USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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Please immediately stop this line of thinking. It is verging on creep territory.
Hmmm...
Hmmmmmm....
Yeah, i can see what you mean.
Okay. I take that comment back.
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Secondly, When wearing a thong (the real sexy kind) in a grocery store becomes a norm in your part of planet, I’m moving there permanently.
I want you to pause for a second and think what the average person looks like.
I am average!
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Depends on the region. Where I live mostly as soon as they know your name.
Change of plan.
I am now schooled on preferring positive physical greetings.
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Yeah, the "high schooler shoots up a school" or "crazy guy shoots up a mall" school shootings are incredibly rare. The majority of "mass shootings" are gang related violence. And even if you include all the instances and assumed you were equally likely to be involved in any of them (you aren't), it would still be incredibly unlikely for you to ever be involved in such a situation.
Gun deaths in general are not what most people imagine they are. 2/3 of them are suicides. Of the remaining 1/3, they will almost certainly be perpatrated by someone the victim had a pre-existing relationship with.
Not to say that gun violence is not a problem. But the view some of the lunatics on this site seem to have - that going out to eat lunch in America is more dangerous than living in Gaza - is just completely false.
We're mostly agreed. But suicides and "gang violence" and "man shoots family" shouldn't be discounted, but OTOH, they don't count as random, and random is what most people fear. Gun violence isn't random. Vehicular death is random, at about the same rate. And we don't talk about that.
Always said, America doesn't have a gun problem. We have a culture problem.
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Secondly, When wearing a thong (the real sexy kind) in a grocery store becomes a norm in your part of planet, I’m moving there permanently.
I want you to pause for a second and think what the average person looks like.
Yep, though self selection plays a role here. If you feel like you look bad you will probably be less likely to go out in swim gear. The average you will see in swimmers is well above the actual population average.
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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.
Fair enough. My opinion on princess trucks changed a bit when I saw them roll in. LOL, one night me and the lumber manager were laughing with a guy as we loaded his trailer.
"Sure you can handle that?"
"Think I better come back for the rest tomorrow!"
"Agreed!"
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Most of Asia and Canada also... You take your shoes off because shit is outside on the ground, and I don't want that tracked into the house!
Florida? Don't care. Our floors are mostly tile, tracking in sand, sweep.
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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.Wearing tracksuits in Ireland as regular day clothing. They are not nearly as common now as they were before, but many young people still wear them because they're comfortable and cheap. I remember German foreign exchange students asking the teacher why do Irish people always go to gym because of the tracksuits.
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France.
You're at the grocery store and want to buy a single bottle of milk or coke, but they're only sold in packs of 6? Just tear open a pack and take one bottle.
I think that's a thing in many Central European countries
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France.
You're at the grocery store and want to buy a single bottle of milk or coke, but they're only sold in packs of 6? Just tear open a pack and take one bottle.
Belgium, same.
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Don't be, we all graduated as alcoholics
Yeah does seem a bit dangerous.
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Congratulate everyone with someone else's birthday. Netherlands.
So... As I read this, this comes to mind:
"Gefeliciteerd met Rita's verjaardag, Johnny."That's not what you meant, did you?
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Being able to go basically anywhere by bike, foot, or public transport. And just our bike infrastructure in general. I honestly don't know how I could live in most other countries because it seems like basically everything happens by car or foot. Being able to bike anywhere is so much nicer and gives a lot of freedom from an early age.
Strangely we Dutch people also seem to be quite alone in our view that helmets on normal bikes are not really necessary. They make bikes more prevalent imo, because you don't have to drag a helmet along everywhere. You just park you bike and the only thing you have with you because of it is a key, no special clothes, helmets, etc. I think that's also possible because of our bicycle infrastructure and culture.
Kids learn to bike from a young age, in traffic. You see very young kids just cycle on their smol little bike with a parent on the outside sort of shielding them from traffic. Safely on bike roads, but also just on shared roads with cars. In general kids are quite free to just play outside. I live close to a school and I see plenty of kids all across the neighborhood, just playing without parental supervision. It's what we did back in the day too, without mobile phones or anything. We'd usually be home on time for dinner or our parents would find us somewhere in the neighborhood and tell us it was time to get home.
We came from far but we're working on it. Flanders is steadily moving to that utopia.
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It was like this in the Bay Area when I lived there, like in Alameda county at least. People exited at the rear doors and gave a thank you to the driver. Became a habit for me.
I moved to Norway a few years ago and absent-mindedly said “Takk!” as I exited and I was quickly educated that, we don’t do that here.I started doing it years ago in Belgium and I see more people do it these days. I don't shout but wave at the mirror. Bus drivers watch the mirror to check when to close their doors.
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guns. you can guess where im from
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Also weird from my UK point of view: it's fucking freezing out them I'm not opening the windows. I do get that it's nice to have fresh air and you can always put the window in the vent position, but even when it's really cold you can feel it.
To be fair: Every single appartment/house stayed in in the UK was so poorly isolated that it felt fresh and cold already when entering a room with outside walls/windows.
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So... As I read this, this comes to mind:
"Gefeliciteerd met Rita's verjaardag, Johnny."That's not what you meant, did you?
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. When you arrive to someone's birthday it's common to go around, shake everyone's hand and congratulate them (with Rita's birthday). Or just do a wave when you enter and collectively congratulate everybody.
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Gefeliciteerd.
Dankjewel.
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Yes, that's exactly what I meant. When you arrive to someone's birthday it's common to go around, shake everyone's hand and congratulate them (with Rita's birthday). Or just do a wave when you enter and collectively congratulate everybody.
And that, my friend, is why Flanders and The Netherlands will never unite
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Congratulate everyone with someone else's birthday. Netherlands.
Also where we have laws but we make mental exceptions for it because of reasons.
