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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #250 on: 06 Jan 2014, 08:42 »

That's interesting, because in Norway those are still the rules. No one follows them, but you're supposed to say 'Merry Christmas' on Christmas Eve, only after 5PM. It doesn't really happen though since mass is usually before that, but Christmas Eve is Christmas in Norway.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #251 on: 06 Jan 2014, 09:40 »

Over here people start saying it around Thanksgiving.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #252 on: 06 Jan 2014, 10:01 »

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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #253 on: 06 Jan 2014, 11:13 »

Considering that sundown in Norway in December is about 2pm, I think maybe people ARE following those rules, Metope!
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #254 on: 06 Jan 2014, 16:30 »

We also say "merry christmas" when we say goodbye to someone we won't see again until christmas is over, and when we meet someone in the week after christmas that we haven't seen for a while. It's used as a "have a nice christmas!" and a "I hope you had a nice christmas!", not just a "Hello, it's christmas right now".
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #255 on: 06 Jan 2014, 16:59 »

Here in Germany "Christmas" begins on Christmas Eve. Children get their presents on christmas eve. Christmas Eve is basically the "main event" over here. But only the evening. Christmas Eve is considered a "half public holiday", so stores close around 2pm, and you don't have to work into the evening. Same goes for New Years Eve (called Silvester over here).
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #256 on: 06 Jan 2014, 17:00 »

I never even considered that "Eve" meant "evening of" and not "the evening before". Makes me think of Judaism (the day goes from sundown to sundown)
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #257 on: 06 Jan 2014, 23:19 »

Exactly - it's the same thing.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #258 on: 07 Jan 2014, 13:11 »

Sounds like Norway is exactly like Germany in that regard. It's funny, because the two following days (called First Christmas Day and Second Christmas Day) are complete public holidays while Christmas Eve is only a public holiday after noon. In my family, Christmas Eve is the main event and it's also for the immediate family, while the following two days are for extended family dinners. This arrangement is normal for the families of most of my friends too, but I don't know if it's representational for the whole country.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #259 on: 08 Jan 2014, 18:28 »

It's like that everywhere I've been, and for my entire extended family, so I'm pretty sure it's representional.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #260 on: 31 Jan 2014, 07:19 »

Common Oddness
- the moon is upside-down pretty much everywhere,
- no beetroot on hamburgers.

Netherlands - Karnemelk (buttermilk) in coffee. Boterhams - open sandwich,  buttered slice of bread sprinkled with schokolade hagelpuur (chocolate sprinkles) and eaten with knife and fork.

Ohio - 28 religious channels on TV.

New Orleans - booze cheaper than milk (and milk's cheap).

Germany - Homeopathy treated seriously
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #261 on: 31 Jan 2014, 07:44 »

Ohio - 28 religious channels on TV.

Although that is almost certainly cable.

But one of the four channels I could reliably pick up over the air growing up was religious.
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« Reply #262 on: 31 Jan 2014, 08:04 »

Netherlands - Karnemelk (buttermilk) in coffee.
Karnemelk? In coffee?? Who? Where?

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Boterhams - open sandwich,  buttered slice of bread sprinkled with schokolade hagelpuur (chocolate sprinkles)...
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...and eaten with knife and fork.
Wait, what? Who eats their sandwiches with knife and fork? And how? Don't all the sprinkles fall off? I wanna know where you've been since it's clearly not where I'm from.

By the way, the words you used mean chocolate sprinkles, dark. (Chocoladehagel, puur.) Which is what the box would say for dark chocolate sprinkles.. Also, there's no s in chocolade.

A weird thing in Sweden is that most supermarkets have a confectionery section. As in, bins filled with all sorts of candy, chocolates, nuts, and combinations thereof, that you scoop into bags and pay by the gram. In the Netherlands you only ever see those in candy shops and drug stores. As in, the shop that sells over-the-counter drugs as well as beauty products, make-up, bathroom products and... candy. Actually, now that I think about it, we're the weird ones for putting candy in drug stores!

Also, they don't have chocolate sprinkles in Sweden. :(
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #263 on: 31 Jan 2014, 08:06 »

That sounds like Woolworths (RIP) - the Pic&Mix stand was the best part!
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #264 on: 31 Jan 2014, 08:06 »

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At least one person I know goes to doctors who also practice "alternative medicine" as they call it not because they take it seriously, but because physicians' attitude sometimes is "oh, you have pain? take those pain pills and go away", while the "alternative" ones will try to find out what is up.
Also, insurance doesn't cover these things.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #265 on: 31 Jan 2014, 10:20 »

Isn't that a bit like trusting my kids to maintain your nuclear reactors, because after all, they're pretty interested in what goes on inside?
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #266 on: 31 Jan 2014, 10:55 »

Perhaps, but then 'take these pain pills and leave' could also be likened to 'turn off the warning siren - no more problem'. Okay if the problem is a broken siren, but no good if the core is getting too hot.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #267 on: 31 Jan 2014, 12:31 »

To clarify, I meant it the way Pilchard explained.
The way I understood it, my friend in question preferably visits doctors who specialize in both, and has them give out the traditional medicine, except the friend receives more care.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #268 on: 01 Feb 2014, 13:00 »

I just found out why the peanut butter they sell here in Sweden tastes just slightly off: They put sugar in it, the barbarians!
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #269 on: 01 Feb 2014, 13:04 »

They do the same thing in Brazil. Peanut butter shouldn't have sugar in it.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #270 on: 01 Feb 2014, 13:07 »

You think that'd be relatively simple.

"So peanut butter, what do we put in it?"
"....peanuts sounds like it might be a vital ingredient"
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #271 on: 01 Feb 2014, 14:23 »

They do in the states, too, but you can get "natural" PB with just peanuts and maybe salt.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #272 on: 01 Feb 2014, 14:38 »

*looks at ingredient label on peanut butter jar*

So it does. Less than what the peanut butter I had in Brazil had (that stuff was noticeably sweet), but it does.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #273 on: 01 Feb 2014, 14:50 »

They do in the states, too, but you can get "natural" PB with just peanuts and maybe salt.

I ended up getting just that; it was an expensive brand of organic peanut butter made of 99.3% peanuts, 0.7% salt. Now I just hope it tastes good.

The best peanut butter I know of is made with 85% peanuts, and 15% mixed vegetable oil/fat. The proportion isn't revealed but the majority is oil. Plus a pinch of salt. The addition of solid fat keeps it from shifting; the jar of natural PB I bought here already has a thin layer of oil floating on top of it.

Americans can get the superior PB here.
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« Reply #274 on: 02 Feb 2014, 04:19 »

Netherlands - Karnemelk (buttermilk) in coffee.
Karnemelk? In coffee?? Who? Where?
Hengelo, Overijssel, in 1986 when I was working at HSA (Hollandse Signaal Apparaten)

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...and eaten with knife and fork.
Wait, what? Who eats their sandwiches with knife and fork? And how? Don't all the sprinkles fall off? I wanna know where you've been since it's clearly not where I'm from.
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By the way, the words you used mean chocolate sprinkles, dark. (Chocoladehagel, puur.) Which is what the box would say for dark chocolate sprinkles.. Also, there's no s in chocolade.
My Nederlands is rusty - I learnt German (Hochdeutsch) in school, then Twents in Hengelo, then to Bremen and back to an unholy mixture of Hannoverana, Plattdeutsch and Ostfriesisch... there are some serious dielect differences over just a hundred kilometers.

When I speak Deutsch, it's very formal, almost stilted schoolgirl Hochdeutsch, Hannoverana. Probably because I was born in Berkshire, UK, the heimat of the Mountbatten-Windsors. The local dielect was influenced by, and in turn influenced, Court German.
When I attempt to speak Nederlands, it's often mistaken for Vlaams due to the English background (hence some latinisation). When I try Platt, I mix Nederlands constructions in, as the Twents dielect of Nederlands is heavily influenced by Platt. Then again, my Francais sounds like Wallonaise from the English and Dutch in it.

So I might say "Een, Twee, Drei.. er, Dree" DOH. Having a superfluous 's' in is about standard. Schokolade, Chocolate, Chocolat, Chocolade... Dank U well, Danke Schoen, Thank you... Gesundheit, Gezondheid, Sundhed... oh wait, that's Dansk I think. Soundness (Health)

Another Dutch oddity : Kijkhuis. Nothing to do with Cakehouse.

Speaking of things comestible...

Rijstafel - ah, just like home! What the Germans do to Szechuan is a culinary atrocity, and their Nasi Goreng is unspeakable. I will pass over what they label "Curry" as something Man Was Not Meant To Know. As bad as Albert Heijn Huiswijn.

It took me ages to realise that "peanut butter and jelly" means "peanut butter and jam". Not jelly - what in the US would be Jello.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #275 on: 02 Feb 2014, 06:02 »

Hengelo, Overijssel, in 1986 when I was working at HSA (Hollandse Signaal Apparaten)
Ah, de Achterhoek. Yes, I imagine they do a few things differently over there.

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My Nederlands is rusty - I learnt German (Hochdeutsch) in school, then Twents in Hengelo, then to Bremen and back to an unholy mixture of Hannoverana, Plattdeutsch and Ostfriesisch... there are some serious dielect differences over just a hundred kilometers.

When I speak Deutsch, it's very formal, almost stilted schoolgirl Hochdeutsch, Hannoverana. Probably because I was born in Berkshire, UK, the heimat of the Mountbatten-Windsors. The local dielect was influenced by, and in turn influenced, Court German.
When I attempt to speak Nederlands, it's often mistaken for Vlaams due to the English background (hence some latinisation). When I try Platt, I mix Nederlands constructions in, as the Twents dielect of Nederlands is heavily influenced by Platt. Then again, my Francais sounds like Wallonaise from the English and Dutch in it.

So I might say "Een, Twee, Drei.. er, Dree" DOH. Having a superfluous 's' in is about standard. Schokolade, Chocolate, Chocolat, Chocolade... Dank U well, Danke Schoen, Thank you... Gesundheit, Gezondheid, Sundhed... oh wait, that's Dansk I think. Soundness (Health)
Wow, yeah, I can't imagine what kind of weird mishmash of accents that would produce. I can tell a German accent in Dutch from a Flemish one but I'm not sure about Twents. Also, the Dutch 'chocolade' is an oddity of pronunciation since 'ch' is pronounced roughly the same as in German and English, whereas other words containing 'ch' are pronounced like a hard 'g' as in 'gezond'. Like schoon (of which scone is derived), chloor and acht.

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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #276 on: 02 Feb 2014, 08:46 »

It took me ages to realise that "peanut butter and jelly" means "peanut butter and jam". Not jelly - what in the US would be Jello.
There's a difference between jelly and jam here, but I still don't know what it is.
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« Reply #277 on: 02 Feb 2014, 09:09 »

It took me ages to realise that "peanut butter and jelly" means "peanut butter and jam". Not jelly - what in the US would be Jello.
There's a difference between jelly and jam here, but I still don't know what it is.
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« Reply #278 on: 02 Feb 2014, 09:15 »

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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #279 on: 02 Feb 2014, 09:45 »

It took me ages to realise that "peanut butter and jelly" means "peanut butter and jam". Not jelly - what in the US would be Jello.
There's a difference between jelly and jam here, but I still don't know what it is.

Jelly is only made with the fruit's juice, jam with the pulp or crushed fruit, and preserves with fruit chunks. Same sugar and pectin added in all three, just the size of the fruit changes.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #280 on: 02 Feb 2014, 09:59 »

Interesting. Thanks.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #281 on: 02 Feb 2014, 13:17 »

We talked about this fairly recently (and you told us your printer didn't jelly).
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« Reply #282 on: 02 Feb 2014, 14:26 »

Honestly, September feels like a lifetime ago.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #283 on: 02 Feb 2014, 14:27 »

It took me ages to realise that "peanut butter and jelly" means "peanut butter and jam". Not jelly - what in the US would be Jello.
There's a difference between jelly and jam here, but I still don't know what it is.

Jelly is only made with the fruit's juice, jam with the pulp or crushed fruit, and preserves with fruit chunks. Same sugar and pectin added in all three, just the size of the fruit changes.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #284 on: 03 Feb 2014, 01:06 »

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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #285 on: 03 Feb 2014, 05:58 »

Hengelo, Overijssel, in 1986 when I was working at HSA (Hollandse Signaal Apparaten)

I spent 12 years working on a joint project with Signaal (not Thales) at Hengelo.  Never got to go visit, though, for which I was very sad.

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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #286 on: 03 Feb 2014, 09:50 »

De achterhoek should not be taken as representing the totality of this country.

It's a 'flowers in the attic' kind of situation.
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« Reply #287 on: 03 Feb 2014, 16:46 »

I never visited the US or anything, but OH MY GOD HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO OBSESS THAT MUCH ABOUT SUPER BOWL?!

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« Reply #288 on: 03 Feb 2014, 16:47 »

Think of it as a localized and condensed version of the World Cup.
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« Reply #289 on: 03 Feb 2014, 16:54 »

As someone who doesn't give a damn about spectator sports, it seems more like "...of the Olympics".

Depending on where you are it might also be "...of the Hunger Games".
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #290 on: 03 Feb 2014, 17:00 »

Well the World Cup is one sport (and they're both types of football).
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« Reply #291 on: 03 Feb 2014, 17:07 »

I never visited the US or anything, but OH MY GOD HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO OBSESS THAT MUCH ABOUT SUPER BOWL?!

There are nations who have fought wars, murdered people,  trampled, crushed, and killed hundreds in riots in stadiums- all over football matches. The US reactions are tame compared with the South American and European football fanatics  :roll:
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« Reply #292 on: 03 Feb 2014, 17:08 »

Yeah, but it's a different type of football.
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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #294 on: 03 Feb 2014, 17:48 »

An association football tournament run by FIFA, played every four years with teams from all around the world.
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« Reply #295 on: 03 Feb 2014, 18:29 »

The Super Bowl is exactly that - the World Cup Final equivalent of American Football.
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« Reply #296 on: 03 Feb 2014, 22:13 »

Yeah, but it's a different type of football.

My mistake for trying to insert some reality into that bashing. Please, continue on. US bad, Americans bad. Boo USA  :roll:
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« Reply #297 on: 03 Feb 2014, 22:15 »

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Re: What seemed weird when I visited your country
« Reply #298 on: 03 Feb 2014, 23:42 »

How is it a World Cup if only American teams are in it?

Oh yeah, FIFA. Now I know what you mean. But there's never any real fuzz being made around the World Cup. Not in the scale of super bowl, that is.

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« Reply #299 on: 04 Feb 2014, 03:57 »

Ummmm yes, there is. I am so glad it's only every 4 years, because it's EVERYWHERE and I hate it.
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