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Another collection from different group of people, from the same site as in the OP. Some selections..:
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People really are afraid of socialism. This seems to be especially true the less they know about it, or believe it means turning their car in to the state. It also turns into fear of Obamacare being some sort of socialist plot, which is hilarious.
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The role of religion is much stronger here than in other Western nations. Things like creationism are usually believed by a handful of people in other places, but here it seems to be at least a force to be reckoned with.
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It really is a diverse place, much more so than many foreigners really understand. A country that can produce both Snoop Dogg and Westboro Baptist Church is like no other place (seriously!).
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Extreme sensitiveness towards race and religion. People tend to be very sensitive about racial and religious topics. I was embarrassed to ask a Costco employee where the white chocolate was because I was afraid she would tell me I was a racist.
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Why individual houses are so large? We always get into discussion that house is not just a shelter, but also a manifestation of one’s financial achievements.
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A lot of people really think a constitution written hundreds of years ago provides written guidance to any issue the nation might be faced with. Then again, a large subset of the same group believes that a book written 2000 years ago provides answers to all problems in life.
Don't you just love it when the ad speaker lowers his voice and in rapid speech mode summarizes possible side effects and how 50% of the time it includes possible spontaneous diarrhea.
Or symptoms far worse than the actual symptoms you are having. Yah, arthritis is painful...but so is stroke, heart attack, shingles, and death!
Some of the stuff mentioned here reminds me of a trans-Atlantic rendition of "Just Visiting"
I am glad we can have a funny thread in POC instead of the usual.
Why the hell does the Imbiss sound so familiar? It's been awhile...but that name sounds........is that the little cart outside base?
I know that name....I just can't remember it.
The Imbiss are small structures, similar to our coffee/latte shacks except that they are walk-up, not drive-up. All they sell are various wursts and pomme frites. Standing room only. I wish we had them in the US.
its funny because I found it utterly odd that nowhere else I have been (all over SA and a half dozen European countries, and a couple ME countries) offer ice in drinks. HATE me some hot coke.
Now on the bakery thing, i gotta say the thing I LOVED about France was, I could walk into a bakery get a nice not too sweet piece of bread, walk out. walk down the street and by the time I finished my treat, there was another bakery! IT WAS AWSOME!
in America, we have donut shops. we dont have very many actual bakeries.
We have the same thing here in Montreal. I have about 8 killer French boulangeries/pastry shops within walking distance from my house.
Don't you just love it when the ad speaker lowers his voice and in rapid speech mode summarizes possible side effects and how 50% of the time it includes possible spontaneous diarrhea.
Oh god! I thought I was the only one who noticed those disclaimers at the end of the commercial ripped out like machine-gun fire. It has often occurred to me that what the heck must the condition be like to risk taking this crud that could give you permanent paralysis, diarrhea, erratic heartbeat, hives, or stomach lining erosion. GADS!
Shoes in the house were never permitted because all too often those public toilets with urinals hanging on the walls would have the obligatory puddle beneath it that you were standing in just before going home to track that crud throughout your lovely carpets.
Bread is another common one with it being often too doughy and seemingly undercooked. We were literally begged by our American compatriots to load our RV with Canadian flour to bring down to them.
Steaks ~ well I'm partial to black angus. Whack off it's horns, wipe it's butt and march it to the table past a 40 watt light bulb on it's way through the kitchen and it'll be just the way I like it.
I live in the U.S. for half of each year and love it for it's peculiarities AND some better stuff than we are used to back in Canada.
Obtaining fresh produce that hasn't spent six days in a truck with a faulty reefer getting to Canada from Cali. or Az. or worse Mx. Just buy some fresh Thompson Seedless grapes to see the difference in counter life.
Some places in Europe and likewise Mexico I've encountered the washroom attendant who required a tip before affording you some toilet paper to take with you into the stall or room with a hole in the floor.
Lybster in N.E. Scotland was where all the men went outside under the rain to pee against a fieldstone wall with a trough at it's bottom to carry away the liquid. Emmerich Germany had the hole portion of the floor slightly elevated with two sets of painted footprints on the floor beside the raised portion to denote where you should be putting your feet dependant upon you being male or female??????
Visiting friends in Manchester one had to collect a brolly at the rear door then run to the brick biffy in the yard outside to pull the chain after you were done.
Small undercounter refridgerators to handle only a couple of days worth of "messages" with most folks detouring from the last bus stop to a grocery store to collect their daily "messages" before returning home to cook the evening meal. Rayburn Stoves that served dual duty as both cooking ranges and water heaters for the radiant heating through out the house.
Putting a coin in the meter just inside the front entrance to keep the electric going for the evening and timing it so a one pound coin got you to lights-out bedtime. No longer the norm over there but still found some places.
Also a place where you can be standing at the urinal in one of the many men's rooms in the Airport and watch the mop being wielded by a woman wearing a sari and with a dot on her forehead going between your feet while standing there wizzing away. That teaches you to stow it and zip up BEFORE turning away from the urinal to head to the sinks.
The thing that I don't understand is how those medicine commercials ever inspire people to ask their doctors for them. Before they had prescription drug commercials, you just got whatever medicine the doctor prescribed and then got the bottle from the drug store with a piece of paper listing the side effects. It's a lot easier to ignore the worst of the effects that way. When I hear them listed on the commercials, I think there's just no way I'm going to take something that causes organ failure or stomach lining erosion.
I remember once hearing that the pharmaceutical companies only advertise to help their stocks, not to draw more customers.
The Imbiss are small structures, similar to our coffee/latte shacks except that they are walk-up, not drive-up. All they sell are various wursts and pomme frites. Standing room only. I wish we had them in the US.
Yes! It was the little vendor outside the base! We called it the Imbiss......it's all coming back....
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Originally Posted by BruSan
Steaks ~ well I'm partial to black angus. Whack off it's horns, wipe it's butt and march it to the table past a 40 watt light bulb on it's way through the kitchen and it'll be just the way I like it.
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I was not even saying it was bad to order your teenage kids wine. I know that's done in other countries and even in this country at home. But we tried to get my stepdaughter wine at a restaurant when she was 20 years old, and they wouldn't do it even with a parent's permission. I thought that was pretty silly, though I do know that bartenders are responsible and the TABC can arrest them if they serve alcohol to underage people.
No offence taken at all!
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No longer the norm over there but still found some places.
