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The Asshole Subsidy. Extra money is taken from the people who are kind enough to worry about the waiter getting paid, effectively giving assholes who choose not to tip a discount.

The police kills more people every year than the amount of people killed in mass shootings since 1983. They also repeatedly ignore reports of people who go on to commit school shootings.

You should look into common sense pig control. I think that would save more lives than just being hysterical about AR-15s.

That was my first thought too.

Lots of countries have bagged milk

the upper-midwestern u.s. lost their bagged milk when kwiktrip quit selling it that way a few years back.

As a clarification, that last one is definitely NOT true about all places in the US, it very much depends on which area you live in. In NYC few people own a car even if they're quite well off. No one here drives to get their regular groceries.

I saw a college student walking with an umbrella in plain daylight.

My first thought was, "That's a bit dorky. Is this guy cosplaying a Victorian lady?"

My second thought was, "You know what, it's hot as hell outside. You do you, my guy."

when it's too sunny in UK

lol

Is that the British term for “it stopped raining for five seconds”?

That's also due to the still very widespread asian beauty ideal of white/pale skin.

We europeans used to idolize that too, if you look at old paintings and portraits the women have porcelain skin almost every time, because it meant you were of high enough status and wealth to not labor in the sun as the well tanned peasantry.

East and Southeast Asia in general. Umbrellas are not just for rain, but protection from the sun as well.

Seen it in the Caribbean, I expect it's plenty common in places where the sun is a deadly laser.

Ugh i hated that about Germany. When you ask for a water they bring you a seltzer. If you want water you have to specifically ask for "still water". Like what?! That's crazy nonsense. Water is one of the most basic elements of life as we know it, you can't make the word for water mean anything other than what it's always meant. I mean obviously you can, but it seems insanely dumb

Is it normal to feel dehydrated after drinking carbonated water? That's why I avoid it, personally, but I wonder if I'm just fucked up.

It's literally called "Danish water" here in Denmark, though I don't like it

You have 2 neighbors where it's basically a public good.

I saw a guy in a park in Milan at almost midnight filling up a few 5 liter bottles from the carbonated water station. He clearly lived across the street and just...needed to bathe in fizzy water right then? No idea. But it's not just you all.

How normal are we talking?

Like: "Happy New Year, dear. I cheated on you on Christmas with Sarah from Finance. How is your affair with Fyodor in Marketing going?"

"Oh, Fyodor is so last year. They fired him because he was too loyal to his husband. I went with Peter in Accounting. Here, he bought us cupcakes for our anniversary."

I remember something similar happening in the US recently...

Pavement princesses. The North American Man®'s gender affirming vehicle.

I lnow multiple dudes that work as box throwers in Walmart warehouses that drive $100k trucks, trucks that will never see any kind of work that's appropriate for their size. Might haul a few 2x4s from home depot every once in a while.

They want to own a home, but they're making massive payments on a huge truck instead. 🤙

put down knife after cutting your food, move fork to dominant hand

what the fuuck

almost everyone has air conditioning, so doors and windows stay closed in summer

When I moved to the PNW, it was a shock to me that most people did not have air conditioning, especially in apartments. My first apartment had none, and summer was pretty unbearable. I think it's climate change doing it's thing and maybe it wasn't needed before.

almost everyone has air conditioning, so doors and windows stay closed in summer

When you walk outside and are practically swimming in the humidity that ac is a godsend. My windows mostly stay closed so I don't drown/suffocate lol

And honestly that's what I love about Canada and why we are the best country in the world. We're a mosaic rather than a melting pot. Each culture that comes here contributes something to the Canadian Zeitgeist that gets disseminated to everyone else, like spicing up an otherwise boring W.A.S.P existence.

When my family moved here from Portugal, they managed an apartment building in order to have a place to live while my father worked construction and my mother was a housekeeper. (Yeah...yeah...I know...it doesn't get any more Portuguese than that)

Anyway, I was just a toddler and the family was immediately befriended by the older Ukrainian lady next door and we soon became a part of her extended family for everything from christmas to birthdays, etc. My first memories are of toddling down the hall in my pjamas first thing in the morning to "Auntie Anne's" apartment. She was more my grandmother than my biological grandmothers who lived in Portugal at the time.

Through them, we learned kaiser. My mother learned how to make peirogies, cabbage rolls, etc...

We are without a doubt the most Ukrainian Portuguese family to have ever existed and I love it.

Sorry...got nostalgic there for a moment. Auntie Anne passed away decades ago and I still think about her sometimes.

I had a prof in college from Canada, whose parents were German and Korean, and you could hear both accents at the same time. I never encountered such a thing. Also funny that he didn't have a single bit of Canadian accent.