And then Americans go "yeah so they did it back then but they wouldn't do it nowwwwww!
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For me (non-American), it's the age of drinking being higher than the age to own a gun or drive a car.
Well I guess that's not really culture. Okay, maybe this: Expect smiles and the nicest service from retail/customer service workers, who's being paid the lowest and deal with the most amount of bullshit.
Around here, people sort of just expect them to be playing on their phone and not really paying attention to you.
The drinking age is due to America's astronomical rate of drunk driving fatalities. It was so high in the 60s that it was impeding the development of the national highway system, so the federal government cut a deal that if states set their drinking age to 21 they'd get highway funding. I think Louisiana was the last state to have a drinking age of 18, and they also had the reputation for the most poorly maintained roads in america
they also had the reputation for the most poorly maintained roads in america
they still do lol, i can be asleep on a car trip and instantly know when we've hit lousiana because of how dramatically the road goes to shit
As an American it's our advertisements for lawyers. There are lawyers who specialize in such specific disputes and become household names for it. Like a law firm in my city specializes specifically in being hit by an 18-wheeler, becoming disabled, missing work, and then your job not paying you disability.
There's one lawyer in the city near my hometown who specializes specifically in bodies from the local cemetery flooding into your front yard. America is a land of such poor maintenance that a core feature of our culture is that every large business will have years long court battles over something horrible they did, like selling food with poison in it or knocking someone's house over by accident. And private lawyers do advertisements for their services with butt rock music
90% of the billboards in my state are for lawyers or cannabis dispensaries.
BIG TRUCK LAWYER
psychotic jacking off about "tha trooooooooops"
every yankee troop, past and present, should be put against the wall and shot
none of their supposed "expertise" is useful at all
their training relies on having complete logistical/aerial/etc. superiority to the point where an individual yankkkeee soldier is more useless that a random prole in a combat situation
like genuinely, any dipshit who goes to the range with their ar-15 once-a-monh will be a better shot than 90% of yankkkkee troops
there's a couple world war two vets who personally killed nazis and maybe a some "stop our ship" arsonists who can have a pass.
And then every time I point and say LOOK I TOLD YOU SO I am told "man you are living in the past this is all in our history we have to worry about TODAY"
😡😡😡
So in 2045 we'll get the documents that Epstein was murdered in his cell ordered by Trump?
Any real accounting would show a mile-long line of ghouls arguing which one gets to kill him
there'll be a mostly redacted rock paper scissors bracket
cia document releases like
If there's any bureaucracy left then to release anything. I'm guessing USA will be gone by then.
The American relationship with food. It's insanely expensive, but portion sizes are insane, the regulation of what can go into it seems to be built around shoehorning as much sugar or corn into all of it as if the health drawbacks are part of the plan, and so much gets wasted while almost the entire population is either morbidly obese or malnourished. Food deserts exist in large swaths of the country. Things are being further deregulated because conspiracy theories drive more political change to food systems than science. Grocery stores are filled with dozens of options for a narrow range of types of food. There's food dye in almost everything. There are too many preservatives in almost everything. There are non-food chemicals in almost everything.
Then there's the packaging. Bananas come in shrink wrap. Peppers come cellophaned to styrofoam planks. Cookies come with multiple layers of plastic packaging. Meat is weighed after it's packed onto waterlogged sponges on styrofoam planks, wrapped in more cellophane that's covered in stickers. Everything is partnered with toy brands, movies, games, cartoons. You can't buy a reasonable amount of anything, and the prices are still going up.
Of course it extends to TV, which other countries have, but in the US, even the food shows with the same hosts that the UK has are focused around being an asshole instead of the food itself, or it's about the contestants' personalities, drama on the set, or stoking rivalries. It's a competition instead of pursuit of better food.
The Home owner association thing is so incredibly backwards and reactionary, I get the impression Crusader Kings 3 is just a white middle class neighborhood simulator 2022 or something.
The typical white middle-high income suburban experience of living in a McMansion and having to drive 45-60 minutes on a 10 lane highway just to buy a 6-pack of beer or something. If someone told me "you can come and live here for free" I'd still reject(it would be my last choice) because it just sounds like misery. I'd prefer decent housing anywhere else.
I remember as a teen going to the states after 9/11 and tons of Americans after finding out I was from Canada grilling me on whether we were going to join them in the war or not. I wasn’t even old enough to vote. They were very aggressive about it sometimes, and at least passive aggressive at best. It was real culture shock for me.
Also what is with Americans and loving show tunes? Like I get they’re tourist areas but the show tunes thing is so fucking weird in the south.
the white south is culturally behind by 100+ years so they're still impressed by gilbert and sullivan.
that seems reasonable. just a few minutes ago i was yelling at this antisemitic baby in the grocery store. i don't know if he was palestinian but he could have been. lots of them are babies. i figure might as well play it safe.
in a very real sense, october 7th was israel's 9/11. the chickens of empire came home to roost, and you would not believe how butthurt they get about it
you can pry showtunes from my cold dead hands
Still think the water bottle thing is stranger. Why do Americans just carry around giant water bottles everywhere? They could be going to the store and they bring an enormous water bottle like they're going for a ten day trek.
Nothing free in America, not even a quick sip of water
But that's not even true? Most businesses in the United States will just give you a free drink of tap water if asked.
where is this? touristy/rich people land?
"[Blank] for paying customers only" is the sign of the Real America.
- Chairs/Benches
- Bathrooms
- Water
if you're not seeing it, you are in one of the amusement parks.
Lots of parks have those free drinking fountains with the bottle-filling function. Schools, hospitals, government buildings, and even Walmarts have them too.
Edit: these things
This is a law everywhere. Free drinking water is one of the few decent things in the us.
Some places may be hard ass about it, but just go to a fast food place and ask for a water cup. It’ll likely be smaller than a soda cup, but just fill it up again
it's the law but you have to be prepared to throw the book at slimy business owners to actually excercise it, especially when alchohol is involved
most food places maybe. i wouldn't expect a hardware store to give me a cup of water, but any chain department store type place has a water fountain somewhere
What's wrong with being hydrated?
Edit: I totally do this lol. I drink ~3L of water a day and carry a (reasonably sized) water bottle everywhere. It's hot as hell and I want to be properly hydrated at all times!
Same
The high today is 110°f (43.3c). You better believe I'm walking around with a bottle of water.
Euros walking around in 25c weather sipping their .5 liter of water for their .5 km stroll to the cafe
While I'm lugging 64 ounces of water in 100 f (real feel 107f) on my 5 mile hike to work
Edit: brought receipts
Is it the carrying a water bottle at all that confuses you, or the fact that it's large?
If I wanted to bring 1 or 2 cups of water with me I would just chug it right there at the source and carry it in my body. I don't see the point of any water bottle smaller than a liter.
How much water do you drink a day?
and then people will promptly refuse to believe they still do it.
Even though they employ like 70% the same people as they did then, never recieved any recourse for doing it, were never so much as politely asked to tone it down, and if you ask the agency directly "are you still doing this?" they will refuse to answer (or occasionally confirm they are)
Troop worship. I thought it was exaggerated until I visited a few years back and when we landed in NY the pilot thanked the troops for their service.
*not from us, not in us
I went to an airshow with my dad (I had no interest it was just something nice I just wanted to hang out with my dad), and there was a flyover of f16s or something, and at the end of the show the us airforce emcee said 'thank you for your patriotism'. I retched
To me is the obsession with soda, I've heard americans say the don't like water because they "don't like the taste" so they have to be drinking soda. In fairness I think it was ethan klein so
A large amount of places in America have shitty tasting tap water, to be fair
I’ve seen in this thread now Americans don’t like water but also carry around large water bottles and drink too much water
"Uhhhhh we lost the file, sorry."
What culture?