USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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Thats "American style", while keeping the fork in the non-dominant hand is "European style". Allegedly, it dates back to when meals were served "service à la française", which is when all courses are brought out at once, which is obviously the more common method of home cooking. Restaurants started doing "service à la Russe", which is where courses are brought out one at a time.
With service russe, you have new sets of silverware with each course (or they are arranged in order), so if you are eating a course that doesn't need a knife, you won't be given one, and you'll have your fork in your dominant hand. If you need a knife, that goes in your dominant hand, and you leave it there for the duration of the course.
With service française (or regular home cooking), you just have one set of silverware, and you only use the knife when you need it, so you might switch your fork to your dominant hand when you are done needing the knife.
For example, in America, no one eats a steak switching hands for every bite (cause that would be dumb and inefficient), and in Europe, you probably wouldn't eat a meal that doesn't need a knife with a knife in your dominant hand (cause that would also be dumb and inefficient).
I wonder are there cultures where you hold the knife in your non-dominant hand because switching the fork around always seemed inefficient.
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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.Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion.He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up, Just as the founding fathers intended.
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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.Ireland: chicken fillet rolls, spice bags
Scotland: deep fried pizzas, macaroni pies
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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]Hearing gunshots in the wild and not giving a shit. I came straight out the woods, not even off a trail, and there was a young couple by the creek. Having a .22, though really wimpy, didn't want to frighten them. Not the sort of place you typically see other humans. Also, I look like a well-outfitted homeless guy when hiking. I waved and smiled, walked up to introduce myself.
The were super nice. "Sorry if I worried you. I was popping beer cans down the creek and I never fire any other direction." "Oh! That must have been you we heard!" Given how sound carries over water, I must how sounded like I was very close. No worries.
LOL, how many non-Americans would hear gunfire in some lonely woods and not run like hell?
We're rednecks, or redneck adjacent, so it's plenty safe to assume we know how to be safe. Shooting is a brutally Darwinian sport for dumbshits. -
Well, you don't wear shoes indoors in any of the Nordic countries.
We have pineapple and banana and kebab and salad on pizza¹. Apparently it is considered weird.
¹ not the same pizza, obviously. That would be weird.
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.
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Well, you don't wear shoes indoors in any of the Nordic countries.
We have pineapple and banana and kebab and salad on pizza¹. Apparently it is considered weird.
¹ not the same pizza, obviously. That would be weird.
Taking your shoes off is expected in some parts of America, almost unheard of in other parts. Chicago? Shoes off. Florida? Why?
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In Canada, people do not run from the rain... if they are out and about and it starts raining, they just ignore it, they don't walk faster, rarely improvise coverage, etc
In Venezuela, my country of origin, people run from the rain like it's lava falling from the sky
Huh, thought everyone ran from the rain. I usually have a hat if I'm outside so the rain doesn't annoy me.
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Tipping as a social obligation when eating at dine in restaurants which in turn allows the waiter to be paid less by the employer and theoretically lowers menu prices.
Yeah, but many servers make serious bank. You won't find those people bitching about tips. Worked IT at a payroll firm, frequently saw the numbers.
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Civilians openly carrying handguns
Still haven't seen this, even in open-carry states.
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I wonder are there cultures where you hold the knife in your non-dominant hand because switching the fork around always seemed inefficient.
This whole conversation is weird to me. Fork in my dominant hand and knife in the other. Never seen anyone put their knife down or switch grips.
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Pavement princesses. The North American Man
's gender affirming vehicle.I lnow multiple dudes that work as box throwers in Walmart warehouses that drive $100k trucks, trucks that will never see any kind of work that's appropriate for their size. Might haul a few 2x4s from home depot every once in a while.
They want to own a home, but they're making massive payments on a huge truck instead.
You sure? Making that kinda money doesn't give you the credit for a $100K vehicle.
Working at Lowe's was eye-opening. Those princesses rolled in daily, but a great many were hauling massive loads on a trailer. They just don't put construction crap in their pristine bed.
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2024
Police- 1270
Mass shootings- 500ish (actually a down year)
While I agree we need police reform, let's be accurate.
Both problems need extensive work.
Mass shootings are likely now what we all imagine. I think most of us are imagining the left side of this chart. And I'd say the leftmost three sources are hardly conservative.
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Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion.He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up, Just as the founding fathers intended.
Close enough
Welcome back, Kevin McCallister
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Hearing gunshots in the wild and not giving a shit. I came straight out the woods, not even off a trail, and there was a young couple by the creek. Having a .22, though really wimpy, didn't want to frighten them. Not the sort of place you typically see other humans. Also, I look like a well-outfitted homeless guy when hiking. I waved and smiled, walked up to introduce myself.
The were super nice. "Sorry if I worried you. I was popping beer cans down the creek and I never fire any other direction." "Oh! That must have been you we heard!" Given how sound carries over water, I must how sounded like I was very close. No worries.
LOL, how many non-Americans would hear gunfire in some lonely woods and not run like hell?
We're rednecks, or redneck adjacent, so it's plenty safe to assume we know how to be safe. Shooting is a brutally Darwinian sport for dumbshits.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)
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You sure? Making that kinda money doesn't give you the credit for a $100K vehicle.
Working at Lowe's was eye-opening. Those princesses rolled in daily, but a great many were hauling massive loads on a trailer. They just don't put construction crap in their pristine bed.
100k CAD to be fair. And yeah, I don't know exactly what they paid, but it's the dually Super Dutys, the Denalis, the Longhorns, etc...
Maybe they're a few years old too. I don't give two shits about trucks so take my words with a grain of salt I suppose.
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Mass shootings in the US. It's become so common here that most if not all are desensitized.
What's a mass shooting? This chart lines it out nicely I think. Bet you, like most of us, are defining the term according to the leftmost three stats.
What I find to be far more weird, we lose about the same number of people to vehicular death as we do gun violence (and guns are almost half suicides). Yet, we just accept that as normal. Couple of people get shot? Headline news, if they're white. Entire family dies in a car wreck? Meh, you probably won't hear about it unless there was an unusual angel to the story.
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Hospital bills. I guess some of y'all have some kinda universal health care? Wild. Here, illnesses can lead to bankruptcy. Cool. Yeah.
I hear peoole mix up these terms a lot: FYI "Universal Healthcare" doesn't necessarily mean "Free Healthcare".
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Well, you don't wear shoes indoors in any of the Nordic countries.
We have pineapple and banana and kebab and salad on pizza¹. Apparently it is considered weird.
¹ not the same pizza, obviously. That would be weird.
Indoors meaning a home, right? Because i doubt everyone is kicking their shoes off once they get to school/work/grocery stores
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This whole conversation is weird to me. Fork in my dominant hand and knife in the other. Never seen anyone put their knife down or switch grips.
I was discouraged from doing that as a kid so ended up just cutting everything beforehand and then switching hands because it was faster.
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How normal are we talking?
Like: "Happy New Year, dear. I cheated on you on Christmas with Sarah from Finance. How is your affair with Fyodor in Marketing going?"
"Oh, Fyodor is so last year. They fired him because he was too loyal to his husband. I went with Peter in Accounting. Here, he bought us cupcakes for our anniversary."
Dane here, it's quite normal, no idea why
