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What seemed weird when I visited your country
GarandMarine:
The lack of tipping culture outside the United States always kinda weirds me out, but by the goddess I wish we ('Murrica) would adopt it.
Japanese driving laws are insane. It's perfectly normal to basically stop in the middle of the road to unload a vehicle (not like there's parking on the side of the road most places). I mean it's great because there is 100% no reason to drive as a tourist unless you're heading out to the countryside so it's really not an issue but feth me it was weird.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 03 Nov 2013, 13:10 ---The lack of tipping culture outside the United States always kinda weirds me out, but by the goddess I wish we ('Murrica) would adopt it.
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That'd mean you'd have to start paying people decent wages. Which I can assume you'd be fine with.
Metope:
Yeah decent wages over tipping any day. The whole purpose of tips should be to give something extra to someone who did a great job doing whatever they're doing, it's not supposed to be a necessity they have to rely on in order to get by.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 03 Nov 2013, 13:10 ---The lack of tipping culture outside the United States always kinda weirds me out, but by the goddess I wish we ('Murrica) would adopt it.
Japanese driving laws are insane. It's perfectly normal to basically stop in the middle of the road to unload a vehicle (not like there's parking on the side of the road most places). I mean it's great because there is 100% no reason to drive as a tourist unless you're heading out to the countryside so it's really not an issue but feth me it was weird.
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Something I noticed about the roads in Brazil... there were few crosswalk lights, so generally to cross the street you had to wait for the right phase on the traffic lights. But it was common for drivers to ignore the traffic lights, and they apparently consider trying to kill pedestrians a favorite pastime. I almost got killed by an ancient Volkswagen Beetle crossing the street one time.
Lines:
Decent wages are a guarantee, decent tips are unreliable "charity". Fuck tips, they're stupid.
Also, Jimmy, basically you just need to go to a dairy bar/ice cream parlor. Yeah, we've got our frozen frappe thingies, but those are not real milkshakes and most restaurants do not actually sell them. Restaurants are too focused on cookies, pie, and cake as a dessert most of the time.
The only thing I noticed when visiting Canada was how nobody up there does the "left lane is the fast lane"/"left lane is for passing" thing. It drove me nuts. Going at or below the speed limit in the farthest lane from the merging lane seems so dumb. Also get out of my way slow people!
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