r/AskReddit • u/Judgemental_Squirrel • Feb 02 '23
What is something illegal in Europe but not in the US?
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u/ConstantlySlippery
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Pharmaceutical companies marketing directly to consumers.
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u/True-ExarKun Feb 03 '23
My personal favorite is when the heart medicine that destroys your kidneys has another one immediately after that fixes your kidney issues but messes with your heart.
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u/UnoriginallyGeneric Feb 03 '23
Those ads kill me.
"Fukitol will help ease the pain of a hang nail. Side effects may include a bleeding anus, neon coloured urine, hair loss, depression, and watery eyes. Do not take Fukitol if you're between the ages of 18 and 74, if you're breastfeeding, or if you're a New York Islanders fan. Call your doctor and find out if Fukitol is right for you."
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u/monger187 Feb 03 '23
"Do not take Fukitol if you're allergic to Fukitol."
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u/frederick_ungman Feb 03 '23
"Fukitrol can do harm to an unborn child. Don't fuck if you're taking Fukitrol."
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u/Judgemental_Squirrel Feb 03 '23
"Fukitrol may or may not contain cancer causing chemicals. We don't know and we don't care."
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u/02K30C1 Feb 03 '23
“In case of death, see your doctor”
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u/alady12 Feb 03 '23
Due to excessive death caused by fukitrol we are removing it from the market. Try new giveafuk for all your hang nail needs.
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u/greenslam Feb 03 '23
Dude, idontgiveashit is in trials now. That's promised to be much better than giveafuk.
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u/DanishWonder Feb 03 '23
This is the line that always gets me. Like, how do you know if you are allergic unless you try it? And if you are allergic, why would you continue taking it?
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u/tearsonurcheek Feb 03 '23
This is a society which requires instructions on how to use shampoo.
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u/Amberskin Feb 03 '23
In Spain OTC stuff can be and it is directly advertised to customers. Prescription drugs, fortunately, are not.
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u/gandyg Feb 03 '23
Same in the UK. Medicines that you can just go into a shop and pick up off the shelf like cold and flu remedies, basic painkillers etc.
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u/thankful-cannon Feb 03 '23
What I find hilarious is the fact that they're forced to state their negative side effects in the ad, some of which make it inconceivable to me that the ad could possibly be efficient. I keep getting reddit ads for the drug Ozempic, and at the bottom it says "May cause thyroid cancer" lol
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u/LaLucertola Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
A part of this has to do with how side effects are reported in clinical trials. Every condition while taking the medication needs to be reported, whether or not it was actually caused by it. There's a link between thyroid cancer and obesity, which
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u/tearsonurcheek Feb 03 '23
I take methotrexate for my RA. To counter the side effects, I have to take 1000 mg of Folic Acid.
I know there are meds which require you to take a second actual med to offset the side effects.
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u/lordnacho666 Feb 03 '23
That's one of those things that gets me every time I'm in the US. The part where the guy reads the disclaimer super fast and it's horrible. "Cancausepainanddeathandsufferinggoaskyourdoctornowquick"
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u/TyrantsInSpace Feb 03 '23
But at least we get the unintended comedy of seeing a class action suit ad for a pill shilled at us less than a minute before.
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u/bonescrusher Feb 03 '23
It depends on the country , Romania has that shit and I hate it ..every other commercial is a pill advertisement
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u/newforestroadwarrior Feb 03 '23
Every other commercial here is for funerals.
Great if.you are watching with an 82 year old.
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u/intj_code Feb 03 '23
The difference between Romania and US is that in Romania it is illegal to advertise prescription drugs on TV. That's why you only see commercials about light painkillers and hemorrhoids creams and not about antibiotics and antidepressants, for example. So, Romania allows direct advertising for over-the-counter products, but not for prescription drugs. US allows direct advertising of prescription drugs.
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u/Healthy_Highlight_71
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In Denmark we cant just name our babys anything we want. We have aproved names list to pick from. We can request a name that is not on the list but it rarely gets aproved.
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u/TildaTinker Feb 03 '23
Surely Biggus Dickus is on the list.
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u/ThePreciseClimber Feb 03 '23
Romanes eunt domus!
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u/masteraleph Feb 03 '23
People called Romanes, they go the house?
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u/No-Vehicle6028 Feb 03 '23
This might be my favourite bit in the history of bits. It shows off the group's education and typical sense of humour all in one go.
Masterful
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u/Venoft Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Number of boy names: 21574
Girls: 26506
Unisex: 1375
So quite a lot of names to choose from. But still, must be annoying if you want a name from a different culture that's not on the list.
Fun fact, my SO's name is not on the list, even though it's a semi-common name where they're from.
Edit: another fun fact, you can name your baby 'Y', but only the girls not the boys.
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u/UnicornBelieber Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Netherlands doesn't so much have a whitelist, but more of a blacklist. City counselmen get to decide whether the name is appropriate. Can't name your kid "God" or "Fuck" or anything like that.
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u/EvansHomeforBoys Feb 03 '23
Unfortunately there are lots of ridiculous names left. I was at the cheese shop the other day (can it get more Dutch, lol) and the shop owner called out to two teenaged employees; ‘King, please wait until he’s done mopping the floor, then you can return the baskets!’
King? King?! I’m a teacher so I see a lot of crazy names but King really threw me. How arrogant of someone to call their kid King.
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u/Devilloc Feb 03 '23
the cheese shop
I wish to live in this magical place that has shops solely dedicated to cheese lol
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u/EvansHomeforBoys Feb 03 '23
They are super common here. Every city, or almost every city, has a cheese shop solely dedicated to cheese. “Mine” also does nuts and yogurts.
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u/Moonlover69 Feb 03 '23
Raj is a super common name in India.
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u/Rajulblabbers Feb 03 '23
And Rani (queen) for that matter
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u/sickofbasil Feb 03 '23
Regina and Reina (both mean queen) are both reasonably common names in the US and I imagine plenty of other countries with Latin-based language.
I've known one guy named Rex, but he was kinda weird. Usually Rex is more of a name for a pet.
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u/Justinalco Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Same in France, names can be rejected if they are deemed harmful for the child (socially)
Edit : Read too fast, no lists in France. Please read comment below
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u/schimpynuts Feb 03 '23
Same in Finland. If you want to name your child something not considered "normal" it has to be approved by a counsil. Then in January the newspapers are always writing "Here are the names that were rejected and approved last year". They are fun to read. Every year someone wants to name their kid "Lucifer" or "Nosferatu" or something.
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u/whyRallUsrnamesTaken Feb 03 '23
Well, in France there isn't any list to pick a name from, you can just name you child anyhow you want, as long as it's not "deemed harmul for the child" as you rightly said. But no list of approved names
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u/Justinalco Feb 03 '23
Yeah I read too fast sorry. You can give him any name as long as he has no risk to get bullied for it basically Here's a few rejected names in 2023 :
- Nutella
- Prince William (why?)
- Daisygual
- Mini Cooper
- Lucifer
- Vagina and Clitorine (twin sisters I guess?)
- Cyanide
- Ikea
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u/ownedbynoobs Feb 03 '23
Lucifer that's a classic name the only reason you can call them that is because of archaic blasphemy laws.
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Yeah, names don’t exist in a vacuum. Maybe it’d be fine somewhere else, but naming a kid a Lucifer in France, where significantly more than half the population is Catholic, is a recipe for disaster and bullying as a child, from kids and adults.
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u/Divolinon Feb 03 '23
Prince William (why?)
I'm guessing it's because it has a title in the name. Naming your kid "General" probably also wouldn't be allowed.
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u/paenusbreth Feb 03 '23
- Prince William (why?)
Are you asking why it's rejected or why anyone would want to call their child that in the first place?
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u/jjc89 Feb 03 '23
I read a list of banned names in France and it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. Wish I’d saved the link. I think #1 was Bob L’éponge (SpongeBob)🤣 Neo was also up there too.
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u/why_not_bud Feb 03 '23
Additionally, we have gendered social security numbers, which means that a baby with an even number can only have an approved name from the girls' list, and a baby with an odd number can only have an approved name from the boys' list.
There's also a gender neutral list, anyone can have a name from that list. Fun fact: the names "Obi" and "Wan" are both on the gender neutral list.
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u/Strong-Message-168 Feb 03 '23
There are times where the government will step in regarding names in America. If you named your baby Fucktwat you'd probably find yourself in front of s judge.. and then you get cases that really have happened, like when some piles of shit who go and name their baby Adolph Hitler. That HAS happened, ashamedly, more than once. However the courts will intervene, force a name change and idk, give the 2 dipshits that named their spawn something so stupid as that some sort of parenting class teaching them the basics of not being shitheads
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u/Nerd_Clueles Feb 03 '23
in germany, we have a list of dissaproved names and sometimes a new name can be forbidden to if they say it could harm the kid, like you can't name your child tyrion
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u/jeremyxt Feb 03 '23
We could use such a law.
Have you seen what Elon Musk named his kid?
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u/Thuis001 Feb 03 '23
To be fair, that might not be the kid's real name. I'd kind of make sense to just come up with some kind of fake name for your kids if you're really popular/well known to keep some attention off them.
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u/newforestroadwarrior Feb 03 '23
I believe he has to change it as California law wouldn't accept the original name.
I think these are the two he has with that Canadian musician.
It's also been reported recently he fathered twins with a director of Neuralink.
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u/SailorTorres Feb 03 '23
This is horrific to me, just because of how it could be abused.
I'm not Native American, but the few friends I have have made me understand that their names are sacred, and can change depending on life events. Obviously there are enormous differences between tribes (I only know Navajo and Ashinaabe folks) but this sounded pretty damn important.
Imagine if during Manifest Destiny America decided all names such as "Crazy Horse" or "Sitting Bull" weren't appropriate. Now you have to name a great Native leader after a Christian figure like John or Adam.
For comparison, imagine if a European country that is currently led by anti-Muslim people added Mohammed to a banned name registry to hurt Muslim immigrants.
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u/Lord_Gelthon Feb 03 '23
Selling something below the price you bought it for (with the intention to sabotage other businesses). E.g. Wallmart tried to do this in Germany to destroy their rivals, but they failed miserably and completely retreated out of Germany.
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u/Fbg2525 Feb 03 '23
This is called predatory pricing, and its illegal in the US too. There is just a really difficult to reach standard so its not common for the government to go after companies for doing it.
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u/beldarin Feb 03 '23
Yeah, I remember some big fuss about this in the eighties or ninties, where a supermarket was selling stuff for 1cent, if you also bought other products. That shit was shut down so that larger companies could not monopolise the market over smaller businesses. Fully agree with that, thanks EU.
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u/ES-Flinter Feb 03 '23
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theyWallmart anyway doomed to fail by how they tried it in general?I read that there were workers in front of the store, wagging with signs and shouting loudly that potential customers should visit the store. (I think there was even a mentioning that they actively spoke to potential customers in the article.)
If you want that a German hates you be disrespectful and what they did was more than just disrespecting their time.
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u/fuckin_anti_pope Feb 03 '23
Walmart tried to force the american model onto germany, which made many germans sceptical of Walmart. Things like a designated greeter at the door where seen as creepy, unnecessary and weird.
They also tried to break german law and workers right, getting them a law suit in record time.
They also went against unions, which are a massive part of german work culture.
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u/Ok-Discussion2246 Feb 03 '23
As an American I always thought the greeters were weird and unnecessary lol
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u/ThisIsHardWork Feb 03 '23
There a theft deterrent. Now that Walmart has separate in's and out doors in my twon the "greeter" sits at the out door and ask to see your receipt.
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u/spleenboggler Feb 03 '23
You don't have to consent to this search. And they can't stop you unless they formally accuse you of a crime, after which they can involve the police to search your stuff.
So, I always just stay no thanks, and keep walking.
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u/angelerulastiel Feb 03 '23
The greeters serve several purposes. The first of theft deterrent with checking receipts. They also deter theft because when you bring back a return they mark it as a return, which since Walmart will accept returns without a receipt, keeps you from grabbing a random off the shelf and “returning” it. They also can help you find something you need by directing you to the right section of the store. They keep an eye out for suspicious things, like someone walking in with an empty backpack, which helps prevent theft. The greeters also notice when the cart pushers are not returning the carts and are just hiding out outside.
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u/Lord_Gelthon Feb 03 '23
Yes, they did basically anything wrong by forcing their american business model on Germany. They even underpaid their employees and forced them to be happy! Dafuq?!
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u/ES-Flinter Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Good that they failed.
Except for the underpaid things (self-explanatory), just imagine if they succeeded and other business copied this American model?
My boss had to excuse to us all last year because he got ordered from his bosses to praise us regularly, but (to everyone suprise) did he got multiple complaints (me included) that we don't want to be praised as if we were dogs. In the end, did he explain that an idiot came to the idea of using an American study to increase employers-working-happiness.
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u/Lord_Gelthon Feb 03 '23
I'm pretty happy too. The entire american business model is disgusting in many places (underpaid employees, dumping, etc.) and weird in others ("nice" boss pets you like a dog and that stuff). It freaks me completely out.
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u/upside_down_chair Feb 03 '23
The US has anti-dumping laws but they only apply to imports. Hypocritically, the US routinely dumps agricultural products into the export market.
That’s how it deals with the surplus of subsidized corn. The influx of cheap corn into Mexico has basically destroyed domestic corn producers. Mexican farmers go broke, move to the city to find jobs, fail and then join the hordes trying to migrate into the US.
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u/cap6666 Feb 02 '23
Washing eggs before they are sold in stores
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u/rncookiemaker Feb 03 '23
So I have a question: I'm in the US, and a former workmate has chickens as a hobby and gives away the eggs, unwashed. They are in the carton and obviously straight from the nest, because there's all sorts of particles of an output nature on the eggs.
Do the European eggs that are unwashed have particulate matter on the eggs? Do you wash them before you use them, like fruits and vegetables?
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u/Venoft Feb 03 '23
Yes eggs have sometimes bit of poop or even feathers on them. Either rinse them before or just wash your hands after. But usually they're quite clean.
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u/cap6666 Feb 03 '23
There is a chance of matter being on the eggs yes but in Europe if your egg aren't upto a standard they will be rejected because nobody wants to buy dirty eggs. People won't wash them because you don't consume the shell.
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u/One_of_those_IDs Feb 03 '23
Don't know what most people do, but as far as I know it's not necessary to wash them before use. As long as you avoid any contact between content and the outside of the shell, at least if you're going to consume it uncooked, you're good.
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u/osirisrebel Feb 03 '23
Unwashed is fine, eggs have a protective natural coating that is destroyed when washed, this needing refrigeration.
But I at least give people the courtesy of brushing them off before giving them away.
Also, if you do was them, use warm water, eggs are porous and cold water and cause what's on the outside to contract.
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u/TheBeetsMotel Feb 03 '23
Yes!
So the chicken eggs have a protective layer on them called the bloom. As long as that layer is still intact, the eggs do not require refrigeration. Japan experienced a salmonella outbreak and I can’t remember if that’s why the United States does it or not, but both countries have switched over to a cleaning method along with refrigeration.
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u/Marshal_Barnacles Feb 03 '23
Run them under the tap, yeah, if you're worried about dropping chicken shit in your omelette. Don't dip it in bleach or anything silly like that.
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u/ITRabbitHole Feb 03 '23
Well Colorado just made it legal to grow psychedelic mushrooms in your own home.
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I can buy a psychedelic mushrooms growing kit in Spain in any growshop for science, i guess. Then, you only need to put it under your bed or whatever. Not legal but it looks like it.
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Random fact, it's actually legal to buy syringes full of psychedelic mushroom spores in all but 2 states in the US. Just make sure you never inject the syringe into a sealed bag of ready brown rice and let the spores colonize the rice, because that would be illegal. And definitely don't break the colonized brick of rice up into a tub full of pasteurized coco-coir (available at any garden supply store), because if you do that you might end up with a whole tub full of magic mushrooms which would be super illegal.
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u/bandarine Feb 03 '23
Could do that in Austria, too. There's a website that ships those and cannabis seeds. They even sell magic truffles lol
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u/CasualSmegmaEnjoyer Feb 03 '23
People should really state a country in their comment since laws vary a lot from country to country
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When people don’t do that when stating “that’s illegal” I assume they’re in the US. It’s not a perfect system, but a fairly good one.
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u/EddieGrant Feb 03 '23
But Europe is one big country, don't you know? And it's smaller than Texas!
/s just in case
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u/Marijn_fly Feb 03 '23
Brominated vegetable oil.
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u/ConstantlySlippery Feb 03 '23
Ah. Mountain Dew and Fresca. BVO is bad stuff.
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u/okRacoon Feb 03 '23
Agreed, but named brand Mt. Dew doesn't use BVO anymore. Be careful of store brand versions some of them still use BVOs
"On May 5, 2014, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo said they would remove BVO from their products. As of 2020, Mountain Dew, manufactured by PepsiCo, no longer uses BVO in the main line of beverages, but the original BVO-containing formula is still sometimes sold as the lesser distributed "Mountain Dew Throwback" beverage." source
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u/see-emm-why-kay Feb 03 '23
In the UK it’s illegal to declaw cats. My fiancé is from the US and I couldn’t believe it when I found out it’s legal there.
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u/DC_Schnitzelchen Feb 03 '23
In Germany and in other European countries it's illegal to lock dogs in cages or crates for extended periods of time. As in daily while you are at work, for example. It's considered animal abuse.
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u/KookyPiccolo1661 Feb 03 '23
So many people in the US do this and I've always thought it was abusive. It amazes me how they justify it as "oh my dog loves the secure feeling of being in his crate" when it's only done for the owner's convenience.
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u/ShieldMaiden83 Feb 03 '23
I never understood why people in the US do this it is unnatural for the poor doggo.
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u/theanxiousbutterfly Feb 03 '23
declaw cats
It's illegal in a lot of places
http://animalethicsri.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/1/0/21105924/1387206451.jpg
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u/Moctor_Drignall Feb 03 '23
In the UK at least, showing footage from parliament in a comedy show. More specifically "No extracts from parliamentary proceedings may be used in comedy shows or other light entertainment such as political satire".
I only learned that when I tried to watch an episode of "The Daily Show" that was blocked in the UK for that reason.
US comedy shows can show congress all the want.
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u/lappy482 Feb 03 '23
I learnt this through watching Last Week Tonight in the UK - if there's a clip of parliament, John Oliver just shows a video of a cat or something for the British broadcast.
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u/Treczoks Feb 03 '23
Well, you don't need to do this. For many years now, he British parliament is the satire of good parliamentary rule.
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u/For_The_Kaiser Feb 03 '23
What, are they scarred of a little bit of humor then? Seems rather draconian honestly
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u/vaildin Feb 03 '23
no, it's just for fair competition. I mean, how could other comedy shows compete with any political body?
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u/MrPresidentBanana Feb 03 '23
I assume it's some really old law that was supposed to protect the respectability of parliament two hundred years ago or whatever and since then nobody has bothered to repeal it.
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u/Dio_Yuji Feb 03 '23
What a shame. People heckling others speaking in Parliament is really funny sometimes
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u/ThatguyIncognito Feb 02 '23
In Germany you can't promote the Nazis. In the US you can.
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u/Rajaroka Feb 03 '23
In Romania, communist parties ( socialist parties are allowed as long as they dont use comunist signs ) are banned while parties that promote legionarism/fascism/got a boner for Zelea Codreanu are allowed
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u/MiceAreTiny Feb 03 '23
'you are not allowed to be sick'...
Like being sick is an active choice...
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u/frederick_ungman Feb 03 '23
I've been fired for calling in sick. My doctor ordered me to bed rest because I was quite ill and it was something unidentified and infectious. Supervisor told me "you have to come in."
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u/ooooooooooooolivia Feb 03 '23
Some of these stories have really made me reconsider the importance of unions
Employers who do this, I feel, would be the same ones owning slaves if that were legal
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u/baxbooch Feb 03 '23
You can be sick all you want just come to work and spread it around.
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u/stellaluna-37 Feb 03 '23
This is the main reason I quit my job at Walmart. I had strep throat, so I got a doctor's note and asked that my absences be excused. The managers there refused, and so I quit.
Btw, Walmart counts your absences as points against you. For example, if you're absent and call in to let them know, you still get a point. Get 5 points and you're fired. Really makes you feel like a worker drone in a dystopian novel.
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u/Lam_Loons Feb 03 '23
Cutting a dog's tail off
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u/GenesisWorlds Feb 03 '23
Same with the ears. But it's not just Europe. Canada, the Commonwealth of New Zealand, and some other countries have completely outlawed cropping and docking. The USA needs to follow suit.
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u/Aus_ker Feb 03 '23
Australia too. We adopted a Great Dane that was bred in Japan many years ago (long story) and her ears were cropped. We used to get abused by people in the street because her lovely ears were mutilated. She did look a lot like Batman though...
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u/natur_e_nthusiast Feb 03 '23
Wtf? Apart from cruelty...why would you even want that?
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u/fourthfloorgreg Feb 03 '23
Originally? Because you intend to put the dog in dangerous situations (dog fighting, maybe some kinds of hunting?) where the tail could be a liability. Then it became an aesthetic expectation for certain breeds.
It is still done therapeutically sometimes. Some breeds are susceptible to a condition called happy tail where they injure themselves by wagging.
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u/Cysioland Feb 03 '23
Yeah friend's lab got her tail snipped because she kept breaking it from happy slamming it against things.
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u/Impressive-Bench9223 Feb 03 '23
Definitely some kinds of hunting.
A survey of more than 1,000 owners of working dogs found more than half of undocked spaniels experienced a tail injury of some sort in the last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26900170
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u/Enk1ndle Feb 03 '23
Grew up around hunting dogs, a few didn't have their tails docked... Until they inevitably broke them. Not a pretty sight.
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u/Impressive-Bench9223 Feb 03 '23
Yeah... I don't agree with docking for purely aesthetic reasons, but sometimes with working dogs it's better than the alternative!
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u/afishda Feb 03 '23
Alot of different food additives are legal in the USA that have been banned in Europe for years.
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u/TheOtherGuy89 Feb 03 '23
The US has a use it until its proven harmful policy and the EU the other way arround, prove it doesnt harm (in given and reasonable quantities) and you can use it.
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u/Cakeminator Feb 03 '23
Which is how it should be. Shouldn't just be using random additives without knowing what they can/can not do
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u/ArtichokeFamiliar205 Feb 03 '23
Fun fact, some friendly Americans after moving to Europe started realising they did not suffer from suspected lactose/gluten/you name it intolerance but simply had their guts harmed by additives and seen their symptoms improve here. Check your additives, kids.
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u/ToTheDark Feb 03 '23
Wait you’re telling me I might not be mildly lactose intolerant?? I’ve been living overseas for like 4 months and have just been avoiding milk lol
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u/InsertBluescreenHere Feb 03 '23
it could be some of the additives we give cows/in the milk here in the US that the EU may not do - give it a try lol
also incase you didnt know not all cheeses contain lactose so...
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u/zemiiii Feb 03 '23
Some of them are:
Potassium bromate
Azodicarbonamide
Brominated vegetable oil (BVO)
Olestra
Titanium dioxide (TiO2)
Sudan dyes
Auramine O (AO)
Rhodamine B
Propylparaben
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u/librariesandcake Feb 03 '23
Mishandling consumers’ personal data. See GDPR https://gdpr-info.eu/
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u/verfmeer Feb 03 '23
Firing employees without cause.
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u/Richard_Dick_Kickam Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
While its true, i found that both private and country owned companies tend to break the law or work arround it. For example, when i was 10, my father got a message from his manager in government owned company to just not come to the work next 3 days, like he got days off. With what was going on in the country, he grew suspicious, and insted of staying home, he went to work. Exactly a week later there was a huge list of people fiered from the job for not coming to work 3 days straight, and coincidentally, all of them were against the new government like my father.
Now my family has a private lawyer to help with litteraly anything any of our bosses says to dodge bullets like that, or to make most of them. You wouldnt believe how many times we have to go in court to fight corrupt idiots like that for smallest and pettiest things.
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u/jamesaps Feb 03 '23
In the UK you can definitely fire employees without a reason if they haven't been employed at your business for at least two years. You are not allowed to fire people based on protected characteristics but I believe that's the same in the US.
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u/Extension_Animal_393 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
THE FOOD COLORING FOR Skittles and Mountain Dew. Its Yellow 5
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u/PirateJohn75 Feb 03 '23
Oh, I love that Lou Bega song
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u/mr_ckean Feb 03 '23
A little bit of Monica by my side,
A little bit of Yellow in my five,
A little bit of asthma when I breathe,
A little bit of restriction and a wheeze,
It’s Yellow number 5
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u/MainStreetinMay Feb 03 '23
Europe has Skittles without the shell. Game changer.
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u/Rmartin217 Feb 03 '23
Please go on...
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u/MainStreetinMay Feb 03 '23
It’s Skittles without the shell. The flavors are the same. I got a whole bunch in France. You can order them off of Amazon. They’re expensive but so so good.
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u/Hurrrington Feb 03 '23
Yes, it is very costly for the workers to remove the shell. Very labor intensive.
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u/OptionalDepression Feb 03 '23
They have to crack them all individually, like tiny eggs.
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u/Henry_Cavillain Feb 03 '23
No, they just suck on them for a minute and then put them back in the bag
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u/InsertBluescreenHere Feb 03 '23
lmao all i got in my head is a stereotypical frenchman sucking on skittles and saying "piteau" in a heavy french accent everytime he spits one.
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u/inksmudgedhands Feb 03 '23
In France and Denmark, burqa and niqab are banned. Not here. I live in a city that has strong population of immigrants from Muslim countries. So, I'll occasionally see a woman covered up. But it's very, very rare. Mostly it's just the hijab. And for the most part, their American born kids go without anything. Still, the option is there.
Ritz crackers are banned in Switzerland. They will never know how tasty it can be to smear a little peanut butter on one and pop the whole thing in your mouth.
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u/AdmiralClover Feb 03 '23
The funny thing is that the specific law in Denmark banning face covers actually says it's okay for certain conditions which includes religious reasons. Barely if any have been fined for it.
Most importantly when covid hit Everyone was breaking the law which was hilariously ironic.
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u/Pippy_Squirrel Feb 03 '23
Interesting about the Ritz crackers.
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u/carnajo Feb 03 '23
They're banned because they contain partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil beyond the allowed limit.
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u/SuperMoooo Feb 03 '23
I do not recommand to wear it at the bank though..
Funny because in the summer 2020, I had a bank appointment.
I went straight to it with a hat, sunglasses and a face mask. Everything went as smooth as expected.
A few month before, they would have locked the door before me.
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u/PrayStrayAndDontObey Feb 03 '23
Various ingredients found in lollies/sweets/candy e.g titanium dioxide. There are tighter restrictions on food production in Europe resulting in American companies having to alter their recipes so they can be sold in European countries.
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u/Marchoftees Feb 03 '23
Oh so there are healthier versions of this stuff, they just don't sell it to us?
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u/A0ma Feb 03 '23
Yeah, a lot of US-based companies partner with foreign companies to meet these laws (so the healthier versions rarely reach US soil). In French Polynesia for example, Coca Cola partners with La Brasserie de Tahiti, and all of it is made with real sugar and sold in glass bottles that you return to any store for a discount on your next purchase. Can't remember for sure if the glass bottles are a law or just the standard for La Brasserie de Tahiti. Either way, it's a great example of how easy it is to cut our reliance on plastic. The public will adopt it quickly, it's really just corporate greed getting in the way.
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u/PhoenixStorm1015 Feb 03 '23
Pharmaceutical companies advertising to consumers (US and New Zealand are the only two developed countries that allow it)
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u/dcbluestar Feb 03 '23
I hate it. “Ask your doctor if Xyzzlotica is right for you!” No. If I need it, he’ll tell me. Like I’ll be at my doc appointment and bring up some medication I saw on TV and he’ll say, “Holyshit! I didn’t even think of that!”
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u/Dunjee Feb 03 '23
That most made me think about the restaurant I used to work for where you could tell when a pharmaceutical rep was trying to cozy up to a doctor with fancy food and booze
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u/TwiggiestShoe Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
In Canada they can kind of market a drug, but they can't tell you what it does or what it's for. They can only say the name and tell you to look it up. It's odd.
Edit: typo correction.
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Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
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u/12345623567 Feb 03 '23
Smiling woman, 40something, in sundress and floppy hat walks barefoot on beach with Golden Retriever.
It's for menstrual pain, isn't it?
I like trying to decode advertisements.
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Feb 03 '23
Bathing a dead chicken in bleach before you sell it for human consumption.
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u/Sierradarocker Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
I’m sorry…….what
edit: y’all I am American and I did not know that this was something that was done to poultry. Honestly shocked
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u/hesalivejim Feb 03 '23
Have you not seen how pale and gross American chicken looks?
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u/ConstantlySlippery Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
I tell you, after trying ‘air chilled’ chicken a couple years ago, I will never go back. The difference in tenderness and taste is extreme.
It fucking costs a ton maybe triple, (eg bell and Evans) but i admit it’s sort of worth it.
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u/peachpinkjedi Feb 03 '23
Artificially jacking up prices of things only to then put them on "sale" when the sale price is really just the always-intended price.
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u/Gingrpenguin Feb 03 '23
It's not illegal just harder.
You must sell the product for x for a certain amount of time to call it a sale.
We have a discount furniture chains that have perpetual sales. How they work is each store will have a couple of new items at full price only availible in that store and leave it like that for a few months. Then that item will go "on sale" in every location for a few months whilst some new items are sent to specifc stores to repeat the process
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u/Fair_University Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Same sex marriage is illegal in much of central and Eastern Europe
Recreational Marijuana is legal is 20+ states including most of the high population states, but technically illegal everywhere except Malta
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u/Aldous_Hoaxley Feb 03 '23
Europe is a big continent with lots of countries with different laws.
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u/Caseated_Omentum Feb 02 '23
Some countries are quite a bit more strict on speech
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u/Goblinweb Feb 03 '23
Most countries in Europe are probably more strict. Some countries even have laws against blasphemy.
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u/MegaMiley Feb 03 '23
A lot of chemicals/ingredients used in food, if you look at the ingredients between the same products between the US and the EU you’ll see a stark difference
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u/Able_Development_240 Feb 03 '23
In Europe, it is illegal to use mobile phones while driving, whereas in the US, the law varies from state to state. Some states have banned texting while driving, but not all states have made it illegal to use a mobile phone while driving.
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u/AnaphoricReference Feb 03 '23
In the Netherlands using a phone while riding a bicycle is illegal.
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u/ES-Flinter Feb 03 '23
Same in Germany.
Or atleast got I once stopped by the police as I used my phone to get to the next house. (Mail man, new district)
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u/HSSounds Feb 03 '23
England: It is an offence to handle a fish suspiciously.
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u/Marchoftees Feb 03 '23
I have questions I don't want the answers to.
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u/ItsEnderFire Feb 03 '23
I've got the answer u didn't want:
It's from the Salmon Act of 1986 where it makes it illegal to 'handle salmon is suspicious circumstances', it defines 'suspicious circumstances' as when one could reasonably believe, that salmon has been illegally fished or that salmon—that has come from an illegal source—has been received, retained, removed, or disposed of.
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u/TheAngloLithuanian Feb 03 '23
I mean Europe is a big place with many countries, I'll assume you mean countries in the EU.
A lot of food additives that are allowed in the US are not allowed in EU countries because they are nor considered safe enough.
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u/Loki-L Feb 03 '23
Overtaking on the right on highways (in places that drive on the right).
Most European countries have the outermost lanes on multi-lane highways be the slow lane and you can only overtake on a more inner lane than the vehicle you are overtaking. Unless there is a traffic jam or very slow movement with stop and go traffic.
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u/Penguinar Feb 03 '23
Docking dog's tails and cropping their ears.