and where the hell do you play where people don't know how much a raise is and exposed hands are dead? do straights also beat flushes?
For 20 odd years, pre internet and proper rules that could be referred to, most if not all cardrooms in the UK used the double the call method to raise. Dealers from the Rainbow were sent over to the Merrion and they sent dealers back for their festivals etc. that is why it is still like it in Ireland. As explained in another thread, some places adapted and modernised to the correct rules, some places have their own medieval house rules.
From the OP in min raise thread, he says the place he played made it 2400 so correct, I am assuming that acc2020 is either an older player or has played regular in "an older" cardroom.