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What seemed weird when I visited your country
GarandMarine:
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--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 08 Nov 2013, 19:03 ---Without chocolate, the correct term would be "oatmeal blondie."
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And now I have 'Heart of Glass' stuck in my head.
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I'll see your Heart of Glass and raise you a Castle of Glass
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNNfyq3d_w
ankhtahr:
I'd raise you a "Dirty Glass", but I can't find a unblocked video on my mobile internet connection.
Edit:
Nevermind. Found it:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CG-92Rz2os
GarandMarine:
That song always makes me giggle, my ex-fiancee's name is Darcy.
bhtooefr:
I really need to get some international travel in, but I can at least comment on things I find weird about my own country, right?
One issue with the whole sales tax thing is how sales tax is handled. It's not just different counties having different rates, but also different uses of things having different rates.
Some states tax food differently on whether it's hot or cold (hot being prepared, cold being unprepared). Some states tax food differently on whether it's to be consumed on premises or off (Ohio is that way). Some states tax clothing differently on a few different factors. And, then you get into sales tax exemptions for various businesses (kinda like how VAT is passed onto the consumer, but because of how sales tax is collected, you instead get a sales tax exemption at point of sale).
Mind you, I'm opposed to sales tax as a method of collecting the funds for the operation of a government (sin taxes to discourage harmful behavior and compensate for the damage that that behavior causes are fine, though). It's rather regressive, really. But, this is Chatter, not Discuss, so I digress.
One thing I find weird, although it's very much regional... the casual Christianity. The more rural the area, the more you're expected to be Christian (and by that I mean a specific American-centric definition of it), and patterns of speech even center around that faith.
Method of Madness:
So glad I live in the godless* northeast.
*Just an expression, of course. We've got plenty of gods up here!
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