The “I got a big tip on a small bill” part suggests America, but the “three ten year old boys in public without anyone calling the cops” suggests Europe. Hmmm
I mean the dollars means it’s not Europe
honestly not necessarily, i’ve converted my currency to dollars when talking about prices before because i know there’s just a lot of Americans online and everyone else has already adapted to understanding how much a dollar is in their currency anyway
everyone else has already adapted to understanding how much a dollar is in their currency anyway
I don’t think that’s true.
You know, the US is not the only country to use a ‘dollar’ as the term for its currency.
I had once been flamed by people who didn’t know that
yes but when someone says “dollar” on the Internet the chances are they mean USD
I convert Australian dollars to USD when talking about prices before because i know there’s just a lot of Americans online and everyone else has already adapted to understanding how much a dollar is in their currency anyway
Huh? No we haven’t? Just put AUD next to the dollar amount.
I have. A US dollar is worth about 1.5 Australian dollars. If you don’t care about accuracy and just want an easy conversion you can double the price. I don’t usually convert currencies into Australian dollars, rather put the approximate conversion next to it. But I definitely have adapted to understanding and interpreting what the yanks say
Why though? Making everything US-centric helps no one. Have you started talking about one-sixteenth of an inch and tipping people?
Yes we have a dollar and it can be confused with other dollars around the world. Putting in AUD clears up any confusion there and people can do their own conversion and learn something about another country.
Who said that’s a dollar sign?
I can think of anything in Europe, but it could technically be the Phillipines too if we are just going off the $ symbol.
What has led you to believe that we call the cops in the United States when we see 10 year old kids out having fun? What a strange belief.
It’s not uncommon. Here’s just a few stories I was able to pull up, though my google-fu isn’t what it used to be and theres a lot of noise from all the headlines made for the first one.
The Washington Post reported last week that last month, a 10-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister were walking one mile home from a park in Silver Spring. Someone called the cops, who picked them up about halfway and took them the rest of the way home. Their parents, Alexander and Danielle Meitiv, faced no criminal charges, but a few hours later Montgomery County Children’s Protective Services (CPS) showed up. According to the Meitivs, a CPS worker required Alexander to sign a safety plan promising not to leave his children unsupervised until the following Monday, when CPS would follow up. If he refused, the worker said his children would be removed. CPS has since interviewed both children at school and returned to the Meitivs’ house. - grist.com, USA Today, The Washington Post
8 and 10-Year-0ld Escorted Home by Firefighters After Neighbors Report Unsupervised Kids - reason.com
Mom Sues Cops Who Arrested Her for Leaving 14-Year-Old Daughter Home Alone - reason.com
a cop came knocking after someone reported two of Hershberger’s children, ages five and almost seven, walking a few blocks from her home in Reading—a Boston suburb—and picking up litter. - reason.com
A Mom Let Her 7-Year-Old Play in the Park. Arizona Arrested Her and Banned Her From Working With Kids. - reason.com
Stop man, just stop, he’s already dead
I’m glad you came with receipts. I (probably very obviously) both grew up and currently live in the US and this is wild to me. When I was a kid we ran around in the woods on the weekends and when I visited my grandparents we walked to the arcade, corner store, or the grocery store without being hassled.
I see a bunch of kids in my neighborhood playing ball, having Nerf wars, and generally just being kids from the time the spring rain stops until it starts back up again next year. The oldest I’ve seen this year probably isn’t quite old enough to drive yet and the youngest is probably somewhere in the 5-7 range. They’re just out being mild nuisances and having the time of their lives. No one has said a thing.
Those stories made the news because of how outrageous they are, not because they’re common occurrences. There are still plenty of kids running around outside and having fun in the rest of the non-wacko towns across the country.
Imo it’s not as significant that the cops were called - anyone can do that and the police have to respond - as it is that those police departments had both the will and legal standing to pursue charges, have CPS threaten to remove kids from their homes over it, and put a mother’s name on a list which bans her from ever working with children.
For further reading, see Lenore Skenazy’s blog Free-Range Kids.
These stories make the news because they’re so outlandish. This is far from common behavior.
The fact that it happens at all is far too much. The US has become a country of essentially helicopter parents. I blame this largely on suburbs. They are built for cars and there’s not really a good way for children to travel alone. This has caused a situation where parents are involved in whatever the child is doing anytime they aren’t at school. This leads to ethe expectation that a parent will always be a with their child, so this not being the case becomes suspicious.
The suburbs, where children being outside is a capital punishment according to retirees
I think if these were girls, a lot of Karen types would freak out about them being alone
I’m exaggerating slightly to be funny. That said, I’m the type of parent that sends my kids out to play unsupervised, and that’s really not as common as it was when I was a kid. I’ve dealt with:
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When my daughter was 6, she did a loop around our block alone. About a quarter of a mile, most of it visible from the front or back yard. A neighbor came to tell me she saw my daughter walking alone, and I told her I knew. She insisted that my daughter was too young, and it was too cold for her to be out alone (I think around 40 degrees? My daughter was wearing a coat, anyway). I said she’d be fine. This lady then went and convinced my daughter to walk home with her. She brought her up to the door and I was completely blown away that this woman basically took it upon herself to decide what my kid can and cannot do.
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A different neighbor posted a picture of my son on Facebook, at 8 years old, asking where the parents were because he was too old to be out playing alone.
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One of my daughter’s friends isn’t allowed out of the house without a parent (now 9 years old) so my daughter always goes to her house. It’s weird.
That’s not a lot. It’s not even that serious. But it’s fucking weird that we’ve arrived here, as a society.
Some commenter mentioned people on Lemmy being scared of everything. Yeah, I combine my experiences with those stories of people being arrested for neglect or abuse because they let their kid out of their sight for a minute and it terrifies me. This is a nation of nosy busybodies, convinced by around-the-clock news that there’s a pedophile kidnapper lurking in every neighborhood waiting for the chance to strike.
That’s freaking crazy, wowser.
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This is Lemmy. These people are terrified
Yous are fuckin terrified of your own shadows
Never seen such an entire nation of quivering shitebags
😂
Ar ye jest mad we gotchure lucky charms?
I don’t think they’re allowed to sell those in Scotland, they’re classed as candy, not cereal
Lol so yes then
It’s not like we drive our kids to the bus stop and then sit in the car until they get on the bus.
People very much do that here. I see it literally all the time.
I think that’s more about being lazy. You have to make sure the bus actually comes because every once in a while, it doesn’t, but most people don’t want to stand to wait to make sure the bus came.
And if it doesn’t, you still need to get them to school on time. Hence the ready car.
Back in my day, if the bus didn’t come eventually we’d just walk back home.
When I was a kid living at home, there was a father who would walk with his two daughters to the bus stop and wait with them there until they got on the bus.
One day a woman came along in her car, slipped into a diabetic coma, and veered towards them.
The father managed to throw one daughter to safety before he and his other daughter were hit.
He survived, but he was left with a limp. You’d still see him walking his surviving daughter to the bus stop in the morning.
This might be news for you, but tipping exists in a lot of places other than just America.
It does not exist in the vast majority of the world. But yeah there are stupid tipping expectations in Canada and a few other places too.
The anti-American nonsense on Lemmy is ridiculous at this point. That’s just objectively wrong, it exists in majority of countries, even when gratuity fees are included: https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/tipping-customs-around-the-world
Everyone listen to Cum, he’s right about this.
uffff… just deleted a long ass comment about tipping… but in the end… I can’t be bothered… have a nice day guys!
Sometimes the best comments are the ones we don’t send.
I’ve written long comments and regretted it. I’ve never once regretted deleting a long winded pile of shit before hitting Submit.
I swear that’s more common on Lemmy. We all know it’s a small enough community that we’ll remember each other. I like the accountability.
It’s interesting how you can guess the age of this tweet based on the prices listed. Is this from the pre-Covid days?
All the places I’ve worked (pre and post Covid), virgin drinks are charged like sodas unless it’s something like a virgin Bloody Mary with lots of stuff in it.
So around here, currently, you’d be looking at like $3.50 for each of them, which is pretty close, assuming this is like a Mexican restaurant with free chips and salsa.
Free chips and salsa? What is this sourcery? Also a Virgin cocktail would be 5 us dollars at least over here.
Regards from Norway
Here in the Land of the Free, we may not have cheap healthcare, a real democracy, safety in schools, unrestricted book access, or affordable housing…
But at least we get free chips and salsa at Mexican restaurants. Oh and free water in restaurants.
You can drink the tap water everywhere here. So if you ask for water at a restaurant that’s what you get and it will be free of charge. Some outdoor concert venues only keep bottled water and charge for it. That is considered a dick move.
Our local ski resort had water fountains since forever but ripped them out a couple years ago. Now your options are a $5 12oz bottle of water or a free 2oz plastic cup and a carafe that rarely gets filled. It’s horseshit lol
I’ll trade you the free chips and salsa (and bread at some places), as well as the cheaper virgin drinks… for your social safety nets.
Deal? No? Damn.
Yeah, not letting go of our social securities. Our political partiets are slowly shifting rightwards though. So those services are getting shittier. Our hospitals are for some reason supposed to not lose money now. Free healthcare, but at a budget.
Not to sound alarmist, but the Capitalists are planning to turn every country into American style privatization in every way. They do it in an insidious manner so you only notice incremental change. Protest like hell. We need you.
Yeah. I was more surprised that 3 drinks were only $11.
It’s interesting how you can validate your guess by simply guessing. So you guessed this was from before covid, and even came up with a reason for it. Then concluded that it must be how it is because you just guessed it.
The account does not exist any longer, so there is no way of knowing if you are right or wrong
Country club life.
$11 for three drinks? How many years old is this story?
Did they get caught in the rain?
The concept of a personal ad is slowly fading into obscurity.
Virgin piña colada? So just pineapple juice and coconut water? That sounds fucking good right about now, actually… But I don’t have $22 😩
Does anyone have $22 in drink money?
I barely have $22 for groceries.
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I’m guessing America, but you guess which predicate led to the conclusion.
