Interesting things observed in other countries?
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Most (every?) day in the Catholic calendar has a saint associated with it. In parts of Europe, celebrating your namesake's saints day is sometimes a bigger deal than your birthday. Dec 31 is St. Sylvester's day. |
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Civilized? Whatever. American car manufacturers build european "versions" of incredibly mundane makes here and construct them like Mercedes or BMW. A Ford Escort in Spain is built like a little german tank to appeal to European tastes and standards. It is barely recognizable to the American version. And remember, a Mercedes cost about 15-20k less over there. |
Anonymous
And of course, they really do have to have those signs, all over Europe. Because, seriously, It is a european thing to picnic anywhere there is even a blade of grass ar a single natural feature, even a slight stream of water. I had relatives over last summer and we went to rock creek park trail to walk the dogs. They wanted to lay out towels and eat as though we were at the beach. It is quaint and I remember loving to do this everywhere with my own parents. |
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Wild donkeys chilling out on the beach in the Virgin Islands.
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 Well, you know it was their place way before the pesky humans got there.
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| When I studied abroad in Spain, my host mother would put sopping-wet dishes into the cupboard without drying them. I never understood how the cupboard wasn't full of mildew? But she was such a great cook that I wouldn't have cared if the plates had mildew on them. |
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no, just stupid. |
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| In American Samoa they bury dead relatives in their front yards. The graves are often decorated with strings of Christmas lights. |
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| Eggs and butter left out of the fridge. I think the butter might have been in one of those submersible bells but no one ever refrigerated eggs (and this was noertern Europe not a third world country). |
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No, only the United States or America. Sadly, the Republicans do not control the remainder of North America and South America. |
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| 15:27, NYC. Headlines for days when that happened. I think they went to a restaurant in either the East or West Village. The double whammy was leaving unattended AND in cold weather. Had to wait nearly twenty years to get to Scandinavia to witness it. |
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| Furniture being made for Pottery Barn sitting in the rain in Thailand |
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It was the same in England too. I was struck by how unwelcome babies were in establishments. I say this as someone who worked in England as an Au Pair and later had children of my own while living there. In England you don't necessarily have a bathroom in your hospital room but you do have a tea kettle. People in England don't look at or greet each other (strangers) in passing. There's also no small talk. In Germany people smile at each other in passing. You had also better not have to pee while driving on the Auto Ban, the rest stop is just a fence with a turnstile into the woods. The Irish are really polite and will apologize if you accidentally bump into them. In Canada people don't lock their car doors. My dad worked in Mexico when I was a kid and we spent a lot of time there. Dogs ran wild, you can't flush toilet paper, wedding receptions that go into the wee hours of the morning. How well my sister and I were treated as girls because I had white blond hair and my sister was a strawberry blond. Women would often rub our heads and tell our mother how beautiful we were. |
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You don't need to refrigerate eggs in the short term. My mother didn't. I don't. I only refrigerate butter in the summer when it's going to melt, otherwise. |