So that your turd plops into the water instead of sticking on the bottom of the bowl!
I hate hate hate taking a dump in Europe, where your butt sits over exposed porcelain. Your drop your deuce and it just sits there, festering and stinking. Then you have to get up and look at it, as it slowly sags onto the surface of the bowl. Then you flush and it takes two or three tries to get the residue away and get the blow clean again.
Give me a satisfying “plop” and a submerged turd any day of the week. U-S-A!
I won’t go through the entire list. But I will point out that that there are lots of countries besides the U.S. where there are flags everywhere. Two that come to mind are Canada and Switzerland.
Also, I don’t like the high toilets of Europe because my feet barely reach the ground.
Yes, it was society who accepted all those ads. It couldn’t possibly have been the greedy Networks who wanted more profits that forced the ads on us. Please let me know how I can convince those companies to make less profit so I see less ads?
As if the rest of the West is the baseline and anything Americans do a bizarre aberration. I hate to break it to you, but there is a country that is dominating this whole globalization thing, and sure as shit isn’t Denmark.
Frankly I’d like to see a “Weird things about ____” thread that isn’t about America. I’ve done a lot of international travel and have encountered enough baffling things in my travels to fill a library.
I’m surprised to see such a list that doesn’t include, “The National Anthem is played before pretty much every sporting event - not just professional ones, but ones where school children are involved.”
It’s impossible to get around on public transportation because we’ve chosen to make it that way. The US used to have a very thorough public transportation system when the country was every bit as big as it is now, but it was mostly dismantled and everything was geared towards the car instead.
YES. Thank you. Canadians are some of the flag-wavingest people in the world. It’s weird to me that Americans are always called out on this, when the Maple Leaf is the flag that is practically shoved in your face.
And for the same reason - Canada’s a big freakin’ country.
Because we like our drinks cold? For my part, I could never understand Britons’ willingness to drink room-temperature water. Beer, well, okay, maybe there are some flavors in beer that chilling it kills. But warm water, or warm soda? Blech.
The US is the first place that lake ice was cut into blocks, packed in sawdust, and marketed. If it was shipped to India to go into Sahib’s brandy and soda, it was expensive and Sahib only got one cube. If it only went a couple hundred miles down to coast to Boston or New York, it was cheap and you could use as much as you wanted.
Charles Dickens LOVED the iced booze when he visited America. See the New York scenes in Martin Chuzzlewit for proof.
And some states have local sales taxes, sometimes assessed by separate overlapping entities. The sales tax might be different in two neighboring stores if some arbitrary boundary line falls between the two.
And in some states, assessing taxes at the register is not just a business practice but a legal requirement.
I think that’s taking it a bit too personally. I don’t think it’s a list of “Here are 20 reasons why Americans are weird”, it’s more like “Here are 20 things that seem everyday to you, but you may not realize are atypical outside the US”.
I’m not sure that any country is dominating this whole globalization thing, or even what that means.
I’m living in China. I’d have severe difficulty getting my list down to 20 entries.
Clearly you’ve been overseas, but I don’t think you’re quite getting the point of this thing. Nobody is critizing you: it’s just a list of things that are weird about America.
When I talk with people about visiting the USA, I always tell them to get a car. It’s the way the country is designed, and it’s the way the locals get around. Yes, Americans, even ones that have been to Germany, can’t see it any other way: that ignorance is weird, but that’s why you travel.
