School shootings.
Almost as many saunas as cars. One sauna for every ~1.7 people.
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?
Death from not being able to afford medical care
They said “unique”, not “very common”
I mean it’s still unique to the US. Plenty of other, poorer countries have better healthcare.
We start our spicy food tolerance early, our candy is spicy.
Mexico?
Yep.
Constant mass shootings.
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:
I didn’t know this would be a guessing game. What is Pakistan?
Hehe yes.
What a guy
Free market Jesus.
- 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.
I was going to say Australia until children attending school barefoot. I’ve also never caught a domestic flight in 60 seconds.
Where is this ? Do you have giant insects there or deadly weather to compensate?
Since you asked…
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Seems pretty good. Where?
I guess NZ. But it’s just a guess.
I’m guessing New Zealand.
There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.
The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice. Village adults don’t, not because they are above it, but since there is a genuine risk a neighbour you’ve known for decades will sue you for stealing; the garbage does belong to them still as the courts have determined.
Edit: Sorry for forgetting the most important part.
Sounded like hungary until the “old people to complain about Polish immigrants” part
Here they complain about gypsies
Well that just sounds like New Jersey.
I don’t think the furniture thing is that unique. I’ve been in a few countries where that’s called a council pickup and pretty common.
Every third monday of the month in my town
Unchecked gun violence by a population against itself
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.
Czechia… except we are landlocked. Poland, then?
Look at my flag, lol. :D
Does not show up in my client, and the desc does not either when opening your profile.
Well, it’s Lithuania:)
Oh that sounds like a dream!
If you like the former Soviet romantic a bit and can live with the fact that you are on Russia’s doorstep it’s indeed a very nice country. I had friends there,it’s really nice.
I was 99% sure Finland for the first one though, but somewhat makes sense
Being atheistic as the norm. Sky daddies don’t hold much power here.
Found a Czech. That makes about 7 of us. We should start a community!
Yaaay! I think there’s already [email protected], though it’s not very active.
There used to be czech-lemmy.eu and kyberpunk.social instances, actually. Both ended less than a year ago.
Well, if you want a Czech-ran instance, you can join mine instance, lemmings.world, though it doesn’t really focus on Czechs. Didn’t know about any of those, sadly.
That’s just…not unique tho
There are like 4 countries in the world where less than half people is religious. Of those I live in the one where huge majority is not religious. We’re the most atheistic country in the world. Because “only” quarter of our population is lunatic enough to believe in such bullshit.
So yes, very much unique.
I mean, that’s just not true, at all, just like religion
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.
That’s incredible actually
High medical bills
