 2 problems in my opinion. Either you keep your gun handy by your bed & risk one of your kids (or friends) playing with it, or you keep it locked away somewhere - which makes it pretty useless against a home invasion.
The problem with your argument is you are bringing reason and logic into a debate with Americans on guns, where illogical reasoning, passionate delusion and complete ignorance rules.
Want to know something funny? Several studies have shown that during a home invasion or a robbery on the street, your own gun is more likely to be used AGAINST you. Unless you're in a war zone, you don't sleep with a firearm at the ready.
Exactly my thinking, I have never understood how guns are supposed to protect you at home unless you leave them irresponsibly accessible at all times.
Most americans don't do anything...there are 350+ million of us...
You're right that any implement can become a weapon. However, you aren't chain-sawing a concert crowd from 200 yards away. A guns only purpose is to kill, all other implements that CAN kill don't have it as their only purpose. Great reaction again though😊
he lost me with rock argument lol
I know some people think it is a stupid saying but it is really is the fact that guns don't kill people, people kill people
Indead, if you want to cause harm without a 'gun', one generally has to get up 'close and personal'. It's a different state of mind that's required.
@@booradley8895 Yes, that's true, but people kill with guns. If that's hard to believe, check the homicide rates and see what is the proportion of gun caused homicides. Now, if guns were just like rocks, I mean neither kill people by themselves, what is the percentage of rock caused homicides? If both of them are just tools by themselves, why they are not equally used to kill?
@@booradley8895 yes, people kill people, but that doesn't mean we need to make weapons of mass destruction available to make their killing easier.
In the UK I couldn't own a firearm for legal reasons, but I can go to a clay pigeon shoot and fire shot guns all day if I want. Or I could join a gun club and fire pistols all day. I like the UK way, it is far more regulated but that isn't necessarily restrictive. We do still get to play with guns here, it's just better organised. Also, we've had 0 school shootings since we banned guns for the general public. Farmers all have guns and gun club members have guns but they keep them at the range. No one needs an assault rifle. Wanna play with that kind of tech? Join the army.
I live slightly across the water and we can have basically any type of weapon and zero gun crime. Almost like it’s nothing to do with the item and everything to do with people. All the UK got was accelerated knife crime and criminals/ government having firearms.
It was a pure genius government tactic to tell everyone guns are the issue to unarm everyone. Certainly makes their lives safer.
@@hellzellz1022 You are almost correct. But you seem to be implying there is something inherently wrong with UK people. People are people everywhere.
Now, if you'd like to argue whether the UK has enough social security to make crime a sub optimal choice. I'm all ears. But please be coherent about it.
So what about the extremely high rates of knife violence in cities like London? Also, I've seen gangsters flexing guns in brixton out in the open in 2004-2006. But I'm sure the gangsters will stop carrying guns if you tell them it's illegal....... England is a violent country, its just different kinds of violence. Being stabbed isn't better then being shot. 🙄
You can legally own firearms in England. Just not handguns. You can purchase and own shotguns and rifles if you apply for a licence and install a gunsafe. You then need the premesis inspected by police. But you can if you really want to.
Well in france you almost can't legally have a weapon except if your a military or policeman
The only weapon you can legally have is for hunting and you need a permit for it and also be near and use a field which is meant to hunt
Those gun are not automaticly but still we are fighting to stop it since we had some incidents in hunt territory
So in the end i feel secure because unless you are a gansta living the gangsta life, you will never meet the end of a gun in france
One of the things that gets me from watching various CZcams videos is how often Americans 'call the cops'. Can't get served in a shop? Call the cops. Have an argument over parking? Call the cops. A customer thinks a server is being rude? Call the cops. Neighbours arguing over hedge clippings? Call the cops - and so on. They call the cops over every little thing and the cops turn up! If you tried to call the police over such trivialities in the UK they'd just laugh at you. The checkout operator in Tesco has just been rude to me .... yeah, right, sod off!
You call them because you have been jumped and beat up for your bike and it takes 3 days for someone to turn up to take a statement. 🤔
They'd actually charge you for wasting Police time. That's if they even turn up, and that's something no one can say for certain.
I think it is healthier way of approaching things. When people do not want to compromise, they need the third party that can solve the problem. Ofc it does not have to be the police, but lawyers are expensive. I am from the third world country and people solve all the problems by force. Stronger person is right person. However, in Germany even using washing machine at night might cause neighbors to call the police.
@Jenjenilou You can actually do that in the US?!?? 😲 Seriously...
@@altayyerassyl3213 yes, bcs u can wash during daytime, when no neighbors are sleeping next door. We take it serious with our quiet times and no noise disturbances, and tbh, I love that. I love a quiet, peaceful environment.
I was pretty drunk the night before my cousin's wedding in Connecticut, and had just bought a round for the groom's party which came close to $200. I told the barman to add on 5% for himself. It was basically 10 bucks for 10 minutes of pouring drinks which to me, in that sorry state of mind, seemed like a good deal. I got the worst daggers from him the entire night, and didn't realise why until I got back home. He expected me to add on 40 bucks of my own hard-earned money for 10 minutes work? Like, come on America. Pay your goddamn bar staff, it's not my responsibility!
Exactly! That tipping culture is something we don't really have *at a'll* in my country...
On the bread and sugar thing, Subway bread has too much sugar to be legally classified as bread. They went through court arguing that bread as a staple shouldn't be subjected to tax, the court threw out their argument because their bread contained too much sugar to be classified as bread. No tax break for Subway.
In bread should be only flour, salt, yeast, and water. Nothing else! It is not a cake after all. Disgusting!
My father recently passed away, I called my employer that morning and explained that I wouldn't be working, they cleared everything in that 3 minute phone call so I had 10 days paid compassionate leave, topped up to 14 days with my paid annual leave. Then they sent me a nice bunch of flowers. When I returned to work, I wasn't rested as organising a family funeral isn't restful, so I booked a further week off (Also paid) for myself later that month. This isn't at all unusual in Europe (I'm in the UK) and is how it should be!!
Yeah for us european it's normal, i never knew it was that hard in US
Between that and the legal gun god i feel better at home (france for me)
you get 1 vacation day in germany when a family member died. but you can go to a doctor and get all the time you need. paid.
my employer told me in a telephone talk "you get 1 day but i know you. go and get a sick note. call me when you feel better and want to come back"
Why should the livelihoods of servers depend on diners? Why should diners carry that burden? It surely must be the employers duty to provide at least a living wage not the diner.
One of biggest culture shocks in the US was the tv. It's always been unwatchable due to the ads, and worse, it has junk processed food ads followed by heavy pharma ads for indigestion! Don't people get the connection? lol. Overall, I found this vid sad, that you're so captured and exploited by capitalism, they take everything, not even your physical and mental health is safe.
Few americans watch tv either except for sports...which i don't
I was at a strip mall in rural Indiana where the liquor store couldn't sell me a beer because it was a Sunday, but the gun store next door was doing a roaring trade. Now, THAT'S weird.
I had an interview for a job with an American company at their plant based near my home. During the interview thw woman from HR stated that (and I quote) "we're American owned so we work on Boxing day (December 26th) but you get and extra day off at Easter" - That's the point where I thanked them for their time (it'd only been a few minutes) but there was no point in continuing as I would not even consider working for them on any day never mind December 26th, got up and left the building....nope no way sunshine I'd been working nearly 40yrs by that time and not once had I worked December 26th....and I wasn't about to start
Screw that, even we know you need Dec 26th off like normal people do!
So many retailers open on 26th. I hated working it. I used volunteer to work New Year’s Day so others could do Boxing Day
@@aussiepom it’s a difficult thing working around holidays but it’s something some people have to do. I worked in a place that closed one day a year. Christmas Day. I’m married and wanted Boxing Day off it was easy because the younger people who worked there wanted new years off. I’m a non drinker so I’m happy to work NYD
@@fayesouthall6604 wouldn't it be great if there was more people working for less time overall, get a good living wage and be happier at work and then have more folks, who could volunteer for the holidays, with those shorter hours more ppl included and a nice bonus on said days as well.
The average age for a McDonald’s worker is 28..
These are NOT teenager jobs anymore
It was talking about waiters in restaurants. I think a mc Donald’s worker does not need to be tipped?
@@uncle.d. the average age of waitstaff in restaurants is 28, as well.
I understand how you feel with guns being a hunting tool and people in your home town not having malice. However, if someone from your hometown developed mental health issues and/or snapped one day they have access to an extremely deadly weapon. I’m from the UK and if someone snapped one day they simply wouldn’t have access to and could not easily at all gain access to a weapon like that. The issue with mental health is that it is often silent and people can easily hide their struggling.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong, hunters using guns as a tool do not need semi automatic/automatic assault guns. There are obviously way too many guns in the USA and many people unwilling to give up their guns, that banning them would be near impossible, but surely leaving the military style guns to the military would help with mass shootings and the overall safety of citizens. If someone had to reload often and couldn’t shoot 10 bullets a second, it would greatly reduce casualties. But that’s just my opinion as a British person, I understand that there might be more nuance to this issue.
Love the vids btw!!
The problem are not people with mental health issues. In fact these people are less dangerous than the general public.
Plenty of rocks of all shapes and sizes ppfff
Tape measure, screw driver, rocket launcher. All just tools
Two common causes of firearms fatalities are suicide and crimes of passion. In both cases people are not thinking rationaly in the moment.
Subway were legally not allowed call their bread "bread" in Ireland as it contained so much sugar. It had so much sugar that it was legally deemed to be cake. They had to lower their sugar content to call it bread.
In bread should be only flour, salt, yeast, and water. Nothing else! It is not a cake after all. Disgusting!
I've commented this before, but as a Brit growing up in Manchester, colloquially known as Gunchester, I've never even heard a live gunshot and I absolutely love it that way. I'm close to 50 btw
Gunchester long bloody time ago mate, fellow Manc.
Guns were stopped after a school was hit by a shooter. Actually the tennis player Andy Murray was a little boy in the school when it happened.
I'm totally with you. I'm German, 51, and I'd say our countries are about on the same level re: gun related crimes and the related topics. Definitely much closer together as to the US. "I've never even heard a live gunshot and I absolutely love it that way." - perfectly put. :) I find it absurd for people outside of warzones to run around with deadly weapons. That doesn't feel very civilized to me.
If you (the reader) are American - imagine travelling to a country where everybody is carrying a sword on their belt, ready to be used. Wouldn't that feel kinda weird?
Everyone should know how to shoot and gun safety ... war always comes and there is no time for training..it's just too late
I remember being completely appalled by those pharma ads when I first went to the States. It simply shouldnt be allowed but then the USA is ruled by the pharmaceuticals
Who watches commercials?
I'm from the UK and happy to blame the French for everything 😉🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂🙌🙌🙌🤘🤘🤘🤘👍🏼brilliant!
That's understandable though
Quite right,c’est vrai.
They still haven’t forgiven us for Agincourt.. 🏹🏹🏹🏹
Norwegian here who didn't understand your comment about how little guilt you would have if your son got sick. Paid vacation days are completely separate from sickdays. If you or your kids get sick, you stay home, easy as. (fully paid). If you get sick during a vacation, those days will also count as sickdays, and you'll have those vacation days refunded. Most norwegians have 5 weeks or more of vacation per year, plus all public holidays.
1:42 - yes, to me as a British person, it seems so strange that prescription-only medication is advertised on TV to the public. It SHOULD be the doctor who decides which medications you need. They are there to assess your health and to help your medical conditions, and if you need a certain medicine they will prescribe it. The general public don't know enough about these pills to make an informed decision, or if it will even help at all. The GP does know that.
It's another argument why socialized health care should be promoted. It takes profit out of the equation, cause even the doctors in the states aren't unbiased in their decisions, pharma reps hold meetings with doctors all the time offering them more favorable deals if they use their medicine over another brand.
If the government are the only people in charge of buying in prescription medicine not only does it increase the quality it also lowers the cost cause if the Pharma companies only really have one customer and that customer is the government then they need to put a check on their prices otherwise the government will just go with another company.
@@24magiccarrot I agree. Here in the UK, the government gets a GREAT deal on the medicines, because they buy in massive bulk for a low price. We get the same medicines for much, much less. We don't even care about the brandnames of the medicines, just that they have the active ingredient. The government will get the cheapest deal on the right ingredients, as long as it's a legit company making it. I think the Americans call these "generic" medicines.
Do you know about the marketing pharmaceuticals do to doctors, the bribery they engage in with doctors, the deals pharmaceutical companies make with doctors paying them for prescribing their drugs? Europe is _far_ from clean...
@@goose300183 True. Generic Ibuprofen @Sainsburys -39p for 16 tablets. Sometimes it's as cheap as 29p
@@CrazyInsanelikeafox I have low dose aspirin on my prescription, from my doctor,used as a blood thinner, due to me having had a heart attack. As a pensioner I get my medication free. No way can I bring myself to get my Aspirin via my prescription. I buy them, for pennies via chemist or Supermarket. Aspirin on prescription OVC (Over the counter ). I can't buy any other medication.
Wow! The bread is sweet. My sister visited friends in the US and kept saying that the bread was sweet. And her hosts kept telling her that they didn’t buy sweet bread 🤯
If the staff were paid a decent wage they wouldn’t need to add a service charge. Here we have a National Minimum Wage
A while back there was a Football (soccer) game which I wanted to watch but it wasn't being shown in the UK, but it was available on American channels so I surreptitiously watched it via a stream. The amount of pharmaceutical advertisements was crazy, and I can't remember exactly which one it was but a side effect could be cancer. CANCER as a side effect! My mind was completely blown.
The thing that makes me mad on this list is NOT the gun laws - it's the fact you have people working full time at less than minimum wage! I mean wtf?? Isn't 'minimum wage' supposed to be just that? - The minimum that someone can reasonably live?? What you guys subject these people to is not minimum wage, it's frikkin begging, asking for handouts - you may as well be homeless. It's disgusting!
Thanks to the unions in Denmark McDonald's workers earn $22 an hour and have 4 weeks paid leave (roughly the same for Burger King too). US McDonald's have been forced to make pay increases because of the staff shortages after the pandemic, the lockdowns gave people pause for thought, so the days of $8.50 an hour should be soon behind us and entry level staff should be earning $17 p/h by 2024, it's a start but only due to necessity and to stop store closures.
Love your vids but have to disagree on guns. A gun and a chainsaw are both tools as you say but a chainsaw has a useful purpose. Yes it can kill you but it has a use. There's only one purpose for a gun. To kill or maim. Keep up the good work though guys. Just about to trim a tree in my English garden I'll try not to injure someone with the chainsaw 🤣
@@margaretnicol3423 if you can afford shells,you can afford food.
I think our gun laws are some of the strictest in the world and the penalties follow that. If you are found in possession of an unloaded handgun, sitting on your table you get an automatic 5 year sentence of which you will probably serve 3. Sentences go up if the gun is loaded or used during a crime, possibly upto 15 years depending on the circumstances
Our gun crime is less but knife crime is rife
@@carolinestirland3126 I agree Caroline knife crime in UK is too high however deaths from knife crime are still lower than usa 3.26 per mill uk 4.96 usa. Still 3.26 too many though.
@@MP-jy5ic it really is. It is shocking. Saying that however I still feel safe walking around. The media does use scare mongering tactics about most topics these days which doesn't help. It just inflates and skews your perception.
Paid vacation is different from sick leave. This varies a lot between jobs but I get 6 months sick leave at full pay. In fact if I'm sick while on annual leave I can claim the annual leave back
well, not in the US, though. we now have PTO, or personal time off. vacation and sick time come out of the same bucket now. 20 years ago that was not the case. good companies offered healthcare 100% paid by the employer, up to 6 weeks of paid vacation AND sick time. but it was still tied to the employer, you got laid off, all your benefits, including healthcare for wife and kids was gone. Now healthcare is so expensive to the worker that they take high deductible plans (aka catastrophic plans) that have up to say 10 grand of a deductible before they pay anything. so if you have a catastrophic healthcare event like a quadruple bypass you are ONLY responsible for the first 10 grand of the bill. and whatever percentage they don't cover. not a good deal in my book
Brainwashing works!
If I tell an American ALL COUNTRIES outside the U.S. have something like parental leave, he thinks I'm a communist nut.
When we visited USA yes the bread was really, really sweet tasting so much that my sister couldn't eat it at all. I have noticed a lot that when my online American friends share recipes there is way too much fats and sugar but also contains far too much of prebought goods (store bought?) Re the gun issue..here in UK there are responsible gun owners...they are usually farmers. O otherwise..people don't ordinarily see guns ever.
I live rurally in the UK, almost everyone I know has handled a gun at some point for various reasons. I agree that they are tools and need proper knowledge and skill to handle correctly. In the UK, the laws are such that only people with that mindset should have access to guns. That's not to say that doesn't fail at times, like any law. The key point for me in UK gun law is you are required to keep your gun in a locked gun safe when you, the licensed owner, are not using it. This is checked by police on random home visits. To my knowledge, the US doesn't have a similar requirement and I think it could go a long way to reducing 'random teen picks up his dad's gun and shoots up a school'. Also I found it interesting that you mention vehicles. There are required proficiency tests before licensing for all vehicles, as we recognise that used improperly they pose a risk to the general public and could cause a mass casualty event. Surely that should be the same mindset for guns, given they are just as if not more dangerous than cars.
Then there are wacky laws found only on your side of The Pond. For example, jaywalking. Every year dozens of Brits and Europeans get caught in ignorance of this law. Over here, you see no traffic, you cross the road.
I'm convinced having to watch for traffic and find an opening to cross through is why Europeans are smarter, the dummies get hit.
Try doing it in Germany when the lights are against you: instant 40 euro fine
Jaywalking is only a thing on a busy street with lots of lanes though right? If you're in a quiet suburban neighborhood then you can cross the road?
My fella went to Detroit, and he and his mate got pulled by the police because they were walking down the street 😄 They probably came across as more suspicious when they spoke, with Scouse accents (because the coppers may have found it hard to follow - I doubt the 'Scousers are all scummy robbers' thing has reached the US).
@@dexstewart2450 yeah I’ve seen them stand on an empty road , at times no wider that 4mtrs, pissing with rain and are still waiting for the Green Man. Totally Mad.
Come on man, if a guy walks into a school with a rock he is not going to get far.
“Is that…… is that a HAND GRENADE?!?!!”
“No…. It’s a tool”
Whenever I've been to the states the bread was revolting. Either it's too sweet or it feels like biting into a sponge.
Imagine living in a country where you are encouraged to eat more through larger portion size, but make going to the toilet more uncomfortable. Seems a bit of a contradiction there.
If you ate a typical american diet you dont actually need the toilet often, alot of homes and even stores that sell groceries like Walmart have seen far more guns than a fresh vegetable. The quantity and quality of the food does then support the other stupid americanism of the prescription med ad's for conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure etc, is a vicious and exploitative cycle.
Been in the US 16 years....portion size in nearly every restaurant has decreased a lot and that started about 10 years back. I have had many bigger English pub lunches 😛
Nobody can make you eat too much...thats your choice..
I was 7 the first time I came to the US and we arrived at the hotel very late at night, but I was hungry, so we ordered a BLT sandwich and when it was delivered to the room, my mum took a photo as we'd never seen a bigger sandwich - 3 layers of bread and a ton of bacon, lettuce and tomato in between.
And you ended up still with the sandwich a few days later trying to finish it like homer simpson in the simpsons when he had a similar sandwich 😆
Talking about sugar; you should react to the Irish tax case which said subway was cake
From a purely British perspective, it might be worth watching a video about the Dunblane massacre and the way it changed the British public's perception of guns - it's not about what the US should do, it's just the history of how we got where we are.
in the UK, pedestrians have right-of-way over road vehicles.
Aside from the whole 'checks' thing, with useful gun laws it's really important to properly store and secure whatever gun you have. Most people outside the U.S. would obviously find it ridiculous that anyone would have any good reason to own a semi-auto or more than 1 gun, even as a farmer or for legitimate hunting purposes but even if you own 10, that's fine as long as they are properly secured (and you're likely to get in trouble if they're not) unloaded and with amunition properly stored and secured separately. I may be wrong but the amount of nutters that manage to get hold of semi-automatic weapons and shoot up schools/cinemas etc. may have more to do with those weapons being too easily accessible in the home, rather than checks on the legal owners of those guns being the problem. Also isn't there a problem in the U.S. of children finding guns in their own homes and shooting themselves or playmates? It seems to be more the laisez fair cultural attitude to gun safety in general that's the real problem. It just shouldn't be easy for a disgruntled teen to nick his dad's/uncle's/mate's gun and kill dozens of people with it in a few minutes.
With the walking and weight conversation, here in the UK we tend to drive or use public transport to work, however we will walk around our town centre or have a lunch time walk from the office/ home. Primary schools can be walked too and older kids are encouraged to walk to secondary school if possible. So I think from a young age walking is seen as an option instead of driving and we have the pavements/sidewalks so you can get around easily.
A car can be a lethal weapon.
You are required to get a license BEFORE driving.
The same rule for guns shouldn't be a problem.
The check should be valid for using, not buying.
I believe personally that, if you guys in the states had free/universal health care, then your portions would be smaller and healthier. As it stands now, huge unhealthy portions are encouraged and the medical industry keeps on profiting.
Here in the Uk the government and NHS actively promote healthy eating and lifestyle, to some extent, due to fact it will cost THEM if people are all fucked up. In the states its the opposite it seems because you know, profits.
'A gun is a tool'... come on guys. A running chainsaw is a tool. You can be trained in it. Should you get the right to demand to take it into any store etc? No, of course not.
Now consider that its not even a ranged weapon that's easily concealed. Then consider that for many a hand gun isn't enough... a big ass automatic rifle when they don't even hunt is somehow needed.
Guns suck & aside from soldiers / police, are for cowards imo. I'll take our UK unarmed police any day over that. The knife crime too. ;-)
That said? Any progress is applauded.
"Diarrhoea is not a side-effect". We need a t-shirt with that on.
Definite merch idea
@@carolinestirland3126 ‘Diarrhoea is not a side-effect, more a lifestyle choice’
Actually, this is better
‘Diarrhoea is not a side-effect, it’s a way of life! 💩🇺🇸
@@richardpoynton4026 I think the subscribers should come up with sayings of Spencer and Daniel for caps and t shirts.
A friend of mine who worked for the Finnish Post Office
and he had SIXTY-THREE days holiday every year
as he had worked there for forty years.
He before he retired used to take the whole of August off
and also had a winter holiday too.
One big problem there I think is that it's easier and cheaper for people with not much money to eat fast food than something healthy.
One of the 1st things I noticed when I moved to the USA was how sweet the bread was.
Although in the UK you get 28 days paid holiday, you very rarely would be able to take them all off at the same time. You have to apply for holidays, and depending on how quiet or busy things are, you're probs only going to get 1wk at a time, or 2 at a push, spread over the year... + you always try & keep a few spare in case of a rainy day.
The business can also dictate when you use the holiday. A lot of factories close down for maintenance for a couple of weeks each year so all the workers are forced to use 10 days of their allowance without having any choice over the dates
I'm in the UK and most of the jobs I've come across have offered a minimum of 30 days holiday, plus 8 days for bank holidays and an additional day off on your birthday. So, 39 days in all. It could well be profession dependent though.
And yes, us British blame the French for everything 😂😂
@@nomadpurple6154 my private sector job offers a + 5 day holiday increase in exchange for a 5% pay cut. Never heard of a birthday off job before.
It could well be due to looking at jobs within the legal profession, as prior to that when I worked in a retail and petroleum based job (odd combo, I know) I was never given a birthday day off either.
My last job gave staff a day off on their birthday (or the nearest Friday or Monday if it fell on a weekend) in addition to public holidays and 25 work days. (UK)
@@nomadpurple6154 yep, big difference between public sector and private. I'm public sector, we do get way more paid leave in general. But, the pay isn't as good as private sector, and occasionally I've had to work through annual leave due to being so busy. So it's swings and roundabouts
I get 30 days + half day birthday + ordinary bank holidays + Christmas Eve full and and NYE half day (or closest day before them, if it's a weekend)
The gun thing is weird. I live in rural Scotland, it's not unusual for farmers to have shotguns, and there is plenty of sports shooting for game. If there was the prospect of coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, wolves or bears wandering through my back yard, I'd seriously consider a gun too. Rural life, hunting or wildlife protection, pest removal, I have no problem at all with gun ownership. I am not a "ban all guns" kinda guy.
Urban firearms are a different matter, especially hand guns. It's just not working, the price is too high. Whether it's a school or other mass shooting, crime related, or police, it's just too much death to be healthy for society. I've heard all the BS arguments, frankly Jim Jeffries response is the best.
As for the 2nd amendment, time to scrap it. The Bloods and the Crips are not well regulated militia, and if they tried to stand up against the government, just remember Waco. It doesn't end well.
That wage rate is slave labour. Disgraceful. Everyone is entitled to a decent living wage, regardless of job or age!
And proper paid downtime, to rest and enjoy family.
Tips are to express a thank you, not pay wages.
Prisoners wages are almost the same fs.
Come on America Government. Respect your peoples.
Obesity is everywhere. It's bad when crap food and sweets in most countries are cheaper than healthy food and fruit.
Love your channel guys. You’re truly open-minded to learn about things outside of the US. Great stuff.
12:48 Here's the thing, in Italy, service work is a respected profession that can earn you on average about $19,000 per year as a waiter. It's a respectable profession as dining out is huge part of the culture there and you can make a career out of service work climbing the ladder from $15,800 per year entry level at a local restaurant to a really fancy place paying much more than that.
You give good service because you want to represent the restaurant well and further your career.
To drive a car you need a licence that involves passing a theory and a practical test to get, for a gun you should have to pass a test at least as thorough
Don't know about gun license, but in Russia we definitely need to pass practice and theory to get a drive license
We dont even have a license for having childrens..
We have a sugar tax in the UK so you pay more for a regular coke (as it contains sugar) than if you get the diet or zero version.
And the diet pop, at least in the usa, is liquid poison
I agree with both of you Spencer & Daniel on the comments about the girls beauty contests. I was just talking to my cousin yesterday and we were saying how lucky we had been during our childhood because we could leave the house for most of the day and adults knew there was nothing to worry about. My childhood was particularly happy because I would always come back home, either with a broken nose, finger, bruises... 🤣🤣🤣🤣I was climbing trees, falling of the bike...you name it😂😂It was great😊👍 in regards to what Daniel said at the end, "if someone wants to hurt they will" I would say, don't make it so easy for them, try to make it so difficult that the damage is minimized. You have already made it quite difficult for people who smoke, so why can't you do the same with this much more serious matter?
For me it is the sexualising of little girls. There are enough mediums for those sort of people online, trafficking etc. Without putting your children centre stage in grown women's clothes. They are little girls. I agree with Daniel. They're children, let them be children
Well said.✌️
"could you imagine 4 weeks?" Poor souls I have had at least 8 every year.
Easiest way to sort out the "tipping to meet minimum wage" issue is to incorporate it all in the price to cover the difference. In a hypothetical situation, If a Big Mac meal costs $5 but then you're expected to pay 20% on top (not the advertised price) then just market it as $6 and increase the wage
They are leaving out gun shows, where you can go to the show and walk out with a semi automatic weapon. No background check, etc. required. That needed to change yesterday, training absolutely needs to be required, and no one with a history of mental illness should EVER be able to own a gun period.
Guys you´re cool. Just visit your channel the first time and watched a lot of videos. Very funny but also interesting. Great that you are so "world open". Greetings from Austria!
I was with an American friend in an Irish cinema. The film mocked American gun laws. He was disgusted. He was flabbergasted to hear most Irish people have never even seen a gun, much less want one. He couldn't believe the ordinary police are unarmed. Afterwards he went up to one to ask.
My American friend owns 10 guns. He was shocked I own none. He is a former marine. He did I think two tours of duty in Iraq, and came home ok. He was shot 1 hour after arriving home, in a random drive by shooting while going to the shop. He still cannot get that America's "gun culture" is part of the problem.
Love the content lads but you’re never going to be able to convince us Europeans that guns are good!
Respect you’re opinions and no hate here at all, but don’t see it ever being like USA over here!
I get that if you are trained, or a hunter or whatever you are most likely respectful of the weapon BUT everybody is able to have a breakdown or something that can make them see the red mist, NOBODY is exempt from that, therefore (in my opinion) there is no need to have guns!
Wouldn’t go taking them away from everyone as it would cause too much trouble, but if there was ANY history of criminal behaviour or potential mental health issues then I believe the guns of those people should be taken away before it is too late!
Huge story over in UK at the moment is of a very young girl getting shot in Liverpool, rarely happens but has shocked the country to the core! Happens far too much in America!
No offence intended, just putting my opinion across
Much love! X 💪
When I was in the us 2019, the thing that struck me the most was that I couldnt find "normal bread" anyhere. Nothing tasted like bread. Now watching this I guess I have the awnser why.
I agree about the bread...most of it is horrible
This was real(ly) interesting!
Thanks guys!
I'd think the extra sugar on a US Pizza Hut Pizza is more likely to be in the toppings and sauces, rather than the dough, but with the sweet bread you have, it might be just to suit the taste Americans expect from their breads.
A little ammount of sugar need to cut the acidity of the tomatoe ... as italian sometime we do it, depend to the taste you want in your sauce.
"Keep children children" . Couldn't agree more as Daniel said children (and childhood) should be protected by ALL adults
I work part time and I get at least 25 days annual leave if i've been with the company less than 5 years. This doesn't include any bank holidays etc. When I first started watching US shows from UK illegally via various streaming sites ten years ago I was shocked at how many adverts there were. It makes an hour long show go to something like 45 minutes.
I also work part time. But here in the states, if I want to be able to have more than 2 weeks of vacation a year, I need to change to PRN. Which is an unbenefitted position. So it's like, if you want health insurance, you only get minimal paid leave. It's bullshit
I lived in Germany for a year as a Brit and I worked at the US army base as a cook and was stunned with the sugar. Also, sliced bread in Germany was done to American recipe's and I hated it as it was sweet. Bread should not be sweet imo, unless it's supposed to be that way. Bread should be savoury
Even TV commercials in the UK got way out of hand ~15 years ago; I abandoned TV back then.
Online streaming _was_ far superior, but even that has been garbage since maybe 2018-ish.
I've actually tried to sit down and watch something on regular TV a handful of times in the past
couple of years and it's just awful. They don't even TRY to place the cuts in logical places any
more. They just slam them in wherever and ruin any flow that was intended. I got up and went to
do literally anything else.
I can't even imagine how bad it is in the US. I've even found some US shows that are 1hr long
in the schedule (after removing the ad-time) only be 30-35m of actual show.
08:39 I remember that my Office Manager talked with us about our companie's Offices in the US (International logistics Company)
And how insane it was for the US offices that ALL our international Workers are entitled to at least 3 Weeks of payed vacation, as the companie did state they would not lower their standards for offices in other countries.
Funny enought, apparently the got a lot of shit thrown at them for "Unfair competition" from competitors in the US.
Which is a very funny thing to be accused of by US companies...
Now you must react to Top 10 Things in British Culture Impossible to Explain to Non-Brits
Oh, good idea!
27:35 Regarding guns its pretty easy to explain. You can have them here, but they are highly regulated. There are strict rules on how to store your gun and ammo and so on. Plus it takes a few years + tests to get a license to begin with.
In the end the keyword is HIGHLY REGULATED
Wow, it's like there's not states in America, but countries within a country. Every state has its own essential rules😮
I can sort of understand the argument for guns, even though I'm against it. A tour guide at the Grand Canyon gave a good argument that did actually make sense to me and my fellow Brit, that the only person capable of stopping a crazy person with a gun is another gun carrier. However, automatic weapons I can't see any argument for, they're designed for causing as much damage as possible in a short amount of time, as far as I can tell they're not for self defense or hunting.
On a lighter note, the gaps in the toilet cubicles were crazy to us!
But surely if guns were banned, the “crazy” person wouldn’t have a gun in the first place, so I’m not sure that makes a lot of sense.
@@stevewilliams133 that was our argument too, but the US will never ban all types of guns. They would've done it by now rather than sending prayers everytime there's a mass shooting.
About to start 2 weeks of paid holidays from next week :) (with 2 weeks left to take in the rest of the year) - Unreal how any employer cant afford to do same for staff everywere !! Keep up the good work guys - loving your vids ;)
Enjoy!
I’ve had 2 holidays & a few long weekends, & I still got 12 days to use before January
UK also have 8 paid public holidays in addition to 4 weeks paid leave, so 28 days in total. It’s also common for employers to give additional days for length of service, so you can get 5 or even 6 weeks plus public holidays, all fully paid. Very nice right?
Four weeks of vacation is like a minimum to stay sane. If one lives in Sweden there's no need to use vacation days for taking care of a sick kid though, there's a separate thing for that because as a society we recognize it's a good thing if sick kids are being taken care of at home by their parents. Doing that isn't vacation.
I respect you both discussing gun laws on your channel as I know how contentious it is a subject both in the US and Europe. Regardless of which way you lean in the argument, there is a lot to say for intent behind owning or using a weapon. I grew up on army barracks where SA80s were a common sight, and you developed a healthy respect for the weapon knowing you don’t touch it till you know how to use it. In my nursing career in the UK I have seen horrific injuries and deaths from the use of knives, including machetes. Just because they cannot access guns does not mean violent crime does not exist. Outright banning anything never works. Strict procedures and regulations have worked for the UK since the Dunblane Massacre, however the UK is very different to the US both in size and way of life therefore it does not easily translate across the pond.
Great points on beauty pageants by the way!
"Britain is the Florida of Europe" lmfao! 🤣 I choked on my tea laughing at that one!
I'm British 😃
I would say that observation of the guy in the video is absolute bollocks
@@carolinestirland3126 that observation of.. what guy? Do you mean by the guy?
In any case, I think the guy was just joking 😜
@@miapulchritudinous9791 the person who made the video. And yes I know it was probably a joke
I’ve seen some of those American medication adverts. Where they urge you to go and ask your doctor for a prescription In whatever medication they are trying to sell you on TV.
And since brexit, all those employee protections are under threat. Especially now Mogg has taken up his new role. Thanks for that UK.
I think I’m the 15% of obese people in Europe and yes Daniel i am a Bricklayer it goes to show that sometimes it is genetics, also My wife reckons i could be Florida man. As a Brit i would never tell someone from another country that they should or shouldn’t have a Gun what i struggle with is why they need automatic weapons 👍🏼🍻
Spot on.... Daniel, no problem with you having a gun at all but it's the automatic weapons I can't get my head around..
If you are not allowed to carry anything more dangerous that a potato peeler, the streets would be a lot safer.
This include the knife issue here in the UK.
Just because you're a manual worker it doesn't mean you aren't also eating too much, as a tradesman myself I often see people eating massive meals in the site canteen
@@bmxerqf882 you are right but i work for myself doing my own thing so that means shorter breaks and doing my own labouring and still I struggle to lose wait I always have
A further comment on the gun ownership issue. There were at least 2,070 unintentional shootings by children, resulting in 765 deaths from 2015 to 2020, and the frequency has increased since Covid. 25% of these had the shooter aged 5 or under.
I am sure the response will be more training. I'm not sure how a mom with a loaded gun in her purse for "self defense" is going to train her toddler not to play with the "toy".
I have worked in Oklahoma and Michigan. I have been around a gun culture and experienced the visceral excitement of firing a handgun, it gave me a temporary feeling of power. But if you need carry a lethal weapon on your belt to make you feel empowered, then you need to look hard into a mirror and think what it takes to be a real man .
Agree with most things discussed here, as an European, but a few things I don't get about the US weren't included; like religion being so utterly prevalent - as far as I know, it's customary for nearly everyone to go to church every Sunday?!? Over here, no one under 80 does that, and even only about 1% of those (just an educated guess). People generally only go to church for special events like weddings (if people insist on having them in a church, which I personally don't get either, being an antitheistic Pagan, but that's not the point here). Another thing is marriage being so very popular (everyone seems to get married really young & expected to stay that way, and with "really young" I mean under 30), while it's not like that where I live, at least. BTW, IMO there are *way* too many commercials here too, these days!! Like a commercial break about every 10 minutes, uhh... Hate them. It's a fairly new thing though, wasn't like this just a few decades ago.
This is the first time I have learnt that the “honeowners association” costs 2-300 dollars a MONTH - I always thought it was like a free neighbourhood watch, organised by the neighbours! Your HOA is basically like council tax for us? But a lot more!
Council deals with any communal spaces and removing rubbish/trash - they mow the grass not belonging to anyone… I assume this is the same?
I agree with the vast majority of obviously non-Americans in the comments about guns
It seems absolutely insane to me that you can get them so easily
They are not a tool
A screwdriver is a tool, to fix furniture
A hammer is a tool, to put nails into a wall
A gun has one purpose. It is a ‘tool’ to kill, there is no other purpose
Even if you wanted to say what about knife crime in the uk, a knife obviously has a main use of preparing and cutting food up and you have to be a lot closer to someone to harm them with it
There is no other purpose to a gun - I await someone telling me I’m wrong here but I know I’m not. Even when farmers own them here it’s to shoot at animals threatening their livestock or the likes of molehills - or people are in shooting clubs
There is no reason for any person to own a sub/fully automatic weapon except if they in their minds think, I might kill with this someday
That’s how I see it
I find it so odd.
In Germany ads for medicine are always followed with: Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen lesen Sie die Packungsbeilage oder fragen Sie Ihren Arzt oder Apoteker. (For risks and side effects, read the leaflet or ask your doctor or pharmacist).
Saarland is the Alabama of Germany xD
The gun thing can be summed up perfectly with Brandon Herraras words: Guns are awesome, Idiots are not. (If you like them, that is)
I personally show some interest in guns, and I am interested in the design, the craftsmenship and the technical functions of them.
Here's the huge BUT: Nobody truely needs one. I kinda want a Saiga-12 shotgun for some nice range shooting, but I already know it will be a very expensive purchase. I would also need to move somewhere into the forest so there are no neighbours complaining about the loud noises every time I would fire a round.
Sadly, most of the time they are purchased in the US, they land in the hand of a person that has some very awful plans with them.
Not too long ago a shooter opened fire in a shopping mall in the US with a AR-15-based weapon.
Luckily he was shot by another shopper, who had his Glock concealed beneith his clothing and was a better shot. That day only a few people were hurt.
As the shopping mall was a no-gun-zone, Anti-Gun-factions instantly started hating on the Glock-wielder because he had carried a gun, even if he "saved" the day.
Great explanation for the Florida Man thing. That makes a lot of sense 👍
I love the community Garden idea!!
On the topic of firearms , I knew someone who was getting a small firearm here in europe and they had to go to weeks long classes in order to aquire specific perimt as well as go trough screening.
I was surprised that it was legal to get it , because I never even seen a gun owner in 35 yrs.
$1 tip from a European means that you were a terrific server. It's like as if you got a $100 tip from a famous person that you waited on here.
There is a kind of a HOA in Europe, at least in my country but it is only for those living in block of flats.
They pay for the common costs like maintenance, cleaning of the common areas, garbage delivery etc.
If you live in a house no-one tells you in your neighbourhood what can or can't do in your garden.
Not strictly true, the local councils often have bylaws about external spaces
@@bmxerqf882 that's why I've written no-one in neighbourhood not no-one period. 😁
Maybe I should have been more specific... 🤔
About the gun stuff, let me say I’m 32, live in the Netherlands and have never held a gun in my life and only have seen one on a police officer’s belt on a couple of occasions in real life. That’s it
UK is 27 days minimum paid holiday for full time workers immediate from start of contract - so after 30 days you have earnt 2.25 days already. Part time workers are entitled to exactly the same pro-rata by hours worked. Mine rises by 1 day each year for the 1st five years only. I do not need to use these holiday days for sickness- as that is paid separately! Employers are not allowed to contact your on your holiday time either! You completely switch off- no mobile/laptop or zoom meetings. I beleive Austria gets a statutory 35 days holiday as minimum - lucky them!
I work in a private company in Norway. We basically get 5 weeks of paid holiday. From the year you turn 60 you get another week, and another from the year you turn 62. So from the age of 62 you get a total of 7 weeks of holiday each year until you retire. The normal retirement age is 67, but you can choose to retire from the age of 62.
As a UK citizen (that now lives in Belgium) I can tell you, when I was smaller I was playing football (The UK type) in the garden with my brothers and after a really neat header, I broke the living room window. My dad got really upset with me and then stopped my pocket money until it covered the new window. When the window got replaced, he said to me "Son, if you play football in the garden in front of the house, at some point you WILL break a window, it's not a case of IF, it's a case of WHEN". After that, we never played football in the front garden. This true story is what I think of America and it's gun culture.
So my American friends, please stop playing football in your front gardens because at some point a window will get broke and I say this on the 7th of June 2023 when I have just read about another shooting incident where 2 people have been killed in Richmond, Virginia at a graduation of all things.
I have nothing against real people (with extreme background checks) owning rifles for sport and hunting (you could say that an archer with a top class compound bow also has a weapon that could kill, but this never happens), but it should end there, no legally owned hadguns or pistols, no semi automatic machine guns, these are meant for 1 purpose only and with the almost banality and frequence of mass shootings in the US, I don't think I have to prove this point further.
P.S. To Any American that has lost someone to gun violence, I am really sorry for your loss.
Obesity.
Most obese people don't even know they're obese. It starts WAAAAAY sooner than you think.
Again, mostly distorted by TV. Those that can't leave their room they're that huge and have
to be moved by a dang crane. It's distorted people's perspective massively.
It does not take much extra to be technically obese; only an extra 30-35lbs over your "ideal"
average weight.
Then to the sugar thing.
Just go google up the recommended daily intake/allowance. UK: 30g. US: 36g.
That single starbucks 'coffee' has over two full days sugar in one single cup.
Leading causes of obesity?
Portion size, sugar, and lack of exercise.
"If your son got sick" WELL in Germany you don´t need to take your vacation days for that as you have the right to 30 days of child sick leave per year. During that time you get 90% of your normal salary.