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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Yellow school buses, apparently.
Trucks driving down the street yelling commercial promos at you through loud speakers. Annoying af
Large-scale evacuations because of unexploded WW2 ordinance.
That’s every country in central Europe I think
Any Vietnamese photos of people doing weird things
Look up cursed images Vietnam and you’ll find some good ones I swear
Sorry but here is a reddit post of some of them:
https://old.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/18q72y7/vietnams_cursed_images_113/
Not reddit:
https://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/16779-the-discomforting-poetry-of-vietnamese-cursed-image
Crippling medical debt and outrageous student loans.
Do old people just stop right in a doorway blocking everyone behind them outside the US? I’ve been to other countries (specifically Ireland, Germany and Mexico), and didn’t experience this but I spent much less time there than I have here.
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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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
I understand, it’s just a weird behavior from a southern Europe point of view: when it’s cold outside we close the windows to keep it out.
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
Huh, thought everyone ran from the rain. I usually have a hat if I’m outside so the rain doesn’t annoy me.
It really depends on what rain is like in your location in my limited experience. In the pacific northwest rain is usually a drizzle, it’s fine, you don’t run. In the american Midwest, you get a feel for the air pressure, listen for thunder, and look at the sky, then you make a comment about your prediction and keep going if you predict a drizzle but start running if it seems like a downpour.
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.
Losing a ground war against flightless birds.
One of my favorite bits of weird history trivia.
Germany: Workers have rights, and can go to court easily if needed.
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”.
How could they possibly be different. If it’s not free, then it’s not universal because it doesn’t include the destitute.
China is labeled as “Universal Healthcare” but its not “free”. They have a system equivalent to the US’s “ACA”, most people purchase insurance through employers. Unemployed people have no insurance. Its not “free”. And insurance doesn’t cover a lot of things, just like in the USA.
I know because my parents regularly call our relative in mainland China over wechat, and I just asked my dad today because of a discussion on another Lemmy thread.
Seems like a drastic mislabeling if their “universal” care is the same as the US. That’s like saying we have universal thousand dollar bank accounts. Sure, everyone can get one. You just need to get the $1k first.
Cool. I’ll be sure and be way more specific and accurate when I make my next glib comment on the internet.
Thank you, much appreciated
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.
Taking your shoes off is expected in some parts of America, almost unheard of in other parts. Chicago? Shoes off. Florida? Why?
Indoors meaning a home, right? Because i doubt everyone is kicking their shoes off once they get to school/work/grocery stores
nonono, I want to see that tropical kebab pizza
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.
Where I live in Germany it’s very common to leave shoes on indoors (unless there’s a carpet)
You’ve never been to a black woman’s home that owns carpet have you? Lol
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.
Easy: school shootings, together with politician denial about the causes of this, guns, and lack of regulation for who owns them, make owning guns easier than getting a driver’s license.
Super sad, but here we are.
On a brighter note, apparently our casual friendliness with strangers is unusual elsewhere. So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice
The police kills more people every year than the amount of people killed in mass shootings since 1983. They also repeatedly ignore reports of people who go on to commit school shootings.
You should look into common sense pig control. I think that would save more lives than just being hysterical about AR-15s.
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. :)
Oh whoop, wrong. There’s been only 14 deaths. Which one of these are actual mass shootings and not something the FBI defines as one but the media doesn’t? Like a bunch of gangbangers shooting at each other, wounding nobody, and causing a stampede that results in people twisting their ankles? That’s considered a mass shooting by the FBI.
I pulled the numbers straight from here. Since 1983, 1176 people were killed in mass shootings.
Also, implying that the “mass shooting problem” requires “extensive work” is not good optics. All that America needs to do is suppress extremist right wing bullshit and mass shootings will cease to exist. Controlling the police on the other hand would require a lot more political power and a lot of reforms, but it would both reduce the amount of deaths AND curb down mass shootings at the same time because literally every single mass shooter only got to commit it because the cops didn’t care.
1: Your source uses FBI data.
2: The criteria is clearly spelled out in your own source, and it changed in 2013 to be more strict.
3: Our mass shooting problem definitely requires extensive work.
4: Extremist violence does account for the vast majority, and right wing is the vast majority of extremist violence, especially if you count religious extremists. However, the abundance of guns certainly adds more since we are not the most extreme religious country, nor do we have the most percentage of right-wing idealologically aligned people.
5: Forcing cops to care has never worked because, according to SCOTUS, they’re not required to do their job, even while on shift and present. Also, the most red flag sign of gun violence is domestic abuse, which most cops do on the regular, as well as right wing extremist ideation, which most cops engage in already. We’d be better off firing the domestic abusers and domestic terrorists that make up the majority and hiring social workers for most roles.
Abundance of guns does not indicate that the country is more prone to violence, though. Switzerland has significantly laxer laws on who can own a gun than over 20 US states, EVERYONE is obligated to own a fully automatic SG550 from their military service, and a vibrant gun culture, and yet, no one’s going around shooting people. It’s a result of right wing extremism, decades of propaganda running on people’s TVs, toxic right wing gun culture that is not countered by responsible gun culture from the left because liberals hate guns (and only because it became a problem for them after school shootings became common), and the refusal of government to address those issues. To add to that, white liberals literally take over ANY gun control talk and make it about their white feelings. That’s exactly what’s happening here with you. Despite minorities being the lead in support for gun control, we literally do NOT ever get to talk about our experiences. The only thing that matters in gun control discussions is white liberals putting their feelings and their feelings ONLY in the table, and advocating for assault weapon bans (which wouldn’t matter), universal background checks (that already exist) and “common sense gun control” (which they change the definition every time to suit what they think). And liberal politicians also add fuel to the fire by EXCLUDING COPS FROM CERTAIN BANS and giving them more and more budget to “fight crime” every year.
There is no such thing as a “mass shooting problem” because it literally kills less people per year than GETTING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. The media turns every single one of those into a spectacle and that’s why the majority of people think it’s such a problem. Police violence, on the other hand, is NOT statistically insignificant, and especially not for POC. After the assassination of the UHC CEO, the media literally turned every other time a CEO died into just a damn footnote, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT COPYCATS. The media can stop making those mass shootings a spectacle, but they won’t, because IT GIVES THEM MONEY.
The gun control movement has a HUGE problem with white supremacy, including from people who THINK they’re not being racist, and then proceed to support liberal politicians with tough on crime policies who give 12 gorillion dollars to the cops of big cities so they can purchase MRAPs, IFVs, fully automatic rifles and tons of other shit they don’t fucking need. And the SCOTUS ruling doesn’t matter, just get yourselves a SCOTUS that would rule cops have an obligation to help and investigate everything.
Please listen to us. Common sense cop control WILL solve all of this shit you mentioned without ever touching gun laws.
That was my first thought too.
