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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People in the UK drink so much tea (or coffee these days), that breaks in soap operas (such as Eastenders) cause the national grid to be on high alert, due to the incredulous surge of power from so many kettles being turned on at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

That's incredible actually

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • Not being able to afford healthcare and insurance.
  • Half of the population worshipping a felonious, racist, homophobic sexist as if he’s a deity.
  • K.C. Barbecue.
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

None of these are unique by any means (i wish the second was but fascism is rising globally).

The styles of it tho, I'll give you that.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

school shootings (being common)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Losing a war with flightless birds.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Churches the size of castles full of people preaching humility.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Christ I hope there isn’t

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well there's this place...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Not just humility but literally poverty as a virtue too

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Going to the forest to pick mushrooms, nuts and berries. Going to the beach to pick up washed out amber. Having a lot of people grow their own food, even the city folk.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Being atheistic as the norm. Sky daddies don't hold much power here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Found a Czech. That makes about 7 of us. We should start a community!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Our "solution" to gun deaths is to add more guns.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  • Car insurance is optional
  • Kids get govt subsidised dental care until they’re 18
  • Most common prescriptions are $5 or free
  • We did away with pennies because they’re pointless
  • It’s common to go barefoot into shops and grocery stores
  • Most kids in elementary school go barefoot
  • Semi automatic weapons banned
  • Kids get 20 hours govt subsidised daycare per week
  • When you sell your car the license plate typically goes with it
  • Most gas stations serve hot food and it’s good (by American standards)
  • Online banking allows instant direct cross-bank money transfer, so nobody uses Paypal or Venmo
  • Nobody pays by check, nobody carries around a checkbook
  • It’s not unusual for public parks to have exercise equipment
  • For short domestic flights, time between entering the airport and boarding the plane can be as short as 60 seconds
  • The milky way is still visible in good sized towns
  • Praying mantises are still common
  • Money (bills and coins) feature women, nature, and explorers not war generals, bankers, and buildings.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I’m guessing New Zealand.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Proper Poutine

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We start our spicy food tolerance early, our candy is spicy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You are save to eat raw meat. I Love Mettbröttchen with Zwiebel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

German sushi

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Almost as many saunas as cars. One sauna for every ~1.7 people.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Okay not my country of residence, but you can choose to burn at the 4th hottest global temp of 54C (129F) or you can also freeze at -65C (-85F).

Optionally, you can also enjoy staring directly at the sun as it rises or sets due to the air pollution.

Oh and you can also find this funni river dolphin:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know this would be a guessing game. What is Pakistan?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Cheesesteaks. And no, a steak sandwich doesn't count.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Living below sea level for generations, and only remembering when you see other countries flood.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

if NL gets annihilated by some climate related disaster, can the rest of the world claim hubris

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. You get first dibs on "I told you so". But until then, I get the right to go "neener neener neeeeeener"" at the sea.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Going bankrupt due to medical bills.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It's easy to tell where you live.

It's in your username.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

People playing and hearing songs with looped beats and vulgar lyrics through a bass boosted sound system which costed them several months worth of minimum wage to pay for having it on their cars. They generally drive slowly through streets near beaches in order to exhibit their "fancy sound systems" while all the vulgarity plays repeatedly. I guess it's unique from this green-and-yellow country where I live.

I could also say wearing flip-flops and bermudas on a daily basis, or one of the highest usage and dependency of Meta's WhatsApp worldwide, or the country with the most welcome (often too nosy) people. Or, through a more positive lens, the richest land where crops easily grow when you sow something, the highest ecological diversity (especially plants, it's so common to find exotic plants here), the highest climate diversity (you can travel south to meet snow, then travel north/northeast to meet hot climates, without leaving the same country), etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Constant mass shootings.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Death from not being able to afford medical care

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That's actually really tough in this global age. I live in Japan so things like tea ceremony and Shinto practice come to mind, but there are Shinto shrines and practitioners in many places and people do and teach tea ceremony in other places now. Many would call it the home of sushi and, at least for the common types today, it's probably true (though certain methods that led to sushi are thought to come from Viet Nam in the past).

Tanuki exist in other parts of Asia. I assume onsen (hot sprint) monkeys do as well. Maybe something with Wasabi, but I doubt it. I'm not sure, really.

Edit: thought of one: seeing the Iriomote cat in its natural habitat (although that's really hard since they were nearly hunted to extinction for their pelts at one point). Speaking of Okinawan islands, you can also see Taiwan on a good day from the westernmost point of Yonaguni. That was neat. I took a picture with my phone at the time and it's really hard to see anything, but I could see land with my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

UK. Cold and hot water coming from separate taps. WTF? I was once told that it is because hot water boilers used to have their tops open to the outside, which meant the hot water could contain some debris, so it was important to use it only for washing and not let it mix with cooking water. But in bathrooms in some modern builds that definitely don't use that kind of boilers you still get separate taps. I told one of my British colleagues about how it's been bothering me since I moved here and she said "oh yeah, I never realised that I've never seen that in any other country". She also told me that kids are just taught to wash their hands quickly under the hot tap, so that they don't run the water long enough for it to turn scolding hot. WTactualF?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The most popular pop culture in the world

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Horrible Past.

(Fossil) Vehicle production as economic livelihood.

Bread fetishism. "Beer purity law".

Semi-ironic calls for a kebap price limit

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

High medical bills

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