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If you're still unsure (or need reminding) that the concept of normal is relative, there's one online thread that should, once and for all, convince you.

It began when Reddit user SackOfPotatoSacks made a post on the platform, asking everyone to share what's considered routine where they live but would probably be seen as something crazy everywhere else.

Immediately, people started describing the peculiarities of their local area that they've grown accustomed to, proving that culture seeps deeper into us than we often realize.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World My city is EXTREMELY bilingual, everyone speaks both English and French. You’ll hear people speak both languages in conversations quite often, sometimes in the same sentence. In stores, most of the time, people greet you with both languages and you reply in one of them, which tells them which language you prefer to talk in. They go "Bonjour, Hi!" And you say Bonjour back if you want to continue in French or Hi if you rather speak English. It’s kinda crazy.

I’m from Montréal, Canada.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live in Dublin and when we tell people who live in America that we put crisps in sandwiches they laugh at us. Just try it mate. It’s so good

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Free Sundays (germany)
Everything, literally everything is closed on Sundays which is amazing cuz everyone (except from the most essential like doctors, firefighters and the police) have a free day which is awesome!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Some bakeries are open on sunday morning but that's it. But if one has to do some urgent shopping on a sunday, there are always fuel stations with slightly overpriced groceries.

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In Austria around Christmas/St Nicholas time we have events called "Krampusläufe" where people, mostly young (drunk) men dress up as demonic devil-like creatures called Krampus with fur suits, creepy masks and cow bells and pull of shows that include lots of fire, smoke, witch burns etc while mainly Ramstein plays in the back. They also like to whip people in the audience with cow tails. And hell yea we enjoy the show while getting drunk on hot punch. We even bring our kids along.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In Australian rural towns we all had our back doors unlocked; and friends are allowed to go through the back door and make themselves a cup of tea/coffee while they wait for you to get back from whatever you were doing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not just rural towns. I grew up in Melbourne and this was true for everyone we knew in melbourne suburbs. We would come home and my mates would be in the living room or garage watching tv waiting for me to get home. Doors would never be locked...still rarely are to this day.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Experiencing 4 seasons every day. Jacket on, jacket off, it's sunny but it's raining, freezing and windy, then it's hot again... I like to wear shorts and puffer jacket combos for both extremes. Tasmania.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can remember it snowing on Xmas day at Maydena in 2002

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In the Eifel, germany, on the night to 1st of may, people paint a long line from one house to another. The line means that someone in these households is having an affair. Every year several relationships break up because of this. I love it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am german but i have never heard of this. You truely learn something new every day.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Alligators. Just...everywhere. I live in a swampy area of Florida, and it's pretty normal to come across alligators in small ponds, ditches, around pools, or just chilling in a parking lot. I've nearly tripped on alligators more times than i'd like to admit. Thankfully they're pretty chill and won't really bother you unless you mess with them or go near a nest. The police are even trained to deal with rogue alligator calls.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live next to a game reserve in South Africa. It's not that surprising to hear baboons in your back yard, or spot a rhino 10 meters from your fence.

One time a whole troop of baboons ran over our roof. It's only corrugated iron and we all shat our pants.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty damn cool to live near game reserve, but for those that don't know SA - Baboons are actually pretty common in quite a few Cape Town suburbs too, mainly those bordering on our mountains. Spotting a baboon is pretty normal, like spotting cows on a road trip.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Madagascar. Every now and then we dig up corpses of our loved ones, bring 'em through the village where they lived for a visit, change the tissues they where covered in (several layers) with new ones and put them back in the grave and all that while partying.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's.... Weirdly.... Very caring though... Replacing the tissues and celebrating them...

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live in NJ and it’s illegal here for you to pump your own gas/fuel. All stations are full service by law. I believe Oregon is the only other state in the USA that has this law.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In Norway it's normal to release two million sheep (read: ***two*** ***million*** ***sheep***) into the *wild*, mostly unsupervised, where an estimated *100.000* of them die to either injuries, illness or predators, with the farmers crying and complaining (usually only to that last one), and then repeat the same process again the next year, and every year after that.

Does Norway kind of have a f****d up and moronic sheep farming practice? Yes, yes we do.

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Where I used to live in Manitoba, nobody had fences, mainly because when the properties were divided up, the town planners left space that belonged to the town behind all of them, that was just a strip of forest and Canadian shield. So almost nobody put up fences because it cut off their view & access to what was essentially a super cool nature trail network throughout the town. Everyone knew once you hit mowed grass, that belonged to someone. Us kids barely ever went anywhere on foot via roads or sidewalks, we always took the trails (we rode bikes on the roads though, there were too many rocks on the trails for a regular kid's bike)

Of course, living in a forest had some unintended consequences. We frequently had bears, so I remember when I wasn't even 5 yet being taught what to do if I saw a bear. And two separate years we had a mountain lion, which was a lot worse. The town would hire someone to trap and relocate these animals but it always took a while. I remember watching a bear lying down under the crabapple tree in our front yard just eating all the windfall apples for ages, not a care in the world.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Important distinction: was the bear a black bear or a grizzly bear? One is significantly more dangerous than the other.

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Driving 3 hours at 100km/h and still being in the middle of nowhere (Australia). In parts of Europe you’d have crossed 3 borders in that time

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Starting college, meeting your class on week 1 and then having introductory sauna the next week, boys and girls all drunk & nekkid. Finland :3

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a good way to instill a healthier attitude towards the human body.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World People who are 12-14 driving tractors on the roads in rural Ireland. The legal minimum age is 16, but most farmers don't really care.

EDIT: I didn't realise that this is a rural thing. Still comes as a shock to urban people though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Farmers' kids do that here too. Not much use for a tractor in urban areas though.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Driving over the mountains and shouting "mint sauce" out the window to the sheep....

Wales

( And fellow welshys... Don't lie..you know you've done it)

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Free public transport in the whole country: buses, trains, trams.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this were universal it would make such a difference to so many people, as well as to the planet's carbon budget.

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Having your birthday party look like this:

Your livingroom is transformed so that there's a great circle of chairs with a coffeetable in the center.

If it's an afternoon party, guests will visit between 14:00 and 17:00 or 18:00 - 21:00, but not both! there's 1 timeslot for friends and 1 for family).

As a guest, you arrive, you congratulate the birthday boy or girl, hand over your present. Then you introduce yourself to the group if you don't know them yet. Then, you go over the circle and shake everyone's hand and ALSO congratulate them with so-and-so's birthday.

After making your way through the circle, you take your empty chair and that is now your seat for the rest of the party.

After everyone arrived, the birthday person will bring you a piece of cake and a beverage (usually coffee or tea). Everyone eats their cake and talks to the person sitting next to him/her.

After everyone is done, there'll be a tour of the house and any new things will be pointed out to you. Now is your moment to ask some questions like "oh, was it expensive?" and also compliment the host on how great it is.

After the tour there'll be another round of food and drinks, snacks will be laid out on the coffeetable, but you shouldn't eat much of it. This is the only food that will be brought out and everyone has to share it.

After guests were there for about 3 hours they'll leave again. Everyone knows they're expected to leave but you need to come off as really wanting to stick around longer but you just couldn't because the dog needs to go for a walk or something, make up any excuse that sounds probable.

Then, repeat the cycle again in the evening with the other group. The weekend after that, invite your close friends to come over and have the real party.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Brazil: Apparently being in a restaurant for hours and hours and only eating in 1% of the time. We talk for hours before and after eating here, so we don't leave right after eating. Everyone I knew from other country found it strange

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Drinking alcohol for the first time when you're around 14 y/o. In Germany, it is legal to buy beer and wine when you're 16. So the majority of parents don't see it as a problem when the first drunk experience happens a few years earlier. Actually it is hard to find a teenager here that never tried alcohol before.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was one of this rare Teenagers (edit: not drinking Alkohol early... Actually i drank it. Just tried tiny Drops and i hate it. Even in Desserts or so) ... But i'm weird 😄

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Calling an uber instead of an ambulance or going to work while sick during a pandemic.

Gotta love freedom

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Romania. Being a witch/medium is an official job, meaning you need a permit, your profit is monitored and you pay taxes.

When killing a pig, raw skin covered in salt is the first food consumed, as it is considered a delicacy.

We also fill the pig's small intestine with a mixture of meat, rice and garlic and put it in the oven for about an hour. Yum!

Many people believe that if you look at a baby for too long, you can unknowingly put a curse on it, which will make it cry until you pour holy water on the child and pray to make the curse go away. Parents are an exception, they can not curse their own child.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, that well known method of quieting a crying baby, tipping water on them

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Many (but not all) Germans restricting themselves to exactly one hot meal per day. I've heard sentences such as:

"No I can't, I already ate warm at lunch"
"I tried so hard to find a breakfast place that sells cold food"
"Let's just eat bread, I've had hot lunch"
"You can't eat two hot meals, that's too much"

I still don't get why it has to be no more and less than one hot meal? And why do breakfast pancakes not count as hot food?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one thing I struggle with. I am Asian, born and raised in Germany. While being little i hated having rice every day. Sometimes up to three times. Then I moved in with my ex, with whom I still live with. He has bread for breakfast and bread for dinner, almost every day. If you add two pickled cornichons and two cherry tomatoes and maybe even a soft boiled egg for dinner, it's considered a feast. I couldn't function without proper hot meals and learned to appreciate my rice now 😅

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Today (in Japan)over a hundred people lined up (staggered for social distancing) at 9:00 am on a Saturday. First one hundred get a ticket. At 10:30 we all line up again. One at a time we draw a number; 1 to 5. Then we go over to a big basin of the best quality of rice and take as many scoops as the number we drew. You are encourage to make each scoop heaping. This is not a food bank thing (I hope) just the promise of “good rice” draws a crowd.
It was at a roadside tourist shop/complex.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Israel. Where I live, it is normal.for about 15% of the population not to work and get paid by the government since they are praying to God and that's important too. Off course, the rest of the ppl pay for them. f**k them and their god

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

15% unproductive adults is a hell of a lot for a society to carry. Although, I read, it's just the men that do this. The women are raised to be the workhorses in those cults (sorry, but if you raisechildren into this, it's a cult not a cloister/temple/monestary) and do ALL the work.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Welp, in Lithuania we have hill of crosses with over 200 k. crosses, we have a hotel where you live in a jail cell and ex KGB agents shout at you and dogs bark at you all the time.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Sweden: The government has monopoly on any alcohol above 3.5% and can only be bought at one store dedicated to it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing in Pennsylvania. You can only buy hard liquor like vodka, rum and whiskey at 'state stores'

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In Cincinnati we eat spaghetti noodles topped with a soup-like chili and a 1/4 pound of shredded cheddar cheese.

And it’s delicious.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Putting a block of cheese in your hot chocolate. Colombia.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Germany: Apparently to eat minced meat raw (seasoned and on bread).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Steak tartare - very popular here in Czech Republic as well. Basically a dish of raw ground beef.It is usually served with onions, capers, mushrooms, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and other seasonings and BEER :-)

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World still being in the same house as your parents after marriage. also with kids.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Country wasn´t specified here, but I assume this is mostly Southeastern Asia and India, right?

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Leaving your kids out in the cold. Alone. Sleeping.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World UAE. As a female:
1- Not having to move out of my parents’ house unless I get married.

2- Obtaining a degree is a must, but working is a complete option. Also if I choose to work, I don’t have to share my income with my spouse.

3- I get the superiority in lines so I don’t have to stand in long lines with men. Which happens rarely anyway because women don’t run errands in here.

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It seems insane to me to put residential areas on 25 degree inclines but Clifton in Bristol sure does exist

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In San Francisco you have some residential hills that a parked car can flow downhill in a strong rain. They require people to park perpendicular to the curb to prevent this. x9gv224xzpc61.jpg x9gv224xzpc61.jpg

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Spending 3/4 of the year inside. Phoenix, AZ, where it's common to run your air conditioner on Christmas and New Years.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try Tucson! More moderate and Monsoon season is lovely.

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During hunting season, the real OGs would sell venison jerky for $5 a small ziplock on the school bus. My bus had 2-3 hunters any given year, some was more tender, some was seasoned better, some were just bigger bags. It was awesome and I bet they made bank.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OG mean here real gangsta or old school. I googled that and I now I'm not sure.

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Picking up roadkill for your table. Gotta temp it first, but if it's fresh or new and frozen, it's good.

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Dedicating a website to just tell you when a chicken sandwich is on sale. (They are btw)

Also: hurricane parties and school trips to parks with gators.

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Milk in bags

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In the next 16 days there will be two public holidays in my city.

Both of which are to recognise different sporting events.

One of those sporting events is taking place 2000 odd kms away.

The other is taking place in my city - though with very few attendees because of ‘Rona restrictions.

Gotta love Melbourne.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But in Oz, 2000 kms away is just down the street and around the corner.

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In the north of Portugal we have a very typical rice dish that's made with the chicken or pig's blood. It´s very delicious but I met people for other countries that call us vampires

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We in Germany turn blood into sausages, so who are we to judge? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Not a fan of that sausage though)

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Putting a chair in the road to reserve a parking spot. Not only do people do it, but people respect people who do it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my neighborhood, putting a chair in a parking spot is the recognized symbol for "Free Chair!"

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Every Last Tuesday of the year people make fire and literally blow up everything on the city streets. It's called "Charshanbe Soori"

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Saudi Arabia: Kids, as young as 10 years old, driving. The police don't really care much, and you see primary schoolers driving themselves and their siblings to school. Nope, most of them aren't orphans, their parents are just.... extremely free here.

Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death here unsurprisingly. I think it's a real shame that people are so careless.

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Paying $1,000,000 for a house that should cost $250,000 anywhere else

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Being in a hot room naked with bunch of strangers.

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Staying at your parents house until 40-50 yo, then they die and it becomes yours.
Also most people here chew food with their mouth open.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What country is this please, just so I know to avoid? I don't care about the cohabitation, just the mastication

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#49

Some people not wearing any footwear to observe a festival, for nine days, even if they go out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never seen this actually happen though. And I live in Mumbai. Maybe it's more of a village thing?

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Drinking slurpees in the dead of winter.

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Adults dating 15+ minors... It's honestly very concerning to see that the majority doesn't see the problem with that

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#52

Calling a water fountain a “bubbler”, calling an ATM a Time Machine, REAL tailgating, cheese on apple pie, and wearing foam cheese on your head.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So this sounds like Wisconsin, but from the first phrase I'd thought "oh hey, Wuhsta!" (Worcester, Massachusetts... we also call water fountains "bubblers." Or, um, "bubblahs.")

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#53

A royal house with no power, no authority, is an absolute money sink and only exists for status and nostalgia.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In fact, the Royal Family in UK cost less per year than our president and his suite in France

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#54

Only having a snow day if the buses can't physically get to school, or the temperature is -40° F or below without wind chill. (I'm from northern wisconsin)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, in the UK, as soon as it settles deep enough to sledge on, schools out! Let's find the biggest effing hill and throw ourselves down it in a bin bag!

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#55

People walking around barefoot. its way more common in beach suburbs, but even in suburbs 20km+ away from the beach you will see people (especially young people) walking around super markets and shopping centers with no shoes on. and not because they cant afford them. Australia.

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Paying for healthcare

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For those in countries that offer free healthcare, how is the actual care? Can you get in to see a doctor relatively soon or do you wait for months? How long do you wait in waiting rooms once you arrive? How is the quality of care? I'm honestly curious how it differs around the world.

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#57

In my hometown, it was totally normal to say and write on your car, "Go bust a nut!" during high school football season.
My high school's mascot was the acorn.

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#58

Kangaroos, koalas, a bunch of spiders, crocodiles, never snows. I’m in Australia.

Edit: rarely snows in WA which is where I live.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chicken parmagiana and pot of beer at the pub, meat pies at the football sausage sizzles at the hardware store and on election day at the polling booths.

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Cars that cost $30k USD can cost up to $80k USD here (Singapore)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a college town in the U.S. and was commenting on seeing Maseratis and the like around town and an international student told me kids who come here from Singapore and Hong Kong will get cars while they are here for school since they can't really have them at home and often go overboard on them

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#60

People carrying around m16s in the streets with out a second look

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#61

Living with your parents until your late 20s.

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#62

Going 155 miles per hour on a motorway legally.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Germany, on 1/3 of our Autobahn (the rest has speed limits)

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#63

$3k a month for rent in any 2/2 apartment being considered inexpensive.

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Taking well over a year to make a new government.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this Belgium? I remember that at the time of the 2008 global financial crash Belgium was without a working government for about eleven months...and its economy did better than any other EU state's.

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#65

Getting hammered at the picnic table out in front the mini-mart.

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#66

Drinking beer bottles while driving and left-hand lobbing them over the car to try to hit speed limit signs.

It’s called “sign tag”, my 60 year old aunt is the county champion

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nothing to be proud of... drinking and driving, littering with broken glass FFS

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