15 Maps Hilariously Explain the United States of America REACTION | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@anndeecosita3586]

This guy reminds me of the guy we all know who is mildly funny but is extremely hilarious in his own mind. 😂

[@casswashwash1070]

Right like shut up

[@516Mel]

Mildly funny is being very generous…

[@chriswilliams6896]

Yeah this guy sounds like a racist jack ass

[@msdarby515]

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

[@reallybadgamer]

LOL!

[@bracejuice7955]

Mississippi was the state that you couldn’t name, and the grey areas on the obesity world map were Western Sahara and Kashmir, which are disputed territories and are thus not easy to study

[@timhefty504]

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

[@rhoetusochten4211]

Em aye ess ess aye ess ess aye pee pee aye

[@FuranzuDesu]

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

[@michiganjfrog366]

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

[@ericb1633]

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

[@firefighterchick]

Yes, Dave, alcohol varies from state to state. In Pennsylvania, they can sell wine and beer in grocery and convenience stores but not spirits(liquor). That can only be bought at state-run alcohol stores. Maternal leave isn't required by federal law in some states do require it and most companies do offer it. I work for Henry Schein and both parents get paid leave after a birth or adoption. On what people search in each state, Pennsylvania said, "why is PA haunted" 😅🤣😂

[@imnotyourfriendbuddy1883]

Virginia has socialist liquor stores to.

[@rods6741]

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

[@firefighterchick]

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

[@anndeecosita3586]

Alcohol laws can vary by county

[@robs8376]

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

[@matthewr7593]

The maternity leave thing is just that it's not absolute by the government. I've never met anyone who didn't get maternity leave from their job. My friend right now just got three months, after another friend of mine got four months. Edit: Also, when it comes to America, remember not to sort of stereotype what the state is like based on a city. Talking about when Dave said he thought Florida would be happy based on Miami. But Miami is just one city in a huge state, most of which is nothing like it. People do the same with New York City, where on a state map it's just a little dot in a huge state. It would be like if I said London is X, so all of England is X. Makes sense why people fall into the trap though.

[@acebongboy]

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

[@matthewr7593]

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

[@TodaysSpecialMinis]

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

[@matthewr7593]

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

[@marqetteliz]

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

[@jameshdog5759]

He didn’t say there is one McDonald’s every 115 miles, he said no one in the US is more than 115 miles from a McDonald’s. Big difference. I’m guessing that biggest gap would take place in Alaska maybe?

[@anndeecosita3586]

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

[@marqetteliz]

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

[@jameshdog5759]

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

[@BigSirZebras]

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

[@bobbimccain2385]

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

[@Becky.Ray14]

Fun fact, i went to school in Alaska and we did cancel school due to snow once. but thats because we had so much snow the roof was caving it, so the snowday was so they could shovel the roof.

[@msdarby515]

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

[@nucpsay1524]

FYI , Peavy is from Mississippi, home of the Blues

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Here in Florida, grocery stores don't sell hard liquor, but just beer, wine & hard ciders. To get rum & whiskey, etc you have to go to a liquor store. Also, you can't buy alcohol in the City of Coral Gables until after 12pm on Sunday

[@johnglue1744]

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

[@CajunGators]

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

[@KarenCatMom2]

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

[@rjules1083]

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

[@angelagraves865]

(2:41) There are dry counties here and there, mostly in the South where you can't buy alcohol at all. Then there are semi dry counties where you can't buy alcohol on Sundays, sometimes all weekend. Sometimes you can't buy the alcohol and mixers in the same store. Some bars are BYOB, which is really weird to me. I used to live in a semi dry county in Tennessee which was adjacent to a dry county.

[@joestewart5406]

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

[@mimikannisto4418]

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

[@jesicad.685]

The map showing the amount of snow required to cancel school was interesting. I grew up in Virginia and if there was even a rumor of snow, school would be cancelled. Then my family moved to Idaho. The first time it snowed I was shocked that I still had to go to school. Eventually I realized how much school would be missed if it was the same as the South.

[@msdarby515]

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

[@kencreten7308]

Peavey: I have a strange story about Peavey. I used to live in Tacoma, in Washington State. I was in a guitar shop called "Monte Vista Guitar Shop." I had purchased a Yamaha guitar in 1990 I think which I still have. It's a all black Yamaha RGZ 621. I wasn't paying much attention and was trying out amps with my new guitar. I saw this guy, and to me he looked little over dressed to be in Monte Vista Guitar Shop. After a while someone came over to me and said something like, "do you mind if Mr. Peavey looks at your guitar?" I was like, "what?" I'm sure I said yes. We walked several steps over to a counter. Harley Peavey was there, and he took a good several minutes looking over my guitar. He was especially interested in the fact that the neck is two piece. He looked close at how Yamaha did the joint. I was a bit stunned and I didn't ask him anything really. Now I have questions I would have asked him. So that's my Harley Peavey story. He was with a woman, who was his age seemed like it was his wife. I remember he was wearing a turtleneck and a medallion. This was 1990. Seemed a bit 1970's to me. Yamaha RGZ 621 in red: www.alston-family.co.uk/RGZ/621/warren%20whole.jpg

[@MrDcwithrow]

The brand name map wasn't the main store in a state, it was for the largest company founded/based in that state.

[@okienative4785]

I worked at a grocery store, that had a bar over the deli. Lots of yoga singles and wine mom's would stop for a cocktail while shopping.

[@ihatethiswholedamplanet]

Prime opportunity to hunt cougars 👀

[@codygates7418]

As someone from the South (KY) can confirm “the cold” is what makes us southerners crumble and just so happened MY STATE is in the front line trenches against the Yankees weather. Like come on y’all don’t send that BS down here. 😂

[@johntucker4296]

It's cold in winter up north. Our bars have to be nearby in case we have to walk home in the cold. That's my reasoning and I'm sticking with it.

[@SilvanaDil]

A lot of times people think things like "no paid maternity leave" or "10 paid vacation days" is a law. It's the opposite. There is no law requiring such things. It's between the employee and the employer. Those who make themselves more valuable can extract more perks.

[@timhefty504]

One thing everybody should learn is that statistics don't always tell the full story

[@wittsullivan8130]

Peavey-Mississippi, aka birthplace of the Blues, Elvis, BB King, William Faulkner, Barq's root beer, ... They cancel rain in places because some roads get flooded and they want to make sure they can get the kids home safely on their bus. And there are a lot of tornadoes in the South when it rains.

[@kingcarlos7048]

6:10 "wife" category in Montana 💀

[@aqua235]

Here in Atlanta, everyone goes into a panic at the mere mention of snow. Everyone stocks up on food and supplies at grocery stores, school and work get canceled by county. All for absolutely nothing to happen. Pretty much every time it's supposed to snow, it's overcast or sunny the next day. When it actually does snow, car accidents ensue because barely anyone has 4 wheel drive. My sister and a lot of other people had to park their cars on the highway because of black ice pile-ups and returned the next morning to drive them back home.

[@lotusinn3]

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

[@LA_HA]

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

[@msdarby515]

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

[@LA_HA]

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

[@msdarby515]

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

[@TKDragon75]

The maternity pay thing is an example of not having it on a federal level but many people do it anyways. It just can't be enforced if a company choses not to.

[@melissabill1640]

People in the north and Midwest probably drink more due to the long depressing winters. I'm from Michigan and 5 days out of 7 are overcast and below freezing in the winter. No one goes up there for vacation from the south.

[@DamageIncUS]

New Jersey you can't pump your own gas, you have to go to a liquor store to buy beer. In Florida you can buy beer and wine in a supermarket. You can pump your own gas.

[@joestewart5406]

In Michigan you can buy alcohol and even liquor at the grocery stores. But in the south they have dry counties that don’t sell any alcohol at all and people have to drive far to buy it.

[@WakandaleezaRazz]

Texarkana, the city in two states is “dry” on the Texas side. That’s why on State Line Avenue you see liquor stores on the Arkansas side.

[@wittsullivan8130]

Women don't get specific maternity leave, depending on where you work, you get a generic "sick leave" and paid personal time. When my wife was pregnant, she was working for her father, painting apartments. She took off because of the some of the chemicals and physical demands of the job. You don't want a pregnant woman to carry 5 gallon buckets of paint (my wife was a work horse, she could carry two at a time). He ran a small business (under 12 employees), he had different legal requirements than a large business. When she gave birth, I was able to use my sick pay to be with her. I had accrued a month of sick pay and personal time off, which I used because one of our sons ended up staying in the hospital for 3 months. I took another week off when our daughter was born. I never used my sick pay or personal time off unless I absolutely had to, so it kept accruing.

[@anndeecosita3586]

The state you couldn’t name is Mississippi. Peavy Electronics is specifically from Meridian, MS. I know some members of the Peavy family from there.

[@cheyannecorona6533]

You are right about people buying alcohol at grocery stores. When I was in Alaska in a small town( I won’t say which) there was no bar and the grocery store didn’t sell alcohol, but there would be a lot of intoxicated people around. What I found out was that people would fly out to Anchorage and buy large quantities of groceries and alcohol and bring them back home to drink. Funny enough they would drink in front of the small grocery store in town.

[@SurlyHannah]

11:00 no federally mandated maternity leave, because it's always "up to the states" how a uterus works

[@PurebloodedPatriot]

"Peavey" is Mississippi. Home of the Delta Blues sound.

[@crazydrummer181]

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

[@PastLifeVillian]

The “no paid leave” map is a bit of a hoodwink. The company decides whether to give paid maternity leave (not the government) and almost all of them do. That’s how they stay competitive as a work place in the job market.

[@xenialafleur]

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

[@timhefty504]

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

[@pointlessmanatee]

our corporate overlords decide

[@minuette1752]

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

[@beschutzer42]

Yeah I was about to say

[@bedinor]

Paid maternity leave should not be required by the government. It's not my job to pay for people to spit out kids. If they want time off without getting paid, great. If not, then let the company do it.

[@smoaky123]

Every grocery store in america sells beer, in the south and other places they don’t sell “hard liquor” with the exceptions of very large corporate stores like Walmart.

[@toodlescae]

Most grocery stores sell beer and wine but hard liquor can only be bought at liquor stores here in Texas. We used to be a semi-dry county. You could buy beer and wine but all the liquor stores were in neighboring counties. Now we have a liquor store about 2 miles down the road.

[@charlesfarley4438]

Same in Alabama

[@biffbarely7045]

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

[@c.harris9989]

The state that you couldn't figure out is Mississippi. The way I remember it is the state outline looks like a side profile of Bart Simpson. "Simpson" has two deep Ssss sounds so does Mississippi. Also, starting right to left: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana is GAML which reminds me of Gamble without the "b." Which Georgia has a huge gambling area. West coast spells COW if you start at California. Vermont looks like an actual V. There's lots of ways to memorize all 50 states.

[@gregcable3250]

School closings are also driven by how many kids ride school buses. I am from a suburb of Pittsburgh and we needed a blizzard to close schools.

[@Majin_Lee]

Funny story. My great grandma on my moms side had dark skin,blue eyes and was wheel chair bound. After taking her out my mom called me. My mom and great grandma live in Texas I live in Japan. My mom called me confused saying that a woman asked my mom if my great grandma was Indian. Offended and confused my mom said no then called me. I said mom, the woman probably meant Native American. My mom was like oooooh. No. She thought the woman meant actually Indian from India.😂

[@anndeecosita3586]

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

[@jonathanwoods7776]

He didn’t say a Mc Donald’s every 150 miles! He said that no person in the U.S. is more than 150 miles from a Mc Donald’s. In my town of 26,000 population we currently have 2 Mc Donald’s, 2 Burger kings, 1 Arby’s, 2 Subways, 1 Wendy’s, 1 Kentucky Fried Chicken , 1 Taco Bell, 1 Long John Silvers and a multitude of family owned and run restaurants.

[@theprettybond159]

We sell alcohol in regular grocery stores here in Wisconsin and as well as dedicated liquor stores, and still have way more bars than grocery stores. Its a cultural thing basically

[@sandralorenz1796]

A dry state was a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited or tightly restricted. Some states, such as North Dakota, entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation, the Volstead Act. No state remains completely dry, but some states do contain dry counties. My state of Texas has 60 dry counties.

[@OnlyOneLegend]

Out of the 50 drunkest counties in the United States, 41 are in the state of Wisconsin. We're not alcoholics, we're professionals.

[@carlobinda1127]

That's Mississippi. The one where it showed Peavey! 🙂

[@Mashangi]

Mike would hate southern Ontario for British names. I was born in London and have Windsor, Cambridge, Waterloo, among others within 300km in every direction

[@jmin8573]

Dave is absolutely spot on! In the New Orleans, you can buy alcohol at the gas station, grocery store, walmart, and pharmacy. Here donut shops serve beer and have video poker. They serve alcohol at fukking Chuck E Cheese. No need to go to the bar, when you can just drink literally...anywhere.

[@marchendrickson2382]

And don't forget the drive-thru daiquiri shops

[@hancock63]

1:28, The cities you mentioned, Lancaster and Reading, are in my home state of Pennsylvania. PA original began as an English colony charted by Charles II in 1681.

[@xdarockstar2560]

I live in Santa Monica California They gave you a month and a half paid leave in California I don't know about every other state

[@acebongboy]

In Arizona, you can get beer and liquor in the regular supermarket -- in fact, they have quite a substantial selection.

[@gregwatson4629]

Paid maternity and paternity leave are not mandated in law at the federal level, but unpaid leave (all large employers can't fire you for having a baby, though there are exceptions for smaller companies) is through the The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). However, some States have mandatory paid family leave laws. Many companies offer paid (or partially paid) maternal and paternal leave, but this varies wildly.

[@afrocomber]

Far more McDonald's in the UK per square mile than in the USA, that's because of the sheer size of the US. However, there are about twice as many McDonald's per person in the US as in the UK.

[@joels5150]

In California, grocery stores can sell liquor, beer and wine. Even lots of gas stations sell beer and wine, and occasionally liquor. A liquor license is required from the state for any place to sell, and they usually cost several thousand dollars up front. Getting caught selling alcohol to minors (under age 21) can result in the license being revoked.

[@stonemansteveiii3135]

They sell beers at Wal-Mart!! Peavey is in Mississippi!!

[@OMEddie]

Your remarks on the number of towns named after places in England made me chuckle. Yes, there's a Reading and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, a Camden in New JERSEY, an Anne Arundel county in Maryland with a Severn River running through it. And it goes on and on. Except for some indigenous people place names, we Americans just aren't very original. LoL

[@cherylflam3250]

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

[@christophermckinney3924]

Daz regading paid leave, in the US we have the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) which allows you to leave work for up to 12 weeks per year for illness, pregnancy, or caretaking of an immediate family member without losing your job. Employers are not REQUIRED to pay for that time out of work, they simply can't fire you for being gone. However, if you have accumulateed vacation leave you can cash it in simultaneous to the use of the leave making it effectively paid leave. But unless you work for the government or a very generaous employer with a very generous leave policy, it's essentially unpaid.

[@nhenion]

I’ve lived in Montana my whole life and I can confirm yes there is a bar on every corner and no, snow days are not a thing here. One time I was literally snowed into my house and was still counted absent

[@johncagnettajr344]

Paid Family Leave: 11 states-California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington.

[@jackiebinns6205]

Ive never seen a grocery store that didn't sell alcohol im in the Midwest Nebraska all stores sell alcohol !

[@Mody1]

Regarding the UAE cancelling schools if it rained, yes, if it rains heavily (which obviously is not a characteristic of the region) it might lead to water accumulations or flooding since infrastructure is not suited to it. So, schools are off on that day and maybe the next day as well depending on the amount of water still hindering traffic.

[@curtiswilson3569]

Florida is a happy state for the most part, the problem is that its an expensive place to live and the rich are happy and the poor have a tough time surviving here.

[@georgefox6271]

Every state has different laws regarding alcohol sales. Some states have incredibly strict alcohol laws, whereas in my state of Wisconsin, you can't walk anywhere without tripping over booze.

[@SKHomer1]

I think the paid maternity leave map should say no mandatory paid leave. Many companies do provide paid leave for mothers, but it's not a law that you have to do so.

[@ksullivan7345]

When I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, at -50 degrees they made school optional, but they never called it off. Nobody stayed home, because it was just normal to get that cold. We were allowed to go out and play until -20. That's also when they closed the ski slopes.

[@msdarby515]

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

[@sdw70]

In the State of Maryland, you cannot buy beer, wine and/or liquor in a grocery store. You have to go to a "Liquor Store"

[@Spin-95]

Yes you can look up mckays grocery store in md

[@BasicallyBananas]

I couldn’t stand how the original video narrator misunderstood an aspect about almost each map

[@SuperZap12345]

Paid maternity leave is generally between the employer and employee. It's not mandated by law. Most large employers provide paid maternity leave.

[@BESTDOGEEver1]

Some states mandate mimum paid maternity leave now, for example Washing state and New York state mandate 12 weeks now. I think Colorado also did 12 weeks recently as well.

[@stevenhopkins2887]

As stated previously the access varies from state to state...in some states you can purchase booze in convenience stores, while others need to be purchased in liquor stores.

[@Salvation4DJews]

Another name for Peavey is "Mississippi Marshall". Musicians will understand.

[@bobbimccain2385]

I worked 32 years in the states. I had paid maternity leave for up to 8 weeks paid time off. Had two children. I also had 5 weeks vacation pay.

[@wittsullivan8130]

Alcohol varies from state to state and county to county and sometimes there are exceptions for the county seats. Most grocery stores where I live sell beer and wine, but you have to have a special (more expensive) license for hard liquor. You would be in one county that was dry (not allowing alcohol sales at all) and rush to the next county to get there before midnight when they stopped selling. And if you were in too much of a hurry to get home, you could get pulled over and get arrested for bootlegging. It decades for some counties to vote to allow alcohol sales.

[@diggity1039]

That's so cool that Taco John's made it to the map!

[@davidnicholson6680]

The whole "no paid time off" or "no maternity leave" thing is extremely misleading. There is no FEDERALLY MANDATED paid time off or maternity leave, but there are many Federal programs (FLMA, HFA, FFCRA etc) with generous benefits and low qualifying requirements. Also, there are many overlapping state, county and city requirements that similarly mandate paid leave. Lastly, most any large employer (and 40% of ALL employers) offers paid maternity leave, a larger number offer unpaid. Also, most any employer offers paid time off for full time employees.

[@gpaje]

Craigslist is still big in the US, for people to sells used cars, furniture, whatever. The sex personal stuff feature was removed several years ago.

[@thefancydoge8668]

I live in Maryland and grocery stores don't sell alcohol, neither does Pennsylvania but West Virginia does.

[@Spin-95]

I’m in Maryland yes they do look up mckays grocery store

[@danwebb1756]

In Virginia you can buy beer at the store, liquor at the liquor store and weed everywhere. Weed is legal in the Commonwealth of Virginia both medically and recreational

[@ElizabethEdwards-o5e]

Just to confuse you - in Kentucky you can have a dry county but have a moist city. If you ask what they hell - a dry county is a county where you can't buy alcohol, a wet county is a county where you can buy alcohol and finally a dry county but moist city is where you can buy alcohol by the drink but not a bottle. It can get really confusing.

[@o0Silverwolf0o]

They said you are withing 150 miles of a McDonald's no matter where you are in the states, populated areas you will find them within a couple miles of each other, sometimes even right across the street if that area demands it.

[@jamesneutron8580]

Some states are very strict on alcohol like Utah, and others are very lenient like Missouri where you can get a handle of vodka at a gas station, in Kansas you can buy beer at gas stations and grocery stores but is half beer (half the alcohol content of regular) and you have to go to a liquor store for the real thing. Also different counties have different laws too so I live in a “dry” county where alcohol is only sold at restaurants.

[@gpaje]

When he says no paid leave, he means by law by the Federal government. Many US companies offer paid maternity leave, some as high as 6 months to a year in order to attract good employees. My own company offers mothers 6 months and fathers 3 months of paid maternity leave.

[@nucpsay1524]

Being a Native of California myself, people are quitting smoking cigarettes, when pot became legal, you can’t afford both, California has spoken.

[@Guy_de_Loimbard]

Of course Wisconsin is absolutely lit up in red on the map showing more bars than grocery stores.

[@SimoExMachina2]

In Finland we do not close schools for snow per se, but we do close schools if it is too cold, say below -20 degrees celcius.

[@ChaosCoffee87]

Maternity leave depends on what your employer offers, Normal is 12 weeks. Husband and I work for the same company ( for the past almost 5 years) and he got 2 weeks paternity leave and an extra 4 weeks to use within the first year of our daughters birth.

[@jusblazed1ful]

The states have separate laws that determine which businesses can and cannot sell alcohol. In my neck of the woods, you can buy beer, wine, and hard liquor at grocery stores and pharmacies.

[@darrellfarley1869]

When I was a young man in Indiana, groceries could sell beer, warm beer! If you wanted cold beer you go to a package store!

[@jlpack62]

There are plenty of people who get paid time when children are born, but it's because of their jobs, not because it's required by law. This usually means that those who make more money are also more likely to get paid leave when having children. BTW, that state was Mississippi.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

We don’t have federal paid maternity leave but different states offer it. I live in California for example where employers don’t have to pay you but they have to secure your job for at least 12 weeks minimum and you can get money through the family medical leave through the state. I took almost 6 months off when I had my kids and was paid some kind of compensation for almost the entire leave.

[@bobbimccain2385]

The Company I worked for before retirement which was a factory job, gave us 6 to 8 weeks paid maternity leave. At the time I retired in 2008, I was getting 5 weeks paid vacation yearly, 10 paid sick days yearly & birthdays off with pay. I worked for a very large food production company for 32 years & you may, or may not be familiar with its products, the companies name was KRAFT.

[@davidbrannon2627]

Peavey's headquarters is in Meridian Mississippi, where it was was founded by Hartley D. Peavey.

[@danielhardy2590]

Dave was spitting facts on the first map. Alcohol is sold in every grocery store in the US and a lot of people buy their booze when they shop for food too. Misleading map

[@gregorywright2798]

I was Born in Raised in Pennsylvania, Moved to Florida in 2008 and I Have Never Been Happier.

[@watrandy99]

FYI, the maternity paid leave thing is a bit deceptive. Most companies who have private benefits programs for their employees have paid maternity leave. There simply is no government funded maternity leave.

[@sunflower3281]

I know this country is The Wild West but no one is getting served drinks in the grocery store. 😂 But it does vary dramatically from state to state who sells alcohol. Now, the funny thing is some states in the south don’t allow alcohol sales on Sunday. But NC has some that are drive throughs where you drive into the actual building, they load your car up.

[@ObelixCMM]

Dave's theory on alcohol sales is way off, in Wisconsin you can buy alcohol in grocery stores, gas stations, drug stores, convenience stores and liquor stores.

[@scottb3034]

The western African territory is Western Sahara which is a disputed territory claimed by morocco but has a significant independent government backed by algeria seeking its own sovereignty. The US just recently acknowledged Morocco's claim on the land in 2020.

[@swmace1]

I'm from MO where our quarantine search was 'Meth recipe'. So proud.

[@CinesterCharlie]

I'm pretty sure most grocery stores in the US sell alcohol.

[@HelloDapp]

13:59 kind of ironic the old saying is "Money doesn't buy happiness" but this map says exactly that lol

[@frederickseltzerjr2170]

The US map about companies - The Tabasco Hot Sauce was Louisiana & Peavy was Mississippi

[@BTinSF]

Here’s one for you: In some states they sell alcohol in drug stores (chemist shops).

[@philipwalls4818]

Yeah, alcohol sales have restrictions from state to state, and even county to county. Lynchburg TN, where Jack Daniels is distilled, is a dry county. Meaning You can't buy it in their own county.