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What seemed weird when I visited your country
LookingIn:
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--- 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?
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They bus because there is a lack of public transporation outside of the metropolitan areas. Suburban and rural areas have little to no public transportation and to provide adequate education for students they have to either be dropped off directly by their parents or buses from their neighborhoods. Considering that the parents have to work, this is the best way to ensure they get to school safely.
Outside of the school year and after school hours they are used by the cities/towns/counties for public needs like bringing people to public gatherings, concerts, meetings etc.
Emperor Norton:
Seriously, the area where I grew up (which is particularly rural), it took 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon for the buses to make all the different rounds and get people dropped off picked up for school.
And the buses are generally old and being worked on half the time. They just didn't have ENOUGH to do anything other than pick up school kids.
Is it cold in here?:
A Marine Corps uniform means a lot in the South. I know someone who asked for directions in a swamp. The person he asked pointed at the uniform in the back of the car and said "Is that yours?". Said person then personally led the Marine through dozens of mysterious twists and turns to get him where he was going.
It's not completely bizarre to think of the South as being a country of its own. I've known some experienced travelers who said they got the same feeling crossing the Mason-Dixon line as they did when crossing a national border.
J:
--- Quote from: Akima on 05 Nov 2013, 21:18 ---
--- 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...
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hey now, a nice cup of spiced chai is one of the great joys in life. you want odd, try your tea with salt & yak butter.
Barmymoo:
--- Quote from: LookingIn on 05 Nov 2013, 18:04 ---
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 05 Nov 2013, 13:52 ---Ugh no, peanut butter shouldn't contain ANYTHING except peanuts (and possibly salt, if you really want it - but I do not).
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You need to add a little oil to allow the ground peanuts to blend together better, either a nuetral flavored oil or peanut oil.
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But peanut oil is made of peanuts! So it still doesn't contain anything other than peanuts.
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