30 People List What Things Are Accepted In The US While Are Totally Horrifying In The UK

I live here and wish that the price included tax.

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How do you calculate the many rounds of VAT on a product in the UK?

As if prices of some single products don't change on a daily..

Yes. That's pretty much a non-issue. I also think you overestimate how often taxes change.

Really? Tax is fixed where I live, 10% (rent, hotels, food, books, etc.), 13% (tickets for events, etc.), 20% (everything else), and very rarely changes (e.g., tax on tampons and pads has been lowered recently); it's the prices that are changing all the time, and the tags are a non-issue for shops...

I worked in a grocery store before there were bar codes. Merchandise had prices stamped in them when they came off the truck and before it went on the shelf. At least weekly prices changes would come in, so that meant repricing them.. Now most of the time the price is on the shelf tag. Less effort when they change. Also some stores have apps where you can scan the bar code to get the currenmt price.

Never heard about electronic/digital tags? They are usually connected to the same database used by the checkout machines, so every update is automatically applied.

No, it isn't. It's second nature, really. And yet Europeans, most of whom pride themselves on their imagined intellectual superiority over Americans, can't seem to manage it. ;-)

Interestingly enough the stores that do allow sitting are lidl and aldi, both German stores.

Religion does not have the monopoly on being decent

We’re actually SUPPOSED to have separation of church and state, but those lines have become way too blurred for my taste. We weren’t set up to have anything like a state religion, as the Founding Fathers didn’t want the bloody conflicts it historically caused in the Old World replicated in the New World. Now that religion has been allowed into the political mix, we’re seeing the seeds of those historic conflicts being sown here too. Religion should be a free choice, including choosing not to believe. It should never be imposed on anyone. And it has absolutely NO place in politics and lawmaking.

Exactly

as a religious person, i think the most you should say publically as a politician is "G-d bless you, and G-d bless America" No bible refrences please.

Sorry, but "In God We Trust" is on our money, too. That's just us.

Republicans love toting that s**t around, even though they're beyond morally corrupt in every way possible.

In my acquaintance circle there were a lot of discussion on this topic. There were some that truly defend this "Religion should have no room in politics anywhere" pose at all costs. Yet we had a lot of talk that in our country education system gives almost no knowledge and understanding about religion. If you have even basic knowledge , then it is easy to sort out double faced "want some advantage from religious views" a-holes. You cannot cut religion from personality. And while religion is not banned in general, it would be against sanity, freedom of speech and human rights to ask from politicians hide their religious views "in pocket".

You either have it or you don't. Any given person can't just pick and choose which parts of a religion they think are "positive" so can be allowed in politics. Unless you're a dictator

So are you saying that it should have some room? You can't have one without the other.

I wish i had someone to blame for that.

But where are you supposed to put your newborn baby when returning to work week later?

It's a mystery to a lot of Americans. I'm in the field, so to sp;eak, and we'd LOVE to be consulted on this whole "healthcare legislation" thing, b/c a token panel of a half-dozen MDs is pathetic, compared to the armies of lawyers and bankers and accountants and politicians who seem to think they know hwo to provide healthcare. IMHO. Pet peeve. Rant over. Apologies.

How is it so mysterious? It's what happens when you keep repeatedly electing politicians into power who only serve corporations and billionaires because they scream about crime and non-white people and atheists taking over the country.

The ¨F¨ in America stands for free healthcare

Except Canada? Our ambulance rides are the same price. Which makes people not want to be administered First aid as they will be stuck with the bill when YOU call 911 for them

I from Canada. I have never, and hopefully will never pay a bill because my life was threatened

Bro, this definitely is not the place everyone thinks it is. Our leadership is a f*****g clown section, our health care is exactly the opposite of healthy or caring, and John Wayne was never a f****n cowboy. We're hurting here, and it's due to politics and the media. It keeps us separated by lies and disparity. Many good people here, but an equal number of entitled assholes. Hoping things get better soon where you're at, those fires were terrible. The Australian folks are strong and capable and I know you'll make do, nonetheless, I wish you all the very best. Somehow I feel a kinship with y'all, part of it is because of Alby Mangels. Yeah, he's the man. His episodes opened my eyes to all I could do here with just my Jeep, bandog, and a sleeping bag. I've done it for 30 years now, and life has been pretty cool when it can be.

Follow the money.. sadly lobbyists, government (all sides) and healthcare are all in on it and love it!

That comment pretty much summs it up ^^