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What seemed weird when I visited your country
indiespy:
When visited Cuba I was pleasantly surprised by their tobacco culture. Here in America smokers are kinda treated poorly by businesses. In Cuba though it's so laid back. I went out to eat in Havana and was almost too nervous to smoke in the place. That is until a really nice old man extended a lit match to my cigar.
Barmymoo:
--- Quote from: Mlle Germain on 05 Nov 2013, 13:09 ---After all this talk about it I really want to eat a peanut butter sandwich.
I think one should say here that classic American peanut butter is awesome. I have tried a variety with less fat and sugar, but that wasn't the real thing.
--- End quote ---
Ugh no, peanut butter shouldn't contain ANYTHING except peanuts (and possibly salt, if you really want it - but I do not).
Akima:
In Japan:
Construction-workers wearing jika-tabi boots.
Insanely complicated electronic toilets with no instructions provided.
Tiny wooden houses sandwiched between skyscrapers in central Tokyo.
An American trying to order a glass of milk in a salaryman bar after work. Which leads me to...
In the USA:
School buses.
Guns and ammunition sold at Walmart. Next to the shoe department.
A public building called the Space Needle. Which sounds drug-related. And isn't shaped like a needle.
Houston guys in business-suits wearing stetsons and cowboy boots and those leather-thong-tie-fastened-with-a-brooch things.
Gambling-machines built into the tables and bar-tops in a Las Vegas micro-brew pub. Actually, pretty much everything in Las Vegas.
Toilets that well up threateningly when you flush them, and whirl your poop around (to give you a chance to inspect it?) before sucking it noisily away.
Many of the people I saw while cycling up The Strand from Redondo Beach to Santa Monica.
Art-Deco angels(?) at the Hoover Dam. Am I the only one who finds Art-Deco things creepy?
In Canada:
Government monopoly liquor-stores.
GarandMarine:
Next to the shoes? Disastrous, everyone knows the guns should be kept in sporting goods!
I saw forgeiners (well, other forgeiners) in Japan ordering silly things at bars too. The Sararīman liked my brother and I because we drank Japanese beer about as aggresively as they did... I miss Asahi.
Las Vegas is weird no matter where you're from.
The Strand too.
Also the leather thong tie doohickey is called a bolo tie, I have no idea why they're worn.
Jimmy the Squid:
Because cowboys.
Actually yeah, American toilets freak me out. Why do you need that much water? The answer is you don't. Unless I guess it's really important for pets to be able to drink it if they need it.
So far the weirdest thing for me about Austria is, and it's been mentioned before about Europe in general, is that people in shops just seem to fucking hate you. I've worked in retail in Australia on and off for about 5 years. You get in trouble if you don't greet the customer when they come in, you don't have to make small talk but you can only leave them alone for a few minutes before having to get involved. Now admittedly I think that's too much, I hate shop people who won't leave me alone but most people find a good balance. Every shop I've been in here the staff just don't look at you even while taking your money. It's weird and unnerving and I have to make an effort to remember that I haven't done these people some great wrong so I don't feel bad.
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