Things Americans Think are Totally Normal... But Others Find Bizarre 

Maybe it would be worth it if it came with a free toy inside, like a fleshlight.

Can we get Danny a lot of subscribers? ru-vid.com/show-UC0IT9-IQkDXJDSD76PqY6ug

we actually did sing the national anthem in my class

Despite being subbed this channel stopped showing up in my feed two months ago....

@Achronic Deth I pledge allegiance to Queen Fragg and her mighty state of hysteria...

Same , I'm like lemonade is three simple ingredients plain water, sugar and fresh lemon juice (at least if you want the best tasting) I would be quite miffed if I got fizzy lemonade.

we literally make lemonade at home and its just...squeezed lemons, sugar and some salt or pepper if you want it slightly tangy.

@@m-w-y7325 ...o, we are now not going to discuss fizzy lemonade but this remark of PEPPER in lemonade....?

@@bridgetfitzgerald3063 ay! just try it out, infact go for Rock salt, it gives it even a more punch!

same here! in the US even (now almost entirely gone from some places due to covid) drink station lemonade uses the FLAT TAP WATER source to dilute the syrup not the carbon dioxide infused water for the sodas. peculiar thing is... fizzy lemonade (pronounced in old Japan and today as ramune) was introduced in glass bottles with the iconic 'marble' inside the neck as a stopper to Japan on July 8, 1853. when American Commodore Matthew Perry led his four ships into the harbor at Tokyo Bay. the US was seeking to re-establish for the first time in over 200 years regular trade and discourse between Japan and the western world. one of the 'trade gifts' Perry brought was CASES and CRATES of carbonated and only slightly sweetened lemon water. so sometime after the 1850's carbonated lemonade went out of fashion in the US. :>

And a wad of paper to slap!

Viewers have dropped immensely since the new format came in too

Honestly, it's the entire reason I'm subbed to the channel.

Only 30 mins :(

This is why I came here

As an American, I love listening to a British man, living in the Czech Republic, throwing shade on Americans

Oh good I’m in the right video

I didn't even know that fizzy lemonade was normal anywhere.

@@computernaut my husband is English and whenever we go there I’m depressed about it. Fizzy lemonade is a sin.

Lemonade isn't what? That's just lemon juice

@@TjPhysicist Lemon juice is the juice squeezed from a lemon, Lemonade is a little bit of that, a fuck ton of sugar and water.

That’s called personality. He read’s everything the same way, only channel names. Let’s not forget the rest of the crew who add so much to what we see as the final product, & Simon’s character.

Schweppes makes amazing fizzy lemonade that they only sell in Europe and maybe Canada? Never been to Canada.

Same. We have like lemon flavored carbonated drinks, but lemonade in America isn't carbonated. We literally mean lemons, maybe a little water, and sugar to taste. Kids make it and sell it in their front yards, it's definitely not carbonated...

@@jackl4laughs there's Carbonated versions of Lemonade in America most people though prefer the sugar mix I.E. Country Time

Cider is another one, we don't have "soft" cider in the UK so imagine my surprise when I heard American parents let their kids drink cider on a regular basis.

Same!

I had to say the pledge of allegiance every day I had Spanish 1 and 2 in highschool. I can recite it to this day, unlike most of the other Spanish I was supposed to learn. Somehow I feel this will be of limited use we're I to travel overseas.

@@adamreddaway2005 same here lol. “Prometo fidelidad …”

That’s how indoctrination works.

@@bustcard I, I imagine when properly indoctrinated you'd, remember the words, maybe feel something about it. How is it successful indoctrination when they go on to not give the slightest fuck about doing it ever again past that point?

@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder It's normalizing it to the point of making it mundane.

Mountain Dew has raspberry lemonade called Spark, I'd imagine it's something like that.

You haven't lived mate !

In the US I think it's something like lemon phosphate. One of my favorite things

Just so u aren't disappointed there's an Australian drink called pub squash which is the closest thing to American lemonade but fizzy ....

I'm addicted to the pigger nussy 😻

But its been changing and has a different vibe now, I remember the Glory Days, where Simon would plan ETAs murder, the roaming while we blaze, the smacking the script, miss the good old days 😞👍

@@jeffsorrows Ya, being seated is probably better for his back, but it has greatly reduced the amount of chaos.

i'm keeping a tally of his mispronunciations...

Right? I nearly choked on my tea at him 'shouting hymns'.

Honestly, it's the entire reason I'm subscribed to this channel.

💯

good thinking

I joined in 2001 and the view was that if your old enough to serve your old enough to drunk but it's technically against the UCMJ so you will be punished more for getting caught than for actually getting drunk, overseas it was completely allowed under 21.

Germany: It's beer and wine starting at 16 and everything else starting at 18. Not allowed to sell alcohol to someone under 18 if they appear to be drunk though.

@@AtrisMakesMusic It's been a while since I lived in Germany, but where I lived even 16 wasn't heavily enforced. I remember going out to dinner with my parents and they'd even bring me a glass of wine at the tender age of 9-10. I remember going to Croatia for vacation and the open bar on the resort had no gripes with me making mixed drink orders (for my parents but it was me who was tasked with going to the bar).

As a fellow mid-Michigander, and familiar with the years you speak of; nobody gave a f**k then lol. It was just "boys will be boys" and "try to get home safe" 😂 its going that way again now, you dont even need a license plate. The cops gave up where I'm at 👌

This seems to be the 'ply Simon with large amounts of alcohol before he records the video' channel

Lucky bastard. I lived in Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. There was no suspension of drinking laws for the locals. Just free drinking zones for foreigners behind East German style barriers to keep the unwashed out.

Most people remember the Atlanta Olympics for the bombing.

Nobody in America cares bout the Olympic sports unless they are competing in them. Lol

@@isaacshaver6218 You say that, but when the Olympics are in Los Angeles those are going to be some of the hardest tickets to get ever.

@@2011blueman Yea cuz of the friends & families from other countries coming to watch. You can't say the venue is packed when only your gfs are the only ppl coming to see the show. Lol. Either way I said this is jest. I hope America wins all the golds. I'm always for team America! Fukk Yeah!

Yeah. Some do income tax, some do sales tax. It's fun trying to compare states.

Go back

I would be great to go to the US and only to have to pay for something for the price on the ticket.

True Washington state and TX both frontload the fuck out of property tax so owning a home is absolutely madness level expensive because they "have no income tax"

Oregon does property tax

Likewise with North America. I'm from England, I thought all lemonade was fizzy lol

We like it fizzy, that's why we drink sparkling water. I call it lemonade when it sqeeze half a lemon into a glas of sparkling water. No sugar.

Dutchie here, “limonade” here is not fizzy, syrup with plain water. Not sure what the rest of Europe drink

Lemonade in the UK is just like sprite or 7 Up. It’s just lemon flavored soda. Lemonade in America is lemon juice, mixed with water and sugar.

American here. Izzy sparkling lemonade is FANTASTIC!

See, I thought that was weird. I never know who to trust.

Your the Danny?

The "Walker" in GHWB was actually a last name. George Sr was the son of Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker. He gave his first name along with his first-last name to his first born son as a middle name. The reason he kept it was the fact that the Walker family was once an extremely well known and connected family. And his grandfather, George Herbert Walker, was a very famous dude in the 19th and 20th centuries who ran a bunch of banks and then became the president of US Golf.

There easiest way to differentiate is to call one of them George or "H.W." and the other is always "Dubya". By the way, did you know this bit of trivia? The day Bubba left the Whitehouse and Dubya moved in, the staff discovered that the Clinton people had played the practical joke of stealing all the W's off of all the keyboards in the whole place. Which is pretty funny. And considering how close Bill and HW got after the 93 election, it's totally believable. The Bush family still refer to Bill is the "adopted son".

Bad Danny! No magic spoon in the blazement for you :P

When you read it closely, you realize you are pledging to a cloth. First. Then to the country it represents. Were I to write it (and I have written one), I would start with, "I pledge allegiance to the United States of America." No words minced. But it would be fine with me if we dropped it altogether.

well, im from ye olde Kingdom of Norway and even most of my irl friends view the pledge at schools as mental lmao. generally speaking you could argue Norwegians are extremely nationalistic, seeing as how we got fucked by Sweden and Denmark for so long, but even here the pledge every single morning would be viewed as a tad bit much. or you could just argue that we dont have to forcibly indoctrinate kids into thinking the country is fine and that theyre the best, even though the rich elite is allowed to exploit you for infinite gainz since you have fuckall worker rights. i genuinely feel bad for you guys, and hope for yalls sake someone is able to actually fix the hellhole yall are in.

Right? Lol same here 😅

Well there's Mike's Hard Lemonade but otherwise nope never heard of fizzy lemonade.

Sparkling Ice has a lemonade that's really good and it's carbonated (fizzy).

Sprite isn't considered lemonade in the US. It's just lemon lime flavored soda. Lemonade is a lemon juice, sugar, water

Well, that seems like the very definition of niche.

You could get a learner's permit in IA at 14 also. Not sure if that's still true or not.

Still true in Kansas.

Bought my first car when I was 14 from working at Arby’s and side work. lol got to fix it up for 2 years before could drive it was nice using for the tests though

Also Maine when I was 14 (in the late 1950's). 14 and 9 months learners' permit, 15 years old, full license. Lots fewer people on the road there and then.

We live in the UK, both my grandad and my dad worked in the RAF we never really put the flag up. But my partners father was in the RAF and had the flag outside, he passed away and we live in his house now and there is always a flag flying for him. I completely respect you for doing that its about respect for a person as much as anything else.

As a veteran, much respect to you for honoring a veteran! Thank you. You are what makes the USA 🇺🇸 great.

I think that just means ur a nice person who shows respect good on u

We quit saying both by the late 90s in my rural east TX school. If yours still does it, that's just something chosen by the ISD.

@@laner.845 it’s the law…but ok Texas law (Texas Education Law Section 25.082) requires students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag and the Pledge of Allegiance to the Texas flag each day. Parents may submit a written request to the principal to excuse their child from reciting a pledge. A minute of silence will follow recitation of the pledges. The student may choose to reflect, pray, meditate, or engage in any other silent activity so long as the silent activity does not interfere with or distract others.

Yeah, Americans doing the pledge of allegiance look just like the brainwashed kids in N.Korea or Iran to the rest of the world. It's definitely weird.

Californian children learn Californian history in 4th grade as well. US history is 5 and 7th and again in h.s.

That's creepy. I am German and that gives me Third Reich cringe. What if you don't agree with your actual government?

The suffix "ade" refers to a carbonated beverage, by definition, before people started sticking it on random drinks like Gatorade because it sounds sporty. Orangeade=carbonated orange juice beverages like Orangina, lemonade=carbonated lemon juice, and in every English-speaking country except American that is what lemonade is. But then again, cider means a fermented fruit drink and Amercans use cider to refer to a type of apple juice....

@@maledictionwolf Nerd.

@@maledictionwolf Language changes. It doesn't stay frozen. The archaic meaning of "Terrific" was "inducing terror" so a hurricane would be terrific. I just google it and the definition is "of great size, amount, or intensity" so a "terrific hurricane" should still work, but I be most native speakers associate some positive nuance to the word "terrific".

@@maledictionwolf what's your source for -ade suffix designating carbonation? All the definitions for it that I've found say it means made from a fruit.

@@brendaholcomb3187 correct, language changes, and in the American dialect of English--and ONLY the American dialect of English--lemonade refers to lemon juice. In all other English speaking countries, it refers to a carbonated lemon beverage, which is my point, and Danny's point. Just because Americans don't use the word lemonade to mean carbonated lemon drink that doesn't mean that the word has magically changed its meaning in every other part of the English-speaking world, and the suffix -ade retains it's original meaning of carbonated beverage in non-American English speaking countries, just as cider retains its original meaning of fermented fruit drink in the same regions.

To add to your tangent, I'm old enough to remember vending machines for cigarettes. So what theoretical age someone had to be to buy them, anyone could just wander up and buy some.

@@patrickmccurry1563 I was just thinking about those vending machines. I only remember seeing them in bars.

I remember cigarette machines in the bowling alley and bar

My great aunt ran a grocery, and when I was very little, cigarettes and the bologna & cracker snack were the only things I was allowed to ring up as they were $0.50 and $0.25 - they didn't trust me with the other numbers for some reason lol. I'm also old enough that my first year of junior high, there was still a designated smoking area on the school grounds for kids.

My dad smoked Winstons and I remember more than once being sent to the gas station in my tiny little town to get cigs from the vending machine for him when I was only about 7 or 8, around 1970. The price was about 45 cents then.

Most of these youtube ad companies are expensive. They think by making youtubers or influencers promote it that viewers will be more likely to pay the cost. Its why a lot of them go out of business and usually change their name so people think its a new company with a better product.

Yeah a buddy looked this up... it's close to 15 dollars a box Canadian cheerios is 7.99 for double the size.. Simon should just accept the deal from raid cause not one person is buying their cereal lol

@@Akren905 it's just not good enough to ge worth the price. It's just overly dry cereal.

80% less and it'd be on par with the most expensive cereal I've ever bought. For a product whose selling point is that it has nothing in it, it's fucking extortionately priced.

The brand sold here in stores is about 1.50$ less a box, but it's awful. Magic spoon isn't an everyday option, but it's great to have the occasional bowl of cereal.

@@2lefThumbs Danny's life is hard enough, living chained in Simon's basement and all. Do we really want to put the poor guy through wading through the weirdness of the U.S?

@@2lefThumbs I read it wrong. I thought you guys were saying Danny should do a deeper dive into U.S. oddities. My fault for comment scrolling on zero sleep after 2 days. Lol

I worked at a gas station that sold carbonated ice tea and it was quite unpleasant. Tea tastes smooth adding carbonation to something smooth is a bad idea, like adding carbonation to a milk shake or pudding or oatmeal or Irish cream it would be incongruous and ultimately unpleasant.

Although carbonation lemonade is actually great, carbonation and citrus is always good, we used to stretch our orange juice with 50% seltzer, not as good as pure orange juice but a hell of a lot better than drinking plain seltzer or water.

and the very next sentence is "and to the republic for which it stands," meaning you are pledging loyalty to the government and not a symbolic piece of cloth hanging on a stick.

@@themoviedealers But it's _"and_ to the Republic, for which it stands." So it's a pledge to both the literal flag _and_ the flag as a symbol.

@@themoviedealers The government is LITERALLY SECONDARY in the pledge.

@@HotDogTimeMachine385 the flag stands for and literally represents all 50 states and territories along with the original 13 colonies that is why it comes first. The Flag represents us the people. Why we say “ of the people, by the people, and for the people”

Well you don't say you pledge allegiance to the flag before you, so you're not necessarily pledging allegiance to a physical object. It's still kind of weird to specifically pledge allegiance to the flag as a symbol _as well as_ the thing that symbol represents, though.

Some teachers basically marked the students who refused as delinquents dispite that being the only thing that could be labeled as such. Luckily, I had teachers who didn't care since they thought it was stupid as well.

Yeah, when I was in school anyone who didn't stand and do the stupid pledge was targeted by the teachers and other students.

Yep

Thanks for reminding me why living here is retarded.

@@omegaslayer4177 Mmm... Better to live here than most anywhere else with what's going on in the world. In Europe they have war's going on, mass protests across the continent since people are struggling to even stay afloat. Their looking at the prospect of black outs during winter and an economy that is sputtering out with business shutting down due to the fact they can't even afford their heating/electric bills. It could also be worse. You could be living in Russia where your leader looks at you as nothing more than a blood bag for his War where freedom of speech is totally non existent. You could be in China which is now just as bad as North Korea. Or Iran where you have no rights and is now in total anarchy with mass riots across the country. The U.S. isn't perfect. But right now knowing full well with what's going on in the rest of the world you could be in a boatload of other countries where it's worse. Heck the UK has massive smuggling going on now since Brexit is allowing nasty foods to come in by the truck load due to the countries inability to do any type of border checks. It has gone through three prime ministers in just the last three months. It's inflation is worse than the U.S. and it's economy has been in the toilet and has the least amount of growth of the G20 countries. Aka...The grass isn't always greener on the other side. My grandmother found this out being a world traveler. She visited countries all over the world. And she always said it made her appreciate the U.S. so much more. My grandfather was from Greece and moved to the U.S. and never looked back. He went back of course to visit family. But with the issues Greece had and continues to have to this day it was a no brainer for him.

@@GalaxyFur rather live in Canada

@@omegaslayer4177 I hope you don't like RU-vid then. Because it may be going bye-bye for all your Canadian RU-vidrs. Some are even thinking of moving to the U.S. now. 😉

@@GalaxyFur only RU-vidr I like from Canada is Linus

Nope, Sam edited out the next 30 mins of Simon's mind being blown then ordering some "American" lemonade online to see what's wrong with Americans.

My granda was 15 when he ran off to ww1 he was a horseman he was caught sent home and we t right back when hecwas 16. Right at the end of the real warhorse documentary he walks right into the camera

Your grandfather was harder than a woodpeckers beak! Semper Fi!

My grandfather signed up at 14 and fought in WWII. Not front line, but close enough. He died from shell shock and ptsd some 60 years after the war. Far too many children signed up and were allowed to fight 😢😢

Apparently we also need to carbonate our lemonade, because this is the first time I've ever heard of it. And I'm 40. :|

@@grumpyoldnord I had it in London..ours is better in US, lol

We also need to start shouting hymns, apparently.

@Lala Emm not really. Put solar panels on the roof and it will run the central air. It’s very humid in Long Island, NY in summer and we often have heat waves with many waves of 35 degrees Celsius for weeks straight. Every nation has good and bad, Germany for instance. Great airports (especially for us smokers, the thing you go into that sucks the smoke up into a vent is great) but sandals and socks???

Thank you for the respect that was obviously taught in your household. I don't understand why foreign exchange or legal non-citizens have to do it but I extend the same respect. You were a better "American" when you were here than those who were born here 10 to 15 years before you left.

oh say can you see.

Since the Pledge to the Flag is literally our oath of citizenship, I'm glad that the school didn't make you say the words. I'm glad your school understood that and didn't force that on you as technically a visitor, not a citizen.

Yes....you were NOT required. Thanks for mentioning this.

Much respecc. But this made me lol.

Hmm, how bout going on a date and going to pay but all your cards declined because there was an automatic payment you forgot and all your accounts are actually overdrafted? Ooo, maybe suddenly getting explosive diarrhea (you thought was just gas) in a hot tub at the YMCA? Another more harrowing moment is accidentally moaning an ex’s name while in the throws with your new partner 😜

Lol if that’s the worst that happens to you, you’ve lived a charmed life

You know you can just have a virgin drink right

What’s really funny is when they look at you look at you like your dumb for ordering something non-alcoholic and say they won’t say anything, when you live in a not a drop state. It’s kinda sad, actually.

What decade was that? And which province? One public elementary school I went to in BC in the 80s never sang the anthem. A different one I went to in the same city they did, but it was only on Monday morning. 75% of my class were recent immigrants and visible minorities in the second school, they all sang it except for the Jehovah Witness child, who just sat there quietly. I don’t know if it was because one was a French immersion and the other wasn’t, but they were still in the same school board district. I have a strong feeling they likely don’t sing the anthem in any school in Quebec, they don’t even celebrate Canada Day. Strangely, my mother tells me when Kennedy was shot they were sent home from school in Vancouver. I never asked my dad if the same happened to him in Montreal though. Lately I’ve been blowing my American boyfriend’s mind that Secondary school in Canada in the 80s and 90s was absolutely nothing like his experiences in American Junior and High schools.

@@la_belle_heaulmiere oh dear lord the switching from Canadian schools to American schools was hard. I knew no states or cities or presidents or anything like that I could do all the geography things for Canada. I still to this day have a hard time with geography. And as for what providence I lived in both of the different areas I lived in were in Ontario. And if I move there when I was four and a half that would have been 1972

@@laurielyddy4890 lol unsurprising. Canadian history is terribly neglected. Most Canadians graduate public school and can’t name most of our historical prime ministers. History was mostly fur trade, Plains of Abraham, Hanging of Louis Riel, Klondike gold rush, railroad. War. War. A shocking amount of people have no idea how the Westminster parliamentary system works. Not learning anything about other countries is not surprising at all. :( I hope you were able to catch up in most of your studies quickly and felt more comfortable and integrated in your later schooling after adjusting.

Yeah starting to think he's a bit dusty during some videos lol

Let's rotate the board!

Found the 12 year old, bitching about America 😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️ The USA is a great place. Likely the best, in most metrics 🤷🏻‍♂️ I mean we literally saved Europe from Europe, TWICE. Without us, European socialist elitism, would simply be ran by Germany lol. Instead of the EU, without the USA 😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ But edgy dude! Yeah AMERICA is soooooooo bad. Tragedy so many foolishly, try with absolute desperation, to get here..

What the heck are you talking about. I cant drive to work without almost hitting a stupid J-walker. Theyre everywhere.

@@Guy-cb1oh But it's technically illegal. What I think is dumb is in the US you can get a DUI for riding a bicycle drunk.

@jibjones123 I always refused to do it. My teachers were pissed all the time and sent me to the office until finally the principal informed them that it was my Constitutional right to not recite or sing, lol. My mom was a teacher in another school and she told me I didn't have to do it if I didn't like it so I knew it was a bunch of bull from day 1. 😂

That reminds me of how we subverted "Deck the Halls" in second grade. We'd sing, "Deck the halls with Santa's balls. Fa la la la la la la la la! Break a window; break a tire. Fa la la la la la la la la! Break an old man's beard with wires. Fa la la la la la la la la!"

Oregon gives learner permits at 15 then after so many hour of driving supervised you can try for your license. I guess all the illegals don't need licenses though😡

In Texas, the law says you can be given alcohol from a parent, a grandparent, or a spouse who's at least 21 as long as you drink it in their presence. Also, you can get a hardship license at the age of 15 if you can prove you need it to take care of your family. Otherwise, you can only get a learner's permit at 15 after passing the written driving test to drive with an adult present who is at least 21 and get the license at 16. There are restrictions even for the license when you're under 18 though, such as not being able to drive at night.

Ohio state law does allow for parents to allow their children (or spouses who are over the age of 21 to allow their underage spouse) to consume alcohol, under certain circumstances. For a parent to consent for a minor to consume alcohol, the parent has to be physically present with the minor and supervising the minor at all times. The parent assumes all responsibility and consequences should the minor cause damage or injury. Restaurants and bars are legally allowed to serve alcoholic beverages to parents, knowing it will be consumed by a minor, but are also allowed to refuse to serve alcohol to a minor. It is at the discretion of the individual establishment.

In Minnesota and Nebraska if you lived on a rural farm, you could qualify for a "farm permit" and drive alone to/from school and school activities (sports practice, plays, etc.) at 14 years old. Most farm kids had been driving around the farm and backroads since like 10, so it wasn't a big deal, allowed the kid more sleep (don't have to get chores done, then ride the school bus route for an hour before school, and was a huge burden off the parents too. All kids could get a learner's permit at age 15, then had to have a passenger over age 18 or 21 (depending on the state). My mom always started us driving on the empty dirt roads in the country, then when we had that down, the paved town streets (our giant metropolis of 2,200 people) and eventually onto the highway. We lived 2.5 hours away from the nearest freeway and city, so those experiences were pretty rare until we were a little older. Some states require the passenger for a learner's permit be over 21 and on a list of 10 or 15 people approved by the parents (my niece's list included her older sister, grandparents, and brave family friends who agreed to be on the list. I don't live close enough) and I think she had to have driver's ed classes (always provided by the school in such states) before she could get her license at 16.

@@SaguaroBlossom in South Dakota anyone can get their learners permit at 14. And they’ve changed it a bit since I was a kid, but if you take and pass drivers Ed, you can get your restricted permit and start driving alone during the day while still 14.

Actually, such a channel exists! It's called Brain Blaze - oh wait, we're already here. Lol (OK, I'll see myself out)

It's a very British thing to do, really. Talk about one thing then go into a tangent for a bit then return to the original thing. We do it alll the time. A classic example is Billy Connelly when he does his stand up he will start a joke get caught up in like 5 other stories then return back to the original joke.

New Channel: Today I Tangent

@@Feszy_ I would watch

@@krampusklaws2238 why am I just finding this out now

That way we can force more high school graduates into predatory loan practices to get in college... I like it!

I’m another definitely not bothered American. Although, I know some shit about The UK, and they’ve also got nationalist dickheads with Union Jacks in the back garden. Lol. Weirdly I grew up in the south and never got any guff for not standing for the pledge or acknowledging prayers before sports and stuff. Also I hope Simon knows we lead the world in more than just school shootings (which…those are kids man, not terribly funny) like number of adults who believe in actual angels, or that we make almost all the porn.

Oh good I got a sister somewhere cuz I didn't do it either

I enlisted at 17, and I can agree that the age that's of enlistment should be raised. I turned 19 in a total shithole.

I agree it should be 21

It ain't blaze without a 15 minute introduction

It's somewhat similar in Germany. Kids are allowed to drive on their parent's farm and fields but not on public roads. Which is why my cousin was one brought home by police because he went on a "short errant run" with his dad's tractor (driving from the vineyard to the farmhouse and halfway back. The police only noticed because he was a pretty small 7 year old.

Grew up on the R.I. border in Massachusetts & bars in Mass. would close at 11 & R.I. was 2a.m. You never rushed right home cuz the cops would wait at the border for the Drinkies to come back home

Simple ... because the tax is on the 'transaction' and not on the item itself. It is collected at the point of sale which is why it's called a "sales" tax. I fail to understand why non-Americans find this strange or odd.

I think the requirement of the Pledge of Allegiance differs greatly from place to place. Only a few years ago, I worked in a public school (grades 6-12) where they were required to do the pledge every day. However, when I was a student in Jr. High, they only asked us to do it once a week.

@@wallacem41atgmail the amount is determined by the price of the items, though? Not by number of transactions, time spent interacting with the cashier (aka cashier work time) or anything

@@FlareonSky You are correct. Although the amount to be collected is determined by the purchase price of each individual item, the tax is considered to be on the "financial transaction" (activity) not the item(s) themselves. If, say, you were to purchase ten (10) different items, the prices of the items are first totaled and then the tax is applied to the total amount of the transaction. As it is collected at the point of sale, the term "sales tax" is frequently used. The merchant is prohibited (by law) from applying the tax individually on each item separately. Another example: I wish to trade my older vehicle for a newer one. The agent and I agree on the amount he is willing to allow me on my older one and what I'm willing to pay for his newer one. The difference is considered the "financial transaction" and is on what the "sales tax" will be based.

@@wallacem41atgmail Unless that older vehicle was leased. Leased vehicles in the US have different tax collection methods, but you don't pay an excess amount for the vehicle in tax while leasing, so there is no tax credit for the trade amount. I have seen many unhappy faces when people learn this. They shouldn't be mad though, they didn't overpay so they aren't entitled to a refund

3:30? We got out at 2:45

We got out early on Thursdays at 1:45pm. Normally, it was 3:15pm.

Technically, I guess we have - Sprite or 7-Up - but I've never considered those lemonades. How odd.

Fizzy lemonade equals fermented...

Being American we call that stuff lemon sodas or lemon flavor sodas. They aren't naturally fermented like they use to be back in the old days, "they were the worst," they are lemon syrup with carbonated water added.

I got on a computer just to comment. Our flag is honered here because our soldiers caskets are covered with it and it represents the rivers of blood spilt by our fathers mothers sons and daughters as they died defending our country. Whether the conflict was right or wrong they died nonetheless. I won't apologise for our patriotism. Every morning when I raise the flag in my yard my heart breaks anew. It's the very least I can do in gratitude for their sacrifice!

@@janinelightfoot7111 Don't ever apologize for your patriotism. I think most people forget that the flag is also a symbol for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for the country. The problem is the flag gets stained by idiots and fools, but we all need to keep in our hearts those who have sacrificed for our freedom separate from the symbol.

Their have been supreme court cases on this, and you don't have to do shit. Freedom of speach means you can flip off the flag and butcher the pledge if you want, but your teacher may not always find that funny. More serious cases have been about devout Christians believing the pledge of allegiance is a sin against god, (the whole false idols thing,) so you have to let them sit in the hallway while you pledge or the school could get sued te hell. I had like five kids in my class who always walked out because of religion.

Why do I need to respect your flag tho?

@@Ladedadeda2 If you don't like it go home! lol I assume that's the correct answer.

@@Ladedadeda2 well....if your standing in a u.s class room for whatever reason....I mean if I came to your country I'd show respect to your flag, weather you did or not, it's a symbol of the country and the country stands on the ones that have fallen.

@@ponderin Many Veterans agree making someone stand up and say the pledge is an infringement of the right to free speech.

Now you can't sneak in underage they'll know, and it's 17 years and 8 months old to join and you can't go to combat unless you're 18. We had a guy at Ft. Hood mistakenly sent to Iraq under 18 and they straight up sent him back to the US.

School clothes and children's clothing do not have any VAT (sales tax) on them in the EU and UK anyway. There are a list of exempt items from VAT. It is much more confusing if you have so many variations between locations.

Sales tax depends on the state. For example, Massachusetts doesn't tax food, clothing and shoes. But there is tax on health items and just about everything else. Move up one state to New Hampshire and there is no sales tax. Confusing, ain't it.

we also only pay VAT on certain types of food so that essentials are always cheaper. Kids stuff and medicines are also free of VAT.

@@annfromma8456 It depends on the county as well, as many counties add their own sales tax. Typically it is a small amount like 0.25% to 1%, but San Francisco County was adding on 5.5% sales tax to the 7% state sales tax last time I was there which has been over 5 years now. They also added a service workers tax at restaurants to pay for all of the wonderful (sarcasm) programs they had to help service workers. Now add in the highest property taxes and state income tax in the US, why do any people live in SF?

@@kara0kech1ck Also, there's a difference on the backend of sales tax vs VAT. VAT is designed to follow the products from start to end user, hence the refund the seller can get for the part they paid whoever they bought it from. US sales tax is pretty much end point only, so it doesn't affect warehouse stock or raw materials. Also, makes it easier for business crime, but we don't say that part out loud.

You can pretend like legal citizenship doesn't matter... but you merely seem like a child when doing it. Citizenship is what allows a nation to defend you.

MBS is a real POS. He's got his own death squad.

The idea of a 10 year old pledging allegiance to anything is bizarre.

Well said. It seems more like a strange ritual of meaningless words.

Go away.

4:06 google "Bellamy Salute" :D

My parents said they used to have to pray in school, but it hasn't really been a thing here in at least the past 50 years. I say pray because apparently they did it at the beginning of the day, but not before eating.

We had to say "grace" at our Catholic school in NZ, and called our teachers "Mr or Mrs/Miss X." Though we had a drinking age of 18 meaning at the end of year ball for y13s, we all got drunk as hell

I started school in 1995, we never used the title of the teacher, just their first name. We also never stood up when the teacher entered the classroom, except in 5th grade because our teacher made us. To be fair, he was the only teacher who had any semblance of control in our chaotic class. Also we never said grace before eating for our food or whatever. Only did that in kindergarten, but that was a Christian church kindergarten, and it was all a bit cooky (but at the time, you happily took whatever kindergarten which had availability).

Hey, let's create a religion centered around drinking a lot of beer.

@@ObiWahnKnobi I'm pretty sure ancient Mesopotamian religion was like that. They even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi. One reason we've been able to reproduce their beer is a tablet was discovered with a prayer to her that described every step of the process. It was basically a recipe. It's rather different from the beer we're used to though.

Not sure about NY, but in FL there is no age of consumption laws for alcohol provided to minors by their parents in their own home.

That’s ok. You still can’t buy alcohol in the grocery store except 3:2 beer, lol.

Gym floor polish is what that smell is.

@@jeremysiegel2961 Really? Wow, never knew that. To me it literally always smelled of well whiffy socks and plimsoles. In my nearly 50 years I genuinely never didnt consider it to be polish smell, as to me polish has a more...well a acrid smell.

Sprite and 7up are considered lemonade in my country. We don't really use the term soda, except for soda water, but we do use the terms fizzy drink and soft drink generically, or for flavours of soda that don't have specific names. Fizzy American style lemonade is called lemon squash.

​@@Pushing_PixelsI think this is the answer. People are calling sodas lemonade. For me a lemonade is freshly squeezed lemons into still water. And not some artificial stuff with bubbles. That other stuff is just sparkling water with lemon taste.

@@myopinion2day Different countries and cultures use language differently. It's not a case of one or the other being right. We don't use the word soda here, other than as part of the names of specific drinks. We use different terms for different types of carbonated drinks. Most here would call squeezed lemons in still water "American-style lemonade", or lemon squash, or they might call it lemon water. We just use the word lemonade differently.

Nope

I'd like that as well, it seems so many people either dislike or are just apathetic to the country. So when anyone shows any passion for the country people just assume the worst because they just can't seem to comprehend why someone might want the best for country & it's people.

I agree. It would be lovely if it was socially acceptable to be proud of our little island.

There are many countries with very patriotic people who love them. But don't envy the US. Our patriotism is a little culty and narcissistic. Also pretty undeserved in my opinion.

I think a lot more people would be patriotic if the country wasn't in an abysmal mess. What is there to love in a shit hole? National pride is at an all time low cause there is simply fuck all to be proud of.

@@krampusklaws2238 Which is probably why it's sh*tty to you.. If you don't love your country, why bother trying to better it, why bother caring for it? Just means it's going to get worse if more people have your same lack of appreciation.

Oh Canada, 🤦

The US flag is applied more like a brand than a symbol for a nation