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The Official "Your country is weird" Thread

Les Kern said:
What's with the giant plugs on TV's and such? Afraid of losing them?
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I beleive those "giant plugs" stop us/small children electrocuting ourselves. What's with no earth wires, like everywhere else, huh? ;) Oh, but I will say one thing, those giant plugs don't half screw up the design of an Apple power brick. For that, I'd take elecrocution....:p
 
bousozoku said:
Come on now. If you go to Massachussetts, they call them rotaries and there are plenty. If you go to New Jersey, you not only have traffic circles, but you have jug handles.
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Not in small town side streets...:rolleyes:
 
Whyren said:
When US drivers can't even grasp the difficult mechanics of a 4-way stop, I'd hate to see what would happen if they hit a roundabout.

Oh, and pancakes are an anytime food. :D
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On the driving topic, I do like the turning right on a red light.. :) Makes sense. Oh, and nowhere around me shuts for lunch.. Thats france, italy, or spain.. :)
 
I love my country. Mostly because we can just sit around and laugh at our southern neighbours who think we're all in igloos. Contrary to popular belief, there is no wall of ice at the Canadian border. And I live in a city. Yes, a city. And it snows a couple inches a year, if we're lucky. Though those easterners get a load more.

Honestly though, all these American visitors come into the city completely amazed that there isn't any snow, and we actually have civilization. I kid you not. It's happened to me. I've chatted with a couple American tourists who insisted that they heard from a reliable source that there were no cities in Canada, 'nor any other sign of modern civilization goodness like electricity, skyscrapers and such. I have another comment to go here, but I deleted it after some careful consideration. I value my life.

By the way, does anyone know how to get the spellchecker off American spelling without all the weird French accents popping up?
 
johnnyjibbs said:
Worst food? I know it's not up there with Italian, Mexican or Thai but come on! You think America's got the best food? Burgers and steak? :D :D :D
That was about 20 years ago? Now in Britain we have 24hr supermarkets (except the stupid 6 hour Sunday trading law) but at least you can shop fully on a Sunday now, which is more than I could say when I went to France... :p ;) :D (BTW, I have a French girlfriend and I really like France.)
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I went to England and France back in the summer of 2002, and i had heard that british food was horrible. But i never had one bad meal while there. I put a big dent in the goat and lamb population over there during those 6 weeks. But, the sausages over there are sick. It tastes like meat paste. But other than that it was all very good food.

I never did notice supermarkets being closed on the weekend. I stayed in Belper England and it had a Safe-Way about 1/2 mile down the road.

I will stand up for our Stop signs and Stop lights here in the USA. It made no since to me why incoming traffic had the right away in a round-about.

I also went to France that summer, and while in Paris i found a HUGE round-about there. It had four stop lights there, and i swear, that french car drivers goal for the day is to run over any american tourists they see trying to cross the street in a round-about or stop light. They slow down, then speed up. Crazy.

And i must say, why does Canada still kiss the queen's boots? I think homer said it best while talking to the queen of england. "And our little brother up north has never even had a girl-friend....just sayin" :p

Im not try to insult any one, sorry if i did. You brits and french guys and girls are alright in my book.:D
 
I'd suggest a good movie to help expose blindspots regarding "all those Mexicans". A Day Without a Mexican. In South America, we get some interesting questions:
*So, it's hot and humid there, year 'round?
Answer: No, we live at 10,000 ft; it's more like 40-70°F year 'round
*So, do you like tacos and beans?
Answer: No, you're thinking Tex-Mex. We actually like soups with 3 different kinds of potatoes, chicken and rice and mondongo :p
*Spain: "You realize you don't actually speak Spanish in Latin America"?
Answer: What an embe(th)il!
The "roundabout"s are called "redondels" (from redondo=round). Colombia calls them "rompoys".
We turn left on red lights, and hardly ever stop for one from 1 a.m to first light.
I hope this thread will not turn into a flaming war, but will help all of us to appreciate "different" as just "different", no more.
 
cantthinkofone said:
It had four stop lights there, and i swear, that french car drivers goal for the day is to run over any american tourists they see trying to cross the street in a round-about or stop light. They slow down, then speed up. Crazy.
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You're fair game in the hunting season. You have to fix them with your beady eye.

And i must say, why does Canada still kiss the queen's boots?
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Probably because they can see how awful it would be to have a President.
 
skunk said:
Probably because they can see how awful it would be to have a President.
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Makes since i guess. I'm not to fond of good old george haven't been since 2001.

But there is one more thing i must ask. Why does england still have a queen when they have a prim-minister? The queen doesn't do any thing from what i could tell when i was there. Is it just trepidation? Seems like a waste of money to me. But im not one to talk about living in a country that wastes money on worthless things.
 
bousozoku said:
Come on now. If you go to Massachussetts, they call them rotaries and there are plenty. If you go to New Jersey, you not only have traffic circles, but you have jug handles.
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woo Go MA, rotaries, i hate that blasted one on the waterfront in Plymouth T_T
 
cantthinkofone said:
Makes since i guess. I'm not to fond of good old george haven't been since 2001.

But there is one more thing i must ask. Why does england still have a queen when they have a prim-minister? The queen doesn't do any thing from what i could tell when i was there. Is it just trepidation? Seems like a waste of money to me. But im not one to talk about living in a country that wastes money on worthless things.
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The Queen is the Chairman, the PM is her CEO.
 
mac-er said:
And in some states, you can turn left on red if the street you are turning onto is one way.
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Was thinking the same thing.

Wonder how our European members would handle the Delaware and Pennsylvania "jug-handle" turns. These require the driver to exit to the right to wait at a traffic light in order to make a left hand turn.
 
Chip NoVaMac said:
Was thinking the same thing.

Wonder how our European members would handle the Delaware and Pennsylvania "jug-handle" turns. These require the driver to exit to the right to wait at a traffic light in order to make a left hand turn.
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I would definitely screw that up if I encountered it without having heard of it.
 
johnnyjibbs said:
Why are there NO roundabouts in the USA? ;) :rolleyes:
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Oh! there's a roundabout in Houston.

only one...
in a freaking huge city

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GEEZ, I hate that roundabout. Now I know what to call it when I write my congressman asking him to remove it. :)
 
katie ta achoo said:
Oh! there's a roundabout in Houston.

only one...
in a freaking huge city

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GEEZ, I hate that roundabout. Now I know what to call it when I write my congressman asking him to remove it. :)
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Lol. I ran into a couple on the East Coast.

Heres a good picture for the people that have never seen one before:
 

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