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Right like shut up

Mildly funny is being very generous…

Yeah this guy sounds like a racist jack ass

He's the guy in your friend group who, once you get to know his sense of humor, you find hysterical, but anyone that just meets him thinks you're nuts. LOL

LOL!

Virginia has socialist liquor stores to.

In Maryland alcohol is sold in liquor stores. No state run stores. There's no law against grocery stores selling alcohol but very few go to the trouble of getting a liquor license. I believe the number of licenses are based on an area's population and are difficult to get.

@Rod S yes here too there are only so many liquor licenses per I believe County. Beer and wine is a different license.

Alcohol laws can vary by county

😂😂😂😂, I grew up there back when it was a normal State. I ran as fast and far as I could once it turned Blue

And they're too busy getting shot at to care about obese people

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I was rooting for Daz. I kept saying “cmon you can do it”

Capitalism works, it just gets bad when the successful get too greedy. And there's a lot of that in America. That is why we don't take days off. And we are so stressed and fat.

@@michiganjfrog366 So what you're saying is, capitalism doesn't work

In my company in the U.S., paid maternity leave is deducted from vacation time -- if no vacation time, you still can get time off, but it's unpaid. A young woman in my department who just gave birth recently could only take 6 weeks.

@@acebongboy That really sucks. Is your company a smaller one that doesn't provide any benefits?

@@matthewr7593 I don't think the issue was that people here don't get maternity leave - the key factor was "paid" leave. And, as I recall, we don't get paid maternity leave over here. You get unpaid leave - or like the other comment said - you can take use your paid vacation time towards your maternity leave if you still want to get income while you're out. Unpaid Maternity leave is probably considered a benefit because - well, it's better than being let go. Any company would just fire you for not coming to work for 90 days - no matter what the reason. And unpaid medical or maternity leave is a way around that. I guess one could, in the early stages of pregnancy, rack up paid overtime hours that could be added to paid vacation hours to cover the whole three months. I remember at one job I used to have - we used to have to rotate staff to work the night shift to cover answering the phones. And not only did I do my rotation, but coworkers used to always ask me if I would do theirs, too. I didn't mind - I was young and wasn't a party person and it was just sitting at the front desk for 4 hours listening to music or playing games on the computer. Plus I lived across the street so could just walk home after - it wasn't an issue for me. And we didn't get paid for the overtime, but we did get hours towards vacation or something like that. Well, I didn't notice how often I'd done it until one day the associate director called me into her office and alarmingly told me that I had done too much overtime and that no one could substitute doing the phones with my anymore for the rest of the year. Apparently I had done enough overtime to accumulate over one month in vacation time (not counting the regular vacation). I was told I had to use up that extra time immediately as the year was coming to an end. So, I was forced to take a month vacation. So, if I was pregnant - I would ask my supervisor if I could do something similar in the early stages of pregnancy so that I would have income to cover me while on leave. Just one way to try to get paid.

@@TodaysSpecialMinis Got it. Paid maternity leave is what I meant. But for the most part everyone I know works for companies that give you health insurance, and also give you paid maternity/paternity leave. But I'm in my mid 30s now, so if this was, say 10 years ago, I'd know a lot of people like waiters, bartenders, people that work for small businesses that wouldn't get maternity leave paid.

If you are lucky, and work for a big enough company, you get some form of paid maternity leave. Length of time varies significantly.

Not sure. There are some very rural, remote areas in the continental USA.

Just due to the size of Alaska and its small population, that seems the best guess. Even with Montana or the Dakotas or Wyoming, they can't compete distance - wise with Alaska.

@@anndeecosita3586 For sure, but you never know where you'll find a mountaintop McDonald's ;p

came here to say this. I grew up in a suburban area. just pulled it up on MCD's website. there are 20 within 15 miles of my home.

Okla here… there are about 15 McDonald’s 15 minutes from my home. Walmart Super centers even have a McDonald’s inside the store.

I live in Alaska and in 14 years they've cancelled school only 3 times. All three times were because the road conditions were so dangerously icy that even the snowplows were sliding off the road and couldn't clear the snow and ice or get gravel put down. They also closed the city offices, the hospital, and everything in town.

Same as North Carolina. They have ABC stores for liquor. Not sure if it’s still this way but South Carolina used to stop selling alcohol at stores after sundown but not at bars.

It used to be after 12 on Sunday’s in Texas statewide but they changed it to 10am recently. For Jesus.

Same 8n most of Tennessee although there may still be a few dry counties. Believe it or not the county where Jack Daniels whiskey is made with dry forever. I think they recently changed that but going to college not far from there I remember thinking that was funny that we couldn't buy Jack Daniels in the county where it was made.

Remember when Publix used to rope off the entire aisle of alcohol on Sundays?

I would be down for a boyb bar, they charge to much for just one beer.

They also tend to enforce laws against drunk driving more than other states. Such as the regular road blocks checking for people under the influence of anything.

Northern Idaho gets tons of snow, doesn't it? I have family living in southern Idaho and I don't think they get much, but we have a cabin in the mountains in central Idaho and the snow there is unreal, mostly because of the mountains. In New York they'll cancel school if they expect even a few inches of snow because it will snarl traffic so badly that we would end up on the road for hours. Once we had a snowstorm sneak in and drop about four inches of snow towards the end of the workday. As soon as someone happened to look outside and see the snow falling the entire office went into a panic to get out of there and home. It was pointless to rush as it took me three hours to drive the 8 miles from my work to home. The next time that happened I just went to a local mall and went shopping and had dinner until most of the traffic had cleared. LOL I live in Alaska now and in the 14 years I've lived here, school has been called off three times and that was because the roads were so dangerously icy that even the snowplows weren't able to get around. But typically, it's very different. We once had 40 inches of snow come down in about 12 hours. When I left work at 7PM after my 12 hour shift it had just started and when I went back to work the next morning at 7AM it was just finished. As I left my house to go to work every road was perfectly plowed and the hospital I work at had the parking lot perfectly cleared. You'd never have known all that snow came down except my car was buried under it and you could see it piled up everywhere the plows had moved it.

Prime opportunity to hunt cougars 👀

Depends. I’m American and I don’t use Indian to mean Native American but some people do. And actually it’s common in Latin America too. I was asked if I was from India when I went to North Africa. In the USA and some other places I’ve been asked if I’m part Native American. I’m mostly of Subsaharan African descent. It might have had something to do with facial shape that she was asked this not eye or skin color.

Snowmaggedon, remember that? The only time the paranoia wasn’t exaggerated.

Dang. That sounds like LA and rain. When there's substantial rain, people stock up so they don't have to go out for anything. We almost never get snow in the City or Valley, but the mountains and deserts get the most, which is extremely beautiful. But, yeah, Cali natives have a love-hate relationship with the rain. We love it because we have a short season when we get it and we always need it. But, we hate more than a day or two of it because we don't go out if it's raining. haha

@@LA_HA I grew up in western South Dakota which is pretty arid country, prairie desert, almost. So when it rained there it usually meant plans for the day were cancelled, Being a farming and ranching industry there wasn't a whole lot you can do outside when it rains. So I grew up that when it rained, we stayed in. Then I moved to Alaska, on the west coast, just off the Bering Sea, where it rains pretty much every day, even if just for a half hour, in the spring and summer. Now, most sunny summer days will have rain at some point, but it's also super common to have days on end of rain....and in the summer the average temp might hit 70. So, I found myself staying inside a LOT. I was invited to go camping over Memorial Weekend with my boss and her husband it and had been raining for a week leading up to this trip and the average daytime temp was around 50. I started asking my boss questions, mainly, "When you go camping what do you do if it rains the whole time?" She said they would go out on the boat, fish, but mostly, hunker down in their tent reading or doing something like that. I then informed her that I was grateful for the invitation but that I could stay home to stay inside and read a book and do it with the heat turned on. She said, "You need to learn how to do things in the rain." I responded, "Oh, I know HOW to do things in the rain....the question is, why would I?" LOL Since then I've gotten used to it and think nothing of putting on my rain gear and going camping or boating or just doing stuff outside.

@@msdarby515 Yep. I've noticed similar thinking here. If it's a few days of rain, people hunker down and stay in. After a few days of that, people go out just to go out because we get stir crazy and don't like staying inside for longer than that. It's pretty quiet during rainy days. I rain dodge, meaning, I wait for a break in the rain to rush out and do stuff, then try to get back in before it starts again. Haha. It's so ridiculous, but it's a habit for a while. Then I just think, "forget it", grab my coat and other rainy day stuff and just do whatever I want to do. The only things that compare for that kind of behavior are extremely hot days and nightfall. I go out of my way to avoid California summer and early autumn heat and night. I don't do either. I'm not sure when it started because as a kid and a really young adult, neither bothered me at all. Then I hit my late 20s and one day, I just didn't want to go out at night anymore. My friends would invite me out and I'd be like, "Nah. Too much. Call me when you want to do a matinee and happy hour." Hmm... maybe finally getting tired of going to clubs and stuff had something to do with it. Haha. And one summer, I stopped going out in the heat of the day. And since I don't go out at night anymore, I only go out at dawn and early mornings in hot weather. I think I'm like you. I just decided I didn't have to, so I don't. haha

@@LA_HA I understand the heat completely. When it gets into the high 90's and then over 100 everything is just too much. The one thing I didn't mention is it NEVER rains for a few days in western South Dakota, LOL. If it did, people would start building an ark immediately, LOL. We might have an afternoon of rain, or in the spring there might be a day of it....but that's about it.

Same in Alabama

There are 15 states that allow all liquor to be sold at grocery stores. I am proud to live in one and it isn't Texas 😝

And don't forget the drive-thru daiquiri shops

Europeans ( especially British, Scottish ) settled America so it only makes sense for them to have used familiar names. America inherited UK names plus all the diseases which wiped out 90% of indigenous people.🥺

A direct inspiration to many famous musicians such as Robert Plant of Zeppelin.

I've lived in western Alaska for 14 years and one of the strangest things to get used to was going to the school in the morning and the kids would be outside for recess, in the dark, LOL. The other was that they went out for recess when it was so cold, everyone bundled up in their snowpants, coats, balaclavas, boots, gloves, etc. Even odder was that we're all so adjusted to the cold that we start shedding some of the outerwear at around zero. LOL

E.g. Walmart gives 9 weeks of paid maternity leave.

Yeah, where I work there's a woman that was gone for months after having her baby

our corporate overlords decide

@@pointlessmanatee Yep. It should be enforced by the government.

Yeah I was about to say

Yes you can look up mckays grocery store in md