

In the USA, you say?
“Oh no”.
Anyway…


In the USA, you say?
“Oh no”.
Anyway…
You sure about that?
Clue: Yankees are FAR from a majority of English speakers.
2nd Clue: India, Pakistan, Nigeria…


Fair point; the only justifiable reason to actually pay for it is if it’s a feeder for a long-haul first connection (many airlines don’t sell mixed-class bookings easily.)
As an employer (and thus an evil capitalist pigdog etc.) I’ve always applied the rule of the thumb that “twice the holiday duration as notice” is polite to the employer and your colleagues who will cover for you - so two days notice for a day off, two weeks notice for a week off, a month’s notice for two weeks off, etc.
“Polite” does not mean “mandatory” of course - circumstances can dictate that sometimes you have to break the rule of thumb and that’s fine.
Damn. Less than 4 weeks/year would be illegal here (it’s also mandatory that an employee can take at least 2 weeks of that as a continuous single block, if they wish.) Employers are also not permitted to buy holiday allowance back (except when an employee leaves) and must roll any unused over year on year - which means employers are strongly motivated to have their staff actually take their holidays.
“Here” is, obviously, not the US…


US domestic first is hardly “stratospheric wealth” territory, anyone could afford that if they saved for it (which I really wouldn’t recommend - paying over the odds for a bigger seat on a 3hr shitty 737 flight is how you ensure you’ll never have enough money for real first-class travel…)
AKA “English”.
“Color” is Simplified English.


Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham became the fourth member of the US Senate since 2013 to have died while in office and the sixth member of Congress to have died while serving in the 119th Congress. Because the US is the greatest democracy in the world, Graham has now been replaced in the Senate by his sister Darline.
That really is a tremendous paragraph.


The important thing is this: can you still deliver lectures to the rest of the world on the Importance of Freedom Of Speech, and the fact that only Yanks have it because Elon can worship Hitler on the Internet?
And the answer is, yes. Yes you can, and always will. So the actual reality isn’t really important. Because all you actually learned from 1984 is that of the government tells you that you have freedom of speech, and also tells you that Eastasia and Eurasia don’t, That’s Good Enough For You and you’re The Free-est People In The World.


I don’t buy the Epstein files distraction, because it’s pretty clear the US public don’t give a shit. What would the Epstein files even prove?
You could release an authentic video of Trump fucking an 8 year old and then throwing the lifeless body down a laundry chute and most Yanks would just shrug and say “whaddaguy”. Hell, if the kid was an immigrant’s, his ratings would probably go up.
There is nothing in the Epstein files that could possibly touch Trump. It’s all already priced in and you elected him anyway.


This is not correct; they haven’t been convicted of anything yet.
They’re out on the equivalent of bail awaiting trial. That they are not wearing ankle tags or the like and are allowed to travel was thanks to pressure from the US Government, though.


Cretin.
plonk, as we used to say in the good old days.


No, they’re not.
Next idiotic question?


Hey now, can’t you tell? He Does Hid Own Research.


Ukraine is not a European country then?
I tell you who is crying a fucking river - fucking yanks like you who think putting a bumper sticker on their car is “protest”. I’ve spent time in Ukraine, I’ve had Ryssian soldiers - supported by YOUR president - try to lynch me as a NATO spy. I know what it’s like to wake up to a rocket hitting the building next door to the one you are sleeping in, and I know what is like to drive gingerly around the wreckage of a car that’s been hit by a drone and will never forget how car parts and body parts seem to almost meld together in the wreckage.
So with literally ALL due respect - go fuck yourself.


Yeah, blame the victims, go ahead.
Sort. Your. Own. Shithole. Country. Out.


I feel like you should sort your own fucking house out before worrying about anyone else’s.
The days of Yanks getting a free pass to lecture everyone else are long gone.


No idea why the downvotes here.
I mean, someone up there just unironically called someone else a “class traitor”.
This is not a crowd that’s hanging straight on its hinges.


A brigade of yanks with “you just can’t understand how many solar systems fit in Texas, though” is incoming…
Safari introduced private browsing in 2005.
Granted, Chrome eventually innovated by coming up with a catchier name.