USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.wrote last edited by [email protected]Mass urban transit death-sprials.
There's always some austerity crisis going on with the city bus system, so the buses stop running.
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I hear peoole mix up these terms a lot: FYI "Universal Healthcare" doesn't necessarily mean "Free Healthcare".
How could they possibly be different. If it's not free, then it's not universal because it doesn't include the destitute.
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What's this raygun looking contraption?
Italian-made Chiappa Little Badger Extreme. $209. My god. I have never had so much fun with a new gun. Breaks in two pieces, 3.5lbs., hella accurate. Got it two weeks ago, probably took it out 10 times since.
Wanted a Chiappa Rhino, not practical, just for giggles, can't afford it. Talk about a science fiction weapon, it was even in The Expanse!. And yes, the barrel is on the underside.
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I live in City/Suburban (its like within a city but no tall buildings), and I hear what sounds like fireworks all the time and nobody gives a shit. And sometime I hear "fireworks" going off in rapid succession like pop pop pop like idk maybe its fireworks, maybe its gunshot, who knows. Just another day.
️(Yes, this is USA, its a liberal city, so its not the hillbillies)
I'm WAY more concerned with pops in a city. When I lived in Elgin, IL (Chicagoland), the 4th of July made me a bit nervous.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.wrote last edited by [email protected]Do old people just stop right in a doorway blocking everyone behind them outside the US? I've been to other countries (specifically Ireland, Germany and Mexico), and didn't experience this but I spent much less time there than I have here.
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German here. The Germans you describe seem fairly normal. Air quality > temperature
I understand, it's just a weird behavior from a southern Europe point of view: when it's cold outside we close the windows to keep it out.
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How could they possibly be different. If it's not free, then it's not universal because it doesn't include the destitute.
China is labeled as "Universal Healthcare" but its not "free". They have a system equivalent to the US's "ACA", most people purchase insurance through employers. Unemployed people have no insurance. Its not "free". And insurance doesn't cover a lot of things, just like in the USA.
I know because my parents regularly call our relative in mainland China over wechat, and I just asked my dad today because of a discussion on another Lemmy thread.
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I'm WAY more concerned with pops in a city. When I lived in Elgin, IL (Chicagoland), the 4th of July made me a bit nervous.
Apparantly nobody cares. Didn't even hear police sirens lol. And "stop and frisk" is a thing here.
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Huh, thought everyone ran from the rain. I usually have a hat if I'm outside so the rain doesn't annoy me.
It really depends on what rain is like in your location in my limited experience. In the pacific northwest rain is usually a drizzle, it's fine, you don't run. In the american Midwest, you get a feel for the air pressure, listen for thunder, and look at the sky, then you make a comment about your prediction and keep going if you predict a drizzle but start running if it seems like a downpour.
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People don't wear shoes indoors in any civilised country. Only Americans do that.
Pineapple and kebab on pizza is available in Germany too, although I think it may be illegal in Italy.
Where I live in Germany it’s very common to leave shoes on indoors (unless there’s a carpet)
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Large-scale evacuations because of unexploded WW2 ordinance.
That’s every country in central Europe I think
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Trucks driving down the street yelling commercial promos at you through loud speakers. Annoying af
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The societal problems if the US has been covered by others, but here are some culture shock ones I've experienced, in no particular order:
- still use personal checks
- put down knife after cutting your food, move fork to dominant hand
- drive through everything, including alcohol purchases
- horse and buggy on highway
- doorknobs instead of handles
- almost everyone has air conditioning, so doors and windows stay closed in summer
- double hung windows
- carry water bottles everywhere
- gas stoves and ovens are by far more popular than electric by a good margin
- in sink garbage disposals
Ive never even been to the US but a big one for me is the lack of electric kettles. Theyre in basically every home here in the UK.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.Yellow school buses, apparently.
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Ive never even been to the US but a big one for me is the lack of electric kettles. Theyre in basically every home here in the UK.
They're not as common. I think most people either use a coffee maker (for coffee), or their microwaves to heat water. However, I have an electric kettle in my office for tea. One thing you may notice in the US vs Europe in that regard is that the standard outlet is 120V, so most small appliances can't pull as much power as their 240V counterparts in Europe. So my electric kettle is probably a little slower than yours.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.wrote last edited by [email protected]Any Vietnamese photos of people doing weird things
Look up cursed images Vietnam and you'll find some good ones I swear
Sorry but here is a reddit post of some of them:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/18q72y7/vietnams_cursed_images_113/
Not reddit:
https://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/16779-the-discomforting-poetry-of-vietnamese-cursed-image
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put down knife after cutting your food, move fork to dominant hand
what the fuuck
Yeah, this is not typical.
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what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa??
like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.wrote last edited by [email protected]In Japan, many people obediently follow the dividers between going up and down the stairs at train stations, but in other countries, there don't seem to be any such dividers.
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Losing a ground war against flightless birds.
One of my favorite bits of weird history trivia.
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China is labeled as "Universal Healthcare" but its not "free". They have a system equivalent to the US's "ACA", most people purchase insurance through employers. Unemployed people have no insurance. Its not "free". And insurance doesn't cover a lot of things, just like in the USA.
I know because my parents regularly call our relative in mainland China over wechat, and I just asked my dad today because of a discussion on another Lemmy thread.
Seems like a drastic mislabeling if their “universal” care is the same as the US. That’s like saying we have universal thousand dollar bank accounts. Sure, everyone can get one. You just need to get the $1k first.
