What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?
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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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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?
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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.
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The lack of a speed limit on our highways. Some people come here just to drive on a boring frigging highway.
Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I’d be taking for granted?
Double decker buses maybe. I found them pretty cool compared to the boring buses we usually have here.
Edit: Also, urban foxes. I saw foxes maybe three times in my life before going to London, where they're basically seen as a nuisance.
Urban foxes are in every city. Foxes and coyotes. You just dont see them often.
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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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Apfelschorle
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I peeked at a timelapse or two. Holy shit, 17 meters ? I've never heard of this. I remember from my holidays in Brittany learning that they have 6 meter tides, and here in Mayotte we have about 4 meters tops which already seems like a lot.
The time lapse are cool, real time is freaking boring.
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Only the nine banded ones. I had to do some research on dillos when I had to trap a couple under my house. Now they are the more common ones in the southern US, but there are so many more types. Like check out this cute little fucker named the pink fairie armadillo
Completely leprosy free!
Edit to add: But please don't eat it!
But please don’t eat it!
In my defense, in addition to finding out after the fact that armadillos carry leprosy, I found out that the one I ate was roadkill.
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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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I lived in London for a few years and it always amazed me to see foxes just roaming about. I still think it's cool.
I'm from another country, foxes are not really a thing here.
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Urban foxes are in every city. Foxes and coyotes. You just dont see them often.
Coyotes are only a thing in the Americas, I'm pretty sure.
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Yeah I recently left and I miss the little guys.
the little guys
I don't think landscapers like being called this.
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Coyotes are only a thing in the Americas, I'm pretty sure.
Forgive an old bushcrafter. I default to my known region.
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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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Practically every house and apartment has (access to) a sauna. If not inside the apartment, there will most often be a shared sauna in the basement.
About the UK, I'm going to go a bit deeper and note that it was somehow eye-opening that there's a whole society that actually just daily drives English. For my whole life before the visits to UK and later US, English was the language of the internet and some specific international situations where it was most people's second language. Until well into my mid-20s, I basically didn't have real life contact with any community that would just speak English natively, despite speaking it myself fairly okay-ish.
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I lived in London for a few years and it always amazed me to see foxes just roaming about. I still think it's cool.
I'm from another country, foxes are not really a thing here.
Dont forget the bright green paraqueets
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Mountains, Great beer and legal weed.
Germany?
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Not my country, but something that fascinated me in Greece. Greece is a land of honey...and marble rock. Beautiful, swirling, sparkly rock in all different shades. It is so terribly abundant that they use marble in place of concrete.
To the Greeks, it is normal to use marble literally everywhere. They disrespect the beautiful stone, turning it into a curb on the street & slathering it in yellow paint. I saw a yellow curb that was cracked open - exposing the glittering marble rock inside. I found it so funny & sad that I took a picture. We love marble, we think it's so decadent & fancy, it's flooring in the finest hotels, businesses, and homes. These people just use marble everywhere; it's just a rock to them.
It really puts things into perspective.
I grew up in a place that looks like Greece, but the rocks are red.
Same thing - amazing mesas and red rock plateaus and craggy mountains? See it every day. Meh. Crystal blue seas? I can't stop starting and being amazed that something that color is real.
Though, I have noticed that very flat and forested places give me a sense of claustrophobia. When you're used to being able to see 20-50 miles all the time, not being able to see anything more than 200 feet away is strange. It makes the world seem so small and trite.
