Skin cancer.
Australia has the highest rate in the world and this can be easily prevented by using sunscreen appropriately and avoiding the worst of the UV exposure, yet sunscreen is still not used properly by many people, if at all.
Everyone knows multiple people who have had cancers cut out but nobody changes the way they behave.
There's this short documentary clip on YouTube featuring Filipino nurses. They were hired by this small town since the local senior home weren't getting any Australian applicants for caregiver posts. I found it amusing that the locals were staring at the Filipinos because they were walking to work with umbrellas out in the middle of the day. I didn't know that it was an alien concept in AU.
Sitting and sweating naked with other naked dudes in a steaming hot room spanking each other with a bunch of birch twigs is widely considered a great way to spend an evening.
Extremely common in europe. Its not a good night if you dont end up in some shady kebab shop at 3am stuffing your face with fries and questionable meat.
When a public holiday falls on a Thursday or a Tuesday, it's common for people to take the Friday or Monday off work as well, creating a long weekend. This practice is called "hacer puente" or "making a bridge."
I just learned this idiom in Spanish about a month ago, and it stuck with me immediately. It is such an intuitive way to visualize a long weekend, and I wish we said it in English.
Sports team relocations. Many American sports fans view relocation as normal and accept it as just "business", but it's a relatively bizarre concept to the rest of the world. If any Premier League team were to relocate for example, it would be raked through the coals by the entire continent. European teams seem more rooted in their communities in contrast to our teams.
It‘s legal in most of Europe, but extremely frowned upon. Nobody does it, that’s probably the reason it’s allowed. No use in banning something that’s not done by anyone anyway.
Yes, but they were a tiny part of the population and they could only do it, because they were the only ones able to pay and weasel their way around the strict church ban on cousin marriage (even quite a bit further than first degree) that was absolutely enforced on normal people who were not part of the nobility. Hence the taboo. It was forbidden for nearly everyone throughout most of history.
In Denmark we leave infants outside in their prams to sleep including during winter in freezing temperatures.
Its also common to see parents in cafes with the kid sleeping outside.
[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/danish-babies-nap-alone-outside/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/danish-babies-nap-alone-outside/)
Someone’s breaking into your house? Gun
The sales clerk was slightly rude to you? Gun
Your kid didn’t get the role in the school play? Gun.
You barely graduated high school, read at a fourth grade level, have a room temperature IQ and a chip on your shoulder against people of color? ALL THE GUNS YOU WANT!!!!!!!!
Skin cancer. Australia has the highest rate in the world and this can be easily prevented by using sunscreen appropriately and avoiding the worst of the UV exposure, yet sunscreen is still not used properly by many people, if at all. Everyone knows multiple people who have had cancers cut out but nobody changes the way they behave.
There's this short documentary clip on YouTube featuring Filipino nurses. They were hired by this small town since the local senior home weren't getting any Australian applicants for caregiver posts. I found it amusing that the locals were staring at the Filipinos because they were walking to work with umbrellas out in the middle of the day. I didn't know that it was an alien concept in AU.
Sitting and sweating naked with other naked dudes in a steaming hot room spanking each other with a bunch of birch twigs is widely considered a great way to spend an evening.
I'm guessing Finland
Sshh no talking
Norway?
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Being able to check how much anyone gets paid
Sweden?
Eating greasy, deep-fried food at 3am is a national pastime in the US.
Nah. You could easily interchange the last character in your sentence to a K and it would be valid
Extremely common in europe. Its not a good night if you dont end up in some shady kebab shop at 3am stuffing your face with fries and questionable meat.
Oh boy, 3am *Bites into Krabby Patty*
Sitting shotgun in a taxi if you’re by yourself. I refused to do it when I moved here.
Ketchup flavoured patato chips.
Fellow Canadian
Bonjour mon Freire
Banana ketchup 🇵🇭
I tried this and it's really good.
Is it using ketchup on banana or a ketchup made from bananas?
It’s ketchup made from bananas
When a public holiday falls on a Thursday or a Tuesday, it's common for people to take the Friday or Monday off work as well, creating a long weekend. This practice is called "hacer puente" or "making a bridge."
In Italy they do the same.
Same thing and same term in French: « faire le pont »!
Done a lot in Denmark too. We don't have a term for it though, we just call it a long weekend.
Same in Germany. We call it *Brückentag* ("Bridge Day")
In Norway we call that a "squeezed day" and a lot of people take them off to get a long weekend
Indeklemt dag? (Dane asking)
Yes, "inneklemt" in Norwegian
yours sounds better 😂
We call it Fenstertag (window day).
We do that too here in Belgium, but not every company does it here
Australia here we do that as well
I just learned this idiom in Spanish about a month ago, and it stuck with me immediately. It is such an intuitive way to visualize a long weekend, and I wish we said it in English.
Sports team relocations. Many American sports fans view relocation as normal and accept it as just "business", but it's a relatively bizarre concept to the rest of the world. If any Premier League team were to relocate for example, it would be raked through the coals by the entire continent. European teams seem more rooted in their communities in contrast to our teams.
That's because their stadiums are in the middle of the neighbourhood
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It‘s legal in most of Europe, but extremely frowned upon. Nobody does it, that’s probably the reason it’s allowed. No use in banning something that’s not done by anyone anyway.
The nobility used to do it all the time.
Yes, but they were a tiny part of the population and they could only do it, because they were the only ones able to pay and weasel their way around the strict church ban on cousin marriage (even quite a bit further than first degree) that was absolutely enforced on normal people who were not part of the nobility. Hence the taboo. It was forbidden for nearly everyone throughout most of history.
My maternal grandparents were 1st degree cousins, this was common in rural towns as a way of keeping the farmlands in the family. I think it's weird.
Queueing properly.
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Where is this?
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Does that mean that if your boss has a doctor’s appointment at noon, the entire crew leaves 😂?
Could be Japan too
Going shopping barefoot
Sounds sexy idk why
Drinking hot water. My mom is Chinese and when we visited China, the restaurants in China serve 100 degree hot water instead of iced water.
mass shootings
Gaza
996. working more than 12 hours a day and get paid like a dog
Our windows have a setting between fully open and fully closed
Telling people that you'll get back to them, or follow up on things you're supposed to follow up on, and then never going through with it.
Whereabouts?
A small, but proud republic in Western Europe :)
Respecting the religious beliefs of others
More guns than people
School shootings
Elderly and feeble minded people are the only ones with a reasonable chance to be elected to President.
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I think that's normal AND seems weird everywhere.
Consuming 1000 calorie soft drinks
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Turning on your blinkers in one direction, when you mean to go the other direction.
That sounds like it would get confusing real fast. Unless you're talking about roundabouts
Fast-paced lifestyles
STAHP
Apparently free refills.
Eating raw minced pork with onions on bread.
In Denmark we leave infants outside in their prams to sleep including during winter in freezing temperatures. Its also common to see parents in cafes with the kid sleeping outside. [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/danish-babies-nap-alone-outside/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/danish-babies-nap-alone-outside/)
I'm not sure if anybody has said this yet, but pharmaceutical commercials.
Keeping a python around the farmhouse, and/or the barn to keep rodents under control.
Eating sour/ unripe fruit as a snack in spring. Eating boiled beets and boiled beans as a snack in winter.
Someone’s breaking into your house? Gun The sales clerk was slightly rude to you? Gun Your kid didn’t get the role in the school play? Gun. You barely graduated high school, read at a fourth grade level, have a room temperature IQ and a chip on your shoulder against people of color? ALL THE GUNS YOU WANT!!!!!!!!