In New Zealand we generally get 4-5 weeks paid leave each year plus several paid Public Holidays throughout the year.

Korea does it better. The stalls go all the way to the ground and quite a few of the toilets are bidets. But yeah, our toilet stalls kind of suck.

Guns are fine, chocolate eggs.. The horror!

In the US, eggs are washed and lose a protective layer so need to be refrigerated.

I think I am in love.....

You got us there. It used to be that in the US you could count on being off around the holidays of a few different religions. Now you just work every day until you die.

How many bananas per hour is that?

Why would we not comprehend this? I mean....we have bikes... and bike paths. And people who bike interstate. not me but healthy people

Only because Kei Cars and Kei Trucks are illegal here for "safety" reasons. Really it's lobbism from the Big 3 keeping them out. I'd love a tiny little truck or car.

LOL here in Portland, Oregon that space would be flooded with equally drunk skaters grinding down that hand rail.

An old American like me sure can. People smoked everywhere back in the 80s.

But it wasn't a component level item was it? RS finally went out of business in the USA because they stopped selling anything anyone actually needed that they couldn't get at a bunch of competitors like Best Buy, Walmart, others. I used to work in one. But I stopped shopping in them long before they closed.

I overheard the news earlier, apparently there is a dangerous cyclepath on the loose.

The Swiss Alps? A lake in Northern Italy? I am quite aware of these places.

To be fair, this also wasn't exactly business as ususal for my European mind.

I've been to the Vatican and it is pretty impressive. On the other hand, how the Catholic church got its money over the years and some of the other things it has done are not so impressive.

LOL I learned how to drive stick when I was 10yo. Granted it was on a tractor. There isn't a gearbox invented I can't handle.

Tell me you've never been to America without telling me you e never been to America

Some of us Americans still drive stick shifts.

This isn't true. Many people prefer manual shift. Cars with manual shift are less expensive.

A stick shift? Please. I'd out-drive you any day in one.

Most boomers have owned a "manual" car.

Another stupid post. You think we don’t have manual transmissions in the US?

The manual transmission isn't the part I have trouble with. It's the whole driving on the opposite side as I'm used to part

I can drive stick. Easy,

Ah yes...I learned how to grind gears with that. Then had to change seats because I wasn't getting any better and it wasn't my car

you poor things... you can afford automatic? hahahah

Been driving stick shifts for 50+ years and no I don't mean once in a while- my cars have had manual transmissions all this time

There are plenty of Americans that are able to drive a stick. In my part of the US we learn how to drive a stick when we are still too young to buck hay.

Story time. My mother once asked my brother if she could borrow his car. He said, "Of course, but just so you know, it's a manual shift." She gave him The Look and said, "I learned to drive in 1951. That's all there was."

I was able to buy a Fiesta ST(my choice) when they first came out because nobody drive sticks anymore

I miss driving a manual transmission!

62 Chevy Nova with 3 on the tree. My Harley obviously has a clutch and shifter.

Lol, I've yet to meet any American Gen Xers that can't drive stick.

I learned to drive on a stick.

Truck and tractor drivers are sniggering at your basic five speed manual. Four over four, splitters, Eaton and Fuller boxes, overdrives, car drivers have it easy!

Ha Ha. CVTs get better fuel economy and last longer

It depends on your age and if you live city or country.

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I'm 70 and learned to drive with a stick. In fact, my latest car is the first automatic I've owned.

I still drive a manual. Admittedly they are far less common now, but there are still some that prefer them.

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Mmmm sandy sandwich and sandy tea...sounds amazing! /s

We'd like to keep it that way

History?

Bar food? Granted that is some seriously looking delicious bar food, but honestly I'm starting to think most Europeans are just as ignorant of America as most Americans are ignorant of Europe at this point. This thread is ridiculous.

Having cap stuck to lid so it pokes you in the face while trying to drink, you guys can keep this one.

Notice bottom of OP..."from Baton Rouge, LA" last time I checked that was in the US.

To be fair I cannot comprehend Eurovision either.