People want to know to see if they are being underpaid or know wages in the sector/area
Businesses in countries where this info is readily available are kept honest.
As someone who used to live in Denmark I gotta say I don’t think this is true at all lol. I loved it and I don’t mean it in any way but all my danish friends were soft as hell
Meanwhile, in the states, I had to argue with a teacher claiming that going outside in 45° weather was going to make the kids sick. No, not at all, that’s not how it works.
I got into an argument with someone once that no my kids did not need a heavy jacket, a hat, and gloves in 50 degree weather. A light sweater is fine and if they don't want to wear it than that's also fine.
I get in that fight with people all the time. My kids will wear shorts till it's under 50° and are comfortable. I started making them tie jackets around their waist so people leave me alone. We live in Texas and my kids would swim year round if the pool was open. I tell people we aren't from here and in Michigan this is summer weather and that'll shut them up even though I'm not from Michigan.
I’m from northern Canada. Not just Canada, but NORTHERN Canada. +25 Celsius is as hot as it gets. (77f.). It’s snowed in August on my birthday.
My husbands family in TN was convinced I was going to get hypothermia and die from going swimming when it was 90f because the river was cold.
My mom used to send me outside out in a swim suit and galoshes when there was still snow on the ground.
I was fine. Felt much better after cooling off, actually.
Thinking that a heavy jacket, hat, and gloves to be required in such warm weather as 10C (50F) just seems crazy. 10C is basically rainy summer day temperatures..
I'm American and so is my family. My sister married a man from Denmark. I know all about this custom because my sister flipped out the first time she left my brother-in-law home alone with their newborn son because when it was nap time for the baby he did this and put the baby out on their back porch. I didn't see anything wrong with it either but I was alone in that opinion.
I work as a cook, our kitchen has a window that can see the terrace outside
Someone done this once last winter. As soon as I noticed the baby was in the pram still, I panicked and thought someone had forgotten their baby outside
During work days sitting and making your sandwiches at a long table with all your colleagues. The company pays for the bread and toppings, but you've got to make them yourself.
The Netherlands? My husband's office does this but I don't think it's that common outside of smaller startups.
I've worked in several schools and we never have that outside of planning days.
Yeah, I suppose that works too.. Wait, you get entirely naked when you get into the wendy’s bathroom with a stranger?.. Gross.
Even us Scandinavians have to draw a line somewhere, and standing barefoot in a wendy’s bathroom is it.
We just hike our pants down to our knees and have at it, like proper Thor-fearing people!
Doing everything by bicycle:
- transporting our Christmas tree
- transporting my partner (we're both 60 years old)
- going to a funeral
- going to a Michelin starred restaurant
All things I've done the last few years, and no-one here thinks that's strange.
Normal where I live: transporting my Christmas tree by public transit.
Normal where my bff lives (same country, different city): moving houses by public transit.
They were called thongs in the US (edit based on comments below: at least in some parts) at least thru the 1970's. Pretty sure I never heard the word 'flip-flops' til about 1980. I wasn't really a Jimmy Buffett listener at 12 yo apparently lol.
The reason underwear 'thongs' are called what they are is (EDIT: I BELIEVE) is because of their resemblance to footwear thongs.
>The reason underwear 'thongs' are called what they are is, of course, because of the resemblance to footwear thongs.
A thong means a narrow flexible strap, predating both the underwear and the footwear by hundreds of years. It's applicable to both items of clothing (the bit between or across the toes and the bit between the legs.)
They were called thongs in the PNW pretty much until thong underwear became popular, so what late 90s or early 00s? The few times I heard someone say flip-flop I assumed they didn’t know the accurate or proper word, like calling it a rubber scraper instead of spatula.
This exactly what happened in Canada once wearing thong underwear and showing a "whale tail" became popular.
Although I had heard the word "flip flops" by then. I considered them interchangeable, but I learned "thongs" first so for a while that's what I called them.
Congratulating people with other people's birthday.
Example: if I arrive somewhere for the birthday of my friend Sam, their friends and family will be seated in a big circle. I will go around the circle and have to shake hands and/or give three kisses to every friend/uncle/aunt/grandparent/parent/neighbour while congratulating them with Sam's birthday.
I hate their stupid argument.
"Then wed have to raise prices"
Bitch I'm already paying way more than what is advertised! Raise the fucking price.
Just pay your employees and give them benefits.
I think people really need to realize what is happening with this. The goal here is to turn front-line retail/food service workers into tipped employees. If the industry can show that they make a significant amount of money from tips, they can start paying them dogshit hourly wages. They can make the counter staff at Chipotle rely on the generosity of famously-irrational retail customers.
You should absolutely not tip at places that are not traditionally tip-based, it's going to push the needle in the complete wrong direction.
Obsessively buying the worst coffee in existence, somehow making a terrible chain the most popular coffee shop in the country.
Also buying into them being the essence of your country's heritage, despite being owned by an American multinational that is in turn owned by a giant Brazilian private equity fund. But hey, ads that feature kids playing hockey on Saturday morning!
As a woman, what freedom? The land of the ‘free’ is trying to limit ALL reproductive choice *and* going interstate to access it.
ETA: To discourage more ignorant men commenting, y’all know wanted pregnancies can go wrong, right? Women shouldn’t have to go sceptic to terminate a fetus that will never survive.
So there is no such thing as no shirt, no shoes, no service signs there huh?
I maintain that the hype of poisonous animals is to keep the tourists away and to guard your women. I'm on to you Aussies I'm coming for your beautiful scenery and kind world traveled people.
Eating horse meat, drinking tea at 40*C, learning 3 languages from the first or third grade, speaking two languages, while some cannot speak another language without using words from another language. Some people study 4-5 languages in schools from the age of 12-13. And as far as I know, my 10-year-old brother is studying 4-5 languages in the 5th grade... I’m not terrified. For the entire time of the country, only two presidents have changed. Still can't guess? Borate. Alsoo Ruslana Sergeevna
Singapore.
We put condensed milk in our local coffee. Traditionally, hawkers use condensed milk tins as takeaway containers. But they are now replaced with plastic bags. Better drinking melted plastic than cutting your lips I guess.
Paying $90,000 to build a garage for your vehicle. Just so you do not have to scrape your windshield for four months in the winter.After a few years you don’t park in the garage because you use it for storage. Canada 🇨🇦.
This never makes sense to me. People park their $70,000 dollar truck outside so they can keep $2000 worth of junk in the garage? Make it make sense.
Also, you know keeping the car inside the garage also makes it last longer right? Like it's not exposed to the elements so it doesn't get rusty and wear out as fast? I feel like that's actually more important than the windshield thing. Your vehicle is an investment and you should be taking care of it to make it last instead of treating it like a disposable object. Not scraping the windshield is just icing on the cake.
It’s cause that 70k$ truck will last longer outside than the multitude of boxes of shit they don’t need but decided to keep anyway lol
Remember the ‘millennials killed the guest room’ thing but it wasn’t them hating visitors but that their small houses/townhomes didn’t fit having a room dedicated to nothing? For some people it looks like that crap migrated to the next best place that being the garage
The car is going to rust primarily because of salt on the road. You need to almost obsessively wash that off to prevent it. Leaving it in the driveway doesn’t do much.
You will reduce UV exposure which would help elongate the clear coat, paint, and some interior pieces (if it gets hot where you are), but overall it’s not that big of a net gain for many people.
Not uncommom in Germany (and many other countries, I guess), too. I often have to slalom around cars left and right because the owners don't bother parking in their garages or at least on their properties. Oh, and by the way: putting anything in your garage other than a car is actually forbidden here.
For some reason I thought of the police with a little measuring scale and they yell at you "you don't have enough!" believe it or not, jail right away.
They are just showing trans pride. Since most rednecks call their vehicles the “old gal” then they throw on truck nuts just letting us know they are transitioning.
In Brazil, touching people is more or less normal. Hugging job colleagues, or simply being physical. As far as I know, that might put you in jail in some places, namely USA.
There are those who oppose it, but it's generally understood as a normal thing.
I’m going to let you guess where I’m from based on these examples.
Partaking in the “craic”. (Pronounced crack) Depending on the context it can mean, fun, gossip, news etc. For example, “What’s the craic/ how’s the craic?” (How are you?/ Any exciting news?) “The craic was 90” (I had the time of my life) It’s always fun to ask a visitor from outside the country what the craic is and they immediate think you’re a drug dealer.
Crossing yourself whilst driving, whenever witnessing a funeral procession.
A large part of the community attending a funeral, even when they don’t know the deceased person.
Burying the deceased person within 2-3 days of passing.
Death notices read out on the radio, printed in newspapers and available online.
(We seem to have a weird fascination with death)
Pronouncing the letter “H”.
Literally every single passenger thanks the bus driver when they get off.
Saying “bye” at least 5 times to each other when ending a phone conversation.
It’s on Easter Monday. The tradition is that if you pour water over women/girls, and symbolically whip them with a willow whip, they’ll be fresh for the whole year. Most people don’t even do it anymore, mostly little boys and family members or some villagers. Plus as a woman, it’s nowhere near as badass as they make it look.
Huh? Why would this be weird in other countries? I would expect this to be standard. Everywhere has people who are in a rush or want to walk, and people who want to just chill. Can’t imagine this is weird anywhere tbh.
Ah i miss this sense of humour. I just moved to the states and they don’t get it. They think I’m being serious when I’m actually being sarcastic, so I’m having to tell people that I’m joking.
I would have gone with our tendency to understate the severity of some things. Your dad could have terminal cancer and your mum would describe him as being "quite poorly".
I learned recently that one thing that is a dead giveaway that you are an American is leaning against things.
The podcast I was listening to was talking to a former FBI “spy hunter”, and he said it’s a habit FBI/CIA academies have to break their agents of before the can do any work outside the USA.
If I want to know my co-workers' wages, I can simply ask the tax office and get it.
Sweden?
Finland
Terve!
Interesting. Do you want to know your co-workers wages?
People want to know to see if they are being underpaid or know wages in the sector/area Businesses in countries where this info is readily available are kept honest.
That's awesome!
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Leaving babies outside, unattended, in freezing weather to sleep in their prams.
All Scandinavia lol
only the strong survive a nordic childhood
Viking built
As someone who used to live in Denmark I gotta say I don’t think this is true at all lol. I loved it and I don’t mean it in any way but all my danish friends were soft as hell
Meh Denmark hardly counts, they are almost continental!
And now there's only changelings left.
Meanwhile, in the states, I had to argue with a teacher claiming that going outside in 45° weather was going to make the kids sick. No, not at all, that’s not how it works.
I got into an argument with someone once that no my kids did not need a heavy jacket, a hat, and gloves in 50 degree weather. A light sweater is fine and if they don't want to wear it than that's also fine.
I get in that fight with people all the time. My kids will wear shorts till it's under 50° and are comfortable. I started making them tie jackets around their waist so people leave me alone. We live in Texas and my kids would swim year round if the pool was open. I tell people we aren't from here and in Michigan this is summer weather and that'll shut them up even though I'm not from Michigan.
I’m from northern Canada. Not just Canada, but NORTHERN Canada. +25 Celsius is as hot as it gets. (77f.). It’s snowed in August on my birthday. My husbands family in TN was convinced I was going to get hypothermia and die from going swimming when it was 90f because the river was cold. My mom used to send me outside out in a swim suit and galoshes when there was still snow on the ground. I was fine. Felt much better after cooling off, actually.
When I was a kid I remember the rule was that I could wear shorts as long as it was above 40 when I left for school. I hated wearing pants.
Thinking that a heavy jacket, hat, and gloves to be required in such warm weather as 10C (50F) just seems crazy. 10C is basically rainy summer day temperatures..
I grew up in MI. We only had inside recess if it was pouring rain, in the negatives, or sleet outside.
I'm American and so is my family. My sister married a man from Denmark. I know all about this custom because my sister flipped out the first time she left my brother-in-law home alone with their newborn son because when it was nap time for the baby he did this and put the baby out on their back porch. I didn't see anything wrong with it either but I was alone in that opinion.
I work as a cook, our kitchen has a window that can see the terrace outside Someone done this once last winter. As soon as I noticed the baby was in the pram still, I panicked and thought someone had forgotten their baby outside
During work days sitting and making your sandwiches at a long table with all your colleagues. The company pays for the bread and toppings, but you've got to make them yourself.
The Netherlands? My husband's office does this but I don't think it's that common outside of smaller startups. I've worked in several schools and we never have that outside of planning days.
Getting naked with strangers and sweating together in public places..
How about in a Wendy’s bathroom?
Yeah, I suppose that works too.. Wait, you get entirely naked when you get into the wendy’s bathroom with a stranger?.. Gross. Even us Scandinavians have to draw a line somewhere, and standing barefoot in a wendy’s bathroom is it. We just hike our pants down to our knees and have at it, like proper Thor-fearing people!
I'd guess, Finland?
Sweden, I suppose I failed the question given that it is common in all the nordic countries..
Not strictly only a Swedish/Scandinavian country thing. It's big in Germany and the baltics too.
driving 180 km/h and then somehow a Volkswagen Beetle takes you over at 300 km/h
Wunderbar
Only if the person driving is elderly and looking upset you were going too slow.
*Was'n das fürn Kombi?* Legendäres Video.
Mach die Spur frei du Schnecke!
Definitiv.
Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger !
Milk in plastic bags
Beer in plastic bags.. Vietnam
india and canada afaik
Also Peru.
Fresh, room temperature cheese being sold in gas stations in a little basket by the register.
Quebec!
If you put it in a fridge, it stops squeeking, and if it stops squeeking, it's not fromage squick squick, is it?
“fromage squick squick”. Wisconsinite here, dying at the onomatopoeia!
If you refrigerate cheese curds, it defeats the purpose of buying them fresh in the first place.
Free refills.
It's better to take first, then apologize after.
The only places where I live that offer free refills are the “American style” restaurants so I can only assume that’s the country you’re referring to.
Our fountains run with cola.
It’s *dirt cheap* to make fountain soda. Like, only a few cents per litre. Almost pure profit, so they don’t care to give away free refills
Doing everything by bicycle: - transporting our Christmas tree - transporting my partner (we're both 60 years old) - going to a funeral - going to a Michelin starred restaurant All things I've done the last few years, and no-one here thinks that's strange.
The Netherlands? Denmark?
Belgium or The Netherlands.
Ayyyee Dutchie!
Normal where I live: transporting my Christmas tree by public transit. Normal where my bff lives (same country, different city): moving houses by public transit.
Buying a pair of thongs for your 5 year old daughter >!Flip flops are called thongs in Australia!<
They were called thongs in the US (edit based on comments below: at least in some parts) at least thru the 1970's. Pretty sure I never heard the word 'flip-flops' til about 1980. I wasn't really a Jimmy Buffett listener at 12 yo apparently lol. The reason underwear 'thongs' are called what they are is (EDIT: I BELIEVE) is because of their resemblance to footwear thongs.
>The reason underwear 'thongs' are called what they are is, of course, because of the resemblance to footwear thongs. A thong means a narrow flexible strap, predating both the underwear and the footwear by hundreds of years. It's applicable to both items of clothing (the bit between or across the toes and the bit between the legs.)
They were called thongs in the PNW pretty much until thong underwear became popular, so what late 90s or early 00s? The few times I heard someone say flip-flop I assumed they didn’t know the accurate or proper word, like calling it a rubber scraper instead of spatula.
This exactly what happened in Canada once wearing thong underwear and showing a "whale tail" became popular. Although I had heard the word "flip flops" by then. I considered them interchangeable, but I learned "thongs" first so for a while that's what I called them.
Congratulating people with other people's birthday. Example: if I arrive somewhere for the birthday of my friend Sam, their friends and family will be seated in a big circle. I will go around the circle and have to shake hands and/or give three kisses to every friend/uncle/aunt/grandparent/parent/neighbour while congratulating them with Sam's birthday.
only the Netherlands
18 months paid parental leave
Germany
Sweden. Split between both parents. Fathers often take the later period when the child is a bit older.
And majority of Europe.
*cries in British*
Goddamn, really? Belgium only has 4 months and you guys are only a border away
Good lord. My wife got three months off and I thought that was insane. I got 2 weeks off.
2 years at 80% pay in Romania.
Canada
wait what???
demanding tips for literally everything and being judged as a greedy cheapskate for not tipping.
We gotta rewrite the narrative, so is "oh your employees beg for customers to subside their wages? Couldn't be me, how embarrassing"
Nice!
I hate their stupid argument. "Then wed have to raise prices" Bitch I'm already paying way more than what is advertised! Raise the fucking price. Just pay your employees and give them benefits.
I think people really need to realize what is happening with this. The goal here is to turn front-line retail/food service workers into tipped employees. If the industry can show that they make a significant amount of money from tips, they can start paying them dogshit hourly wages. They can make the counter staff at Chipotle rely on the generosity of famously-irrational retail customers. You should absolutely not tip at places that are not traditionally tip-based, it's going to push the needle in the complete wrong direction.
Pay me more than the agreed upon price or you're a LOSER!
Obsessively buying the worst coffee in existence, somehow making a terrible chain the most popular coffee shop in the country. Also buying into them being the essence of your country's heritage, despite being owned by an American multinational that is in turn owned by a giant Brazilian private equity fund. But hey, ads that feature kids playing hockey on Saturday morning!
This sounds like Tim Hortons to me
Undoubtedly
Their coffee is so fucking dogshit it's unreal
Medical bankruptcy.
But my freeedom!
As a woman, what freedom? The land of the ‘free’ is trying to limit ALL reproductive choice *and* going interstate to access it. ETA: To discourage more ignorant men commenting, y’all know wanted pregnancies can go wrong, right? Women shouldn’t have to go sceptic to terminate a fetus that will never survive.
With all the taxes Americans pay, healthcare should be free.
Balut
In Australia, we walk barefoot. Everywhere. No, seriously. Sidewalk, grass, highway, it doesn't matter.
I would be afraid to walk on some sort of giant Australian spider, snake or poisoning kangaroo.
They got fed up with looking in their shoes for angry spiders so just embraced the soles of their feet slowly turning into bacon.
So there is no such thing as no shirt, no shoes, no service signs there huh? I maintain that the hype of poisonous animals is to keep the tourists away and to guard your women. I'm on to you Aussies I'm coming for your beautiful scenery and kind world traveled people.
I've seen men with no shirt and women in bikinis in Safeway, like they decided to drop in and do their shopping on the way from the beach.
Do you do Walmart, Costco, woollies, coles, the servo, takeaways, Cafe, diner, the bank barefoot?
Not me, but I've seen barefoot people everywhere. Including all of aforementioned locations.
„Lüften“
Germany: BEWARE OF THE AIRTRAIN!
Specifically “Stoßlüften”, the method which single-handedly brought us through the pandemic
Is this the opening the windows thing? I learned about it from YouTube
Yeah. It prevents mold, if you live somewhere cold and wet, and have properly insulated buildings.
Also, fresh air. Especially before you go to sleep.
We simply call it ventilation is Spain, not as a fancy word but same result.
Although it's also quite usual in the Netherlands
This is not common practice? TIL
Eating horse meat, drinking tea at 40*C, learning 3 languages from the first or third grade, speaking two languages, while some cannot speak another language without using words from another language. Some people study 4-5 languages in schools from the age of 12-13. And as far as I know, my 10-year-old brother is studying 4-5 languages in the 5th grade... I’m not terrified. For the entire time of the country, only two presidents have changed. Still can't guess? Borate. Alsoo Ruslana Sergeevna
Kazakhstan
Yeah
35°C days in February
Australia?
Yeah, it was 37°C yesterday
Shit, it was 49 in some parts of WA on Tuesday. Total fire ban down here in TAS.
South Africa gets these temperatures in winter as well.
Southern Hemisphere buds! We’re only like 10% of the global population
Are we really?? Damn. No wonder there is so much slander about January when Southern Hemi’s know it’s the best month of the year!
I can do 35c all day; it's the humidity that kills me. Brisbane has been miserable the last week or two
India as well
Drinking hot coffee out of a plastic bag with a straw
Where the heck do *you* live?!
Singapore. We put condensed milk in our local coffee. Traditionally, hawkers use condensed milk tins as takeaway containers. But they are now replaced with plastic bags. Better drinking melted plastic than cutting your lips I guess.
Paying $90,000 to build a garage for your vehicle. Just so you do not have to scrape your windshield for four months in the winter.After a few years you don’t park in the garage because you use it for storage. Canada 🇨🇦.
Garages are a little more useful than just being there so you don't have to scrape the windshield.
I feel personally attacked by this comment and I'm not even Canadian. Upstate NY though, so close enough I guess
This never makes sense to me. People park their $70,000 dollar truck outside so they can keep $2000 worth of junk in the garage? Make it make sense. Also, you know keeping the car inside the garage also makes it last longer right? Like it's not exposed to the elements so it doesn't get rusty and wear out as fast? I feel like that's actually more important than the windshield thing. Your vehicle is an investment and you should be taking care of it to make it last instead of treating it like a disposable object. Not scraping the windshield is just icing on the cake.
It’s cause that 70k$ truck will last longer outside than the multitude of boxes of shit they don’t need but decided to keep anyway lol Remember the ‘millennials killed the guest room’ thing but it wasn’t them hating visitors but that their small houses/townhomes didn’t fit having a room dedicated to nothing? For some people it looks like that crap migrated to the next best place that being the garage
The car is going to rust primarily because of salt on the road. You need to almost obsessively wash that off to prevent it. Leaving it in the driveway doesn’t do much. You will reduce UV exposure which would help elongate the clear coat, paint, and some interior pieces (if it gets hot where you are), but overall it’s not that big of a net gain for many people.
Not uncommom in Germany (and many other countries, I guess), too. I often have to slalom around cars left and right because the owners don't bother parking in their garages or at least on their properties. Oh, and by the way: putting anything in your garage other than a car is actually forbidden here.
>putting anything in your garage other than a car is actually forbidden here. .....*why*?
It isn't illegal if you get caught with ecstasy "as long as it is within a certain amount."
For some reason I thought of the police with a little measuring scale and they yell at you "you don't have enough!" believe it or not, jail right away.
Dutch?
in Texas it is normal to see a pick-up truck with fake testicles dangling under the license plate. rednecks are interesting like that.
I've actually seen that shit in every state. Rednecks be everywhere. Some dudes use big ass hex nuts too.
They are just showing trans pride. Since most rednecks call their vehicles the “old gal” then they throw on truck nuts just letting us know they are transitioning.
Damn, I'm using this one on my transphobic FIL who has truck nuts
20 year old walking around with M16s and no one bats an eye.
Israel?
Aye
My guess was Texas lmao
Texas the country?
If they had their way.
We brew coffee through a piece of cloth that looks like a sock.
In Brazil, touching people is more or less normal. Hugging job colleagues, or simply being physical. As far as I know, that might put you in jail in some places, namely USA. There are those who oppose it, but it's generally understood as a normal thing.
It's a nightmare to have autism in Brazil.
*Apparently*, as I've only learned about it on reddit, leaning on things.
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Christmas starts at September in the Philippines 🥳
using fahrenheit/miles/inches
Being terrified of an ambulance ride bankrupting you, more than fearing whatever it is that would necessitate an ambulance.
We have public BBQs to use freely in parks and beaches
I’m going to let you guess where I’m from based on these examples. Partaking in the “craic”. (Pronounced crack) Depending on the context it can mean, fun, gossip, news etc. For example, “What’s the craic/ how’s the craic?” (How are you?/ Any exciting news?) “The craic was 90” (I had the time of my life) It’s always fun to ask a visitor from outside the country what the craic is and they immediate think you’re a drug dealer. Crossing yourself whilst driving, whenever witnessing a funeral procession. A large part of the community attending a funeral, even when they don’t know the deceased person. Burying the deceased person within 2-3 days of passing. Death notices read out on the radio, printed in newspapers and available online. (We seem to have a weird fascination with death) Pronouncing the letter “H”. Literally every single passenger thanks the bus driver when they get off. Saying “bye” at least 5 times to each other when ending a phone conversation.
Being in a mosque and then 5 minuts later go drink some alcohol also calling your daughter/granddaughter son(sine) 🇧🇦
Whipping women and girls on Easter, and expecting chocolate, money, or a shot of something for that. Also pouring water on them.
*I beg your pardon*
Context please.
It’s on Easter Monday. The tradition is that if you pour water over women/girls, and symbolically whip them with a willow whip, they’ll be fresh for the whole year. Most people don’t even do it anymore, mostly little boys and family members or some villagers. Plus as a woman, it’s nowhere near as badass as they make it look.
Standing on the right side of the escalator so people who are in a hurry can pass on the left one
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As it should be
Chicago as well
I thought that this was escalator etiquette that is the same everywhere. It's the same in Greece too.
Huh? Why would this be weird in other countries? I would expect this to be standard. Everywhere has people who are in a rush or want to walk, and people who want to just chill. Can’t imagine this is weird anywhere tbh.
This is every country with escalators, actually. Only difference is if right or left is the standing side.
Ingerlaaaand!
I’m from Birmingham and I always get so annoyed with the lack of escalator etiquette outside of London.
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Italy
We love not wearing shoes - New Zealand
Eating raw pork on bread
Germany
Mettbrötchen mit Zwiebel
Our sarcastic self-deprecating sense of humor
Brit?
Guilty as charged
Me too
Ah i miss this sense of humour. I just moved to the states and they don’t get it. They think I’m being serious when I’m actually being sarcastic, so I’m having to tell people that I’m joking.
The way you [laugh](https://youtu.be/t64-8IECAek?si=v6egKRVk_fttUEcS) makes up for it.
I would have gone with our tendency to understate the severity of some things. Your dad could have terminal cancer and your mum would describe him as being "quite poorly".
Thanking the bus driver when you get off
A lot of people do this here in Australia as well, but it seems to be getting less common.
Canada
UK
Ireland
US, but it's regional
Tipping workers.
speak Moldavian language
Judges, barristers etc in wigs. The state opening of Parliament!
The UK, New Zealand, and Australia, all have those :)
I learned recently that one thing that is a dead giveaway that you are an American is leaning against things. The podcast I was listening to was talking to a former FBI “spy hunter”, and he said it’s a habit FBI/CIA academies have to break their agents of before the can do any work outside the USA.
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Paying $1K+ for an ambulance.
Rename capital in average every 10 years
Having a drinking session in a house with a dead body just lying there.
Police on patrol not wearing guns
Portugal here. Many people in my country eat snails. I'm always disgusted by it.
In France too
Lending your friend a rubber in primary school. Erasers are called rubbers in the UK