No no no!!’n First past the post is NOT a plurality voting system. You do not get to express preferences in first past the post, you get to put one cross in one box and that it that.
okay THANK YOU I thought I was going CRAZY but that's why I put the little pop up text on screen cause I have been in a rushed state the last 2 months due to the move. Pinned your comment for others to see
This is only half right!! First past the post IS a plurality voting system. A 'plurality' means that the candidate who receives more votes than any other candidate, but NOT necessarily a majority, is elected. That's how FPTP works. Under FPTP you can't express second or third preferences, but that has nothing to do with 'plurality'.
First past the post is absolutely a plurality voting system, the person with the plurality of the votes wins. Expressing preferences has nothing to do with a plurality systems, a preferential system is be definition majoritarian and not a plurality system. I think you’re getting confused between the definition of a plurality voting system and the definition of pluralism, something which does not exist in a plurality system.
@@cece-707 yep, you are correct. I was rushing to get the reply in and then managed to post it twice and wrote plurality rather than preferential! On my second one I I put another comment in to explain further about FPTP.
It is a bit wild how controversial it is to say "everyone should earn enough to eat, pay rent and live in relative comfort" Edit: for those who disagree with this statement, I shouldn't have to explain to you that you should care about other people
I mean I just don't think it's the fellow citizens or the governments burden to provide for someone who just straight up doesn't care. Like some people choose to live like that, despite having marketable talents for jobs. I'd like a happy medium. Like if you want a job we'll find one for you, we'll give you a stipend for rent and food to get you back on your feet, but once you're back to being able to be independent you should.
@@megaconda07 the most well off people in the world don't work THAT hard. The 'lazy' argument just doesn't hold up with the obscene wealth hoarding of today.
The 40 hr work week is out dated. It was created when it was expected that someone was at home doing all the housework and taking care of children (in the case of families). Now, we can't do that (I feel no matter where you are in the world). You can't live on a single income if you have a family. Even single parents work multiple jobs and sometimes the kids get jobs as soon as they're able because of expenses.
@@nic3525 I just mean a lot of people feel like failures because they work the 40 hours and can't get all the housework done etc. kind of thing. We've been made to believe we have to do it all and it's unhealthy.
i mostly agree but some people can have a family with one income. my friend’s mum is unemployed & the dad is the only one who works & they’re doing pretty well.
I answer a lot of surveys. I noticed that there are differences in German and Swiss surveys. In Switzerland only 42h work hours are considered "working full time". In Germany 30h+ hours are considered full time.
I have no idea how anyone manages housework and parenting alongside a full time job! I’m a stay-at-home mum and I can’t keep up. But I do have to disagree with you on one thing, it is possible to for a family to live off one average income in Britain, my family do. I am very good at budgeting so we live comfortably.
Agreed. How unnecessarily cruel does a city want to be after all? Problem with homeless people sleeping rough? Lets talk solutions. Should we increase shelters and make more council housing available? Naw, lets make benches uncomfortable. So disgusting!
Something that shouldn't exist: school uniforms not allowing girls to wear trousers. Edit: A couple of people have mentioned boys not being allowed to wear skirts, and I 100% agree that uniform shouldn't be gendered either way, it's just in my personal experience i know more girls who'd rather wear trousers than boys who want to wear skirts, so it sprang to mind first. Also thought I'd mention that while a lot of schools have changed the rules, way too many haven't imo. I go to school in an area with two mixed schools, a boys school, and a girls school all about a two minute walk away from each other. One mixed school has strictly gendered uniform, the other doesn't gender the uniform, the girls school only allows skirts, and the boys school only trousers. Like I say, all schools should have non-gendered uniform, not just some.
@@user-xf4ls5el1w Repeating your point isn’t answering my question. What’s sexually suggestive about a skirt? Unless we’re talking skirts that are too tight or too short. In which case I’ve never heard of a school that doesn’t actively try to make girls wear longer skirts. In my old school pencil skirts were banned because girls only wanted to wear short tight skirts that go halfway up there thighs (which the school was actively trying to prevent). The only skirts allowed were long frilly ones (I don’t know the proper terms). Because of that almost all the girls started wearing trousers because if it wasn’t skirts that were inappropriate then they didn’t want skirts. So I resent the idea of you trying to suggest the idea that Uk school system is systematically paedophilic just because your trying to push an agenda or because you simply havnt thought about it much. I know it just seems like an innocent comment but it’s just factually wrong. Unless of course it isn’t in which I’d like to know more and to be educated. Which was the purpose of my last comment in which you simply repeated your point without elaborating whatsoever.
Yes, we in Canada have gotten rid of the penny and there really hasn’t been any problems. You can still exchange them for larger denominations at a bank to get your money back and they’ll have the coins melted down to get them out of circulation. When you’re purchasing something in cash, you round to the nearest 5 cents, but if you’re purchasing with a card the product retains its exact value
Thats how it is in sweden as well, a lot of things cost something .95 and stuff but we have only 1 and up. But with a credit card you pay the exact ammount so if the total comes up to over 50 then its better to pay with card, but under cash is better as it then is rounded down. :)
1) trollies (shopping carts) that require £1 coins. People rarely carry cash. Plus, when i was 34 weeks pregnant I went shopping and didn't know this store required £1 to use a trolley, they wouldn't loan me £1 and didn't offer any help. I had to struggle round the shop with a really heavy basket. 2) ATM charges- why should we have to pay to take out our own money? 3) hospital parking charges... just, no.
ATMs that are owned by banks and building societies... AFAIK they're all free. Even if you don't bank with them. The ATM in the bar or corner shop is not owned by a bank, and the company that does own it, their business model has 2 income streams - one from the business that rents/leases the machine, and the other is charging the poor sods who use it.
Tokens. As someone who works in a supermarket, people steal trollies a LOT- especially youth. The token system works well because most youth don’t want to put the effort so we get trollies stolen less!!! Since people want their belongings back lol. And trollies are super expensive for supermarkets to buy ): but most of us carry tokens and trolley unlockers rather than £1! Since trolly tokens are the exact same shape (:
Another plus of trolley tokens: PEOPLE DONT LEAVE TROLLIES ABANDONED EVERYWHERE and put them in trolley areas BECAUSE they want their coin back! In America trollies get dumped literally all across the parking lot from the photos friends showed me because people are lazy. I go out to do trollies and hey, if someone is that lazy and abandons their trolley without putting it back, at least I get paid an extra £1 to get it back to the trolley bay lol
dont know if in the uk you can do this or if this is a thing but where i live, in italy, in theory people should use 1euro coins but there are places (both irl and online) that sell platic/metal fake coins that are not really fake coins but little disks of the dimension of 1€ that people use instead of that euro. generally they are keep in the car or wallet or bag, but the point is that they’re very useful
Removing the "child-free" stigma! I'm 44, have been happily married for 18 years and we don't have, and definitely don't want, children. So I've had people assume one or both of us are infertile, been told we're selfish, I've been told I'm broken because I obviously don't have a "maternal instinct", had people sympathise because there's "obviously something wrong with our marriage"...the list goes on. Oh and most of the above comes from complete effing strangers 😡 So yeah I'd love people to stop thinking we're weird or broken because we don't want to have kids! Cos we're not!!
I feel like people with children feel attacked by those who don't want them and immediately go into defence mode, protecting their choice when noone asked 😅 it's like them justifying the fact that they have children because maybe they regret it or would've chosen a different path but can't now because it's too late 🤷🏻♀️
This is one of the shitiest things that still happens in developed countries around the world. I get some people are old-fashioned numpties that still insist on nuclear families and others are concerned about how that would affect the economy, but honestly... there aren't many couples who remain without children their whole lives, so it's not going to fuck the economy if a few people opt out of the baby-making - darkness knows how many orphans are doomed to a life of feeling somehow inadequate or how many children have to suffer biological families that don't know the first thing about looking after children, why would you sacrifice the children for that anyway? If children aren't wanted in a family, they shouldn't be forced upon them by society, unless society feels like making both the children and the adults miserable for no sane reason. Anyway a couple can have a fulfilling relationship without children. You are not broken, damaged, wrong, or inhuman because you do not want children. Your body is something you control and you are the only one who should have power over it. No one should decide this for you. We live in a civilised, developed world where we have a CHOICE. We have FREEDOM to choose how we want to live. And, as long as it doesn't harm anyone - and I don't see how NOT having children would harm anybody - a person should live how they choose. You do not need to be infertile to not have children, because this is the 21st century and people shouldn't have to explain themselves to anyone about these kinds of things. You're not selfish for not wanting to have children. Hell, maybe you're doing society a favour not having a single child and they just don't know it. Not like all children are angels, or all children will end up having great and productive lives regardless of their home environment and whether or not their mother had a maternal instinct. There are plenty of mothers who clearly don't have a maternal instinct, and you could still have a maternal instict that you just use it a different way. (Perhaps to raise pets, or teach children, idk.) But even if you didn't have a maternal instinct, that doesn't make you broken. It's not a disability, disorder or illness. The world could have one less Monet, or surgeon for your decision but it could also have one less criminal or NEET, so the impact of one couple not having a child or children is usually pretty minimal. I would also not consider it "sympathetic" for people to assume something is wrong with your marriage because of this. I'd say it's rude, presumptious and ignorant more than anything. People should be made aware that everyone has different goals in life and for some, having children just isn't and won't ever be one of them. The same way that some aren't interested in the opposite sex, or sex in general, or dating, or public displays of affection, some people aren't interested in children. That's it. That's all there needs to be to it. Strangers shouldn't assume anything or ask personal questions to begin with. It's annoying when they pry like that. I'm sorry you've met such shitty people. Hopefully if the woke crowd brings anything good into society it will include less pressure on people to have children.
@slinky_whippet Yes, I absolutely agree. Why do they even care about my and my partners life choices? Btw: love your hair, it makes one happy just by looking at it :)
We have a couple of friends who are also child-free by choice and I know they've gotten the same things. The big one for them is the woman's mother who is absolutely convinced that her daughter will some day "wake up" and want children, but by then it'll be too late. Ugh!
Also, no one is storing your account information to be hacked if you pay with cash. I've had to have my credit/debit cards replaced twice in the past five years because national chains that should have good security had their customers' financial information stolen and shared on the black market (Home Depot and Target.) I switched to mainly cash transactions after that.
Spain has tried the 4-day working week (in a specific part, I believe) and after a couple (a few?) years, it has shown that productivity stayed the same and people were more happy at work and in general!
They are still figuring it out but they are the first to take on this experiment and the results will be in the future. They hope to see the results of a Spanish company that did the same thing
(10:20) As someone who has bought train tickets in a European country; they did not have extra charges and the listed price is what you would pay at max. _However,_ if you choose to print it by a ticket machine, they cut 5%, and if you choose to print at home or use your phone, they cut 10%. They could have easily shown 90% of the price as the listing price and then add a fee to not print at home. But they did not. It's nice when they don't pull this crap.
When card charges were banned in the UK, Just-Eat was still applying a card fee. They're trying to make it seem like they aren't still applying that charge by renaming it from "Card Fee" (or whatever it used to be) to "Service Charge" instead.
I love british coins. I love the shape of the 20 and 50p coins. I used to love how all the pound coins had different designs and you could see which country they were from plus the weight of them was so satisfying. I love how big and stupid the 2 p coin is.
The pound coins still are very different. A couple years ago they release a collection of coins where if you had a 1, 2, 5, 10 and a 20p, they made an image. It was super cool.
Yeah 2P’s we’re designed to be quadruple the size of the farthing for easy identification but when we removed the farthing we didn’t adjust the size to better align with the other coins
@@jmurray1110 the 2p was 4 times the weight of the 1/2p, not the 1/4d (farthing). The limiting factor was the weight of the 1/2p coin - once that was set, the 1p was twice the weight of the 1/2p, and the 2p is twice the weight of the 1p. That way, £1 worth of 1/2p, 1p or 2p all weigh the same.
The complaint about pennies costing more to produce than they're worth is a little bit ignorant, as I'm pretty sure small-value coins have *always* costed more to produce than their stated value. The reason it doesn't matter is because they're spent over and over again. Coins represent value as long as they're in circulation, so if you had a choice between making a coin cheaply and making a coin that will survive in circulation for a long time, you should opt for the latter.
But it’s also their usefulness. A penny can’t purchase anything in the year 2021. We got rid of them in Canada when I was in high school, and they haven’t been missed. It also saved the government money
@@Likeicare96 A dime is worth what a penny was in 1950 and they didn't have 1/10 pennies then. And a US penny is worth even less than a UK one. (£1 = $1.38). Our nickels also cost more to make than they are worth.
@@Likeicare96 - People say that and I have no idea tbh. Unless everyone rounds all their prices up, I'd have thought pennies would have some utility. To be clear though, I'm not really defending pennies - just saying that argument about cost of production is flawed.
@@FTZPLTC yeah, stuff gets rounded up or down to the closest nickel (when paying in cash). But like I said, no one really notices/cares. If anything, I hear more Canadian complain about getting useless pennies when visiting down south
@@Likeicare96 just save up your shrapnel and go shopping with it. It's hilarious to see yourself counting it up, then the cashier doing the same (even better when they trust you so don't need to bother) It's only over the last 5 years that Italy has adopted The Card. 13 years ago I had to borrow cash from a friend because NOWHERE took it!! Thankfully they even have the contact less one now!!!
I'm 22 and have always preferred cash. Easier to budget, prevents you from over spending, etc. On a side note, in the United States removing cash as a payment option is 100% a direct attack on poor people.
@@dylandajhharwood5566 It's hard to get a bank account when you're homeless. Unless there is a system in place where anyone can get a basic bank account with a debit card, then homeless people would have no way of spending or receiving money in a cashless society.
Even people who live out in the middle of nowhere would struggle if cash wasn’t a payment option. Banks either don’t open in some rural areas or they are in the process of closing because having locations there is costing the banks more money than they’re bringing in from those locations.
@@dylandajhharwood5566 Many communities (rural, low income, industrial areas, places with high populations of immigrants and people of color) typically are under banked, meaning there are generally very few banks available. Banks in the United States have a long and racist history of scamming and abusing low income, so many people simply don’t trust banks. Banks consider low income areas “high risk areas” and will refuse to operate in those places. The post office in the United States used to also double as a public banking option, acting historically as the best banking option for low income residents. You could avoid fees, cash your pay check, pay your bills, etc., until that option was taken away. Additionally many immigrants are extremely limited in banking options, and many undocumented immigrants are paid in cash only. Lots of low income workers make a huge amount of their earnings from cash tips as well and can avoid that income being taxed if it kept out of a bank. Hope that explains a little bit!
You couldn’t have American style in your face customer service in britain, it would cause too much violence it’s too annoying to us lol. But obviously it’s technically better as it’s more attentive
@@kJ922-h3j Hahaha yeah I work in Argos and we're told basically don't bother the customers unless they look stuck/confused, but if they need help do everything you can for them (still doesn't stop the occassional one getting angry/violent tho lol)
No to the Sunday laws being removed! In fact I think there should be more laws to let people have Sundays and bank holidays off. I think they should get more breaks! People should just deal with a little inconvenience so that other people can have a day off like they have!
I remember when all the shops used to only open half day on a Wednesday. It was only the 90s when this stopped. Retail worker complained about that at the time; the. They complained when the late night opening came in and then complained when supermarkets were eventually permitted to open on a Sunday. If you don’t like working retail hours don’t work in retail.
@@Alcogod. If shops had to employ more people to cover the same amount of man hours then this would either lead to lower wages or higher prices or both. Business are profit driven after all.
@@janani1826 you are correct most of the low level jobs are no longer the classic 9-5 but are now shift work 5 from 7 days. I get what your saying depending on a persons level of education certain jobs may be closed to them.
Yes and only Southern England at that! I live in the Midlands and would like to see the people I'm a fan of sometimes. If they'd at least go to Cardiff or something I could stay with family.
A bit related-a bit not: Artists touring in America, in that particularly the US & calling it a world tour. There is a bloody real world outside the US for god's sake!
@@violetskies14 @ who are you only seeing that tours southern England? Most bands I know go London as the most South, and also do multiple northern gigs like Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, and others nearby but only one southern date which is London, no south west at all, people from Devon and Cornwall can't even go to Bristol for gig and even from Bristol it's a few hundred pounds on the train or a 3+ hour coach each way for the nearest gig....
Definitely agree though bands need to tour in Cardiff at least, it may still be a fair distance to travel from South west and west of England at least its a little closer than London
One thing about the Sunday trading law is that in my experience retail workers are some of the people who most passionately hate it. It's not like they get a day off, what happens instead is that they still have to lose the whole day to work but they get 2-3 less hours of pay
Until redundancy I worked in retail. I worked Sunday through Wednesday. I got paid time and a half for Sunday and the same for Bank Holidays and I would get 44hrs extra time to make up for working Bank Holidays. Shops should all close on Boxing Day, however.
@@denisemeredith2436 time and a half on Sundays sounds amazing I've never heard of anyone getting that. I'm not even sure if I got it on bank holidays tbh I think I might have only gotten time and a half for Christmas Eve, boxing day and new year's eve
I never minded working Sundays all that much. The general perception was that most businesses were closed, so people didn't bother us as much on the phones (contact centre work) and it was generally a quieter, shorter, more chilled out shift for some of us (varied by department, naturally).
I’m an American and when my family and I visited London back in 2017 for my 16th birthday I was surprised that people that live in London and those that visit London actually have to pay in order to use the restroom. Supposedly there’s restrooms that are free to use.🤷🏻♂️ I don’t know if this is considered being xenophobic, but I am very grateful that there weren’t any restrooms I have been to in the US that were like that.
@@brianorozco1074 It's also common elsewhere, like Germany and Austria. It was worth €.50 or whatever it was for that super clean modern one in the Vienna train station that cleans off the seat with every flush.
@@beththedarkmage3359 I think there was one at King’s Cross Station close to the Harry Potter shop and another one near a thing called “City Cruises London Westminster Pier.” Those are the only two places I remember where you have to pay before entering the restroom. Well I used the men’s restroom so maybe the women’s restroom is different.
On FPTP, it’s perhaps worth adding that although there was a referendum to replace it, that was a stitch up. The choice was between two majoritarian systems, the other being AV. This despite the Jenkins report having recommended AV+ for the UK. Ideally, we need STV, AMS or similar to get a Commons where seat counts are broadly in line with voter patterns, but where local representation (for a given value of local) still exists and where we don’t fall into the rabbit hole of list MPs you cannot oust. And for that to happen, Labour needs to come to terms with having to work with others (for which it would be in power very regularly) rather than being isolationist (which mostly leaves Labour the biggest loser, yelling from the sidelines).
I just left a comment about this myself, yeah we had a vote on it but AV wouldn't have really fixed anything and would probably have just delayed us even longer in getting a different system to FPTP. Because if we've just gone through all the hassle of changing it to AV, it would be tricky to convince people to go through it all again no longer after.
@@comraderamirez9866 In effect, it was a trap. Labour during coalition negotiations only offered AV as well. Both Con and Lab knew either result would suit them and be the forever argument putting PR to rest. Although we do at least see now a majority in favour of electoral reform-even including a sizeable number of Con voters. I won’t hold my breath though.
-The DWP using extremely ableist stereotypes and any tiny detail they can make up as excuses for not giving sick and disabled people PIP. -For that matter the fact that disabled people can’t get married without losing their benefits, have to keep proving themselves every 3 years, and get encouraged by Citizen’s Advice to dehumanise yourself as much as possible by only describing your worst days, because they know that the assessor will use anything positive against you. -The fact that sick and disabled people have to fight for the help they need at all and it’s often thought that assessors get paid more for every rejection.
We got rid of pennies in Canada maybe about a decade ago or so. If you *are* paying cash, it's a little weird at first to get an amount rounded to the nearest five cents, but once you get used to that, it's pretty painless. The rounding difference actually encouraged some people to switch to plastic, I think.
@@laurie7689 I wholeheartedly agree with you. Definitely not advocating compressed hours ( @Lania22's description sounded more closely to how I understand a compressed work pattern). What's more 40 hour work weeks sound barbaric as it is. Indeed 4 days work weeks with fewer hours is better, as are flexible start and finish times and where possible hybrid home / office splits. 2020 demonstrated to many corporate organisations that technology for online collaboration is viable). Finally enjoying time away from the office with family and friends is paramount.
I agree that 40hrs can be barbaric. My husband was working compressed work hours for 9 months this year and cramming a work week into 4 days was worse than working 5 shorter days. He was so drained after 10-12 hrs a day plus commuting. They also found that there was a lot of looking busy and not actually doing anything going on because the company wasn't organised enough to plan the work that needed doing properly. It could have worked as a shorter more efficient work week with 4 x 8hr or 6 hr days if the planning by management was done better. That's where I think a lot of companies might fall down in a switch to 4 shorter days.
It’s bad enough patients are charged to park at hospitals but so are the workers O.o A nurse mentioned to me yesterday she gets charged twice as it clocks over into next day if she takes overtime.
"Use of cash has dropped massively, especially since the pandemic." Yeah, because lots of shops don't LET you use cash! Heck we just came back from the UK and were told so often that we can't pay in cash. Which is rubbish because we get charged stupid amounts for the conversion into pounds on our cards. Paying a coffee by card just doesn't make sense, it'll end up costing you way more as a tourist.
I am going on a short trip to the UK from Germany in two weeks and this is really good to know. Do you know, by chance, if this applies to supermarkets, too? Also, does your card gave V-Pay? I don't remember veing charged for the use of my debit card in London back in 2017... but veing a uni student I have to try to avoid unecessary fees if possible ^^
It was “suggested” here in Canada, during this pandemic, that cards were safer and thus better, than cash. Most places offered the option of how you paid, but some said cards only. Even though, I mostly use a card, I won’t go to those places. Canadian money says “Legal Tender” on all the bills, by the Bank of Canada. As far as I’m concerned that means EVERY establishment, of whatever kind, HAS to take cash!! AND there are still people in this World that only use cash. I’m thinking mostly of seniors, but I noticed in earlier comments that young people use cash too.
@@nancyrafnson4780 Legal tender only means it must be accepted by a creditor in repayment of a debt. A private company can refuse any money you give them if they want.
It really sucks as when I first came to the UK to study, my debit card didnt arrive and the shops mostly took debit card only which meant I had to use my card from back home which means commisions.
I would much rather do 10 hour days Monday - Thursday, but that would never happen in my workplace unless the clients _also_ subscribe to that working pattern. For us to make this possible, everybody needs to adopt the same agenda.
No no no!! First past the post is NOT a preferential voting system. You do not get to express preferences in first past the post, you get to put one cross in one box and that is that. [ETA to correct plurality to preferential]
This means that the winner is the candidate with the most votes but that does not mean they have the majority of votes. What you described was a single transferable vote system, which will usually deliver a winner who has support, of varying degrees, from the majority of constituents.
@@Eaglelives I mean that's not entirely fair, AV is technically better yes but it wouldn't have really fixed the major issues that FPTP has which is still the winner takes all approach in constituencies. Most people who want some kind of reform want one that links a party's tally of votes to its tally of seats, something AV fails to deliver, you still basically end up converging towards two main parties.
@@comraderamirez9866 Improvements are good and most people who want some kind of reform have the first priority of wanting a system that allows a person to vote for who they want to vote for, not having to vote tactically because otherwise they waste a vote. Allowing people to vote for who you WANT to vote for will also naturally reduce the converging towards the two main parties, because there is a greater chance of other parties getting seats.
1st view, first comment lets goo Love your videos Evan! You have really helped shed some light on things I never knew existed (im british btw) in america, such as the tipping culture video.
I remember that,it was all very low key,I think I voted first past the post,to my shame,only I think I thought the other option was too like in Italy where they seemed to have numerous parties in lots of complicated arrangements. I d vote different now but it's too late of course.
This was, at least partly, because of dodgy propaganda from the same people who brought us Brexit and repeated Conservative governments. A curious coincidence?
@@wscottwatson The referendum was a requirement by the Lib-Dems when they joined the coalition. Neither Labour nor the Conservatives wanted it so they campaigned against it. The Lib-Dems look a long way from forcing another referendum.
In my country shops used to be open on Sundays but some years back we had a referendum on whether or not we wanted the shops to be closed on Sunday (fully closed, btw, none of that 4 hours crap) and most people were in favor, because despite it being "an inconvenience," we sympathise with retail workers and wanted them to have at least one guaranteed day off per week. So no, I don't think we should abolish that, in fact, more countries in 2021 should have that system.
@@Alcogod But that still requires _someone_ to work on Sunday/the weekend. And if you mean that someone _only_ works then and not during the week... It'd be great if that could work, but unfortunately no one can survive financially by only working weekends. If they also work during the week, however, the same problem arises that was the reason the law got introduced in the first place: that employee works every day of the week with no days off.
@@Alcogod Hmm, I suppose that would be a solution, yes. I'm not a fan of the 5-day work week anyway. Sadly, my country (along with most others) isn't as based (yet) to implement anything like that, so the Sundays off law is better than nothing for now. I do really like your idea, however, and hope it becomes reality one day.
We solved guaranteeing at least 1 day off a week for retail workers by only making employers pay NI if staff worked 30+ hours a week so everyone got employed for 30 hours.
Maybe we should change it to Monday or something though since the weekend allows people to do big shops due to work so having it to a day most people work on let’s them have a break and not cause issues for people on a deadline
Retail services exist for the consumers of those services. If the consumer is willing to pay for what it costs the business to provide the convenience of having the shops open everyday, then it should be open everyday. Sunday should be treated like any other day. There are many ways to make it work without the workers being overworked.
I personally think that the student loan system in the UK is brilliant lol. The only problem is the means tested maintenance loan can cause problems for the middle class who can't afford to pay for their kids I guess. But we are privileged to have a maintenance loan in the first place 😂 Feel free to explain any problems to me cos I really struggle to see any. Starting uni next week!
Yeah obviously the system isn’t perfect, it would be nice if education was free but it’s actually pretty good. You don’t really have to pay much and you only pay what you can. Also after enough time if you haven’t been able to pay it off it gets written off. As well as if your from a poorer background you can get bursaries from the age of 16 which is just entirely free money that never has to be payed off.
I agree. The biggest problem is maintenance costs not tuition and although tuition fees are high the amount of people who are now able to go to university is significantly higher than before fees were put in place.
Indeed i wasnt entitled to a Maintenance loan due to being too ''rich'' Ended up having to drop out of Uni and became homeless. Dont know why they count Parents and Step Parents money as your money when your an adult.
I'm starting back for my second year (does the last year even count?) in two weeks! If I mention doing a Masters to my parents and they go on a rant about how I've got to pay back the tutition and maintenance loans and could I go without the maintenance loan next year as if in the long run that will make any difference... But as I understand it, you only have to pay some of it back and only under certain circumstances? Besides if you stay in education - you never will! :)
The BBC is a great institution. They make some excellent TV, and radio shows. They are on the whole politically neutral. I prefer to give them my money rather than someone like Murdoch or Branston.
@@jmurray1110 That's what I mean, those of us on the left think they're right of centre and the right think they're on the left. I was very disappointed with the Labour Party being called antisemitic before the last election but that was the news story everyone was running with.
@@gastrickbunsen1957 yeah Corbyn should never have been ousted particularly with Johnston being allowed to remain despite be actively terrible on camera like reciting a poem about colonialism while foreign minister in an excolony Also stamnir is a diet Tory wet wipe while corbyn is actually left leaning
@@jmurray1110 Corbyn was old school and it had the establishment worrief Starner's a wee bit to the left of Blair but only just and he's weak on the offensive. Blair was the only time I never voted Labour, Bushes poodle was a step too far.
They are not politically neutral at all lmao. I'd say most channels are more politically neutral. As someone quite neutral myself. Some of their TV is brilliant but some not so much lol
also another thing that’s annoying is when somebody indicates but doesn’t turn. i was about to cross the road the other day, this lady indicated on the roundabout but then went straight through & it was very confusing & also kinda dangerous. i literally had to stop in the middle of the road so she didn’t run me over
That's how I failed my first driving exam. I slammed the brakes at the same time as the instructor, but having the instructor intervene is pretty much an instant fail, whether or not it's actually your fault doesn't really matter to most of them since you "should have been able to anticipate other drivers' mistakes"
I felt the same and thought that I was more responsible with my money this way but many banks have dedicated apps for that not to mention many perks such as saving accounts
In terms of cash vs card and contactless, the ease of contactless makes me uncomfortable becuase I struggle to conceptualise that as spending money. Card payment with pin is a bit better and cash makes me really see that I'm spending it. That said, I do still use contactless because it's still easy.
yes omg yes yes. as someone with 22p left on a giftcard right now, just yes. theres nothing in the history of ever that costs that much. at least let us cash in the rest as regular money.
German here, my old English teacher watched Mrs. Brown's boys with us in the last few lessons we had before we graduated. It was fun and many of us now watch it.
@@Notfallkaramell it's a specific style of comedy which has been seen as pretty 'low brow' here for a long time. We might be a bit of a snobby country tbf. I can't stand it, but I know that a lot of people do. I think older people like it as it's more similar to mainstream sitcoms of the 1970s. (Although I actually prefer a lot of those 😅)
@@caitlin329 (from US) It's done in front of an audience and is in a style that really predates TV, but with use of words and subject matter that would never have been seen on TV and in fact could not be on broadcast TV here today. Like panto in the UK. Plus a man playing Mrs Brown. The actor's actual wife plays his daughter. It's so old style its retro like a Fiat 500. It's a bit postmodern with direct address to the audience sometimes and showing the backstage etc. But the audience likes it way too much. I never heard of it before but there's some episodes here on RUclips.
In Scotland we have no Sunday trading laws. And some supermarkets open 24hrs. Tv license is worth its value so I don't mind paying for it. We also got rid of the half penny in the 80's. In Scotland for Scottish Parliament we have a mixture of first past the post and the single transferable voting system and local elections are totally single transferable votes just like the old days when UK was in the European Union. The Conservatives were dead against UK parliament changing to either proportional representation but had to ask for referendum as the were in coalition with the Libdems and it was part of the coalition agreement. If I remember correctly we in Scotland were to busy voting in both local and Scottish Parliamentary elections at the time to not care about a referendum on the UK parliament. But I do remember thinking that those against change was basically saying that UK citizens were too thick to understand a new voting system despite the fact that only England at the time was the only one who solely used 1st past the post.
When you said you don't have a million subs I went to check in disbelief. What! You absolutely deserve more popularity. Let's show this man some appreciation, guys!
In some countries that use Euro as the currency the prices are rounded when paying in cash. In Finland stores are allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents when paying in cash. Stores often accept 1-cent and 2-cent coins, but usually require paying the rounded price, so you can't avoid rounding up by having the exact denomination. But if you pay with card, there won't be rounding. So, if the total at the checkout is e.g. 47.28 €, it will be 47.28 with card or 47.30 in cash. And similarly, 47.32 € will be 47.32 with card or 47.30 in cash. And now that I look it up, it seems that the European Central Bank (that controls the Euro currency) is planning or has planned abolishing the 1-cent coin (and possibly 2-cent coin) completely.
I like cash because it's still there when there is a malfunction with the system. And I find it easier to save money when I put it away and forget about it
In regards to the paying for toilets, I havn't used a public bathroom in a while. but I know here in Denmark and in Germany it was often that you didn't pay but made a deposit, i.e you insert a "insert what ever denomination of coin here" which would unlock the door, when you finish and lock the door behind you it would return the coin, same thing with shopping carts in Denmark, you insert a coin to unlock em and then get it back at the end. That way all you need is to have ONE coin ever or get a token of the same shape, which are often free give aways at supermarkets (at least here in Denmark).
My landlords have always been rather nice... well to be fair I only ever said hi to them when they came over to fix the broken lights. The one I have now is my grans friend who offered to let us live in their old house so also nice.
My grandma gives my a five pound note every time I visit her, even when I try to tell her no because the last one she gave me is still in my wallet... because I just don't use cash or need to use it... But I daren't attempt to explain contactless payments to her! :)
I bought my own place a year and two days ago. FINALLY, I'm my own landlord. The price that I'm paying for a mortgage (and mortgage insurance) is literally half of the average rent in my city right now.
I still have this! It is 100% for hospital parking because life currently sucks! My hospital only started charging for disabled parking 3 yrs ago yet they only accept coins...and the machines aren't accessible for many disabilities!
I still have a little cubby hole to the right ofy steering wheel that has coins in for this reason. I travel for work a lot and there are still plenty of ticket machines that don't accept card
Charges are all dependent on who owns the cash point/payment machine. Few, if any.banks will charge you to use their machines, even if you don't bank with them, but the ATMs in the local corner shop or whatever are owned by a company, and leased out to the shop, and charging you is an extra income stream for them.
Ok the TV license thing isn’t just for the TV, it covers the radio and basically everything the BBC offers. But yea, it’s stupid easy to get away with not paying for the TV license but most people pay anyways
All I know of first past the post system is that the teachers had to bring biscuits to stop a rebellion happening when they had to teach us about it...
Cash: I find it so much easier to stick to a budget. 10 quid left in my pocket, guess I'll have to choose between another drink or something to eat. Card I'll have both and worry about it later - looks at credit card bill later in the month....
German here: defending the trading laws :D I love it. I understand the convenience and supposed freedom that I experienced myself living in China, but overall the benefits outweigh. Constant productivity possibilities are a drain on the brain. Perhaps you do not have to finish that work task at 6pm in your free time on a Saturday and then plan another playdate for the children the coming week, because you know you can do the weekly shopping on Sunday. I like that the closed shops force us to repriorize in this constant hassle culture.
@@jmurray1110 Kids go to school on Mondays, so no family time if the parent works Sundays. In my country, Sundays are for family time, hobbies and contemplation. And it's perfectly fine like that.
TV License - Treat this like a subscription fee for all the free to air channels (which I watch online as I don't own an aerial cable and cbf sorting one). Taskmaster makes it worth it alone imo
I went to a pretentious restaurant and was served a tiny amount of artistically arranged food on a bloody slate! They seem to think they're classy. I wish I'd had the wit to say "can I have a microscope with that, and an effin plate".
"Just have to pay $100 a month to Comcast" Me: *crying paying nearly $200 for basic cable and internet with Spectrum because Comcast doesnt service my area*
I actually pay for a UK TV license every now and then even though I'm not in the UK, just so I can watch Doctor Who and some other shows on the iPlayer. Here in Germany there is no other way to watch new episodes anywhere close to release, and I don't want to wait 6 months+ for them.
"i've never seen mrs brown's boys" my boss 10 years ago at the furniture project i volunteered at loved mrs. bown's boys. he'd prosletyse about it. i tried watching it and it got as many laughs out of me as an m25 pile-up.
I'm 35 and pretty well off, but I use cash as much as I can. If you take cash out of the equation then companies that produce bank cards (both debit and credit) or handle money transactions (worldline) are going to become monopolies, set the prices they want for you to have and use your card, and have tons of info on you that they can sell (which they do already with what they have). Cash is important to freedom.
I’m the same I never have cash and whenever an opportunity comes up where I have to pay in cash it’s always a huge hassle. I’m 31 but I do know a lot of people in their 40s and older still only use cash. It seems to be generational.
37 and I RARELY touch cash. My parents however 61 & 62 definitely cash. Dad has venmo but he doesn't quite understand it and my mom is a technotard who is still learning what an app is.
TV License, tbh I don't know why we call it that. Its more a bbc subscription thing, of like £100~ish a year. For several TV, radio, and catch-up (bbc iplayer) and their online radio system, the documentaries, and other things they do. And it does mean you get NO ads. If you don't use the bbc, you don't have to pay. I don't mind it as it helps the bbc stay publicly funded, and it's generally just a lot you get, considering how little you're paying (compared to other steaming servers or TV apps)
People like to bash the TV licence, but it's Hella good value. 6+ TV channels, 6+ Radio stations, News, great shows, bitesize and much more. All Ad free
I rarely had cash on me before the pandemic, now I panic if I order a taxi as I never carry cash on me now (Uber hasn't got to Oxford the last time I checked). Only some of the taxis have card machines....
The shops being closed on a Sunday is to ensure people can spend time with their families… I have lived in a place where the shops were open 7/7 and it’s sad that someone has to spend his Sunday working because someone else can’t enjoy some time at home
also a teenager. I basically grew up with being handed cash and getting to spend it at the local shops. felt cool, I feel you there. but these days having money laying around gives me extreme anxiety after having £50 that I'd been saving up, just stolen from my bedroom by my brother when I wasn't home. (10/11, he was 13/14) and/or just the fear of losing or misplacing it. so I'm now more inclined to spend cash as soon as I get it. (usually on things I dont need) OR if I have the energy to do so, walking up to the bank and putting the money on my card.
saying homophobia is less apparent then also saying two men kissing in your hometown would be unheard of is slightly contradictory, i think they meant that it just shouldn't exist whatsoever even if it is better it should just be gone. and people should be able to kiss in their hometowns
Woah! How did you get citizenship without understanding the importance of the Beeb?! Surely an in-depth test on Only fools and David Attenborough is mandatory? I am obviously kidding... mostly. But seriously the UK has always had some of the best TV in the world, the TV licence is great value for money.
The thing with the TV license is tricky. In Austria and Germany TV-licences are not about if you watch or not. As soon as you have a TV or radio in your flat, you pay.
I literally work 40 hours and My pay isn't enough yearly to get a flat through renting down here (Bournemouth). On my wage I'm allowed to rent at most a place for £500 a month (which doesn't exist) even though I could afford around £700 (and have some small change left over after bills).... I get landlords need to know you're able to afford your rent every month but when the minimum salary isn't even a studio flat down here how do people expect single parents and young people to not live at home or have to go on some sort of benefit? It's rediculous. You can only afford it if you're in a couple! Sorry I got the minimum wage point and just felt angry about England 😂
4:54 not me. Partially because i have little space to store it, espicially coins (admittedly only 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 are coins here with 1 USD being aproximately 7) I have a standard wallet, but i just use my phone cover, which has card holders.
I freak out at the prospect of having to type it in. A little tip, put it in your phone as a contact - add extra numbers on the end (so the first 4 is your pin) and call the contact Mr Pin or something. So helpful. 👍
5:44 I am doing a traineeship working 38 hours weekly, and I earn $7 less than minimum wage (in Australia). I get that the company is paying for me to get a qualification, and I am unskilled etc., but at the end of the day I do just as much work as people who earn 3-4x as much as me. Luckily I am young, don’t have a lot of expenses, and live with my parents, but if I wasn’t, I literally wouldn’t be able to afford to live. Internships, apprenticeships, and the like are such a mess, why does minimum wage exist if people get payed less?
"It's better than the US system" Both systems are fundamentally broken at their very core and are honestly pretty undemocratic when you look into them in any detail. At least all our constituencies have equal weight with each having about the same amount of people rather than there being more weight to your vote if you're in a state that has fewer people thanks to the 2 free EC members each state gets? I guess? On the other hand the US system has an elected upper house rather than an appointed one, so it's the swings and roundabouts of shit election systems. At least the Welsh and Scottish systems are better? (FWIW, if I could rewrite UK democracy to my dictate; I'd abolish the monarchy, keep single-member constituencies but replace the way we elect MPs with a condorset system - Likely MAM specifically - and implement PR for the lords while increasing the power of the upper house to make it proportionate to that of the commons.)
You know there was a reason for why the less populated states get more electors, right? And it was specifically for democratic purposes. Unless you're just a populist in which case the complaint about either system makes sense.
Housing costs reflect supply and demand. The only solution is convincing people and jobs to live in smaller cities, or turning London or San Francisco into Hong Kong.
I believe Finland dropped the 1- and 2-cent coins a long time ago. I'm WAY older than you, but I live an almost cashless lifestyle. And that's not always easy to do in Germany, which remains (despite COVID) a highly cash-oriented society. It's changing, but slowly. I started using Apple Pay as soon as it became available. I surprised some people and caused a few comments at first, but in the meantime, no one bats an eye.
@@HJ-ju4ui I make sure my phone is charged the same way I would check for my wallet before leaving the house. If I break my phone, which I never have once in my life, I'd take my card. Simple.
Yes a finn here can confirm! I believe we are one of the only euro countries to not use 1 and 2 cent coins. They are technically still official currency but the shops refuse to take them if you try and pay with them which sometimes causes problems when you visit a euro country that use the smallest coins and take them back to Finland and try to use them. We use the so called swedish rounding system so prices are rounded to the nearest 5 cents when paying in cash. Card payment is very popular so no need to carry around cash really (some exceptions of course like farmers markets etc might not have a card payment option)
I am with you for a 4 day. Dual Citizen here too. US and UK. Also torn about sidewalks rolling up on a Sunday. Very torn. I found it a beautiful thing, until I needed "something" on a Sunday at 6PM. Where you going? I think you're still going to live in London. Good luck fellow Dual Citizen. Walk tall! But not too tall, because some of the doors and ceiling tend to be on the lower side. Safety first!
@@charcoal8 They have introduced it in a lot of places elsewhere including Ireland, so the Isle of Man has it either side, but not themselves! I got into the habit during covid to avoid touching buttons, can't do it over a certain amount of money in most places.
@@comma_thingy yep your right. I also just realised that you would need a tv license to watch twitch unless you waited until the live stream was over and watched the recording. That also means you could never watch any event live like the World Cup, that’s really annoying for people who don’t have tv licenses.
@@adamwallis5903 You don't need a licence for twitch since it's not classed as TV. Stuff like watching the World Cup and other sports is a reason people go to pubs or whatever to watch.
Not sure if it has changed recently but the rules for a TV licence used to mean that you needed one if there is a TV in the house, even if you are not using it. And also ANY device which can stream catch up TV like BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub etc. So technically if you have a smartphone you need a TV licence! 🙄🤷♀️
Only if you watch BBC iplayer (says on the gov website). So they would have to prove you do. None of the houses I’ve lived in have had a TV licence since I moved out of home
Probably worth mentioning that we definitely do have Ticketmaster here - bought my ticket for an Orla Gartland concert through there! Also, paying for toilets is slowly being removed at train stations (or at least, the big London ones).
I never really get the argument against the TV Licence. The licence is there to pay for the live transmission of BBC channels and funds their services (the TV channels, the radio stations, iPlayer, their creative output, etc) all for only 96p a day. It's a lot of content for a reasonable price. You pay the fee to get these services which are ad free (that's where other channels get the bulk of their funds through ad revenue). If you don't use the services then don't pay. But I think it's a bit ridiculous to say "who watches TV in 2021?". Well, millions of people do. Just look at the recent record breaking success of Line of Duty as an example. People of all ages use these services, but just because some people only use streaming or RUclips, doesn't mean others don't use and value the services provided by the license. But if you do want to use the service you pay the fairly minimal fee, it's only fair. (NB. I'm a 20 year old before anyone says I'm just an old man who doesn't get streaming - I use streaming services to)
To us where university was free 10 years ago, then suddenly went up to 3k then 9k a year or two later, it seems unfair. Especially when if you move to Scotland you still get it free
@@franklinnartz1381 If you ignore spelling, and take purely the meaning of the words, then yes, it falls in the same category. It was pretty obvious I wasn't talking about the spelling of the words.
No no no!!’n First past the post is NOT a plurality voting system. You do not get to express preferences in first past the post, you get to put one cross in one box and that it that.
okay THANK YOU I thought I was going CRAZY but that's why I put the little pop up text on screen cause I have been in a rushed state the last 2 months due to the move.
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This is only half right!! First past the post IS a plurality voting system. A 'plurality' means that the candidate who receives more votes than any other candidate, but NOT necessarily a majority, is elected. That's how FPTP works. Under FPTP you can't express second or third preferences, but that has nothing to do with 'plurality'.
First past the post is absolutely a plurality voting system, the person with the plurality of the votes wins. Expressing preferences has nothing to do with a plurality systems, a preferential system is be definition majoritarian and not a plurality system. I think you’re getting confused between the definition of a plurality voting system and the definition of pluralism, something which does not exist in a plurality system.
@@cece-707 yep, you are correct. I was rushing to get the reply in and then managed to post it twice and wrote plurality rather than preferential! On my second one I I put another comment in to explain further about FPTP.
What you described in that segment was ranked-choice voting, not FPTP
It is a bit wild how controversial it is to say "everyone should earn enough to eat, pay rent and live in relative comfort"
Edit: for those who disagree with this statement, I shouldn't have to explain to you that you should care about other people
That's not controversial, what is controversial is how we get there
I mean I just don't think it's the fellow citizens or the governments burden to provide for someone who just straight up doesn't care. Like some people choose to live like that, despite having marketable talents for jobs. I'd like a happy medium. Like if you want a job we'll find one for you, we'll give you a stipend for rent and food to get you back on your feet, but once you're back to being able to be independent you should.
@@megaconda07 the most well off people in the world don't work THAT hard. The 'lazy' argument just doesn't hold up with the obscene wealth hoarding of today.
Socialism is poison and people forget about that.
@@maxpower1337 kapitalism is poison and even though we live in such a system, people want to ignore how trash it is ☺️
The 40 hr work week is out dated. It was created when it was expected that someone was at home doing all the housework and taking care of children (in the case of families). Now, we can't do that (I feel no matter where you are in the world). You can't live on a single income if you have a family. Even single parents work multiple jobs and sometimes the kids get jobs as soon as they're able because of expenses.
There is still a need for the 40 hour week but some jobs don't require this. For example working in a shop no but working in the NHS yes
@@nic3525 I just mean a lot of people feel like failures because they work the 40 hours and can't get all the housework done etc. kind of thing. We've been made to believe we have to do it all and it's unhealthy.
i mostly agree but some people can have a family with one income. my friend’s mum is unemployed & the dad is the only one who works & they’re doing pretty well.
I answer a lot of surveys. I noticed that there are differences in German and Swiss surveys. In Switzerland only 42h work hours are considered "working full time". In Germany 30h+ hours are considered full time.
I have no idea how anyone manages housework and parenting alongside a full time job! I’m a stay-at-home mum and I can’t keep up.
But I do have to disagree with you on one thing, it is possible to for a family to live off one average income in Britain, my family do. I am very good at budgeting so we live comfortably.
One thing that actually needs to be gone is anti-homeless benches etc. It pisses me off anytime i see it in London
Agreed. How unnecessarily cruel does a city want to be after all? Problem with homeless people sleeping rough? Lets talk solutions. Should we increase shelters and make more council housing available? Naw, lets make benches uncomfortable. So disgusting!
Yes but a bastard bench only cost £200 and 1 hour to install where a soloution will cost ??? And effort!
The council is allergic to effort !!!!!
Hostile architecture needs to die it’s bad enough people can’t live in a house we don’t need to actively torture them
And band landlords and set up a independent housing council subject to the area that given people houses instead of making them a luxury good
And anti homeless doorway spikes 😭
Something that shouldn't exist: school uniforms not allowing girls to wear trousers.
Edit: A couple of people have mentioned boys not being allowed to wear skirts, and I 100% agree that uniform shouldn't be gendered either way, it's just in my personal experience i know more girls who'd rather wear trousers than boys who want to wear skirts, so it sprang to mind first.
Also thought I'd mention that while a lot of schools have changed the rules, way too many haven't imo. I go to school in an area with two mixed schools, a boys school, and a girls school all about a two minute walk away from each other. One mixed school has strictly gendered uniform, the other doesn't gender the uniform, the girls school only allows skirts, and the boys school only trousers. Like I say, all schools should have non-gendered uniform, not just some.
I know, pretty sus, borderline paedophilia imo
@@user-xf4ls5el1w Why’s it paedophilia?
@@jaymercer4692 pretty suspicious imo
that’s a thing? at my school & pretty much every school near me, girls can wear trousers
@@user-xf4ls5el1w Repeating your point isn’t answering my question. What’s sexually suggestive about a skirt? Unless we’re talking skirts that are too tight or too short. In which case I’ve never heard of a school that doesn’t actively try to make girls wear longer skirts. In my old school pencil skirts were banned because girls only wanted to wear short tight skirts that go halfway up there thighs (which the school was actively trying to prevent). The only skirts allowed were long frilly ones (I don’t know the proper terms). Because of that almost all the girls started wearing trousers because if it wasn’t skirts that were inappropriate then they didn’t want skirts.
So I resent the idea of you trying to suggest the idea that Uk school system is systematically paedophilic just because your trying to push an agenda or because you simply havnt thought about it much. I know it just seems like an innocent comment but it’s just factually wrong. Unless of course it isn’t in which I’d like to know more and to be educated. Which was the purpose of my last comment in which you simply repeated your point without elaborating whatsoever.
Yes, we in Canada have gotten rid of the penny and there really hasn’t been any problems. You can still exchange them for larger denominations at a bank to get your money back and they’ll have the coins melted down to get them out of circulation. When you’re purchasing something in cash, you round to the nearest 5 cents, but if you’re purchasing with a card the product retains its exact value
I would say that having 99p stores would be stupid then but I'm not even sure if they still exist now
What about 1p sweets 😃
Thats how it is in sweden as well, a lot of things cost something .95 and stuff but we have only 1 and up. But with a credit card you pay the exact ammount so if the total comes up to over 50 then its better to pay with card, but under cash is better as it then is rounded down. :)
@@lucie4185 Penny sweets haven't existed near me for 15 years. Cheapest sweet is 5p now.
I've got a 1 cent candy store near me but you have to buy at least 5
1) trollies (shopping carts) that require £1 coins. People rarely carry cash. Plus, when i was 34 weeks pregnant I went shopping and didn't know this store required £1 to use a trolley, they wouldn't loan me £1 and didn't offer any help. I had to struggle round the shop with a really heavy basket.
2) ATM charges- why should we have to pay to take out our own money?
3) hospital parking charges... just, no.
ATMs that are owned by banks and building societies... AFAIK they're all free. Even if you don't bank with them. The ATM in the bar or corner shop is not owned by a bank, and the company that does own it, their business model has 2 income streams - one from the business that rents/leases the machine, and the other is charging the poor sods who use it.
Tokens. As someone who works in a supermarket, people steal trollies a LOT- especially youth. The token system works well because most youth don’t want to put the effort so we get trollies stolen less!!! Since people want their belongings back lol. And trollies are super expensive for supermarkets to buy ): but most of us carry tokens and trolley unlockers rather than £1! Since trolly tokens are the exact same shape (:
Another plus of trolley tokens: PEOPLE DONT LEAVE TROLLIES ABANDONED EVERYWHERE and put them in trolley areas BECAUSE they want their coin back! In America trollies get dumped literally all across the parking lot from the photos friends showed me because people are lazy. I go out to do trollies and hey, if someone is that lazy and abandons their trolley without putting it back, at least I get paid an extra £1 to get it back to the trolley bay lol
@@nat3007 I used to but then changing purses I forget or sometimes I don't take a bag with me. Where I normally shop, I don't need the token :)
dont know if in the uk you can do this or if this is a thing but where i live, in italy, in theory people should use 1euro coins but there are places (both irl and online) that sell platic/metal fake coins that are not really fake coins but little disks of the dimension of 1€ that people use instead of that euro. generally they are keep in the car or wallet or bag, but the point is that they’re very useful
Things that shouldn't exist in UK 2021? Paying for parking at a hospital, even when you work there.
Removing the "child-free" stigma!
I'm 44, have been happily married for 18 years and we don't have, and definitely don't want, children. So I've had people assume one or both of us are infertile, been told we're selfish, I've been told I'm broken because I obviously don't have a "maternal instinct", had people sympathise because there's "obviously something wrong with our marriage"...the list goes on. Oh and most of the above comes from complete effing strangers 😡
So yeah I'd love people to stop thinking we're weird or broken because we don't want to have kids! Cos we're not!!
I feel like people with children feel attacked by those who don't want them and immediately go into defence mode, protecting their choice when noone asked 😅 it's like them justifying the fact that they have children because maybe they regret it or would've chosen a different path but can't now because it's too late 🤷🏻♀️
This is one of the shitiest things that still happens in developed countries around the world.
I get some people are old-fashioned numpties that still insist on nuclear families and others are concerned about how that would affect the economy, but honestly... there aren't many couples who remain without children their whole lives, so it's not going to fuck the economy if a few people opt out of the baby-making - darkness knows how many orphans are doomed to a life of feeling somehow inadequate or how many children have to suffer biological families that don't know the first thing about looking after children, why would you sacrifice the children for that anyway? If children aren't wanted in a family, they shouldn't be forced upon them by society, unless society feels like making both the children and the adults miserable for no sane reason. Anyway a couple can have a fulfilling relationship without children.
You are not broken, damaged, wrong, or inhuman because you do not want children. Your body is something you control and you are the only one who should have power over it. No one should decide this for you. We live in a civilised, developed world where we have a CHOICE. We have FREEDOM to choose how we want to live. And, as long as it doesn't harm anyone - and I don't see how NOT having children would harm anybody - a person should live how they choose. You do not need to be infertile to not have children, because this is the 21st century and people shouldn't have to explain themselves to anyone about these kinds of things. You're not selfish for not wanting to have children. Hell, maybe you're doing society a favour not having a single child and they just don't know it. Not like all children are angels, or all children will end up having great and productive lives regardless of their home environment and whether or not their mother had a maternal instinct. There are plenty of mothers who clearly don't have a maternal instinct, and you could still have a maternal instict that you just use it a different way. (Perhaps to raise pets, or teach children, idk.) But even if you didn't have a maternal instinct, that doesn't make you broken. It's not a disability, disorder or illness. The world could have one less Monet, or surgeon for your decision but it could also have one less criminal or NEET, so the impact of one couple not having a child or children is usually pretty minimal.
I would also not consider it "sympathetic" for people to assume something is wrong with your marriage because of this. I'd say it's rude, presumptious and ignorant more than anything. People should be made aware that everyone has different goals in life and for some, having children just isn't and won't ever be one of them. The same way that some aren't interested in the opposite sex, or sex in general, or dating, or public displays of affection, some people aren't interested in children. That's it. That's all there needs to be to it.
Strangers shouldn't assume anything or ask personal questions to begin with. It's annoying when they pry like that.
I'm sorry you've met such shitty people. Hopefully if the woke crowd brings anything good into society it will include less pressure on people to have children.
@slinky_whippet Yes, I absolutely agree. Why do they even care about my and my partners life choices? Btw: love your hair, it makes one happy just by looking at it :)
We have a couple of friends who are also child-free by choice and I know they've gotten the same things. The big one for them is the woman's mother who is absolutely convinced that her daughter will some day "wake up" and want children, but by then it'll be too late. Ugh!
I'm 35 and don't want children and ppl look at me like I have to heads. I have a choice and choose not to have them but ppl can't grasp thus
I'm 21 and absolutely a cash person. I don't want to feel disconnected from the money I'm spending.
exactly this
it is a good way to keep better track and budget.
with cash i also have more knowlegde about how much i'm spending
Also, no one is storing your account information to be hacked if you pay with cash. I've had to have my credit/debit cards replaced twice in the past five years because national chains that should have good security had their customers' financial information stolen and shared on the black market (Home Depot and Target.)
I switched to mainly cash transactions after that.
I've been unable to at the moment (yey no money, wooo) but having _some_ cash is a good habit. Imagine if the banking / card system goes down...
Spain has tried the 4-day working week (in a specific part, I believe) and after a couple (a few?) years, it has shown that productivity stayed the same and people were more happy at work and in general!
They are still figuring it out but they are the first to take on this experiment and the results will be in the future. They hope to see the results of a Spanish company that did the same thing
(10:20) As someone who has bought train tickets in a European country; they did not have extra charges and the listed price is what you would pay at max. _However,_ if you choose to print it by a ticket machine, they cut 5%, and if you choose to print at home or use your phone, they cut 10%.
They could have easily shown 90% of the price as the listing price and then add a fee to not print at home. But they did not. It's nice when they don't pull this crap.
Welcome back to a man who has fully embraced the Englishman’s Gods-given right to regret being an Englishman.
When card charges were banned in the UK, Just-Eat was still applying a card fee. They're trying to make it seem like they aren't still applying that charge by renaming it from "Card Fee" (or whatever it used to be) to "Service Charge" instead.
The difference now is they charge everyone the service fee, even if you pay in cash.
Same here in the Netherlands. Our version of Just Eat is one of the only companies that charges a card fee/fee for using iDeal.
I love british coins. I love the shape of the 20 and 50p coins. I used to love how all the pound coins had different designs and you could see which country they were from plus the weight of them was so satisfying. I love how big and stupid the 2 p coin is.
The pound coins still are very different. A couple years ago they release a collection of coins where if you had a 1, 2, 5, 10 and a 20p, they made an image.
It was super cool.
the 2p coins are the definition of over compensating
Yeah 2P’s we’re designed to be quadruple the size of the farthing for easy identification but when we removed the farthing we didn’t adjust the size to better align with the other coins
Ah yes, so just like the Euro where you can also see which country they're from. Except the sizes actually make sense.
@@jmurray1110 the 2p was 4 times the weight of the 1/2p, not the 1/4d (farthing).
The limiting factor was the weight of the 1/2p coin - once that was set, the 1p was twice the weight of the 1/2p, and the 2p is twice the weight of the 1p. That way, £1 worth of 1/2p, 1p or 2p all weigh the same.
The complaint about pennies costing more to produce than they're worth is a little bit ignorant, as I'm pretty sure small-value coins have *always* costed more to produce than their stated value. The reason it doesn't matter is because they're spent over and over again. Coins represent value as long as they're in circulation, so if you had a choice between making a coin cheaply and making a coin that will survive in circulation for a long time, you should opt for the latter.
But it’s also their usefulness. A penny can’t purchase anything in the year 2021. We got rid of them in Canada when I was in high school, and they haven’t been missed. It also saved the government money
@@Likeicare96 A dime is worth what a penny was in 1950 and they didn't have 1/10 pennies then. And a US penny is worth even less than a UK one. (£1 = $1.38). Our nickels also cost more to make than they are worth.
@@Likeicare96 - People say that and I have no idea tbh. Unless everyone rounds all their prices up, I'd have thought pennies would have some utility.
To be clear though, I'm not really defending pennies - just saying that argument about cost of production is flawed.
@@FTZPLTC yeah, stuff gets rounded up or down to the closest nickel (when paying in cash). But like I said, no one really notices/cares. If anything, I hear more Canadian complain about getting useless pennies when visiting down south
@@Likeicare96 just save up your shrapnel and go shopping with it. It's hilarious to see yourself counting it up, then the cashier doing the same (even better when they trust you so don't need to bother)
It's only over the last 5 years that Italy has adopted The Card. 13 years ago I had to borrow cash from a friend because NOWHERE took it!! Thankfully they even have the contact less one now!!!
I'm 22 and have always preferred cash. Easier to budget, prevents you from over spending, etc. On a side note, in the United States removing cash as a payment option is 100% a direct attack on poor people.
How would removing cash as a payment option in the US be a direct attack on poor people in America? I'm from Britain and genuinely interested.
@@dylandajhharwood5566 It's hard to get a bank account when you're homeless. Unless there is a system in place where anyone can get a basic bank account with a debit card, then homeless people would have no way of spending or receiving money in a cashless society.
Even people who live out in the middle of nowhere would struggle if cash wasn’t a payment option. Banks either don’t open in some rural areas or they are in the process of closing because having locations there is costing the banks more money than they’re bringing in from those locations.
@@dylandajhharwood5566 Many communities (rural, low income, industrial areas, places with high populations of immigrants and people of color) typically are under banked, meaning there are generally very few banks available. Banks in the United States have a long and racist history of scamming and abusing low income, so many people simply don’t trust banks. Banks consider low income areas “high risk areas” and will refuse to operate in those places. The post office in the United States used to also double as a public banking option, acting historically as the best banking option for low income residents. You could avoid fees, cash your pay check, pay your bills, etc., until that option was taken away. Additionally many immigrants are extremely limited in banking options, and many undocumented immigrants are paid in cash only. Lots of low income workers make a huge amount of their earnings from cash tips as well and can avoid that income being taxed if it kept out of a bank. Hope that explains a little bit!
@@FlashBackMusicVideos UK post offices had a banking function long after US ones did, which was a really long time ago.
Next time you could choose a question from r/AskEurope, it would be interesting to have answers from all over the continent
He’s already done multiple videos on that subreddit.
Hey nearly same pb
Welcome back to a man from America who now has the right to complain about the UK's terrible customer service
You couldn’t have American style in your face customer service in britain, it would cause too much violence it’s too annoying to us lol. But obviously it’s technically better as it’s more attentive
@@kJ922-h3j Hahaha yeah I work in Argos and we're told basically don't bother the customers unless they look stuck/confused, but if they need help do everything you can for them (still doesn't stop the occassional one getting angry/violent tho lol)
We would actively beat the shit out of American service workers if they came over
No to the Sunday laws being removed!
In fact I think there should be more laws to let people have Sundays and bank holidays off. I think they should get more breaks! People should just deal with a little inconvenience so that other people can have a day off like they have!
I work in retail and I'm thankful for them, I'd happily increase them
I remember when all the shops used to only open half day on a Wednesday. It was only the 90s when this stopped. Retail worker complained about that at the time; the. They complained when the late night opening came in and then complained when supermarkets were eventually permitted to open on a Sunday. If you don’t like working retail hours don’t work in retail.
@@rayeasom it's not that easy though because now it's the majority of 'low level' jobs
@@Alcogod. If shops had to employ more people to cover the same amount of man hours then this would either lead to lower wages or higher prices or both. Business are profit driven after all.
@@janani1826 you are correct most of the low level jobs are no longer the classic 9-5 but are now shift work 5 from 7 days. I get what your saying depending on a persons level of education certain jobs may be closed to them.
Bands or artists doing a UK tour and only visiting England.
Yes and only Southern England at that! I live in the Midlands and would like to see the people I'm a fan of sometimes. If they'd at least go to Cardiff or something I could stay with family.
A bit related-a bit not: Artists touring in America, in that particularly the US & calling it a world tour.
There is a bloody real world outside the US for god's sake!
@@violetskies14 @ who are you only seeing that tours southern England? Most bands I know go London as the most South, and also do multiple northern gigs like Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, and others nearby but only one southern date which is London, no south west at all, people from Devon and Cornwall can't even go to Bristol for gig and even from Bristol it's a few hundred pounds on the train or a 3+ hour coach each way for the nearest gig....
Definitely agree though bands need to tour in Cardiff at least, it may still be a fair distance to travel from South west and west of England at least its a little closer than London
Missing Wales is a shame but I understand with it being so tiny in population. Scotland has turned into a bit of a hell hole the last 20 years.
One thing about the Sunday trading law is that in my experience retail workers are some of the people who most passionately hate it. It's not like they get a day off, what happens instead is that they still have to lose the whole day to work but they get 2-3 less hours of pay
Until redundancy I worked in retail. I worked Sunday through Wednesday. I got paid time and a half for Sunday and the same for Bank Holidays and I would get 44hrs extra time to make up for working Bank Holidays. Shops should all close on Boxing Day, however.
I thought the Sunday trading laws were due to the Church.
That’s not my experience at all, don’t speak on behalf of shopworkers.
@@denisemeredith2436 time and a half on Sundays sounds amazing I've never heard of anyone getting that. I'm not even sure if I got it on bank holidays tbh I think I might have only gotten time and a half for Christmas Eve, boxing day and new year's eve
I never minded working Sundays all that much. The general perception was that most businesses were closed, so people didn't bother us as much on the phones (contact centre work) and it was generally a quieter, shorter, more chilled out shift for some of us (varied by department, naturally).
"I just step over the barrier". Tall person privilege from Evan there!
Hahhaa
I’m an American and when my family and I visited London back in 2017 for my 16th birthday I was surprised that people that live in London and those that visit London actually have to pay in order to use the restroom. Supposedly there’s restrooms that are free to use.🤷🏻♂️
I don’t know if this is considered being xenophobic, but I am very grateful that there weren’t any restrooms I have been to in the US that were like that.
@@brianorozco1074 It's also common elsewhere, like Germany and Austria. It was worth €.50 or whatever it was for that super clean modern one in the Vienna train station that cleans off the seat with every flush.
@@brianorozco1074 I live in London and I have NEVER encountered this. What kind of buildings had these?
@@beththedarkmage3359 I think there was one at King’s Cross Station close to the Harry Potter shop and another one near a thing called “City Cruises London Westminster Pier.”
Those are the only two places I remember where you have to pay before entering the restroom. Well I used the men’s restroom so maybe the women’s restroom is different.
On FPTP, it’s perhaps worth adding that although there was a referendum to replace it, that was a stitch up. The choice was between two majoritarian systems, the other being AV. This despite the Jenkins report having recommended AV+ for the UK.
Ideally, we need STV, AMS or similar to get a Commons where seat counts are broadly in line with voter patterns, but where local representation (for a given value of local) still exists and where we don’t fall into the rabbit hole of list MPs you cannot oust.
And for that to happen, Labour needs to come to terms with having to work with others (for which it would be in power very regularly) rather than being isolationist (which mostly leaves Labour the biggest loser, yelling from the sidelines).
I just left a comment about this myself, yeah we had a vote on it but AV wouldn't have really fixed anything and would probably have just delayed us even longer in getting a different system to FPTP. Because if we've just gone through all the hassle of changing it to AV, it would be tricky to convince people to go through it all again no longer after.
@@comraderamirez9866 In effect, it was a trap. Labour during coalition negotiations only offered AV as well. Both Con and Lab knew either result would suit them and be the forever argument putting PR to rest. Although we do at least see now a majority in favour of electoral reform-even including a sizeable number of Con voters. I won’t hold my breath though.
(5:10) Yes, Sweden has some years ago got rid of all the cents; and it's just whole number currency when paying cash. Lowest coin is about 0,1 £/€.
Watching Evan discover r/wewantplates in real time was a joy… now do a whole video!
-The DWP using extremely ableist stereotypes and any tiny detail they can make up as excuses for not giving sick and disabled people PIP.
-For that matter the fact that disabled people can’t get married without losing their benefits, have to keep proving themselves every 3 years, and get encouraged by Citizen’s Advice to dehumanise yourself as much as possible by only describing your worst days, because they know that the assessor will use anything positive against you.
-The fact that sick and disabled people have to fight for the help they need at all and it’s often thought that assessors get paid more for every rejection.
We got rid of pennies in Canada maybe about a decade ago or so. If you *are* paying cash, it's a little weird at first to get an amount rounded to the nearest five cents, but once you get used to that, it's pretty painless. The rounding difference actually encouraged some people to switch to plastic, I think.
Here in Scotland there are trials going on to see if a four-day working week (with no loss of pay) is viable.
my dad works at a company where he gets Fridays off, he does have to work longer on the other days though.
@@lania2246 that sounds like "compressed hours". So you work 5 days over four (i.e. 10 hour days if you work a 40 hour work week).
@@laurie7689 I wholeheartedly agree with you. Definitely not advocating compressed hours ( @Lania22's description sounded more closely to how I understand a compressed work pattern). What's more 40 hour work weeks sound barbaric as it is.
Indeed 4 days work weeks with fewer hours is better, as are flexible start and finish times and where possible hybrid home / office splits. 2020 demonstrated to many corporate organisations that technology for online collaboration is viable).
Finally enjoying time away from the office with family and friends is paramount.
I agree that 40hrs can be barbaric. My husband was working compressed work hours for 9 months this year and cramming a work week into 4 days was worse than working 5 shorter days. He was so drained after 10-12 hrs a day plus commuting. They also found that there was a lot of looking busy and not actually doing anything going on because the company wasn't organised enough to plan the work that needed doing properly. It could have worked as a shorter more efficient work week with 4 x 8hr or 6 hr days if the planning by management was done better. That's where I think a lot of companies might fall down in a switch to 4 shorter days.
really
It’s bad enough patients are charged to park at hospitals but so are the workers O.o
A nurse mentioned to me yesterday she gets charged twice as it clocks over into next day if she takes overtime.
"Use of cash has dropped massively, especially since the pandemic." Yeah, because lots of shops don't LET you use cash! Heck we just came back from the UK and were told so often that we can't pay in cash. Which is rubbish because we get charged stupid amounts for the conversion into pounds on our cards. Paying a coffee by card just doesn't make sense, it'll end up costing you way more as a tourist.
I am going on a short trip to the UK from Germany in two weeks and this is really good to know. Do you know, by chance, if this applies to supermarkets, too?
Also, does your card gave V-Pay? I don't remember veing charged for the use of my debit card in London back in 2017... but veing a uni student I have to try to avoid unecessary fees if possible ^^
It was “suggested” here in Canada, during this pandemic, that cards were safer and thus better, than cash. Most places offered the option of how you paid, but some said cards only. Even though, I mostly use a card, I won’t go to those places. Canadian money says “Legal Tender” on all the bills, by the Bank of Canada. As far as I’m concerned that means EVERY establishment, of whatever kind, HAS to take cash!! AND there are still people in this World that only use cash. I’m thinking mostly of seniors, but I noticed in earlier comments that young people use cash too.
@@nancyrafnson4780 Legal tender only means it must be accepted by a creditor in repayment of a debt. A private company can refuse any money you give them if they want.
It really sucks as when I first came to the UK to study, my debit card didnt arrive and the shops mostly took debit card only which meant I had to use my card from back home which means commisions.
I would much rather do 10 hour days Monday - Thursday, but that would never happen in my workplace unless the clients _also_ subscribe to that working pattern. For us to make this possible, everybody needs to adopt the same agenda.
No no no!! First past the post is NOT a preferential voting system. You do not get to express preferences in first past the post, you get to put one cross in one box and that is that.
[ETA to correct plurality to preferential]
This means that the winner is the candidate with the most votes but that does not mean they have the majority of votes. What you described was a single transferable vote system, which will usually deliver a winner who has support, of varying degrees, from the majority of constituents.
@@isobelstark2853 Yeah what was described was the Preferential Voting for some reason the UK said no to in 2011 cause we're fucking idiots.
@@Eaglelives I mean that's not entirely fair, AV is technically better yes but it wouldn't have really fixed the major issues that FPTP has which is still the winner takes all approach in constituencies. Most people who want some kind of reform want one that links a party's tally of votes to its tally of seats, something AV fails to deliver, you still basically end up converging towards two main parties.
@@comraderamirez9866 Improvements are good and most people who want some kind of reform have the first priority of wanting a system that allows a person to vote for who they want to vote for, not having to vote tactically because otherwise they waste a vote.
Allowing people to vote for who you WANT to vote for will also naturally reduce the converging towards the two main parties, because there is a greater chance of other parties getting seats.
1st view, first comment lets goo
Love your videos Evan!
You have really helped shed some light on things I never knew existed (im british btw) in america, such as the tipping culture video.
(0:45) Charging differently for different payment methods is illegal in Sweden, so interesting seeing that in UK.
Other than credit card (just because of how they work), I believe it's been illegal for a few years now.
It is illegal here some people still try it but it's rare now.
Love that Evan says "holiday" instead of "vacation" !!!
I live in the US but work for a British company and they got me used to saying holiday as well 😆
In 2011 we had a referendum on changing the voting system. In a 42% turnout, 68% said no. Not enough people cared to change it.
People also don't agree on what it should be changed to
Also because no one asked for an AV system - it was a compromise with the Lib Dem’s wanting STV, and the Tories not wanting any change.
I remember that,it was all very low key,I think I voted first past the post,to my shame,only I think I thought the other option was too like in Italy where they seemed to have numerous parties in lots of complicated arrangements. I d vote different now but it's too late of course.
This was, at least partly, because of dodgy propaganda from the same people who brought us Brexit and repeated Conservative governments.
A curious coincidence?
@@wscottwatson The referendum was a requirement by the Lib-Dems when they joined the coalition. Neither Labour nor the Conservatives wanted it so they campaigned against it.
The Lib-Dems look a long way from forcing another referendum.
In my country shops used to be open on Sundays but some years back we had a referendum on whether or not we wanted the shops to be closed on Sunday (fully closed, btw, none of that 4 hours crap) and most people were in favor, because despite it being "an inconvenience," we sympathise with retail workers and wanted them to have at least one guaranteed day off per week. So no, I don't think we should abolish that, in fact, more countries in 2021 should have that system.
@@Alcogod But that still requires _someone_ to work on Sunday/the weekend. And if you mean that someone _only_ works then and not during the week... It'd be great if that could work, but unfortunately no one can survive financially by only working weekends. If they also work during the week, however, the same problem arises that was the reason the law got introduced in the first place: that employee works every day of the week with no days off.
@@Alcogod Hmm, I suppose that would be a solution, yes. I'm not a fan of the 5-day work week anyway. Sadly, my country (along with most others) isn't as based (yet) to implement anything like that, so the Sundays off law is better than nothing for now. I do really like your idea, however, and hope it becomes reality one day.
We solved guaranteeing at least 1 day off a week for retail workers by only making employers pay NI if staff worked 30+ hours a week so everyone got employed for 30 hours.
Maybe we should change it to Monday or something though since the weekend allows people to do big shops due to work so having it to a day most people work on let’s them have a break and not cause issues for people on a deadline
Retail services exist for the consumers of those services. If the consumer is willing to pay for what it costs the business to provide the convenience of having the shops open everyday, then it should be open everyday. Sunday should be treated like any other day. There are many ways to make it work without the workers being overworked.
"People who don't indicate"
The entire Midwest: 👁️👄👁️
Fully agree. Living here is a nightmare at times.
Especially in Illinois when the speed limit is a speed suggestion
I personally think that the student loan system in the UK is brilliant lol.
The only problem is the means tested maintenance loan can cause problems for the middle class who can't afford to pay for their kids I guess. But we are privileged to have a maintenance loan in the first place 😂
Feel free to explain any problems to me cos I really struggle to see any. Starting uni next week!
Yeah obviously the system isn’t perfect, it would be nice if education was free but it’s actually pretty good. You don’t really have to pay much and you only pay what you can. Also after enough time if you haven’t been able to pay it off it gets written off. As well as if your from a poorer background you can get bursaries from the age of 16 which is just entirely free money that never has to be payed off.
I agree. The biggest problem is maintenance costs not tuition and although tuition fees are high the amount of people who are now able to go to university is significantly higher than before fees were put in place.
It gets worse the further up you get in terms of levels of education overall; I think that the Master's level funding could change.
Indeed i wasnt entitled to a Maintenance loan due to being too ''rich''
Ended up having to drop out of Uni and became homeless.
Dont know why they count Parents and Step Parents money as your money when your an adult.
I'm starting back for my second year (does the last year even count?) in two weeks!
If I mention doing a Masters to my parents and they go on a rant about how I've got to pay back the tutition and maintenance loans and could I go without the maintenance loan next year as if in the long run that will make any difference...
But as I understand it, you only have to pay some of it back and only under certain circumstances? Besides if you stay in education - you never will! :)
The BBC is a great institution.
They make some excellent TV, and radio shows.
They are on the whole politically neutral.
I prefer to give them my money rather than someone like Murdoch or Branston.
There not neutral they are right wing not far but definitely centre right and house a bunch of bullshiy
@@jmurray1110 That's what I mean, those of us on the left think they're right of centre and the right think they're on the left.
I was very disappointed with the Labour Party being called antisemitic before the last election but that was the news story everyone was running with.
@@gastrickbunsen1957 yeah Corbyn should never have been ousted particularly with Johnston being allowed to remain despite be actively terrible on camera like reciting a poem about colonialism while foreign minister in an excolony
Also stamnir is a diet Tory wet wipe while corbyn is actually left leaning
@@jmurray1110
Corbyn was old school and it had the establishment worrief
Starner's a wee bit to the left of Blair but only just and he's weak on the offensive.
Blair was the only time I never voted Labour, Bushes poodle was a step too far.
They are not politically neutral at all lmao. I'd say most channels are more politically neutral. As someone quite neutral myself. Some of their TV is brilliant but some not so much lol
also another thing that’s annoying is when somebody indicates but doesn’t turn. i was about to cross the road the other day, this lady indicated on the roundabout but then went straight through & it was very confusing & also kinda dangerous. i literally had to stop in the middle of the road so she didn’t run me over
I've had this. Why people do this is a mystery.
That's how I failed my first driving exam. I slammed the brakes at the same time as the instructor, but having the instructor intervene is pretty much an instant fail, whether or not it's actually your fault doesn't really matter to most of them since you "should have been able to anticipate other drivers' mistakes"
In fairness you are suppost to indicate on that she probably just turned it on too soon
19 and I'm a cash person, makes me feel more responsible about my money when it’s something physical
I agree, it's a good way to budget - the visual of seeing the money disappear makes it a lot more real! :)
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I felt the same and thought that I was more responsible with my money this way but many banks have dedicated apps for that not to mention many perks such as saving accounts
this is the last video of yours I'll see before not being 21 anymore, and it was SO GOOD
Early birthday greetngs 😊
Happy early birthday!
Early Happy Birthday to you then!
In terms of cash vs card and contactless, the ease of contactless makes me uncomfortable becuase I struggle to conceptualise that as spending money. Card payment with pin is a bit better and cash makes me really see that I'm spending it. That said, I do still use contactless because it's still easy.
Having £5/£10/£20 etc gift cards then stuff at the store costing .99. Having 1p on a Gift Card is just annoying
yes omg yes yes. as someone with 22p left on a giftcard right now, just yes. theres nothing in the history of ever that costs that much. at least let us cash in the rest as regular money.
German here, my old English teacher watched Mrs. Brown's boys with us in the last few lessons we had before we graduated. It was fun and many of us now watch it.
I’m so sorry for your class. What a terrible thing to do to innocent students. Mrs Browns boys should be made a war crime.
@@jaymercer4692 Eh, everyone, including me, enjoyed the episodes we saw. What's so terrible about it?
@@Notfallkaramell I simply just hate it.
@@Notfallkaramell it's a specific style of comedy which has been seen as pretty 'low brow' here for a long time. We might be a bit of a snobby country tbf.
I can't stand it, but I know that a lot of people do. I think older people like it as it's more similar to mainstream sitcoms of the 1970s. (Although I actually prefer a lot of those 😅)
@@caitlin329 (from US) It's done in front of an audience and is in a style that really predates TV, but with use of words and subject matter that would never have been seen on TV and in fact could not be on broadcast TV here today. Like panto in the UK. Plus a man playing Mrs Brown. The actor's actual wife plays his daughter. It's so old style its retro like a Fiat 500. It's a bit postmodern with direct address to the audience sometimes and showing the backstage etc. But the audience likes it way too much. I never heard of it before but there's some episodes here on RUclips.
In Scotland we have no Sunday trading laws. And some supermarkets open 24hrs. Tv license is worth its value so I don't mind paying for it. We also got rid of the half penny in the 80's. In Scotland for Scottish Parliament we have a mixture of first past the post and the single transferable voting system and local elections are totally single transferable votes just like the old days when UK was in the European Union.
The Conservatives were dead against UK parliament changing to either proportional representation but had to ask for referendum as the were in coalition with the Libdems and it was part of the coalition agreement. If I remember correctly we in Scotland were to busy voting in both local and Scottish Parliamentary elections at the time to not care about a referendum on the UK parliament. But I do remember thinking that those against change was basically saying that UK citizens were too thick to understand a new voting system despite the fact that only England at the time was the only one who solely used 1st past the post.
I've never really got the hate for James Corden. I do agree 100% about a 4 day work week though.
When you said you don't have a million subs I went to check in disbelief. What! You absolutely deserve more popularity. Let's show this man some appreciation, guys!
I’m 20 years old and I love cash, especially coins because knowing I have money forces me to look in my pockets before doing laundry
In some countries that use Euro as the currency the prices are rounded when paying in cash. In Finland stores are allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents when paying in cash. Stores often accept 1-cent and 2-cent coins, but usually require paying the rounded price, so you can't avoid rounding up by having the exact denomination. But if you pay with card, there won't be rounding. So, if the total at the checkout is e.g. 47.28 €, it will be 47.28 with card or 47.30 in cash. And similarly, 47.32 € will be 47.32 with card or 47.30 in cash.
And now that I look it up, it seems that the European Central Bank (that controls the Euro currency) is planning or has planned abolishing the 1-cent coin (and possibly 2-cent coin) completely.
I like cash because it's still there when there is a malfunction with the system. And I find it easier to save money when I put it away and forget about it
Cash is great, but if the tills go down, you still can't pay
In regards to the paying for toilets, I havn't used a public bathroom in a while. but I know here in Denmark and in Germany it was often that you didn't pay but made a deposit, i.e you insert a "insert what ever denomination of coin here" which would unlock the door, when you finish and lock the door behind you it would return the coin, same thing with shopping carts in Denmark, you insert a coin to unlock em and then get it back at the end. That way all you need is to have ONE coin ever or get a token of the same shape, which are often free give aways at supermarkets (at least here in Denmark).
"It was nice to see..." *Realizes how that sounds* "I-I'm not a voyeur"
My landlords have always been rather nice... well to be fair I only ever said hi to them when they came over to fix the broken lights. The one I have now is my grans friend who offered to let us live in their old house so also nice.
My grandma gives my a five pound note every time I visit her, even when I try to tell her no because the last one she gave me is still in my wallet... because I just don't use cash or need to use it... But I daren't attempt to explain contactless payments to her! :)
@Tracy Honestly, normally I would. But with Covid I just haven't been out and about enough! :)
If you don't need the £5 note,lucky you,give it to the Salvation Army.
I bought my own place a year and two days ago. FINALLY, I'm my own landlord. The price that I'm paying for a mortgage (and mortgage insurance) is literally half of the average rent in my city right now.
Does anyone else remember keeping a little bag of change in the car for the parking machines?
I still have this! It is 100% for hospital parking because life currently sucks! My hospital only started charging for disabled parking 3 yrs ago yet they only accept coins...and the machines aren't accessible for many disabilities!
I still have a little cubby hole to the right ofy steering wheel that has coins in for this reason. I travel for work a lot and there are still plenty of ticket machines that don't accept card
TV licence was changes a few years back to include ANY live broadcast. Whether its RUclips or any other platform.
Charges are all dependent on who owns the cash point/payment machine. Few, if any.banks will charge you to use their machines, even if you don't bank with them, but the ATMs in the local corner shop or whatever are owned by a company, and leased out to the shop, and charging you is an extra income stream for them.
Ok the TV license thing isn’t just for the TV, it covers the radio and basically everything the BBC offers. But yea, it’s stupid easy to get away with not paying for the TV license but most people pay anyways
All I know of first past the post system is that the teachers had to bring biscuits to stop a rebellion happening when they had to teach us about it...
Canada calls their system first past the post but it absolutely is not a plurality voting system lol.
@@jdude99lolz It is a plurality system as opposed to a majority system
@@samuelowens641 Not in the sense that you can vote for multiple parties preferentially. See the pinned comment.
There is a law against shops charging for card.
However it worth noting that the retailer still has to pay per transaction to the terminal provider!
I imagine this is why a lot of smaller businesses have minimum spends instead.
Cash: I find it so much easier to stick to a budget. 10 quid left in my pocket, guess I'll have to choose between another drink or something to eat. Card I'll have both and worry about it later - looks at credit card bill later in the month....
German here: defending the trading laws :D I love it. I understand the convenience and supposed freedom that I experienced myself living in China, but overall the benefits outweigh. Constant productivity possibilities are a drain on the brain. Perhaps you do not have to finish that work task at 6pm in your free time on a Saturday and then plan another playdate for the children the coming week, because you know you can do the weekly shopping on Sunday. I like that the closed shops force us to repriorize in this constant hassle culture.
Sure but not Sunday make it Monday or something where people who work aren’t heavily relying on a big shop
@@jmurray1110 Kids go to school on Mondays, so no family time if the parent works Sundays. In my country, Sundays are for family time, hobbies and contemplation. And it's perfectly fine like that.
TV License - Treat this like a subscription fee for all the free to air channels (which I watch online as I don't own an aerial cable and cbf sorting one). Taskmaster makes it worth it alone imo
I went to a pretentious restaurant and was served a tiny amount of artistically arranged food on a bloody slate! They seem to think they're classy. I wish I'd had the wit to say "can I have a microscope with that, and an effin plate".
"Just have to pay $100 a month to Comcast"
Me: *crying paying nearly $200 for basic cable and internet with Spectrum because Comcast doesnt service my area*
I actually pay for a UK TV license every now and then even though I'm not in the UK, just so I can watch Doctor Who and some other shows on the iPlayer. Here in Germany there is no other way to watch new episodes anywhere close to release, and I don't want to wait 6 months+ for them.
Well not legally if you can understand English I’m sure done sites can get it a bit quicker
"i've never seen mrs brown's boys"
my boss 10 years ago at the furniture project i volunteered at loved mrs. bown's boys. he'd prosletyse about it. i tried watching it and it got as many laughs out of me as an m25 pile-up.
My step father and sister were OBSESSED and I just felt like my brain was melting!
@@toroallin5734 yes, I have a family member who loves it but yes, brain melting is how it feels to me
I'm 35 and pretty well off, but I use cash as much as I can. If you take cash out of the equation then companies that produce bank cards (both debit and credit) or handle money transactions (worldline) are going to become monopolies, set the prices they want for you to have and use your card, and have tons of info on you that they can sell (which they do already with what they have). Cash is important to freedom.
I’m the same I never have cash and whenever an opportunity comes up where I have to pay in cash it’s always a huge hassle. I’m 31 but I do know a lot of people in their 40s and older still only use cash. It seems to be generational.
37 and I RARELY touch cash. My parents however 61 & 62 definitely cash. Dad has venmo but he doesn't quite understand it and my mom is a technotard who is still learning what an app is.
Im 33 and prefer cash but i am german and the majority in my country still use cash then plastic
24 and i prefer cash. i have a better understanding how much i spend with cash than with card
I’m 17 and prefer cash unless it’s busy lol
TV License, tbh I don't know why we call it that. Its more a bbc subscription thing, of like £100~ish a year. For several TV, radio, and catch-up (bbc iplayer) and their online radio system, the documentaries, and other things they do. And it does mean you get NO ads. If you don't use the bbc, you don't have to pay. I don't mind it as it helps the bbc stay publicly funded, and it's generally just a lot you get, considering how little you're paying (compared to other steaming servers or TV apps)
People like to bash the TV licence, but it's Hella good value. 6+ TV channels, 6+ Radio stations, News, great shows, bitesize and much more. All Ad free
I rarely had cash on me before the pandemic, now I panic if I order a taxi as I never carry cash on me now (Uber hasn't got to Oxford the last time I checked). Only some of the taxis have card machines....
As I discovered...
The shops being closed on a Sunday is to ensure people can spend time with their families… I have lived in a place where the shops were open 7/7 and it’s sad that someone has to spend his Sunday working because someone else can’t enjoy some time at home
I'm a teenager, and I absolutely love cash. There's nothing like having that hard earned cash in your wallet.
also a teenager. I basically grew up with being handed cash and getting to spend it at the local shops. felt cool, I feel you there. but these days having money laying around gives me extreme anxiety after having £50 that I'd been saving up, just stolen from my bedroom by my brother when I wasn't home. (10/11, he was 13/14) and/or just the fear of losing or misplacing it. so I'm now more inclined to spend cash as soon as I get it. (usually on things I dont need) OR if I have the energy to do so, walking up to the bank and putting the money on my card.
I haven’t had cash in years
saying homophobia is less apparent then also saying two men kissing in your hometown would be unheard of is slightly contradictory, i think they meant that it just shouldn't exist whatsoever even if it is better it should just be gone. and people should be able to kiss in their hometowns
Woah! How did you get citizenship without understanding the importance of the Beeb?! Surely an in-depth test on Only fools and David Attenborough is mandatory?
I am obviously kidding... mostly. But seriously the UK has always had some of the best TV in the world, the TV licence is great value for money.
The thing with the TV license is tricky. In Austria and Germany TV-licences are not about if you watch or not. As soon as you have a TV or radio in your flat, you pay.
I literally work 40 hours and My pay isn't enough yearly to get a flat through renting down here (Bournemouth). On my wage I'm allowed to rent at most a place for £500 a month (which doesn't exist) even though I could afford around £700 (and have some small change left over after bills).... I get landlords need to know you're able to afford your rent every month but when the minimum salary isn't even a studio flat down here how do people expect single parents and young people to not live at home or have to go on some sort of benefit? It's rediculous. You can only afford it if you're in a couple!
Sorry I got the minimum wage point and just felt angry about England 😂
4:54 not me. Partially because i have little space to store it, espicially coins (admittedly only 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 are coins here with 1 USD being aproximately 7)
I have a standard wallet, but i just use my phone cover, which has card holders.
I’m a cash person simply because I will always get the numbers in my PIN the wrong way round (my debit card can’t do contactless payment)
I freak out at the prospect of having to type it in.
A little tip, put it in your phone as a contact - add extra numbers on the end (so the first 4 is your pin) and call the contact Mr Pin or something. So helpful. 👍
5:44 I am doing a traineeship working 38 hours weekly, and I earn $7 less than minimum wage (in Australia). I get that the company is paying for me to get a qualification, and I am unskilled etc., but at the end of the day I do just as much work as people who earn 3-4x as much as me. Luckily I am young, don’t have a lot of expenses, and live with my parents, but if I wasn’t, I literally wouldn’t be able to afford to live. Internships, apprenticeships, and the like are such a mess, why does minimum wage exist if people get payed less?
For those who said the monarchy, fear not-Harry and Meghan will manage what an army of republicans couldn’t . 😎
TV license I am all for.. paying a minimal amount to not get 40 minutes of commercials for every 5 minutes of show is well worth it
"It's better than the US system"
Both systems are fundamentally broken at their very core and are honestly pretty undemocratic when you look into them in any detail. At least all our constituencies have equal weight with each having about the same amount of people rather than there being more weight to your vote if you're in a state that has fewer people thanks to the 2 free EC members each state gets? I guess? On the other hand the US system has an elected upper house rather than an appointed one, so it's the swings and roundabouts of shit election systems. At least the Welsh and Scottish systems are better?
(FWIW, if I could rewrite UK democracy to my dictate; I'd abolish the monarchy, keep single-member constituencies but replace the way we elect MPs with a condorset system - Likely MAM specifically - and implement PR for the lords while increasing the power of the upper house to make it proportionate to that of the commons.)
You know there was a reason for why the less populated states get more electors, right? And it was specifically for democratic purposes. Unless you're just a populist in which case the complaint about either system makes sense.
The full time work thing is so true especially in London. I work full time and can barely afford to live in a flat share. It’s shameful.
Housing costs reflect supply and demand. The only solution is convincing people and jobs to live in smaller cities, or turning London or San Francisco into Hong Kong.
I believe Finland dropped the 1- and 2-cent coins a long time ago.
I'm WAY older than you, but I live an almost cashless lifestyle. And that's not always easy to do in Germany, which remains (despite COVID) a highly cash-oriented society. It's changing, but slowly. I started using Apple Pay as soon as it became available. I surprised some people and caused a few comments at first, but in the meantime, no one bats an eye.
In England it's possible to live 100% cashless.
Hell, I don't even carry my wallet. I live entirely by using just my phone.
@@Hydraclone oh my i would feel so unsafe only relying on my phone😅 like your phone can run out of battery or break but a wallet cant🤷♀️
@@HJ-ju4ui I make sure my phone is charged the same way I would check for my wallet before leaving the house.
If I break my phone, which I never have once in my life, I'd take my card. Simple.
Yes a finn here can confirm! I believe we are one of the only euro countries to not use 1 and 2 cent coins. They are technically still official currency but the shops refuse to take them if you try and pay with them which sometimes causes problems when you visit a euro country that use the smallest coins and take them back to Finland and try to use them. We use the so called swedish rounding system so prices are rounded to the nearest 5 cents when paying in cash. Card payment is very popular so no need to carry around cash really (some exceptions of course like farmers markets etc might not have a card payment option)
I am with you for a 4 day. Dual Citizen here too. US and UK. Also torn about sidewalks rolling up on a Sunday. Very torn. I found it a beautiful thing, until I needed "something" on a Sunday at 6PM. Where you going? I think you're still going to live in London. Good luck fellow Dual Citizen. Walk tall! But not too tall, because some of the doors and ceiling tend to be on the lower side. Safety first!
I've never tapped to pay in my life, never even seen it outside of TV 😅
whaaaat where you live?
Isle of Man (aka rock in the middle of the Irish sea)
@@charcoal8 They have introduced it in a lot of places elsewhere including Ireland, so the Isle of Man has it either side, but not themselves! I got into the habit during covid to avoid touching buttons, can't do it over a certain amount of money in most places.
@@charlotteinnocent8752 There might be some places that have them but if they have I haven't seen them, tbf I don't get out though 🙃
@@charcoal8 Oh well can't be long in coming even so! :)
Yeh it’s ridiculous, when I work 40 hours I earn less than a grand a month. So so so ridiculous.
By law you need a tv license if you watch RUclips, Netflix , Amazon prime or use any other streaming service in the uk
No you don't. A TV licence is only for live TV (however you watch it) and i-Player, which you don't get on streaming services
@@comma_thingy yep your right. I also just realised that you would need a tv license to watch twitch unless you waited until the live stream was over and watched the recording. That also means you could never watch any event live like the World Cup, that’s really annoying for people who don’t have tv licenses.
@@adamwallis5903 You don't need a licence for twitch since it's not classed as TV. Stuff like watching the World Cup and other sports is a reason people go to pubs or whatever to watch.
Not sure if it has changed recently but the rules for a TV licence used to mean that you needed one if there is a TV in the house, even if you are not using it. And also ANY device which can stream catch up TV like BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub etc. So technically if you have a smartphone you need a TV licence! 🙄🤷♀️
Only if you watch BBC iplayer (says on the gov website). So they would have to prove you do.
None of the houses I’ve lived in have had a TV licence since I moved out of home
Probably worth mentioning that we definitely do have Ticketmaster here - bought my ticket for an Orla Gartland concert through there!
Also, paying for toilets is slowly being removed at train stations (or at least, the big London ones).
Yeah, Ticketmaster is huge here.
I never really get the argument against the TV Licence. The licence is there to pay for the live transmission of BBC channels and funds their services (the TV channels, the radio stations, iPlayer, their creative output, etc) all for only 96p a day. It's a lot of content for a reasonable price. You pay the fee to get these services which are ad free (that's where other channels get the bulk of their funds through ad revenue). If you don't use the services then don't pay. But I think it's a bit ridiculous to say "who watches TV in 2021?". Well, millions of people do. Just look at the recent record breaking success of Line of Duty as an example. People of all ages use these services, but just because some people only use streaming or RUclips, doesn't mean others don't use and value the services provided by the license. But if you do want to use the service you pay the fairly minimal fee, it's only fair.
(NB. I'm a 20 year old before anyone says I'm just an old man who doesn't get streaming - I use streaming services to)
Love these videos
To us where university was free 10 years ago, then suddenly went up to 3k then 9k a year or two later, it seems unfair. Especially when if you move to Scotland you still get it free
Just want to point out that homphobia isn't an 'ism'.
Not criticising, just want to put that out there...
Hmm, coincidence?
Eh. It falls in that category of stuff.
@@Hydraclone No it doesn't. Homophobia doesn't fall under the category of "ending in -ism" stuff for the simple reason of it not ending in -ism.
@@franklinnartz1381 If you ignore spelling, and take purely the meaning of the words, then yes, it falls in the same category.
It was pretty obvious I wasn't talking about the spelling of the words.
As a gen Z, I don't care whether it's cash or card, I usually take both cash and card when I go out as some independent shops can't take cards :)