Yep. It’s the same reason that supermarkets who have installed self checkout tills also find they get an increase in so called “casual theft”- people putting down they’ve got 3 apples in their bag when there’s four for example or “forgetting” to scan an item. This “accidental” theft is increased because they figure they can get away with it (and a lot do) because it’s a simple machine facing them and not a checkout worker. 🤷
You also get to not talk to anyone. Which is also why some folks work in a public restaurant, but with headphones on, aka "don't even think about talking to me I'm on a call.
As a person in the same boat as you trying to quit, best advice I can give is to not treat a failure as the end of the attempt. If the lack of nicotine in your brain screams at you to the point your will breaks and you go and bum a cigarette from someone, don't treat that as the end of the attempt. Just try and extend the time between failures until eventually, you manage a whole week. Then, even if you might have the occasional failure, just keep going with attempting to not smoke as long as feasible. In short, don't treat a failure as the end. Treat it as a bump in the road.
46 year old who started when he was 18 here, just celebrating 2 years off cigarettes and 1 year off nicotine. Having tried every method under the sun, gum, inhalators, vape, patches, cold turkey multiple times, the thing that finally did it for me was those relatively new nicotine pouches they sell now. Man, they go up to some insane strengths so much so you don't feel like you're missing a cigarette at all. Started off mixing pouches and cigs, but quickly realised pouches could do the lot. That's amazing in itself cos they're so much cheaper and you can have them at the cinema, at a restaurant, on a plane etc. while not being completely stinky. 1 year after starting them, I went cold turkey, and it was a million times easier quitting the pouches than the cigs for some reason. Buy a pack and give them a try. I honestly have the least willpower in the world and they really worked, can't believe I'm actually off cigs, finally after maybe 20 years of trying! However you decide to try, good luck!
Would you like to see a lung cancer death? Put it like this; my dad was an 80 a day chain smoker. Watching my mums death was so horrific that he stopped the day she died and he had smoked 50 years straight. I haven't seen horror films as bad as her death. Everyone on the ward smoked and not even heavily. I have a mate with popcorn cancer from vaping too. But I'm sure it won't happen to you. Yes you'll be the lucky one. Definitely. Yep.
rory: "no one gets sick after eating mcdonald's" reality: Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people in 10 states it's vacuous pop psychology fluff
haha rory: "no one gets sick after eating mcdonald's" reality: Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people in 10 states this guy is just another charlatan marketer.
the behaver/attitude concept was used with much success in Norway with their Prison system. They treated prisoners as "addicts" rather than criminals. With various social programs, education and rehabilitation rather than just "lock them up for 5 years". They still do that; you get the choice of a traditional cell block vs a trendy (albeit walled and secured) rehab block. Where prisoners are essentially under "house arrest". they are not locked up 23 hours a day, they have access to a kitchen to make meals, guards interact and are friends. It not only created a more congenial environment for both staff & prisoners but gives them a sense of purpose. Similar to the Military where you have chores to do, discipline through obedience, learning skills and trades but cannot leave the camp. Interestingly the ones who opted to stay in the traditional cells (locked up 20 hours a day, limited yard access, etc) were gang members and lifer style prisoners who thought the "other wing" was for sell outs and pussys! these tattoo'd up gang bangers had respect in the regular wing. I"m hard and I know it, attitude. Fantastic concept by the Countries Justice system. Again you get the choice of where to serve rather than the armed robbers go in max and the shoplifters go in Minimum. The reoffender rates went down in many areas - interesting!
It's a shame that in countries like the UK our policies in areas such as prisons are so often led by the views of ignorant, illogical and often hypocritical 'socially conservative' types. Ask them if they want prison to reduce reoffending and they'll generally say yes. Propose approaches that are shown to achieve this? 'WOKE!!! LEFTIE LUVVIES SOFT WEAK!!!1'
Timing can also influence your behaviour. For example, a lot of people order McDonald’s when they are tired, stressed and emotional, not necessarily starving hungry. When you order the food, your body & brain are in survival mode as the vagus nerve is stimulated. This tells the brain to eat NOW but it does not tell the body how much food to eat or when to stop eating because you’re full so naturally your eyes are bigger than your belly & you order more than you need. This sets off the surge/slump cycle in your body. It’s fast food because of this metabolic process. In my area, a lady wanted to get to McDonald’s drive through but there was a huge queue. She then tried to jump the barriers to jump the car queue. On being told by the male security guard that she would have to wait in line she attacked him. She was a regular customer of McDonald’s apparently.
@@HaggardPillockHD Yes it was awful. She became completely hysterical & tried to run him over. The staff don’t get paid enough to put up with this grief.
Michael Crichton mentioned the whole behaviour thing in Rising Sun - one of his characters informs the protagonist that where he might consider people to have a core behaviour that should not change, in Japan, behaviour is determined entirely by circumstance/context. It's not exactly a throwaway line, but it doesn't take up much space, yet I found it memorable.
When I used to sign on, back in the 80’s, if I got a job I’d have to sign off. Such a pain to reregister. I found that a much better option was to declare any short term work when I signed on, I would lose some money but I would still be registered. That meant, if I did no work I could still sign on quickly and easily. Had to do that for several months. Less hassle, no more feast or famine with my cash flow, and a lot less stress with the paperwork.
This happened to me years ago. After I'd signed off to start a temp job, I found out that the agency lied about the type of work I'd be doing. I'd done ut before, hated it and wanted to avoid it but had to start it or I'd lose so many days benefit I'd be in poverty. Awful situation. I needed to eat. The job was terrible. The company was making one person do the work of 4. So honesty not the best policy.
@@thekeysman6760the apostrophe is valid. The apostrophe denotes belonging to that decade, whereas the ommission of the apostrophe denotes plural and unless you're talking about the 1780's & 1880's there is no plural associated to a singular decade. 😊
I frequently hear about "how the government pays you money when you contribute to your pension" - indeed in another video, it was suggested that this be stopped. I don't get it. When we make a contribution to our pension fund, it is invariably from our income, which has already been taxed. The government is merely returning the tax on the contribution. When you later withdraw from your pension, you pay tax on it - so the government gets it back. How is it a gift?
@@Daniel-rp7nb genuine question, would that money be better invested in something else, such as gold, as opposed to whatever the default becomes for pensions?
Regards coffee, it’s not bullshit, instant coffee is awful when compared to coffee grounds brewed correctly. It’s about taste, one simply is better because it is better.
I don't like coffee and would only drink it for the caffeine. If I don't care about the taste and would prefer to save money, why would I prefer barista coffee for £5 to a 50p cup of instant with the same caffeine content? Not everyone is chasing the same things my man
@@AxentMafiaI agree with the OP. Big difference between a smooth flat white made with Ethiopian beans and smooth organic farm milk heated to the correct temperature compared to some Nespresso beans. I say this as a super frugal person.
I ordered a sausage and cheese muffin yesterday at Maccas with 4 extra sausage patties yesterday via the mobile app, I still heard a kitchen staff member laugh and say oh wow when my order went through
Do people order different stuff because they can actually see the full menu? rather than the 2second flash on the overhead screens or trying to find the small printed menu ?? Thoughts
Same here; I have an addiction to savoury meals cooked in hot chillies and spices, however on one occasion while I was away from home there weren’t any suitable places to eat what I like; so I had to go to Mc Donald’s. I go up to the counter to place my order, I sarcastically said “ I would like 4 Small Macs please.”; to which the staff replied “We don’t do Small Macs we only do Big Macs.”; to which I shot back with “Your so-called Big Macs are way too small to be considered big.”; which of course is true, they are not big thus should be called Small Macs. Burger King’s Double Whoppers are big, and taste so much better than Small Macs; unfortunately in the UK there are considerably more Mc Donald’s than Burger Kings.
I have a hairbrained theory. There’s something weird in fast food burgers that tricks your body into staying hungry. I swear if you go to a barbecue and someone’s old man is flipping burgers you only really need one burgers. Because you just ate a quarter pound of beef, some bread, tomato, lettuce, sauce, maybe some bacon. And your stomach knows that’s a lot of energy it’s just consumed. But at McDonalds you eat one burger and your body doesn’t read it as proper food. The calories are there but your body isn’t aware that it just took in a shedload of energy, it wants you to keep eating and get the nutrients it needs.
@@noodlebrains2689 Start by thinking about what isn't in a fast food burger, which could be whats leaving you hungry, or lead you towards whats in it.
It is actually because this channel owner knows they are on thin ice regarding copywrite infringement and it’s an attempt to avoid auto-detection; see ‘full movie youtube’, illegally reproduced content almost always gently zooms.
none of these people are right i believe. i think its because rory is using a macbook and they added this feature recently called center stage that automatically adjusts so that your face is always in the frame. and since rory moves it glitches quite a lot trying to position him in the middle.
as a man who orders 2 burgers, let me tell you. The calories come mostly from the fries and coke. A fillet fish burger is tiny, it is only a little bit bigger than a slider. I used to have 2x double cheese burgers and mcdonals would ususally be next to supermarket, Id get a cheap bottle of water from supermarket.
@@christianp5486 I was referring to the burger as a whole. Meat+bread+cheese+sauce. In a McDonalds meal it’s the burger that has the most calories not the coke or the fries. Also a standard McDonalds patty isn’t that high in calories just because it’s not a lot of food. It’s quite small. But any other burgers that are larger have a lot of calories. It’s a burger ffs 🤦♂️ burgers have a lot of fat in them.
Fat isn’t bad, you still don’t want to eat too much of it though; just like any macro nutrient it is converted to stored energy (body fat) if it isn’t used as expended energy.
I have wondered about a similar concept for weight loss / working out. I was wondering whether motivation actually proceeds action or whether action builds motivation. Waiting around all day to one day hope that my motivation was high enough to workout seemed less effective than starting with a minimum level (ie 20 min work out a day) and then hoping that the new routine would increase my overall motivation. It does also work the other way for sure.
I'm the same- I don't work out a lot. But ensuring I do like 15 mins or weights a day, or a 15 minute treadmill session, means I do something most days, just getting it done in the morning.
The hardest days at the gym are the first few weeks. It’s less about motivation and more about habit. Nobody has motivation 100% of the time. You don’t go to work because you’re motivated to every day, you go because you need to. When you start going to the gym, you don’t really see it as a part of your life yet, you don’t need it. But then as you go more often and you see the results and you get interested and it starts to feel good, you’ve developed a habit, something you feel that you need. And so, you don’t need the motivation anymore as much as you just work out because it’s something that you do as part of your routine.
This video was good, but could you at least edit it so that watching it doesn't make us feel sick! The constant camera movement in the shot is horrible. I get you never shot it, but at least make it so we can watch it without sea sickness please.
Sorry, that’s actually a strange feature that Rory had on his camera at time of recording. There was no way to remove it in the edit (believe me I tried).
Slow and constantly moving images is a really annoying part of the 'video language' of all TV now. Witness the slowly moving cameras on talking heads in TV studios. Totally unnecessary.
He's right about the smoking and poor people. I grew up in it. We never had any money. I didn't go my first holiday until i was 36 years old myself. The only pleasure any of the adults could afford was a smoke or a drink. That was it. We couldn't even afford a house phone and when we did get one, we weren't allowed to use it because it cost money. Geez i hadn't seen the inside of a cinema until i was 15 and had my first every McDonald's at the same age 😂 There's a poverty aspect to smoking and drinking for sure.
Hardly. A filet pur cost 40e to 50eva kg. Without anything else. No salad. No tomatoes. No fries. No butter. No sauce. No frying fat. No energy. No water and soap for dishes.
@@segamegadrive3903 Now if those were German ones, they wouldn't be unhealthy... We have THE highest quality Kebaps. We call them "Döner", though... Highlight the name, click search on google, click pictures... Yum... 😛
7:37 I have said this about education constantly and folks just don't want to listen. There are moments with students where you have a real chance of intervening in a positive way and "The writing lab isn't open right now, sorry" is NOT the answer. Do you want people to have success or not?
This makes me think about the design philosophy I use, make it easy to do things correctly and difficult to do things incorrectly. Directly change the behavior by making the correct path the easy one, then make making exceptions more arduous. The attitude will be that more people want to do it the way we want it done, but if they really want to, they can do their own thing.
That or they cocked up your order or the machines ran out of paper so you had no receipt 🧾 and no idea how quickly your food would arrive… also the staff are soulless automatons who do anything to avoid interaction with you.
It’s all due to ‘can’t get the staff’. Your order is delayed? Not enough staff. Prices gone up? ‘. Can’t get the staff, so prices go up in order to A ) raise wages and B) reduce demand.No paper in the receipt machine? / tables littered/ floor dirty? Can’t get the staff.
Benefits are done completely wrong. They make you wait for weeks without any money, they will lend you some money but you have to start paying it back straight away. They should give you four weeks money straight away, then keep paying you in advance. Claims should be linked, so you can't keep claiming the four weeks.
@Rory, Do you know that the European (Dutch) law says that every 3 or 4 years the age of pension is raised with a couple of months. Meaning that I will be at least 70 or 75 before I get any pension. IF I get any.... because it's not the first time that LAWS have changed in the BENEFIT of the Governments. So why would I 'invest in my future' if that's 100% based upon the Government to follow through in their promise.
The screens have just made it less likely that my freaky order with a bunch of different extra wishes will be misunderstood. I still usually go to the cashier to pay because I tend to have some coupons that you can't use at the screen. I've always ordered about 3 burgers for myself, screens didn't change that.
i get 2 triple cheese burgers with all the free extra toppings, 2 large fries and a saver menu chicken wrap in the uk. shame i cant do the same in asia and have to order 2 meals but bottle waters as drinks because it's cheaper than ordering separately. dont really like to drink soft drinks with my meal.
He will understand, working for oglelvy, that perception is everything, most people do not perceive their buying a vehicle with already six times the footprints of a established petrol-driven engine. They won't know that their vehicle has contributed towards the deaths of small children and their fathers in Africa and Venezuela. They are getting a child like pleasure for the fact that the vehicle has not pushed out any fumes at the point of use. The same sort of people often say that the NHS is free, instead of free at the point of use. They don't see all the taxes and national insurance taken off the people at source of their wages, they just know they can waltz into a building and get medical help
Yes and perceptions form realities. If you can make rhe masses perceive all is well then they will be like docile cattle. You'd have successfully domesticated them. Even when all is very far from fine. Though inversely you can control them easily through stoking fears and offering "safety"
My foster mums husband is a top accountant in government, 14:45 Rory talks about them thinking marketing is unimportant, evil or distracting is completely wrong, in fact, it's not something they think about at all, it's just number crunching 😂
I'm 42 and have never had a tax rebate in my entire life and I've never not worked but every person i know who gained employment after a long period of inactivity all seemed to get a big rebate. Something feels wrong.....
@@gearoftones8585 well no. Often if you start a new job you’re taxed at a higher rate than you should be. If you’re starting work in the last two or three months of the tax year then you shouldn’t normally pay any tax at all. Hence the rebate. Or maybe I’m being to literal here.
@@MrBlaxjax Yep. If you start work in October you'll only be working for half a tax year but likely be taxed the regular rate, so will be owed back about half the taxes you've paid.
5:03 I'm certainly no expert. But, since screens were rolled out I've been to about 4 or 5 mcdonald's locations. At each of them there is pretty much NEVER a human at the register inside to take an order. It's every single time I go in. It's every location I've been to. Maybe it's from the franchise owners. But, it seems to me like they recognize that they don't have to pay a person to sit at that register. So, it's other employees who have other jobs to do and who is also tasked with ... trying to keep aware of people standing at the register. It's also clear that they don't want to deal with the register as multiple people will look over and avert their gaze and keep doing whatever they were doing before. The experience in the stores I've been in certainly feels like they've stopped paying a person to stand at that register and take orders. This would indicate that the screens HAVE replaced those jobs. There is no one who's primary role is the register. THAT job is gone. I'm sure this differs from location to location. But, I see the same anecdotal outcome at 100% of the locations I've been to.
At about 12 mins, yes! I have ISA and non ISA investments online and am slowly spending them in ten early years of retirement before moving on to start spending my pension savings. There's lots I can do on line with these investments but if I want to set up regular monthly withdrawals, I can only do that by printing out a form, filling it in and sending it by snail mail. And even then I can't see on line what sort of regular withdrawals I've set up. And it does make me feel that this is a weird request, even when it really isn't. And Rory is a Christ's College legend.
When COVID happened, the GOV created the supply chain issues due to the average principal variable (or whatever it's called). You were quarantined (the marking fluff called it "lockdown" to avoid riots), we had lumberjacks working alone in the forest who initially were sent home (claiming a COVID tax benefit) unable to work. I understand there was a medical need (debatable, but I'm not a time served health care professional so will defer to people who are), but a guy chopping down trees, alone in a forest, alone in his truck driving between sites is not exactly patient Zero? This is what happens when you put a single trade (Healthcare/medical) in charge, as many GOV's did. The regular leader (PM, President, whoever) offloaded their responsibility to their Chief Medical Officer and let them run the Gov, which is many cases they did their best and was an admiral effort. Reather than by committee of various Ministers or Senators who can speak on their respective Departments before a decision is made. It was "Doctor is in charge, what they say goes" attitude. Then everyone realized how expensive it is to go to work (travel costs, childcare, clothing, food....) and where previously the "work from home" model was only a select few, as it was now precedented people could demand it. Interestingly, it highlighted how many people "do nothing", no disrespect but staff but in GOV we have a term of 70/30. 30% of the people do 70% of the work! You don't need bubbly, blonde Janet to answer the phone when the office is close as we are all working remotely or from home. Thus, business was able to reduce costs, put that saving into new technology to automate (with self service checkouts, manned by at least 1 if not 2 people....to stop shoplifiting under the guise of "assistance"). The former deli clerk is really going to tackle someone stealing? Is that not the position of a security guard, oh yeah, they are more expensive. Goes back to the Rory lecture on the hotel doorman.
I'm so glad u spelled Covid in ALL CAPS..morally bankrupt ppl like myself don't respect the law which says we have to type said word in all caps..I'm contemptuous I know
Rory's description of when people should be advised to stop smoking is how I did it. I knew I could get away with it for a certain number of years but knew I had to quit in the end. I think I was 26 when I smoked my last cigarette.
Skin gets dryer as you get older. This makes touch screens more difficult to work. At home, no problem - a bit of hand cream or quick lick of the finger and all's good....but when you're out and a long way from hand cream, the lick becomes unavoidable if there is no other interface on offer. I have watched many older people doing this. At some point younger people will notice.
For older people and their fingers, it's bad enough trying to turn a page or open a plastic bag at the supermarket without licking fingers. Now it's with touch screens. Imagine the touch screens at Kentucky Fried Chicken? They'd have customers licking their fingers before even getting their chicken.
In the US an IRA isn't more difficult to contribute to than a bank. Setting it up the first time is a hassle, but once done many vendors have automatic transfers and automatic investment options. Additional inputs are easy.
Rory’s wrong about the relationship between the use of screens and the types of meals ordered by men, he’s fallen for his own confirmation bias. Men always ordered these meals because the standard burger is too small, it’s just that the screen allows for the tracking of the order where before (because McDonald’s used to be fast) the server never did. Correlation but not necessarily cause.
@@ldtravs1 The software tracks orders and the data can be recorded instantaneously, cross referenced by some observed behavioural data giving a statistical likelihood that looks like news. At best this insight provides an opportunity to target men with a specific campaign (if the gain is great enough) but ultimately its endogenous; men have always and will always do this, the introduction of the screens is not causal.
@@robertedwards3551 thanks - how did the server do it though? So, how do they know its gone up/down/stayed the same? Did they use to put in customer demographics when taking orders at the EPOS?
This is going to send me down a rabbit hole... One would atleast be able to identify an uptick in 2 burger orders with 1 or no drinks. It is then simply the case of attributing that increase to a demographic. Possibly they get this data from card companies or there are more exotic ways to do so.
You are working under the assumption that the tills at McDonald's didn't track orders, which given my experience in retail I would say is false. They will have been tracking the numbers on everything they sold since the first time it was possible to do so.
The screens is true.I made this point regarding a buffet breakfast I used to get in a hotel chain . All of them except one were self service. You help yourself to as much as you want. One place though your order was taken. You can still eat as much as you want but I guarantee most were to embarassed to ask for 8 sausages and 7 hash browns etc lol
Honestly, it seems that if at your price level demand drops when price does - you either need to update your demand curve or bloody make one in the first place rather than pull the price out of the ether.
I use these places possibly 3 times a year. For me its an "emergency " choice. The food is drab tasteless cardboard and seldom hot. Overpriced for it super convenience and dreadful American gunk. And now we have Greggs filth too 😮
Same here, I am desperate if I head into a McDonalds. Regarding the seldom hot food, theres an easy fix. Request the burger without something and fries with no salt. Enjoy your hot foot :D I always get weird looks when I ask for salt for the fries afterwards but whatever...I dont want limpy warmish fries.
With smoking people either go under paying the tax, or more likely just go to the black market for duty free tobacco, it is every town in this country. Walk around a poorer town and you'll see the litter of coloured tobacco packets (ones not in compliance with the snot colour law on packaging) I am trying to quit smoking, but the government has inadvertently made it cheaper by destroying trust in the reasonableness of the tax I can get 50g of tobacco for 11 quid Or spend twice the money for 3/5 of the baccy Insane
It's just like here in Canada, 160$ plus dollars for a carton of cigarettes ( 8 packs) from the store..... but we all have a bootlegged source that sells cartons for 55$ 🤷
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO it's authentic, duty free, still has the duty sticker with the official price of 7 euros 50, the shops buy it on masse from duty free and resell it for 11 quid, gotta love the black market
Same really fascinating points about how we post-rationalise our attitudes. I've certainly noticed it in my social circle. Strong values always seem to follow lifestyle choices. However, his points on addiction and smoking are... a little behind some other forward thinkers. I think he should try Alun Carrs Easy Way as he would find the psychology really interesting. And this book leads onto Ultra Processed People, which borrow's ideas from the former, but is aimed at food, not smoking. His outlook on smoking is contradictory - don't tax smoking because it's too addictive and some people won't be able to quit.. but allow people to smoke until they are 35.. because err.. they won't get addicted? He struggles with addiction himself, so sounds like he's post-rationalising his own vice.
14:28 "You wouldn't even know you got this money unless you're anally-retentive and check your pension balance every month." Every month? Gotta get those numbers up. I check my pension balance ev'ry day. I wouldn't be able to deposit $1000 in my account by the end of the day because I max it out in January.
I don't agree with everything this guy says, but I understand and appreciate why all of it works and makes sense. This is a man who knows the terrible ways this world works and how to exploit it. He is both a financial genius and a huge criminal. But I'm not angry - this is the world we agreed to sustain through years of "democracy". This man's only crime is in realising why democracy is a myth. I just wish I'd been smart enough to see it first.
I, off course, can not repute the 'lump sum' idea. But anecdotally in the Netherlands, people can get a rebate for rent and health care which is payed directly to them. But still some people use it for other means and owe the renter and 'nhs' monay.
Good vid, but I don't like the sound of that study about $2 or 50/50 of 1 or 2 because the amount is so trivial to begin with. The curiosity of which outcome I would roll seems more motivating to me than either sum of money. In addition if I'm trying to please the examiner a flat rate seems more like something im 'supposed' to choose to complete or not, whereas a 50/50 seems like they might expect me to do it and they'll have follow up questions aftwerwards that they can't ask if I ignore the task. My inner gamer completionist would always choose the 50/50 because it seems like it would unlock more content.
its really weird that the item that got the headline was a bit rory prefaced with "based on anecdote". do we understand that GIGO applies to geniuses (at least!) as much as it does to the rest of us?
I'd be careful of translating "people order two sandwiches on touch screens" as "people order two sandwiches because they have less judgement put upon them" On those touch screens you can access your McDonald's account and thus coupons-so: 1. People who want coupons are looking for paying less money so that they can afford fast food. 2. The small burgers are often more price effective so of course you'd buy two instead of one big one. 3. Idk if we are getting this much into the nitty gritty but a lot of said coupons explicitly involve getting two burgers to take advantage of the value of the coupon + the occasional 2 for 6 deal or whatever. So touch screens probably have less to do with judgement and more to do with coupon access (though you can use coupons in person during a typical order, but why would you open up the app or log in on the touchscreen and NOT put your order in right then and there. Having worked at McDonald's, people still do this and I don't understand the reason.) Then again I'm probably an undiagnosed psychopath so maybe judgement from others is the largest factor and I'm just immune to it. I'm also usually not able to afford fast food, so when I do fast food I try to get the best bang for buck.
Back in the days when id enter a McDonald's (infrequently i might add) id happily order 2 big mac meals from the cashier..i couldn't give a flying f00k what ppl might think
Interesting about east/west differences. It’s true westerners do blame other people a lot for being ‘stupid’. The cyclist that blames car drivers for speeding. The driver that gets irritated when cyclists jump lights! But the reality is most drivers sometimes go too fast and most cyclists sometimes run a red light. Essentially westerners are probably slightly hypocritical as we blame each other for typical human behaviour that we are all guilty of. And Christianity is all about atoning for our sins. Anyway muddled thinking from me and probably wrong but an interesting point from the interview.
"Inflation was due to supply chain shocks" ...... No, inflation was caused by rampant money printing (supply chain shocks were a minor and temporary effect)
Just as they have a minimum age for purchasing cigarettes, they could have a maximum age (or maybe an excise tax for the older population who insist on buying)!
I quit smoking due to the double whammy of new technology (vaping) giving me an alternative and the cost of cigarettes breaking the £10 barrier, if only I'd known at 35 that quitting them would have left me in far better health than when I did quit 6 years later. I definitely work better to finite deadlines, and would probably have succeeded at 35 if I had all the data.
I had high blood pressure. I never added salt to my diet. But I was told that that I had high blood pressure because I was eating too much salt. I hated salt and salty foods. But I was put on so many tablets to reduce my salt. Turned out my blood pressure went up. Turned out further more that actually my heart was beating harder due to salt deficiency, which increased my blood pressure. Now I have the lowest blood pressure in my entire adult life and I just sprinkle salt on everything I eat... And yeah, turns out food tastes nicer with salt. Because actually.
That's really interesting- I was tested with somewhat high blood pressure also. I never ate much salt, and was fairly fit, but I tried to avoid it even more as recommended. After a few weeks I started having severe erratic palpitations and dizziness- and blood pressure was going through the roof, but I kept avoiding salt. It got so bad one night I could barely walk and stay conscious, I thought it was curtains and was ready to call an ambulance, but I had a tin of soup for comfort. It was miraculous, within 5 minutes I felt 100%, like I could run a marathon. Likewise now I add more salt to everything and that seems to work for me. I guess everyone is different though.
He’s 58, jeez same age as me. His pension account is because he has chosen the wrong provider. The rest of his views are valid and I have worked for nearly every company he has name checked
I don't think random fluctuating in welfare payments, is actually detrimental, because they don't know if they will be fine with what they are paying. It would be better to randomly do an _increase._ But still a weird idea.
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The screens don't judge you for ordering a big mac meal, double cheeseburger, filet of fish, 6 nuggets and a mcflurry.
Yep. It’s the same reason that supermarkets who have installed self checkout tills also find they get an increase in so called “casual theft”- people putting down they’ve got 3 apples in their bag when there’s four for example or “forgetting” to scan an item. This “accidental” theft is increased because they figure they can get away with it (and a lot do) because it’s a simple machine facing them and not a checkout worker. 🤷
You also get to not talk to anyone. Which is also why some folks work in a public restaurant, but with headphones on, aka "don't even think about talking to me I'm on a call.
Whats your main course?
He looks like he knows what he’s talking about it.
Animal😂
As a 32 year old who started smoking at 14, this is encouraging me to want to quit.
As a person in the same boat as you trying to quit, best advice I can give is to not treat a failure as the end of the attempt. If the lack of nicotine in your brain screams at you to the point your will breaks and you go and bum a cigarette from someone, don't treat that as the end of the attempt. Just try and extend the time between failures until eventually, you manage a whole week. Then, even if you might have the occasional failure, just keep going with attempting to not smoke as long as feasible.
In short, don't treat a failure as the end. Treat it as a bump in the road.
You can do it! I have faith in you. On your photo you are holding a tiny child which I assume is yours. Do it for that child if nothing else works.
46 year old who started when he was 18 here, just celebrating 2 years off cigarettes and 1 year off nicotine. Having tried every method under the sun, gum, inhalators, vape, patches, cold turkey multiple times, the thing that finally did it for me was those relatively new nicotine pouches they sell now. Man, they go up to some insane strengths so much so you don't feel like you're missing a cigarette at all. Started off mixing pouches and cigs, but quickly realised pouches could do the lot. That's amazing in itself cos they're so much cheaper and you can have them at the cinema, at a restaurant, on a plane etc. while not being completely stinky. 1 year after starting them, I went cold turkey, and it was a million times easier quitting the pouches than the cigs for some reason. Buy a pack and give them a try. I honestly have the least willpower in the world and they really worked, can't believe I'm actually off cigs, finally after maybe 20 years of trying! However you decide to try, good luck!
Would you like to see a lung cancer death? Put it like this; my dad was an 80 a day chain smoker. Watching my mums death was so horrific that he stopped the day she died and he had smoked 50 years straight. I haven't seen horror films as bad as her death. Everyone on the ward smoked and not even heavily. I have a mate with popcorn cancer from vaping too. But I'm sure it won't happen to you. Yes you'll be the lucky one. Definitely. Yep.
Start running each evening. Not for long, 15 minutes. It soon teaches you what smoking is doing to your lungs and throat.
I feel when talking to someone like this? You really only need ask questions. Rory is like a good book. Its all gold!
rory: "no one gets sick after eating mcdonald's"
reality: Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people in 10 states
it's vacuous pop psychology fluff
This video was really enlightening. Rory is great!
haha rory: "no one gets sick after eating mcdonald's"
reality: Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sickens 49 people in 10 states
this guy is just another charlatan marketer.
the behaver/attitude concept was used with much success in Norway with their Prison system. They treated prisoners as "addicts" rather than criminals. With various social programs, education and rehabilitation rather than just "lock them up for 5 years". They still do that; you get the choice of a traditional cell block vs a trendy (albeit walled and secured) rehab block. Where prisoners are essentially under "house arrest". they are not locked up 23 hours a day, they have access to a kitchen to make meals, guards interact and are friends. It not only created a more congenial environment for both staff & prisoners but gives them a sense of purpose. Similar to the Military where you have chores to do, discipline through obedience, learning skills and trades but cannot leave the camp. Interestingly the ones who opted to stay in the traditional cells (locked up 20 hours a day, limited yard access, etc) were gang members and lifer style prisoners who thought the "other wing" was for sell outs and pussys! these tattoo'd up gang bangers had respect in the regular wing. I"m hard and I know it, attitude. Fantastic concept by the Countries Justice system. Again you get the choice of where to serve rather than the armed robbers go in max and the shoplifters go in Minimum. The reoffender rates went down in many areas - interesting!
Only works in ethnically homogenous countries you will find.
It was a good start, but now things have changed. Less money means less goodies for the inmates.
It's a shame that in countries like the UK our policies in areas such as prisons are so often led by the views of ignorant, illogical and often hypocritical 'socially conservative' types.
Ask them if they want prison to reduce reoffending and they'll generally say yes. Propose approaches that are shown to achieve this? 'WOKE!!! LEFTIE LUVVIES SOFT WEAK!!!1'
Genius!
Prisoners are not locked up 23 hours a day. Yes, in Supermax prisons, they are, but only the worst of the worst get held there.
Timing can also influence your behaviour. For example, a lot of people order McDonald’s when they are tired, stressed and emotional, not necessarily starving hungry. When you order the food, your body & brain are in survival mode as the vagus nerve is stimulated. This tells the brain to eat NOW but it does not tell the body how much food to eat or when to stop eating because you’re full so naturally your eyes are bigger than your belly & you order more than you need. This sets off the surge/slump cycle in your body. It’s fast food because of this metabolic process.
In my area, a lady wanted to get to McDonald’s drive through but there was a huge queue. She then tried to jump the barriers to jump the car queue. On being told by the male security guard that she would have to wait in line she attacked him. She was a regular customer of McDonald’s apparently.
I think this was my auntie
Don’t forget hammered.
This makes me feel for the staff
@@HaggardPillockHD Yes it was awful. She became completely hysterical & tried to run him over. The staff don’t get paid enough to put up with this grief.
The drive home from work is what gets me , i get so hungry and always stop for junior chickens and mcdoubles ...... half the they taste gross though
Rory brilliant as always!
Funny considering he's obese
29:02 I could swear that's a Grindr notification going off 😆
lmfao
Michael Crichton mentioned the whole behaviour thing in Rising Sun - one of his characters informs the protagonist that where he might consider people to have a core behaviour that should not change, in Japan, behaviour is determined entirely by circumstance/context. It's not exactly a throwaway line, but it doesn't take up much space, yet I found it memorable.
When I used to sign on, back in the 80’s, if I got a job I’d have to sign off. Such a pain to reregister. I found that a much better option was to declare any short term work when I signed on, I would lose some money but I would still be registered. That meant, if I did no work I could still sign on quickly and easily. Had to do that for several months. Less hassle, no more feast or famine with my cash flow, and a lot less stress with the paperwork.
80s*, no apostrophe saying 80 is. Eighties has no apostrophe. 👍
This happened to me years ago. After I'd signed off to start a temp job, I found out that the agency lied about the type of work I'd be doing. I'd done ut before, hated it and wanted to avoid it but had to start it or I'd lose so many days benefit I'd be in poverty. Awful situation. I needed to eat. The job was terrible. The company was making one person do the work of 4. So honesty not the best policy.
@@thekeysman6760the apostrophe is valid.
The apostrophe denotes belonging to that decade, whereas the ommission of the apostrophe denotes plural and unless you're talking about the 1780's & 1880's there is no plural associated to a singular decade. 😊
I frequently hear about "how the government pays you money when you contribute to your pension" - indeed in another video, it was suggested that this be stopped. I don't get it. When we make a contribution to our pension fund, it is invariably from our income, which has already been taxed. The government is merely returning the tax on the contribution. When you later withdraw from your pension, you pay tax on it - so the government gets it back. How is it a gift?
Thanks for pointing this out so simply. I never thought about it like that but thats actually so funny how little it makes sense
How else could the government fool the people into giving them a chunk of their savings?
The gift is the interest earned on the non-taxed contributions. The “value of time” you gain instead of the govt gaining.
@@Daniel-rp7nb genuine question, would that money be better invested in something else, such as gold, as opposed to whatever the default becomes for pensions?
@@CHINKICHOU manage you own pension, and invest it wisely in a global index fund
Regards coffee, it’s not bullshit, instant coffee is awful when compared to coffee grounds brewed correctly. It’s about taste, one simply is better because it is better.
I don't like coffee and would only drink it for the caffeine. If I don't care about the taste and would prefer to save money, why would I prefer barista coffee for £5 to a 50p cup of instant with the same caffeine content?
Not everyone is chasing the same things my man
@@AxentMafiaI agree with the OP. Big difference between a smooth flat white made with Ethiopian beans and smooth organic farm milk heated to the correct temperature compared to some Nespresso beans.
I say this as a super frugal person.
Awful? Or have your attitudes changed your behaviours? :) (also coming from someone that exclusively drinks home-brewed freshly ground coffee)
Made the same comment! Instant coffee is repulsive if you get used to anything better, and I'm not a snob about much!
@AxentMafia most are though... you're more of an anomaly than you realise
15:23 interesting choice of screenshot for the check lol😂
I ordered a sausage and cheese muffin yesterday at Maccas with 4 extra sausage patties yesterday via the mobile app, I still heard a kitchen staff member laugh and say oh wow when my order went through
Three cheeseburgers anyone?
Il have 2 number 9s...
That’s insane!
@@MrBlaxjax Four Cheeseburgers Jeremy? Four? That’s insane!
Only if you don't watch me
@@artofsam Oh no! Your slop tastes disgusting now.
Womp womp
Do people order different stuff because they can actually see the full menu? rather than the 2second flash on the overhead screens or trying to find the small printed menu ?? Thoughts
I've always ordered more than one burger even before the touchscreens existed 😂
Same here; I have an addiction to savoury meals cooked in hot chillies and spices, however on one occasion while I was away from home there weren’t any suitable places to eat what I like; so I had to go to Mc Donald’s. I go up to the counter to place my order, I sarcastically said “ I would like 4 Small Macs please.”; to which the staff replied “We don’t do Small Macs we only do Big Macs.”; to which I shot back with “Your so-called Big Macs are way too small to be considered big.”; which of course is true, they are not big thus should be called Small Macs. Burger King’s Double Whoppers are big, and taste so much better than Small Macs; unfortunately in the UK there are considerably more Mc Donald’s than Burger Kings.
Is it because of screens? Or because a bigmac shrunk by 30% in the last 10 years.
McDonald's burgers are tiny anyway 😂
I have a hairbrained theory. There’s something weird in fast food burgers that tricks your body into staying hungry. I swear if you go to a barbecue and someone’s old man is flipping burgers you only really need one burgers. Because you just ate a quarter pound of beef, some bread, tomato, lettuce, sauce, maybe some bacon. And your stomach knows that’s a lot of energy it’s just consumed. But at McDonalds you eat one burger and your body doesn’t read it as proper food. The calories are there but your body isn’t aware that it just took in a shedload of energy, it wants you to keep eating and get the nutrients it needs.
@@noodlebrains2689
Start by thinking about what isn't in a fast food burger, which could be whats leaving you hungry, or lead you towards whats in it.
The screens also give you as much time as you want to mull over the menu. I think this then leads to more adventurous orders
Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop seeing it: why is the camera constantly zooming in and out?
Holds attention.
@@scumdeluxedidn’t know that. Thank you for your answer
It is actually because this channel owner knows they are on thin ice regarding copywrite infringement and it’s an attempt to avoid auto-detection; see ‘full movie youtube’, illegally reproduced content almost always gently zooms.
It's so irritating
none of these people are right i believe. i think its because rory is using a macbook and they added this feature recently called center stage that automatically adjusts so that your face is always in the frame. and since rory moves it glitches quite a lot trying to position him in the middle.
as a man who orders 2 burgers, let me tell you.
The calories come mostly from the fries and coke. A fillet fish burger is tiny, it is only a little bit bigger than a slider.
I used to have 2x double cheese burgers and mcdonals would ususally be next to supermarket, Id get a cheap bottle of water from supermarket.
A diet coke may be nutritionally worthless, and bad for you in other ways, but it's virtually calorie free.
@@_Stroda they also have coke.
The calories come mostly from the burgers pal 🤦♂️ a Big Mac meal is about 1000 calories. The majority of that comes from the Big Mac.
@@SonnyK248the calories are in the sauce, not the beef, pal.
@@christianp5486 I was referring to the burger as a whole. Meat+bread+cheese+sauce. In a McDonalds meal it’s the burger that has the most calories not the coke or the fries. Also a standard McDonalds patty isn’t that high in calories just because it’s not a lot of food. It’s quite small. But any other burgers that are larger have a lot of calories. It’s a burger ffs 🤦♂️ burgers have a lot of fat in them.
I do this with the burgers because I read that the chips are the least healthy part of the meal (I don’t get a drink).
Yeah, the burgers aren't that unhealthy. The fizzy drinks and the chips are.
@@SuperFranzs Depending on your definition of healthy, you can easy smash >100% of your recommended daily fat in one burger
Chips are coated in sugar or sugar syrup to make them irresistible .
@@JS-tm1gqfat isnt thw villain, carbs and sugar are
Fat isn’t bad, you still don’t want to eat too much of it though; just like any macro nutrient it is converted to stored energy (body fat) if it isn’t used as expended energy.
1:00 WTF was their decorator thinking with that protrusion of wall?
I always go 3 triple cheeseburgers with extra all the toppings, a medium chocolate shake and a medium vanilla shake, maybe a medium fries
3 Triple Cheeseburgers are a legendary meal. Not sure I'm good enough to handle it all
That's insane!
Happy heart attack!
Why isn’t this guy prime minister???
Why ? …to exchange carefully rehearsed insults with “learned friends” at the dispatch box!!!
Because he is smart and isn't a sociopath.
@@eat_ze_bugs This.!
Because that position is reserved for tyrannical idiots only.
Because that position is reserved for tyrannical control freaks only.
All these great ideas. How do we get some implemented?
I have wondered about a similar concept for weight loss / working out.
I was wondering whether motivation actually proceeds action or whether action builds motivation.
Waiting around all day to one day hope that my motivation was high enough to workout seemed less effective than starting with a minimum level (ie 20 min work out a day) and then hoping that the new routine would increase my overall motivation. It does also work the other way for sure.
I'm the same- I don't work out a lot. But ensuring I do like 15 mins or weights a day, or a 15 minute treadmill session, means I do something most days, just getting it done in the morning.
The hardest days at the gym are the first few weeks. It’s less about motivation and more about habit. Nobody has motivation 100% of the time. You don’t go to work because you’re motivated to every day, you go because you need to. When you start going to the gym, you don’t really see it as a part of your life yet, you don’t need it. But then as you go more often and you see the results and you get interested and it starts to feel good, you’ve developed a habit, something you feel that you need. And so, you don’t need the motivation anymore as much as you just work out because it’s something that you do as part of your routine.
Rory just explained why I always said humans are not rational beings, they are rationalizing beings.
I love this guy!
This video was good, but could you at least edit it so that watching it doesn't make us feel sick! The constant camera movement in the shot is horrible. I get you never shot it, but at least make it so we can watch it without sea sickness please.
Sorry, that’s actually a strange feature that Rory had on his camera at time of recording. There was no way to remove it in the edit (believe me I tried).
just close your eyes, if you need to move around the room shuffle your feet slowly forward so as not to bump into anything.
@@nudgepodcast. Actually it’s not a strange feature. It’s standard on a most Apple devices. next time ask your guest to turn it off. It’s easy.
This kind of podcast doesn't necessarily need to be watched
Slow and constantly moving images is a really annoying part of the 'video language' of all TV now. Witness the slowly moving cameras on talking heads in TV studios. Totally unnecessary.
He's right about the smoking and poor people. I grew up in it. We never had any money. I didn't go my first holiday until i was 36 years old myself. The only pleasure any of the adults could afford was a smoke or a drink. That was it. We couldn't even afford a house phone and when we did get one, we weren't allowed to use it because it cost money. Geez i hadn't seen the inside of a cinema until i was 15 and had my first every McDonald's at the same age 😂
There's a poverty aspect to smoking and drinking for sure.
What a crock. A pack of cigarettes cost more than a cinema ticket. Worst addiction ever.
@@jennymccullough9517 not back in the 80s they didn't.
The order screens let me actually look at their goddamned menu instead of those flashing screens that keep hiding the information.
29:25 'Riff', a musical reference in context of talk, not rift meaning a crack or break. Rory did not "rift on these topics". 😉
hilariously there is now a two burger meal combo in my area.
The doorman! Such a good observation!
I bought a McDonalds meal about 2 years ago and it reminded me why I don't eat that rubbish.
Their food has very little flavour to them, even if you add chilli sauce to their burgers the flavour still isn’t great
Im a man and would rather eat fillet steak I cooked myself rather than Macdonald's. It costs the same it's justi have to wash the dishes afterwards.
Fascinating stuff Andy.
Hardly.
A filet pur cost 40e to 50eva kg.
Without anything else.
No salad. No tomatoes. No fries. No butter. No sauce. No frying fat. No energy. No water and soap for dishes.
@@obiwankenobi9439 I bought 3 kilo of fillet last week for 36E.
And used wood from my garden to cook a kilo on my braai.
I'll bet my life savings you don't know the price of a pint of milk either.
@@jennymccullough9517 where I live milk is .7 quid a litre and fillet steak 10 😀
Have not been to McDonald's in over twenty years, nothing to do with current affairs. I like good healthy food.
@@segamegadrive3903 Now if those were German ones, they wouldn't be unhealthy... We have THE highest quality Kebaps. We call them "Döner", though... Highlight the name, click search on google, click pictures... Yum... 😛
@st.george007 Without the unnecessary tautology, you just like 'food'. 😉👍
Over 30 years for me
I've only ever purchased from McDonalds once and that was fries in 1987.
7:37 I have said this about education constantly and folks just don't want to listen. There are moments with students where you have a real chance of intervening in a positive way and "The writing lab isn't open right now, sorry" is NOT the answer. Do you want people to have success or not?
This makes me think about the design philosophy I use, make it easy to do things correctly and difficult to do things incorrectly. Directly change the behavior by making the correct path the easy one, then make making exceptions more arduous. The attitude will be that more people want to do it the way we want it done, but if they really want to, they can do their own thing.
stopped eating mc donalds because it became more expensive and you got less.
Agree and I also timed an order recently in my restaurant in Bath, UK and it took 22 minutes for three meals; this used to take maybe a minute.
That or they cocked up your order or the machines ran out of paper so you had no receipt 🧾 and no idea how quickly your food would arrive… also the staff are soulless automatons who do anything to avoid interaction with you.
It’s all due to ‘can’t get the staff’. Your order is delayed? Not enough staff. Prices gone up? ‘. Can’t get the staff, so prices go up in order to A ) raise wages and B) reduce demand.No paper in the receipt machine? / tables littered/ floor dirty? Can’t get the staff.
@@robertedwards3551I got a refund and was given the food beacuse I cancelled it after 20mins
eat REAL food simple really
King has four vapes hanging off his neck and a Lost Mary in his hand 😂
Can anyone name the calculator at 10:32 ?
Benefits are done completely wrong. They make you wait for weeks without any money, they will lend you some money but you have to start paying it back straight away.
They should give you four weeks money straight away, then keep paying you in advance. Claims should be linked, so you can't keep claiming the four weeks.
@Rory,
Do you know that the European (Dutch) law says that every 3 or 4 years the age of pension is raised with a couple of months.
Meaning that I will be at least 70 or 75 before I get any pension. IF I get any.... because it's not the first time that LAWS have changed in the BENEFIT of the Governments.
So why would I 'invest in my future' if that's 100% based upon the Government to follow through in their promise.
The screens have just made it less likely that my freaky order with a bunch of different extra wishes will be misunderstood. I still usually go to the cashier to pay because I tend to have some coupons that you can't use at the screen. I've always ordered about 3 burgers for myself, screens didn't change that.
i get 2 triple cheese burgers with all the free extra toppings, 2 large fries and a saver menu chicken wrap in the uk.
shame i cant do the same in asia and have to order 2 meals but bottle waters as drinks because it's cheaper than ordering separately. dont really like to drink soft drinks with my meal.
He will understand, working for oglelvy, that perception is everything, most people do not perceive their buying a vehicle with already six times the footprints of a established petrol-driven engine.
They won't know that their vehicle has contributed towards the deaths of small children and their fathers in Africa and Venezuela.
They are getting a child like pleasure for the fact that the vehicle has not pushed out any fumes at the point of use.
The same sort of people often say that the NHS is free, instead of free at the point of use.
They don't see all the taxes and national insurance taken off the people at source of their wages, they just know they can waltz into a building and get medical help
Yes and perceptions form realities. If you can make rhe masses perceive all is well then they will be like docile cattle. You'd have successfully domesticated them. Even when all is very far from fine.
Though inversely you can control them easily through stoking fears and offering "safety"
Why cant the screen stay still?
The camera is moving to match his hand movements.
My foster mums husband is a top accountant in government, 14:45 Rory talks about them thinking marketing is unimportant, evil or distracting is completely wrong, in fact, it's not something they think about at all, it's just number crunching 😂
Accounting is counting money spent after the fact, not planning business marketing strategy. Law, not psychology.
I'm 42 and have never had a tax rebate in my entire life and I've never not worked but every person i know who gained employment after a long period of inactivity all seemed to get a big rebate.
Something feels wrong.....
@@gearoftones8585 well no. Often if you start a new job you’re taxed at a higher rate than you should be. If you’re starting work in the last two or three months of the tax year then you shouldn’t normally pay any tax at all. Hence the rebate. Or maybe I’m being to literal here.
@@MrBlaxjax
Yep. If you start work in October you'll only be working for half a tax year but likely be taxed the regular rate, so will be owed back about half the taxes you've paid.
5:03 I'm certainly no expert. But, since screens were rolled out I've been to about 4 or 5 mcdonald's locations. At each of them there is pretty much NEVER a human at the register inside to take an order. It's every single time I go in. It's every location I've been to. Maybe it's from the franchise owners.
But, it seems to me like they recognize that they don't have to pay a person to sit at that register. So, it's other employees who have other jobs to do and who is also tasked with ... trying to keep aware of people standing at the register. It's also clear that they don't want to deal with the register as multiple people will look over and avert their gaze and keep doing whatever they were doing before.
The experience in the stores I've been in certainly feels like they've stopped paying a person to stand at that register and take orders. This would indicate that the screens HAVE replaced those jobs. There is no one who's primary role is the register. THAT job is gone.
I'm sure this differs from location to location. But, I see the same anecdotal outcome at 100% of the locations I've been to.
At about 12 mins, yes! I have ISA and non ISA investments online and am slowly spending them in ten early years of retirement before moving on to start spending my pension savings. There's lots I can do on line with these investments but if I want to set up regular monthly withdrawals, I can only do that by printing out a form, filling it in and sending it by snail mail. And even then I can't see on line what sort of regular withdrawals I've set up. And it does make me feel that this is a weird request, even when it really isn't.
And Rory is a Christ's College legend.
When COVID happened, the GOV created the supply chain issues due to the average principal variable (or whatever it's called). You were quarantined (the marking fluff called it "lockdown" to avoid riots), we had lumberjacks working alone in the forest who initially were sent home (claiming a COVID tax benefit) unable to work. I understand there was a medical need (debatable, but I'm not a time served health care professional so will defer to people who are), but a guy chopping down trees, alone in a forest, alone in his truck driving between sites is not exactly patient Zero? This is what happens when you put a single trade (Healthcare/medical) in charge, as many GOV's did. The regular leader (PM, President, whoever) offloaded their responsibility to their Chief Medical Officer and let them run the Gov, which is many cases they did their best and was an admiral effort. Reather than by committee of various Ministers or Senators who can speak on their respective Departments before a decision is made. It was "Doctor is in charge, what they say goes" attitude. Then everyone realized how expensive it is to go to work (travel costs, childcare, clothing, food....) and where previously the "work from home" model was only a select few, as it was now precedented people could demand it. Interestingly, it highlighted how many people "do nothing", no disrespect but staff but in GOV we have a term of 70/30. 30% of the people do 70% of the work! You don't need bubbly, blonde Janet to answer the phone when the office is close as we are all working remotely or from home. Thus, business was able to reduce costs, put that saving into new technology to automate (with self service checkouts, manned by at least 1 if not 2 people....to stop shoplifiting under the guise of "assistance"). The former deli clerk is really going to tackle someone stealing? Is that not the position of a security guard, oh yeah, they are more expensive. Goes back to the Rory lecture on the hotel doorman.
I'm so glad u spelled Covid in ALL CAPS..morally bankrupt ppl like myself don't respect the law which says we have to type said word in all caps..I'm contemptuous I know
It is a cruel world when the plight of ordinary people is turned into the basis of an ongoing discussion topic, with no motivation to fix the problem.
Rory's description of when people should be advised to stop smoking is how I did it. I knew I could get away with it for a certain number of years but knew I had to quit in the end. I think I was 26 when I smoked my last cigarette.
How can I find the original podcast?
at the risk of sounding condescending.... google it
Yes ! I gave up smoking at 35!
24:24 A unit is a Keg😅
Skin gets dryer as you get older. This makes touch screens more difficult to work. At home, no problem - a bit of hand cream or quick lick of the finger and all's good....but when you're out and a long way from hand cream, the lick becomes unavoidable if there is no other interface on offer. I have watched many older people doing this. At some point younger people will notice.
For older people and their fingers, it's bad enough trying to turn a page or open a plastic bag at the supermarket without licking fingers. Now it's with touch screens. Imagine the touch screens at Kentucky Fried Chicken? They'd have customers licking their fingers before even getting their chicken.
In the US an IRA isn't more difficult to contribute to than a bank. Setting it up the first time is a hassle, but once done many vendors have automatic transfers and automatic investment options. Additional inputs are easy.
McDonald's burgers always look so sad and pathetic.
Rory’s wrong about the relationship between the use of screens and the types of meals ordered by men, he’s fallen for his own confirmation bias. Men always ordered these meals because the standard burger is too small, it’s just that the screen allows for the tracking of the order where before (because McDonald’s used to be fast) the server never did. Correlation but not necessarily cause.
Do you mean the screens track the customer where the server didn’t/doesn’t? How do they do that?
@@ldtravs1 The software tracks orders and the data can be recorded instantaneously, cross referenced by some observed behavioural data giving a statistical likelihood that looks like news. At best this insight provides an opportunity to target men with a specific campaign (if the gain is great enough) but ultimately its endogenous; men have always and will always do this, the introduction of the screens is not causal.
@@robertedwards3551 thanks - how did the server do it though? So, how do they know its gone up/down/stayed the same? Did they use to put in customer demographics when taking orders at the EPOS?
This is going to send me down a rabbit hole...
One would atleast be able to identify an uptick in 2 burger orders with 1 or no drinks. It is then simply the case of attributing that increase to a demographic. Possibly they get this data from card companies or there are more exotic ways to do so.
You are working under the assumption that the tills at McDonald's didn't track orders, which given my experience in retail I would say is false. They will have been tracking the numbers on everything they sold since the first time it was possible to do so.
I buy two or three because I'm not full on one burger.
The screens is true.I made this point regarding a buffet breakfast I used to get in a hotel chain . All of them except one were self service. You help yourself to as much as you want. One place though your order was taken. You can still eat as much as you want but I guarantee most were to embarassed to ask for 8 sausages and 7 hash browns etc lol
Honestly, it seems that if at your price level demand drops when price does - you either need to update your demand curve or bloody make one in the first place rather than pull the price out of the ether.
I use these places possibly 3 times a year.
For me its an "emergency " choice.
The food is drab tasteless cardboard and seldom hot.
Overpriced for it super convenience and dreadful American gunk.
And now we have Greggs filth too 😮
Same here, I am desperate if I head into a McDonalds.
Regarding the seldom hot food, theres an easy fix. Request the burger without something and fries with no salt. Enjoy your hot foot :D I always get weird looks when I ask for salt for the fries afterwards but whatever...I dont want limpy warmish fries.
Two cheeseburgers and large fries team 🙋🏻♂️
With smoking people either go under paying the tax, or more likely just go to the black market for duty free tobacco, it is every town in this country. Walk around a poorer town and you'll see the litter of coloured tobacco packets (ones not in compliance with the snot colour law on packaging)
I am trying to quit smoking, but the government has inadvertently made it cheaper by destroying trust in the reasonableness of the tax
I can get 50g of tobacco for 11 quid
Or spend twice the money for 3/5 of the baccy
Insane
It's just like here in Canada, 160$ plus dollars for a carton of cigarettes ( 8 packs) from the store..... but we all have a bootlegged source that sells cartons for 55$ 🤷
Just be aware that often the cheap ‘Duty Free’ tobacco sold on the black market is really counterfeit Chinese rubbish with all sorts of nasties in it.
A 50g pack of untaxed tobacco for £11?; surely that can’t be authentic tobacco because in London untaxed 50g tobacco costs £20.
@@FART-REPELLENT Probably smuggled counterfeit Chinese tobacco containing all sorts of nasties. Support your local Triad!
@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO it's authentic, duty free, still has the duty sticker with the official price of 7 euros 50, the shops buy it on masse from duty free and resell it for 11 quid, gotta love the black market
Same really fascinating points about how we post-rationalise our attitudes. I've certainly noticed it in my social circle. Strong values always seem to follow lifestyle choices. However, his points on addiction and smoking are... a little behind some other forward thinkers. I think he should try Alun Carrs Easy Way as he would find the psychology really interesting. And this book leads onto Ultra Processed People, which borrow's ideas from the former, but is aimed at food, not smoking. His outlook on smoking is contradictory - don't tax smoking because it's too addictive and some people won't be able to quit.. but allow people to smoke until they are 35.. because err.. they won't get addicted? He struggles with addiction himself, so sounds like he's post-rationalising his own vice.
14:28 "You wouldn't even know you got this money unless you're anally-retentive and check your pension balance every month."
Every month? Gotta get those numbers up. I check my pension balance ev'ry day. I wouldn't be able to deposit $1000 in my account by the end of the day because I max it out in January.
I don't agree with everything this guy says, but I understand and appreciate why all of it works and makes sense. This is a man who knows the terrible ways this world works and how to exploit it. He is both a financial genius and a huge criminal. But I'm not angry - this is the world we agreed to sustain through years of "democracy". This man's only crime is in realising why democracy is a myth.
I just wish I'd been smart enough to see it first.
I, off course, can not repute the 'lump sum' idea. But anecdotally in the Netherlands, people can get a rebate for rent and health care which is payed directly to them. But still some people use it for other means and owe the renter and 'nhs' monay.
Good vid, but I don't like the sound of that study about $2 or 50/50 of 1 or 2 because the amount is so trivial to begin with. The curiosity of which outcome I would roll seems more motivating to me than either sum of money.
In addition if I'm trying to please the examiner a flat rate seems more like something im 'supposed' to choose to complete or not, whereas a 50/50 seems like they might expect me to do it and they'll have follow up questions aftwerwards that they can't ask if I ignore the task. My inner gamer completionist would always choose the 50/50 because it seems like it would unlock more content.
Agree. Too many confounding variables.
Does anybody remember that old maxim;
"Everything in moderation"
its really weird that the item that got the headline was a bit rory prefaced with "based on anecdote". do we understand that GIGO applies to geniuses (at least!) as much as it does to the rest of us?
What are the plastic red things hanging around his chest? I had to reword that a few times yet I still think im going to get hammered for it 😂
Great video. I enjoy your style. Please continue this style.
I'd be careful of translating "people order two sandwiches on touch screens" as "people order two sandwiches because they have less judgement put upon them"
On those touch screens you can access your McDonald's account and thus coupons-so:
1. People who want coupons are looking for paying less money so that they can afford fast food.
2. The small burgers are often more price effective so of course you'd buy two instead of one big one.
3. Idk if we are getting this much into the nitty gritty but a lot of said coupons explicitly involve getting two burgers to take advantage of the value of the coupon + the occasional 2 for 6 deal or whatever.
So touch screens probably have less to do with judgement and more to do with coupon access (though you can use coupons in person during a typical order, but why would you open up the app or log in on the touchscreen and NOT put your order in right then and there. Having worked at McDonald's, people still do this and I don't understand the reason.)
Then again I'm probably an undiagnosed psychopath so maybe judgement from others is the largest factor and I'm just immune to it. I'm also usually not able to afford fast food, so when I do fast food I try to get the best bang for buck.
With regards to the British military. The British state is inflicting the opposite - that is to say - toxic, 'don't join moments'.
It's working!
Back in the days when id enter a McDonald's (infrequently i might add) id happily order 2 big mac meals from the cashier..i couldn't give a flying f00k what ppl might think
14:05 channeling Andy Serkhis 😂
Interesting about east/west differences. It’s true westerners do blame other people a lot for being ‘stupid’. The cyclist that blames car drivers for speeding. The driver that gets irritated when cyclists jump lights! But the reality is most drivers sometimes go too fast and most cyclists sometimes run a red light. Essentially westerners are probably slightly hypocritical as we blame each other for typical human behaviour that we are all guilty of. And Christianity is all about atoning for our sins. Anyway muddled thinking from me and probably wrong but an interesting point from the interview.
The drivers hate the cyclist because they can do what they can't
Almost disappointed to hear that Rory is not a big drinker because he is someone I'd love to have a few pints with.
"Inflation was due to supply chain shocks" ......
No, inflation was caused by rampant money printing (supply chain shocks were a minor and temporary effect)
Just as they have a minimum age for purchasing cigarettes, they could have a maximum age (or maybe an excise tax for the older population who insist on buying)!
You can make pension payments online
I only eat 2 wraps in one seating. I knew something was off with the burgers years ago.
I don't mind this guy but I'm always reminded of Bill Hick's attitude on marketers
I wonder if this guy has any books out
wow - really interesting!
How much smaller have fillet o fish and McChicken got since inception?
Totally, I double burgered today, and earlier this week, and 2x last week, and 2x the week before.
Lumo sum benefits are a great idea but they ahve to amke absolutely sure that people understand they won't get more until a certain time
I quit smoking due to the double whammy of new technology (vaping) giving me an alternative and the cost of cigarettes breaking the £10 barrier, if only I'd known at 35 that quitting them would have left me in far better health than when I did quit 6 years later.
I definitely work better to finite deadlines, and would probably have succeeded at 35 if I had all the data.
I can’t find the bloody coffee 😂
I think the "right" atitudine leads to action then results.
I had high blood pressure. I never added salt to my diet. But I was told that that I had high blood pressure because I was eating too much salt. I hated salt and salty foods. But I was put on so many tablets to reduce my salt.
Turned out my blood pressure went up. Turned out further more that actually my heart was beating harder due to salt deficiency, which increased my blood pressure. Now I have the lowest blood pressure in my entire adult life and I just sprinkle salt on everything I eat... And yeah, turns out food tastes nicer with salt.
Because actually.
That's really interesting- I was tested with somewhat high blood pressure also. I never ate much salt, and was fairly fit, but I tried to avoid it even more as recommended.
After a few weeks I started having severe erratic palpitations and dizziness- and blood pressure was going through the roof, but I kept avoiding salt. It got so bad one night I could barely walk and stay conscious, I thought it was curtains and was ready to call an ambulance, but I had a tin of soup for comfort. It was miraculous, within 5 minutes I felt 100%, like I could run a marathon. Likewise now I add more salt to everything and that seems to work for me. I guess everyone is different though.
He’s 58, jeez same age as me. His pension account is because he has chosen the wrong provider. The rest of his views are valid and I have worked for nearly every company he has name checked
In the US, at least, smoking is largely not permitted in jails at all
I don't think random fluctuating in welfare payments, is actually detrimental, because they don't know if they will be fine with what they are paying. It would be better to randomly do an _increase._ But still a weird idea.