This is what too much censoring gets you BP. Those are moles, not nipples. You'd know if you ever looked at one. /J

This is somehting that Americans look on with envy not with horror. This is how it should be here.

The US really is a child compared to Europe.

tipping culture is crazy here in the us 😭

Depends where you live

The German Foreign Ministry is likely advising in an abundance of caution. As a generalized summary, photographing naked children in the US is legal or not based on intended purpose. As you'd guess, the line is whether it is intended to arouse or be child porn. Between the obvious ends of the spectrum can be a big gray zone. If something just isn't on your camera then you don't have to convince some authority person the intent was innocent. Basically it's laws that had good intent but have sometimes been abused. Seeing toddlers naked isn't that rare. Saw this summer. Not swimming pools though. Usually swim diapers required in case they poop.

Be careful. It differs from city to city. In Amsterdam you will get a warning if you're polite, a fine if you're not.

nope this happens in US too. There are regional variances though

It stings how much this hits close to home for us Americans. I'm a veteran, so my Healthcare is free, crappy because it's the VA, but free. I got commercial insurance once, good insurance too, my blood thinners cost $244 a month. That's insane for a pill that I absolutely have to take to stay alive. Went crawling back to the VA, lol

But this is a US thing? That horrifies any humane person?

Here in the UK, during our four days of sunshine per year, we would love AC, but for the rest of the year it wouldn’t be needed so would be a waste of money to instal it

This also depends on where you are in the US.. the big cities that got established before cars were ubiquitous are still pretty walkable. In NYC I never bothered to own a car and most days I never needed the train. New Orleans, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago.. a few other places that at least have city center that you can do this too.

Most European Police forces are routinely armed, and a reasonably large proportion of UK Police are - they just aren't armed automatically. Certainly Police at transit terminals or other high-value locations are likely to be armed, in any European country.

FUN FACT, at least until the early 70s, they could not show a woman in a bra on TV. Lived near the Canadian border in the days of broadcast TV. Only got a few channels and about half of them were from BC Canada. The Playtex "cross your heart" bra commercial was on several stations. You could tell whose country you were watching because the Canada ads had a woman modeling the bra and on the US channel the fully clothed woman was pointing to the bra on a mannequin. LOL (And yet we had bikinis and Marianne and Ginger could wear skimpy swimsuits on Gilligan's Island. Mixed signals. )

But they will be blunt more quietly.

Yeah, nah. "European vehicles are on average very very small "? European cars used to be a sensible size on average, but have grown ridiculously huge in recent years. Compare a modern "Mini" with a proper Austin Mini from the 1960s-80s, or any of those old small Citroens (2CV, Dyane, Ami) with almost anything on the roads these days. Or an original Fiat 500 with what passes for a Fiat 500 these says. And that's before I get on to those ridiculous "SUV" things. They're daftly huge here in the UK, while American SUV and pickup trucks are bigger than WWII tanks. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/american-trucks-suvs-almost-bigger-world-war-ii-tanks/

I let mine play outside all the time… they are 24 and 27 though

Eh, that may change in some countries here in Europe in the future - knives, axes and other blades became quite a problem in the last 10 years

It's not really widespreak in Europe.

Yes, but they have to be unwashed (bloom must stay intact) and not refrigerated at any time. They're good for a few weeks on the counter.

Mmmm, fries and mayo ❤️

Yes, because we teach people to drive, we don't just show them the car and wish them luck. Many countries include all sorts of weather conditions, vehicle maintenance, first aid training and other useful skills as part of the driving test.

Probably would not cause public outrage, but would make some corporate overloards angry

When I was a partner in an accounting firm in NYC in the late Eighties, we went to lunch together, and a drink was the norm. That changed over time. I don't know what the norm is now, as I only had experience at the one place.

It's common in Nordic countries, but not at all common in most other European countries, and would probably get you in trouble in many of those too.

Yeah, US wins that round.

$3.64 in Washington State today.

No car[s] when those cities were built..

But it uses exactly as much coffee as an American cup.

Lots of people in the US do not own cars, have u seen how much cars cost!!! All kidding aside there are lots and lots of areas in the states that u don't need a car, in fact I think there is a very large percentage of NYC residents who have never even had a license. Grew up in SF, summers in NYC I do not miss factoring in time to find parking to go to a movie or paying 10 bucks to park for an hour (in mid 1980s).

Blackout drunk being the norm is not a flex. Not calling it alcoholism is denial.

But you have to add the citizenship benefits, such as healthcare and a someone liveable pension. *somewhat

I prefer the Aussie term, budgie smugglers.

Really depends on which part of Europe though, in the Netherlands for instance this is completely uncommon.

I only know this from the UK, which other countries do this too? Here in the Netherlands, people would either ask you if you're British or if you're crazy.

That is not different. I think a run of stories about overprotective priviledged parents gave the world in inaccurate idea that we are all paranoid helicopter parents.

I've seen this twice here, but actually this is pretty rare. Almost all toilets, at least in the UK, are free. I can't remember when I last had to pay.

I am soooooo happy I live in a country where you can just throw it in the toilet itself. I've had to throw it in the trash can during some holidays, and I absolutely couldn't stand that, horrible. I get why it's necessary in some places, but I feel so grateful that we have bigger plumbing pipes here and don't need to do that.

Mostly still the norm in the US, but the damage to native bird populations prompted a trend towards keeping cats entirely indoors

Idk how anyone can do something like this 😢

I am not leaving the table multiple times in a meal to blow my nose, and if you think blowing it is a problem then feel free to listen to me sniff. And where the heck else do you keep a tissue? Do you ball it up on the table?

Miss Manners states that it is acceptable to blow your nose at the table as long as it's done quietly and discreetly. Which is why I never do so, because I'm a noisy nose blower.

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Stay home if your nose keeps running.