What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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I feel like it's 80% the expense. If most rock was like that everybody would be looking for boring sandstone.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Do rich people in Greece import sandstone?
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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".
wrote last edited by [email protected]"All highways are called autobahns"
Does Germany not distinguish between highway and freeway?
In Australia a highway has traffic lights while a freeway does not.
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Felt bad about purposefully letting her sweat a bit as the sun went down and I started a fire. At the same time I tried to tell her that merely speaking out loud would run off any animals larger than a lizard.
Later, she tried to throw me under the bus with my wife. Now I wish I had tortured her for real!
"Yeah... We're gonna have to spend another hour here. I'm waiting to see that panther that was here last week."
It's a shame things that are exciting as kids become scary as adults, even when they don't need to be. Sure, there can be risks, but we tend to over-exagerate them when we are unfamiliar.
My issue is heights. But only sometimes. Brains are wierd.
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I had to be the only person in Central Park in NYC excitedly taking photos of squirrels when I was there. They were everywhere.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Even though I've seen plenty of squirrels before I still get excited when I see one, and seeing so many at once is fascinating every time.
I snapped a pick of one sitting upright holding a big nut in his tiny hands, and only after showing multiple people "this cute squirrel with his nut", did I notice that he was proudly displaying a prominent ballsack, at least a third of this fuckers visible body was just...his nuts.
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Driving 200 kmh is also incredibly wasteful
But it’s super fun
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Nah they have a hot air balloon festival where I live in England where they launch maybe a hundred at once. They're not uncommon here.
Oh you’re from England? But you don’t have an accent
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North American trees species have evolved to have more vibrant fall colors than European species.
So you're basically proving that British guy's point that yes, they are a different color but no-one believes it because they think they know what fall looks like in temperate climates.
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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.
I did miss lizards in England, they are so nice to have around. And the occasional alligator is cool too, I can only imagine how exciting for a tourist.
I was absolutely stunned to see such OLD things in the UK, we don't have the thousand year old buildings. And basements & the underground metro, places you walk down underground to get to are very uncommon here, would flood. The rain was different too, not a storm, you can just umbrella your way along, that was nice.
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I'm in Tennessee. The smokey mountains. They are wonderful... But pigeon forge / Sevierville/ Gatlinburg is just a touristy blight now.
There's much better places to go than there.
Where would you recommend? We visited earlier this year and I found it overwhelming, though the abundance of family-friendly stuff was nice.
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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.
Palm trees and birds that stand chest high.
I spend about 1/4 of the year in the UK so I'm used to it now but I remember being shocked by the bad teeth.
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We also get turkeys.
Ah, yes. Those fuckers regularly stopped traffic when I lived in Michigan. Not for tourist reasons of course, they're just big and travel in packs. And take their sweet time crossing the road.
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I grew up in Ohio and we had shitloads of opossums. Also deer.
Yeah I didn’t mean to imply they’re all exclusive to where I live, but the opossum anecdote is actually from a person I met from Ohio funny enough.
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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".
More importantly, if they ever come here, they should check their insurance papers for exclusion clauses like "this contract does not cover accidents in the cities of Rome and Paris, and on German highways (Autobahn)."
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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?
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Oktoberfest
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But it also isn't used in the fancy rich places simply because it's expensive, it's also because it's beautiful.
It wouldn't surprise me if fancy people in Greece would use granite instead.
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This was because PalPa, the company responsible for maintaining Finland's recycling system was (and is) a corrupt heap of shit.
It's owned by the largest breweries and they used it for keeping smaller and foreign companies out if business. You couldn't get a right to use Finnish bottles –> You had to pay a steep punishment tax for using non-recyclable bottles.
They successfully argued that washing bottles from that many sources would be impossible to organize, so the EU required PalPa to start accepting crushable PET bottles, which are easy to produce without any active coöperation by PalPa.
PalPa(...tine?) was hoping that they could still somehow block this from happening, so they framed the change as Evil EU forcing Finland to stop washing bottles. And when the PET bottles were indeed accepted in the end, they dismantled the whole bottle washing system in Finland so that they wouldn't be held accountable for their lies.
So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
Don't forget healthcare and dental. Kids don't get free dental anymore?
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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.
I live in New York City. Apparently (based on how shocked they look) tourists come from places without: Gift Shops, Theaters, Rats, Black People, Buildings, or Walking.
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In Sydney most trains...
(a) Are double decker
(b) Have seats which flip to face the opposite direction.
Australian pedestrian crossing lights cater for the blind and the deaf-and-blind. Billie Eilish's brother/producer sampled the sound, when he visited, for her smash hit.
sadly the newest trains (the first ones to have any bike storage too) have given up on the flipping seats and I'm worried going forward we'll lose one of the best things about an otherwise deteriorating rail network.
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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.
Squirrels, I guess. Oh and so many prisons.
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So, it's the same thing that happened to our regional bus network (vakiovuorot), basically. And what's currently happening to our railways.
Don't forget healthcare and dental. Kids don't get free dental anymore?
That's not because of an organization trying to make Finland ignore the EU legislation using strategies that then cause us to run headlong against a wall, though.
