What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
Thank you. Now that makes sense to me. And I used emu because I didn't know NZ fauna and defaulted to AUS.
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Whales, northern lights, reindeer
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Canal bridges that open to let ships through for some reason? I often see tourist making pictures of that.
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Niagara Falls. It's spectacular to visitors but for me it's right there so it's just a bunch of water falling off a ledge.
As a tourist I was fascinated by the colourful lighting of the falls and the amount of tall buildings around. For some reason I used to imagine the Niagara Falls as a beautiful natural site.
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Putting more stuff in washable bottles than before happens in many places? Are you sure?
Czechia as well, pretty sure more European countries.
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We had bendy buses for a brief moment.
i NORCAL they are basically on the most of the lines that travel the longest routes.
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no speed limit is annoying as fuck. there is absolute chaos on the autobahn because of it. everyone drives at different speeds and dangerous manouvres (like tailgating, driving 200 kmh on a full road or in the rain) are common occurances. i hate driving in germany. we are an idiot nation when it comes to driving and cars in general
it actually creates a lot of traffic jams too. The differences in speed and the goal to drive even faster produce hard braking moments which have a chain reaction. Especially in rush hour, where it matters, we really don't get anywhere faster.
We are stupid for not limiting speed
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I was a bit excited that the US squirrels are gray and large, we have smaller red ones in Germany.
and the german ones are really skittish too.
Those i saw on the canadian campus just lay next to the side walk, chilling. Fat and grey
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
I miss the mountains in Amsterdam
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Kinda the opposite of the question, but I'm a USian and I was super excited when I saw some European countries have public bathroom doors that didn't have tiny slot that you could see through while I was pooping.
What the fuck are we doing over here? Besides the letting fascists take over thing.
A hero, (good guy with a gun) has to be able to inspect all the toilets, in case there is a trans or weird looking person in there.
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To avoid Google:
„If you are thirsty
Go to Wiekevorst.
There, you have a little dog
That pisses into your little mouth.”
(no drinking water)
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Where is here?
Oops, sorr. Austria
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They have tails. May still be a dick idk
armadillo's willy
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It's not just that, they wash and reuse the bottles (without melting them down or anything)! Amazing stuff.
They're finally starting to put more stuff in them here opposed to plastic bottles, and I'm so glad for it.
they wash and reuse the bottles (without melting them down or anything)
Idk where you're talking about, but in Finland... That used to be the system, and the bottles which were actually washable were far sturdier than what we have now. Now it's all flimsy PET bottles which just get shredded and "recycled".
I used to work in a bottle room back when most deposits were glass bottles and sturdy plastics and only the cans got crushed not reused.
I was the guy in the backroom piling the bottles from a huge conveyor belt (glass bottles) to be organised in pallets. Could manage like 7 beers bottles in one hand, but that was pushing it and the most effective speed was 3-4 bottles per hand per move.
I liked the job but the employer was a massive cunt.
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Not only UK. As far as I know the same problem is spreading around all of mainland Europe. US squirrels have a better immune system and a more varied diet, they are also more aggressive and territorial. They are slowly replacing indigenous red squirrels.
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Us humans are so talented at selfishly fucking over indigenous populations and animals in general. Ugh. -
Try Florida, flattest state in the union. You would laugh out loud at what I call a valley around here.
wrote last edited by [email protected]laughs in the netherlands
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The Autobahn.
I love explaining the Autobahn to my foreign friends. "It's just the word for highway". "All highways are called autobahns". "Yes, sometimes there is a speed limit". "Even where there's no speed limit, we won't be driving that fast".
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I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?
Pic unrelated.
Walking to a supermarket, riding your bicycle to work.
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Dammit.
Us humans are so talented at selfishly fucking over indigenous populations and animals in general. Ugh.In this case, it was just randomness. Some grey squirrels got randomly transported with cargo between North America and Europe and they found a good spot. There was no human intent behind it… (does it make it better?)
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Lived in the UK for a while - Squirrels, and the fact that the church in the town we lived in was built before ANY humans set foot in New Zealand
I had to be the only person in Central Park in NYC excitedly taking photos of squirrels when I was there. They were everywhere.
