| People from other countries, what are some things Americans do (Or don't do) that are odd? |
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| they think it's 03/13/2019 and it's 41 degrees outside |
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| based on my experience and observation, i realized a lot of americans shower in the morning but not at night, and it doesn't make sense to me since after your morning shower, you would usually go outside to work or to study, and you get all those germs and her dirty stuff onto your body when you come back, they stay on you, including the sweat, and that's totally unaccpetable for me |
| they think every other country is the weird one and america is normal (can confirm, im american and living in Australia these past few years made a lot of things clear) |
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Cneq said: they think every other country is the weird one and america is normal (can confirm, im american and living in Australia these past few years made a lot of things clear) That is because we receive a haughty super power education and morality. Which is ironic when US SJWs lord their anti-imperialistic morality over the rest of the world when you think about it. China is undergoing a similar generational education process. Though, probably not quite as haughty as an Imperialist who understands that force is the ultimate and final determinate. |
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| Using weird fucking measurements. Having a shotgun in every room of your house, including the doghouse. The states are a weird thing too. |
| be loud be fat be dominant some aspects of american cuisine are shit, in other words, it lacks sensitivity in some areas. what is typically “good” in america invokes strong emotions, sometimes too strong. excess without the awareness of the “right” amount. |
| by being American thirty word limit is dumb |
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| Sorry to any American chocolatiers that may be reading this, but y'all really do make the worst chocolate. |
Take care of yourself |
| Edit: I think I find it weird how their government can spend so much money going into other countries and still have such a poor health care system for their own people. |
SwizzeMar 13, 2019 3:01 AM
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| making porn and having fetishes. but some people from other countries are like that too. |
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MAYOISM said: based on my experience and observation, i realized a lot of americans shower in the morning but not at night, and it doesn't make sense to me since after your morning shower, you would usually go outside to work or to study, and you get all those germs and her dirty stuff onto your body when you come back, they stay on you, including the sweat, and that's totally unaccpetable for me I usually shower at night for the convenience of my hair dry by morning. I'm not sure what the norm is for others. ThatRazorGuy said: Sorry to any American chocolatiers that may be reading this, but y'all really do make the worst chocolate. What brands do you have in mind? suciaviani said: making porn and having fetishes. but some people from other countries are like that too. More like every country. It just isn't as visible in some. |
| @traed I'm specifically thinking of Hershey's. |
Take care of yourself |
| They have a weird mass of food culture. |
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BlakexEkalb said: Who willingly eats Hershey's as a candy? Twix is where it's at. Haven't had Twix in years tbh so I don't really remember the taste. |
Take care of yourself |
| why the fuck do they deep-fry shit like their life depends on it |
AnimeFreak-San said: is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps? |
| the fact that they have to pay shit load of money for higher education meanwhile it's for free in my country |
We don't only have cheap chocolate. We have many proper chocolate stores with handmade chocolate, although you have to be in a city for those usually. I live near one called L.A. Burdick Chocolates and their chocolate is completely out of this world. We also have a lot of good brands such as Chuao, Alter Eco, Endangered Species, Theo, Lake Champlain, Raaka (best dark chocolate I ever had personally), TCHO, etc. traed said: MAYOISM said: based on my experience and observation, i realized a lot of americans shower in the morning but not at night, and it doesn't make sense to me since after your morning shower, you would usually go outside to work or to study, and you get all those germs and her dirty stuff onto your body when you come back, they stay on you, including the sweat, and that's totally unaccpetable for me I usually shower at night for the convenience of my hair dry by morning. I'm not sure what the norm is for others. Me too. Everyone I know showers either both morning and night or only at night. |
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MAYOISM said: you got it backwards! If you shower in the morning, you'll be clean the whole day. You sweat a lot at night, and some people sweat so much that they smell pretty bad if they don't shower in the mornings. Your hair can be greasy and gross too if you sweat a lot at night.based on my experience and observation, i realized a lot of americans shower in the morning but not at night, and it doesn't make sense to me since after your morning shower, you would usually go outside to work or to study, and you get all those germs and her dirty stuff onto your body when you come back, they stay on you, including the sweat, and that's totally unaccpetable for me You wanna walk around like that all day? That's weird. For very many people it makes way more sense to shower in the morning. |
| "my life at this state could be transposed into a pretty massive biography" - Cneq, "the guy who was literally using BTC in 2012 to make deals in the first main instance of a digital itemized economy forming naturally in all human history (also the precursor of NFTs) and who had 20k+ total trades.", 23 years old MAL's most prolific antivaxxer, Noboru. |
| Americans pronounce a lot of words wrong. They pronounce capo as "Cape-o," when it's actually "Cap-o/Cop-o." They rhyme lever with "clever," but it's supposed to rhyme with "beaver." They also use strange words like "y'all" and "cuss." They also have handguns, and they think it's okay to carry them, and defend themselves with them, which is just messed up. They wear their shoes indoors. In my country, you take your shoes off when entering a home. They have a very unhealthy superiority complex. They put butter on their pancakes. Nobody does that where I live. Many of them seem to be against Universal Health Care, which makes no sense. |
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| Your food. I like my sweets and fatty foods every now and then but I wouldn't be able to eat that every day. Chill out with the portion sizes too. I recently watched some video on differences between dating cultures and it seems like a lot of traits that are considered desirable there (on men) are big turn offs here. Like constant bragging about money or status or being overtly aggressive. I must admit, rather than being attracted, I'd feel like running away if I saw somebody like that. Attitudes towards sex and nudity seem to be ridiculously conservative over there too. Like who bothers censoring butt cracks? |
NthDegreeMar 13, 2019 10:37 AM
| Americans don't shake hands when they meet someone or a friend, they just shake it the first time they met and that's all. In my country we shake hands with 10 people if we have to, it's respect. They pronounce football as soccer which is wrong and a blasphemy. Calling football soccer is banned in Europe. |
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Railey2 said: MAYOISM said: you got it backwards! If you shower in the morning, you'll be clean the whole day. You sweat a lot at night, and some people sweat so much that they smell pretty bad if they don't shower in the mornings. Your hair can be greasy and gross too if you sweat a lot at night.based on my experience and observation, i realized a lot of americans shower in the morning but not at night, and it doesn't make sense to me since after your morning shower, you would usually go outside to work or to study, and you get all those germs and her dirty stuff onto your body when you come back, they stay on you, including the sweat, and that's totally unaccpetable for me You wanna walk around like that all day? That's weird. For very many people it makes way more sense to shower in the morning. are you american btw? well, i got that from others too * and by saying night, i mean you shower before you sleep, techniqually i have american friends who came over to my place and they did not shower at night, which shocked me when i realized its a norm for most people who live in the midwest well, my past roommates shower at night too, and they're americans so i guess, it's more like generally many americans prefer to shower in the morning * and well, i personally shower 2 times a day one in the morning, a longer one at night before i go to bed since my ac is always on, ive never sweat before (i mean noticeably) when im inside my apartment at night traed said: MAYOISM said: based on my experience and observation, i realized a lot of americans shower in the morning but not at night, and it doesn't make sense to me since after your morning shower, you would usually go outside to work or to study, and you get all those germs and her dirty stuff onto your body when you come back, they stay on you, including the sweat, and that's totally unaccpetable for me I usually shower at night for the convenience of my hair dry by morning. I'm not sure what the norm is for others. ok after some responses, i think its actually not an american thing at all but in asia, no one would shower in the morning unless they're going to shower twice (one in the morning one at night) perhaps its a midwest thing? i live in indiana btw Usagi said: We don't only have cheap chocolate. We have many proper chocolate stores with handmade chocolate, although you have to be in a city for those usually. I live near one called L.A. Burdick Chocolates and their chocolate is completely out of this world. We also have a lot of good brands such as Chuao, Alter Eco, Endangered Species, Theo, Lake Champlain, Raaka (best dark chocolate I ever had personally), TCHO, etc. traed said: I usually shower at night for the convenience of my hair dry by morning. I'm not sure what the norm is for others. Me too. Everyone I know showers either both morning and night or only at night. ok, seeing your response, now i think its perhaps just a preference of some people from north america i have some friends who would only shower in the morning well, i've never met a person who would shower in the morning but not at night in asia before |
| @MAYOISM I'm from Germany, not American. |
| "my life at this state could be transposed into a pretty massive biography" - Cneq, "the guy who was literally using BTC in 2012 to make deals in the first main instance of a digital itemized economy forming naturally in all human history (also the precursor of NFTs) and who had 20k+ total trades.", 23 years old MAL's most prolific antivaxxer, Noboru. |
| Their obsession with putting cheese on everything. Also, frying literally anything they can get their hands on. Idgi. |
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| Groundhog day. Waiting around for a groundhog to predict the weather is weird af And yeah food and drink portions are fucking ridiculous here... |
| This is my forum set and I’m very proud of it. |
| As a Canadian, i can't stand their milk specially the total number of cells per milliliter in the American milk. It's way too high if the count is high, it means the cow might be sick. |
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Seiya said: Americans pronounce a lot of words wrong. They pronounce capo as "Cape-o," when it's actually "Cap-o/Cop-o." They rhyme lever with "clever," but it's supposed to rhyme with "beaver." They also use strange words like "y'all" and "cuss." They also have handguns, and they think it's okay to carry them, and defend themselves with them, which is just messed up. They wear their shoes indoors. In my country, you take your shoes off when entering a home. They have a very unhealthy superiority complex. They put butter on their pancakes. Nobody does that where I live. Many of them seem to be against Universal Health Care, which makes no sense. What are you even talking about? You must be confusing clever with cleaver. Both American and British English agree with me. I have no idea if there is some different way it's said in Canada or if you have a hearing problem. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/clever https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/beaver https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/cleaver Y'all is only spoken in a small region of the US. One other even smaller region says yous lol but most places use neither. Shoes off or on is more individual than cultural in the US. I don't wear shoes inside except if having to head out quickly. I don't put butter on pancakes. That is just how they are served in some places. It's more like a decoration almost. Fate_Saber88 said: As a Canadian, i can't stand their milk specially the total number of cells per milliliter in the American milk. It's way too high if the count is high, it means the cow might be sick. What does this mean by number of cells? |
traedMar 14, 2019 3:36 AM
| The ass backwards mm/dd/yy format of date. Especially how they phrase it. "March the 14th". The fuck does that even mean? Is every single day in the month of march called "march", and today is supposed to be the 14th one in the line of succession? dd/mm/yy makes far more logical sense. The elements are arranged in the decreasing order of change. And most of all, "14th March" doesn't sound like a weird royal title. It means the 14th day in the month of march. |
changelog said: Why do you still all use the Imperial system and a completely illogical date format. The date format I think is by order of how it's spoken in shortest form March 14th, 2019 instead of 14th of March, 2019 So it makes sense in that way even though DDMMYY makes more sense data wise. |
| Think guns make them safer Use weird dates. use either dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd American exceptionalism but it has got better with the internet. Don't use proper measurements Dont use 24h clock Have a government completely bought by Corps have non independent judges and other gov positions like the moron who argues broadband is not a utility or communication, the environmental agency is made up of big oil. The politics/government are totally dysfunctional. |
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Maneki-Mew said: Own guns. I've never seen one in real except for police officers and in a museum. Big menu sizes. You know, our big mcdonalds coke is your small size. That's unhealthy af und you will get fat in no time with these sizes. That's actually a big point; I've never seen an actual pistol before me ever. Also: bleeps on TV. I don't think there's a single word in the Dutch language that is not allowed here on television at any time of the day; I've never seen a bleep on Dutch television. |
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Railey2 said: you got it backwards! If you shower in the morning, you'll be clean the whole day. not sure how Japanese think of this. Japanese usually don't take a shower in the morning. as you see in anime, after waking up in the morning, those chara only brush their teeth, comb their hair, and change their clothes. they take a bath/shower after they go back from schools/universities/workplaces. that's also the reason why they don't take a shower/bath in the morning. because they already did at night. you may be familiar to the scene of an anime chara telling another "the bath is ready" which usually happens at night. and that habit does not only present in anime but also in everyday's life of japanese people. Railey2 said: If you shower in the morning, you'll be clean the whole day. You sweat a lot at night, and some people sweat so much that they smell pretty bad if they don't shower in the mornings. Your hair can be greasy and gross too if you sweat a lot at night. You wanna walk around like that all day? That's weird. For very many people it makes way more sense to shower in the morning. it will be more sensible to take a shower in the morning and around 4 PM. thus you wash your body twice a day. if sleeping at night makes your body sweaty, then doing activity at day is just the same. even if its just working at office. you better take a shower twice a day. plus you better also change your underwears twice a day. why don't you try sniffing your armpits after you're back from school/univ/workplace and see if they smell fine. |
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| America is the greatest country in the world. You're all inferior to us and jealous of how great we are. None of you would be alive if it weren't for this great country. Show some respect kids. We made you |
KatanadudeMar 14, 2019 8:25 AM
thatrpgdude said: America is the greatest country in the world. You're all inferior to us and jealous of how great we are. None of you would be alive if it weren't for this great country. Show some respect kids. We made you You can say the same thing for country of sufficient size. US wouldn't exist without England; England wouldn't exist in its current form without Normandy or Frisia and neither would have existed without Rome of course. |
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traed said: Seiya said: Americans pronounce a lot of words wrong. They pronounce capo as "Cape-o," when it's actually "Cap-o/Cop-o." They rhyme lever with "clever," but it's supposed to rhyme with "beaver." They also use strange words like "y'all" and "cuss." They also have handguns, and they think it's okay to carry them, and defend themselves with them, which is just messed up. They wear their shoes indoors. In my country, you take your shoes off when entering a home. They have a very unhealthy superiority complex. They put butter on their pancakes. Nobody does that where I live. Many of them seem to be against Universal Health Care, which makes no sense. What are you even talking about? You must be confusing clever with cleaver. Both American and British English agree with me. I have no idea if there is some different way it's said in Canada or if you have a hearing problem. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/clever https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/beaver https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/cleaver What I mean, is that "lever" is pronounced "lee-ver," but most Americans mispronounce it as "lev-er." |
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| Read this and the biggest thing is on shower-patterns lol Please, unless you do so already or it's normal for you don't take multiple showers in a day. Waste of water, and strips your skin of essential oils/nutrients--regardless if you put lotion on afterwards. If you sweat bad, companies make things for that. Time of shower is good but depends on how people prepare themselves afterwards. In the day, having hair wet before styling is easier for some by reducing the time it takes to get ready to leave the house. |
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Silverstorm said: Read this and the biggest thing is on shower-patterns lol Please, unless you do so already or it's normal for you don't take multiple showers in a day. Waste of water, and strips your skin of essential oils/nutrients--regardless if you put lotion on afterwards. If you sweat bad, companies make things for that. Time of shower is good but depends on how people prepare themselves afterwards. In the day, having hair wet before styling is easier for some by reducing the time it takes to get ready to leave the house. I definitely noticed that the US in general has this weird overobsession with hygiene where you kind of feel that they know that really it's no big deal but no one wants to be the first to say because all the others call you filthy there. Like how apparently in the US you cannot wear clothes two days in a row... like what waste of washing water is that? Of course if you didn't actually stain your clothes you can wear the same shirt two times in a row; you realize you spend close to half the day between your sheets right? Do you wash your sheets every day too? Wearing the same clothes for three days if you didn't actually go sporting in them or it's not super hot outside is absolutely fine. Or that thing where they wash their entire body with soap instead of just their hair and concave surfaces and it's apparently a big revelation to them when you tell them that you don't actually need to use soap on your body and simply scrubbing it with water is enough. Like I don't know how they do it; if I use soap on my body my skin feels dried out and itchy afterwards. |
It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate". — Bertrand Russell |
Getting offended for people of different ethnicities and cultures, despite those people not being offended themselves. Americans love to speak for everybody else, but they don't enjoy actually listening to the opinions of those different from them. Why? Bc they're taught that they're always right. That, and wearing dirty/outdoor shoes in their bedrooms/on their beds. How disgusting. |
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