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What seemed weird when I visited your country
Method of Madness:
Indiana doesn't have the UK's public transportation.
LTK:
--- Quote from: ev4n on 04 Nov 2013, 09:35 ---For the US, the biggest things for me were:
- race. subtle, but there, at least in the midwest and the south
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Um, I assume you mean racism?
--- Quote ---It's one of the things that always strikes me when Top Gear UK-
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Which is known as Top Gear to everyone else. :-P
snalin:
In the UK:
You can go to a pub to eat. Like, not just a bowl of nachos or whatever - food that you eat with utensils. Different from here where there's no places where it's common to both sit and only drink, and to eat a dinner.
I got cursed at for getting on my bike on the sidewalk even if it was just to ride it from there out into the street - "There's a fucking road out there!". Here you can pretty much ride them wherever.
God dammit those taps are horrendous.
Anywhere not Norway:
You can get beer in the store after 8 pm.
Cops carry pistols, batons, bulletproof vests, etc.
Cities. So. Big.
Metope:
Another thing about Top Gear (which I've never watched and know little about), is how in the states, people seem to think Jeremy Clarkson is funny and entertaining, while in the UK, everyone hates him for being a conservative, inconsiderate bigot. It probably doesn't come across well on Top Gear since many Americans I know who completely disagree with his views still think he's funny, but over here, Top Gear is just one of the things he's known for and he's a very outspoken, public figure in other ways.
Edit: Biking on the sidewalk is actually illegal in the UK, which is funny because in Norway it's sort of the norm.
cesium133:
It's the norm here, too. Ride your bike in the street and you'll get run over.
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