German reacts to 11 Common Things That Don't Exist Outside the USA 

The Black Friday thing is wrong. It's called that because that is the one day of the year that a business goes from being in a deficit (red) to being "in the black" (on the positive side of the ledger) due to the Christmas sales. Has nothing to do with violence or beating people up for a toy. Purely a financial statement. I remember when "Cyber Monday" came about. Most offices are closed the day after Thanksgiving (on a Thursday), and back then, homes had worse internet connection than their offices did. So people would make a list, wait until they got to work on the following Monday, and log on to buy online from work. Of course now, people have high-speed internet all over the world, but Amazon and others still promote "Cyber Monday" as well as "Black Friday."

It’s just free refills on coffee, tea or soft drinks that are refilled for free, not alcoholic beverages.

All our water goes through waste treatment plants so what he said about garbage disposals in this country isn't accurate.

Every country should be proud of their own country enough to be able to fly their own flag anywhere and everywhere

This video has lots of wrong info, Black Friday is the retail term for when the company goes from the Red to the Black on it's books. It's when the company makes money, not because of fights.

The lack of garbage disposals in Europe has to do with their sewer system. Europe was developed quite a while ago, where as the US developed in recent history, so Europe's sewer system predates modern plumbing and the two do not mesh well. It's why certain parts of Europe don't let you flush toilet paper, the old sewer systems weren't made for it.

If you look at the 10 largest stadiums by capacity in the world, 8 of them are in the U.S. and all 8 are college stadiums.

It’s always interesting when someone not living in the USA, (or hasn’t spent a lot of time around the entire country) make videos about “USA culture”, as if they’re an authority on the subject.😂 Lots of people have already corrected the incorrect “Black Friday/cyber Monday” information, so I won’t bother with that. But as someone who came here from another country nearly 20 years ago, I have a slightly different perspective on a few things… *Spray Cheese:* I love it. 😂 It’s not an AMAZING cheese, but it’s certainly a fun cheese! My picnic basket is not complete on the 4th of July, without a bottle of “squeeze cheese” and a box of ritz crackers in it!! *Garbage disposals:* are SO common in the USA (I’ve literally never lived in any house or apartment that doesn’t have one) because almost all of the living infrastructure (like municipal plumbing) is brand new and was built specifically to accommodate things like the disposal. Whereas most countries have plumbing systems that significantly predate the garbage disposal-so it isn’t really compatible with it. It’s not a “more difficult process” to separate the food from the water at treatment centers, because they were literally designed with the process in mind. As for the “less environmentally friendly” part, it’s true that it takes more water to properly use standard disposals-but newer systems have taken this into consideration and now use very little water to run (and future designs will eventually use none one day). There are also different disposal types/systems… For example, I have a big farm-so with my system, the water from the kitchen sinks in the housing buildings is automatically separated from the food and goes to the fields/gardens/plants/flowers/etc. and the food that gets “ground up” in the disposals, goes directly to our compost sector. All the farms in this area have this same setup with their garbage disposals. *Perfect Teeth:* Yeah we really like nice teeth here. Depending on where in the country you live-this can actually be crazy inexpensive to achieve. A lot of people who live in the southern border states simply go to Mexico for dental work, because you can get amazing work done, at great facilities, for ridiculously little money. I actually just barely had this type of work done there!😂 I recently had a front tooth get broken and it cost about $350 to fix it (that’s including the gas to drive there and food/shopping for the day). *Free refills:* yes, waiters usually refill your drink automatically, without even asking. It’s seen as a staple of “great service” to anticipate what your customers want/need, without them even having to say anything to you. It’s literally one of the main things that will earn a waiter really good tips. If they bring you a fresh drink right before you get up to leave, many of them will even put it in a “to go” cup for you to take with you, so it doesn’t go to waste (this is another thing that gets waiters great tips and helps ensure repeat business to the restaurant). *Flags:* yep, we love them. I myself have about a dozen all over my property (including a full sized one, that goes up the flagpole every morning at sunrise and comes down every evening, to be safely folded/stored away until the next day). Everyone has their own reason for it, but for me, it’s the biggest symbol of the lifetime worth of work I have put into coming here, earning my full citizenship and being given the freedom/opportunity to make a wonderful life for myself here (that I wouldn’t have been able to safely do back in my old country) -so I can now peacefully live my own little version of the “American Dream”. 😊❤

As an American, everybody I know has a garbage disposer under their kitchen sinks, but nearly all of my friends, like me, have a compost bin and turn food garbage into beautiful, black, rich compost soil. I also mulch-up my tree leaves and garden and lawn cuttings and they, too, go into my compost bin.

The ads are for prescription medications like antidepressants, diabetes medications, and psoriasis medications. Not just pain meds.

3:20 Chris just to be clear, the spray cheese does not come (at least Ive never seen it) in an aerosol spray can like shown in the video. Its more like a cool whip can dispenser. The contents is under pressure from some type of gas and you push the trigger to one side to get the cheese out. Its doesnt "spray" out like hair spray or some type of cleaner. 7:18 I don't think that statement is accurate. The term "Black Friday" came about because most companies were in "The Red" meaning they were not making any profits, up until "Black Friday" The amount of sales that happen on that day and beyond until the end of the year is what put those businesses into "The Black" which means they were actually making money at that point. At least thats what I was always told.

Spray cheese, remember having it once as a child. Turning 60 this year. Don't know why it's still being sold.

It should be said that free refills are usually restricted to non-alcoholic beverages that are not individually bottled. So you won't get a free refill on beer or if you order a bottled water or soda.

If you want something uniquely American, from a few decades ago, check out any of the Schoolhouse Rock "episodes." They're cartoons with catchy songs that teach kids about math, English, or civics/US History. Every person who grew up in the 70s, 80s, maybe early 90s, knows these songs by heart. They'd air during longer Saturday morning cartoon shows for kids. I still have the Preamble to the Constitution memorized because of one of the Schoolhouse Rock episodes.

I briefly scrolled down the other comments to do a cursory search to see if anyone had already mentioned the traffic lights, but I did not see anything. I did a basic search on the history of traffic lights. The world's first traffic light was installed at Parliament Square in London on December 10, 1868. It was run by gas. It lasted only 2 months before exploding and killing the police officer manning the light. However, in 1914, Lester Wire of Cleveland, Ohio, invented the electric traffic light that had 2 colors and a buzzer. In 1923, Garrett Morgan, also of Cleveland, Ohio, received a patent for a 3-position electric traffic light. It was eventually purchased by General Electric.

The ads for prescription drugs are a trip. The list of side effects they rattle off at top speed are worse than what the meds are for

In a society where people smile, white teeth are more pleasant to look at.

Law suits is just another industry.

Actually the cities prefer you to put food in the garbage disposal. This allows them to remove the food waste and reuse it for things like fertilizer. If it goes in the garbage can it will just end up in the waste dump which is more costly for the city.

Okay, about the lawyers: I work in the personal injury industry and there are reasons why the US has so many lawyers. It’s not because we just want to sue people. It has to do with how insurance works in the US. Say you get hit by another vehicle while driving and the other driver is at fault. If you get injured (this can include both physical and psychological injuries) , the other driver’s insurance is supposed to cover the cost of any medical care related to these injuries. But because the goal of insurance companies is to make money, they will try to give you the smallest amount of money possible and you have to do all the negotiating with the insurance company. If you get a personal injury lawyer, they do all the negotiating for you and understand the law to get the maximum amount of settlement to cover the cost of your injuries. Since personal lawyers get paid using a percentage of the settlement, they have incentive to get you the most money possible. This means they also only take cases they are very likely to win. Well over 90% of these cases are settled out of court and never go to trial. Now let’s say that you get hit by a truck related to a business such as a FedEx truck or you are injured at a business (things I have seen: stab wound from loose metal inside a restaurant booth, hit by a man on a forklift trying to move a vending machine, deck collapse, boulder rolled off a landscaping truck and onto a woman’s car) then you will be dealing with business insurance. This type of insurance is even harder to deal with so a lawyer is basically necessary. It’s also a myth that people in the US sue for unreasonable things. Whiplash is real and can cause permanent brain injury. We often see head trauma, spinal issues, and knee injuries. Another big factor is related to psychological trauma. We see people who cannot get back in a car. They can become fearful, avoid leaving their house at all and become moody, lash out at their family, or withdraw from the world. In children, it’s really important to get them psychological help because if left untreated it can cause major problems later. All to say, while it sucks that the US insurance system is so complicated that people need lawyers, it is currently how things work, so the lawyers are necessary. Maybe one day the insurance industry will be more tightly regulated and we won’t need them anymore.

Yes, Americans spend money on whiting their teeth, however you can do the same exact thing by brushing your teeth with baking soda. Its cheaper and easier. In fact, there are many toothpaste that have it as a part of the product.

In accounting ledgers, losses are traditionally recorded in red ink, profits in black ink. Black Friday is because enough sales are made that day (and the following days leading up to Christmas) that businesses running at a loss all year can recover and swing to profit (be in the black ink) by year end

I think it’s kind of sad that Germans who are proud of their country and want to display their flag are looked upon with disapproval.

I don't believe the British flag is a more prominent flag versus the US Flag.

Garbage disposals are amazing. Life changing lol

Before a Major League baseball game the public in the stadium sings our national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner". Some of us think the last two words of the anthem are "play ball!".

I only use Solo cups at parties. I wash them. Never shopped on Black Friday, would rather go hiking and avoid the crowds. Never filed a lawsuit either.

The only "waste separation" that we do here in Wisconsin (USA) is separating the recycling out from the other trash. If it's not a recyclable object, it goes in the trash can. And there is no separating of paper/cans/or plastic. It all goes into the same bin.

The reason we display our flags is because it represents the sacrifices made to keep us free. Our flag has a unique history. You can get the whole story through a RU-vid video.

Garbage disposals are only work well for houses connected to to sewer lines. If a house has a septic tank and drain field they are very unlikely to have a garbage disposal.

Most places do ask on refills, but if you're a regular customer and they know you like refills sometimes they just do it. Also, if you're in conversation and they are running around with a pitcher of iced tea, they might just refill rather than interrupt.

Free refills are not everywhere and definitely not alcohol. There are some places that will have a sign that says no free refills. The flag also represents our first responders and military, many flags are posted for them in their honor.

We have a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. It grinds up food scraps and sends them down the water drain pipe that would otherwise go into the trash making it smell really bad. We have recycling and regular trash pick up, but separating your trash for the recycling is not mandatory. I personally stopped doing it when I learned locally they do not recycle what is collected. They sell the metal for scrap and put the rest into the land fill with the other garbage. Now I just throw everything into the trash.

In regards to college football stadiums in the US, a great example is the University of Michigan stadium, with a capacity around 107,000 people, while Ford Field (Detroit Lions, NFL) holds around 65,000.

I live right near the Michigan Stadium (we call it The Big House), but yes it is massive, it's the largest stadium in the world. It can hold 108,000 people easily.

For Garbage Disposals - In my family, when we're done eating, we still scrape large food scraps, bones, fat cut off meat into the garbage can. But when washing plates, we don't need to worry that a few kernels of corn or other bits of food will clog the drain. They collect in the garbage disposal then when it gets turned on, the food is chewed up small enough to easily pass with water. Our sewage treatment plants are already filtering out digested food (💩), little bits of undigested food aren't really a big deal.

It is also common in the USA for households to fly the flag of their college prior to a big college sporting event. For example, one house may fly the Florida State Seminoles flag while another may fly the University of Florida Gators flag.

Dedicated ice machines in the kitchen and/or ice makers in the refrigerators....super common in the US, generally unwanted elsewhere.

You never want to be the person getting sued, but the good thing is that businesses and individuals are much more careful about safety issues. Most people do not take safety for granted. If you have an unfenced swimming pool and someone wanders in and drowns you can be sued for having "an attractive nusisance." And the trespasser, will probably win. So you put up a fence anticipating the problem, and your insurance company rewards you by giving you a lower rate. Also the US has very good handicapped access for buildings, street crossings, public transportation. I noticed this is definitely an issue that needs more attention in European countries. Also you can order water in the US without being charged. Tap water is safe and with a little ice is refreshing. Restaurants do not charge for the water and you are not forced to buy bottled water. That can save a lot on your bill.

Red Solo cups are used when a party has beer in kegs. The two are synonymous.

Private persons do a lot of suing in the US. They either sue other people or companies, usually due to an accident of some sort or because they believe a product or situation made them ill. Often groups of people who believe they've all been harmed in a similar way will team up for a "class action" suit.

In regards to the medication ads. The ads in the US are for Prescription meds, so ones for: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, anti-depressants, inhalers, ect. These aren't ads for over the counter meds, but ones you NEED a doctor to prescribe to you.

So the lawyer thing, a lot of it is companies vs other companies, BUT, a lot of it is people suing other people and having their insurance paying for it, or suing their own insurance companies. In many cases it’s just procedural and results in a settlement, 98% of lawsuits are settled out of court.

Very few toll roads in the US. Virtually all roads are full public access and the few toll roads that do exist are only pay-to-play until the bonds are paid off and the first cycle of maintenance is completed. Then the become toll-free public access. Huge advantage for a large and mobile society!

Garbage disposals are more area specific, no one that I know has a garbage disposal we often throw food waste outside in a certain spot to decompose and we throw everything else in the garbage can.

We have TV shows about suing other people. There are so many “court shows” with judges it’s ridiculous. People on those shows will sue someone else for the dumbest reasons.

They forgot Ice, we Americans love ice, I don't think many other countries use ice in their drinks and they certainly don't use as much as Americans do.

Cool reaction video Chris! One thing I remember from the USA is that when you enter a building at street level they call that the First Floor! Here in Ireland (and maybe the rest of Europe?) we call that the Ground Floor. For us, the First Floor is one level higher. So they don't seem to have a Ground Floor in US buildings.

Where I live in America(more rural, smaller cities around) either doesn't have many garbage disposals or I've just never been in anyone's house with one in it.

I didn't grow up with a garbage disposal and only used one in rental apartments when I was older. The house I bought doesn't have one, either. It's an older house with a cast iron sink (you can see the exact same one in the movie "A Christmas Story", for anyone familiar with it) and adding one would just be too much hassle. I just keep the garbage bin under the sink for any scraps that can't be composted or thrown into the yard for the local wildlife.

Garbage Disposals are part of the drain system in your kitchen sink. It’s solely for food scrapes from food prep or cleaning of plates after dinner before they’re washed. You run the water and turn on the disposal which grinds the food into your waste water outlet. Communities that do trash separation are for paper/plastics/etc. but not garbage which is food. BTW, not everyone has a disposal and their food waste goes out with the rest of the trash.

2 other differences: Our price tags on items do not include the tax, so the final cost is always more. Another thing that a lot of Americans do is eat in their cars when they drive.

To be clear, it is only soft drinks that are offered as free refills…and that’s not everywhere.

3:53 in my city (San Francisco), like many but not all cities in the US, any food scraps that go down the sink are turned to compost via large, quite efficient anaerobic digesters. It’s actually one of the most efficient ways to compost. The problem comes in with fats, which may can congeal inside the wastewater system instead of flowing to the water treatment plant. Over time it can cause blockages and other problems. So, it’s good to put things like apple cores and orange peels down the garbage disposal in the sink, but putting anything too fatty down the sink is a bad idea. Some cities have banned garbage disposals because they tend to encourage people to put fatty foods into the waste system.

I'm an American lawyer. The US is very litigious. And private people sue each other all the time. The threat of being sued is very real here. Garbage disposals are in almost every house, condo, and apartment. They are everywhere. But whether or not they are really useful depends on the quality of your plumbing. Straight, white teeth are a whole industry here. Almost everyone gets braces as a kid and almost every adult does some sort of teeth whitening treatment, whether it's over the counter stuff they buy at the store or professional whitening done by their dentist. I lived in Greece for a year as an exchange student. European countries don't use clothes dryers for the most part. They air dry everything on drying racks. It wasn't too strange for me, since I only use my dryer for socks, underwear, and towels and air dry everything else. But I think for many Americans it's strange.

I used to be a server. Generally, you don’t ask to refill cups. You just do. I typically got tipped better when I didn’t ask because it’s seen as doing my job without asking. You typically ask if you want a refill when they are done eating so they can decide if they want more drinks before they leave. It’s also when we offer to go cups and plates. To go containers are free.

I was “stationed” in Germany in the late 60’s-early 70’s while I was in the U.S. Army. There was only 1 place within 100 miles of Frankfurt that you could buy root beer. It was only sold in 1 single fast food restaurant. Everyone on base headed there on their off days.

Civil suits are a real thing here. Meaning, a person to person lawsuit. You can bring a lawsuit against someone for almost anything. It's out of hand if you ask me.

If you knew how little it costs the restaurant to serve fountain soft drinks, you'd demand free refills too. :) When I worked at a movie theater, the syrup they mix with carbonated water only cost them 4 cents for a large drink. Note you don't get free refills on drinks that come in a can, just fountain drinks. Also not alcohol. In my experience, they usually don't ask if you want a refill on water, but they do ask for soft drinks, coffee, tea, etc.

Garbage disposal in home but also separate: napkins, paper towels, food scraps in green waste, plastic, glass and metal in the recycling, everything else in the regular trash.

The medication ads aren’t just for pain killers and over the counter drugs. They are also for medications that need to be prescribed by a doctor like antidepressants and medications that help maintain chronic illnesses.

Garbage disposals…I think are found in newer construction homes. I live in a rural area and have our own well for water separated by a distance from our own septic tank which collects human waste-our food scraps are collected and disposed of in a backyard compost bin for later decomposition and enriching of soil additives for gardening usually after a year of breakdown..other mulch material is added to breakdown the waste and “turned quite frequently to prevent mold build up and heat. I have never had a garbage disposal and see no need for one.

Try brushing your teeth with baking soda to brighten them. But don't do it too often, maybe 1 or 3 times a week. Mix it with your toothpaste

Black Friday became a thing because in the USA we have Thanksgiving that is always the 4th Thursday of November. It is a MAJOR Family Holiday in the USA, but MOST people take the Thanksgiving Weekend off, including that FRIDAY, being only 4 or 5 weeks (depending on how the 4th Thursday lines up in the calendar) before Christmas, and the number of who take that day off from work, it became a huge thing for retail store to begin major Christmas sales on that day. It is said that an economics professional can gage what the spending for the season will be from the proceeds of that single day. For the Average American it just marks the time of year to avoid the malls.

I used to get my refills before I left and had them put in a to-go glass. We have Solo cups all the time to keep from washing glasses.

An in-sink garbage disposal is only used for small food scraps not golf clubs or cardboard boxes or glass bottles as shown in the illustration.

Chris - regarding white teeth - my dentist's staff suggested that I could make my teeth a bit whiter if I also brushed them using Bicarbonate of Soda ("baking soda") and Hydrogen Peroxide. I haven't done whiteness comparisons in the three or so years I've been doing this, but I note that my teeth aren't "yellowing" as much when I do this. I don't do this every day, but rather every *other* day, and I always use toothpaste when I do, to get rid of the salty taste It might be worth trying. If you can find some color reference guide, you might be able to demonstrate whether it's effective for you. Please let us know if you're visiting the US - we'll generally be happy to show you things that you might be interested in.

Oh yeah being sued is very common in the US. Examples: car wrecks, dog bites, slip & fall accidents.

Another thing you only see in the US is huge pickup trucks and SUVs. I've owned a Ford Explorer, a Chevrolet F150, a Jeep. I like sitting up higher in traffic (visibility) , a heavier vehicle, payload capacity, towing ability, and comfort.

7:00 black Friday means "in the black" as in profitable(black ink).

University of Michigan can hold over 114,000 and have reported unofficial crowds far past capacity in the past, closer to 120k

Yes we have garbage disposals but we don't put like fish bones and stuff down it. Bones would literally ruin the blades or cause it get clogged. We usually wash the scraps left on the plate while cleaning or that didn't come off the plate when you emptied it. That's just wild.

I’ve lived in 20 different homes and I think 17 of them had garbage disposals, so yes, they are VERY common. They’re in most homes.

Montana you do not have to separate waste. There is a cardboard, wood, metal, and appliance area here, the rest goes in the general landfill. No bins in the house or property.

Many issues with legal proceedings, like a "small claims" suit ($15K or less), you can sue someone without a lawyer. For example, when a guy hit a friend's car, he was kind enough to let them know, but wouldn't pay them to get it fixed. So they sued in small claims and won. My friend didn't ever see the money, though. You can sue anyone, but if they don't have the money to pay you, there's not much more you can do to get your money. Except it might show up on a background check for employment or for purchasing a firearm (not good). Yes, lawyer advertise everywhere. Usually for car accidents & workplace incidents (slip and fall). In fact, one in Florida is so well known, most Americans know who "Morgan & Morgan" is. Those types of lawyers are sometimes called "ambulance chasers" so they can get the victim in the ambulance to hire them to represent them in court for a car accident.

We have a garbage disposal, but we don’t use it. It’s standard, and we would need it if we ever want to sell our house. A potential buyer would expect it to be present, so we had it put in when we renovated the house after we purchased it.

We have a garbage disposal, but most of the food scrapes are composted. We have three garbage bins (garbage, recycling, and compost.)

Every house and apartment I've ever had in the US has had a garbage disposal. They are available everywhere, cheap to replace when needed. They tend to last at least 10 years. For reference, I'm 54 yrs old.

Something that is huge in the US and less common elsewhere is drive-thrus. I know they exist in other countries but I think they are way more common here and there's a greater variety of things you can do at a drive-thru. There's fast food of course and coffee shops and drive up banking. But also pharmacies and since COVID many groceries let you order online and drive to the store to have someone bring out your groceries and load them in your car. I've heard that in Las Vegas they even have a drive-thru wedding chapel!

black friday in Argentina always was a scam. People usually forget prices (because of the level of inflation) so the shops puts a larger price than usual and discount it to the original price... it's a common practice

We have garbage disposal and we also have a compost pile, but we have to be sneaky about the compost pile because it violates the HOA bylaws My daughter's braces and treatment were almost $7k (clear brackets) and insurance only covered $2k

Dental care is outrageously expensive! Most have Dental insurance but has limited coverage and is usually for cleaning, repairs, and maintenance. Cosmetic … is expensive!

Most homes have garbage disposals, but they aren't used quite as broadly as people outside the USA seem to think. Some people compost. For others solid mass is usually just wrapped and tossed in the trash. It is the semi solid stuff that goes down the disposal.

In the US, we drink iced tea. Visiting other countries, it is almost impossible to get a drink with ice, much less brewed tea served over ice. It would be so easy to make, we just get strange looks if we ask for it.

LOL Spray cheese was big in the 70s it's not very popular now and I would suspect most Americans have not seen or tasted spray cheese. It has a strong cheese flavor but it's very soft. It's something you would eat alone, late at night after drinking too much beer or when you are feeling sad for yourself. When they say American flavor they are talking about American cheese, the individually wrapped slices like the cheese you get on McDonald's hamburger.

On my way to work Friday, on the radio I heard a Lundy Law commercial. Then a Morgan and Morgan commercial. Then the same Lundy Law commercial again. At the same time my screen was showing Top Dog Law. This is no exaggeration. Welcome to New Jersey.

Black Friday - this a holiday with no special meals or events so you could go out and do Christmas shopping. 50 years ago you could go downtown Chicago to see decorations. Downtown in the stores would absolutely packed. Today forget going downtown.

It's common for people to get sued for any injury if some fault can be attributed to another person. I think it's in part due to the healthcare system and insurance companies

I lived a mile away from the University of Michigan stadium when I was a kid! The stadium holds like 116,000 people!

Each time we’ve visited Germany (and also in Ireland), we noticed that ice in soda or other drinks is very uncommon. Also, bottled water (especially carbonated water) seems to be more common internationally. It the U.S., it’s not uncommon to drink water from the faucet.

I live in an older house (built in 1929) so no garbage disposal or dishwasher. Also yes lots of people I know have had braces, and use teeth whitening products and professional teeth whitening at dental offices.

Wood frame houses, they do exist outside the US but are only common in a few countries mostly Asian ones. Middle East does cement, Europe does mostly stone, brick and Cinder Block, Mexico does Adobe and Cement. Much more fitting than garbage disposals which are not common at all and used by even fewer people. But we discussed this when I was in the discord server.

You can definitely sue private individuals. I don’t think anyone goes through life thinking about getting sued but it does happen. My friend got in a car crash and had medical bills and sued the lady that hit him for $18,000 in medical bills.

Black Friday is so named NOT because of the fighting over goods. That came later. It got its name because it was one day the most people had off to go shopping for Christmas, and retailers would find that, even if they'd lost money all year long, this ONE DAY would be enough to move them from being "in the red" to being "in the black" (accounting terminology for being at a loss to at a profit) for the year. Thus, for retailers, it was often when they finally became profitable (in the black) for the first time each year. It is not nearly as crazy as it used to be before internet shopping got normalized.

While we do in many places have Seperate Bins for different kinds of rubbish even the dishwashers have a system that grinds up the Food to be sent down the sewer, Most Dishwashers do not have a filter or catchment which needs to be emptied.

Yeah, lawyers are definitely a thing, and the lawsuits are not just for companies. I've personally been sued 3 times and sued someone else once (won every time). The other thing we have that I've never heard of in any other developed countries is Bounty Hunters. Bounty hunters can be hired to enforce court orders when the police decide it's not worth their time.

regarding the law firms and advertising, a good majority of the law firms are hyper specialized. Dealing with only motorcycle accident victims for example. So they advertise so that people know there is a firm that specializes in that.

A home's garbage disposer grinds the food garbage into fine particulates that is then washed down the drain, that end product is no worse for the environment than the home's poop which is mixed with, discharged, and travels along the the same piped system as the rest of the sewage.

As a Canadian, depending on the supplies within the local stores. We use both the blue and red cups, all we need is a white cup to make the colours of Pepsi! (Or the US, Russian, and other flags with those colours) Also yeah Black Friday exist here to, Canada is more of a colab of both Western European and American things combined

8:51 not all places give free refills in the United States, and not all beverages are refillable for free. If you go to a restaurant and you order coffee you pay for the coffee and they’ll come by and top you off ever so often to keep your coffee “warm“ unless you tell them you don’t want anymore. Some places that offer fountain drinks will let you refill your cup but they don’t come around and ask you “would you like your Dr Pepper refilled?“ You would have to ask “can I get a refill?” and they would say yes or no, but if it’s yes you would get up and go get it yourself. But some sit down restaurants do not offer free refills in the United States. You pay for each drink individually. So it does vary- some places do have free refills but a lot of them do not. So don’t just assume that’s gonna happen because it won’t necessarily😊.