40 Normalized Things In Europe That Are Unknown In The US, According To The Internet

[@68covah]

Not allowing cashiers (and other that stand the whole day) to sit and not providing chairs to them is pure EVIL.

[@Old_Scot]

More and more employers in the UK are pulling that shit. And of course, it harms customers as well as staff.

[@aloysiuschuckabutty6726]

@@Old_Scot Can't quote chapter and verse, but I think you'll find that opportunities for sitting are a legal requirement.

[@Old_Scot]

@@aloysiuschuckabutty6726 Visit Scotland wouldn't give any attraction a 5 Star rating if employees were allowed to sit.

[@francoo.m.]

I was thinking the same!!

[@onerva0001]

​@@Old_Scot😮😮😮

[@bryanduncan1640]

You forgot that in Europe (well, any other country other than America really) being able to send your kids to school with a fair chance that they will still be alive by the end of the day!

[@gregwilliams386]

Ask those 13 little girls who had their throats slashed in Northern England day before yesterday.

[@ropeburn6684]

Disregard school shootings for a second, the mere ability to send 7 year olds to school on foot and completely on their own, in public traffic, must seem complete outlandish for the average suburban American.

[@Asmodis4]

@@ropeburn6684 but thats this insane mindset forming a city around cars and not people but i know that this is changing in the moment.

[@voiceofraisin241]

So you are saying children in America have a less than fair chance of making home alive ? Take your propaganda somewhere else where else.

[@jessicaelliott9857]

Healthcare and holidays

[@silverado5306]

Here a European. To all Americans reading this. Nudist beaches are the least sexy thing in the world. You see a lot of naked people but it's not sexual at all.

[@robstockton911]

My experience with German nude places is that only the wrong ones are naked. 😂😂

[@marsa74]

At least, I prefer to see naked people at the beach instead on the toilet 😊

[@solentbum]

When Brighton officially revealed a nude beach, in the early 1970's , my great Aunt then aged 80+ commented ,' I wish they had this when I was young'.

[@1952jodianne]

Probably, in many cases, not very sexy, perhaps even a bit repulsive.

[@timdowney6721]

Americans can’t bring themselves to use the correct anatomical names for external genitalia. They have to make up nonsense instead. I think nude beaches are not happening any time soon.

[@SATXbassplayer]

Healthcare considered a basic human right, not a privilege

[@nattm6553]

America is on place 49 in the world in human rights.. just saying. Even some 3 world countries are rated higher

[@SATXbassplayer]

@@nattm6553 tell me something I don’t already know…! 😂😂😂

[@nattm6553]

@@SATXbassplayer pretty scary how the American propaganda have brainwashed some Americans.

[@1952jodianne]

It should be a basic human right. But don't expect it.

[@bigsexy1105]

So if you have a heart attack and have to have surgery, that's free? You all act like it is. So where does that money come from?

[@Asa...S]

Saving vacation days, in case you get sick, sounds so odd. If you're on vacation, and you get sick, you just call in sick, so you can get those vacation day later on. Being sick is no vacation.

[@Kyrelel]

They are saying that they use a vacation day rather than call in sick, that way they do not lose money.

[@kprefleuril8881]

@@Kyrelelbut we are paid on sick leaf….

[@bh5037]

but it is limiting the share holders income .. so - so evil in the US where EVERYTHING is a business - from birth to coffin !! what a crazy system !! don't forget to mention that if you like to introduce these good things for employees they will call you a socialist or a commi !!!

[@johnwatters6922]

Same in Australia, also here ,sick leave (10 days per year ) can accumulate if unused. I seldom called in sick in my 22 years at my work and when I retired I had about 8 months of sick leave available if I became seriously ill at full pay with an option of 16 months at half pay.

[@eileencritchley4630]

@@Kyrelel yeah American don't get paid if they are sick no sick pay for the poor Americans

[@psimunov1]

In Croatia and in Europe in general, waiters in restaurants do not bore you every 5 minutes. You will be served and that's it. If you need a waiter, you call him or wave at him. And you can spend the whole evening in the restaurant hanging out. You don't have to leave in an hour. And the waiters don't live on tips, they are well paid.

[@LETMino85]

America, as so often, is the odd one out! Asia and Africa are like Europe too. Americans just think their land is the world and are therefore "shocked" every time something is slightly different...

[@IngeDemmendaal]

European here. I found it most surprising when a waitress in California walked up to our table, meal in progress, and asked, "You still working on that?" Not a question I was prepared for.

[@GianniDN]

I am Italian and was an exchange student in the US. I thought I was doing something wrong because the waitress kept on asking if I was okay. I asked my exchange family if something was sticking on my face, if I looked sick. I felt so uncomfortable. They laughed and said, this is typical US. I didn’t like it because she kept on interrupting our conversation to ask if we were okay. It felt rude.

[@psimunov1]

@@IngeDemmendaal hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

[@gerardflynn7382]

Tips are optional.

[@stevecarson4162]

0:38 It's often not hard to tell the U.S. was founded by the Puritans, when their attitudes toward nudity and sex are so backward. Language and skin are blurred and bleeped to oblivion on U.S. TV -- where the average parent is fine having their kids watch torture and murder all day, but would have a FIT if they saw some bare skin. They think sex is "dirty". It's just sad. Even in Canada, people are a lot more progressive. I've seen explicit nudity of both sexes on TV (especially in Quebec), and the "f-word" has been used on the CBC without being bleeped or censored. It's ironic that the U.S. produces at least 85% of the world's porn.

[@cc1k435]

My grandfather used to say that prime time TV had too much cussing and not enough sex. 😂

[@stevecarson4162]

@@cc1k435 : Or they'll complain about "sex and violence" like they think they're both equally harmful and equally bad. And about cussing, I often wonder what is wrong with people who come unglued when they hear "naughty words". They're just WORDS.

[@101steel4]

My cousin visited me in England from America. His wife and her brother, left the beach, dragging their children with them, as there were topless women sunbathing 😂 It was all very dramatic.

[@isaackellogg3493]

5:20 we have coalition governments in America. We have two of them. The coalitions get shaken up every generation or so. It’s just that since 1860, we’ve kept the same names for the two major coalitions-Republican and Democrat-no matter what minor parties (“factions” or “interest groups”) they may represent at the moment. We don’t have third parties because we’ve got eight or twelve parties currently, just shoehorned into two coalitions. So finding enough people to form a party outside the two coalitions that a) won’t be immediately subsumed into one or the other coalition and b) is willing to forego an established coalition’s warchest, is the real reason we have no “third party.”

[@thapedrul7884]

Ironic? I think it's logical. If something is tabooed so thoroughly, it gets more and more interesting, and if it ceases to be a natural, respectful part of life, but becomes dirty, you don't stop people wanting it - after all, it's a natural drive -, but make them want the dirt. Demonizing sexuality was the dumbest thing they could do, they ruined it.

[@avrilpeters]

I am born and bred in Ireland i love my country but i don't brag about how much i do every day, American people seem to do it a lot it's like they are contractually obligated to do so otherwise they will get in trouble for not saying America is the greatest country in the world

[@patrickporter6536]

Trying to convince themselves.

[@GianniDN]

Bred 😂😂😂 You know that kids in the US have to salute the US flag before entering class. I was an exchange student in the US and found it scary as hell. We Italians love our country, but we don’t brag about it either, except for our food 😅

[@1952jodianne]

Many Americans genuinely feel that way, especially close descendants of immigrants.

[@ArthurTanner-d7s]

@@GianniDN Italian food is worth bragging about.

[@gluteusmaximus1657]

Enjoying walks in the evening without the need to carry a gun.

[@zackfowler8613]

Not just the evening, I dont leave my house without my gun😅

[@1952jodianne]

Enjoy walks in the evening with the right to carry my firearm.

[@onerva0001]

​@@1952jodianneand may you enjoy that right! We in Europe have no _need_ for it.

[@Kyrelel]

Normal in Europe but unknown in the USA ... #1 FREEDOM

[@Shoomer1988]

And also not using the word 'normalized' incorrectly when 'normal' will do just fine.

[@bigsexy1105]

I'm questioning what freedoms we are missing?

[@M.C.K.111]

What's funny is that Americans are properly brainwashed and taught that freedom exists just in the US

[@1952jodianne]

@@Shoomer1988 "Normalized" is the past tense of a verb, "normal" is an adjective.

[@Shoomer1988]

@@1952jodianne I know. But since the things in this video have always been normal in Europe they have never been normalized. The title should have used the adjective. Hence my point.

[@martindaubert1636]

Living below the US poverty line in Europe is still living better than many US people working 60 hour weeks

[@cc1k435]

You can also work that much and still live below the poverty line in the US. It's like two worlds collide! 😂

[@adrianpallis4568]

Then vote left (socialism), why the heck are you all so naive to vote both Gop er dems? You have been kied for for years and saying this as a conservative in Europe but socialism is good on some tings.

[@martindaubert1636]

@adrianpallis4568 I totally agree with you @adrianpallis4568, the american people have been brainwashed by their government and big business

[@verttikoo2052]

🤦🏻‍♂️ And then Muricans thinks that actual working society is somehow socialism 🤦🏻‍♂️ As a business owner I expect that society works because if it doesn’t then it will cost me more money. Well educated and happy workers are way more productive than squeezed out, burned out human wrecks.

[@rogelioleal8960]

I’m form Mexico, and surprised to find out we here already have most of all these goods things, like the cell/mobile portability, immediate bank transfers from any bank to another (takes 1 or 2 mins), taxes included in prices, somewhat decent vacation time plus sick time, fabric reusable shopping bags, Kinder Eggs, roundabouts, and several more.

[@cc1k435]

Let me mention that it's all we can do to get our hands on Coca-Cola from Mexico. 😂

[@DanielledeVreede]

They can't see what's right across their border😅

[@1952jodianne]

We have round-a-bouts in many areas of the US, & in some communities, have had for years. Taxes included in prices makes for easy budgeting when shopping, but can also be very misleading when determining what 's actually going toward the business, the employees, & cost of parts or ingredients, & not to the wasteful government bureaucracy.

[@smilingbandit4975]

​@1952jodianne That's exactly the difference between US and Europe. Wasteful government bureaucracy is what secures the rights in Europe. It's surely not perfect but still better than the capitalist driven society in America with their unreasonable fear against everything governmental and the almost sectarian allegiance to companies.

[@cc1k435]

@smilingbandit4975 I'll break down US "fear of government" today. It's fueled by corporations who want people to not notice what they're doing, which is things like snapping up everything real estate and renting it back to us as extortion prices, plus sell us ever more high-powered guns. Then they get us all into a circular firing squad, while they're busy sending their money offshore. Since they "sponsor" an awful lot of our politicians now, it's all become perfectly legal because we don't teach government, civics, ethics and logic anymore. 🙄

[@lycian123]

0:46 US military spending is not why you don't have maternity leave, it is why you have more billionaires and because you have a low level f workers rights.

[@martijnspruit]

Exactly. The USA spends more money on the military than the next ten countries with high military spending combined. It's actually a form of gouvernmental support for the military-industrial complex. The spending is done on goods (weapons, ammunition, vehicles etc.) not on people like veterans healthcare or enlisted mens salaries.

[@Margot4454]

It's about the priorities. People in Europe as well as people in USA pay taxes and they create state's budget. Then comes the government and decides on what purposes it will go. USA and European countries both elect those political parties with they programs of priorities then (more or less ) we have what they promised or we won't vote for them again. In Europe the common priority everywhere is babies b/c there is too few of them. The state should do what it can to encourage people to have children and no one wants to have a child in poverty. Maternity leave, kindergardens, free education, free health care = priority. Well, they are not free at all - they are paid from our taxes b/c we want that. A difference : it seems to me very rich people in Europe pay high taxes whereas in USA they pay nothing. No wonder they influence elections to keep it that way.

[@soylentgreen6082]

US military spending is totally necessary while China and Russia are going military crazy again.

[@bigsexy1105]

Military spending has nothing to do with maternity leave. I've never been at a company that doesn't have substantial maternity leave. The two have zero to do with each other, one is a Federal budget and the other is the responsibility of the employer. The reason that we spend so much on the military because no one expects Finland to help Kuwait when Saddam crossed the border to invade. How much is the United Kingdom providing Ukraine to right Russia? How much foreign aid do we pour into countries? Yeah, we're a shitty country. Military spending is why I have friends still alive and I'm sure that's why there's soldiers alive in the UK and France and whomever sent people to fight in the Middle East.

[@richardhall206]

I thought that one was odd as well. The US spends far more on healthcare via taxes and insurance than any other country, for worse outcomes and not everyone covered. The US Healthcare system is a political/financial choice, not an economic one.

[@IanLaing-j5m]

normal in europe but not america? democracy? manners? a healthy diet? education?

[@lukmaes6290]

walking instead of taking a car to visit your neighbours

[@nathangoodman3280]

Not having an over inflated ego

[@Eldiran1]

@@lukmaes6290 They use car to visit neighbours? It's just the next house, wtf is wrong with the US? Tell me it's not true, please.

[@petrahartog5934]

Healthy weight ?

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

@@IanLaing-j5m to be fair, Americans do have good manners

[@MartynClarke-j7s]

Good tasty quality chocolate - at least in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, probably lots of other European countries I've not visited. Even poor chocolate in Europe is better than Hershey's.

[@101steel4]

Hershey's is absolutely revolting. Tastes of sick.

[@zackfowler8613]

I must be jaded AF, I love Hershey's 😂😂

[@Asa...S]

@@101steel4 The video "Why Europeans Hate the Taste of American Chocolate - Cheddar Explains" is great. I had no idea that they add that incredient that make it taste like vomit in US chocolate, and that Americans have got so used to the vomit taste that they like it. So happy to live in a country without vomit chocolate!

[@ruthgiles8926]

​@@zackfowler8613probably just used to it. Conditioned expectations.

[@1952jodianne]

I am fond of dark chocolate from Poland.

[@carmody9251]

Thinking of Europe as a collection of different countries rather than one place.

[@Paul-p1p6m]

But still we can understand each other if we find a common language. And that is what I do not understand in the USA, you speak the same language but seem to not understand each other? Or is it a question of respect?

[@m1ccey]

45 year old german and outside the military service never seen a 'real' gun in my life, never met someone owning a gun or a rifle and never heard of any country other than the US which needs to do fund raising for political campains.. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@DanielledeVreede]

I've seen some at airport security but that's it

[@joegrey9807]

Same here in the UK. Even the police only have guns at airports and other places with a high security risk.

[@KlausKokholmPetersen]

The only privately owned guns are for hunting.

[@frank-lr]

@@joegrey9807 I think unarmed poilce is very special in the UK. In Germany police usually carries a gun. BUT it's considered the "last resort", not to put 100 bullets into a suspect just to make sure.

[@Gaia_Seraphina]

​@@frank-lr Indeed. German police members are taught de-escalation concepts.

[@happyhermit3141]

In France: Not being asked within 10 minutes (or even 10 years) of meeting someone how much you make or what church you attend. Also, not having to justify why you live alone.

[@Backpfeifengesicht45]

Even as a married person with no kids, being asked why not.

[@barbarajoyce6424]

@@Backpfeifengesicht45 Dutch relatives- I kept getting asked whether I had a boyfriend. NO. When they also starting asking if I had a girlfriend, I still said no and refused to go to the family get togethers. My younger brother never got asked.

[@Backpfeifengesicht45]

@@barbarajoyce6424 it's such an odd invasion of privacy. My wife used to get such a grilling at family events that I got 3 generations of my family in a room and told them to shut the f**k up.

[@1952jodianne]

What's wrong with asking someone what church they attend?

[@happyhermit3141]

@@1952jodianne It's rude, intrusive and absolutely none of your business.

[@welshpete12]

We work to live, not the other way round .

[@mazzysmainframe]

Riding in an ambulance without a worry? If you're in an ambulance you have a fairly good reason to be at least mildly concerned...

[@smilingbandit4975]

People in America rather drive themselves to the hospital or just try to walk it off than calling an ambulance because it's so expensive.

[@madison_kr]

@@smilingbandit4975My uncle drove himself to the hospital while having a heart attack. We all fussed at him for it but he said he would have died waiting on the ambulance and figured he could get there faster himself. I’m thankful he didn’t hurt anyone else or himself but what a mess. Healthcare here sucks.

[@smilingbandit4975]

@madison_kr This is just depressing. Here we get trainings even at work to recognize a heart attack and call the ambulance instantly because every second counts to save a life. America really has become a weird place during the last decades.

[@Juleesuz]

​@@smilingbandit4975My father lived about 2 blocks from the ER. He walked it when he was having a heart attack due to costs😢😢😢 He lived, but still.

[@koenven7012]

True, but at least none of those worries are financial (or very few of them).

[@alanfairbrother890]

And in European countries we register to vote, we don’t register for parties. If you want to join a political party that’s your business and nobody else’s. The local council just want to know you live in a particular area and you’re eligible to vote age citizen etc.

[@martijnspruit]

In fact, political party membership is an extra privacy-feature and a protected right under European law.

[@dfuher968]

In most European countries the voter registration is automatic, once a citizen reaches voting age.

[@eileencritchley4630]

@@dfuher968 Sure is here in the UK once your 18years old you are able to vote in both locally and nationally.

[@koenven7012]

in Belgium you are obliged to vote, at least for European, federal and regional elections (although in practice if you don't go, nothing much comes of it since they don't have the time or the people to follow-up on this). City council elections will not be mandatory for the first time later this year.

[@1952jodianne]

In the US of A, that varies by state. In some states, one can register as a member of a party, or no preference. In some states there is no party registration, but you declare a preference at the polls on primary election day to determine which party's ballot you receive.

[@Diamondmine212]

Workers rights, National health service, paid sick leave for up to six months full pay, maternity leave, National minimum wage, 4/5 weeks annual leave ( plus our ‘ bank holidays).the price you see on goods is the price you pay, government does your tax bill , your not taxed if you move abroad.

[@nbartlett6538]

Public toilets with doors.

[@cc1k435]

Yes, we have the worst stalls in the U.S. I'm sure it's supposed to save money. 😂

[@1952jodianne]

@@cc1k435 At least pay toilets are a thing of the past in the US of A.

[@martijnspruit]

@@1952jodianne But in Europe, the public toilets you pay for, are clean.

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

@@1952jodianne In the UK, public toilets are free AND have doors and are generally clean.

[@timdowney6721]

@@1952jodianne I would much rather pay a € for a clean toilet rather than something akin to a pig sty for “free.”

[@hrafnatyr9794]

In Sweden, Finland and to almost the same extent Norway, we take the right to go wherever you want in nature a couple of steps further. We call it ”allemansrätten” (every man’s right to roam) and it means that you can walk everywhere in nature, regardless of whether the land is privately owned (which most of it is) or state owned. You can camp for a night or a few on someone's private land provided it is well out of sight and hearing of those who live there. Of course you must also not behave in a disruptive manner, destroy anything or pick flowers, fruits or berries that are obviously cultivated, otherwise it is permitted to pick wild berries, mushrooms and nuts that have fallen to the ground almost everywhere. Of course, what you can and cannot do is regulated, for example motor vehicle traffic outside established public roads and many other things, but generally the right to roam aims to make as much as possible of our nature accessible to everyone. Many, even here in Europe, have no real idea of ​​how big Sweden actually is. With the exception of Russia and Ukraine, it is only marginally smaller than France and Spain, and that with a population less than a fifth, with just over 10 million. This of course means that there is a lot of wilderness and unused land and the idea is that this should be open to everyone. If someone is thinking of visiting Sweden and wants to know more about the "allemansrätten", you can find information in several languages ​​on ”Naturvardsverket's” website.

[@avi.chan23]

In Germany we call it "Allmannsrecht" roughly translating to 'all mens right' 😊

[@1952jodianne]

But the makes one's right to private property meaningless if anyone can wander across it.

[@ahael75]

@@1952jodianne Right to privacy exists in homes and yards/plots around homes - that's called domestic peace. Nobody can go and roam around homes legally in Finland. So there indeed is private property.

[@1952jodianne]

@@ahael75 In the US of A, the right to privacy in our homes is guaranteed by the 4th Amendment, but the right to personal property dates back to the Declaration of Independence, & is presumed to be a part of "the pursuit of happiness".

[@1952jodianne]

@@hrafnatyr9794 You don't understand the basic notion that in America, the right to liberty is preconditioned on the right to personal property & the right to prevent others from trespassing on it.

[@crocsmart5115]

The ability to leave your house to walk 5 mins to the shop for bread,bump into a mate,walk another 2 mins to the pub and end up still there 6 hours later out out! (c Mickey Flanagan) As opposed to the social desert that is American suburbs. Oh and it’s Normalised. There,fixed it for you.

[@onerva0001]

It's Normal. I fixed it properly! 😊

[@priscillaroberts7945]

@@crocsmart5115 in your slippers and dressing gown.

[@paulusvanaken2135]

Some quotescare not correct, but yes, we have 4 to 7 weeks annual vacation, (in the Netherlands) we have a reasonable pension from 67 years,, we have a good and affordable healthcare. so in many respects we are far ahead of the US.

[@avi.chan23]

In Germany it is 24 days minimum if you work fulltime, most people have 27 to 30 days paid vacation, additional to holidays like Christmas, Easter and others.

[@joegrey9807]

Even in the UK (generally somewhere between Europe and the US) we get a minimum of 20 days, but usually more. And in every job I've had we get told off for not taking the time off. It's almost as if companies want healthy and motivated staff...

[@norasmith4939]

I am in Netherlands and have 5 weeks but law is 4 indeed.

[@ArthurTanner-d7s]

@@joegrey9807 Remember though that those are 20 ‘working’ days, weekends are free, so at least four weeks.

[@tamaraveldman7448]

I have 7 paid weeks. I live in the Netherlands

[@MadMaxFuture]

In all Cases........Europa wins 8-2 agains Usa. Nobody saw this in the 80s or 90s....but now....the whole world knows it....American Dream is one of the biggest Lie ever😮....thanks iam living in Germany😊

[@zackfowler8613]

As an American, I agree with this statement

[@avi.chan23]

Sad but true. I am also living in Germany, after all I learned about daily life in the US it is basically on my list of countries to avoid at any cost, right behind North Korea... I can't imagine working full time without decent paid vacation time, universal health care, maternal leave, free education and public schools where my kids won't be shot.

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

The "American dream" is a con to trick the plebs to stay in their place. "If I keep my head down and work 60 hours a week without a vacation, maybe one day I will become rich like my boss!"

[@calypso4554]

Please remind yourself that Europe is not one country. What may be perfectly fine in Portugal may not be suitable in Finland. What's maybe a problem in Croatia is vieved differently in Ireland. It's always kind of funny if US people think it's all the same in Europe. 😊

[@Alltagundso]

Yeah, but I also read comments from Europeans that make it sound like that.

[@Falco2Itachi]

@@AlltagundsoWell, I know what you mean. A lot but not all of the European countries are part of the EU which gives them the same loose framework of laws. For example days of paid sick leave and maternity leave may vary across the countries of the EU but all of them have to commit to the same minimum of days. Plus historically the borders of neighbour countries have shifted a lot so culturally and developmentaly cities and people near to both sides of a national border may have a lot in common.

[@Alltagundso]

​@@Falco2Itachi You got a point. But there is still culture. And there are things which are perfectly fine in one country and in another one it is totally frowned upon.

[@Alltagundso]

​@@Falco2Itachi It's also complicated with laws. Se ggs Ed is or was forbidden in schools in Poland for example.

[@Falco2Itachi]

@@Alltagundso Culture is part of what I described. And I didn’t say anything about everything being the same in Europe. I just explained why some things are. The nations make their education plans for basic education/ school themselves. It’s unique in each country. In Germany it’s not even the german government but the states all do their own thing. Again, Europe is not a country.

[@kdato774]

Washing machine in kitchen is largely a UK concept. Continental Europe doesn't do that much. It's either bathrooms or utility rooms. But yeah, our NON-aggressive policing is a big deal for me, with "de-escalation" being the name of the game. In the US it's escalation because police "is at war" with the US public.

[@88rubic]

Washing machines in kitchens are pretty common in Portugal.

[@madison_kr]

The police issue is over hyped in the media. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, just not as much as they make it seem like. Big cities have bigger issues but most of the US is small towns with good cops.

[@SandrOliva]

Pretty common in Italy too

[@lukassimontm3546]

Germany as well, if you live in a flat. If you've got a house, you'd most likely have your washing machine in the basement.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

@@lukassimontm3546 I haven't ever met someone who lived in a house here in Spain. Millionaires are not in my circle of friends.

[@luiscostaalves8849]

In Portugal we have 22 to 30 days of holidays (depends on seniority) retirement at 65 full paid, social healthcare, and a wonderfull weather :)

[@101steel4]

Spelling English words correctly 😉

[@Jiriki999]

Except for their/there/they're and such 😅

[@YouKevo]

Not having to do our own taxes is also a normalized thing. It's automatically taken from our wages and purchases. We don't have the IRS looking over our shoulder.

[@timdowney6721]

US taxes are complicated so the wealthy don’t have to pay any….or maybe a minimal amount.

[@madison_kr]

In most cases it’s automatically taken from ours too and then we have to hire someone to figure out if they took enough or to much because if you do it yourself and are wrong you could go to jail. 🙄

[@koenven7012]

here it's automatic as well, but once per year you have to do your taxes. But everything the government knows is already completed on the form (it's a web-based thing for most of us) and you just have to add those things you can include that they don't know about. Each year they complete more and more though as systems get integrated. For instance it used to be that donations to charities were something you had to add by yourself, now it's already added. Mostly it's self-employed people who have to fill in a lot, and they often employ specialists to optimize their taxes.

[@IanRobinson2yt]

The two biggest you missed: History Geography Americans have no concept of either on the whole.

[@georgealderson4424]

I often have the impression that at least some Americans think there are no countries outside USA!

[@barbarajoyce6424]

adding sales tax AFTER seems weird to me in Australia. You have no idea how much you need to pay. Our sales tax/now GST is included. When you get a trades person quote a job, it has to include GST

[@solentbum]

In the UK we often get two prices with a 'quote', one to include VAT (value added Tax) the other does not. It depends on the status of the work. When I built my house some major items were provided VAT free, which smaller items had VAT added and I had to claim the money back at end of the build as appropriate. But for normal shopping I want the 'take home' price displayed.

[@1952jodianne]

I should like the take-home price displayed, but I want to know how much of that price is taxes. Just a possible suggestion, put sale tax/value added tax at the the wholesale level & not at the retail level. KY Governor John Y. Brown Jr. did this with beer, charging 9% at the wholesale level, but dropping the 6% at the retail level. The state government increased their revenue & the retailers' paperwork was easier, plus the consumers much preferred knowing that the retail price quoted was the price paid. Of course later, the Commonwealth of Kentucky got greedy & started charging both.

[@damianjblack]

​@1952jodianne in the UK it's a single flat rate so you don't have to wonder how much of the price is taxes, you already know

[@1952jodianne]

@@damianjblack Sounds as if that may be a good idea. Many politicians on the right have advocated that, & more than a few on the left.

[@damianjblack]

@@1952jodianne I know it makes it a little awkward with differences between state and federal taxes but I'm sure the states could figure it out quite easily if they paused for a moment to do something useful for people rather than yelling about things that never happen lol

[@brucelee3688]

1. Commonsense 2. General Intelligence 3. Free / affordable healthcare 4. Servers are paid a living wage 5. Coming home from school alive 6. No random shooting

[@manfredhabes2799]

The fact that you first have to register to be able to vote in the USA. While if you are a European citizen and reach a certain age you are automatically able to vote.

[@alterbayer7196]

...but you automatically registered by ""Einwohnermeldeamt"" ... and than you get automatically your voting papers ..

[@900stx7]

@@manfredhabes2799 it's just to prove you're a US citizen otherwise anyone from any country could vote in US elections, only requirement is to be a US citizen. You mentioned being a European citizen, does that mean someone from France can vote in UK elections ? Probably not, I'm thinking some type of ID is required proving your citizenship. ID is just a form of registration.

[@DanielledeVreede]

​@900stx7 you're required to have and ID-card or passport either way (here at least). But also you'll be registered at the municipality you live. The national database is generally very good. Then you automatically get the invite in your mailbox. You just bring that and your ID-card/passport on election day

[@alexandergutfeldt1144]

@@900stx7When you move to a new place (village/town/center) you go to the local government franchise and register ( after un-register-ing in the old place). This means you are automatically enrolled to vote ( if a citizen), pay taxes, send children to school, etc. That is how it works here in Switzerland and my assumption is it is the same in most European countries. Revoking someone's right to vote or vote register purges are also not a thing. Any official trying to pull that stunt would be jailed. This also works since most countries have more than two parties competing for power, that forces them to cooperate, compromise and watch each other! Switzerland has the additional bonus of being a direct democracy. Any law passed in the capital can be challenged ( referendum) and put to the vote. Our politicians have learned to minimize BS laws! ( This is how our system works, as do others )

[@solentbum]

In the UK it is simply based on where you live, your home address. I get a reminder each year from my local Authority to check that the details they have are correct, I can correct them on-line or by writing. To vote I now need to prove my ID with one of a range of cards accepted. Hopefully with the recent change of government this hated idea will be dropped soon.

[@francescafoot9739]

so thankful to live in England ...just wish we were still in the EU

[@Alltagundso]

I hope it comes back as soon as possible.

[@timdowney6721]

Something I think would not fly in Europe is the common American practice of “civil forfeiture” which allows police to seize assets like cars, money, even homes because the police have a hunch they might be used in illegal activity such as drug trafficking. The citizen from whom the items are taken bears the burden of proof to get them back. The items seized are, in part, added to police department budgets. The process to get them back, in practical terms, requires a lawyer and months of time. Land of the free? Right.

[@maximusmalodorus]

Well, they're free of their cars, money, and homes...

[@FriendsforFriendsUK]

Land of the fee.

[@getd8556]

This train is old and probably for touristsor an old and low used line. We have TGV (Très Grande Vitesse = Very High Speed) since 1982, ca. 180 miles/h.

[@martijnspruit]

I don't understand why they show a steamtrain when we have High Speed Rail in many European countries.

[@dfuher968]

Yes, its obviously, what we would call a "veteran" train. Run entirely for tourists and train enthusiasts usually on a disused section of tracks.

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

TGV = Train à Grande Vitesse

[@a.florschutzcamplin9011]

France. That TGV comes thru Kaiserslautern and flys to Paris.....

[@AndreiTupolev]

It's the Harzer Schmalspurban in Germany, going up the Brocken mountain, a very popular tourist destination

[@Nancy-fo7lc]

In Canada, we get a one year maternity leave with an optional (in Ontario anyway) 18 mos off which I think is unpaid. My niece has opted for the additional 18 mos off with her baby. Most of these things listed are also normal in Canada.

[@Arltratlo]

we have only 3 years and its paid!

[@paulusvanaken2135]

@@Nancy-fo7lc the video was about the USA, the country(s) the inhabitants are so proud of. Fact is, they don't realize what undeveloped country they live in.

[@avi.chan23]

Canada somehow managed to be completely different on so many topics despite being located directly besides the US.

[@Arltratlo]

@@avi.chan23 your cops become the same corrupt like the cops in the USA are already!

[@wfcoaker1398]

​@@avi.chan23That's because we don't mind paying our taxes and we don't make tea with sea water. And we had to fight them off a couple of centuries ago, they tried to invade us.

[@Tjcp292]

High speed rail. America is 3,000 miles east to west. It’s humiliating and infuriating that our govt has sucked up to big oil and deprived us of high speed rail.

[@isaackellogg3493]

We don’t even have low-speed passenger rail anymore. There used to be tens of thousands of miles of track both cross-country and inter/intracity. We stopped that when automobile ownership began ballooning.

[@vanesag.9863]

I don't understand why you don't have a good web of trains... A high speed lines would be a life changing experience for medium distances. In Spain 1100 km would be 5:30 hours by high speed train, including the 30 minutes commute used to change trains between the first leg of the travel at our Capital and the second part.

[@barbarajoyce6424]

Australia is roughly th3e same size as the continental US and also doesn't have high speed rail. WE do have a cross country and up the middle rail but they take days.

[@hellmuthschreefel9392]

Even more infuriating when you realize that the vast lands of the United States west of the Appalachians were all made relatively accessible by trains and rail. There literally were hundreds of railroad companies traversing hundreds of thousands of miles of track crisscrossing the United States; most of which disappeared when the US interstate highway system was built.

[@1952jodianne]

High speed rail would be wonderful if enough of us would use it to justify the cost.

[@simonkopp9238]

A lot of those aren't a "europe-thing" but more a "worldwide-thing".. for example decent Public Transport in Africa (e.g. Al Boraq Highspeed train) and Asia (e.g. Shinkansen Highspeed train), included Tax (like everywhere), optional tips, walkable citys, if there are modern hospitals available it's never that expensive like in the US (in relation), the order of the date (because it just makes sense), bathroom doors, not wearing shoes at home (just gross), coalition Goverments with more than just 2 partys (except autocracies) and many more

[@Seamus1966]

Education

[@vanesag.9863]

USA citizens can't change sim's without changing phones and phone numbers? 😮😮😮 What a waste of money and equipment

[@marsa74]

Vendor locks were an issue in Europe some time ago, too.

[@vanesag.9863]

@@marsa74 yes but the laws changed time ago to protect the consumer. I thought they were changed in USA too. Something similar to the cable entrances that now nearly all are universal and the aim it's that you can use the same one for all your electronics.

[@Tjalve70]

@@marsa74 At least in Norway, vendor locks are a thing if you buy a heavily subsidized phone as well. Or maybe not anymore, I'm not sure.

[@alanfairbrother890]

@@marsa74vendor locks are still around in European countries, unless you buy the phone outright. If you’re on a bill pay on a contract you can’t unlock the phones until the contract is up.

[@dfuher968]

@@vanesag.9863 Yes, the plugs gave me a good laugh, coz I checked out US news about it. As expected, they were gushing over Apple and praising them for making this incredibly consumer friendly change out of the goodness for their hearts! Its no wonder, Americans are so clueless about the outside world, when even their media is that obtuse.

[@fredrichenning1367]

What is it with the hangup about paying to go to a toilet? I have lived in Sweden for over half a century and I have NEVER had to pay. There are free toilets just about everywhere -- every petrol station, for sure. And any big supermarket as well as every chain store not to mention every "konditori", café or restaurant !! Also, pissing behind a tree or bush will not get you arrested for "indecent exposure" -- not in Scandinavia, at least. On that note, you don't have to worry about getting shot by a cop with an itchy trigger finger, either.

[@maciejzettt]

The toilet fee is mostly to deter people from using toilets for unintended purposes and vandalism

[@Alltagundso]

​@@maciejzettt Yeah, I don't believe that. It also doesn't outweigh the disadvantages for sick or disabled people.

[@marieallen9715]

In Uk toilet charges are usually only in high tourist areas.

[@niklassvensson860]

I had to pay abt. 50 euro in fine for pissing behind some bushes. 😉

[@fredrichenning1367]

@@niklassvensson860 -- What country was that, certainly not in Scandinavia. There you can stand by the roadside and piss in the ditch to your heart's content. 😎

[@johnrhodez6829]

If its "The Land of the Free" Why haven't they got it??

[@bozicakovacic1229]

because America always sticks its nose where it doesn't belong and wants its own benefit at the expense of Europe... smart enough to say

[@Brian3989]

You mean why does the land of the free cost so much.

[@ArthurTanner-d7s]

Shhhhhh! If they realise the rest of the world is better they’ll want to live here and then we’ll have to put up with them.

[@wesltall1]

I'm sure that when Francis Scott Key penned that famous phrase, the USA was a _much_ different place than it is now. Everything really started taking a turn for the worse after 11 September 2001. Things that Americans were in favour of under the Bush Jr regime, such as the Patriot Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, among others, severely weakened the country's structural integrity. They used to live by the axiom: "My country, right or wrong. When right to be kept right, when wrong to be put right". Now it seems, due to rampant complacency, that second half is _conveniently_ dropped.

[@davidrees1840]

You know, Canada has 95% of that stuff and we're actually touching you for 3000 miles, but you never travel outside of the US until your jobs sends you. Wait until you discover Asia!

[@QuercusQuest]

Constantly talking and exaggerating about culture and community isn’t necessary. Here, we simply live within them and experience them naturally. There’s no need for additional emphasis.

[@boxsterman77]

Where, may I ask, is here?

[@thearcticlord3920]

When has America ever been great?

[@Kyrelel]

Pre-1776

[@wfcoaker1398]

Before WWII. They got real full of themselves after that.

[@1952jodianne]

Up until LBJ's 'War on Poverty" & his "Great Society".

[@Tjalve70]

Just after WWII. Only in comparison with war-torn Europe, of course.

[@DJames-fn3cl]

When all immigrants of European descent immigrated there to flee oppression, poverty, monarchies, etc., etc.

[@kevinvoogt]

Schools with NO metal detectors or police for a pat down, normal in Europe. NO shooter drills, just a fire drill sometimes. Better school lunches in Europe, the list goes on, just look at the comments.

[@getd8556]

Mustard with french fries in France but we used ketchup and mayonnaise too.

[@solentbum]

In the UK , proper chips! With curry sauce.

[@1952jodianne]

@@solentbum Many younger Americans use ranch dressing on their fries. Personally, I prefer malt vinegar or homestyle milk gravy.

[@KlausKokholmPetersen]

In Denmark we get remoulade with fries, except at McDonalds and Burger King.

[@1952jodianne]

@@KlausKokholmPetersen I'm just curious, & ignorant, what is remoulade?

[@perjus]

@@solentbum I tend to use HP sauce.

[@mortisoperandi4625]

France gave me 5 weeks annual holidays + 12 days Rtt 'worked time reduction' + About 9 bank holidays, , I also got Two Bridge days which enabled me to take 1 or 2 extra long weekends.

[@mortisoperandi4625]

'RTT' is "Reduction temps Travail" for those who can handle french! ('La réduction du temps de travail (RTT) est un dispositif qui prévoit d'attribuer des journées ou des demi-journées de repos à un salarié dont la durée de travail est supérieure à 35 heures par semaine. Le bénéfice des jours de RTT est fixé par une convention ou un accord (accord d'entreprise, le plus souvent).

[@Hensepens64]

Don't nt forget your sick days. Not being taken from your holidays

[@mortisoperandi4625]

@@Hensepens64 Yes thanks, I forgot that, also the prime de participation, Prime d’intéressement, le 13eme mois, L'epargne salariale, les actions gratuites, la comité d'enterprise (a real jewel) and finally Le compte epargne temps! J'aime le French Way!

[@kkemp221]

No guns in the streets. Only under very strict conditions some people are alowed to have a wapon

[@astrobusa]

In Australia we have the vast majority of the good stuff and very few of the bad. Plus we can choose whatever school we want for our kids.

[@johnwilletts3984]

Here in the U.K. we like each other. When overseas and we meet a fellow Brit we naturally become friends. I volunteer as a Tour Guide in York and witness American families moving away from each other within the group.

[@boxsterman77]

That is very weird thing about Americans that I too observed. I recall being in Switzerland and seeing someone where a shirt with my universities motto on it. So I just mentioned that I went to that school. The person was indeed American. And he answered with a perfunctory. Oh. Ok. That was it.

[@HennyStruijk]

America is so far behind in so many things!!!

[@janinestearns7288]

Cool channel, so I subscribed! ❤

[@irenaeuschouz5569]

There's way more accessible education and healthcare in Europe; in some countries it's free to an extent.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Cashiers *NOT* having chairs in the US.

[@c.m.brisson5085]

Universal health care is needed so badly in the USA. The mess we have, in which insurance is tied to a person's job, and then only if you're full time, results in poor health care. People are afraid to go to the doctor even when they know something is wrong.

[@hrafnatyr9794]

Ummm… the common ”right to roam” is not really a European phenomenon but a Scandinavian/Scottish one. Mainly a Swedish / Finnish one and in a somewhat more limited form Norwegian / Scottish / Icelandic. In the rest of Europe, different rules apply, but nowhere is it as free as in the countries mentioned above.

[@vanesag.9863]

In Spain we have "transumancia" paths and Camino de Santiago paths. They are older than all private propierty and in those paths you have right to roam but it's expected that the traveler don't damage the propierty and use only the path. If you cross a closed fence, you have to open and close it. It's not a "right to roam" but a protected cultural path.

[@jacquestricatel7055]

Blödsinn!

[@patbrown8117]

There is no 'right to roam' in England. Yes, we have hundreds of thousands of footpaths/public rights of way across private land, but you have to stick to the paths otherwise you are trespassing. There IS right to roam in Scotland as far as I'm aware.

[@M.C.K.111]

In Italy if you go hiking you can go everywhere..sometimes there are gates for the cattle and you are supposed to close them..that's all you have to do

[@runesimenstad8864]

In what way are Norway limited? It's not. It's the same as in Sweden and Finland.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

You forgot Greenland. Although geographically a part of the North American continent, politically and historically we are an autonomous region within the Kingdom of Denmark. People in Greenland are Danish citizens.

[@kumasenlac5504]

Has Greenland patched up its border dispute with Canada yet ?

[@louisdelzenne]

About the reusable plastic bags, there’s also the fact that once they are worn out, they are replaced… for free. The thing also that everyone says is that we are heavily taxed . This is indeed right. But the taxes also pay for the tuition and school fees . Some people from neighboring countries even come study in mine, at my expense… and it’s great…. Studies shows that educated people tend to vote less for extremist/racist parties… so by providing free education I do hope that I pay for the freedom of Europe with my money… rather than with the blood of young people… like during ww1 and ww2

[@barbarajoyce6424]

Australia we're going back to cotton and paper bags, which is what we had before the 'biodegradable' plastic bags.

[@dfuher968]

Plus, we have a progressive tax system, that taxes the top earners the most, unlike the US. In my country, the top tax bracket is 55%, but the vast majority of us pay around 42%. And when taking into account all the things, the taxes cover for us, which it does not in the US, just their healthcare insurance (for those who can afford it) takes their tax burden higher than ours. Everything else, we get for our taxes, which is quite a lot, is bonus compared to the US. We actually have substantially more spending money than most Americans despite the higher taxes.

[@madison_kr]

@@dfuher968We do have percentage based tax brackets that are higher based on income. We do need some serious tax overhauls but the progressive percentages do exist.

[@chrisobrien5492]

Trump isn't the only reason that living in the US is shit.

[@olmostgudinaf8100]

Of course not. He is the culmination of the US being shit.

[@cesariglesias297]

The same people who love a poor billonaire and think he is their Orange "messiah"

[@majortwang2396]

Each one of his 70 million cult members is another reason.

[@deanronson6331]

Fries with mayo? How unhealthy can you get? However, healthy or not, I'll take fries dipped in ranch dressing any time.

[@SuperLn1991]

Real mayonnaise isn't unhealthy.

[@deanronson6331]

@@SuperLn1991 Real, meaning from your alternate reality? Consumption of any mayonnaise can increase your blood sugar level, cause weight gain, raise blood pressure due to omega-6 fatty acids as well as risk of coronary disease.

[@Phuckitall]

Pacel pickup points - machines, from neighbourhood shops. Often, the parcel doesn't feature your name or address - that's 2 ways safe! Also, names not allowed on building door buzzers (at least, in Poland). Another safety feature.

[@frankhooper7871]

Whereas in the Netherlands, you sometimes see everybody's name on houses - including children

[@lucamarchina8671]

In Italy we pout surname of both parents or surname of tenants ... sometime for short tenancy they let just your landlords surname especially in big cities like Milan or Rome

[@paulusvanaken2135]

@@Phuckitall one can go too far on privacy!

[@vanesag.9863]

In Spain we put our names and surnames on our mail boxes. I have only my initial letter of my name and my surnames.

[@metalafro]

The monarchy in Romania has nothing to do with politics, what are you talking about??

[@grahamsmith9541]

Religion tax does not exist. In England or any of the other UK countries.

[@ruthgiles8926]

What's religion tax?

[@grahamsmith9541]

@@ruthgiles8926 It is a tax collected by the state. To provide financial support for churches. Such as pay the wages of the clergy and upkeep of the churches. There are 9 European countries that have the tax. The way the video covered it. There was the implication that the UK also had it. Which it doesn't.

[@ruthgiles8926]

@@grahamsmith9541 that's appalling! I didn't know that! I think that in the US, churches are exempt from taxes, which is why televangelism and cults are so popular, and their leaders are so rich, which is quite bad enough, but for the government to charge a tax to give to religions, that's awful!

[@grahamsmith9541]

@@ruthgiles8926 In the UK the buildings area exempt from Council Tax (Property Tax). But Vicars, Ministers and church leaders etc. Have to pay tax the same as everyone else. The cult religions haven't got a foothold over here. Also there seems to be a greater religious tolerance to LGBT people. Conversion therapy is illegal. It was religious leaders that initiated the government introducing the banning law. Since 2003 Vicars and ministers in the main Christian religions. Have been allowed to be in open same sex relationships, and married/Civil Partnership to someone of the same sex.

[@ruthgiles8926]

@@grahamsmith9541 I am a Brit who has lived abroad for many years but didn't know about religion taxes. Comforting to know that the UK is still not too religious, despite everything.

[@jamesrosemary2932]

Kids are allowed to roam wherever they want after school. Simply because parents believe in their children's independence and there is no fear of anything happening to them. Besides, all adults take care of the children even if they are not their own.

[@MargaretUK]

Not true in the UK any more 😥

[@jamesrosemary2932]

@@MargaretUK Sad to know that.

[@smilingbandit4975]

​@MargaretUK yeah, believe in the lies and the fear

[@MargaretUK]

@@smilingbandit4975 If only it was lies, but it isn't ☹

[@strikedn]

Not true in Italy at all. You gotta be mad to let your little kid go to school alone in cities like Naples, Rome, Milan or any other big place. Totally unheard of.

[@isaackellogg3493]

American windows don’t tilt open, they slide up like blunt guillotine blades. They usually don’t in fact open like doors (only casement windows do that). Sash (guillotine) windows are the vast majority.

[@DanielledeVreede]

We only have that in buildings so old that the US would find them notable landmarks

[@1952jodianne]

Tilt windows are readily & easily available in the US, but many consumers just don't seen to care for them.

[@clintonhowe88]

Living wages and health care?

[@HerewardtheWake-ri1hy]

How about common sense.

[@perjus]

Or common decency?

[@ZY1982]

8:02 is wrong. There isn’t any “church tax” in Italy. As an Italian, I was SHOCKED to find out there is one in Austria and Germany.

[@francoo.m.]

In Italy (i think in the whole Europe) if you're ill you have 6 months for each year paid by the state. Free healthcare also for tourists coming from outside Europe.

[@Alltagundso]

Free health care for people that aren't EU citizens?? 😮

[@strikedn]

Yes, we are stupid. Non EU tourists only have to pay a ridiculously very low sum if they need to go to hospital here in Italy, sometimes they don't have to pay at all. It's high time things changed.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Sadly the UK (with the exception of Scottish people attending Scottish Universities and colleges) charges ridiculous amounts (maybe not by US standards) to get a Tertiary Education. This stated coming in back in September 1998.

[@bioLarzen]

America has kind eggs. Europe has Kinder Eggs.

[@georgejones3526]

6:22 - When my son was living in Belgium his apartment had floor to ceiling windows that tilted out from the top. He came home from work one day to find his cat had gotten wedged into the bottom of the window and had suffocated.

[@annebarber3574]

“Normalized”? Never come across that word before, our poor language is being tortured to death. 😢 Nudeness 😱 NO - Nudity is the correct term

[@Alltagundso]

Work as a voluntary English teacher then. Or even better, teach Esperanto. People also learn other languages, not many care to work that hard on their English that good.

[@patrickporter6536]

​@@Alltagundsospeak for yourself.

[@user-tk2jy8xr8b]

Merriam-Webster, Cambridge dictionary and Oxford English dictionary know of both "normalized" and "nudeness". Maybe your knowledge of English language is not that good as you thought?

[@Alltagundso]

@@patrickporter6536 Your comment makes no sense.

[@IngeDemmendaal]

​@@AlltagundsoTio estus tre bonvena.

[@faithlesshound5621]

I remember my mother using a leather shopping bag, sometimes supplemented by a string bag for potatoes and onions, in the 1950s. Back then housewives went to the shops every couple of days if they had no 'fridge. Then free disposable plastic bags came in, but for the past decade or two they have been large and long-life again.

[@georgealderson4424]

When I was young there were brown paper shopping bags (carrier bags)with string handles.

[@aeronbern1769]

We can afford to get sick...

[@barbarajoyce6424]

1:20 IN Australia in the 70's we used paper and hessian bags, then switched to plastics 'for the environment' after finding out that they don't break down and are killing everything. we're back to paper and hessian and cotton.

[@jmi5969]

You still have natural hessian jute? Nice. All the stores in my country offer jute-like tote bags (sometimes as expensive as half a dollar for a bag!) but it's all simulated synthetic and they wear out in a very unsightly way, so people throw them away while they are still usable. The industry produces and consumes billions of natural linen bags, but the retailers prefer cheaper synthetic stuff.

[@Roses-lilac]

Free health care.

[@bioLarzen]

4:55 - I am watching this video litereally eating chips - French fries - with mayonnaise... Couldn't be more appropriate :)

[@ianmarlow805]

Try common sense for one thing.

[@joejames8797]

An education

[@Peo_Sahlin]

Washing machines in the kitchen? That must be a British thing. 😂

[@marsa74]

I think benefits are well balanced between America and Europe. Vacation, Health Care, and Maternity Leaves on one side. Free and unlimited plastic bags on the other.

[@DanielledeVreede]

Seems fitting 😂 It's officially illegal here now for companies to give out free plastic bags. There's always a minor charge to reduce plastic waste. They're even trying to implement it on single serving meals but it needs some more refining

[@dfuher968]

@@DanielledeVreede I switched to cloth tote bags 30 years ago. I have some really good quality 1s, that are a little faded from washing, but otherwise they are still in top shape after all these years! And theyre a lot more solid than flimsy plastic bags too.

[@da206hbe]

Having washers in the kitchen is mainly a british thing or maybe sometimes in southern europe. Brits often live in smaller flats than people in the Nordics. Washers usually stay in the utility room.

[@strikedn]

Quite common in Italy

[@bioLarzen]

7:00 - "washing machine in the kitchen". Here, in Hungary, while this has been gaining ground (my current flat,l for example, has the washing machine in the kitchen indeed), in my childhood - in the 70's, 80's and even in the 90's - you seldom ever saw a washing machine in the kitchen - their normal place was in the bathroom. This is my first home that does not have the washing machine in the bathroom (or a dedicated wash room). Nothing non-food/drink-related was normally in the kitchen here in Hungary.

[@kobusranzinga807]

I bet not a single American has watched this kind of content ever nor will they ever.

[@jasonriha2210]

Sure we do.

[@krissykrupski4973]

I did and was offended by a few. Nobody in NYC wears their shoes in the house! 😂

[@zackfowler8613]

100% American here. I'm one of the ones who agrees that we need to be more like Europe. USA is a place for the rich and perverted, notice how many child predators there are in America....its not a coincidence

[@madison_kr]

Oh you must be right. All Americans are exactly the same and think everything our country does is so correct and perfect that we don’t even want to hear what other people do. 🙄 How stupid.

[@BlackHoleSpain]

@@krissykrupski4973 In Spain everybody does. We have mats at the entrance of homes and buildings. Enough, since our streets are seldom dirty.

[@jeremynv89523]

The "we let cats go outside" argument angers me every time i read it. We in the States have too many predators for that. In fact, just recently Tommy Lee's dog got attacked by a coyote in freaking Los Angeles.

[@mis4nthr0p3]

Umm, universal healthcare?

[@Zimmsters]

Even if you don't have insurance if you haven't medical emergency any hospital will take care of you, including admiring you and treat you at no cost to you. On request a CT scan or a MRI is between $200 and $500 full price, a standard full blood test for 24 markers is about $50 and so on. If you work you automatically get insurance, If you don't work and don't pay for insurance, you won't get bankrupt if you need to stay a week in the hospital. Also ambulances come and take you to the hospital for free.

[@gregwilliams386]

In England they have viruses that only exist in their hospitals, there are horror stories of patients dying in the breezeways between wings of the hospital because when they fall no one wants to take responsibility for them.

[@gregwilliams386]

People have committed suicide because they can't get treated in time in European healthcare systems. After all it's cheaper to let people die than continuing to pay their Social Security and treatment.

[@richardtwydell4104]

Who taught you that moronic drivel. Grow up - there is a real world out there with dedicated nurses of different nationalities and religions who you need to learn to appreciate.

[@tyraelliott8944]

You still pay dipstick but just more with less say!

[@tejadeja9542]

I found out that tartar sauce with fries is extremely yummy and zingy. I don’t know about mayonnaise…it would need something a little extra mixed in…

[@dfuher968]

Thats another thing about the US, they tend to brag about their "high" standards. To we Europeans, US standards are absolutely atrocious. Theres good reason, that its very difficult to find any US produced products in the EU, coz their standards are so low. Also, why any US brand on sale in Europe has been produced in Europe with different recipes (from Coca-Cola to Roundup) in order to fulfill our standards. I would never dare eat tartare in the US, Im not suicidal. In Europe we have much much more stringent standards in general, and the standards for meat for tartare are even higher, coz the meat is eaten raw. Same with fx. eggs.

[@timdowney6721]

⁠@@dfuher968 “Tartar sauce” is a condiment made of mayonnaise, pickle relish, onion, and often lemon juice. Often eaten with fried fish, crab cakes, boiled shrimp, and fries. Quite different from tartare.

[@FriendsforFriendsUK]

Real home made mayo has lots of flavour. Shop stuff is bland, more about not offending than about pleasing. I usually mix a little mustard into shop bought mayo, carefully, depends on the strength of the mustard.

[@tejadeja9542]

@@FriendsforFriendsUK great idea! Thanks😊

[@robertnijkamp2051]

Gun laws , normal in europe but not in the Usa

[@LittrowTaurus]

I don’t understand why you call Romania a quasi monarchy.

[@greteasen5816]

Livable vages? Universal healthcare?

[@fiqhonomics]

Haha worked for a US company in South Africa where leaving the office during lunch or clocking out exactly at 5pm were frowned upon.

[@EskiZagra]

Healthcare

[@AndreiTupolev]

2:53Nice picture of the Harzer Schmalspurbahn, though just to point out that's not necessarily typical of trains in Europe. Nice change from the usual library pictures, though

[@martinpahl5652]

The state only collects the tax for the church if you are a member. If you are unafiliated or not a member you pay nothing (Germany).

[@romangoicoechea9224]

Same here (Spain)

[@kp-xg2ut]

there is no tax collected for the church in France , like the german church tax and in Germany you have the option to opt out

[@vanesag.9863]

In Spain you have to mark the box of "money for church", "money for ONG's" or not mark any or the two of them when you do your Renta (annual goverment taxes) but marking or not marking them don't change the amount of taxes you pay.

[@helene4397]

Same in Finland.

[@dfuher968]

Same in Denmark. If we get baptized, we become members, tho thats a lot more about culture than about religion in Denmark. And when we start paying taxes, we can just leave the church/resign our membership, its very easy, can be done online.