"Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history." - 2022
I have never paid a doctors bill in my 60 years of life..I have had many operations wife had 2 kids when the bill would come it would go straight to the garbage..Same with the collection agency bill...We have the best healthcare system in the world...bar none....
It shouldn't be now. The cost of that expensive advertising increases drug prices. Permit advertising of prescription drugs only to those empowered to write prescriptions for them.
Yep, I remember the good old days when big pharma didn't advertise. Instead, they'd hold a "conference" for Healthcare providers in Cancun or, Las Vegas. Week long, have an "introduction" to medication uses. They did one in Orlando when I was young, my mom was an RN, and her and the doctor she worked for went. She got to take us kids and dad too. The convention was so nice, gave free tickets to Disney and stuff... wait, surly big pharma wasn't buying off Healthcare providers to prescribe drugs amd switched to direct advertising to consumers after getting their peepee slaped(checks notes) Yep.
Another fun fact about US money - all the bills are the same size. In other countries they make the bills different sizes for the blind, or so I have heard
In Australia we have jury duty. I won’t ever be called because I used to work in insurance, it’s thought you may have a conflict of interest if you have worked insurance. We also used to have to pledge our allegiance to the queen at school when I was a kid. There is an unofficial culture of tipping. If they give me good service I tip if they don’t then I won’t. We have to pay to go to University. When you graduate You repay a small amount each time you are paid, once you start earning over a certain amount.
I hear you. I still get called, but will never serve on a jury: #1) I used to date a court reporter. #2) Lawyers don't want anyone on the jury smarter than they are. Double whammy. I'll never get on a jury, no matter how much I may want to. C'est la vie.
Schools do not force students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegience. Teachers are obligated by school district or state, but students have the right to opt out. However, a student does not have the right to disturb another student or to disrupt the class from reciting the Pledge.
I haven’t seen anyone recite the pledge of allegiance in decades. We did it in the sixties but it had ended by the seventies. Of course I have always lived in blue states we weren’t into the brainwashing and indoctrination that red states are.
21) Wearing shoes in the house. In most countries people prefer to NOT drag the street filth around their house, especially grinding into into the carpet (another American obsession)! Americans drag the poop, spit, trash, dirt, etc. into their houses from their shoes, and even put their feet/shoes on the sofa and bed! Every time I see it in TV or films it makes me cringe hard.
Agree, it’s disgusting… No one wears shoes in my house. If others are uncomfortable with that, they are free *not* to visit. We provide slippers/ socks for visitors, shoe covers for plumbers, electricians, etc.
Weird how there are no noticeable benefits to the paranoia about shoes in the house that the rest of the world has. Americans have many shoes, generally speaking, and are aware of how dirty any pair of shoes is, and act accordingly. Some people have shoes they only wear inside of buildings or on brief walks from the valet parking spot in front of a building directly into that building.
When I moved to the UK, they used miles, and stones (for weight). In the Dominican Republic, they use tarea for land area. I'd say that a lot of metrification is overstated. And in America, one can hear and see plenty of metric units, from liter bottles to the military talking about "klicks" (kilometers).
NASA does it, science does it, engineering does it. Imperial units are only still there for the normies out there; I'm sure they'll fade away over time.
In one of my primary (years 1 - 6) schools in the 1970s Australia we used to have to say a Pledge of Allegiance. No idea if it was obligatory, I went along with it. We also have jury duty and few reasons to avoid it (eg pregnancy). Thank you for the video.
To heck with going into debt for college. What about bankruptcy for medial treatment and/or hospital stays? This is not something you'll find in most other countries.
Hi Briggs, my wife and I were talking about your question regarding moving the Capital somewhere else. So, we think that some place like Denver, Colorado might make sense. The reason is that we felt that the capital would need some of the following: 1. Security-more centralized away from the coastline. 2. Good infrastructure. 3. Good Airport. 4. A medium size populace that might be more relatable to the entire nation that the capital should represent. 5. Accessibility to all, centralized. 6. Room to grow. Although my wife and I are from Utah and more conservative than the Colorado population; however, we believe that the state has more to offer than other states and allows for better representation to all areas and states. Thanks for all of your interesting videos and thoughts. Bob and Sherril
Tipping is one of the reasons i can’t afford to eat out much any more. I always tip 20% (or more) unless I’m unhappy with the service - i am just so glad someone is doing this job. But my area charges 13% tax for prepared food (6% sales tax + 7% prepared food tax) , then add tip and inflated prices since the pandemic - and a person on a fixed income just can’t do it, unless they have lots of investments spinning off profits.😊
Thank you on the food dyes!! Red # dyes are a major migraine trigger for me, and people look at me like I'm straight up crazy for saying so (even medical professionals). I've been red dye free for over a decade, and the only times I've had a migraine attack since then (can count on one hand) were when I have been unknowingly exposed. It's so bad I have to go to the ER, and the last time I did (several years ago) they sent me home with my nausea still so out of control.
@@DON666 Luckily he can afford all the fake lawsuits they keep throwing at him. EVERY single case against him has been thrown out. Think about that for a moment.
Tipping is way out of control. Loved the Steve Buschemi rant in Reservoir Dogs. Not everyone working should be tipped automatically. Also, you mean freedom units? Lol
As a canadian we have many things on this list too. We got the tipping culture, and free refills even though now they’re trying to end that, jury duty etc
I was out training on my handcycle one day and ran across a British couple here on vacation. Come to find out he was a police officer in London. He was telling me of his disgust of everyone carrying a gun. I asked him how he knew and he said it's easy and he can spont them a mile away. I asked if he thought I was armed. Keep in mind I'm wearing spandex cycling clothes. He said that was easy no way was I carrying. I corrected him saying I was. (I keep a small pistol for self defense due to the remote trails lots of dangerous animals put there. He was shocked asking why and in time he understood.
Metric in the US. I worked at a Department of Energy Laboratory. In the 1990’s they built a new biology building and the big announcement was that it was going to be built using the metric system. I’m sure it made purchasing a nightmare. Fortunately this was at the time that blueprints were beginning to be drawn in Computer Aided software. They could flip between American standard and metric units easily in the design process.
Every time my British wife comes to the US, she has to find the sweetest, most unhealthy breakfast cereal she can. It's not usually that difficult. Red, white and blue Captain Crunch. What could be more American than that? You can add high fructose corn syrup to this list as well.
I live in CA, I haven't received a summons for jury duty for 14 years, so far, because I finally wrote them saying that due to my utter disdain for both criminals and the corrupt American judicial system, I couldn't see myself being able to be non bias.
America doesn't have imperial pints and gallons. An imperial pint has 20 Fluid Ounces in, but an American pint has 16 Fluid Ounces. The US got Jury duty from England & Scotland which still have it, as do many other countries that were part of the British Empire. The sheer number of countries with Jury duty disqualify it from your list. The UK has some prisons run by private companies too, it has discounts and sales too, and large coffees (which we got from America).
I like how the first two of the 20 just shows the free market/corporate corruption in the US. Both of these are just so the corporation either saves money by not paying the workers what they deserve or making a higher profit.
Fun fact: Kilometers were added to many interstate highway distance signs in the southeastern U.S. prior to the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville TN. The Sunsphere is still standing in Knoxville, but all of those "Knoxville: X km" signs were LONG gone well before the end of the 20th century. I've rejected both imperial and metric -- my speedometer is calibrated in furlongs per fortnight.
One thing they need to outlaw is advertising for slip and fall ambulance chasing lawyers. I grew up in historic Savannah Georgia, but as you enter from the interstate system, all you see on the billboards is one lawyer after another.. to the point, I think they need to change the name of Savannah to lawyerville.
As a vet, I was surprised to see share how you shirk your civic duty by acting insane at jury summons. You’ve definitely done enough for this country but this bit rubbed me the wrong way.
Hi Briggs, Always enjoy your videos! Very thought-provoking. Which brings me to your question? I can only suggest that, if the US Capitol had to be moved, the planners should look for a place with less crime and less population. How about all that empty land in Nevada? The government owns it anyway. Just a thought.
But in America they are CONSTANT. Pretty much every commercial (especially at a certain time of day) is either for prescription drugs, lawyers, or if you need a lawyer because you took a prescription drug.
@@terminallumbago6465 And that brings up another TV advert habit - when I was a kid, lawyers weren't allowed (set by the bar I believe) to advertise on television. Now there's as many lawyer ads as medicine ads.
@@SparkG448 Not sure if you’re in America, but here the advertisements are so constant you can practically memorize them. Some jingles, phrases, are so well-known they’re part of the culture and speech now.
1968 Texas elementary school taught the metric system as well as imperial. They told us that by the time you are in junior high, we will have switched.
I remember metric and Imperial distances on highway signs in the late 1970s. I thought President Reagan halted that, which always struck me as a shortsighted move.
I know I got help from HUD during the pandemic and now they have a lien on my house for over the price that they helped me with but I have to pay now when I sell my house and it's way more than I'm getting for my house so I don't know how I'm supposed to pay that I'm on disability as well
Metric Units: We actually have switched to metric units for most things except height and weight of people, distances, and temperature. Electoral College: It should be eliminated entirely, not made worse by some other odd scheme.
I contemplated Omaha for the same reason. The exact geographic center is between Coffeville Kansas and Arkansas City Kansas just across the border from Oklahoma in nowhere Kansas. Thus I went with Wichita Kansas as the new capital. There's a farm not far from where I mentioned earlier, nowhere Kansas, that has been raided by every federal agency. Apparently, in the early days of google maps, it was what was marked as U.S.A. and any internet crime, scam, etc, that was listed as originating in the U.S.A. pinned that farm. There's a TH-cam video about it. It's kinda crazy really
There's a fairly long list of reasons why food in america is different from other countries. One that i think about a lot is just how many of our foods are either processed using corn or are actually corn in disguise
Letchworth state park in Mt.Morris, NY- its called the Great Canyon of the East!! Salt mines, grapes from Hammondsport, Ny. Frozen food, air conditioning, jello, Power-like the falls!!
Maybe if they compensated you for your time instead of making you miss work, but not having laws that require your job to pay you anyway… People are quite literally too poor to be happy about jury duty
It's scorned because you're forced into it without compensation. Some jobs pay you, but the government gives you a very small amount for a day. Last time I served it was $8.
@@AlexP-dz7ew my job pays me straight time for jury duty, but I have to pay them back the amount I received for jury duty. I literally had to write a check for 14 dollars to pay them back the 14 dollars the court paid me...
I learned the metric system in school in the US, live in the UK now, have driven in Europe and Canada 🍁 and fix my own cars and motorcycles. I can do both. Big deal.
Keep the capital where it is. Building a new one will result in more taxes, larger bureaucratic institutions, which results in more regulations. And of course, knowing politicians, more laws.
I agree. It would be convenient to have the capital in the center, but not convenient to move it. Besides, the District of Columbia is rich in history and a fun place to visit,
I don't disagree with you, although, if the Capitol was in the middle of nowhere, maybe less people would want to be career politicians. HIgher turnover would be a welcome thing.
Due to rising ocean levels, Washington DC is going to flood. For safety, we need to move our capital, somewhere with a higher elevation - like Denver, Colorado.
Community college in California was $48 per unit when I attended college in the 2010s. Now it’s $46 per unit, but now first-time college students can get their first 2 years tuition-free. My advice would be to get an Associate’s, go out and find work at companies that offer tuition reimbursement, and then go back to school to finish your Bachelor’s. You’ll graduate with way less debt. There’s also universities out there that offer asynchronous remote learning where the price of tuition and fees is a fraction of the cost of in person enrollment if coming to campus conflicts with your busy schedule.
In 1971 I went on a package deal tour of nine countries in Europe, and EVERYONE had their hand out for a tip. Some of that was because some jobs were not paid, and the worker depended on tips for their total income.
I enjoy tipping, and worked service jobs for decades....understand how going home with cash in your pocket daily makes it easier to go to work the next day. " Professionals " don't understand, tend to be cheap.... Waiters often are good tippers, not surprisingly.
A great place for the US capitol is Wichita, Kansas. A very nice city with a varied climate. It is centrally located. The "tornado alley" is moving east, so the danger is actually lessening somewhat. My 2 cents.
OMG! The pharmaceutical companies advertising (like TIPPING) has gotten WAY, WAY out of hand! Please go back to the days when drug companies and lawyers (who would have you sue someone or something over the littliest of things) couldn't advertise direct to consumer. Please!!!
Man….the more I watch these kinds of videos, the more fortunate I feel (as a US citizen) that I will be retiring (and currently living) overseas. Fortunate…and sad.
I'm british and although we don't tip we do believe in doggy bags. Also we do have Jury duty and we use a hybrid of imperial and metric units. For example we still use miles and beer is served by the pint. But in engineering and construction we work in millimetres.
That's funny about the black cows. We were up in your area this last March to see waterfalls. Its a very beautiful area. Of course being from the Houston area it was my first time driving in real snow ( not the stuff we call snow here). Of coarse it was a blizzard while trying to drive around the east side of Mount Hood.
Usually in foreign countries you have options, and even when the doctor may prefer a certain brand, you can ask for a prescription for the generic ingredient and choose the one you like, on top of that the drug comes with a huge description about what it is, what it does, side effects, etc, it’s pretty cool
In the old days, pharmaceutical companies would give kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their drugs. I'd much rather be informed about what is available than my doctor prescribing something that might be less effective, or not really needed so they get a payday...
Here in Canada we just get stupid, vague ads for pharmaceuticals that list the name of the drug and say "ask your doctor about X" and we are left more confused than ever about what it is, or what it does. Sure we now know that drug X is a thing, but what is it used for? Turns out, they're not allowed to state anything about the drug in advertising except its name. What a waste of advertising dollars. Imagine being a doctor and being bombarded by questions about some new drug that's advertised on TV for a condition your patients don't even have.
Thank you Briggs for never using AI
Never ever!
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Canada does do free refills
@@mrnekokittycatsaki1419and super size!
@@SirManfly big portions now and super size back then
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs you deserve all your TH-cam money!! 💯💯
"Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history." - 2022
What jails are you referring to?
Kamala Harris did the same in California!
You left off the most important one. The US is the only country where the number 1 cause of personal bankruptcy is due to healthcare expenses.
I have never paid a doctors bill in my 60 years of life..I have had many operations wife had 2 kids when the bill would come it would go straight to the garbage..Same with the collection agency bill...We have the best healthcare system in the world...bar none....
@teddyghioto clearly you don't own property. Welcome to renting the rest of your life,and not building a net worth.
Most of these things, tipping drive through large foods take are the same in Canada 🇨🇦
Can you cite your source?
thank you @ dineekier8426
At one time, advertising prescription drugs was not permitted.
It shouldn't be now. The cost of that expensive advertising increases drug prices. Permit advertising of prescription drugs only to those empowered to write prescriptions for them.
I wish those days would come back.
Yep, I remember the good old days when big pharma didn't advertise. Instead, they'd hold a "conference" for Healthcare providers in Cancun or, Las Vegas. Week long, have an "introduction" to medication uses. They did one in Orlando when I was young, my mom was an RN, and her and the doctor she worked for went. She got to take us kids and dad too. The convention was so nice, gave free tickets to Disney and stuff... wait, surly big pharma wasn't buying off Healthcare providers to prescribe drugs amd switched to direct advertising to consumers after getting their peepee slaped(checks notes) Yep.
That n liquor ugh
If I'm not mistaken, at one time lawyers were not permitted to advertise. I couldn't watch tv if it wasn't for the mute button...........
Another fun fact about US money - all the bills are the same size. In other countries they make the bills different sizes for the blind, or so I have heard
Australia also add a tactile feature to their notes as an aid to vision impaired people.
In Canada they are all the same size, but have braille.
Different bills sizes for their respective monetary value
@@Blurb777Not true at all. Different sizes and different colors.
Here in México besides diferent colors and sizes have Braille to blind people 🎉
In Australia we have jury duty. I won’t ever be called because I used to work in insurance, it’s thought you may have a conflict of interest if you have worked insurance. We also used to have to pledge our allegiance to the queen at school when I was a kid. There is an unofficial culture of tipping. If they give me good service I tip if they don’t then I won’t. We have to pay to go to University. When you graduate You repay a small amount each time you are paid, once you start earning over a certain amount.
I didn’t know about the insurance thing even though I also live in AUS
That’s pretty interesting
I hear you. I still get called, but will never serve on a jury: #1) I used to date a court reporter. #2) Lawyers don't want anyone on the jury smarter than they are. Double whammy. I'll never get on a jury, no matter how much I may want to. C'est la vie.
Schools do not force students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegience. Teachers are obligated by school district or state, but students have the right to opt out. However, a student does not have the right to disturb another student or to disrupt the class from reciting the Pledge.
When I was in school, I was forced to stand up for this, they wouldn't start unless everyone stood up or receive repercussions🤷♀️
Substitute “forced” with “intimidated”; would that be more accurate?
I used to have to do it. Different times. So he's not wrong.
I don't remember having an option....
I haven’t seen anyone recite the pledge of allegiance in decades. We did it in the sixties but it had ended by the seventies. Of course I have always lived in blue states we weren’t into the brainwashing and indoctrination that red states are.
21) Wearing shoes in the house. In most countries people prefer to NOT drag the street filth around their house, especially grinding into into the carpet (another American obsession)! Americans drag the poop, spit, trash, dirt, etc. into their houses from their shoes, and even put their feet/shoes on the sofa and bed! Every time I see it in TV or films it makes me cringe hard.
Agree, it’s disgusting… No one wears shoes in my house. If others are uncomfortable with that, they are free *not* to visit. We provide slippers/ socks for visitors, shoe covers for plumbers, electricians, etc.
They do it on tv because it’s TV
@@TheRockkickass I spent half my life in the US, so I know they do it. I was just there last year and saw it again, myself.
I’ll alert the media regarding your petty annoyance.
Weird how there are no noticeable benefits to the paranoia about shoes in the house that the rest of the world has. Americans have many shoes, generally speaking, and are aware of how dirty any pair of shoes is, and act accordingly. Some people have shoes they only wear inside of buildings or on brief walks from the valet parking spot in front of a building directly into that building.
When I moved to the UK, they used miles, and stones (for weight). In the Dominican Republic, they use tarea for land area. I'd say that a lot of metrification is overstated. And in America, one can hear and see plenty of metric units, from liter bottles to the military talking about "klicks" (kilometers).
The military does that for ease of communication with allied NATO countries basically
NASA does it, science does it, engineering does it. Imperial units are only still there for the normies out there; I'm sure they'll fade away over time.
Isn’t military time also just the standard way time is kept in the rest of the world? I thought I heard that before.
I didn't know that's what a kick was! Very entertained right now.
Great video. I was waiting for the most important one and it's how expensive healthcare is compare to other countries.
#21 filing for bankruptcy over medical debt.
It's not only in the USA it's a common thing in the poor countries and Eastern Europe as well.
1:19 speaking of supersize me. RIP Morgan Spurlock
Oh crap! I didn’t know he died. Strange that I had to find out here in the comments.
In one of my primary (years 1 - 6) schools in the 1970s Australia we used to have to say a Pledge of Allegiance. No idea if it was obligatory, I went along with it. We also have jury duty and few reasons to avoid it (eg pregnancy). Thank you for the video.
To heck with going into debt for college. What about bankruptcy for medial treatment and/or hospital stays? This is not something you'll find in most other countries.
Shocking that Briggs didn’t list this.
Simple solution. Be rich.
@LJB103 Of course it doesn't apply to rich, old Republicans themselves.
' What about bankruptcy for medial treatment and/or hospital stays? ' Major concern for aging baby boomers such as myself....
@@xzqzq I'm in the same boat. Back in 2008 I had a stent put in :procedure with 1 night stay = $41,000!
Hi Briggs, my wife and I were talking about your question regarding moving the Capital somewhere else. So, we think that some place like Denver, Colorado might make sense. The reason is that we felt that the capital would need some of the following:
1. Security-more centralized away from the coastline.
2. Good infrastructure.
3. Good Airport.
4. A medium size populace that might be more relatable to the entire nation that the capital should represent.
5. Accessibility to all, centralized.
6. Room to grow.
Although my wife and I are from Utah and more conservative than the Colorado population; however, we believe that the state has more to offer than other states and allows for better representation to all areas and states.
Thanks for all of your interesting videos and thoughts. Bob and Sherril
Tipping is one of the reasons i can’t afford to eat out much any more. I always tip 20% (or more) unless I’m unhappy with the service - i am just so glad someone is doing this job. But my area charges 13% tax for prepared food (6% sales tax + 7% prepared food tax) , then add tip and inflated prices since the pandemic - and a person on a fixed income just can’t do it, unless they have lots of investments spinning off profits.😊
Tipping culture in usa is insane 😳
This is a dumb comment
Canada also tips.
😂😂😂 You had me cracking up on how you got out of jury duty. Too funny!
Thank you on the food dyes!! Red # dyes are a major migraine trigger for me, and people look at me like I'm straight up crazy for saying so (even medical professionals). I've been red dye free for over a decade, and the only times I've had a migraine attack since then (can count on one hand) were when I have been unknowingly exposed. It's so bad I have to go to the ER, and the last time I did (several years ago) they sent me home with my nausea still so out of control.
Red gatorade makes me throw up. I believe you.
I don't think anyone cares enough to look at you
Funny - what's next tip jar on a judge bench 😂
Trump would love that...
@@DON666 Luckily he can afford all the fake lawsuits they keep throwing at him. EVERY single case against him has been thrown out. Think about that for a moment.
2:47. Tipping is also expected at asian massage parlors. LOL
lol. Nice!
In Ontario Canada women can go topless in public. Cant go into public buildings such as postoffice, govt bldgs etc. Guess what! few do.
And the ones that do, definitely shouldn't! 🐄
Dang, You Rock! Love your videos always! Thanks!💓🤗✌️
Tipping is way out of control. Loved the Steve Buschemi rant in Reservoir Dogs. Not everyone working should be tipped automatically.
Also, you mean freedom units? Lol
Tipping is a scam it for paying under paid workers that do more work than needed.
Easy solution. DON'T TIP.
' Steve Buschemi '. Former NYFD guy: on 9/11 jumped in to help.
@xzqzq yeah, he's a good dude.
@@roderickcortez138all that does is screw the server.
Briggs is in here reading comments. Love the content and keep up the good work
Good work? Half of it isn't true at all. Yeah, great work.
As a canadian we have many things on this list too. We got the tipping culture, and free refills even though now they’re trying to end that, jury duty etc
He was talking about different countries lol
@@TheRockkickass What do you mean, Canada is a completely different country
@@terrancedavis4851 sure
The US isn't the only country with private prisons.
Yup we Canadians 🇨🇦 a few of the listed things too!
Briggs, you rock! Love the channel and content. Peace
Yep, for me it was the plejalegance. (And to the Republic for Richard Stans)
HAHAHA!!! That's cute! Gave me a chuckle!
Hysterical!!
One of the boys in my sons' Boy Scout Troop always said "I pledge of allegiance..." could NOT get him to correct it.
😂😂😂
Always a great day when Briggs uploads
I was out training on my handcycle one day and ran across a British couple here on vacation. Come to find out he was a police officer in London. He was telling me of his disgust of everyone carrying a gun. I asked him how he knew and he said it's easy and he can spont them a mile away. I asked if he thought I was armed. Keep in mind I'm wearing spandex cycling clothes. He said that was easy no way was I carrying. I corrected him saying I was. (I keep a small pistol for self defense due to the remote trails lots of dangerous animals put there. He was shocked asking why and in time he understood.
Metric in the US. I worked at a Department of Energy Laboratory. In the 1990’s they built a new biology building and the big announcement was that it was going to be built using the metric system. I’m sure it made purchasing a nightmare. Fortunately this was at the time that blueprints were beginning to be drawn in Computer Aided software. They could flip between American standard and metric units easily in the design process.
In addition to the Pledge of Allegiance we also have state pledge in Texas because we are egomaniacs
When were you in school? I went to school in Texas 1970s-1990 and never experienced this pledge to Texas? Thanks.
@@tveggemeyer8103my son had to when we were there, in 2022.
I grew up in TX, living in three different towns and never heard of a pledge to TX?!
??? Never heard of any Texas pledge. I think you made that up. What school?
You should move to California or New York. You'd be much happier there.
Every time my British wife comes to the US, she has to find the sweetest, most unhealthy breakfast cereal she can. It's not usually that difficult. Red, white and blue Captain Crunch. What could be more American than that? You can add high fructose corn syrup to this list as well.
This guy has the least bias videos. Love the content dude!
Lemon in coffee is interesting.
Another great video Briggs! 👍
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Great video! Increased humor, decreased snarkiness. 😊
Snarkiness is a trait of USA citizens.
I live in CA, I haven't received a summons for jury duty for 14 years, so far, because I finally wrote them saying that due to my utter disdain for both criminals and the corrupt American judicial system, I couldn't see myself being able to be non bias.
Really interesting and subsribed to the new channel! And now eating bowl of Captain Crunch.
It's so delicious. I don't eat it often. But when I do, I love it.
For the capital, Denver. Centrally located, relatively easy to get to, and the fresh air might clear some heads!
America doesn't have imperial pints and gallons. An imperial pint has 20 Fluid Ounces in, but an American pint has 16 Fluid Ounces.
The US got Jury duty from England & Scotland which still have it, as do many other countries that were part of the British Empire. The sheer number of countries with Jury duty disqualify it from your list.
The UK has some prisons run by private companies too, it has discounts and sales too, and large coffees (which we got from America).
I like how the first two of the 20 just shows the free market/corporate corruption in the US. Both of these are just so the corporation either saves money by not paying the workers what they deserve or making a higher profit.
Fun fact: Kilometers were added to many interstate highway distance signs in the southeastern U.S. prior to the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville TN. The Sunsphere is still standing in Knoxville, but all of those "Knoxville: X km" signs were LONG gone well before the end of the 20th century. I've rejected both imperial and metric -- my speedometer is calibrated in furlongs per fortnight.
Not cubits per jiffy? Psssht, get real.
@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 I considered angstroms per femtosecond but, as I said, I rejected metric. 🤣
@@colormedubious4747 How many physicists are rolling in thier grave because of you??🤣🤣🤣
Furlong is imperial...
Gotta have that huge cup of coffee to be able to work endlessly.
One thing they need to outlaw is advertising for slip and fall ambulance chasing lawyers. I grew up in historic Savannah Georgia, but as you enter from the interstate system, all you see on the billboards is one lawyer after another.. to the point, I think they need to change the name of Savannah to lawyerville.
This was very informative and enjoyable.
As a vet, I was surprised to see share how you shirk your civic duty by acting insane at jury summons. You’ve definitely done enough for this country but this bit rubbed me the wrong way.
Hi Briggs, Always enjoy your videos! Very thought-provoking. Which brings me to your question? I can only suggest that, if the US Capitol had to be moved, the planners should look for a place with less crime and less population. How about all that empty land in Nevada? The government owns it anyway. Just a thought.
Also answering Brigg's question: how about either Miami or Jacksonville in Florida, where there's less crime and plenty of sunshine 🌞.
Not enough water.
That land is still radioactive...stay away.
@@grannycee8280 maybe you should watch Briggs' earlier videos about Jax and Miami?
There’s reasons that land is empty
Two things I think off…Wearing outside shoes inside your home. Sitting on bed with street clothes on.
Always posting entertaining videos. Enjoy.
We definitely have prescription adverts in Canada as well.
But in America they are CONSTANT. Pretty much every commercial (especially at a certain time of day) is either for prescription drugs, lawyers, or if you need a lawyer because you took a prescription drug.
@@terminallumbago6465 And that brings up another TV advert habit - when I was a kid, lawyers weren't allowed (set by the bar I believe) to advertise on television. Now there's as many lawyer ads as medicine ads.
@@SparkG448 Not sure if you’re in America, but here the advertisements are so constant you can practically memorize them. Some jingles, phrases, are so well-known they’re part of the culture and speech now.
Ok, now I want to try lemon juice in my coffee! 🤔
New video!! Happy FriYay!!
In South Africa we take leftover food home. No law against it and it's done all the time. 😊
Great video!
I'm 62 years old and remember all the teachers telling us, "you better learn the metric system or else!" We just laughed at them. 😆
I'm also 62.I remember being told by 1980 everything will be metric😂😂
Consider pointing out unusual things in other countries . Thanks for the video . Cool
1968 Texas elementary school taught the metric system as well as imperial. They told us that by the time you are in junior high, we will have switched.
I remember metric and Imperial distances on highway signs in the late 1970s. I thought President Reagan halted that, which always struck me as a shortsighted move.
Thank god we didn’t switch
2 things everybody else can do that we can’t get in the US: quality, affordable, health care and housing.
I know I got help from HUD during the pandemic and now they have a lien on my house for over the price that they helped me with but I have to pay now when I sell my house and it's way more than I'm getting for my house so I don't know how I'm supposed to pay that I'm on disability as well
Housing is not affordable everywhere else
The 24 hour clock. Americans call it military time. Most of the countries I’ve been to just call it normal time.
We call it military tome because only the military and some hospitals use it
Hope everyone reading this is ok and knows that they are enough!
Always
Thanks. Cool thought.
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Thank you
May God bless and protect you, your family and friends 🧡
I'm struggling, and thank you for saying so.
What a kind and lovely thought. Thank you.
Metric Units: We actually have switched to metric units for most things except height and weight of people, distances, and temperature.
Electoral College: It should be eliminated entirely, not made worse by some other odd scheme.
Eliminating the electoral college is a terrible idea. We are not a true democracy by design and that’s a good thing.
Lincoln, Nebraska, because it's pretty much in the center of the country.
I will say mostly Chicago Illinois
I contemplated Omaha for the same reason. The exact geographic center is between Coffeville Kansas and Arkansas City Kansas just across the border from Oklahoma in nowhere Kansas. Thus I went with Wichita Kansas as the new capital.
There's a farm not far from where I mentioned earlier, nowhere Kansas, that has been raided by every federal agency. Apparently, in the early days of google maps, it was what was marked as U.S.A. and any internet crime, scam, etc, that was listed as originating in the U.S.A. pinned that farm. There's a TH-cam video about it. It's kinda crazy really
I think it would be more accessible to everyone if it was in the middle of the country.
Denver, Colorado
There's a fairly long list of reasons why food in america is different from other countries. One that i think about a lot is just how many of our foods are either processed using corn or are actually corn in disguise
Letchworth state park in Mt.Morris, NY- its called the Great Canyon of the East!! Salt mines, grapes from Hammondsport, Ny. Frozen food, air conditioning, jello, Power-like the falls!!
Tipping Culture now it the Begging Culture America 🇺🇸 😂😂 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
I’m sure you’ll agree with this Briggs. My husband used to tell me that just because something was on sale, that was not justification to buy.
Some of these are done in Canada but they’re very similar to us.
I’d argue the opposite, Canada is actually similar to the US.
Thanks for the video
First two are in Canada .We got big gupls.Coffer refills up here.We have plege of alligance and jury duty hup here .
Free refills
Jury duty
Tips
Sales
Huge coffee (come on)
Leftovers
Also in Canada
I've never heard of Canadian pledge of allegiance? I've lived here a very long time.
@@joywebster2678 I have never heard of a pledge of allegence in Canada
I remember singing God save the Queen and the lords prayer late 60s early 70s
They didn't have free refills in Canada when I was there (70s and 80s).
Canada is basically the US if you left Quebec out
Thanks for the video🤗. Lemon in coffee sounds interesting. Maybe I'll try it😊
Jury duty should be embraced by people, not scorned.
Maybe if they compensated you for your time instead of making you miss work, but not having laws that require your job to pay you anyway…
People are quite literally too poor to be happy about jury duty
It's scorned because you're forced into it without compensation. Some jobs pay you, but the government gives you a very small amount for a day. Last time I served it was $8.
@@AlexP-dz7ew my job pays me straight time for jury duty, but I have to pay them back the amount I received for jury duty. I literally had to write a check for 14 dollars to pay them back the 14 dollars the court paid me...
I got permanent exemption here in New Zealand from Jury duty cos im mentally unstable. I love mental illness sometimes haha
America, home of the $8 sliced potato.
Interesting 👍
I liked the mind boggling one on advertising drugs by Big Pharma mafia. 👍
Nice job on this one, Briggs! And you're absolutely correct: this perpetual "tipping for anything" is completely off the rails!!
Canada also tips.
Lots of drugs in other countries are available for less with no prescription. I agree, in school everyone learned what a gram was!
I learned the metric system in school in the US, live in the UK now, have driven in Europe and Canada 🍁 and fix my own cars and motorcycles. I can do both. Big deal.
Bless our Oligarchy! BLESS US ALL!
Keep the capital where it is. Building a new one will result in more taxes, larger bureaucratic institutions, which results in more regulations. And of course, knowing politicians, more laws.
I agree. It would be convenient to have the capital in the center, but not convenient to move it. Besides, the District of Columbia is rich in history and a fun place to visit,
I don't disagree with you, although, if the Capitol was in the middle of nowhere, maybe less people would want to be career politicians. HIgher turnover would be a welcome thing.
Due to rising ocean levels, Washington DC is going to flood. For safety, we need to move our capital, somewhere with a higher elevation - like Denver, Colorado.
Not taking home restaurant leftovers is a horrible waste of food. Plus if it's meat, an animal went through a living hell for that. Shame on them.
Unless, of course, they have a creative way of reusing and reselling the leftovers.....YUCK
Hippie chicks, too funny! 😄
Hello from South Carolina.
You forgot 21. Briggs is fire and none like him nowhere else, SILLY!
Another home run Briggs. The actor from the movie Super Size Me died yesterday. Must have been all of the McDonalds food he lived on.
RIP Morgan Spurlock (53) who died of cancer
@@ultraredd RIP.
He was a alcoholic was sick before he even started that movie.
Community college in California was $48 per unit when I attended college in the 2010s. Now it’s $46 per unit, but now first-time college students can get their first 2 years tuition-free. My advice would be to get an Associate’s, go out and find work at companies that offer tuition reimbursement, and then go back to school to finish your Bachelor’s. You’ll graduate with way less debt. There’s also universities out there that offer asynchronous remote learning where the price of tuition and fees is a fraction of the cost of in person enrollment if coming to campus conflicts with your busy schedule.
In 1971 I went on a package deal tour of nine countries in Europe, and EVERYONE had their hand out for a tip. Some of that was because some jobs were not paid, and the worker depended on tips for their total income.
That was 53 years ago. Europe has changed... a LOT since then. Just saying.
It's because they can spot an american from a mile away and know that americans won't notice they are being taken for a ride.
I enjoy tipping, and worked service jobs for decades....understand how going home with cash in your pocket daily makes it easier to go to work the next day. " Professionals " don't understand, tend to be cheap.... Waiters often are good tippers, not surprisingly.
@@xzqzqit's the cutomers or "professionals" responsibility to pay the wages that your employer should be rightfully coming out of pocket for
A great place for the US capitol is Wichita, Kansas. A very nice city with a varied climate. It is centrally located. The "tornado alley" is moving east, so the danger is actually lessening somewhat. My 2 cents.
What about joining the military in the U.S. and getting VA benefits
Great video!
OMG! The pharmaceutical companies advertising (like TIPPING) has gotten WAY, WAY out of hand! Please go back to the days when drug companies and lawyers (who would have you sue someone or something over the littliest of things) couldn't advertise direct to consumer. Please!!!
Man….the more I watch these kinds of videos, the more fortunate I feel (as a US citizen) that I will be retiring (and currently living) overseas. Fortunate…and sad.
Black cows? Little know fact... cows in the Yukon and Alaska give... Ice cream.
Love all these videos as I’m from uk
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Denver, it’s centrally located..btw I’m moving to Colorado this year 😊
Own thousands of weapons and legally own and operate a flame thrower as well drive a tank 🇺🇸
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I'm british and although we don't tip we do believe in doggy bags. Also we do have Jury duty and we use a hybrid of imperial and metric units. For example we still use miles and beer is served by the pint. But in engineering and construction we work in millimetres.
Someplace in Kansas right in the middle of the country.
Agreed...somewhere near the middle of the US.
Hmm, Carmon, KS. You might have a point.
Like, Leavenworth? 😂
As a kid, I thought it was Water Burger because after a couple minutes, the mayonnaise would drip onto your wrapper.. GOTTA LOVE Whataburger!!!!
Las Vegas should be the US capital... it's a fair representation of what we actually stand for.
That's funny about the black cows. We were up in your area this last March to see waterfalls. Its a very beautiful area. Of course being from the Houston area it was my first time driving in real snow ( not the stuff we call snow here). Of coarse it was a blizzard while trying to drive around the east side of Mount Hood.
I would rather know that a consumer prescription drug is available than not know it. What could go wrong?? Not knowing it's available, that's what!
Usually in foreign countries you have options, and even when the doctor may prefer a certain brand, you can ask for a prescription for the generic ingredient and choose the one you like, on top of that the drug comes with a huge description about what it is, what it does, side effects, etc, it’s pretty cool
@@PochitoPanteraThat’s irrelevant!!! TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!!!
In the old days, pharmaceutical companies would give kickbacks to doctors for prescribing their drugs. I'd much rather be informed about what is available than my doctor prescribing something that might be less effective, or not really needed so they get a payday...
Here in Canada we just get stupid, vague ads for pharmaceuticals that list the name of the drug and say "ask your doctor about X" and we are left more confused than ever about what it is, or what it does.
Sure we now know that drug X is a thing, but what is it used for? Turns out, they're not allowed to state anything about the drug in advertising except its name. What a waste of advertising dollars. Imagine being a doctor and being bombarded by questions about some new drug that's advertised on TV for a condition your patients don't even have.
The UK has mandatory jury duty as well!