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What seemed weird when I visited your country
mustang6172:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 05 Nov 2013, 11:03 ---When I went to Brazil, I found out that I was not supposed to flush toilet paper. Turns out that the sewer system in the city I was in can't handle toilet paper and if you try to flush it the toilet will back up. Luckily I was told in advance by one of the guys from the lab who had been there before. He found out the hard way.
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I hesitate to ask, but how are you supposed to dispose of toilet paper if not by flushing?
GarandMarine:
Shit they might not even invite you in but just deliver it to you. I was walking around Montgomery, Alabama with a couple of my Marine Corps buddies (we were stationed just over the state line in Pensacola, Florida. Some good ol'boys in a rusty old pick up truck pull up and look us over, we figure they're about to start shit because we're a mixed race company and they are white rednecks, but they look us over. "Y'all Army?" "Fuck no, we're Marines." "Fuckin' A. You boys gonna be walking along this road a bit longer?" "....Yeah?" "Good, we'll be back in a bit, punch it Bubba!" and off they drove. We were very confused and paranoid they were about to bring out the local klan or some shit (We were all West Coast and Far West types with little experience in The South) they come back about 15 minutes later with a couple thirty racks and a bottle of whiskey "I'da brought y'all some chicken and shine from up at the house, but I figure you wouldn't want to get busted with the shine, and I dunno if ma ol'lady made enough chicken for a dozen hearty fellers like y'all, so un's'll jess haf to settle for beer" We shook hands with him and Bubba, they revealed they had family in the Corps for 'Nam, and off they went into the sunset as we hoofed it back to the hotel room we were crashing in, 1/3 of our saturday night beer run comped via Southern Hospitality.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 05 Nov 2013, 20:42 ---
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 05 Nov 2013, 11:03 ---When I went to Brazil, I found out that I was not supposed to flush toilet paper. Turns out that the sewer system in the city I was in can't handle toilet paper and if you try to flush it the toilet will back up. Luckily I was told in advance by one of the guys from the lab who had been there before. He found out the hard way.
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I hesitate to ask, but how are you supposed to dispose of toilet paper if not by flushing?
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There was a little wastebasket next to the toilet, and you were supposed to fold up the paper (so the, ahem, material is on the inside), and put it in the wastebasket. In the bathroom in the physics department they even had a sign with instructions that said (in Portuguese) not to flush the toilet paper but to put it in the wastebasket and "do not forget to fold it well". I'm guessing with the number of foreigners that visited, they probably had problems with that in the past. :psyduck:
Akima:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Nov 2013, 19:59 ---What is weird about school buses?
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In Australia (with the exception of a few private schools that are located away from public transport) we don't have school buses at all. Many kids take the bus (or train or ferry) to school, but they just ride the normal public transport along with other passengers, at subsidised fares under the School Student Transport Scheme. Why buy fleets of buses, and then only use them for school-kids, rather than public transport?
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 05 Nov 2013, 18:45 ---Not outside of the country, but still a culture shock during traveling, going North and not being able to get sweet iced tea makes me sad.
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I enjoyed the iced tea in Texas (and it is way better than the Coca Cola etc. usually offered as an alternative), but sweetening any kind of tea ruins it. We will not speak of those barbarians who add milk...
Method of Madness:
Agreed. I have the same attitude towards coffee.
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