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Are the United States really the nightmarish place described by Tumblr? (aka 30 millions trans people get killed a day, if you walk in a dark alley you'll surely get sexually assaulted, etc etc)

Do English people eat what's left of the wedding cake at the christening of the married couple's first baby? I saw that on a TV show but this sounds crazy. Like what are your wedding cakes made of, English people?

No. You only hear about the worst.

You put the cake in the freezer.

More technical: http://www.nmcsap.org/statistics.html

Less technical: http://www.sarsonline.org/resources-stats/reports-laws-statics

For comparison, rape's apparently more common in the UK. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/10/sex-crimes-analysis-england-wales (Possibly related: http://news.sky.com/story/819702/rape-awareness-survey-how-far-is-too-far)

We have a much broader definition than you guys do which makes me question comparison without more complex comparisons.

(see also the fact that our rate of violence against the person is higher - it is, but not nearly to the same extent as it initially appears, because for example a robbery with only the threat of force, would cunt as violence against the person in the UK but not the US due to the way we each measure it)

"We have a much broader definition than you guys do"

Are you sure of that? According to Wikipedia, the U.K. does not legally define any act perpetrated by a woman as rape, nor does it legally define penetration with an object other than a penis as rape. (These can be crimes, but they're charged under other statutes.)

Edited 2014-04-06 00:58 (UTC)

Depends on the report but generally yes.

(aware that assault by penetration etc is different, most statisitcs I've seen include them together but apparently not the home office, shit gets complicated)

But for a direct comparison

http://www.civitas.org.uk/crime/crime_stats_oecdjan2012.pdf

Also not ideal, but see http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checking-ben-swann-is-the-uk-really-5-times-more-violent-than-the-us/

Time and again you prove that America and Americans exist for you only so you can be reassured that there's someplace in the world that's even worse than where you live. I'm very sorry you hate the UK so much that reminding Americans of the the worst their country is capable of doing to them comforts you. I used to listen to people like you and live in fear as an American, but I learned to overcome it. I hope you do too.

hahaha, no. (to the first, no idea on the second.)

The US is just like everywhere else - there are plenty of assholes to go around, but most folks are decent people.

I don't know for sure about the second, but it's my understanding you freeze it and then eat it on your first wedding anniversary.

Gonna add another "no" to that first one.

I'm from the UK and I have never once heard the thing about wedding cakes??

The USA is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. So, no.

The only wedding cake tradition I know is keeping the top part of your wedding cake and freezing it so that you can eat it on your first anniversary.

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