Oh, I absolutely believe that people in America can accept it’s “not as big a deal as you might think”.
This is a thread about things about America that make no sense. So: I don’t understand why America, seemingly uniquely, accepts this as “not a big deal”.
It’s weird. Land of the free, home of the public toilets strangers can see inside. So odd.
Thank you for your comment. I can’t speak for the entire world, but in the UK a 1 cm" gap in the door of a public toilet would be massive and unacceptable. It’s not enough that someone can only see into a stall through a gap in the door if they are “right up to it”; they should not be able to see in at all. Public toilets in other countries have doors with gaps you can’t leer through at all.
Re. the “gaps meaning ventilation”, surely the “big gap at the bottom” and the fact that the whole top is open will be contributing more to ventilation?
You say you think this might be a regional thing in the US. Okay, could be. I have personally encountered this issue in Washington, California, North Carolina, DC, Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, Oregon, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland.
From a euphemism for being suspended on full pay pending an investigation. You aren’t working, and you can’t work for a competitor, so there’s not much to do but potter about in the garden.
(The term originated when the paid white-collar workforce was still overwhelmingly comprised of men who weren’t responsible for housework or child rearing.)
I don’t get it either. Ignoring the inherent power imbalance between a single worker and an employer, good luck getting Gardening Leave in an at-will workplace.
Yes, maternity leave! The US approach is bonkers.
Oh that’s true. American pints are a disappointment.
This is a thoughtful reply. I will just say that the UK also has public toilets all over the place, and a desire for people to not screw & get high in the cubicles. Ditto many other countries. But I’ve never been anywhere else with this door gap problem, where no-one gets privacy.
I did once use a UK bathroom in a supermarket where the lighting was all blue, which makes it hard to find a vein to inject. But the doors still closed properly.
“Panties”
Ick.
Yes. The correct answer is “Not too bad, you?” and after they’ve also not answered truthfully the conversation may begin.
Sir, pride in the sanctity of the Queue is reason enough alone.
Seriously though, being in places where people don’t queue properly is miserable. That’s something America should be applauded for.
You don’t have separate recycling? With recycling bins & separate food waste collection, our general waste wheelie bin takes ages to fill up…
Come visit the UK. We have fluid ounces too, but only for baking. Your drink will be served by the millilitre, unless it’s beer in a pub, or milk in a home, in which case it will be served by the pint.
Sticker price isn’t the price you pay at the till. Why? Why do you do that.
Massive gaps between the walls and doors of public lavatory cubicles. This is not some mystical, advanced technology. Get it together.
Em, no. No it isn’t. Private healthcare gets to cherry pick off all the more straightforward stuff (knee replacements, dermatology) but curiously enough is quite content for the NHS to handle all the expensive stuff (intensive care, trauma).
It took over 40 years to privatise everything on that list. Not exactly “fairly quick”.
Feel free to consider it “scaremongering bollocks” all you like, but be aware that government ministers literally wrote a book about how much they want to do it.
And be aware everyone thought that British Rail would never be privatised, either. But of course it was. After it had been run into the ground through underfunding.
Wow. Patients given choice? Perish the thought! You should be forced to have mediocre healthcare, peasant!
Do you think private healthcare is illegal in the UK or something? Have you not heard of people going private?
It is a bold move to say that “Tories want to privatise nationalised services” is a conspiracy theory, given the number of times they have already done it.
ETA: They also tried it with the Forestry Commission.
It was thought that British Rail was so beloved that no one would dare sell that off, too.
It’s not very good now that the Tories have starved it of funds for over a decade with a view to selling it off.
In 2005, Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party was co-authored Jeremy Hunt Michael Gove, David Gauke, and Kwasi Kwarteng, among others.
On page 78, it states that
Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain.
And on page 74 asserts that
patients, either through the tax system or by way of universal insurance, [should] purchase health care from the provider of their choice
NHS c. 2009 was excellent. Don’t forget that.
Your husband works for 20 hours a week, but you are responsible for housekeeping, cooking, childcare and transportation, and you are also the main earner?
If you are talking about ChatGPT: please do not do this.
ChatGPT guesses which words should come next in a sequence, based on its training data and your prompt. It is not intelligent, and it has no concept of what is real and what is not. It will cheerfully make things up.
I sympathise with your frustration at having to pay money to see a doctor. I can’t imagine how stressful life would be without the NHS.
The population of the USA is c. 332 million people.
200,000 people in 332,000,000 is
1 person in 1660.
I think you may have misplaced a zero?
Evidently yes.