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We know how Americans walk and sit so now we have to talk about how Americans sleep.
In my opinion Europeans just like to be frugal and keep things simple and buy just one cheap pillow, Americans will waste money buying three expensive pillows, one to cuddle with, one for head and one to put in between your legs.
Americans have larger beds so they tend to sprawl out more which is a issue when American tourist are in Europe.
Europeans don't take up as much space so they are nice to sleep with.
Now allow me to politely disagree here;
Europeans would buy one EXPENSIVE pillow for all life occasions, that would last them for quite some time, while Americans will buy three grossly OVERPRICED pillows per advice of podiatry Association, Drugs and Food Administration and warning of Surgeon General, and all three will last them until the new advise will be issued.
During the warm season I often dress like a slob on weekends (unfortunately, one has to dress up for work). Dark socks though. White socks belong west of the Atlantic and east of the Berezina.
This thread is HILARIOUS!!!! Thanks, by the way, for the nice compliments on the picture. Even the one who told me that I don't look particularly American (I guess I could take that either way!) - since I am an American that is 100 percent European and 98.6 percent of that northern European I guess that's understandable. Oh, and I'm not wearing yoga pants and tennis shoes generally when I'm traveling! LOL
I do carry a big ass purse though. Plus I'm always taking billions of pictures and oohing and ahhing and grinning and gesturing and being generally very extroverted and conversational with the people around me, which sometimes seems to alarm them greatly (much to my inner perverse pleasure). So I figure I'm pretty obviously a tourist no matter where I go!
BRANG IT OWN.
Last edited by KathrynAragon; 12-28-2013 at 05:23 PM..
This thread is HILARIOUS!!!! Thanks, by the way, for the nice compliments on the picture. Even the one who told me that I don't look particularly look American (I guess I could take that either way!) - since I am an American that is 100 percent European and 98.6 percent of that northern European I guess that's understandable. Oh, and I'm not wearing yoga pants and tennis shoes generally when I'm traveling! LOL
I do carry a big ass purse though. Plus I'm always taking billions of pictures and oohing and ahhing and grinning and gesturing and being generally very extroverted and conversational with the people around me, which sometimes seems to alarm them greatly (much to my inner perverse pleasure). So I figure I'm pretty obviously a tourist no matter where I go!
We know how Americans walk and sit so now we have to talk about how Americans sleep.
In my opinion Europeans just like to be frugal and keep things simple and buy just one cheap pillow, Americans will waste money buying three expensive pillows, one to cuddle with, one for head and one to put in between your legs.
Americans have larger beds so they tend to sprawl out more which is a issue when American tourist are in Europe.
Europeans don't take up as much space so they are nice to sleep with.
Lol at the pics. Too bad Napoleon's manners didn't match his refined outfit though.
Really? That's strange. Even here there's no such dress code. I go to live theaters in jeans. Is Finland some kind of an outlier among Nordic countries regarding this issue? France and Italy are seen as some of the most formal countries in Europe. Maybe Finland is similar?
I didn't mean that theatres have bouncers who turn underdressed people at the door. Maybe it's just a local cultural custom. People like to dress up for theatre and opera, to make it more special.
Otherwise Finland isn't very formal at all, but in certain environments, like special parties or festivals, the parliament, the military, the independence ball, the high school prom (white tie), and some university events and so on, the dress code is very strict to uphold the dignity and festivity.
This is how a prom dance looks here:
In the old days, the English person sat like a slob:
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