USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.
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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.
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The Asshole Subsidy. Extra money is taken from the people who are kind enough to worry about the waiter getting paid, effectively giving assholes who choose not to tip a discount.
Are you calling non tippers the assholes, and not the business owners or practice of tipping in general? Tipping is out of control and a stupid obligation as it is currently being used.
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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
I actively go out when it's raining. Refreshing af
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I actively go out when it's raining. Refreshing af
that's a new level of crazy!!!
just kidding, I remember doing that as a kid... fond memories
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It's absolutely acceptable to go to a university lecture at 8 am, and sit in the front row with a beer. The professors won't mind. You can buy beer in the cafeteria as well as in a vending machine at the library.
Pulling out a bottle of hard liquor is frowned upon tho.
Germany ?
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TIL lol. I meant the united states, but tbh good for canada
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TIL lol. I meant the united states, but tbh good for canada
Yeah I was just joking. Although seeing that Canada has a ton of guns and not nearly the same issues means that it's gonna take some doing to fix the problems of the US. Who knows, maybe if we ever get decent mental health care and stop people from being wage slaves with vast wealth inequality it'll go a long way to fixing things.
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Germany ?
Yes. Bavaria specifically.
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On a brighter note, apparently our casual friendliness with strangers is unusual elsewhere. So we've got that going for us, which is nice
French here: had to work with an American girl who was doing her internship in my company: absolutely. Same for an English teacher at my university during my studies: very nice. Americans people are very friendly and nice people.
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Yes. Bavaria specifically.
Heh, that's real nice how beer is normalized there.
