It's been a long time since I've needed to use either. Instead I typically use Synaptic Package Manager, Mint's Software Manager, or gdebi. Guess I'm just a filthy casual.
As an unfortunate USian, I get a small panic attack any time the red option is shown as the winner of an election. Good on Y'all for not catching too much of our crazy.
The laundromats and carwashes don't seem that strange. My home "city" of not even half a million people has 20 laundromats I could find on Google Maps and more carwashes than would seem reasonable. I don't know what's a reasonable number of furniture and mattress stores because one big place sucks up most of that business, but even with that, we've got at least a dozen different places to get mattresses.
I never used it to begin with. It was always some old-timey gesture I only ever saw in media. The first time I did see it in person, it was used in a "Made you look and now I get to slap you upside the head" sort of game.
Speak for yourself. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)