Brit Reacts to 10 Lies Europeans Believe About American People 

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Yup

Really really don't care.

I'm so old I don't recognize 90% of them

Who's a celebrity

Came here to say this. It's escapism and every film and tv plot device works as escapism because, while plausible, are very rare.

Underrated comment. When I was a kid I thought movies were closer to life but I've never had that thought as an adult.

No no no. Superman really flys around here grabbing up trains and cars. Freddy Cruger stole my gf and Jason from friday the 13th is my bar buddy lol

It's amazing how many Americans' views of the US are influenced by movies.

@@awakendsailsamateur, I go disc golfing with Michael Meyers and leather face every Saturday

I think 2020 was the real turning point. The disconnect between celebrities and real people kind of hit the tipping point. We had Kim Kardashian self-isolating on a private island while riding horseback and we had a bunch of them singing "Imagine" out of key and out of rythym. Why yes, do tell us all about "imagine no possessions" from the $120,000 kitchen of your $1.6 million dollar house. Tell us about "imagine no heaven" while people's family are dying in hospitals and we can't even say goodbye to them. There's a fantastic meme that says: "We're all in the same boat! Their boat: [a big multi-million-dollar luxury yacht] Our boats: [Tom Hanks on a makeshift raft with Wilson the soccer ball]"

I've dealt with Americans my whole life. When Americans are alone, or a single family, they are very friendly and smiling. But as soon as there is a group, they turn into absolute c__ts. When you first encounter American xenophobia, it is shocking. I'm not fooled, those students were your pets. They brought you prestige and bragging rights.

Who even has the money to eat out all the time?

​@@derpyeh9107rich people

It’s funny how some stereotypes they are more guilty of than us 😂

She had it between her legs! Not on her lap..Don't sugar coat a lawsuit that was her own fault!

Yes, I thought this was a frivolous lawsuit at first (because of the news), but then I talked to a lawyer who knew all about it and he informed me of the seriousness of the injuries.

YT channel Legal Eagle covers that and how she was vilified for a completely valid lawsuit

McDonalds ran a huge smear campaign against her but never mentioned the severity of her injuries

She had to have skin grafts, if I remember correctly.

We would also be completely broke! Nobody got time for that. There's a ton of variety, but that doesn't mean everyday regular folk have the means to have it all day every day.

Krappy Kreme. I went to their h.q. and watched donuts in production, coming out in a conveyor belt, unassaulted by their glaze. I asked if I could have one of those and was told no. Every last one of their donuts is glazed, and then some of those have chocolate glaze on top. 🤢

Thank you for mentioniong this! Employers don't have to give you notice that they are firing you. Some people show up to work and find their access revoked; that's how they learn they are fired. People also don't quit that most in America since healthcare is tied to employment. So a rash moment of quitting means you are now uninsured.

Came here to say this

Certain STATES, have thouse laws, they are not universal.

A couple things to add to this: if you work for a large corporation, there are policies in place where you can't just be fired at the drop of a hat. You have to violate specific policies in order to be fired, and usually this requires a certain amount of strikes before it gets to that point. And this can be frustrating when you're watching your coworkers slacking off or screwing around all the time. Also the "screw you, I quit!" thing hardly ever happens. When someone decides they're going to quit, they either leave gracefully or they take the immature approach of just not showing up to work ever again without telling anyone.

What's even more sad is people in America get too much of what they think reality is like from TV. It's not surprising that Europe would think these things when our own people are fooled by the media's lies.

Most Americans do not live on fastfood. You see a lot of fastfood restaurants because there are over 350 millions people in America. Can you imagine that many people going to fastfood restaurants all at once ,every single day 3 meals day!

I disagree w her about the workers not just quitting and employers not just firing people. They can and they do.

@@jikook7457 People *can* quit their jobs at a moment's notice but it isn't common. How many jobs have you quit this year? (without any notice, just "I quit" and walk out)?

@testfire3000 people, especially in generations after X, walk out all the time. Look at how many videos there are showing it. A girl announcing over the p.a. system at Walmart calling out her managers but giving props to the good workers. Or the guy who brought in the cake with "I quit" written in frosting on it. There are far too many to list here. I was pointing out that it's not as unusual, especially in the last 20yrs, that people just walk out. Why are u trying to be argumentative? I wasn't. I was just saying that isn't accurate as she probably thought it was. Not right. Not wrong. Just skewed perception.

Most Americans would agree that fast food is not as good as home-cooked food and definitely not as nutritious. The only benefits of it are that it is convenient, you can find it basically everywhere, and it is cheap. So, it serves a purpose if you need to eat fast, if you are traveling, or if you don't have a lot of money. Unfortunately, there are people in our economy who can't afford to eat out at better alternatives (at least not that often). So there is clearly a big market for it. But like you, I avoid fast food when I can and only eat it every few weeks or so.

Ha Ha! You are right! Here in America, many of us try to eat right, staying away from starchy carbs and sugar. For me, the mainstay is coffee, difficult to live without it.

I'm definitely having a full plate of bacon, a carton of eggs, a stack of both waffles and pancakes for breakfast while I'm juggling my 9mm and AK-47.

I get fast food twice a week and takeout from a regular restaurant about three times a week.

I eat fast food about once every three months.

Yup. McDonald deserved that slap. They had multiple warnings about the temperature. It was so hot it was beyond necessary what’s needed to make a coffee. I’m talking lava hot. And they had a list of complaints about it which the negligently ignored. This law suit was not frivolous. It was necessary. Imagine you think you are getting hot cup of coffee but you are actually getting liquid lava in a cup which is a tragedy about to happen. And they knew about it.

320 degree coffee will do that. Even worse the public was bamboozled into voting in tort law reform. Now you sue the company at fault they pay the amount set by said law and tax payer picks up the rest of health care and SSI.

​@@circuitd942Yep. She didn't even want anything except the medical bills covered. She wanted $20k, they offered her $800. Would have been pennies on the dollar of what they ended up paying. Also, she was 79 years old, I never thought that when I first heard about it.

I’ve studied the case. It was negligence in the part of the woman and the man driving her car (son I believe). The coffee was spilled after she took the lid off while holding it between her legs so that she could add something (cream, sugar, whatever). Coffee is made by boiling water and passing it over the coffee grounds. That’s hot. Hot enough you get an insulating sleeve with the cup. That Jury was as stupid as some of the jurors on the 11 week jury I sat on. In deliberations three jurors were voting for the plaintiff “because the defendant has insurance” NOT because he did something wrong. They literally said this in deliberations!!! Also the JLjury award was severely reduced by the courts.

@@OpenCarryUSMCthey car wasn’t in motion. The lady herself said she took responsibility for spilling it, but the real issue is that the coffe was way hotter than it should have been. McDonald’s had been warned previously, there were multiple complaints. If she had taken a drink of that coffee instead of opening it, those burns she had in her legs would have been in her mouth! Nobody should almost die because they spilled coffee. McD’s has also admitted to serving the coffee at temps that are higher than recommended.

You will see them in some places, like NYC you will see celebrities just walking the city streets like everyone else. There's so many people walking around they don't stand out as easily as they would in other places.

For years, I thought she was just a money grubbing leach, but then I learned about all the details. Now I feel bad about how I viewed her in the past.

It's true, to sue someone successfully you really need a good case. The coffee was something like 180°f. The court process can take years sometimes

This happened decades ago now, but yes the coffee was spilled on the woman and she was seriously injured. ❤

The only reason she even sued was because McDonald's Kept stringing her along and wouldn't pay for her medical bills, which is all she requested. It took years and the largest portion of the lawsuit only came out of the judge attempting to punish McDonald's for their actions and hopefully dissuade them from doing it again. The result? A multi year targeted media blitz to paint the women as frivolous and greedy, literally. The reason people even think that about the women is McDonald's themselves went out of their way to manipulate media presentation of the case and deflect wrongdoing.

@@nychold Yeah, there was a lot of McDonald's funded media spin at the time. I remember it quite well. A lot of people thought she was being litigious, including most of my own family. They didn't realize how ABSURDLY hot the coffee was. They were (and still are) big coffee drinkers, where as I never liked the stuff and hate hot drinks and burning the roof of my mouth. I'd also had skin grafts on my leg by that point in my life. I was a lot more sympathetic to her than most people I knew.

My son worked for a company that photocopied legal documents. He was the unlucky soul that had to copy/ document the photos from this case. He came home and said “There isn’t enough $ in the world to compensate this woman for what happened to her.” The photos were so horrific he was physically sick. Thank you for sticking up for/ bringing her story forward. It truly is a heartbreaking story. She didn’t live much longer after this.

McDonalds only gave her 800 dollars or something stupid like that.

That coffee was over 195 degrees and was given to the older lady in a cup without a heat sleeve at a drive thru. Watch the documentary titled “Hot Coffee” and you’ll see the photos of the terrible damage done to her lower body. Then boil water and pour it over your tiny penis and see how funny you think the experience is.

@@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171 They awarded Liebeck a net $160,000[3] in compensatory damages to cover medical expenses, and $2.7 million (equivalent to $5,000,000 in 2022) in punitive damages, the equivalent of two days of McDonald's coffee sales. The trial judge reduced the punitive damages to three times the amount of the compensatory damages, totalling $640,000. The parties settled for a confidential amount before an appeal was decided.[4]

This. When I was a child I believed McD’s lies & when the truth came out I was devastated. I had made jokes I regretted deeply.

Yes, when did anyone last use a spray or a ~liquid~ roll-on? We all use sticks.

@@darcyjorgensen5808 Axe body spray...

yeah, all of the hair sprays had to get rid of the cfc's (chlorofluorocarbons). ((and yes spell check helped me with that spelling)) ;)

@@melvindavis2789 I use Axe-like body spray products, but not as my deodorant or anti-perspirant. I'll probably stick to the roll-on solid for life. Feels like the most effective for the job to me.

@@darcyjorgensen5808I actually use Ban Roll-On and have for years!

To add, she didn’t want to sue! She asked McDonalds to just cover medical bills and they said fuck you so she sued.

@@TheOnlyNofu Not only that, the main reason the judgement was so huge was because McDonalds's lawyers were so rude and disrespectful during the trial that they offended the jurors, and they gave that judgement because they were pissed off at the lawyers.

She spilled it on herself. That's not McDonalds fault. Was it too hot? Sure. But Jesus, folks, who thinks it's a good idea to take a To-Go cup of hot coffee, put it between your legs, then work to pry off the lid? It was her fault and the case should never have gone to court. Having done so, it should never have resulted in that kind of decision.

@@columbia2635 What would have happened if she had swallowed it. If it was that hot? What about the dozens of other incidents, most of the large judgement was punitive damages that the jury voluntarily imposed because they looked at the evidence and determined that McDonalds' behavior was so egregious.

@@columbia2635 bruh are you delusional… you cant serve something so hot that it causes permanent disfigurement. That is absolutely McDS fault, its her fault she spilled it so has the case been about a lack of coffee in the cup yeah that would be her fault, but its about the absolutely unacceptable temperature in which she had absolutely no control over, that makes it their fault. The fact that the drink was spilled makes absolutely no difference, the skin on the outside of our bodies is a lot stronger than the skin in our mouth, if it was so hot it gave her 3rd degree burns, imagine if it had been drank. Coffee is supposed to be drinkable thats the entire point of the drink dumbass. She’s actually lucky she didnt drink it, can you imagine that severe of burns on your mouth and throat? It would have cause extreme damage if she had drank it, how daft do you have to be to try and argue that shes at fault for her injury bc she didnt drink it, when drinking it would have been just as damaging if not more. She could have lost the ability to taste for the rest of her life had she drank it so its just the stupidest thing ive ever heard to say its her fault. Its her fault for spilling it, not for the burns. The spill itself didnt cause the burns cause had she spilled an acceptable coffee she wouldnt have gotten burned as she did. Had she drank the coffee as intended instead of spilling it, she still would have gotten burned and would still be in this position. When HER actions dont change the outcome and THEIRS do, its their fault. Turn your damn brain on, common sense shouldnt be this difficult. You are a sick and twisted sadists to try and blame her. I hope one day you get 16% of your body burned off by someone else and then have ppl tell you its your fault. See how you like it. There are laws about safety for products, this drink broke those laws. The fact you have the confidence to say its her fault when SHE WON THE CASE SAYING IT IS IN FACT THEIRS, is just an insane delusion. This went to court, it was ruled to not be her fault, there is no debate here when the fact has already been decided. Youre really so entitled you think you know better than the courts and jury who presided over the case? I wasnt prepared to meet a sadistic narcissist today but damn here you are.

In more ways than one. 😒

I thought the cheerleader thing was funny too. If you’re in high school, there are cheerleaders. A lot of movies are centered around high school. You can’t expect to see cheerleaders around every corner. Also, teens may not be the center of life, but the reason you see them so much in media and commercials is because they are a major economical force. They’ve got very few financial obligations and a fair amount of disposable income. So of course media will cater to them and Europeans see that media and get the wrong idea about their place in society.

Not to mention, horribly unhealthy.

I'm actually quite proud of the fact that my Chicago Bears do not have cheerleaders. I couldn't stand them when I played high school football and seeing other teams with them is kind of annoying. I wouldn't deny someone a job if that is what you like to do, I just don't see the point. As a player I was generally too busy to notice, and as a fan I find them to be fake and unnecessary.

And cheer competitions. But was she under the impression that we have cheerleaders in every Walmart parking lot or something?

@@Shawn_Raz_87 That's not what happened. It didn't go into her mouth. Her grandson was driving the car, they parked after going through drive through, she put the cup between her legs to add cream/sugar and spilled it on her crotch. She admitted she shouldn't have held it between her legs but the coffee caused 3rd degree burns. She had to have major surgery and could have died. McDonalds overall and that location in particular had been cited MANY times for their coffee being too hot. The coffee she got was 180-190 degrees F. How dumb do you have to be to serve coffee that is on the verge of boiling?

That McDonald's had already been cited twice by health inspectors for coffee being too hot

​@@pitskywitbulls1270Yes, this is the true story! I worked at a law firm at the time, and we saw photos of that poor woman's injuries. It was horrific. That McDonald's store routinely had coffee way hotter than industry & safety standards. I wish more people would learn the facts about this case before vilifying this lady.

​@Shawn_Raz_87 you literally have no clue what you're talking about. Go look up a few facts about the case before just saying stuff. It's only one Google search away. Imagine being so lazy you'd rather embarrass yourself then make a 30 second Google search. That's wild 😂

​@@Shawn_Raz_87found the mcdonalds corporate shill 😂

That's interesting, because I think of people in Texas and the South being armed to the teeth. I had a friend who moved from Baltimore to Oregon. In Oregon, we said, "It must be nice getting away from all those guns on the East Coast." She said, that was funny because when people in Baltimore heard she was moving to Oregon, they told her she would have to get a gun because all the people in Oregon have them.

Come to Missouri…… we all carry. And there is next to ZERO violent crime.

You're not suppose to see people carry them... concealed carry. You'd be surprised how many people actually carry.

Most people carry concealed. This gives them a defensive advantage if they actually need to use the gun. The only time I do open carry is if I expect trouble, due to the size and weight of my 1911A1 and the spare magazines. Then it forms a deterrent. The funny thing is, I still carry concealed and plan if needed to use the concealed gun first.

I live in Texas even though I know lot of peope carry. I have only seen one carrying and that was a lady in Walmart.

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I usually have a Greek yogurt for breakfast.

44 year old American here. Well said Steve!

Especially about the housing--the average age of the housing stock where I live is 100 years old. You don't see that on tv and film

It's really sad how often a tiny group of extremely loud people get mistaken for being the majority.

The big point I was going to point out was your first one…….size of our population. That skews things like how many fast food restaurants there are and how many people eat at them in general.

I think it’s also worth mentioning that fast food is generally cheaper than buying fresh foods or higher quality foods from grocery stores. People who might barely be able to make ends meet, which is a HUGE percentage of Americans, might go for fast food just so they can eat.

@@PaperChives It's because people don't want to cook or haven't been taught by parents who shoved chicken nuggets down their throats all their lives. Home cooking is healthier and cheaper by far for any type meals and usually takes half an hour of hands on. Even cooking fast food at home is much cheaper than at the window. I make Schlotzsky's medium original sandwiches from scratch (no knead sour dough for 6 buns takes 60 seconds to throw together and it's done it's happy thing when you get home from work) and the cost for 6 at home is less than 1 at the window. Feeding a family of 6 at the window runs $10.29 each plus tax so $66.83 compared to $9 at home. Homemade pizza dough is pennies, $1.34 can of Hunt's spaghetti sauce, cheese and pepperoni or random leftovers and fresh basil from the windowsill planter would be $4 total for 2 the size of cookie sheets. Chinese? A pot of rice costs pennies and 2 cups of flour for mu shu wraps with drops of sesame oil also costs pennies. One lonely leftover pork chop with vegetables (lettuce or cabbage, a carrot, half an onion and 2 stalks of celery, 2 eggs, whatever is in the fridge), some soy sauce and hoisin will fill a dozen wraps for around $5 to feed 4.

Plus, if I'm remembering right, McDonald's had been sued before because their coffee was served excessively hot. Much, much hotter than was necessary.

​@@sandracraft517she didnt die before receiving the money owed. She only asked for a little over 20k. Her lawyer asked for 2.7million. She got almost 700k after private settlement that was almost unanimously used for a live in nurse because she couldn't do day to day things. (Almost unanimous as some went to her rent and food) she lived almost 10 years after the incident. Its unfortunate, but coffee is normally brewed at 160-185. It was 100% her fault but mcdonalds was a bitch for fighting it and not just paying the original amount and moving on.

@@SwarmerGaming The requirements for MCD at the time were that coffee needed to be KEPT at 180-190F (not brewed and then kept a bit lower, but actually served at that temperature). At that high a temperature, it'll cause 3rd degree burns in as little as 3-7 SECONDS. They had also already caused OVER 700 serious injuries due to hot coffee burns, so they knew it was an issue, but ignored the obvious, glaring safety issue because they thought it was such a low chance (compared to the millions of cups they sold) that it was an acceptable risk. When asked why they didn't even attempt to warn customers that the coffee was hot enough to cause injuries, they didn't even have an answer: it just never occurred to them. That's why coffee cups say things like "warning: hot, can cause burns" these days. Because no sane person would expect the coffee they were served through a drive through window would be THAT hot, yet it was.

@@kedolan4992 read my post again I don't think you read past the first sentence. I literally called mcds a bitch for even trying to fight it

Cooking at home is so much cheaper and more nutritious than fast food or takeout, eating out, even fast food, is a treat and only occasionally I make lunch at home and take it with me to work. And breakfast is normally something light like yogurt and fruit which is fast and easy. Big breakfasts are reserved for holidays and special occasions

America's first tourist trap

exactly. I live within a 5 mile radius of probably thousands of "celebrity" homes, and I rarely ever see any of them. Or, I probably do, and just don't recognize them. Maybe if I went to expensive restaurants more often, I'd see more, but I'm cheap and I don't care about 98% of "celebrities" unless they're in one of my favorite bands

All of Hollywood is (literally) a giant shit hole now, even the tourist areas. We couldn’t even find a celebrity’s star on the walk of fame, because there was too much human feces on ground to make out any of the names. And I saw a Japanese tourist get chased by a homeless drunk person in a Mickey Mouse costume.

Agree 💯 except I worked for the Ritz so I saw many. I was rarely star-struck though. Hollywood is dirty and gross in my opinion. People are always disappointed when they come to see it. I try to talk visitors out of it 😂

LA is loaded with celebrities. They disguise themselves as waitresses.

I hope you liked it here!

Definitely for the best. Fast food is exclusively for people who are in a rush. Home cooked meals are king.

Home cooking is so much better than take out. Take out is better than home cooking only when it's an occasional treat.

Talking about celebrities & etiquette. Most celebrities can move around, without body guards, in "fly over country". Typically when a celebrity visits their family back home, they do not bring body guards and no one bothers them.

Why would anybody install the stompy crushy thing?

LOL! Galaxy Quest came to my mind, as well. Love that movie!

Plus if I recall she was an older lady. Older people can have thinner skin and it effected her way worse.

To be honest, I got a coffee from Starbucks once and that shit was like lava, just because it had a warning on the side shouldn't matter. It was hazardous to your health, and I work in construction, I felt safer on the job. The amount of BS a company can get away with because of a disclaimer is not protecting anyone.

I remember when that case happened. It was shocking, and the worst part was Micky D's went all out to destroy that lady's reputation.

​@@77mariolanddeleted my earlier comment because I misread yours. Have a nice day.

Yup. You got it right. She was handed a cup in a drive-thru, and that cup instantly burned her hands, as in, the cheapo materials they used for their cups was too thin for the heat, the drink slipped through her fingers and fell on her lap, and she was hideously burned. And I can't even believe that anyone, anywhere, thinking of having their LAP boiled, would not have sympathy for this person.

Slow cooker meals really helped me break that "too busy to cook" habit.

I have heard way too many people threaten to sue for the stupidest reasons, but most don’t follow through. It’s used as intimidation!!!!

meal prep, I raised 5 kids on my own! I would take a weekend a month and meal prep different casseroles and spaghetti sauce etc.. So if there was a night I was running late or behind I can tell one of my older kids to take something out of the freezer and pop it in the oven. I knew then they were eating something more nutritious than the frozen pizza I would keep stocked up on occasion and it made for the busy days lot less complicated..

She apparently didn't listen when the Obgyn said 'birth plans are never assured; $h!+ happens'.

I had to have an Emergency c-section, and I thanked the doc on call, when I had my and my newborn's 6 wk followup with her, for not hesitating and saving my little one's life for sure, and probably my own, bc I hadn't even been in labor that long or at the hospital for much more than a half hr. Alot of doctors don't like doing c-sections, but she believed in not wasting any time if things weren't progressing as fast as they should. I remember feeling so relieved when she told me that she was going to wheel me into the ER and take my baby out right now. So sad that some women are so caught up in a plan that they can't see that their plan would have ended with death instead of life.

My mom had an emergency c-section, and my sister had 2 of them. Go docs!

While I hate anti abortion laws I would totally throw that in her face and say your child has the right to live and I'm obligated to protect it regardless of what that does to you. If you want your kid to die if your birth isn't perfect give birth at home alone next time.

Even fast food is barely affordable these days. A McDonald's plain hamburger is $3.29. Wtf? Used to be on the $1 menu.

Bout the same for our family and it's a treat.

Yeah McDonald’s coffee used to be crazy hot

It's one of the first cases you learn about in law school

​@@GeorgettaRoss-sg3hs You basically just repeated the OP with slightly more detail.

@@nhd6128 Yeah, the way it was portrayed as being frivolous was insane. She wanted an apology, then medical bills paid. Her genitals were burned HORRIBLY and it was excruciating pain. They also had NUMEROUS complaints that the head office was aware of, they had complaints about the temperature of the coffee(IIRC it was ~180 degrees). Mcdonalds' should have paid what they paid and it should not have led to tort reform.

Also, I believe at the time McDonald’s coffee was served in styrofoam cups which maintained the temperature, rather than allowing it to cool fairly rapidly.

Agreed. Have seen guns at youth camp, but only on a shooting bb or 22 range. The police all have guns if you look. Have shot bbs at a fair at a star pattern.

Maybe depends on your family. Mine sent me to a marksmanship class (including a lot of firing range time) at the age of 12.

I know I'm old, but I saw plenty of guns in the kids' pickup trucks at my Texas high school. I don't think that happens much anymore!

That depends on where you live here in AZ you see people open carry all the time

Because guns are more controversial most people conceal carry. But guns are definitely still everywhere.

Agree

Pretty sure it came out that McDonalds has hotter coffee than most fast food places.

It was almost 200°F before she sued

The crazy thing is all she wanted was her medical bills paid, and they refused. McDonald's had been told that the coffee was too hot and they were negligent. Then they paid to smear this lady to make her look like she was at fault, and most people to this day still believe it.

What amazed me was the payout seemed extreme but it was only what McDonald’s made worldwide on coffee sales in a single day.

Yes. The coffee spilled in her lap and she ended up with 3rd Degree Burns.

She was stupid enough to put HOT coffee between her legs while trying to drive. unless that was false. guess I should watch the documentary.

A lot of problems would be solved if people did their own research and stopped paying attention to legacy media.

@@AnAmericanMusicianWhich wouldn't have really helped when the McDonald's incident happened, as there was no way to research it then. And there was little reason to research it decades later once the internet became a thing. We really only know the truth thanks to a recent documentary that did all the research the average person isn't capable of.

She put the hot coffee in her lap, pried off the lid to add cream, spilled the coffee, got burned. Sad about the burns and the burns were worse because McDs coffee was like 5-10 degrees hotter than most, but good God, what moron thinks it's okay to put hot coffee in your lap? And what moron's think it's a good thing to stick it to McD because their hot coffee was spilled by a complete idiot?

Also, is that take home or gross pay? Britain is taxed for many things we pay out of pocket for. Medical care jumps to mind.

And then the rest of the world scoffs that we aren't well travelled lol

Actually, it has more to do with the cost of the American goods in various European countries. For instance way back in the day, I was stationed in Germany. A $16 pair of Levi's cost roughly $38 in German stores. Many other products are like that as well. So, because we can afford our own goods, it appears as though we're all rich.

Well, looks like everyone said the same thing. Lol.

Very true and very sad. I think most people who have never been to the US would be shocked to learn how much poverty exists here, how poor the housing is in many areas and how overpriced housing is in major cities. It is no cake walk living in the US, particularly for many young people, who often have to have multiple roommates to be able to afford apartments even in many suburban areas.

Yup. But the governors and mayors like having people to rely on them so they can get more votes, so they'll never change it.

Old people don't get a decent cost of living increase in their social security. Many year don't get any either because government doesn't approve it or the cost of Medicare increases as much or more than the increase of the cost of living. Then rents also are increased every year. So many old people are priced out of housing.

It’s true, but it’s also true that there is a certain percentage of the homeless population that want to live that way. They are doing drugs and living off the local city government and choosing not to improve their lives because they view it as easier than getting a job and struggling that way. It occurs primarily along the west coast. Other homeless people are victims of poverty and don’t wish to live that way.

There are other extreme poverty areas like Appalachia that are out of site, out of mind, but are like 3rd world countries.

There has been more than one actually

@@EvilLeprechuan there are a lot of idiots in this world. Don't be a moron and spill hot liquid on yourself

Yes, the truth is that people here do quit jobs frequently, and we can be fired just as quickly. It really isn't like the situation in Europe, where laws and contracts restrict firing for many workers.

In my profession we don't expect people to stay more than 2 to 3 years. It's how most of us advance our careers and in right to work states like mine, yes you can be fired at any time without cause.

Both my husband and I were in union job's, he stayed for over 40 years and I stayed for 37 years. We did have to transfer several times but if you didn't want to that was your choice.

I have rarely quit jobs because of moving, etc. I have mostly lost jobs because of funding cuts or buyouts. It does seem that younger generations than mine may quit more often. Not sure why.

@Aldebaron-fp3ef I'm not sure of your age, but I'm on the younger side of GenX and we were taught in school to move up move out. We were learning about the collapse of the rust belt. Then we witnessed the fall of Detroit.

A lot of Americans don't even eat breakfast, they just have coffee. I almost never eat breakfast.

Yup. Certainly depends on where you are in the country but I'm always carrying and I would be more surprised if someone in my town WASN'T carrying if I went past them.

Hard for me to carry in South Florida because of my body shape, even though it’s a small 9mm. I’m a little guy, and can’t comfortably carry IWB, so I need an overshirt to carry OWB and it’s just too damn hot.

Here, you don't even need a permit, but most people I know conceal carry. There are gun ranges everywhere around here. Not sure how she missed those unless her US experience was limited to southern CA or NYC.

​@Ira88881 get a subcompact like a Glock 43x. I can wear a skirt suit in a board meeting and you cannot tell it's there.

​@@NannerBramssame here

Las Vegas has tons of of billboards advertising lawyers. Always makes me nervous because the threat of frivolous lawsuits hangs in the air!

When I travel abroad everyone always assumes I’m Canadian. 😂

lol to hell with that, I'm a liberal but I'm still a patriot. 🙂

Hollywood is just a city. Not that many celebrities compared to the population.

Be honest with them and show them that nice people live in the US too.

@@neutrino78x unless you mean classical liberal that's a contradiction in terms.

Yeah, because their coffee was to hot. However, had the woman not been a complete idiot and put the flimsy to-go cup between her legs in order to pry off the top to add cream....Sheesh, every single word in that 2nd sentence is absolute idiocy and McD had no responsibility in her spilling her coffee. She made several truly awful decisions and, if the law worked the way it should (without jurors who love to stick it to the man), her greater level of responsibility would have made a huge difference.

Nothing should ever be served anywhere that is hot enough to cause third degree burns. If she had not spilled it and had tried to drink it those burns would have been on her lips and in her mouth. She wasn’t an idiot, she was a victim of McDonald’s idiocy.

I thought she was money hungry but actually she only sued for medical bills but the jury gave her more.

Yea but we get the opinions of more American friendly people. Not the majority of antiamerican sentiment

@@trevor3013 Yeah, frankly I don't care about what those people think. Fuck them.

Same. I don't think I ever made over $10,000 a year in income. I certainly make less than that now. If my sister ever sells her house, I'll have to buy a Toyota to live in.

Almost all states allow for open carry.

@@hjbau1350- Ahhh, no they do not! Absolutely not!

Open carry has been growing recently. Most states now allow it, some require an open-carry license.

Bullcrap, that woman deserved to get her hoochi burned for being a knitwit. Why should others have to pay for someone else's stupidity. We are over litigious in this society and no personal responsibility, however I can see your lawyers point of view, still it should be reigned in.

@@robertsanders5355 What the fuck are you on about, go watch the documentary on this and you'll change your mind. The lid was faulty, the coffee was so hot it melted her skin. She didn't just get burned, she had to get skin grafts, she was diabled from it, multiple surgeries. She was 79. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants

Yeah, It's so disingenuous when people talk about this case and boil it down (no pun intended) to "she spilled a coffee on her lap, of course it's hot". Fortunately most rational people that learn about and actually read into the circumstances surrounding the case end up siding with the woman. There are plenty of real examples people can use for frivolous lawsuits , but this one isn't it.

@@robertsanders5355 yeah, it's truly deserved when someone has a freak and tragic accident that could have been prevented by a company literally caring for a single second that their coffee was too hot, after being told it was too hot at least 700 documented times before. Just because this one company thought it was fine to use water hot enough to cause those 3rd degree burns nigh instantly, unlike every other company using perfectly fine hot water, that doesn't mean it's THEIR fault! No one with a brain could ever have an accident like this because no one has ever in their lives dropped or spilled something due to a medical condition, a loose lid, a bumpy road... Coming back to reality: I, having spilled coffee on myself before, would not think that spilling someone else's coffee on myself would give me INSTANT THIRD DEGREE BURNS, which I have never gotten even from accidents in the kitchen. That's a product liability. You're providing that product, it is LITERALLY your legal duty to ensure the product is safe and not harmful to consumers. "Can cause third degree burns upon touching skin" is not "safe" or "not harmful" to consumers. There was no reason for it to be that hot. There was no sign or literature saying that it was like 1.3 times hotter than the average coffee. THAT'S why they were found 80% liable. There's a reason the frivolous lawsuits around cooler coffee exist and were successfully combatted, but this was not that.

@@ukeheliel Still disagree with you, there is still no personal responsibility in our society today and no one learns from mistakes anymore. If people thought and reasoned for a moment when making a decision, then maybe things like this would not happen. You are a product of todays education system that teaches no responsibility and consequences for dumb decisions, you believe everyone should win and no recourse for not thinking.

LOL.One overburdened walmart baker who was having to temporarily do two people's jobs because they were too cheap to have enough people when one took vacation clocked in,walked out and never came back.This meant nobody was on the night shift making donuts and setting out dough and he knew exactly what he was doing.lol.

All states have to allow some form of concealed carry.

Yes but even California is now being forced to abide by the Constitution. Thanks to NYSRPA v. Bruen it now means what it says, plain and simple.

Right. Most people don't carry their weapons in the open. It'd frighten people so most people only keep them at home for self defense, ir take it if they're going somewhere that may not be safe and it'll be hidden or locked in the car.

@@dez6278 Yeah and the biggest thing to remember is 95% or more of the legal gun owners in the US aren't people you need to be afraid of. You look at the gun crime statistics and they are high, but they show that most of those were stolen or illegally bought weapons.

@@BucketOfFail Very true.

Good comment 👍🏻

Hollywood is like the industrial complex for the entertainment industry. It's a working town

It probably was during the Golden Age of films, but it looks just as trashy as the rest of LA these days.

Hollywood is very trashy. The next time you see a movie set there, notice whether the camera points only at the palm trees and blue sky!

yea 5 yrs ago a whopper meal was $6 now its over 10

When we travelled abroad, everything thought we had an oil rig in the back yard.

I had never heard of spray deodorant until now and have only seen a couple of roll on deodorant commercials in my life. My mom is from Illinois, my dad is from South Dakota, and they met and and got married in Texas where I still live. We visit relatives a couple times a year for vacations, but I guess maybe spray deodorant isn’t popular in Texas or the Midwest? Either that or it’s just because I’m only 19 and just hadn’t heard of it yet because my family only used stick deodorant. Can very much relate to what you said about spraying things in enclosed spaces though! When I was in middle school we had a PE class of about 50 girls. After PE we would all go into the locker room to change back into normal clothes from our PE clothes. Literally a QUARTER of the girls would spray perfume and although none of us had medical problems luckily most of us often complained about it. I would always come out of that locker room smelling like the combination of 4 different perfumes. People in front of me accidentally sprayed right in my face sometimes when trying to get their backs!!! Even when that didn’t happen though, the whole entire locker room became a giant perfume cloud and many of us would be trying hard not to breathe too much and end up in a coughing fit where you could hardly breathe!!! 💀🤣

Agree but minimum wage differs from state to state. In South Dakota it’s 11.20 an hour

​@@NoraK32which is still well below that minimum living wage.

Aside from the courtesy of not using spray deodorant in locker rooms etc, a large part of our country (contrary to popular belief) tries to be environmentally responsible. Aerosolized anything releases stuff into the air that is bad for the environment.

Also spray-on anything isn't as popular in the US because of the aerosol chemicals that mess with the environment. I also hate spraying something on myself that gets up my nose and everywhere.

When I was kid, my family would sometimes go together to a fast food place as sort of a treat. By the time I was 10, we had KFC and Hardees in our town of 8,000. When I was really young, the closest thing to fast food there was an A&W drive-in, but it was an exciting change of pace for a young kid to sit and eat in the car.

There is no City of Hollywood. West Hollywood is a city. Hollywood, and North Hollywood are areas within the city of Los Angeles.

​@Reno_Slim yup, Hollywood was supposed to become a real estate place, hence the Hollywood sign (formerly Hollywoodland). Now the area at the base of the hills are houses from the Golden age of film that may or may not have stars in them but definitely still have history.

Even when we have public transportation it’s garbage lol

England isn't that far off on long drives. When I lived there it took me an hour to get to work, and any entertainment was an hour or more away. As far as stores, they all closed before I got off work so I can't speak much to that.

I understand that Britain would fit inside my state of Utah. That always surprised me because I thought it was much bigger since it's a Country!