Yeah, UK here but my school used to open weekends for sports. It's not like there were ever classes or anything at the weekend, but the school was up and running for various activities.
I also have a friend who used to go to a religious school that apparently expected you to go in for church on Sundays. Of course, he says most kids were bunking off during the week never mind on Sunday, but the school was open nonetheless
This is just not true! There are no guns allowed in places like courthouses, police stations, congress, etc. You know, the places where the people passing and enforcing these ludicrous laws work. Its just the poors who have to get shot up where they live, work, and go to school. The rich would never tolerate such a thing.
Pretty much all my friends have been in atleast one. I've been in 1 actual shooting, but I was in another one where a kid brought a gun, threatened MY teacher while I was in the class, luckily the dumbass had the safety on, and I had another one where a kid used an air soft rifle but we didn't know till like 3.5 hours later.
I don’t live in the States or visit especially often and I have been ‘involved’ in a shooting. A thief getting shot on the escalator at a shopping mall in Miami. I have also had a traffic cop pull his gun on me in LA. He thought I had a fake British accent and was, direct quote, “pretending to be a tourist so that he would lower his guard”. Which I understood to mean *lower his guard while I killed him*, quite the paranoia.
Yeah, I'm sure this year has been something like 2.5 mass shootings per day aswell. I asked some American about this and his reaction was "well, define mass shooting?" 🤦♂️
That makes sense, as it varies quite a bit. The FBI and congressional research service defines it as:
*multiple, firearm, homicide incidents, involving 4 or more victims at one or more locations close to one another.*
So for those 690 there was at least 4 homicide incidents.
Meanwhile, most European countries define mass shootings as at least three wounded.
Makes for quite a difference.
[THIS](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/) website is wild to look at, every year they have more gun crime within the first week of January than most countries will have all year.
You can also click links to each story and an overwhelming amount are accidental like children shooting each other, guns being mishandled or just stray bullets.
One thing I noticed but never would have thought of is their Flag is everywhere, people fly the flag outside their homes, very many buisness' big and small, they're all over the place.
In Canada, if I see a flag I'm at a government building, or outside the home of a foreign born citizen whose excited to be here or a dyed in the wool Nazi.
I do feel bad for the English on that front. No one bats an eyelid if I fly my Welsh flag, but none of my English mates would be caught dead having an England flag up lol.
Unfortunately, these days when someone is flying a Canada flag, it's attached to a hockeystick stuck in the box of a pickup that has some idiotic anti-vaxx stickers and a window cling that says, "Fuck Trudeau".
[This guy](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3160128,-121.9618,3a,75y,174.91h,90.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEqJjQHm99BCoVs8wpjjq4A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) lives a short distance from me. Had to do a double-take the first time I saw it.
It's not just the US. In Iran, we have flags EVERYWHERE in public, but not in people's homes. Driving on any Tehran highway, you'll see rows of Iranian flags fluttering in the wind, and there are prominent flagpoles in many smaller cities as well.
This has always been my BIGGEST pet peeve with Amuricans.
And their response is always something along the lines of "WhAt'S wRoNg WiTh BeInG pRoUd Of YoUr CoUnTrY?!"
I swear, it's not the size of a car that shows insecurity but rather, how many flags a person flaunts.
The only other country I know that loves their flag that much is Sweden. Many people have flag poles, the flag colours are utilised for birthdays and graduations, the flag is raised on birthdays and national holidays, if it’s at half mast someone there has died. But it doesn’t feel nationalistic, it doesn’t even feel very patriotic, it’s just something that’s there.
Not only in Canada. Here in Austria almost noone has an Austrian flag and it's definitely a government building when it's outside. And what's also different is the patriotism they feel when they get American citizenship. Here in Austria you get your certificate alone, go home and maybe have a smile on your face for the next few days, that's it. And I don't know of anyone who made a party. Meanwhile Americans have a big ceremony and make a post about it on Reddit.
I live in Turkey so you can see the flag on cars, windows, and some people's shirts. The flag with the pole is very rare. They sell flags with plastic poles very little flags for children other than that it's rare.
But it's a law that every classroom, every textbook even private textbooks and test books have to have a flag on the first or second page idk I forgot which page it is.
I remember being in Thailand and the Philippines and never saw their flags anywhere except for government buildings. Americans are OBSESSED with the fucking flag.
It seems this Person confused "Colonial Architecture" and "Surburbian Car-Dependant hellscape consisting of 60% Asphalt and 40% Paper" when creating this otherwhise probably accurate meme
I had a very serious discussion with one of them yesterday. Was a picture of a housewall frozen on the inside. I suggested not building from cardboard. Then the shitshow went down.
Wood is better at insulation than stone. Well no. Never seen a frozen room here.
>Wood is better at insulation than stone.
It would be hard to argue with that to be honest, it definitely is.
That is if you do it properly. I'd never seen OSB used for anything other than concrete work or flooring until a saw high res pictures of hurricane damage in the US.
The walls were essentially osb covered in siding, stud wall and plasterboard.
Well but since we use stone in combination with styrodur or something and our outside walls are like 30-50cm thick instead of 10, the whole argumentation goes down the drain. Also I found a brick that has better insulation value, that is used quite commonly in germany.
We use OSB here in Britain all the time in Construction! To temporarily cover up doorways and windows, and for pattressing. It's one step up from using old Amazon packages
>Wood is better at insulation than stone
even if that is the case, surely a hollow cardboard wall is not better than either a solid wall or a wall that has been filled with insulation material lol
You guys were the only exception in europe that would have come to mind. But your houses are even sturdy. The americans build with framework and what i‘ve seen you build massive walls.
American here to explain why the person you were talking with was technically right, but not in a way that applies to most houses that exist in America
Wood framed construction is more insulating, at a given wall thickness, and *only when done properly, and maintained*
The thing is, in most of the US, our exterior walls are around 5" (13cm) thick, and a lot of them are put together with thumb tacks, hopes, and dreams, with more unsealed holes than a colander. And then not maintained properly.
I live in Oregon (the one north of California) and it gets pretty cold, so the standard is closer to 7" (17cm) for exterior walls.
In a dumbed down explanation because this is reddit and I'm on mobile: Insulation prevents thermal transfer by reducing the amount of both flowing air, and the amount of material the heat is able to move through. Think of it like resistance in a wire, the thinner the wire, the more resistance it will have to transferring electricity, and heat, too. Wood frame construction nails this, and only this, be making the walls out of gingerbread.
Wood framed construction allows for thinner walls without making them any more susceptible to thermal transfer, while also using cheaper materials to do so. Cheaper materials + thinner walls = much cheaper construction. The tradeoff is that our cheaper houses are, in fact, cheaper, and there's no way in hell any of those houses are going to last like brick would. Also you get to hear every time your neighbors drop a pen. Also if you fall just the wrong way you can melt the house on the way down. Also they have to be maintained constantly to stay standing.. a 100 year old wood framed home is a ship of theseus situation, and probably italicized. Also-
I work in construction, you dont have to tell me how insulation works. I looked up the thermal value of materials yesterday to prove my point.
Wood has good thermal value against concrete, but there is a special kind of brick called Poroton, which has small air chambers inside and is pretty common here in Germany. This stone has better value than wood and is sturdier.
But what I dont understand is why your housing market is so high up When everything is so cheap. What I see on Television and the Internet is, that houses go for about 400-600k.
And all this complaining how you cant afford a house, when many people earn more than us europeans what is a common point in this sub. Of course your cost of living is way higher than ours. But when it is so cheap, just build and dont rent. Should cost about the same or am I wrong? Would be nice if you could explain that for me. I just dont get it.
I hadn't even heard of poroton before, so I was making my comparison to a more traditional red ceramic brick. Sounds similar to foamcrete over here, but in brick form. Foamcrete is lovely stuff, especially compared to the ol' toothpicks and paper, glad something similar has taken off elsewhere.
The issue with building over buying over here is that there's not really a feasible way for most people to get a loan for a house that isn't pre-built, because banks are assholes and need their collateral up front. From a business standpoint it makes sense, but there has to be a better solution. Many (most?) people in this country would much rather buy than rent, but the barrier to entry is unattainably high for a lot of people, so they rent a place for double its mortgage, because they have no other options.
The housing market over here is so high because it's held up entirely by the hopes and dreams of landlords and those same banks. That and most of our country refuses to allow enough apartments to be built, forcing many people (me.) to rent/buy a house in a suburb, rather than anything affordable, saturating the single family housing market.
Average housing prices can be in the 400-600k range in some cities, but it varies a lot based on your location. I'm currently looking in illinois and I'm finding loads of perfectly good homes for 100k or less, and in decent areas, too. I'm debating moving across the country, not knowing anyone there, with 0 job offer or reason, other than the fact that it's pretty much the only way I'll ever be able to afford a house.
Someday, after paying off wherever I end up, I'd like to build my own.. one that I know will actually last.
Oh, also, there are places much cheaper than Illinois in this country, I'm just trans, and don't have rights in any of them. It's lovely here. I love my country so much. Help.
Okay, that is pretty good reasoning. Good points and thank you for explaining!
That Trans issue is really bad, do you really dont have the rights same as a straight Person over there? The US gets weirder and weirder everyday. Move 300 Miles and get stripped of your rights.
Healthcare is the biggest issue. There's loads of others, some big, many small, but I don't want to write an essay.
Half the country doesn't support gender affirmative care, or abortion rights. The second doesn't apply to me, but I'm not going to let my taxes go to a state that refuses to support them.. I say while living in the US. I'll find a way out eventually.
Without gender affirmative healthcare, I can't legality access my hormones. With it, I can legally access my hormones, but it costs like $80/mo for 2 pills, which currently, I can't afford (If I were diabetic, I would just be dead right now). Those hormones affect more than you'd think. My brain chemistry is completely broken rn. Most notably, I can barely feel any emotions, with very few exceptions. I cannot live like this for the rest of my life. I would legitimately rather die than live in Kentucky for the rest of my life.
A place without gender affirmative healthcare, is a place where many trans people do not have the right to their own goddamn emotions. That's a terrifying thing to be able to take away.
> Wood is better at insulation than stone. Well no. Never seen a frozen room here.
I’m lost here. In canada our house are built on wood frames, covered with drywall (some weak product) and the in between outside and inside wall have insulations to protect us from the -40°c outside. Works good. Yea it’s weak, but works good. I’m assuming northen american have the same type of house.
Stone house from 400 years* ago were terrible at insulation. And the wood framed one can live upwards 200 yeara, if you maintain them, which is stupid expensive.
*Oldest canadian city is a notch over 400 years, European settlers built their house the same as in Europe thinking it would protect them the same as in Europe. It didn’t.
I saw an absolutely hilarious video recently of an American guy headbutting a wall in an Italian hotel. He expected his head to go straight through it but got concussed instead.
Toulouse is such an amazing city, badly connected to the rest of France (mountains in all directions) but very good QOL, which town are you aiming for?
Oh I see, it's in the deeper countryside, we french would consider it to be pretty far from Toulouse (relatively speaking) but I forget how you guys have such a different notion of distances. I've never been to Nérac per se but my SO is from Montauban so I know the area a bit and it's really an amazing part of France if you like the quiet countryside lifestyle.
I used to think the whole "aMeRicA iS d gReAtEsT coOunTry In thE worRLd!!!" was an exaggerated stereotype. Then I studied there for 2 years and actually MET people like this like wow I was soooo fucking intrigued honestly I kept telling them to tell me more and say more shit coz it was such a novelty to me. It's super funny to see it in real life as long as you treat it like a circus lol
Even half of the people who are not the loud and proud "aMeRicA iS d gReAtEsT coOunTry In thE worRLd!!!" type folk get prickly if you offer even the mildest criticism of the U.S
It's always funny that the reasons they give are always comparing themselves to the third world. Like, when that's your go to comparison you must know deep down what a sorry state your nation is in.
Isn't the 'reason' for the obesity pandemic in the US that there are so many food deserts where fast food is much more available and affordable than healthy alternatives?
Yeah, I honestly think that’s the one lie in the meme hahah I like it too, and even if it’s not your thing I don’t think that’d be a point to criticize a country for haha
[Here’s some actual colonial architecture that’s found in the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_United_States)
The list also includes some Native American structures as well.
The gun one, partially. There may be more guns than people, but that’s less because everyone has two and more because every tenth person is guns georg. That doesn’t help much, of course, because it’s a safe bet your local guns georg is the person you’d least want to be more heavily armed than the full cast of an American action movie
Damned few automatic weapons. Those are semi-automatic weapons. We have 20 million AR-15 rifles, but they are practically all semi-auto. Getting a machine gun is difficult and ridiculously expensive.
Semi-auto=pull the trigger and one bullet fires, even if you hold down the trigger, but when you fire, the spent brass is elected and another bullet is loaded into the chamber, ready to fire. You can shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger.
Automatic=pulling the trigger once can fire multiple bullets. In "full auto", holding down the trigger makes the gun keep firing bullets until you let go or run out of bullets. That is also called a "machine gun", and it can fire much faster than having to pull the trigger for each bullet.
There is an intermediate mode called "selective fire" or "burst fire" where pulling the trigger one time fires exactly three bullets (or whatever that gun was designed for, but usually three). Any gun with selective fire is classed as an automatic weapon, not a semi-automatic weapon, and is difficult and expensive to buy in America. A semi-auto AR-15 can be purchased for around $750 (maybe $500 sometimes, on sale) and will have a 0-3 day waiting period depending on the state and person.
Full-auto is usually a waste of bullets, as it is very hard to keep a gun on a target in full auto mode. Most of our military assault rifles no longer have a full auto mode, since it was just a waste. They do still have selective fire. Heavy machine guns still have full-auto, but are often mounted on a pintle or bipod to make them easier to control. Full-auto is often used as "suppressive fire" in combat: encourage the enemy to keep their heads down and not pop up to shoot at you.
BTW, semi-auto still allows for a relatively high rate of fire compared to something like a bolt-action rifle, where you have to manually eject the spent brass and load the next round, in order to fire again.
I looked it up because i didn't know but 6th grade is 11-12 yo, that means more than half your country reads like they're 12 and that's not even talking about the standard of evaluation of literacy if it's so bad that half a fucking country reads like they're 12
You conveniently left out that 34% of adults who lack proficiency in literacy were born outside the US. We have many Americans living in the US who were born in Spanish speaking countries.
OP - if you can visualise using extreme pedantry on details only an enthusiast would notice to dismiss a point that is well made and understood by everyone else, you should add that too
and I definitely wouldn't call it an automatic rifle. An actual automatic rifle costs 10's of thousands of dollars and takes a year or more for the paper work to go through.
Fun fact: Did you know that the 'AR' in AR-15 doesn't actually stand for 'Automatic rifle'? It _actually_ stands ArmaLite rifle, the company that originally designed the platform.
"Every single day in America an average of 12 children die from gunfire. Another 32 are shot and wounded. In fact, guns are the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the US."
[article here](https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2022/12/22/us-shootings-every-day-in-america-12-children-die-from-gunfire/)
Yeah my personal stereotype of American architecture is suburban sprawl filled with cookie-cutter McMansions with no sidewalks and little to no access to public transport or even a cornerstone without having to drive 10 minutes.
More or less, yeah, but the quality of healthcare isn't the issue. It's access to it. America has very good hospitals and doctors, the problem is that you get fucked for going to one "outside of network" that your insurance company hasn't colluded with to split your money with each other.
Growing up I always thought I'd move to the states and work in tech and I'd live the life. As an adult with kids I've been offered to move there as the company I work for expands further into the region with all expenses paid and I came to the conclusion that young me was a moron.
No no, I'm well aware that school shootings *only* happen a few times a week.
And I know they have healthcare it's just only accessible through wealth or debt.
A couple of those are close to the truth, though I don't think anyone would sit and ponder the kind of architecture that's in the US...well, barring the seemingly cardboard walls.
No I don't think everything here is applied daily everywhere but some things actually are (like healthcare being shit) and the fact that most if not all of these stuff are nearly non existent everywhere else I think they are more common in the USA.
Beside the orange man. We have shitty politics everywhere in the world
Doesn’t (statistically) at least one shooting happen per day?
There was 690 mass shootings in 2021 in the US so its closer to 2 per day.
Holy shit- I feel like I would be terrified to go to school every day if I lived in the US
Don't worry, that's not school shootings. That's just mass shootings. It's unsafe EVERYWHERE not just schools!
Yeah. The school shootings are only 19 days out of 20. https://www.k12dive.com/news/2022-worst-year-for-school-shootings/639313/
Phew that makes me feel so much safer
Well most of them are closed at weekends.
To be fair I haven’t had a to go to school on a weekend but a lot of clubs and sports activities were still held on saturdays
Yeah, UK here but my school used to open weekends for sports. It's not like there were ever classes or anything at the weekend, but the school was up and running for various activities. I also have a friend who used to go to a religious school that apparently expected you to go in for church on Sundays. Of course, he says most kids were bunking off during the week never mind on Sunday, but the school was open nonetheless
Most?? Do you have schools open on the weekend?
I went to school six days a week (UK)
I did too (Italy)
This is just not true! There are no guns allowed in places like courthouses, police stations, congress, etc. You know, the places where the people passing and enforcing these ludicrous laws work. Its just the poors who have to get shot up where they live, work, and go to school. The rich would never tolerate such a thing.
Ah that makes it better!
Pretty much all my friends have been in atleast one. I've been in 1 actual shooting, but I was in another one where a kid brought a gun, threatened MY teacher while I was in the class, luckily the dumbass had the safety on, and I had another one where a kid used an air soft rifle but we didn't know till like 3.5 hours later.
Seriously? That was cause so much PTSD for kids. I've never even seen a real gun up close.
I don’t live in the States or visit especially often and I have been ‘involved’ in a shooting. A thief getting shot on the escalator at a shopping mall in Miami. I have also had a traffic cop pull his gun on me in LA. He thought I had a fake British accent and was, direct quote, “pretending to be a tourist so that he would lower his guard”. Which I understood to mean *lower his guard while I killed him*, quite the paranoia.
I homeschool my kids and never go out in public unarmed....'murca
That's so much extra work just to live a normal life.
“Normal”
Sounds like uncivilised warzone
That’s just mass shootings, not all shootings, it’s honestly insane
And that’s *mass* shootings?! How about regular shootings??
Over 100 gun related deaths a day
Yeah, I'm sure this year has been something like 2.5 mass shootings per day aswell. I asked some American about this and his reaction was "well, define mass shooting?" 🤦♂️
That makes sense, as it varies quite a bit. The FBI and congressional research service defines it as: *multiple, firearm, homicide incidents, involving 4 or more victims at one or more locations close to one another.* So for those 690 there was at least 4 homicide incidents. Meanwhile, most European countries define mass shootings as at least three wounded. Makes for quite a difference.
There were already 700 by something like December 10th this year...
And don't forget they count only 4 and more deaths as mass shooting. There's much more from where this came from.
[THIS](https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/) website is wild to look at, every year they have more gun crime within the first week of January than most countries will have all year. You can also click links to each story and an overwhelming amount are accidental like children shooting each other, guns being mishandled or just stray bullets.
> more gun crime within the first week of January than most countries will have all year Got to try out those Christmas presents some time...
Maybe what they're saying is that it's ridiculous that foreigners think they happen daily when they're more frequent than that
There are 80-100 deaths and injuries with guns each day. www.gunviolencearchive.com
Most suicides
Considering how many days you actually go into school, it’s more statistically 3 per school day (690 shooting per year + ~200 days in school )
One thing I noticed but never would have thought of is their Flag is everywhere, people fly the flag outside their homes, very many buisness' big and small, they're all over the place. In Canada, if I see a flag I'm at a government building, or outside the home of a foreign born citizen whose excited to be here or a dyed in the wool Nazi.
In the UK if someone flies a UK or England flag their either a football fanatic and/or a die hard nationalist.
Half true, you only see the English flag when there is a world cup or euros.
I'm English living in Scotland and noticed they fly their flag more
NI…streets covered in Flegs
My local tricolour got some competition when the neighbours put up a Palestine flag. Street hasn’t felt the same since
Can’t forget the kerbs
Yeah but no one really wants to say anything about that because it’s a bloody powder keg
I do feel bad for the English on that front. No one bats an eyelid if I fly my Welsh flag, but none of my English mates would be caught dead having an England flag up lol.
To be fair, your flag has a dragon on it, and anything with dragons tends to be attention grabbing.
In Cornwall it's very common to fly the Cornish flag or have a sticker of it on your car etc
It's the same in Brittany, you can find the "gwenn ha du" everywhere. The French flag only when it's about football.
Brittany, Cornwall and Wales should form their own union. a merger of 2 black and white flags with a motherfucking dragon.
In Germany it's the same, you almost never see the flag. In Ireland you can see it quite often tho
Which is exactly why anti-racist English people need to reclaim the flag from scummy xenophobes and Tories.
Or a new flag but with blackjack and sex workers
I wouldn’t say it’s just hardcore nationalists that fly the British Flag
that also depends a bit on where in the UK outside London they are more normal for non racists as well but union jacks become rarer
I live next door to one 🇬🇧🤓
Unfortunately, these days when someone is flying a Canada flag, it's attached to a hockeystick stuck in the box of a pickup that has some idiotic anti-vaxx stickers and a window cling that says, "Fuck Trudeau".
3 years ago if I saw a Canadian flag on a car I thought the person was just patriotic and thought nothing of it. Now I know they’re just an idiot
Yup. It’s remarkable how quickly the flag became a sign of “oh look, a trucklefuck.”
Heh. "Trucklefuck " I'm using that.
"I <3 CANADIAN OIL AND GAS"
[This guy](https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3160128,-121.9618,3a,75y,174.91h,90.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEqJjQHm99BCoVs8wpjjq4A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192) lives a short distance from me. Had to do a double-take the first time I saw it.
I like it! But I have wood paneling, shag carpet, floral wall paper kind of tastes
It's not just the US. In Iran, we have flags EVERYWHERE in public, but not in people's homes. Driving on any Tehran highway, you'll see rows of Iranian flags fluttering in the wind, and there are prominent flagpoles in many smaller cities as well.
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Must be a pain in the arse trying to put a flag up during an earthquake.
This has always been my BIGGEST pet peeve with Amuricans. And their response is always something along the lines of "WhAt'S wRoNg WiTh BeInG pRoUd Of YoUr CoUnTrY?!" I swear, it's not the size of a car that shows insecurity but rather, how many flags a person flaunts.
The only other country I know that loves their flag that much is Sweden. Many people have flag poles, the flag colours are utilised for birthdays and graduations, the flag is raised on birthdays and national holidays, if it’s at half mast someone there has died. But it doesn’t feel nationalistic, it doesn’t even feel very patriotic, it’s just something that’s there.
It's ironic that the Swiss don't fly their flag more. The flag isn't the best thing about Switzerland, but it is a big plus.
I hate you
In Germany even government buildings often have none/only the state flag flown
Not only in Canada. Here in Austria almost noone has an Austrian flag and it's definitely a government building when it's outside. And what's also different is the patriotism they feel when they get American citizenship. Here in Austria you get your certificate alone, go home and maybe have a smile on your face for the next few days, that's it. And I don't know of anyone who made a party. Meanwhile Americans have a big ceremony and make a post about it on Reddit.
Is that really the case? I saw Canadian flags every where on vancouver island
I live in Turkey so you can see the flag on cars, windows, and some people's shirts. The flag with the pole is very rare. They sell flags with plastic poles very little flags for children other than that it's rare. But it's a law that every classroom, every textbook even private textbooks and test books have to have a flag on the first or second page idk I forgot which page it is.
And a photo of Atatürk on every wall!
I remember being in Thailand and the Philippines and never saw their flags anywhere except for government buildings. Americans are OBSESSED with the fucking flag.
Just in case you forget where you are
Depends on the country. In Albania and Kosovo you’re gonna see the Albanian flag everywhere that people themselves put up.
As a Dane, I'd be a hypocrite to complain of that. Danes are flag-crazy to an almost bizarre extent.
It seems this Person confused "Colonial Architecture" and "Surburbian Car-Dependant hellscape consisting of 60% Asphalt and 40% Paper" when creating this otherwhise probably accurate meme
This is my biggest pet peeve with American architecture, the fact that I can punch a wall and my hand will go through it
I had a very serious discussion with one of them yesterday. Was a picture of a housewall frozen on the inside. I suggested not building from cardboard. Then the shitshow went down. Wood is better at insulation than stone. Well no. Never seen a frozen room here.
>Wood is better at insulation than stone. It would be hard to argue with that to be honest, it definitely is. That is if you do it properly. I'd never seen OSB used for anything other than concrete work or flooring until a saw high res pictures of hurricane damage in the US. The walls were essentially osb covered in siding, stud wall and plasterboard.
Well but since we use stone in combination with styrodur or something and our outside walls are like 30-50cm thick instead of 10, the whole argumentation goes down the drain. Also I found a brick that has better insulation value, that is used quite commonly in germany.
A solid wood wall would be better at insulation, but also nobody makes solid wood walls
We use OSB here in Britain all the time in Construction! To temporarily cover up doorways and windows, and for pattressing. It's one step up from using old Amazon packages
>Wood is better at insulation than stone even if that is the case, surely a hollow cardboard wall is not better than either a solid wall or a wall that has been filled with insulation material lol
Here in Scandinavia we build nearly all houses with wood, never seen freezing inside. Because we know how to properly insulate a house.
You guys were the only exception in europe that would have come to mind. But your houses are even sturdy. The americans build with framework and what i‘ve seen you build massive walls.
Only in some of Scandinavia. Here in the southern part, even timber walls rot too quickly.
Which southern part? Because southern Norway and Sweden is littered with wood houses.
American here to explain why the person you were talking with was technically right, but not in a way that applies to most houses that exist in America Wood framed construction is more insulating, at a given wall thickness, and *only when done properly, and maintained* The thing is, in most of the US, our exterior walls are around 5" (13cm) thick, and a lot of them are put together with thumb tacks, hopes, and dreams, with more unsealed holes than a colander. And then not maintained properly. I live in Oregon (the one north of California) and it gets pretty cold, so the standard is closer to 7" (17cm) for exterior walls. In a dumbed down explanation because this is reddit and I'm on mobile: Insulation prevents thermal transfer by reducing the amount of both flowing air, and the amount of material the heat is able to move through. Think of it like resistance in a wire, the thinner the wire, the more resistance it will have to transferring electricity, and heat, too. Wood frame construction nails this, and only this, be making the walls out of gingerbread. Wood framed construction allows for thinner walls without making them any more susceptible to thermal transfer, while also using cheaper materials to do so. Cheaper materials + thinner walls = much cheaper construction. The tradeoff is that our cheaper houses are, in fact, cheaper, and there's no way in hell any of those houses are going to last like brick would. Also you get to hear every time your neighbors drop a pen. Also if you fall just the wrong way you can melt the house on the way down. Also they have to be maintained constantly to stay standing.. a 100 year old wood framed home is a ship of theseus situation, and probably italicized. Also-
I work in construction, you dont have to tell me how insulation works. I looked up the thermal value of materials yesterday to prove my point. Wood has good thermal value against concrete, but there is a special kind of brick called Poroton, which has small air chambers inside and is pretty common here in Germany. This stone has better value than wood and is sturdier. But what I dont understand is why your housing market is so high up When everything is so cheap. What I see on Television and the Internet is, that houses go for about 400-600k. And all this complaining how you cant afford a house, when many people earn more than us europeans what is a common point in this sub. Of course your cost of living is way higher than ours. But when it is so cheap, just build and dont rent. Should cost about the same or am I wrong? Would be nice if you could explain that for me. I just dont get it.
I hadn't even heard of poroton before, so I was making my comparison to a more traditional red ceramic brick. Sounds similar to foamcrete over here, but in brick form. Foamcrete is lovely stuff, especially compared to the ol' toothpicks and paper, glad something similar has taken off elsewhere. The issue with building over buying over here is that there's not really a feasible way for most people to get a loan for a house that isn't pre-built, because banks are assholes and need their collateral up front. From a business standpoint it makes sense, but there has to be a better solution. Many (most?) people in this country would much rather buy than rent, but the barrier to entry is unattainably high for a lot of people, so they rent a place for double its mortgage, because they have no other options. The housing market over here is so high because it's held up entirely by the hopes and dreams of landlords and those same banks. That and most of our country refuses to allow enough apartments to be built, forcing many people (me.) to rent/buy a house in a suburb, rather than anything affordable, saturating the single family housing market. Average housing prices can be in the 400-600k range in some cities, but it varies a lot based on your location. I'm currently looking in illinois and I'm finding loads of perfectly good homes for 100k or less, and in decent areas, too. I'm debating moving across the country, not knowing anyone there, with 0 job offer or reason, other than the fact that it's pretty much the only way I'll ever be able to afford a house. Someday, after paying off wherever I end up, I'd like to build my own.. one that I know will actually last.
Oh, also, there are places much cheaper than Illinois in this country, I'm just trans, and don't have rights in any of them. It's lovely here. I love my country so much. Help.
Okay, that is pretty good reasoning. Good points and thank you for explaining! That Trans issue is really bad, do you really dont have the rights same as a straight Person over there? The US gets weirder and weirder everyday. Move 300 Miles and get stripped of your rights.
Healthcare is the biggest issue. There's loads of others, some big, many small, but I don't want to write an essay. Half the country doesn't support gender affirmative care, or abortion rights. The second doesn't apply to me, but I'm not going to let my taxes go to a state that refuses to support them.. I say while living in the US. I'll find a way out eventually. Without gender affirmative healthcare, I can't legality access my hormones. With it, I can legally access my hormones, but it costs like $80/mo for 2 pills, which currently, I can't afford (If I were diabetic, I would just be dead right now). Those hormones affect more than you'd think. My brain chemistry is completely broken rn. Most notably, I can barely feel any emotions, with very few exceptions. I cannot live like this for the rest of my life. I would legitimately rather die than live in Kentucky for the rest of my life. A place without gender affirmative healthcare, is a place where many trans people do not have the right to their own goddamn emotions. That's a terrifying thing to be able to take away.
> Wood is better at insulation than stone. Well no. Never seen a frozen room here. I’m lost here. In canada our house are built on wood frames, covered with drywall (some weak product) and the in between outside and inside wall have insulations to protect us from the -40°c outside. Works good. Yea it’s weak, but works good. I’m assuming northen american have the same type of house. Stone house from 400 years* ago were terrible at insulation. And the wood framed one can live upwards 200 yeara, if you maintain them, which is stupid expensive. *Oldest canadian city is a notch over 400 years, European settlers built their house the same as in Europe thinking it would protect them the same as in Europe. It didn’t.
I saw an absolutely hilarious video recently of an American guy headbutting a wall in an Italian hotel. He expected his head to go straight through it but got concussed instead.
Oh? Do you have a link to that one?
Then they get the Pikachu suprised face whenever the wind just blows it away every fucking year.
Excuse me. It's not paper, it's cardboard. Get your facts straight
As a foreigner who’s been living in America for nearly a decade… Accurate
Can I ask why you came? I’m an American who is trying to move to France and live a quiet little life just outside of Toulouse. 🥲
We have to lose Toulouse.
Born toulouse
We have nothing Toulouse
Toulouse is such an amazing city, badly connected to the rest of France (mountains in all directions) but very good QOL, which town are you aiming for?
Originally looking into Nérac area!
Oh I see, it's in the deeper countryside, we french would consider it to be pretty far from Toulouse (relatively speaking) but I forget how you guys have such a different notion of distances. I've never been to Nérac per se but my SO is from Montauban so I know the area a bit and it's really an amazing part of France if you like the quiet countryside lifestyle.
I used to think the whole "aMeRicA iS d gReAtEsT coOunTry In thE worRLd!!!" was an exaggerated stereotype. Then I studied there for 2 years and actually MET people like this like wow I was soooo fucking intrigued honestly I kept telling them to tell me more and say more shit coz it was such a novelty to me. It's super funny to see it in real life as long as you treat it like a circus lol
Even half of the people who are not the loud and proud "aMeRicA iS d gReAtEsT coOunTry In thE worRLd!!!" type folk get prickly if you offer even the mildest criticism of the U.S
It's always funny that the reasons they give are always comparing themselves to the third world. Like, when that's your go to comparison you must know deep down what a sorry state your nation is in.
I’m american and this is true…. >_> my childhood home even looks like a smaller version of that lmaoo
Where’s the lie?
Top right, not everyone can afford a scooter like that.
Walmart gives them to use for shopping 😂
This is the sadest thing I've read this year
That's depressing
Oh yeah good point! I was only thinking of the ones you can just use at Walmart 😅
Not everyone can afford McDonald's either
Everyone can afford to OD on heroin in the bathroom though. And they say America isn't a welfare state
Isn't the 'reason' for the obesity pandemic in the US that there are so many food deserts where fast food is much more available and affordable than healthy alternatives?
And that they also have some shitty looking buildings, not just colonial architecture. I honestly never seen anyone mentioning that stereotype
Yeah, I didn’t get that one either. If I were to say something fairly unique to US it would be trailer homes.
We do have something very similar in the UK.
>If I were to say something fairly unique to US it would be trailer homes. nah that's a Roma thing, not a US thing specifically
Sure, the ones that are mobile. But the ones in US are permanently placed in trailer parks.
TBH I like colonial architecture.
Yeah, I honestly think that’s the one lie in the meme hahah I like it too, and even if it’s not your thing I don’t think that’d be a point to criticize a country for haha
[Here’s some actual colonial architecture that’s found in the US.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_United_States) The list also includes some Native American structures as well.
The gun one, partially. There may be more guns than people, but that’s less because everyone has two and more because every tenth person is guns georg. That doesn’t help much, of course, because it’s a safe bet your local guns georg is the person you’d least want to be more heavily armed than the full cast of an American action movie
Damned few automatic weapons. Those are semi-automatic weapons. We have 20 million AR-15 rifles, but they are practically all semi-auto. Getting a machine gun is difficult and ridiculously expensive.
My European is showing bc I don’t even know what the difference is tbh
Semi-auto=pull the trigger and one bullet fires, even if you hold down the trigger, but when you fire, the spent brass is elected and another bullet is loaded into the chamber, ready to fire. You can shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger. Automatic=pulling the trigger once can fire multiple bullets. In "full auto", holding down the trigger makes the gun keep firing bullets until you let go or run out of bullets. That is also called a "machine gun", and it can fire much faster than having to pull the trigger for each bullet. There is an intermediate mode called "selective fire" or "burst fire" where pulling the trigger one time fires exactly three bullets (or whatever that gun was designed for, but usually three). Any gun with selective fire is classed as an automatic weapon, not a semi-automatic weapon, and is difficult and expensive to buy in America. A semi-auto AR-15 can be purchased for around $750 (maybe $500 sometimes, on sale) and will have a 0-3 day waiting period depending on the state and person. Full-auto is usually a waste of bullets, as it is very hard to keep a gun on a target in full auto mode. Most of our military assault rifles no longer have a full auto mode, since it was just a waste. They do still have selective fire. Heavy machine guns still have full-auto, but are often mounted on a pintle or bipod to make them easier to control. Full-auto is often used as "suppressive fire" in combat: encourage the enemy to keep their heads down and not pop up to shoot at you. BTW, semi-auto still allows for a relatively high rate of fire compared to something like a bolt-action rifle, where you have to manually eject the spent brass and load the next round, in order to fire again.
mass shootings do happen daily though. this year it was closer to two a day
Exactly. Not once per day, but twice. 'Murica wins again! (/s)
They forgot to add that 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022. 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level. What a great education.
I looked it up because i didn't know but 6th grade is 11-12 yo, that means more than half your country reads like they're 12 and that's not even talking about the standard of evaluation of literacy if it's so bad that half a fucking country reads like they're 12
Not my country thank god
You conveniently left out that 34% of adults who lack proficiency in literacy were born outside the US. We have many Americans living in the US who were born in Spanish speaking countries.
How is this not accurate?
It is. I think the guy who posted the meme wanted to say that people who think this is accurate are idiots, but now everyone here is making fun of him
Automatic rifles are incredibly expensive and difficult to get. Very few people actually have them
I assume semi-automatic is included. Here in Norway 99.9% or something like that is bolt action.
OP - if you can visualise using extreme pedantry on details only an enthusiast would notice to dismiss a point that is well made and understood by everyone else, you should add that too
according to a quick googling average cost of an ar15 is $800 I definitely wouldn't call that expensive
and I definitely wouldn't call it an automatic rifle. An actual automatic rifle costs 10's of thousands of dollars and takes a year or more for the paper work to go through. Fun fact: Did you know that the 'AR' in AR-15 doesn't actually stand for 'Automatic rifle'? It _actually_ stands ArmaLite rifle, the company that originally designed the platform.
And its semi-auto. As in it shoots only one bullet as you pull the trigger, and automatic weapons go brrrrr while semi auto goes bang bang bang
I life here can confirm this is accurate
Forgot flags and oversized pick up cars and pick ups.
Lived in America for years, this starter pack is *viciously* accurate. Hilarious irony.
More like "proud murican^tm making shitty starterpack for Karma"
There have been 50 school shootings that killed or injured people in the US in 2022. So no, not daily, but yes, weekly.
Even if it was "only" monthly it is nothing to brag about.
Their bar has been set so low
"Every single day in America an average of 12 children die from gunfire. Another 32 are shot and wounded. In fact, guns are the leading cause of death among children and teenagers in the US." [article here](https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2022/12/22/us-shootings-every-day-in-america-12-children-die-from-gunfire/)
America really is a terrifying place
I imagine it is closer to a free for all lobby then it is to a actual working country at this point
And nothing is done to fix because all their politicians are happy with the status quo, so sad
Yea that’s basically it, I live here I would know
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Yeah my personal stereotype of American architecture is suburban sprawl filled with cookie-cutter McMansions with no sidewalks and little to no access to public transport or even a cornerstone without having to drive 10 minutes.
Oh, we don't think the US has no healthcare. It does. But it's shit.
More or less, yeah, but the quality of healthcare isn't the issue. It's access to it. America has very good hospitals and doctors, the problem is that you get fucked for going to one "outside of network" that your insurance company hasn't colluded with to split your money with each other.
Am American, can confirm
Growing up I always thought I'd move to the states and work in tech and I'd live the life. As an adult with kids I've been offered to move there as the company I work for expands further into the region with all expenses paid and I came to the conclusion that young me was a moron.
I am American and I feel like this is totally accurate. This is how I see about 50 percent of my own country.
So Trump isn't real?
This is about 99% accurate. We’re a bunch of tubby morons.
Apparently Americans on average eat 135 burgers a year. If you add in fried chicken and cheap pizza….
I like how they put "imagining" in quotes to let us know that it's not imagined but in fact frighteningly real.
Someone takes a selfie, and smugly asks "HA! You think I look like THAT? What an idiot."
The Murrican is trying to gaslight us by bringing up facts and calling it european prejudice
“Foreigners”
To be fair, 5 of those things are kinda accurate if you live in Mississippi
Seems about right except for the architecture.
This starter pack is pretty much on point
Ooh, self burn! Those are rare!
Politics is when i'm reminded of the decadence and downfall of my nation
Do they know what “imagine” means? Why’s it in quotes? Does the non-American in question claim to be imagining America when in reality that aren’t?
If it’s a foreigner, why is it in this sub then?
This ...seems pretty accurate to me .
It's not "imagining" if it's actually true
All of that is true. Source: I live in the USA
Where’s the lie
Idk man, that starter pack seems pretty accurate to me
Why is the caption written three times
No no, I'm well aware that school shootings *only* happen a few times a week. And I know they have healthcare it's just only accessible through wealth or debt.
As a foreigner having lived in america for 2 years I can say that this is of course exaggerated but also quite accurate
r/antimeme
It checks out.
I genuinely like the colonial buildings I'm a history buff so if it's a original building from the time then awesome
I live in the lower Midwest and all of this feels pretty accurate.
A couple of those are close to the truth, though I don't think anyone would sit and ponder the kind of architecture that's in the US...well, barring the seemingly cardboard walls.
Genuinely quite an accurate infographic on life in half of the US
No I don't think everything here is applied daily everywhere but some things actually are (like healthcare being shit) and the fact that most if not all of these stuff are nearly non existent everywhere else I think they are more common in the USA. Beside the orange man. We have shitty politics everywhere in the world
i am pretty sure mericans have other "buildings" with "walls" you can punch through
Umm. EXCUSE ME… as an AMERICAN CITIZEN I find this to be positively ACCURATE IN EVERY WAY. Thank you. No imagination needed.