People Shared 41 Things About Europe That Americans Could Find Extremely Weird

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

I post on a closed page on FB. Today, I posted a picture of a beautiful woman, who was obviously naked, but you couldn't see anything; it was a photo taken from the side, just bare skin, no nipples, no "full frontal", or anything, just a beautiful woman. I also post pictures of men (for the ladies on the page), you can show their nipples. FB flagged me for posting "porn", for the woman, but said absolutely nothing about the bare-chested man I posted. I think that amounts to double standards.

Yup, a relic of the many shiploads of over-marinated religious sects who were kicked out of Europe and moved to North America. We are still fighting against the same kind of people, who believe what they are told to believe, but now by sources that are controlled by the 1%: A guy named Lee Atwater realized that the easiest people to convince to believe things that have no proof are people who are already accustomed to believing things with no proof. Simply by telling them that Republican candidates will make the government a Christian nation, they just vote like they are told. When they noticed that their lives were considerably worse off than before, they were told it's the Democrats' fault and they believed it (Don't get me wrong, the Democratic party aren't innocent people either). Lee Atwater later admitted feeling guilty, because his idea worked far better than he expected. There is a documentary about him: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Man:_The_Lee_Atwater_Story]

We aren't fully over our puritan roots.

I remember watching a show from the US about maximum security prisons: they interviewed an inmate about his experience at the facility. This guy described, in intricate and gruesome detail how he brutally murdered his cell mate and mutilated the corpse, including cannibalism. But they drew the line when he said the f word, and censored that. Hilarious

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

If enough people are being convicted of felonies that their votes will sway the election, that's indicative of a larger problem.

Why do you have to be registered in order to vote? Isn't your birth date registered somewhere? And if you move, don't you have to notify the city council where you move to that you are now living in their area? So sending you your voting papers is just a matter of combining the two systems. Having to register in order to vote is just a means to discourage people not to vote and not voting is always to the advantage of the have's and not to the have-not's.

“Even if convicted if a crime”. We currently have running for president a man who cannot, in the US, vote because he is a convicted felon.

Having to provide an ID to vote in the US is asking the minimum in my opinion.... you have to provide an ID to buy alcohol or get on a plane or buying a house or getting medical care or buying a pew pew or getting a fishing license or to pick up medicine or get a marriage license .... I could go on and on... but proving your a citizen of the country you live in seems reasonable.

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The US really is a child compared to Europe.

The U.S. hardly has any buildings that old, because the country is relatively young. The ones we do have are preserved now, though we did lose many along the way.

to be fair the US isn't even actually 300 years old yet.

Why would you build something new if the building that's there is perfectly okay and goodlooking? Just because something is old you don't need to replace it. That's just consumerism.

Considering the US isn't even 300 years old yet it would be difficult to use buildings that are that old. European settlers have been here longer but 99% their structures would be completely unusable today.

tipping culture is crazy here in the us 😭

Correction, we do tip. Or, a lot of us do. But we don't have to do it to stop feeling guilty because we know the staff is underpaid. We do it because we feel generous, because we feel respected and well served by an enthusiastic staff, whom we know does not get paid top-wages.

My cat Attila used the litter box yesterday and once finished, she stood there with her paw out until I gave her $5.00.

I'm British and will tip if I've had genuinely good service. However I've just been on a trip to Australia and I tipped quite often there as everyone was fantastic and every single person that I tipped was incredibly surprised that they received a tip, it wasn't expected.

Japanese here! I've never understood tipping

Depends where you live

Majority of US just isn't walkable. Call us lazy if you want, but if your commute to work is 30 minutes by car, imagine what it is on foot. And that isn't even considered a long commute. Given our weather, it just isn't feasible for a lot.

ANother one that depends a great deal on the region.

You'd be surprised how walkable many of the big cities in the U.S. are. It's the sprawling suburbs, that begin to spread in the 60's, that aren't walkable.

Thank goodness I live in beautiful Chicago where its very walkable. I cant imagine living in LA or Houston.

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.

Oh, dear god, that would not fly here. We have too many creeps.

I think it was great before the invention of smartphones. With smartphones and hidden cameras you can't let your kids running around naked or sunbathing topless.

On holiday if you see naked kids at the beach most usually assume they're German

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.

In the US laws regarding alcohol sales and use are determined by each of the 50 individual states, so no one statement like OP made will be accurate.

I'd sit in a park drinking champagne and showing a little nipple 😁

In Scotland it's decided by your local council. You can't drink in the street in Glasgow but you can in Edinburgh. It's because of football related violence mostly.

I remember being in Salzburg and asking the women at the newstand near the train station if I could open the can of beer I just purchased and drink it while I walked. She said, "of course", and looked at me like I was an idiot...

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