“My hotel doesn't have a 13th Floor because of superstition, but c'mon man... People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on.” -Mitch Hedberg
Part of the reason LBJ pushed the Chicken Tax is that he wanted the UAW president to back pending civil rights legislation at a union conference. Also, there are Japanese branded pickups doing well in the US, but they are all built in the US. Daimler-Benz recently got in trouble for importing passenger vans from Turkish plants to the US, and then reconfiguring them into cargo vans in their US facilities in the US. Cargo vans pay the tax!
That was Ford, nor Daimler-Benz, ironically enough. They imported Transit Connects with cardboard rear seats and the panels to replace the rear glass inside. They'd shred the seats and swap the rear windows, before sending the glass back to Turkey to be used again.
You’re partially correct about hotel toothpaste and I say this because as a regular traveler per my employment I frequent many American hotels and one occasion on particular I forgot my toothbrush and toothpaste. I went down to the lobby and not only did the concierge have travel size supplies but she gave them to me at no charge. That’s one of the benefits of staying at a nice hotel
Most hotels I’ve been in will provide toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, ect. when asked at the front desk. They just don’t have them in the rooms like shampoo, conditioner and soap.
My college dorm had a 13th floor (labeled) that I stayed in. Not superstitious but there would be black sludge coming up through the pipes and scratching from inside the walls. Most likely due to terrible plumbing and small animals inside the elevator shaft behind the wall. Still, could be evil ghost aliens I suppose.
wow! why so judgemental? just cause they are alien ghosts they dont HAVE to be evil. did you hear THEM complain about YOUR wierd customs? Its not THEIR fault that human souls are a interstellar delicacy. ;p
I work on elevators. Its so funny when I walk in a building and they don’t label the 13th floor. It will jump from 12 to 14, Especially in vegas….. Threw me for a loop when I walked in a building and saw that the first time.
As cool as it would be, the Disney trash tubes _do not_ connect to directly each bin. Rather, the system has 13 collection points throughout the Magic Kingdom, all of which lead to the central compactor located beneath Splash Mountain. This means that, yes, cast members _do_ need to empty the trash cans periodically. In all likelihood, they grab the bag and disappear backstage before anyone is the wiser. Fun Fact: each day certain cast members are assigned special garbage phones. When a trash can needs emptying (no idea how they track that), the closest phone to its location gets a notification and that member has to go take care of it.
his research is full of crap, he has no clue what he’s talking about the trucks claim is laughably bad, especially as foreign car and truck companies now dominate manufacturing in the US
@@bostonrailfan2427OL. A mindless usa-ian in utter denial? Dude the 25% tariff is a fact and it caused wire a bit of problem for you guys post covid since it caused a run on the truck as the supplies can't keep up with demand and for a smile, the 2nd hand truck cost close to a brand new truck. And if foreign truck "dominate" your usa market despite the tariff, then look at your own incompetence instead. Or just as likely, they are forced to manufacture in usa, thereby increasing the price again for you consumers
@@bostonrailfan2427 dodge uses nafta to make rams in mexico without paying the tax. Ford transits are made in turkey with rear windows, seats and seat belts to get classified as passenger cars instead light trucks. they then tear that stuff out and toss in trash and install panels in window holes as son as they come off the boat. Its cheaper to just keep making new back seats and windows in turkey than ship the uninstalled stuff back for reuse. Nissan, Honda, Toyota just built plants in america to make the trucks and dodge the tax. so it hurts the american companies more than the foreign ones now. Brandy and couple other things were included with trucks in the tax. its real stupid it even exists. it kept america from getting a 4 door ranger for 20 years.
@@bostonrailfan2427 The practice is most evident by looking at japanese trucks from the 70's! The paint on the cabs and boxes didn't match. That is because the cab and frame were imported as unfinished vehicles! Then cargo beds were built and installed in the US finished assembly plant.
@@SgtJoeSmith dodge made a 4 door Dakota, eventually, and Chevy made a 4 door s10, briefly. What stopped Ford from making a bigger Ranger? Certainly not a tax on foreign trucks.
In many parts of Europe, you actually don't have those tiny soap bars in hotels, because they have liquid soap dispensers instead. That reduces the waste, but also requires less frequent replacing and people can't (at least that easily) get the soap with them. But if you forget your toothpaste, many hotels will provide you with that if you just ask for it in the reception.
Yep, you do not want to get bit by a macaw. My mom grew up with scarlet macaws, and while she's never mention being bit by one, she did get the end of her finger bitten off by her mom's pet monkey. And I'm pretty sure macaws bite harder due to their beaks. The whole monkey thing was wild. The monkey was named after her older brother that died of SIDS, if that gives you any insight into how my grandmother's brain worked.
@@Werevampiwolf Oh I have my own macaw, just not a hyacinth. Yeah macaw bites are special for sure. 10-20 stitches is typical as would be broken bones (I know a scarlet macaw that broke a woman's wrist). Hyacinths are the biggest macaw. I'm told that in the wild they will open coconuts if the urge hits them.
You may not get a tube of toothpaste in a hotel, but I once forgot to pack a deodorant and asked a hotel desk clerk (Toronto Canada) where I could buy one. She gave me a trial size one from behind the counter. She also told me that they have toothbrushes impregnated with toothpaste if I needed one.
The light duty truck tax was interesting to hear I might have forgotten that at some point. Harley did the same thing. In the 80's, they had a 650cc tax so people would only be able to buy Harley for a large displacement bike.
I've never seen a baby pigeon, but I hear them constantly. The pigeons nest in places like inside storefront awnings, and they breed almost year-round. If you walk past a bodega and hear a "squee, squee, squee" sound from somewhere just overhead, it's baby pigeons in their awning compartment nest, begging for food.
They aint "Begging", mate. Theyre asking. And is your example a bodega because other places just straight up put antibird spike strips? Much like people do with homeless?
@@titaniusanglesmith9690maybe he really really likes Bodegas. Maybe it's the closest thing g to where he lives. Maybe he passes one every day. Why does it matter to you anyway? Just to make an argument? Fukkup 'mate.' Go to a rally and cry those sweet whiny tears, this is a RUclips comment thread.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 as a birder, I have no problem referring to squabs (pigeon chicks) "begging" for food FROM THEIR PARENTS, if that wasn't obvious to you. My reference to pigeon nests in bodega awnings is from personal observation as a New Yorker.
Baby pigeons are scene in every highrise building being built during spring. There nests are everywhere inside on the steel I beams. You have scene baby pigeons. They grow to be abot 3/4 adult size in 3wks. Incredible how fast they grow. When they leave the nest its easy to not see they are adolescents
One of my favorites are unmarked buildings. In my city all of the water wells that feed the city are tucked away in buildings that look pretty much like they belong there. But on closer examination they are lacking in signage indicating what they are. There's another building here, as well, that has a footprint about the same as a high school gym, but it's so well placed I lived within blocks of it for 6 years before I noticed it was even there. It just sort of looks like a continuation of another building from the street, but it isn't. When I did finally notice it I went up to one of the doors there was a camera, a fingerprint scanner, and a sign that said no tresspassing. There's no windows, no signage, and the small, barely noticeable parking lot only ever has white, unlabeled work trucks/vans in it if anything. I don't think there's anything nefarious going on there, and I don't think it's a water utility building, but it's super weird.
I've seen other videos here and there about this specifically. L.A. is famous for having disguised oil derricks clad like the surrounding buildings. Or others have used just regular residential houses. I think it's quite clever.
I think New York has a building with a façade complete with fake windows to make it blend with other surrounding buildings where behind it is a massive power generator.
Those squirrels are mind blowing. We've got quite a few of them here in Wisconsin, but I've literally never seen one in the wild and didn't even know they lived here until I was in my 30's and my aerial artist ex wife saw one in a tree she was rigging.
I grew up in northern IL now I'm wondering if I somehow missed them despite numerous night nature hikes even with guides. If I did I feel very let down that none of the hike guides many of whom this was their job, didn't know or let us know about such cute nocturnal critters.
The vacuum tube process used by Disney's bins are similar, to those that used to be used in shops to transport money and documents around large offices and shops. The same sort of system is still used in some buildings. I was in a hospital last year, where samples were sent to the onsite lab, by that means.
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I had fresh Macadamia's right off the tree (ground) in Laguna Beach - We had to use a large wrench to open them, and it took finesse otherwise you would shatter the nut and shell if you used too much pressure. The nuts are totally different when fresh, the nuts are soft and taste like butter... they aren't hard like the bought ones...
Also I've been breaking them open (lightly roasted) as a child all the time. Fresh out of shell it is has more umani and is richer and softer. ...300lbs thou? I doubt roasting would lower it that significantly and I was a small girl with stunted growth for my first 14 years, but rarely did I have to ask for help opening them (even at age 6). There is a trick (aside from using a proper nutcracker) is to apply pressure on 2 of the corners/creases. The shell is brittle, so it tends to buckle and break easier when you do it this way.
I lived in a house with a macadamia tree as a kid. The house also had a worn, cracked concrete path to the clothesline. We used to put a macadamia in a crack in the concrete to hold it steady, and smash it with a brick.
The Disney trash works like that... sort of. The trash cans aren't themselves hooked up to the tube system! They are emptied and the trash bags brought to a backstage area where they are THEN put into the tubes. The implication that a tube just opens beneath a trash can is inaccurate. Can confirm the tube system though.
When it comes to hotels and toothpaste, they don't provide it themselves, but usually have some abandoned in their lost and found. People leave all KINDS of stuff behind when checking out, and all you need do is ask the front desk or Concierge.
When I lived in Korea I noticed that there is no 4th floor. The 4th floor is labeled F. The number 4 sounds too similar to the word for death. I believe this is done in Japan too.
@@SadieAbby I remember when I lived in Hong Kong my dad's car had a horn that sounded like the number four in Cantonese, which sounded like 'death'. When he used it the surrounding people started to panic.
The rumpus room in the Simpsons is similar to the minimal usage of the sun room in The Griffins home in Family Guy. I can only think of one scene during the episode titled Wasted Talent.
With the 13th floor one: a lot of buildings reserve the 13th floor for things like A/C, ventilation, and other such things, so in some cases it's not just numbers in the elevator
That makes sense. A lot of people wouldn’t want to use that floor, so it’s a great place to create an access/storage place for some of the building’s utilities.
At the hospital I go to, they don’t have a 13th floor & it’s not labeled in the elevator, but they do have a secret, service floor between floors 5 & 6 *id seen workers getting off there many times but i don’t remember how they actually accessed it
It's the same in most NHS Hospitals in the UK with the number 13, no ward 13, no room 13 and no bed 13, well that's what it was like in the major hospital that i worked in.
@@michelleshephard9690 the three hospitals I worked in in my local city, one of them was massive, were all called The Morgue.!, but i have heard of "Ward 13 The Mortuary".. 👍.. 😁
it's not that you don't "see" it, and while some others will say your brain is just choosing to ignore it, that's not it either. Your mind's "picture" of what your eyes see is simply not being filled in where there's no information coming in, and as such that part of the picture takes on an average of what's being seen around it. If you have blind spots (and I do), you probably don't see them as black or white spots devoid of image they are simply not visible as though they've been cloaked with the color around them. One of my blind spots in my right eye is just below center, and is a bit of a horizontal line, and as such I can't really speed-read. If I focus on a line of text and try to read the line below it without moving my eye, the page "is just blank" there. It just takes on the color of the page as though the page is just blank there. And if I look down one line, it just pops into existence, and the line below it has now been cloaked. It's impossible to notice by its presence, you can only know it by its absence. The fovea is the same way, it's just "cloaked" to be impossible to notice by its presence. The textbook test for the spot involves covering one eye and looking at one of two dots. Move the page in or out to just the right distance and "the spot disappears". It doesn't really disappear, it's just gone to a spot in your vision that doesn't contain actual sight, but instead has an average of the vision around it, effectively cloaking it, but in a way that your vision doesn't see "a hole" in your visual picture.
I did see some baby pigeons once, their heads popped up, because they were in a nest that was on a ledge above a shop. They were ugly little fluffy things. The term for baby pigeons is squabs. 😁
Ohioan here. I first learned about southern flying squirrels in Ohio when I was 48? I kept hearing something in the kitchen most nights. I thought it was the never-ending mice that lived in the century old brick apartment building where I lived. After a few weeks, I discovered my little flying friend settling his home in my kitchen. I don't know what drove him into my apartment because my apartment was in front of McKinley Park!
@Mr Humble No, that would be awesome though. They actually glide by spreading the flaps along their body, like a sugar glidder. I learned you can attract them to your yard by building them a special house 🏠 😊😊😊
@John Stevenson 😆😅🤣 Very true. His entry into MY apartment was through a hole under my sink that led into the next apartment. I might have pictures of him on my Instagram. If I don't, I'll add them.
25 years of hotels in the UK, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Marriott and a few others have toothpaste and tooth brushes as part of their brand standard. Mystery shoppers always ask for them
I believe you were referring to Walt Disney World in Florida, not Disneyland in California. Also, I’ve held baby pigeons at the animal shelter where I volunteer and they’re weird looking.
To clarify the chicken tax. There are lots of trucks that are imported into the US. Rams are manufactured in Mexico and GMCs and Chevrolets are manufactured in Canada. Thanks to the North American Free Trade agreement, these are not subject to import tariffs. One consequence is that lots of Japanese and European manufacturers have set-up plants in the US, Mexico, or Canada while many have also found other ways to circumvent the tariffs. My favourite of these is Ford: they import Transit Connects from Turkiye with a back seat which classifies them as passenger cars. These seats are removed upon reception before the trucks are dispatched to dealers.
For the last one sometimes they don't have a 13th room for a similar reason (some planes also don't have aisle 13 as well). Asian countries have something similar but with the number 4. IIRC the number 4 is similar to death.
I grew up around macadamia trees, and I and all my friends had a designated hammer/rock/brick/paver in the yard for smashing the nuts open. We ate them like free candy, so since becoming an adult and moving across the country I still weep over paying so much money for a bag of anaemic, flavoureless, pre-shelled macadamia nuts from the grocery store. Oh to be a kid with a brick in rural QLD again.
I've seen baby pigeons once. Where a page pigeon thought it had built its nest high up on a building, but in fact it had just nested over an entrance doorway to the 3rd floor. The baby pigeons looked exactly like tiny contemporary depictions of veloceraptors!
A lot of streets also miss the number 13 house too. I learned that when working as a post man and had to deliver to a number 13 on a street that had none. 😅
actually, in the US, we have a lot of foreign made light pickups Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, and Ford all import light pickups. it's the heavy pickups like the Chevy/GMC 3500/350, and the Dodge 3500 whose only foreign made competitor is the Ford F350.
The Carnabys and red tail black cockatoos love getting the Macca nuts out. They easily crack the shell. Anyone with a Macadamia tree in SW WA will know the sight of them getting into the tree.
Hotels in Asia usually provide what they call dental kits consisting of a toothbrush AND toothpaste in a sealed packet and sometimes even include one of those toothpick/flosser combo things. There is normally two of these kits to a room or more for triple or more occupancy rooms.
Some buildings in Australia if they skip the 13th floor it usually becomes a storage level I've built many skyscrapers and have seen it happen quite often
On a related note, most buildings in Australia following the British floor number system rather than the American system. British: street level floor = ground floor. American: street level floor = 1st floor. Thus the British 13th floor corresponds to the American 14th floor.
I found a baby woodpigeon that fell from a nest and I fed it and kept it safe and helped it exercise its wings for a few days until it could fly/hop back up to the nest. The parents returned by the next day. Months later an adult went out of its way to make a low pass over me and I wondered if it was the same little fella going "is that your man?". Very cute.
13th floors are starting to be put back in in places. 3 is a lucky number for some cultures, we skip 4, 14, 24.. in Richmond BC. And all the 3, 13 and 23 sell before any other floor in new buildings.
Network Rail put up seagull spikes all around Whitby Train Station. These seem to have successfully discouraged seagulls nesting, but the pigeons have found the spikes to be the perfect place to set up home. Saw several baby pigeons a month or two ago. They've all fledged now. You don't usually see many pigeons around Whitby - I think the seagulls drive them away.
The 13th floor thing only exists in a few older buildings and not even may of them still skip it. I ride elevators all day long and make a mental ledger of that since the hospital I was born in and used for most of my childhood didn't have a 13th fl.
Nope. Plenty of brand-new high-rise apartment buildings are being built as I type this, and they're still doing this idiocy. I work as a designer for a cabinet-making company that specializes in multi-family housing. As such, I get direct access to the architectural blueprints of any project the company is working on. I see several such tall buildings each year, and about 2/3rds of them skip number 13 in their floor numbering scheme. It's so stupid. If I was a property developer, I would deliberately keep floor 13 labeled as such, just to mock superstitious morons.
A friend of mine who used to rent a music rehearsal studio downtown once asked me "have you ever seen a dead pigeon?"... I thought about it and really, apart from the occasional roadkill, of the thousands of pigeons in town we never see them die... He then proceeded to open a door that lead to an open shaft surrounded, walled in by the nearby 4 story buildings and maybe 8 or 9 sq meters in area... It was piled with pigeon corpses!!!
A number of years ago, I stayed in a room on the thirteenth floor of the Waldorf=Astoria in New York. It didn't bother me one bit, and the room was exceptionally nice.
I'll be honest, I don't think there's ANYTHING I've ever not seen that I realized I didn't see. Unless someone points it out, *_I didn't bloody see it!!!_*
Here in my country, we have both the Western avoidance of 13 and the Chinese aversion to 4. One will not see a floor labelled 13 and any of the following missing: 4, 14, 24, and 34. A building can thus have less than five actual floors than advertised. The same can hold true for unit numbers.
I know Las Vegas hotels don't label the thirteenth floor as such, but I've never noticed it anywhere else... this could be due to me living in a podunk little spit of land where we're happy to build a seven story hotel and think we've got something.
Macadamias are native to my country. Can confirm they are a SOB to open. But use a house brick rather than a hammer if you have limited choices. They can fly off in all sorts of directions from an errant hammer strike, and even smash thin house windows…
The chicken tax is even worse than explained here. It wasn't that they were charging more for the chicken, it's that they were charging for cutting it up.
I just had a pigeon nest in my garage, right on the motor for the door. I only saw the babies only a couple of days before they fledged and then flew away, which was Friday before last. I saw them on a branch a few days later, still being fed by their parent.
Every hotel in the UK i have stayed at has free toothpaste in one of those little tubes, you also get shower gel, soap and wet wipes at most as well. Most of the entries in this vid are focused on America so I guess they have different rules for toothpaste there.
Almost every Marriott hotel has “dental kits” that includes a brand new tooth brush as well as a mini toothpaste tube (enough for a week or more) and usually some floss
Most hotels don't have 13th floor, many airport avoid gate 13. Heard some airports even go 11, 12, 12c, then 14 if not just skipping 13. Plus in Asia there is a wide aversion to the #4, because the pictograms of number 4 is very similar or identical to the pictogram for death or dead.
Actually at least the Choice and IOG brand hotels do have toothpaste and brushes (they are required to by hotel standards) located at the front desk. They also have to have razors, underarm deodorant, shaving cream and sewing kit. Some like comfort suites have complimentary slippers if you ask.
There's more about birds than just the "missing" pigeon chicks because most birds are fully grown when they leave their nests. It's only the larger and/or ground/water dwelling birds that leave before they're fully grown and fledged. On the West Coast along the Pacific, the only way to tell the baby sea gulls from the adults is the babies are brown and don't turn white until sexual maturity.
They supply toothpaste in Japan, along with toothbrushes, combs, soap, shampoo and conditioner, razors and shaving cream, moisturizer, and pajamas and slippers.
I saw the title and my immediate thought was "oh, like trash at Disney World" I have seen a baby pigeon though. When I was a kid, a pigeon made a nest in my little playhouse
The "chicken tax" applies to all foreign built trucks, both dodge and Ford sent vans over here from Europe with seats as "passenger vans" being exempt from the tax. The seats were removed after the vehicles were in the US and sold as cargo vans
Honda has a reasonable pick-up here in the states. My brother has one and loves it. Plus Nissan and Toyota has a huge market on pick-up trucks here in the US. Land Rovers are really popular here in the US too.
Pigeons nested on the highest beams in the barn. When I was a tiny kid I used to climb the ladders (one very shaky) just to look at the baby pigeons. And yet, they are nothing to look at. Fond memories.
There is a special little tool to open macadamia nuts. Mine came with some nuts in shells. It essentially goes into a little slot or gap in the shell and you twist. With this took there is no problem in opening the nuts. Oh and the nuts taste a lot better (and very different) from those preshelled.
I've never seen any nuts with that hole but it sounds great. I'm 90% sure I know the shelling tool you speak of and never knew what it was for until now! I've always managed to use a normal nutcracker no problem with 90% of shelled Macadamias from a young age.
@@Memento_Mori_Morals I'm pretty sure the company does it for a gimmick but it's really handy. Haven't seen them in a while but I'm hanging on to my little "nut tool" lol
@@kasahadragon9499 aaaah that might explain why I've never seen it, but I only really for Macadamia nuts at a UNFI stores. I'm guessing another grocery chain or supplier puts holes in.
@@Memento_Mori_Morals apparently it's a Chinese thing. Another commentor explained that nuts without their shells are unlucky. It also explains why I haven't seen them for a few years - covid lockdowns are still creating export issues for them.
Cracking mac shells is easy with a 300mm Knipex plier wrench. They can be found in shells in Tzaneen, where they're grown, and I suspect that they're sold shelled because of the value of the shells.
Hands down the very best button on a hotel elevator is the one labeled "Bar". Yupper.... just a little push and you are on your way to that special island.
I've seen foreign trucks in America since I'm a valet driver as in Toyota Tundra & Honda Ridgeline. Also, since I am a valet, sometimes I had to take a toothpaste and toothbrush to a guests room.
I have lived in New Brunswick Canada my whole life and literally just found out we have flying squirrels last year, and not only do we have them, but we have a large population of them as well! just never see the little buggers
My friend used to feed them, he had a bowl like 6ft off the ground nailed to a tree. They'd glide in for a few then climb the tree and glide off. You could feed them out of your hand.
In Asia (countries with Chinese descended residents), they are more likely to not have a 4th floor because the pronouncing of 4 "四" sounds like death. I recall in Singapore, some older buildings were still like that but the newer residences (HBD flats) would typically have the 4th floor still available, but at discounted prices and it would usually be filled with mostly non Chinese people or younger generations where the superstition is less prevalent.
I live south of Dayton, Ohio and one time I saw a squirrel climb to the very top of a light pole, and leap onto a branch of the nearby maple tree. And that tree wasn't close; our driveway was between the pole and the tree. Now I wonder if it was a flying squirrel, although it was daylight.
Even more interesting than macadamia nuts is why stores don't sell cashews in the shell. Because they enclose the nuts in a toxic goo related to the active irritant in poison oak and poison ivy! This needs burned away. "Unroasted" cashews actually should be called "less roasted". If I owned a hotel I would totally have the 13th floor openly labeled as such, and give it a different, eerier decor, for tenants attracted to that sort of thing.
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Work on your transitions, mate. That one was jarring.
On Germany there are alot of 13th Floor. Ain't nobody got time for that 😅
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@@josephzamarripa8226 it has never made sense to me! It's still the 13th floor no matter what you call it! The lies we Americans tell ourselves! 🤔🙄😂
Wait…I thought you were a Surfshark guy.
“My hotel doesn't have a 13th Floor because of superstition, but c'mon man... People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on.” -Mitch Hedberg
I have seen the same on many cruise ships. Usually, the "14th" floor does not go to the ship bridge but rather a dance floor and bar / restaurant.
I used to do drugs, I still do but I used to too - Mitch Hedberg
The ITU in my hospital doesn’t have a bed 13. It goes 12, 14.
If you jump out of the window..... You will die EARLIER
You can never go wrong with Mitch Hedberg! "An escalator can never be broken, it can only become stairs" MH
Part of the reason LBJ pushed the Chicken Tax is that he wanted the UAW president to back pending civil rights legislation at a union conference. Also, there are Japanese branded pickups doing well in the US, but they are all built in the US.
Daimler-Benz recently got in trouble for importing passenger vans from Turkish plants to the US, and then reconfiguring them into cargo vans in their US facilities in the US. Cargo vans pay the tax!
That was Ford, nor Daimler-Benz, ironically enough. They imported Transit Connects with cardboard rear seats and the panels to replace the rear glass inside. They'd shred the seats and swap the rear windows, before sending the glass back to Turkey to be used again.
You’re partially correct about hotel toothpaste and I say this because as a regular traveler per my employment I frequent many American hotels and one occasion on particular I forgot my toothbrush and toothpaste. I went down to the lobby and not only did the concierge have travel size supplies but she gave them to me at no charge. That’s one of the benefits of staying at a nice hotel
Most hotels I’ve been in will provide toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, ect. when asked at the front desk. They just don’t have them in the rooms like shampoo, conditioner and soap.
Yes 100%. Never provided automatically but always available upon request in my experience.
My college dorm had a 13th floor (labeled) that I stayed in. Not superstitious but there would be black sludge coming up through the pipes and scratching from inside the walls. Most likely due to terrible plumbing and small animals inside the elevator shaft behind the wall. Still, could be evil ghost aliens I suppose.
wow! why so judgemental? just cause they are alien ghosts they dont HAVE to be evil.
did you hear THEM complain about YOUR wierd customs?
Its not THEIR fault that human souls are a interstellar delicacy. ;p
why the slidge has to be black? is kinda racist don't you think?
Maybe they're benevolent ghost aliens? 👽🛸
Someone had to say it, thank you!
I work on elevators. Its so funny when I walk in a building and they don’t label the 13th floor. It will jump from 12 to 14, Especially in vegas….. Threw me for a loop when I walked in a building and saw that the first time.
As cool as it would be, the Disney trash tubes _do not_ connect to directly each bin. Rather, the system has 13 collection points throughout the Magic Kingdom, all of which lead to the central compactor located beneath Splash Mountain. This means that, yes, cast members _do_ need to empty the trash cans periodically. In all likelihood, they grab the bag and disappear backstage before anyone is the wiser. Fun Fact: each day certain cast members are assigned special garbage phones. When a trash can needs emptying (no idea how they track that), the closest phone to its location gets a notification and that member has to go take care of it.
his research is full of crap, he has no clue what he’s talking about
the trucks claim is laughably bad, especially as foreign car and truck companies now dominate manufacturing in the US
@@bostonrailfan2427OL. A mindless usa-ian in utter denial? Dude the 25% tariff is a fact and it caused wire a bit of problem for you guys post covid since it caused a run on the truck as the supplies can't keep up with demand and for a smile, the 2nd hand truck cost close to a brand new truck.
And if foreign truck "dominate" your usa market despite the tariff, then look at your own incompetence instead. Or just as likely, they are forced to manufacture in usa, thereby increasing the price again for you consumers
@@bostonrailfan2427 dodge uses nafta to make rams in mexico without paying the tax. Ford transits are made in turkey with rear windows, seats and seat belts to get classified as passenger cars instead light trucks. they then tear that stuff out and toss in trash and install panels in window holes as son as they come off the boat. Its cheaper to just keep making new back seats and windows in turkey than ship the uninstalled stuff back for reuse. Nissan, Honda, Toyota just built plants in america to make the trucks and dodge the tax. so it hurts the american companies more than the foreign ones now. Brandy and couple other things were included with trucks in the tax. its real stupid it even exists. it kept america from getting a 4 door ranger for 20 years.
@@bostonrailfan2427 The practice is most evident by looking at japanese trucks from the 70's! The paint on the cabs and boxes didn't match. That is because the cab and frame were imported as unfinished vehicles!
Then cargo beds were built and installed in the US finished assembly plant.
@@SgtJoeSmith dodge made a 4 door Dakota, eventually, and Chevy made a 4 door s10, briefly. What stopped Ford from making a bigger Ranger? Certainly not a tax on foreign trucks.
In many parts of Europe, you actually don't have those tiny soap bars in hotels, because they have liquid soap dispensers instead. That reduces the waste, but also requires less frequent replacing and people can't (at least that easily) get the soap with them. But if you forget your toothpaste, many hotels will provide you with that if you just ask for it in the reception.
I work with a hyacinth macaw, and his treats are macadamias in the shell. It is pretty scary to see him snap the shells like they're cheap plastic.
Yep, you do not want to get bit by a macaw. My mom grew up with scarlet macaws, and while she's never mention being bit by one, she did get the end of her finger bitten off by her mom's pet monkey. And I'm pretty sure macaws bite harder due to their beaks.
The whole monkey thing was wild. The monkey was named after her older brother that died of SIDS, if that gives you any insight into how my grandmother's brain worked.
@@Werevampiwolf Oh I have my own macaw, just not a hyacinth. Yeah macaw bites are special for sure. 10-20 stitches is typical as would be broken bones (I know a scarlet macaw that broke a woman's wrist).
Hyacinths are the biggest macaw. I'm told that in the wild they will open coconuts if the urge hits them.
You may not get a tube of toothpaste in a hotel, but I once forgot to pack a deodorant and asked a hotel desk clerk (Toronto Canada) where I could buy one. She gave me a trial size one from behind the counter. She also told me that they have toothbrushes impregnated with toothpaste if I needed one.
The light duty truck tax was interesting to hear I might have forgotten that at some point. Harley did the same thing. In the 80's, they had a 650cc tax so people would only be able to buy Harley for a large displacement bike.
I've never seen a baby pigeon, but I hear them constantly. The pigeons nest in places like inside storefront awnings, and they breed almost year-round. If you walk past a bodega and hear a "squee, squee, squee" sound from somewhere just overhead, it's baby pigeons in their awning compartment nest, begging for food.
They aint "Begging", mate. Theyre asking. And is your example a bodega because other places just straight up put antibird spike strips? Much like people do with homeless?
Harry and the Hendersons reference. Sweet 👍
@@titaniusanglesmith9690maybe he really really likes Bodegas. Maybe it's the closest thing g to where he lives. Maybe he passes one every day. Why does it matter to you anyway? Just to make an argument? Fukkup 'mate.' Go to a rally and cry those sweet whiny tears, this is a RUclips comment thread.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 as a birder, I have no problem referring to squabs (pigeon chicks) "begging" for food FROM THEIR PARENTS, if that wasn't obvious to you. My reference to pigeon nests in bodega awnings is from personal observation as a New Yorker.
Baby pigeons are scene in every highrise building being built during spring. There nests are everywhere inside on the steel I beams. You have scene baby pigeons. They grow to be abot 3/4 adult size in 3wks. Incredible how fast they grow. When they leave the nest its easy to not see they are adolescents
One of my favorites are unmarked buildings. In my city all of the water wells that feed the city are tucked away in buildings that look pretty much like they belong there. But on closer examination they are lacking in signage indicating what they are.
There's another building here, as well, that has a footprint about the same as a high school gym, but it's so well placed I lived within blocks of it for 6 years before I noticed it was even there. It just sort of looks like a continuation of another building from the street, but it isn't. When I did finally notice it I went up to one of the doors there was a camera, a fingerprint scanner, and a sign that said no tresspassing. There's no windows, no signage, and the small, barely noticeable parking lot only ever has white, unlabeled work trucks/vans in it if anything. I don't think there's anything nefarious going on there, and I don't think it's a water utility building, but it's super weird.
I've seen other videos here and there about this specifically. L.A. is famous for having disguised oil derricks clad like the surrounding buildings. Or others have used just regular residential houses. I think it's quite clever.
I think New York has a building with a façade complete with fake windows to make it blend with other surrounding buildings where behind it is a massive power generator.
Yup, it's aliens, gotta be aliens.
This may interest you, search "london underground fake house"
Oh I'm sure that's nothing, just umbrella corporation planning the zombie apocalypse.
(sarcasm intensifies)
Those squirrels are mind blowing. We've got quite a few of them here in Wisconsin, but I've literally never seen one in the wild and didn't even know they lived here until I was in my 30's and my aerial artist ex wife saw one in a tree she was rigging.
I grew up in northern IL now I'm wondering if I somehow missed them despite numerous night nature hikes even with guides. If I did I feel very let down that none of the hike guides many of whom this was their job, didn't know or let us know about such cute nocturnal critters.
The vacuum tube process used by Disney's bins are similar, to those that used to be used in shops to transport money and documents around large offices and shops. The same sort of system is still used in some buildings. I was in a hospital last year, where samples were sent to the onsite lab, by that means.
I remember our local grocery store had that system when I was a kid. I always thought it was cool and futuristic.
When I hear vacuum tubes I think of guitar amplifiers lol
*bins are similar to
*onsite lab by those means
You're overdoing your punctuation.
@@mousermind Hello, grammar police. My late father was a deputy headteacher and taught English and Latin. I have grade A O Level English Language. To paraphrase the Duchess of Windsor, you can never have to much grammar or punctuation. 🤓😁
@@julianaylor4351 *too
I had fresh Macadamia's right off the tree (ground) in Laguna Beach - We had to use a large wrench to open them, and it took finesse otherwise you would shatter the nut and shell if you used too much pressure. The nuts are totally different when fresh, the nuts are soft and taste like butter... they aren't hard like the bought ones...
Also I've been breaking them open (lightly roasted) as a child all the time. Fresh out of shell it is has more umani and is richer and softer. ...300lbs thou? I doubt roasting would lower it that significantly and I was a small girl with stunted growth for my first 14 years, but rarely did I have to ask for help opening them (even at age 6). There is a trick (aside from using a proper nutcracker) is to apply pressure on 2 of the corners/creases. The shell is brittle, so it tends to buckle and break easier when you do it this way.
I lived in a house with a macadamia tree as a kid. The house also had a worn, cracked concrete path to the clothesline. We used to put a macadamia in a crack in the concrete to hold it steady, and smash it with a brick.
@@ProfessorChaosKitty yeah they don't seem THAT difficult to break 😅
The Disney trash works like that... sort of. The trash cans aren't themselves hooked up to the tube system! They are emptied and the trash bags brought to a backstage area where they are THEN put into the tubes. The implication that a tube just opens beneath a trash can is inaccurate. Can confirm the tube system though.
When it comes to hotels and toothpaste, they don't provide it themselves, but usually have some abandoned in their lost and found. People leave all KINDS of stuff behind when checking out, and all you need do is ask the front desk or Concierge.
When I lived in Korea I noticed that there is no 4th floor. The 4th floor is labeled F. The number 4 sounds too similar to the word for death. I believe this is done in Japan too.
And China!
@@SadieAbby I remember when I lived in Hong Kong my dad's car had a horn that sounded like the number four in Cantonese, which sounded like 'death'. When he used it the surrounding people started to panic.
The rumpus room in the Simpsons is similar to the minimal usage of the sun room in The Griffins home in Family Guy. I can only think of one scene during the episode titled Wasted Talent.
I always thought it was the playroom 😕
@@michelleshephard9690 i didn't realize that they showed a play room
@@albertlira7443 it might not have been haha, it's just what I thought it was ☺
@@michelleshephard9690 hey its a fair thought!
With the 13th floor one: a lot of buildings reserve the 13th floor for things like A/C, ventilation, and other such things, so in some cases it's not just numbers in the elevator
That makes sense. A lot of people wouldn’t want to use that floor, so it’s a great place to create an access/storage place for some of the building’s utilities.
At the hospital I go to, they don’t have a 13th floor & it’s not labeled in the elevator, but they do have a secret, service floor between floors 5 & 6
*id seen workers getting off there many times but i don’t remember how they actually accessed it
It's the same in most NHS Hospitals in the UK with the number 13, no ward 13, no room 13 and no bed 13, well that's what it was like in the major hospital that i worked in.
The Mortuary is called Ward 13 in some of the hospitals I have nursed in 😮
@@michelleshephard9690 the three hospitals I worked in in my local city, one of them was massive, were all called The Morgue.!, but i have heard of "Ward 13 The Mortuary".. 👍.. 😁
The most interesting thing we never notice: the blind spot in the field of vision of each eye.
it's not that you don't "see" it, and while some others will say your brain is just choosing to ignore it, that's not it either. Your mind's "picture" of what your eyes see is simply not being filled in where there's no information coming in, and as such that part of the picture takes on an average of what's being seen around it. If you have blind spots (and I do), you probably don't see them as black or white spots devoid of image they are simply not visible as though they've been cloaked with the color around them. One of my blind spots in my right eye is just below center, and is a bit of a horizontal line, and as such I can't really speed-read. If I focus on a line of text and try to read the line below it without moving my eye, the page "is just blank" there. It just takes on the color of the page as though the page is just blank there. And if I look down one line, it just pops into existence, and the line below it has now been cloaked. It's impossible to notice by its presence, you can only know it by its absence. The fovea is the same way, it's just "cloaked" to be impossible to notice by its presence. The textbook test for the spot involves covering one eye and looking at one of two dots. Move the page in or out to just the right distance and "the spot disappears". It doesn't really disappear, it's just gone to a spot in your vision that doesn't contain actual sight, but instead has an average of the vision around it, effectively cloaking it, but in a way that your vision doesn't see "a hole" in your visual picture.
I did see some baby pigeons once, their heads popped up, because they were in a nest that was on a ledge above a shop. They were ugly little fluffy things. The term for baby pigeons is squabs. 😁
Ohioan here. I first learned about southern flying squirrels in Ohio when I was 48? I kept hearing something in the kitchen most nights. I thought it was the never-ending mice that lived in the century old brick apartment building where I lived. After a few weeks, I discovered my little flying friend settling his home in my kitchen. I don't know what drove him into my apartment because my apartment was in front of McKinley Park!
Maybe he was wondering the same thing about you.
They really fly?
@Mr Humble No, that would be awesome though. They actually glide by spreading the flaps along their body, like a sugar glidder. I learned you can attract them to your yard by building them a special house 🏠 😊😊😊
@John Stevenson 😆😅🤣 Very true. His entry into MY apartment was through a hole under my sink that led into the next apartment. I might have pictures of him on my Instagram. If I don't, I'll add them.
25 years of hotels in the UK, Hilton, Holiday Inn, Marriott and a few others have toothpaste and tooth brushes as part of their brand standard. Mystery shoppers always ask for them
love these lists!
I believe you were referring to Walt Disney World in Florida, not Disneyland in California. Also, I’ve held baby pigeons at the animal shelter where I volunteer and they’re weird looking.
Moving to minnesota from Oregon, seeing sugar gliders for the first time was very cool. My friends there thought of them just as squirrels
Uhhh except they're SO much cuter!
I've lived here all my life and never seen one, nor has anyone else ever mentioned seeing one.
Whatever you're smoking, you better share!
To clarify the chicken tax. There are lots of trucks that are imported into the US. Rams are manufactured in Mexico and GMCs and Chevrolets are manufactured in Canada. Thanks to the North American Free Trade agreement, these are not subject to import tariffs. One consequence is that lots of Japanese and European manufacturers have set-up plants in the US, Mexico, or Canada while many have also found other ways to circumvent the tariffs. My favourite of these is Ford: they import Transit Connects from Turkiye with a back seat which classifies them as passenger cars. These seats are removed upon reception before the trucks are dispatched to dealers.
For the last one sometimes they don't have a 13th room for a similar reason (some planes also don't have aisle 13 as well). Asian countries have something similar but with the number 4. IIRC the number 4 is similar to death.
I grew up around macadamia trees, and I and all my friends had a designated hammer/rock/brick/paver in the yard for smashing the nuts open. We ate them like free candy, so since becoming an adult and moving across the country I still weep over paying so much money for a bag of anaemic, flavoureless, pre-shelled macadamia nuts from the grocery store. Oh to be a kid with a brick in rural QLD again.
Never see cashew nuts in shell either (The shell have a toxic liquid that cause skin irritation)
I've seen baby pigeons once. Where a page pigeon thought it had built its nest high up on a building, but in fact it had just nested over an entrance doorway to the 3rd floor. The baby pigeons looked exactly like tiny contemporary depictions of veloceraptors!
6:20 Maybe they don't provide toothpaste because toothpaste can be a real SOB to clean.
Oh, this video is SO great! So trivial but SO relevant!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
A lot of streets also miss the number 13 house too. I learned that when working as a post man and had to deliver to a number 13 on a street that had none. 😅
The mosquito control at Disney really surprised me. Fascinating.!
Makes you wonder if they have the cure for cancer. Would they just use it to make their park better?
I love how his sponsor is at a much lower volume so if you’re not listening to it on your ear phones, you don’t really have to hear it or take notice
actually, in the US, we have a lot of foreign made light pickups Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, and Ford all import light pickups. it's the heavy pickups like the Chevy/GMC 3500/350, and the Dodge 3500 whose only foreign made competitor is the Ford F350.
The Carnabys and red tail black cockatoos love getting the Macca nuts out. They easily crack the shell. Anyone with a Macadamia tree in SW WA will know the sight of them getting into the tree.
Hotels in Asia usually provide what they call dental kits consisting of a toothbrush AND toothpaste in a sealed packet and sometimes even include one of those toothpick/flosser combo things. There is normally two of these kits to a room or more for triple or more occupancy rooms.
Some buildings in Australia if they skip the 13th floor it usually becomes a storage level I've built many skyscrapers and have seen it happen quite often
On a related note, most buildings in Australia following the British floor number system rather than the American system.
British: street level floor = ground floor.
American: street level floor = 1st floor.
Thus the British 13th floor corresponds to the American 14th floor.
Yea and that is true too
I found a baby woodpigeon that fell from a nest and I fed it and kept it safe and helped it exercise its wings for a few days until it could fly/hop back up to the nest. The parents returned by the next day. Months later an adult went out of its way to make a low pass over me and I wondered if it was the same little fella going "is that your man?". Very cute.
13th floors are starting to be put back in in places. 3 is a lucky number for some cultures, we skip 4, 14, 24.. in Richmond BC. And all the 3, 13 and 23 sell before any other floor in new buildings.
American hospitals give you toothpaste. It's the cheapest crappiest one that exist. So it surprises me that hotels don't offer it.
Network Rail put up seagull spikes all around Whitby Train Station. These seem to have successfully discouraged seagulls nesting, but the pigeons have found the spikes to be the perfect place to set up home. Saw several baby pigeons a month or two ago. They've all fledged now. You don't usually see many pigeons around Whitby - I think the seagulls drive them away.
I live in Cincinnati which is in southern Ohio and never even knew those flying squirrels were around this area! Great video Simon!!
I've heard it suggested that the 13th floor of a hotel is sometimes used by housekeeping to store supplies, do laundry, etc.
I've lived at #13 quite a few times in the past cos they always had to rent it out cheaper :)
Great for those of us who aren't superstitious.
The 13th floor thing only exists in a few older buildings and not even may of them still skip it. I ride elevators all day long and make a mental ledger of that since the hospital I was born in and used for most of my childhood didn't have a 13th fl.
Nope. Plenty of brand-new high-rise apartment buildings are being built as I type this, and they're still doing this idiocy.
I work as a designer for a cabinet-making company that specializes in multi-family housing. As such, I get direct access to the architectural blueprints of any project the company is working on. I see several such tall buildings each year, and about 2/3rds of them skip number 13 in their floor numbering scheme. It's so stupid.
If I was a property developer, I would deliberately keep floor 13 labeled as such, just to mock superstitious morons.
Simon: Sometimes you feel like a nut.
Me: Sometimes you don't.
Hersheys: Almond Joy's got nuts... Mounds don't.
Godamm that gave me a flashback lol.
I literally sang it in my head as I read it...
A friend of mine who used to rent a music rehearsal studio downtown once asked me "have you ever seen a dead pigeon?"... I thought about it and really, apart from the occasional roadkill, of the thousands of pigeons in town we never see them die... He then proceeded to open a door that lead to an open shaft surrounded, walled in by the nearby 4 story buildings and maybe 8 or 9 sq meters in area... It was piled with pigeon corpses!!!
I lived for 30 years in the Cleveland Ohio area; I saw plenty of regular squirrels, but never a flying squirrel.
A number of years ago, I stayed in a room on the thirteenth floor of the Waldorf=Astoria in New York. It didn't bother me one bit, and the room was exceptionally nice.
I'll be honest, I don't think there's ANYTHING I've ever not seen that I realized I didn't see. Unless someone points it out, *_I didn't bloody see it!!!_*
Here in my country, we have both the Western avoidance of 13 and the Chinese aversion to 4. One will not see a floor labelled 13 and any of the following missing: 4, 14, 24, and 34. A building can thus have less than five actual floors than advertised. The same can hold true for unit numbers.
I know Las Vegas hotels don't label the thirteenth floor as such, but I've never noticed it anywhere else... this could be due to me living in a podunk little spit of land where we're happy to build a seven story hotel and think we've got something.
Macadamias are native to my country. Can confirm they are a SOB to open. But use a house brick rather than a hammer if you have limited choices. They can fly off in all sorts of directions from an errant hammer strike, and even smash thin house windows…
Most of the office towers I've built didn't have 13 either but a few lately have had them
Chicken tax is one of those things that everyone hates but won’t go away because of lobbyists.
The chicken tax is even worse than explained here. It wasn't that they were charging more for the chicken, it's that they were charging for cutting it up.
Went on a cruise this summer. The ship we were on had 19 decks. However, there was no deck 13. The elevator went from 12 to 14. Made me chuckle.
Hawaiian chocolate covered macadamia nuts are my absolute kryptonite - I cannot leave them alone, so I cannot have them in my house.
I just had a pigeon nest in my garage, right on the motor for the door. I only saw the babies only a couple of days before they fledged and then flew away, which was Friday before last. I saw them on a branch a few days later, still being fed by their parent.
Every hotel in the UK i have stayed at has free toothpaste in one of those little tubes, you also get shower gel, soap and wet wipes at most as well. Most of the entries in this vid are focused on America so I guess they have different rules for toothpaste there.
In Japan all that is provided.
We spent a month in Japan, travelling around the south island. Every hotel provided tiny tubes of toothpaste, plus a toothbrush, washcloth, comb, etc.
Almost every Marriott hotel has “dental kits” that includes a brand new tooth brush as well as a mini toothpaste tube (enough for a week or more) and usually some floss
I love how Simon says Squirrel!
The 13th floor would be an excellent headquarters for a skeptics' association - it's like a test for your skepticism.
One time I saw a cardinal standing in the middle of a road. Has anyone else ever seen that?
Most hotels don't have 13th floor, many airport avoid gate 13. Heard some airports even go 11, 12, 12c, then 14 if not just skipping 13.
Plus in Asia there is a wide aversion to the #4, because the pictograms of number 4 is very similar or identical to the pictogram for death or dead.
Actually at least the Choice and IOG brand hotels do have toothpaste and brushes (they are required to by hotel standards) located at the front desk. They also have to have razors, underarm deodorant, shaving cream and sewing kit. Some like comfort suites have complimentary slippers if you ask.
There's more about birds than just the "missing" pigeon chicks because most birds are fully grown when they leave their nests. It's only the larger and/or ground/water dwelling birds that leave before they're fully grown and fledged. On the West Coast along the Pacific, the only way to tell the baby sea gulls from the adults is the babies are brown and don't turn white until sexual maturity.
They supply toothpaste in Japan, along with toothbrushes, combs, soap, shampoo and conditioner, razors and shaving cream, moisturizer, and pajamas and slippers.
I saw the title and my immediate thought was "oh, like trash at Disney World"
I have seen a baby pigeon though. When I was a kid, a pigeon made a nest in my little playhouse
Does that mean the 14th floor is the 13th floor just mislabeled or they built a 13th floor and skip it?
The "14th" floor is actually the 13th floor, they just rename it. We live according to the lowest common denominator in society unfortunately.
mostly mislabeled but some buildings do have an empty 13th floor -_-'
A building I worked in used the whole 13th floor as storage and for janitor equipment.
The "chicken tax" applies to all foreign built trucks, both dodge and Ford sent vans over here from Europe with seats as "passenger vans" being exempt from the tax. The seats were removed after the vehicles were in the US and sold as cargo vans
I wonder what happens when people accidentally throw away something important at Disneyland. "Uh, Mickey... have you seen my passport?"
Honda has a reasonable pick-up here in the states. My brother has one and loves it. Plus Nissan and Toyota has a huge market on pick-up trucks here in the US. Land Rovers are really popular here in the US too.
I've heard that a lot of buildings use the 13th floor for storage. So they have it and they use it, but the public never goes there.
Pigeons nested on the highest beams in the barn. When I was a tiny kid I used to climb the ladders (one very shaky) just to look at the baby pigeons. And yet, they are nothing to look at. Fond memories.
There is a special little tool to open macadamia nuts. Mine came with some nuts in shells. It essentially goes into a little slot or gap in the shell and you twist. With this took there is no problem in opening the nuts. Oh and the nuts taste a lot better (and very different) from those preshelled.
That slot is added by during processing, specifically for that tool - apparently in China, pre shelled nuts are unlucky.
I've never seen any nuts with that hole but it sounds great. I'm 90% sure I know the shelling tool you speak of and never knew what it was for until now! I've always managed to use a normal nutcracker no problem with 90% of shelled Macadamias from a young age.
@@Memento_Mori_Morals I'm pretty sure the company does it for a gimmick but it's really handy. Haven't seen them in a while but I'm hanging on to my little "nut tool" lol
@@kasahadragon9499 aaaah that might explain why I've never seen it, but I only really for Macadamia nuts at a UNFI stores. I'm guessing another grocery chain or supplier puts holes in.
@@Memento_Mori_Morals apparently it's a Chinese thing. Another commentor explained that nuts without their shells are unlucky. It also explains why I haven't seen them for a few years - covid lockdowns are still creating export issues for them.
Cracking mac shells is easy with a 300mm Knipex plier wrench. They can be found in shells in Tzaneen, where they're grown, and I suspect that they're sold shelled because of the value of the shells.
Oh could you please elaborate how the shells are valuable please? In shell mac's are my fav nut.
Well, in Denmark we had a 180% tax on EVERY vehicle imported to the country. Its now 125% but still way to high. Thanks for sharing :)
Hands down the very best button on a hotel elevator is the one labeled "Bar". Yupper.... just a little push and you are on your way to that special island.
I've never seen a baby seagull either
The toothpaste one and the 13th floor ones seems mostly limited to the USA in my experience
I've seen foreign trucks in America since I'm a valet driver as in Toyota Tundra & Honda Ridgeline. Also, since I am a valet, sometimes I had to take a toothpaste and toothbrush to a guests room.
I have lived in New Brunswick Canada my whole life and literally just found out we have flying squirrels last year, and not only do we have them, but we have a large population of them as well! just never see the little buggers
My friend used to feed them, he had a bowl like 6ft off the ground nailed to a tree. They'd glide in for a few then climb the tree and glide off. You could feed them out of your hand.
In Asia (countries with Chinese descended residents), they are more likely to not have a 4th floor because the pronouncing of 4 "四" sounds like death. I recall in Singapore, some older buildings were still like that but the newer residences (HBD flats) would typically have the 4th floor still available, but at discounted prices and it would usually be filled with mostly non Chinese people or younger generations where the superstition is less prevalent.
Love Simon but please turn up the volume, it’s much lower than other videos
There are tons of foreign trucks in the US! They might not be as common, but there are a ton of Toyota pickups out here.
I live south of Dayton, Ohio and one time I saw a squirrel climb to the very top of a light pole, and leap onto a branch of the nearby maple tree. And that tree wasn't close; our driveway was between the pole and the tree. Now I wonder if it was a flying squirrel, although it was daylight.
I grew up in the West Carrollton / Miamisburg / Springboro area.
A hammer to open macadamia nuts!? I can’t see that going over very well; we just used the vise in the garage 🤷🏼♀️
Even more interesting than macadamia nuts is why stores don't sell cashews in the shell. Because they enclose the nuts in a toxic goo related to the active irritant in poison oak and poison ivy! This needs burned away. "Unroasted" cashews actually should be called "less roasted".
If I owned a hotel I would totally have the 13th floor openly labeled as such, and give it a different, eerier decor, for tenants attracted to that sort of thing.
Ogden Nash has a really neat poem about an elevator ride to the 13th floor!
Toothpaste ? Depends where. In Asia a toothbrush and paste combo is common place.
I've never seen a cashew in the shell. I've seen hotels where you can ask the front desk for toothpaste.
As a Canadian, I'm curious: you don't see Toyota Tacomas and Tundras in the States? Because they're are some of the most popular trucks here.