Things common in your country, that would be weird abroad

Started by Macca, May 16, 2017, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. VR46
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    May 16, 2017
    nobody cares if you're underage and you buy alcohol
     
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  2. Michael Myers
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    May 16, 2017
    So they will just think I'm another american piece of s---. :allears:

    I still think its weird tho that they depend on what customers give more lol, here we just get a salary and everything else is extra
     
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  3. Cyreides
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    May 16, 2017
    it's because america has this s-----y mindset that ppl who work anything short of a job requiring like 3 college degrees deserve s--- pay and no respect
     
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  4. Worm
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    May 16, 2017
    I like it better for restaurants. Makes your server/bartender work harder. If they all got the same pay there would be little incentive to go the extra mile. I used to like walking in to work with rent due the next day knowing exactly what I needed to make and picking up more tables/working an extra shift to make it

    btw have no idea what @Cyreides is talking about....most americans do tip (not all great). The one's that don't, get s-----y service and some unwanted s--- in their food
     
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  5. Cyreides
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    Cyreides gfy

    May 16, 2017
    ehh

    there's a loooooooooooot of ppl who flat out don't or tip really poorly m8

    mayb u live in a nicer area, but from my experience ppl are generally not very good w/ tipping
     
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  6. BSCalrissian
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    BSCalrissian "Hip Hop and Rap yeah that's where my hearts at"

    May 16, 2017
    I'm not sure tbh
     
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  7. eddie313
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    eddie313 MUSIC TO BE MURDERED BY

    May 16, 2017
    Great country...a lot of great inventors come from there
     
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  8. BSCalrissian
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    BSCalrissian "Hip Hop and Rap yeah that's where my hearts at"

    May 16, 2017
    :MymanLando:
     
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  9. Hard Klyntar
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    May 16, 2017
    I don't know here, and other countries in Europe aswell , it's common that men greet each others by kissing on cheeks
    :kanye3:
     
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  10. Worm
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    May 16, 2017
    I live near Newark and they even tip there. Never heard of an area where people "flat out" don't tip
     
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  11. SHUDEYE
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    SHUDEYE Kerser is the sickest.

    May 16, 2017
    It's only a minor one but us (aus) nz and uk write our dates dd/mm/yyyy whereas Americans do mm/dd/yyyy

    Only reason i remembered this is cos something randomly reminded me of the time i was in America and me having to explain that to a bouncer for my friend cos he was thinking his bday was 1st of November (makin him underage) instead of January 11 cos he was lookin at our australian drivers licence.

    Mine was fine cos I'm born on the 31st so bouncers sorta added two and two together. Dunno if its just america who do it mm/dd/yyyy is there others?
     
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  12. Cyreides
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    what state? cause i lived in a newark ohio for the past two years, and the whole area was trashing and filled with s-----y tippers
     
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  13. Freestyle
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    May 17, 2017
    Reasoning behind that is something like the kid might get bullied with the name of the other gender therefore it isnt allowed
    idk you probably can change names afterwards i'd guess
     
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  14. Michael Myers
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    I was kidding but I get what u mean
     
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  15. Lucy
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    May 17, 2017
    list of Australian things that would appear weird to non-Australians
    gatorade saxaphones
    "smoko"
    vegemite
    swearing in conversation
    death-metal album covers for cigarette packets
    no guns/education system doesn't involve getting shot
    aboriginals
    mid to high income earners walking around public shirtless and in thongs
    lack of mentally ill transgenders walking around
    our m--- addicts (the ones foreigners always confuse with "Racist Australians")
    our cute and cuddly animals that will maul you half to death for being an immigrant/foreigner
    the rare chance they touch a certain plant and feel the most excruciating pain known to mankind that has no cure.

    i think that would deff top the weird scale.
     
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