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USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • S [email protected]

    First of all,
    You fuckers need to bring out your own dictionary.
    Budgie smugglers? I thought that's Australian for Gum Boots. Turns out, it kinda is actually, but for your Johnson & co.
    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.
    Third,
    Lunch\Cafe in your beachwear?
    Bro, you should've started with this.
    Imma land there now.

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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.

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    • S [email protected]

      How small does the friendship need to be for me to casually smooch all the pretty members of your society?

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      Please immediately stop this line of thinking. It is verging on creep territory.

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      • S [email protected]

        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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        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.

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        • I [email protected]

          Germany: public benches are specifically placed to be full view of the sun for as long as possible, a wild proportion of people have bread slicing machines, and you’re not allowed to prevent someone from using even a private toilet if they really need it.

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          It's so pleasant that DM has clean toilets for when I've poorly planned my liquid intake, shops in France don't generally have toilets for the public and the malls that do don't really care if they're clean it seems.

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          • R [email protected]

            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.

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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.

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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.

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              As a Canadian who graduated quite a while ago now. Jealous!

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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.

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                guns. you can guess where im from

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                  As a Canadian who graduated quite a while ago now. Jealous!

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                  Don't be, we all graduated as alcoholics

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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.

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                    I think the way we treat The Law as a Suggestion is very much a national exclusivity. Other people, especially first worlders, are a lot more reverent about it.

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                    • goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneG [email protected]

                      Staring, the only patriotism you get is local patriotism about once city/region, no national flags, bread,

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                      Germany? What's up with the staring thing?

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                      • O [email protected]

                        Where in Canada? That sounds like a 'berta thing lol. I can go to just about any random restaurant here and if they serve fries, chances are they have some sort of poutine option

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                        Yeah, in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes, you can get authentic poutine. It starts getting rare to find a good one the further west you go. Its a French-Canadian cuisine and thus Quebec-centric.

                        In BC the poutines are usually all wrong. Chicken gravy and shredded cheese instead of room-temp curd and a properly dark beef gravy.

                        When the place actually tries to make it an original take, its better. Like the Brown's Social House Rocky Mountain Poutine, or that place that does it with tater tots. 😂

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                        • B [email protected]

                          Please immediately stop this line of thinking. It is verging on creep territory.

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                          Hmmm...
                          Hmmmmmm....
                          Yeah, i can see what you mean.
                          Okay. I take that comment back.
                          I will consider Grindr.

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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.

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                            I am average!

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                            • D [email protected]

                              Depends on the region. Where I live mostly as soon as they know your name.

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                              Change of plan.
                              I am now schooled on preferring positive physical greetings.
                              But I appreciate your input.

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                              • B [email protected]

                                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.

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                                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.

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                                  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.

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                                    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!

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                                      Florida? Don't care. Our floors are mostly tile, tracking in sand, sweep.

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                                      • R [email protected]

                                        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.

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                                        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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                                        • somethingburger@jlai.luS [email protected]

                                          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.

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                                          I think that's a thing in many Central European countries

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