[ SECRET POST #4291 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4291 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Tom Hanks]


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[Tom Ellis from Lucifer and Tom Ellis with Miranda Hart in Miranda]


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[George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire series]


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06.
[No One Lives]


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[Cloak and Dagger]










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General comments:

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Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[morieris]

Differences between countries! What were the most jarring ones to you? Tell us where you're from and what surprised you about anywhere else.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[morieris]

I met one of my closest friends because she had never seen a garbage disposal being in Denmark and wondered why we in America had one.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm from the U.S. and one of the really nice surprises about France was how GOOD the bread was, how common bakeries were and how cheap it was, too.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[fishnchips]

That quite a few countries don't really seperate their garbage. (I'm also still really weirded out about those garbage disposal shredders a lot of American kitchen sinks apparently have.)

Petrol prices in the US are super low in comparison to plenty of other countries, while the cost of fresh produce is ridiculously high (at least in some places - I hear it varies a lot).

Also: The sheer insanity of hospital bills in the US. It's just ridiculous, in a bad way.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[(Anonymous)]

Public toilets you have to pay to use. Looking at you, London!

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[(Anonymous)]

I went to Belgium and didn't know that the waitstaff don't pick up your payment when they give you your check. It took me a stupidly long time to realize I had to go and pay at the register.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[nightscale]

US:

Tipping being a mandatory part of going out to eat, and I'm not blaming the wait-staff for that, frankly is fucking nuts that being a waiter doesn't pay enough to live on without tips in the US. But in the UK you only really tip if the service was particularly exceptional, so figuring that out the first time I went to the US was a bit jarring.

The sheer size of everything in the US, like your roads are like double the width(if not more) than British roads.

Oh and the sheer amount of snack-foods, like it was something else going into the sweets isle in a grocery store and just seeing how much was there. And all the different flavours/combos there was for snacks where we just have the one flavour in the UK.

Canada:

How clean everything was, granted that most likely depends on where you go, but I visited some family in Calgary and it was just so... nice. The air was clean, the streets weren't covered in gum or litter.

Lots of bungalows as well, we do have them over here but two-story houses are much more common, but bungalows seemed to be more the norm in Calgary.

Belguim:

I went to Brussels to be specific and it was certainly... an experience to walk through a city street to see the strip joints in plain sight and the shopping stores in the back-streets. It's normally the other way around in the UK. :P

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[(Anonymous)]

Wall-to-wall carpeting in a bathroom (London). It was really impractical.

A toilet that was basically just a hole in the floor (Turkey). I couldn't at first figure out where to put the paper and whether I was supposed to flush or not. Not to mention that I felt like I was probably standing in someone's piss stains.

I was also surprised that not everyone uses dish-drying cabinets in the kitchen. They are really handy.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[philstar22]

Coming back to the US after growing up in the Philippines, what shocked me the most was the endless array of choices. Grocery stores here are so overwhelming.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[(Anonymous)]

Probably the legit ancient history/structures that you can find all over Europe and Asia. Like I'll see something a few hundred years old in North America and be impressed- but somewhere like China, they might ask if I meant built in the year 100, and still consider it 'modern' by their standards.

Ehh-;; this doesn't actually fit the question now that I think about it, but it really is a shock to me every time.

Re: Based on #1 (Well, based on the first comment under #1)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an American who lived in Australia for a few months as a kid and having to wear a uniform to attend what I would call a "public" (i.e. state-run) school was weird to me, since I associated school uniforms with private religious schools. Also, there was no cafeteria (just a window where you could buy food) and everyone ate lunch in their classrooms.

Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

What celebs do you have an irrational hatred of?

Re: Based on #3

[morieris]

I don't know how irrational this is but Ansel Elgort.

Though I am listening to his music right now :x

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

My mom despises Matthew McConaughey

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

Seth MacFarlane has the worst voice(s). Kill him.

Re: Based on #3

[kaijinscendre]

Matthew McConaughey.

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

Bjork. In the past I've made TWO secrets about my irrational, groundless hate for her

Re: Based on #3

[(Anonymous)]

Nicholas Cage. I have no idea why.

I find Drew Barrymore oddly irritating.

[(Anonymous)]

I like several things that she's been in and I don't think she's a bad actress or person. I think something about her reminds me of parts of myself I don't really like.

Re: Based on #3

[philstar22]

Jennifer Morrison. I just can't seem to get over how much I hated Cameron on house. Same with Josh Radnor and Jorja Fox. How terrible their characters were just bleeds into RL for me and colors how I view the actors. I know it is irrational, but I can't stop it.

Inspired by #5

[(Anonymous)]

What unfinished story would you like to see finished?

Changes?

[(Anonymous)]

What's going on in your life? Anything interesting, good or bad?

Venting thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm surrounded by assholes and I've been awake for way too long and also I'm super hungry and I need to make dinner but I'm not sure I can stay awake for it and also there are some shows I want to watch on tonight just to kind of turn off my brain and not have to think about certain things which I want to do because I know if I just go to bed right now it's all still going to be on my mind and I'll have bad dreams and sleep horribly but I also don't know if I can stay awake long enough to distract myself and probably none of this makes any sense and everything sucks and what is life omg

Tattoos!

[syncing_feeling]

Do you have them? Want them? Hate them? I'm getting mine re-done next week as it's gone that dull, green-grey blurry way that old tattoos do. I've toyed with the idea of getting a new one but I know it can be a slippery slope and I don't think I'd be able to stop getting loads done once I started.