USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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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
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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
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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.In Germany people seem to like opening windows when entering a room, even in the middle of the winter. Or maybe I only know weird Germans.
A few central/northern European countries also don't believe in curtains.
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I hear peoole mix up these terms a lot: FYI "Universal Healthcare" doesn't necessarily mean "Free Healthcare".
Cool. I'll be sure and be way more specific and accurate when I make my next glib comment on the internet.
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A lot of these are really regional (alcohol drive-throughs, horse and buggy, air conditioning, gas appliances) . I think it's been years since I saw anyone write a check for anything, though, with the exception of something to put into a birthday card. Horses also aren't allowed on highways, but they are allowed on country roads that people drive pretty fast on.
Double hung vs single hung windows it not something I would have noticed, but I suspect you are right.
Doorknobs, I dont know why we seem to like them. I guess the only benefit vs handles is that you won't snag your clothing on them when walking by. That doesn't beat the convenience of being to open a door using your elbow while carrying something.
The water bottle thing is relatively recent thanks to all of the companies somehow becoming trendy.
I mostly threw these out of the top of my head. You're mostly correct:
- most people use cards, not checks, but they're still widely in use. For example if you're paying a handyman, piano teacher, or just dealing with someone older, or someone who just doesn't have other ways to receive payment
- I'm in rural Ohio so I see Amish on the roads all the time. They're not where it is expressly forbidden, like a divided highway, but you can find them on roads with speed limits around 50 or 55 at times
- For the windows, the sliding style is what is weird to Europeans. We mostly use the kind that swings out in one direction it the other. American windows make more sense when you take into account that they have screens on them. (I forgot to list screens.)
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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]Germany: Workers have rights, and can go to court easily if needed.
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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.
Pretty common to keep your shoes inside in France. It's more common in houses with a hard floor than in apartments with a wooden floor, but there's absolutely no standard so you usually end up asking.
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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.Crippling medical debt and outrageous student loans.
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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.
You've never been to a black woman's home that owns carpet have you? Lol
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Civilians openly carrying handguns
I'm with the other commenter below. I'm not sure this is terribly usual, even where legal.
I keep an eye out for this sort of thing just sort of out a professional interest, and in terms of openly carrying firearms (not knives), I've only spotted two people doing it this year. And one of them was a guy who I think was intending to carry concealed, but was not doing a very good job due to an ill-fitting shirt.
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Huh, thought everyone ran from the rain. I usually have a hat if I'm outside so the rain doesn't annoy me.
Canadian here, from the wet coast. I've run in the rain before, but it needs to be monsoon level before that's necessary. Anything less is just meh.
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In Germany people seem to like opening windows when entering a room, even in the middle of the winter. Or maybe I only know weird Germans.
A few central/northern European countries also don't believe in curtains.
German here. The Germans you describe seem fairly normal. Air quality > temperature
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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.
nonono, I want to see that tropical kebab pizza
