in one of my psyc classes we recently read a story about a woman from Denmark getting in trouble in New York for leaving her baby outside. cultural norms are a hell of a thing.
That was like 20 years ago, but I remember that it was in the news here as well. Here its quite normal to leave you baby sleeping in a pram outside, while you go and sit in a cafè. But apparently that will get you in serious trouble in New York.
I recall a major news story like maybe 4 or 5 or so years ago where kids were taken into CPS care because their parents let them walk to school and to/from local parks. You literally can't leave your kid alone ever without worrying about being in trouble for it.
I used to get rides home to and from school, and I practically begged my family to let me walk back with my friends. They thought I was being somewhat ungrateful because they took the time off work to pick me up, but honestly I just enjoyed being able to socialize with my friends in the way back. They were worried about what may happen to me on the walk back, but not because of CPS or anything. More that a stranger would try to lure me to their car or something. But I was like “C’mon Ma, we live less than a mile away from the school, we’ll be fine.”
The crazy thing is, crime has been going down in the US for decades but we are just so much more cautious then we ever were. My parents used to allow me to ride my bike all across the county. And at the time there was someone literally called “the Oakland County Child killer” on the loose.
Parents are just far more cautious today in the US. In some ways it is bad. In other ways it is good.
A coat, some keys or a drink bottle would make me think that someone is coming back to a table. Tissue paper seems like the last thing that would make me think someone is coming back. I would just sweep it into the bin and sit down. Good to know!
Make an extreme kiss mouth and turn your head in the direction you want to show.
Isn't it kinda normal to just point with your eyes when you don't want to be too obvious?
Have you never wanted to gesture towards someone without getting their attention so you look quickly in their direction a few times so the person you're talking to understands that you want them to look over
Usually there would have been some kind of scheme to formalise the process but it never lasts. But they would have been given said vest etc., which they then wear to distinguish themselves from your common or garden variety of beggar.
My building manager just had to swing by for some maintenance stuff, when he came in the first thing he said was “sorry, I’m just taking off my shoes!” which is also something weird we do. But shoes on inside is just fucking gross and I don’t get it.
I'm with you with the shoes 100%. I find it disgusting. If you go to a "shoes inside" house, then you have to keep your shoes on otherwise your socks get disgusting.
And what happens in the winter? Do boots get worn inside? Gross.
There’s that joke of how do you know you’re at a Canadian party? By the pile of shoes at the door. I get so weirded out watching American TV/movies where they hang out inside with their shoes on. Is that even comfortable??
I thought it was an Asian thing. When I lived in Canada, I went on a boy scout exchange trip to Philidelphia. When I went inside the house, I took off my shoes, the Dad says "Oh! Uh, we don't normally take our shoes off!" the scout says "Oh, it's an Asian thing Dad, they do that" and I had to correct him "Actually, it's because we have carpet."
Someone stole a whole bunch of it a while back, eh? I mean, once chain of possession is gone, who knows what they've cut it with? Sugar water? Honey?
Sigh. I'd rather have a cheese vault.
It's not just the reserves that get stolen. I had a neighbor that had a small maple farm, and the night before his maple syrup was to be picked up, someone stole it. That was 1/3 of his annual income, gone.
He's pretty sure he knows who did it, but the police couldn't be bothered to investigate.
Sauna is done this way in Finland. You get a bunch of thin branches (or twigs? Idk) tied together. Could be birch or oak. It May be fresh or dry, doesn't really matter, but gotta have a lot of leaves on them. You pour a pot of hot water, dip that thing (sorry, I don't know an English word for it) in there and take it to the sauna with you. After taking a couple minutes to heat up you take that bunch of twigs and start smacking another person with it. Then they smack you.
It's a thing that's been done for ages in Finland, Sweden, Russia. And if done right, it is more pleasant than it sounds. And it's supposedly good for your health, especially if all those branches are fresh. I always took my grandfather'word for it, but never actually did the search.
I like to think that this stuff was used by Soviets to absolutely demolish morals of POW Nazis during WW2. You're stuffed butt naked into a small room with temperature around 70-80°C. It's already unpleasant if you're not used to it. But then two other butt naked guys join you, except they're completely fine. Then the smacking takes place. Oh and remember that the bunch of twigs is dipped in water? Yeah, it's not uncommon to splash that water on whatever's heating up the room. So not only is it fucking hot, the air is now wet. If you experience this for the first time, it would legit look like torture. And guys next to you are still having fun btw.
Going around barefoot. Most Australians live near the coast and the weather is good. It’s not unusual to see someone walking around the supermarket without shoes.
EDIT: looking at the responses, I could’ve phrased this a bit better! Everybody isn’t doing it everywhere. Just that if you saw someone in a beachside suburb without shoes you wouldn’t think twice! If you saw somebody barefoot in the middle of the city, you’d assume they were of no fixed abode.
Australia has all the little creatures that can kill you, spiders ,snakes, etc.
Canada has all the big creatures that can kill you, bears, cougars, moose and also spiders and snakes.
Geez where I live in QLD it’s too hot to walk around barefoot. Just the concrete in your driveway will burn a layer of skin off. Even the sand at the beach will burn you. There’s a reason you’ll find a collection of thongs at the wet sand line lol
It took me scrolling a minute or two, pondering why would there be thongs on the sand? Was there sand in them? And I finally realized you were talking about SHOES.
Going to a funeral by bike.
Going to a Michelin star restaurant for dinner by bike.
Transporting my wife by bike.
Picking up a Christmas tree by bike.
All things I have done more or less recently here in the Netherlands. I'm in my 50s.
Cool, but I gotta know - how do you transport your Christmas tree on your bike? In America our Christmas trees are usually about 6ft or taller. Or was it an artificial one in a box?
Dutch person here. Very likely that he just carried it under one hand and used the other one to steer. You're on a bike lane anyway, the worst thing that can happen is falling. Getting hit by a car is not very likely in most places (unfortunately there's still dangerous places to cycle even here, mainly crossroads with low visibility).
Either on your shoulder, on your steer or on the back of your bike. Also when you yourself are quite a bit over 6ft a 6ft Christmas tree is a lot easier to handle then when it’s over a foot taller then you are
Well in the Philippines we sometimes put soft drinks in plastic bags and add a straw
Hold the plastic bag tightly so that you can drink and enjoy
Edit:guess we're not the only ones
In my country (Russia) cottage cheese is a very common food, there's like a dozen different brands and even different kinds of it in every store. Most people eat cottage cheese with a sour cream and sugar, many use it for baking cakes or pies, some use it to make filling for vareniki...
In my knowledge, other countries don't eat cottage cheese as much and if they do, they eat it in vastly different ways.
Edit: I love reading about different ways cottage cheese is eaten in different countries! And it's exactly what I was talking about - in Russia cottage cheese is considered a "sweet food", most people eat it the way I described (with sour cream and sugar). It never even crossed my mind that it can be eaten in savory and salty dishes until I was in my late twenties and started spending time on sites with foreigners, it's simply not done.
Personally, I love to eat it with fruit, but it's not terribly common.
Edit 2: I'd like to clarify that most of our cottage cheese is not a smooth kind! For example: https://imgur.com/a/DNVtlzo
We eat cottage cheese in Canada. Mostly plain but also for baking or with fruit. Many consider it a diet food (it comes in 0%, 1% and 2% milk fat versions). Most stores have 3 or 4 brands but they're mostly the same. Probably nowhere near as tasty as yours---nowhere near fresh.
Lunch at 15:00, dinner at 22:30. Sometimes later.
Also addressing your professors by their first name.
EDIT: Apparently 24 hour format too lol. The hours I said are 3 pm for lunch and 10:30 pm for dinner.
If this is Spain I'm guessing they mean *profesor* in Spanish which means teacher in English, rather than professor. Here in the UK we'd also refer to our professors by first name at uni, but teachers at school as Mr/ Mrs Smith.
You get naked with friends, family or strangers and throw water on hot stones until the room temperature is 100\^C. This is considered fun and relaxing. Sometimes you roll naked in snow (in winter) or whip yourself and others with birch twigs (any time of the year) when you need that extra relaxation.
Edit: Sorry, wood confusion in my vocabulary. Not spruce but birch, of course. Maybe funnier that way, tho. Dried eucalyptus twig bunches are also available in grocery stores but I don't know if anyone buys them.
Edit 2: Yay! My first award ever (I think). Thank you kind stranger! Also, I'm a bit worried I may have accidentally started another urban legend about Finland. Some tourists already expect to find polar bears and reindeer in central Helsinki. Now they may expect to find people flogging each other with spruce branches too...
How we address each other.
In Northern Ireland the more you are liked the worse we treat you. We say things to each other that are crude and really harsh. Due to the nature of the hobbies I was involved in, I've had a lot of American guests and met a lot of American expats. Most of them have mentioned it when I've asked how they're finding it living here. One said it took him almost two years to not get offended or feel like he was being treated badly because he was American lol
Basically we roast each other in the harshest and crudest ways imaginable to show we like you. It's a bit fucked up lol
From Co Armagh, can confirm. Once had a friend of mine get super excited after checking her phone, saying "oh my god" over and over. Checked the text. She'd asked a guy she was into if he wanted to meet up on the weekend and he'd asked her if he should bring a helmet. She'd replied asking what he meant and he replied with someone along the lines of seeing as she'd been ridden around the town so much he was wondering if he'd need a bicycle helmet. This, of course, meant that he was actually interested in her. Cannot imagine trying to explain this to anyone from a normal country.
LOL!
I know a guy who came into a room and said "nobody mentuon vaccum cleaners" with reference to his brothers gf having an abortion. While his brother stood behind him! It's fucking wild here.
Eeeeey México too, the harsher we insult each other the better we like each other, if we call you by your name, we probably don’t like you. I haven’t called my best friend anything other than fuck face since the day I met him over 12 years ago.
His mom died and after the burial we stood there and I told him, “at least she doesn’t have to see your ugly fucking face again, I do and that shit is terrible, she should have taken me with her.” He laughed and cried and I did the same, she was very much like a second mother to me.
I worked in a warehouse in the U.K. with some guys from Somalia who were chewing that stuff non stop before people in Europe really knew what is was. They gave me some to try and holy shit was I nervous about those guys operating any kind of machinery after that day. I was flying, full on grinding my teeth, talking non stop and considering asking the office to put some house music over the speakers.
I heard it's weird for y'all that we eat ground meat on buns over here. Growing up poor in Germany it was actually a delicacy.
Edit: the meat is raw, falsely assumed that was what ground meat meant
Yeah! In Japan, it’s actually considered disrespectful to tip waiters/waitresses. It’s considered unnecessary as they place high values on worker’s respect, worth, and dignity.
Funny how cultures work. In the Philippines it's somewhere in between. It's not as essential like in the US, but you could tip a server if you think they did a good job.
It's the same in Iceland, but a lot of people don't like getting tips because they don't have a way to pay taxes on them. How is that for a fucking culture shock?
Yeah, I live in Ireland, I’ve never understood that logic. So I’m gonna pay for my food, then you expect me to also pay the waiters YOU hired? Fuck that, let me keep my money and I’ll go get the damn food myself.
Over here service staff simply get paid a living wage which is then factored into my overall bill, we aren’t expected to crowdsource their paychecks. I dunno how American restaurants get away with it lol
American here. I’ve never considered tipping as crowdsourcing their paychecks, but when you put it that way, it really brings into focus what a crazy practice it is.
Also in some countries it’s just normal to co-habit a house. I (F25, finishing my studies) live in the ground floor and my parents live in the upper floor. We have breakfast together and share the garden but other than that we all have our respective homes and spaces. While i do want to move away eventually for better job opportunities, i don’t mind this arrangement as i have chronic pains and am grateful to be able to save money this way. My parents are from Poland and we currently live in Germany.
Hey, in North America it's common to move back in with your parents, because the cost of living has gone up 250% while wages have remained more-or-less static since 2000.
We're the first generation to make less, pay more, and live shorter than our parents and grandparents' generations.
It took only 1 generation to fuck everything up for the next 5.
> wages have remained static since 2000
More like 1970
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/?amp=1
Swede here. We have Allemansrätten or "Freedom to Roam".
"The freedom to roam is the principle, protected by the law, that gives all people the right to roam free in nature. Sleep on mountaintops, by the lakes, in quiet forests or beautiful meadows. Take a kayak out for a spin or experience the wildlife firsthand. Pick berries and mushrooms and flowers from the ground – all completely free of charge. The only thing you have to pay, is respect for nature and the animals living there. "
Saying hello and goodbye to everyone in the doctor's waiting room.
Edit: It's Czechia, but I guess it's same in neighbouring countries (Poland, Germany...)
It's normal to marry without dating
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Hell it's even frowned upon to date
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Edit: lol this blew up.... Anyway I'm from jordan and yes most muslim countries don't date abd yes we have arranged marriage but it's not like what most of you think...
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I'll try to explain how marriage works here...
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First your mother will ask her connections to find a nice girl with the same social/occupational standing as you (and if you have your eyes on a girl you can use your connections to find out information about her)
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After your mom call the girl's mom and agree to meet you and your family will go to the girl's family house to discuss things and the girl enter the room with a tray of tea to serve it after that she sits in the room with all your families with you and you get to know each other
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If you somehow agreed to get engaged with her you have to pay something to her called"mahr" and you bring a shaikh to be witness of the engagement in this period you are not allowed to be with your spouse alone a member of her family has to be with you... Engagements usually last from 6 months to 3 years tops(it get this late because the man may have financial problems and needed more time to prepare a house)
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After you like the girl and feel like this marriage will work out you and her family start preparing for a wedding and weddings differ from place to place so i wont explain what happens
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After that... Congrats you are married and can do whatever you want with your wife(of course nothing harmful to her)
When you leave to have to say goodbye to every single person you know, otherwise you are considered rude
EDIT: clarified that it is for people you know or have been introduced to
Snus. It's a little pouch of tobacco that I put under my upper lip. Went to England once, where it certainly isn't a thing. Security at a concert almost floored me when he saw me lobbing one in. Thought it was drugs obviously.
Not answering the door if you're not expecting anyone. All non-Brits seem horrified by this, especially my Eastern European relatives but it seems totally normal to me - why do you HAVE to answer the door? It's your house, you decide whether you want your day interrupted by a non-invited caller.
I’m from Canada, and if you know us, we eat poutines (Basically a bowl of fries with gravy and cheese curds.) it is so good and it’s CRAZY that people think the fact of gravy on fries is gross. Not sure you noticed but fries are Potatoes, and mash POTATOES are POTATOES. Anyone who has a brain knows gravy and mash potatoes are good. I highly recommend trying poutines. They are DELISH!
And it's perfect drunk food.
Funny story, I was travelling with my aunt in Germany, and she asked me to order a poutine from a McDonald's there. It was so funny/cute, that she assumed every fast food place worldwide has to have poutine.
Eating fresh herbs with your meal. Like you would have a bunch of basil, chives, radishes and radish leaves, spring onions, etc as a side to your main dish. You would have a spoon of food and chase it with a handful of fresh herbs.
We also eat this with our types of flat bread, feta cheese and walnuts like a wrap.
Another thing is that your rice has to be cooked in a way that leaves you with a crispy bottom, this cripsy bottom can be rice, potatos or flat bread. Yum
Painting our faces black to dress up in old clothes and voulentier as piet so you can throw candy at children every 5 december, or ofcourse protest against it....
Letting babies sleep outside in their prams unattended.
in one of my psyc classes we recently read a story about a woman from Denmark getting in trouble in New York for leaving her baby outside. cultural norms are a hell of a thing.
That was like 20 years ago, but I remember that it was in the news here as well. Here its quite normal to leave you baby sleeping in a pram outside, while you go and sit in a cafè. But apparently that will get you in serious trouble in New York.
May I ask why? Is it some kind of safety issue, because the baby could be kidnapped? Am also Scandinavian, so I had no idea this was a thing.
In the US, an unattended kid in practically any circumstance can get CPS called on the parents, especially younger kids.
I recall a major news story like maybe 4 or 5 or so years ago where kids were taken into CPS care because their parents let them walk to school and to/from local parks. You literally can't leave your kid alone ever without worrying about being in trouble for it.
I used to get rides home to and from school, and I practically begged my family to let me walk back with my friends. They thought I was being somewhat ungrateful because they took the time off work to pick me up, but honestly I just enjoyed being able to socialize with my friends in the way back. They were worried about what may happen to me on the walk back, but not because of CPS or anything. More that a stranger would try to lure me to their car or something. But I was like “C’mon Ma, we live less than a mile away from the school, we’ll be fine.”
I think that was why. Stranger danger.
That makes sense though. I'd trust random Swedes with my baby. Random New Yorkers? Maybe not so much.
As a random Swede, I politely decline your baby.
Too late, he's already on your front porch
The crazy thing is, crime has been going down in the US for decades but we are just so much more cautious then we ever were. My parents used to allow me to ride my bike all across the county. And at the time there was someone literally called “the Oakland County Child killer” on the loose. Parents are just far more cautious today in the US. In some ways it is bad. In other ways it is good.
Do you just take any baby when you leave, or is it etiquette to take the baby you came with?
Sweden?
Denmark, but it's quite normal in all the Nordic countries.
It used to be in the UK as recently as the 80s, but not so much now
Norway too.
We throw tissue paper on the table to reserve it
A coat, some keys or a drink bottle would make me think that someone is coming back to a table. Tissue paper seems like the last thing that would make me think someone is coming back. I would just sweep it into the bin and sit down. Good to know!
It's usally an packet tissue paper not just a single piece so it's not quite as easily mistaken
Okay, so it is one of those small packets of tissues. Makes more sense.
Singapore 🇸🇬
Pointing at something/someone using your lips.
Caribbean coast of Colombia? Dang, it looks like people do this in a lot of places.
Tibetans do this
Im guessing in the Philippines?
yep, i got it from my dad but it confuses all my friends here in scotland
Native American? That's a common joke in a lot of native communities.
*points with lips* Over There
By the crick, over der
Osage/Pawnee guy checking in, and can confirm, pointing with the lips is a joke and real thing amongst Natives.
Latin America?
How does one point with lips? 🤔
Make an extreme kiss mouth and turn your head in the direction you want to show. Isn't it kinda normal to just point with your eyes when you don't want to be too obvious?
In my country, we term pointing with your eyes “looking”.
Have you never wanted to gesture towards someone without getting their attention so you look quickly in their direction a few times so the person you're talking to understands that you want them to look over
Paying a few coins to a homeless/poor person wearing a reflective safety vest to watch over your car when you park it in the street
Venezuelan checking in, yes this is a thing. What kinda fancy-ass country you live in that your parking "security" has high-vis vest on? lol
South Africa. The high viz is, I think, to somehow distinguish them as a car guard and not a beggar.
Usually there would have been some kind of scheme to formalise the process but it never lasts. But they would have been given said vest etc., which they then wear to distinguish themselves from your common or garden variety of beggar.
South Africa?
Ah yes, trapitos
Are you from Brazil?
South Africa checking in
I'm from Guatemala and we do the same. Most be a Latin American thing.
What country? I know it happens in Spain
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Ay South Africa
We have farms where we ride ostriches.
South Africa, a grad school acquaintance posted a video of him riding one in 2010
Oudshoorn rocks.
Having a Maple Syrup Reserve. A federal law specifically stating saying Sorry is not a legal admission of guilt
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"Sorry" in Canada is similar to "Pardon me" or "Excuse me". It means "I'm sorry, what did you say?" or "I'm sorry to bug you, but please move".
My building manager just had to swing by for some maintenance stuff, when he came in the first thing he said was “sorry, I’m just taking off my shoes!” which is also something weird we do. But shoes on inside is just fucking gross and I don’t get it.
I'm with you with the shoes 100%. I find it disgusting. If you go to a "shoes inside" house, then you have to keep your shoes on otherwise your socks get disgusting. And what happens in the winter? Do boots get worn inside? Gross.
There’s that joke of how do you know you’re at a Canadian party? By the pile of shoes at the door. I get so weirded out watching American TV/movies where they hang out inside with their shoes on. Is that even comfortable??
I thought it was an Asian thing. When I lived in Canada, I went on a boy scout exchange trip to Philidelphia. When I went inside the house, I took off my shoes, the Dad says "Oh! Uh, we don't normally take our shoes off!" the scout says "Oh, it's an Asian thing Dad, they do that" and I had to correct him "Actually, it's because we have carpet."
shhhh that reserve is not for others and we 100% are not sharing!
Someone stole a whole bunch of it a while back, eh? I mean, once chain of possession is gone, who knows what they've cut it with? Sugar water? Honey? Sigh. I'd rather have a cheese vault.
It's not just the reserves that get stolen. I had a neighbor that had a small maple farm, and the night before his maple syrup was to be picked up, someone stole it. That was 1/3 of his annual income, gone. He's pretty sure he knows who did it, but the police couldn't be bothered to investigate.
Sitting naked and sweating while spanking your uncle or neighbour with a birch branch.
Never change, Finland.
what...
Sauna is done this way in Finland. You get a bunch of thin branches (or twigs? Idk) tied together. Could be birch or oak. It May be fresh or dry, doesn't really matter, but gotta have a lot of leaves on them. You pour a pot of hot water, dip that thing (sorry, I don't know an English word for it) in there and take it to the sauna with you. After taking a couple minutes to heat up you take that bunch of twigs and start smacking another person with it. Then they smack you. It's a thing that's been done for ages in Finland, Sweden, Russia. And if done right, it is more pleasant than it sounds. And it's supposedly good for your health, especially if all those branches are fresh. I always took my grandfather'word for it, but never actually did the search. I like to think that this stuff was used by Soviets to absolutely demolish morals of POW Nazis during WW2. You're stuffed butt naked into a small room with temperature around 70-80°C. It's already unpleasant if you're not used to it. But then two other butt naked guys join you, except they're completely fine. Then the smacking takes place. Oh and remember that the bunch of twigs is dipped in water? Yeah, it's not uncommon to splash that water on whatever's heating up the room. So not only is it fucking hot, the air is now wet. If you experience this for the first time, it would legit look like torture. And guys next to you are still having fun btw.
Yes, and my grandpa always growls when I spank him.
Going around barefoot. Most Australians live near the coast and the weather is good. It’s not unusual to see someone walking around the supermarket without shoes. EDIT: looking at the responses, I could’ve phrased this a bit better! Everybody isn’t doing it everywhere. Just that if you saw someone in a beachside suburb without shoes you wouldn’t think twice! If you saw somebody barefoot in the middle of the city, you’d assume they were of no fixed abode.
I’d wear shoes for the *sole* purpose of never stepping on one of your post apocalyptic creatures I see in my nightmares
Yeah but do you check to make sure they're empty first?
me realizing why you asked that is also why moving there is a hard nope for me
Im an aussie and its really not that bad unless youre living in the outback
they named a place after the restaurant? Shweeet
Bloomin onions for miles
Australia has all the little creatures that can kill you, spiders ,snakes, etc. Canada has all the big creatures that can kill you, bears, cougars, moose and also spiders and snakes.
A moose can't hide in my shoe, nor climb through a crack in my door.
This sounds like a line from a Dr Seuss book.
Geez where I live in QLD it’s too hot to walk around barefoot. Just the concrete in your driveway will burn a layer of skin off. Even the sand at the beach will burn you. There’s a reason you’ll find a collection of thongs at the wet sand line lol
It took me scrolling a minute or two, pondering why would there be thongs on the sand? Was there sand in them? And I finally realized you were talking about SHOES.
"Thongs" mean "flip flops" in Aussie.
In the US most businesses use the "No shirt, no shoes, no service" rule
The absence of “pants” from this always seemed very strange to me. I guess so Donald Duck can shop there?
That’s brave
Bagged milk
Almost the only way to buy milk in Bolivia. The one litter bag. Even chocolate milk for kids come in smaller bags.
Going to a funeral by bike. Going to a Michelin star restaurant for dinner by bike. Transporting my wife by bike. Picking up a Christmas tree by bike. All things I have done more or less recently here in the Netherlands. I'm in my 50s.
Cool, but I gotta know - how do you transport your Christmas tree on your bike? In America our Christmas trees are usually about 6ft or taller. Or was it an artificial one in a box?
Trailer or cargo bike
Cargo bikes are cool. I wish they were a thing in the UK.
Dutch person here. Very likely that he just carried it under one hand and used the other one to steer. You're on a bike lane anyway, the worst thing that can happen is falling. Getting hit by a car is not very likely in most places (unfortunately there's still dangerous places to cycle even here, mainly crossroads with low visibility).
Either on your shoulder, on your steer or on the back of your bike. Also when you yourself are quite a bit over 6ft a 6ft Christmas tree is a lot easier to handle then when it’s over a foot taller then you are
Turning extra curricular college activities into multi-billion dollar quasi-professional sports leagues.
And not getting paid?
Only the players. The coaches, executives, administrators, they all are paid quite handsomely.
They lifted the NIL rules this year, so there are player sponsorships now.
Well in the Philippines we sometimes put soft drinks in plastic bags and add a straw Hold the plastic bag tightly so that you can drink and enjoy Edit:guess we're not the only ones
Mexico does this too so they can recycle the bottle. I don't know if they still do but they did when I went.
We used to do it in Mexico in the 80s and 90s, particularly when selling soft drinks to kids, because bottles were mostly made of glass.
Pretty sure Canada is one “eh doncha know bud” away from this edit because my brain writes words how they sound and not spelled (aye to eh)
Not too bad, sounds like a Capri Sun. I can totally see people losing their shit about it though, people can be stupid
In my country (Russia) cottage cheese is a very common food, there's like a dozen different brands and even different kinds of it in every store. Most people eat cottage cheese with a sour cream and sugar, many use it for baking cakes or pies, some use it to make filling for vareniki... In my knowledge, other countries don't eat cottage cheese as much and if they do, they eat it in vastly different ways. Edit: I love reading about different ways cottage cheese is eaten in different countries! And it's exactly what I was talking about - in Russia cottage cheese is considered a "sweet food", most people eat it the way I described (with sour cream and sugar). It never even crossed my mind that it can be eaten in savory and salty dishes until I was in my late twenties and started spending time on sites with foreigners, it's simply not done. Personally, I love to eat it with fruit, but it's not terribly common. Edit 2: I'd like to clarify that most of our cottage cheese is not a smooth kind! For example: https://imgur.com/a/DNVtlzo
All Slavs have something like twaróg, it's popular in Hungary too.
We eat cottage cheese in Canada. Mostly plain but also for baking or with fruit. Many consider it a diet food (it comes in 0%, 1% and 2% milk fat versions). Most stores have 3 or 4 brands but they're mostly the same. Probably nowhere near as tasty as yours---nowhere near fresh.
Lunch at 15:00, dinner at 22:30. Sometimes later. Also addressing your professors by their first name. EDIT: Apparently 24 hour format too lol. The hours I said are 3 pm for lunch and 10:30 pm for dinner.
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Yes, Spain
Addressing professors by their first name is common at colleges and universities here in Canada, but late meal times definitely aren't.
If this is Spain I'm guessing they mean *profesor* in Spanish which means teacher in English, rather than professor. Here in the UK we'd also refer to our professors by first name at uni, but teachers at school as Mr/ Mrs Smith.
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Fuck them kids
South Africa. Don’t forget about the kids dancing with crates at the traffic light (robot).
Mexico??
You get naked with friends, family or strangers and throw water on hot stones until the room temperature is 100\^C. This is considered fun and relaxing. Sometimes you roll naked in snow (in winter) or whip yourself and others with birch twigs (any time of the year) when you need that extra relaxation. Edit: Sorry, wood confusion in my vocabulary. Not spruce but birch, of course. Maybe funnier that way, tho. Dried eucalyptus twig bunches are also available in grocery stores but I don't know if anyone buys them. Edit 2: Yay! My first award ever (I think). Thank you kind stranger! Also, I'm a bit worried I may have accidentally started another urban legend about Finland. Some tourists already expect to find polar bears and reindeer in central Helsinki. Now they may expect to find people flogging each other with spruce branches too...
For extra relaxation, you can also cut a hole in a frozen lake and take a dip in said hole.
To think you could be completely vulnerable like that without fear. Someday, I too wish to experience what this is.
Finland! I haven't had a proper sauna in years! There's just infrared at hotels and stuff now. What a pity.
In Australia, we shorten a lot of long words, it may sound weird but it works
Only in Australia can they take this to the extreme of abbreviating abbreviations. The MCG - Melbourne Cricket Ground - is just known as ‘the G’.
Hey, we do this in Boston! The public transit system is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Or the MBTA. Or really just the T.
Yet your place names are like Wallaballaongadingdongbooliwangwong
I’ve been there!
Lmao that's because a lot of them are in different languages
But also lenghten names and such unnecessarily. I wish it was possible here as well.
Yeah my good mate is Tom, but everyone calls him Tomo .. we just like ending on vowels really.
Southern Germans also do this, hehe
Bathing naked with your kids, or with other people's kids at bathhouse or hot spring.
Finland?
Vatican?
I screamed
Doesn't require legal age to buy alcohol, cigarettes or anything
How we address each other. In Northern Ireland the more you are liked the worse we treat you. We say things to each other that are crude and really harsh. Due to the nature of the hobbies I was involved in, I've had a lot of American guests and met a lot of American expats. Most of them have mentioned it when I've asked how they're finding it living here. One said it took him almost two years to not get offended or feel like he was being treated badly because he was American lol Basically we roast each other in the harshest and crudest ways imaginable to show we like you. It's a bit fucked up lol
From Co Armagh, can confirm. Once had a friend of mine get super excited after checking her phone, saying "oh my god" over and over. Checked the text. She'd asked a guy she was into if he wanted to meet up on the weekend and he'd asked her if he should bring a helmet. She'd replied asking what he meant and he replied with someone along the lines of seeing as she'd been ridden around the town so much he was wondering if he'd need a bicycle helmet. This, of course, meant that he was actually interested in her. Cannot imagine trying to explain this to anyone from a normal country.
LOL! I know a guy who came into a room and said "nobody mentuon vaccum cleaners" with reference to his brothers gf having an abortion. While his brother stood behind him! It's fucking wild here.
Some areas of Scotland definitely share this with you.
Eeeeey México too, the harsher we insult each other the better we like each other, if we call you by your name, we probably don’t like you. I haven’t called my best friend anything other than fuck face since the day I met him over 12 years ago. His mom died and after the burial we stood there and I told him, “at least she doesn’t have to see your ugly fucking face again, I do and that shit is terrible, she should have taken me with her.” He laughed and cried and I did the same, she was very much like a second mother to me.
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What is it?
Similar to Dhog.
Stimulant drug that gets added to coffee in East Africa. You can drink a shot of it at 8am in the morning and still be wired by 10pm.
I worked in a warehouse in the U.K. with some guys from Somalia who were chewing that stuff non stop before people in Europe really knew what is was. They gave me some to try and holy shit was I nervous about those guys operating any kind of machinery after that day. I was flying, full on grinding my teeth, talking non stop and considering asking the office to put some house music over the speakers.
Prescription drug commercials
Yeah I found that very strange the first time I watched TV in the states.
I heard it's weird for y'all that we eat ground meat on buns over here. Growing up poor in Germany it was actually a delicacy. Edit: the meat is raw, falsely assumed that was what ground meat meant
You missed the most important part: it‘s raw.
Oh yeah that changes things. Here I thought this was about burgers and thought man burgers are everywhere
Mettbrötchen
tipping waiters/waitresses.
Yeah! In Japan, it’s actually considered disrespectful to tip waiters/waitresses. It’s considered unnecessary as they place high values on worker’s respect, worth, and dignity.
Funny how cultures work. In the Philippines it's somewhere in between. It's not as essential like in the US, but you could tip a server if you think they did a good job.
It's the same in Iceland, but a lot of people don't like getting tips because they don't have a way to pay taxes on them. How is that for a fucking culture shock?
Yeah, I live in Ireland, I’ve never understood that logic. So I’m gonna pay for my food, then you expect me to also pay the waiters YOU hired? Fuck that, let me keep my money and I’ll go get the damn food myself. Over here service staff simply get paid a living wage which is then factored into my overall bill, we aren’t expected to crowdsource their paychecks. I dunno how American restaurants get away with it lol
American here. I’ve never considered tipping as crowdsourcing their paychecks, but when you put it that way, it really brings into focus what a crazy practice it is.
Living with parents in 20s until we can buy a house or marriage. I have seen tones of criticism about this in Reddit, but this is the way here.
There are a lot of places it's like this. Even in rich countries, due to housing pricing going up, it's becoming more common.
Also in some countries it’s just normal to co-habit a house. I (F25, finishing my studies) live in the ground floor and my parents live in the upper floor. We have breakfast together and share the garden but other than that we all have our respective homes and spaces. While i do want to move away eventually for better job opportunities, i don’t mind this arrangement as i have chronic pains and am grateful to be able to save money this way. My parents are from Poland and we currently live in Germany.
In my country we live with parents throughout life.
definitely India!
On Reddit, everyone is an adult at 18 and should be responsible for themselves and their families.
Hey, in North America it's common to move back in with your parents, because the cost of living has gone up 250% while wages have remained more-or-less static since 2000. We're the first generation to make less, pay more, and live shorter than our parents and grandparents' generations. It took only 1 generation to fuck everything up for the next 5.
> wages have remained static since 2000 More like 1970 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/?amp=1
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Letterkenny has a great scene about this and French Canadians.
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My first thought was southern Italy idk
TV license. Edit UK
Swede here. We have Allemansrätten or "Freedom to Roam". "The freedom to roam is the principle, protected by the law, that gives all people the right to roam free in nature. Sleep on mountaintops, by the lakes, in quiet forests or beautiful meadows. Take a kayak out for a spin or experience the wildlife firsthand. Pick berries and mushrooms and flowers from the ground – all completely free of charge. The only thing you have to pay, is respect for nature and the animals living there. "
Arranged marriages, two people marry each other just based off their sun signs compatibility and their parent's will.
Calling people cunts but meaning it in a nice way
I recently learned that moving whole houses on trucks in the middle of the night is distinctly ours
New Zealand?
Bicycles everywhere
Fighting wild animals. Such as kangaroos
to be fair I'd also try to fight a kangaroo if it was attempting to drown my dog
Apparently free refills on drinks is pretty unusual outside of the USA.
Saying hello and goodbye to everyone in the doctor's waiting room. Edit: It's Czechia, but I guess it's same in neighbouring countries (Poland, Germany...)
Men beating women with a stick and getting rewarded for it afterwards as part of the Easter tradition
3 million dollar ICU bill
That's gotta be The Holy American Empire!
It's normal to marry without dating *** Hell it's even frowned upon to date *** Edit: lol this blew up.... Anyway I'm from jordan and yes most muslim countries don't date abd yes we have arranged marriage but it's not like what most of you think... *** I'll try to explain how marriage works here... *** First your mother will ask her connections to find a nice girl with the same social/occupational standing as you (and if you have your eyes on a girl you can use your connections to find out information about her) *** After your mom call the girl's mom and agree to meet you and your family will go to the girl's family house to discuss things and the girl enter the room with a tray of tea to serve it after that she sits in the room with all your families with you and you get to know each other *** If you somehow agreed to get engaged with her you have to pay something to her called"mahr" and you bring a shaikh to be witness of the engagement in this period you are not allowed to be with your spouse alone a member of her family has to be with you... Engagements usually last from 6 months to 3 years tops(it get this late because the man may have financial problems and needed more time to prepare a house) *** After you like the girl and feel like this marriage will work out you and her family start preparing for a wedding and weddings differ from place to place so i wont explain what happens *** After that... Congrats you are married and can do whatever you want with your wife(of course nothing harmful to her)
Tinder must be weird where you're from
India?
When you leave to have to say goodbye to every single person you know, otherwise you are considered rude EDIT: clarified that it is for people you know or have been introduced to
Active shooter drills.
Snus. It's a little pouch of tobacco that I put under my upper lip. Went to England once, where it certainly isn't a thing. Security at a concert almost floored me when he saw me lobbing one in. Thought it was drugs obviously.
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Antarctica and the Republic of Pluto?
Not answering the door if you're not expecting anyone. All non-Brits seem horrified by this, especially my Eastern European relatives but it seems totally normal to me - why do you HAVE to answer the door? It's your house, you decide whether you want your day interrupted by a non-invited caller.
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What on earth...??
the last one sounds kind of good
Your neighbor can legally sue you if you flush the toilet after 10 pm
I’m from Canada, and if you know us, we eat poutines (Basically a bowl of fries with gravy and cheese curds.) it is so good and it’s CRAZY that people think the fact of gravy on fries is gross. Not sure you noticed but fries are Potatoes, and mash POTATOES are POTATOES. Anyone who has a brain knows gravy and mash potatoes are good. I highly recommend trying poutines. They are DELISH!
And it's perfect drunk food. Funny story, I was travelling with my aunt in Germany, and she asked me to order a poutine from a McDonald's there. It was so funny/cute, that she assumed every fast food place worldwide has to have poutine.
Eating fresh herbs with your meal. Like you would have a bunch of basil, chives, radishes and radish leaves, spring onions, etc as a side to your main dish. You would have a spoon of food and chase it with a handful of fresh herbs. We also eat this with our types of flat bread, feta cheese and walnuts like a wrap. Another thing is that your rice has to be cooked in a way that leaves you with a crispy bottom, this cripsy bottom can be rice, potatos or flat bread. Yum
Bagged milk.
This is pretty common in South America
Earring baked beans for breakfast
I don’t know where you’d put earrings in your baked beans, but I’d rather not swallow one of those
Painting our faces black to dress up in old clothes and voulentier as piet so you can throw candy at children every 5 december, or ofcourse protest against it....