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Yesterday's fair food thread had me curious about "state fairs" in other countries. So, here's another thread to ask anything you want to see how other countries and/or states do stuff. :)

What is the go-to hangout spot in your country? Here in the US it mostly seems to be bars. The two years I spent in eastern Europe, it seemed to be coffee shops. So what is that place/those places for your country?

Canada: Tim Horton's.

Shopping centres/cafes

Britain: pubs or someone's house/flat

What's it like going to the movies where you live? What kind of snacks are available? I used to work at a U.S. theater and I'd have people come up to us and ask for different flavoring on popcorn (not just butter, cheese, or caramel). I don't remember what all they were but they were very unusual. Do you guys have that?

Is there anything else you know is different? Live entertainment? Marathon movies? Do you have different theaters for different kinds of movies? Etc.

I remember as a kid growing up in the Philippines, movies were really cheep. And you could pay once and get away with staying through multiple showings. So often people would come halfway through one showing and stay through halfway through the next one. So you'd have even more of a problem of people walking over you or blocking your view of the screen.

Belgium:

We have your general soda's, sweet and salty popcorn, snacks like candy, candy bars, m&m's, crisps. We also have these nacho's with sauce that is supposed to be cheese but I'm not quite sure it is.

We have two "film museums" where you can go see older films.

My multiplex has this cool thing where you can basically ave this "subscription" thing, where you pay like 20 euro per month to see as many movies as you want. Some theatres do focus on more artsy movies, but multiplexes have mostly taken over. We actually have one of the biggest ones in the world.

We have those nachos in the US too. That "cheese" is nasty.

I love the subscription idea. I don't think they'd ever go for that here.

Well, it guarantees you money every month, though. But there's only one chain that does it here, too (UGC)

Canada is pretty much the same as the US I imagine, so I'll answer for Japan:

Movies are extremely expensive to go out and see, and worse, the price is largely uniform everywhere. Back home you could go to a cheap, shitty theatre and pay half the price as the brand new cineplex with huge screens and luxurious seats, but here in Japan both types charge the same. But Japanese theatres have all kinds of discounts that make it more reasonable: they even have a Ladies' Night (which is usually Wednesday, but still). Some are starting to have Men's Nights, too. And instead of discount daytime matinees (because that's when you'd take someone on a date here, as opposed to later on in the evening) at discounted prices, they have late showings at discounted prices. Sometimes running until 2-3am in the larger cities. Of course there's no public transportation by that point so they're not terribly popular.

Canadian in Edmonton here. I think our cineplexes are pretty much the same thing as your US ones. About the only difference might be in what candy you can buy, and that my favourite one makes a pretty good poutine imo (ilu, CAYLEB, gravy master boy of all time).

There's the locally-owned theatres that will screen indie films, have marathons based on a theme (Kurosawa, halloween reels, rocky horror, anime, etc.). Snacks are basic movie fare, though there are enough restaurants nearby to get a better snack on.

I don't know if Landmark Cinemas is a Canadian brand of theatre (they bought Empire), but the Edmonton International Film Festival is coming up at the end of the month, and it's pretty much always hosted at their downtown mall venue. They invite directors, filmmakers, buffs, whatever else you expect from film festivals, and have challenges for local filmmakers (like making a movie in 24-hours). Aside from international film, they also try to schedule in screenings of as much Canadian and local film as possible. Pretty much sure most of the capital cities and metrolpoli in Canada have their own (if not bigger).

Aside from snacks and any adverts shown before the movie I imagine that English cinemas don't differ that much from the US.

What we do have though, in the larger cities anyway, is Bollywood specific cinemas but I can imagine that large cities in the US might have these too.

EDIT: I totally misunderstood your question. Sorry :(

Edited 2014-09-11 02:03 (UTC)

Do you have any kind of fairs where you are? What are they like? Have you been to other fairs that you can compare them to?

Your postage.

Is your weird letter and number combination like a zip code?

it's like LetterNumberLetter NumberLetterNumber

ex. V6G 4A2

Yeah, I send stuff up there all the time and never thought to ask until now about...what it actually means.

Well the first letter is a province designation. ex. Alberta is T, Quebec is G.

The rest are designations for cities, and districts within cities. It's not all that difficult.

Ahh, okay, thanks.

Yep, it's letter-number-letter, number-letter-number.

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