my house was built in 1677

Favorite metric system quote is by Josh Bazell. “In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. ... Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go f**k yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

This! When I was a nanny in the US, the family I worked for was always nagging me for using public transport. I never unederstood what the big deal was.

And then we have our beloved bored panda censure... s**t!

Rested and healthy employees = higher productivity. Who'd have thought?

What???

Or, at least partially in Germany, leaves it with a neighbour.

I'd rather not have muddy footprints/ dirt from outside around the house.

They should make this a European thing.

I think they meant: While it is normal for Europeans to speak at least one language other than their mother tongue, Americans are not expected to speak any other language than English.

At least where I live in Germany it’s NOT usual to be naked in parks or bathing naked in crowded places, except they’re designated as nude areas. Topless is tolerated in most urban parks, if you don’t Walk around. Otherwise it’s a "Public nuisance", which is an administrative offense and is punished by a penalty fee.

Seen as lazy, huh? So the management only have standing desks?

Of course not. I am on VACATION.

In the UK we normally describe properties as 1 bed, 2 bed etc. and give a separate count of other rooms. Studio is normally used to describe rooms of mixed use. So a 1 bed studio apartment will normally be a combined kitchen, living and sleeping space with a separate bath- or shower-room.

I remember one work trip where I was in Germany, just over the border from France. All the staff were French and commuted across the border daily. Hell, we even went back across the border for lunch each day!

I love being Scottish, I love living here, the people (mostly), the accepting and open culture, the sarcastic swearing humour, that we can take the piss out of ourselves - but I don't feel the need to fly a flag on my doorstep or cover myself in Scottish symbols and scream about my freedom and rights and chant some verse every morning - im sure there are plenty of Americans who also think that the stereotypical over the top patriotic American is as odd as outsiders do - but they do tend to be the loudest

Fun fact: These are all things that Unions achieved and next the government made them law. Some Americans would go bat shyte crazy over that. "The government has no right to force 25 mandatory vacation days on me!!!!"

Absolutely, what's acceptable in Spain wouldn't fly in Denmark and vice versa. All countries have their own cultures. The first time, years before the internet through reading American magazines, I came across 'Europe' being referred to as a homogeneous whole I was extremely confused. I was also highly entertained by all the adverts stating 'Everyone in Europe is using this product' for something I'd never seen in my life.

It prevents them from copying you card information and using them to commit fraud by buying stuff online with your creditcard information. In fact I think we ought to memorise the control numbers on the back of the card and then remove them for the card. Having them there is like writing the pin code on the card with a marker, it is just making abuse way too easy.

This is Rule 1 of the London Underground

True. Topless is normal.

Yanks love guns but are scared of women’s breasts. Why?

If you have never been to a nudist beach before you have this image of all these fit young people strutting around. Then you get there and......OH DEAR GOD!!!!! Remember some things can't be unseen and therapy cannot fix. It's more like watching Jabba The Hutt's family on the beach.

In France (at least where I live) you are not allowed in public pools with shorts. It has to be speedos or you are sent out. I think it's the total opposite from the US.

This is sick! Sexualizing naked children!!!!

I am bulgarian. There isn't nude section on every beach. I know only two nude beaches. Also it was really common to see topless women 15-20 years ago. My daughter has never been on a beach naked, even when she was a toddler.

We do? Someone really needs to teach me about this place I live. I spent my entire childhood on the beach.

Hah. Up to 3 year old or around , it's normall they run around bare-ass. Topless not everywhere.

Good!

The f**k is a monokini?!

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The biggest pron producer of the world does have problems with breasts... For the kids well that's because in north america we know there are many pedoohiles around...ppl in many countries don't seem to care about that but there is a high demand for young kids...make them wear swinsuits and look around

Well maybe thats because the US has become filled with pedophiles. Untill they are 18 we have to HOVER over them to make sure they arent sexually abused or killed.

This is not normal in my country, which is part of Europe.

Naked under age four doesn't bother me. Older just seems weird.

This likely stems from children not on the beach running around naked. It’s considered neglect (in the states). In Mumbai I saw children running around half naked and no one batted an eye…. I was uncomfortable