I have seen pictures of Iranian women with jeans poking out or makeup. Decently hidden, but it’s probably a little subversive.
Duh. It’s Japan. Japan is weird.
Have you ever heard of Scotland? Number two behind the US, according to the Daily Mail (I know, I know). Home of the Deep-Fried Mars Bar. Or places like Samoa? I have heard the latter is because they have a gene that helps store fat during lean times. In the time of McDonald’s, it’s not so helpful.
Because Stephen Harper’s sellout to the United States is only one-quarter complete.
Americans - why put the name of the month before the day of the month? Don’t you realise things normally go in ascending order? Or maybe in descending order. But at least in some consistent fashion, rather than Medium, Small, Large!
Canadians, do you do this too? I’ve never noticed, sorry 
2012-5-10 is common in many places. Parts of Asia, and US servicemen tend to write it out that way.
Canada uses a mix I believe.
Dates are put in a specific order because a) they’ve always done it that way and b) because it really doesn’t matter, except for the ambiguity. I don’t believe any is conceptually easier to understand.
Why do Americans complain so severely about spoilers, when in other cultures it is customary for official reviews of movies and books to contain open spoilers and no-one thinks twice about telling each other that they just loved the part where John dies in the end ?
Funny enough, the exact same indignant petulant tone of voice in which US people complain about spoilers, is used in the Netherlands to complain about draft. You know, gusts of cold wind that might occur locally whenever somebody opens the wrong combination of windows/doors is opened against each other.
Well, I can’t speak specifically since you didn’t give a specific location, but here in the US it used to be very common for women to use an elastic belt to which you could fasten pads with extensions on either end to make a sort of loincloth arrangement which did not require underwear to keep in place. These were around from (I think) the late 1940’s/50’s through the early 80’s. Presumably, women in such places would use something like that.
Either than, or in areas where pre-made menstrual products aren’t available, they probably use what our grandmothers did: rags made into homemade pads, which are quite bulky and require loose underwear.
Tampons aren’t as new as people think, though - in Ancient Greece and Rome women would sometimes use sea sponges cut into tampon-like shapes and used as tampons.
Is anyone else imagining a “Y U No…?” format for these questions? 
I want to know why it’s easier for me to get alcohol in Muslim countries (Malaysia and Indonesia) than it is in Australia.
Maastricht, can we please keep the cultural swipes at a minimum in this thread?
A lot of them, yeah.
I pulled a joke thread here a few years back where by the 1939 Treazty of Ogdensburg, Canadians agreed to stop insisting that they were not British and start insisting they were not (US) American. 
Yeah, why issue frank, harsh, and severe comments and criticism to educate, encourage, or admonish someone?
Maybe Maastricht is a dutch uncle!
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Sure, but I was thinking I was an equal opportunity swiper there. I have always thougt the Dutch obsession with drafts in any public space to be ridiculous, an outlet for a particular type of petulant character, and I was strengthened in that idea when I found whining about drafts completely absent in US conversations.
And I looked up Dutch uncle and everything that Wiki entrysays about the Dutch is true ! ::eek::
It depends on the woman in question. SOme women do so others don’t. I have a very good friend who does not normally cover up and she tells me that this is one of the reasons she likes large chadors is that is she has an errand to run, she can just quickly put it on and run without getting dressed. Also I have known women who treat it almost like an overcoat, I have one colleague who wears it when she is going outdoors but not otherwise.
Do you wear an overcoat at home?
If someone comes unannounced at least in Pakistan, s/he is likely to be on good enough terms with the family for it not to be an issue.
I am a muslim…man. Shoot me.
Traditionally it meant “married woman” but now even little girls wear it. It just means “female” now, and it’s just another decoration.
Also I am Hindu and can most definitely understand Urdu, and my own language is scattered with Urdu words. Being from the extreme Northwest of India, the languages mingle more. My family was from what is now Pakistan - Lahore.
Why do some Brits seem to prefer fighting over sex ?
The few times that I have visited Thailand the bars are full of drunken British men and Thai women. The Brits seem to prefer ignoring the women and picking fights with other men.
Why ?
And Lahore is a Punjabi area not a Hindi one like Uttar Pardesh.
My theory is that pubs all used to close at 11pm; so you had a finite time to drink in. Nowadays that’s no longer the case, but old habits die hard. Perhaps the next generation will act differently.
It’s difficult to get alcohol in Australia? From the stereotypes in American media, I always sort of pictured Australia as having beer in the drinking fountains.
Beer is too expensive to put into drinking fountains (it costs about twice as much in Australia compared with beer in the U.S.), but if you’re 18 you can go to a bar and buy alcohol in Australia. I don’t see how it can be much easier to buy a drink in Muslim countries.
When I was there in 2004, it didn’t seem difficult. They sold wine at Woolworth’s, at least in Sydney. Maybe it’s different in some other Australian states- the difficulty of buying alcohol certainly varies from state to state in the US.