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⌈ Secret Post #4291 ⌋

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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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[No One Lives]

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

Edited 2018-10-03 21:55 (UTC)

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.

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.

I would go to France simply to eat the bread and cheese tbh.

Totally worth it. Though just about everything I ate was delicious and I'd love to go again someday.

I was there for literally about 24 hours for work, but omg the food. I need to go back for a minimum week just to eat all the food. No regrets if I gain 30lbs.

The bread in France tasted similar to the bread I would get from a local Mexican bakery, which made me a bit homesick.

I think France has a law of some kind that means bread can't be that cheap mass produced shite. Hence the economic survival of French bakeries. I wish we could import that here (UK).

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.

Well... I'm American and separate out recyclable material. And people generally don't put much down the garbage disposal unless they want a backed up sink. It's mostly for food bits left on plates and maybe I'll let vegetable peelings and stuff like that go down.

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

We just want everyone to suffer, it's very simple.

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.

That happened to me in the U.S. in a Denny's. The people with me laughed and accused me of frequenting expensive places where they pick up the payment, but I totally don't. I just forgot how Denny's worked, apparently.

Even in the States there are places like that, but usually the person handing you the check will say something like, "Once you're done, just pay at the counter." I mean, in my experience they have.

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

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.

If you put them in a cabinet... how do they get dry?

They are like this https://www.today.com/home/what-astiankuivauskaappi-finnish-dish-drying-method-you-need-t118613

You just put the wet dishes there above the sink.

Oooh, that is kind of nifty but I guess not realistic for small kitchens when there goes two of my cupboards for storage.

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

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

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Oh, bathroom carpet. That was a thing here too and I have seen a few places that still have it 50 or so years on, the original carpet! I can't imagine how nasty that stuff really is to rip up.

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.

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.

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.

Eating lunch in your own class seems really weird (and inviting for bugs).

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