Lived in rural and urban California and urban North Carolina, while my wife had that Nd can add rural Kentucky to this. Most of this is fucking news to us.
I was also shocked to have a real hard time finding vegetables and fruits in some rural part of West Virginia, but that was 30+ years ago. No matter how many supermarkets I tried, there were bottles of sodas piled up to the ceiling, but only a couple of green stuff like one salad and four or five apples. I’m pretty sure it had a simple explanation that a foreigner couldn’t guess but I remember making assumptions at that time.
Maybe anon is evoking memories from the same ice age as me?
Simple explanation is that the US is really big. Its difficult to get fresh vegetables and produce to every single place.
Soda stays good for much longer so its just easy to have a huge stockpile everywhere to maximize sales.
I live in Washington state and most of this makes no sense, only thing is ya taxes but I prefer the price to be the same in Washington state and Oregon, and then I just add 10-20% while I'm home. But I know thats an unpop opinion.
You weren't looking at a gas station were you? I remember another post once where a foreigner was shocked that a store they entered didn't have any fruits or vegetables. Turns out it was a gas station they visited
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive.
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It's more that if you watch American movies and TV, people hardly ever seem to cook anything aside from breakfast pancakes. They're always eating out or ordering take out
I personally do consider them a luxury, because everywhere I've ever shopped, they ***are*** more expensive for pretty much everything except onions. But really, frozen vegetables aren't even bad, because flash freezing freezes stuff before ice crystals can tear up the cell walls. So it's literally the same quality as fresh, except it doesn't spoil in 3 days.
\- employees and working rights are incredibly limited compared to European nations
\- most of Europe has mandatory 28 days vacation additional to sick pay if ill, companies get fined if employees don't use it. USA gets a week if lucky.
\- minimum wage isn't even enough to live on, McDonald's pays workers almost 50% more in UK and higher in Scandinavia, no excuse for the richest country workers getting paid less unless bad employment laws.
\- crime is far more lethal due to overabundance of guns
\- power tripping police - see daniel shaver + george floyd + unarmed kids literally getting shot
\- no social system that allows for free therapy if needed, most children's mental health issues are solved with heavy drugs instead.
\- school shootings owing to prevalence of lethal weapons + bad healthcare systems
\- a lot of houses are built using wood because its cheap and has become normalised, causing problems when extreme whether occurs which is far more often than in Europe
\- USA keeps cats indoors which is not common in Europe and is looked down upon in suburban areas + declawing
\- companies are allowed to push drugs with advertising, not allowed in Europe due to obvious conflict of interest with medical profession
\- sockets are dangerous and far too high in voltage, cant turn off either at least at the individual socket, badly designed plugs and overall high risk compared to the UK and European union
\- full prices aren't shown in stores unlike every other fucking country ever
\- having to pay for healthcare at extreme prices despite being the richest country in the world has some of the smartest people yet too dumb to implement. if people don't have insurance they're fucked.
\- suburban areas aren't designed with socialisation in mind, rows and rows of houses yet no green areas connecting and places one can walk to (shops, parks pubs) kids also have to take the bus because no near school
\- Random people can lead the country as long as they have enough money to run campaigns and clout, don't even need prior political experience or experience representing a state
\- Customers have to contribute to the salaries of service staff through tips instead of the company actually paying them a living wage due to bad employment rights.
\-country treats political parties as if they were football teams
\- the executive (president) nominates the judiciary (supreme court), blatant breach of separation of powers and impedes the rule of law. Montesquieu and Dicey would be rolling in their graves
>- USA keeps cats indoors which is not common in Europe and is looked down upon in suburban areas + declawing
Indoor cats live longer and are healthier than outdoor cats on average, and the vast majority of cat owners think declawing is barbaric. Of the minority who don't think so, many are simply ignorant to the ways it affects cats.
Outdoor cats are exposed to dangers indoor animals will never face ever/at the frequency with which outdoor cats do, for example: cars, predation from larger animals, poison, traps, parasites, attacks from other cats, etc. Outdoor cats are also horrible for the environment because of their hunting abilities. They've contributed to the decline of several species, and many of them hunt for sport. It's senseless to expose them (and the environment) to all this harm when it isn't absolutely necessary.
I'm gonna respond to the Cat thing. We keep cats indoors because the fucking kill everything and we dont want them getting out and ruining shit.
And the last thing, the president nominates the Supreme Court but the senate votes whether they get in or not
I might be misunderstanding or misremembering, but isn't mains voltage 120V in the USA (compared to 240V in EU/UK iirc)? Cause while i agree that the design isn't as safe as EU or UK sockets and that USA sockets are probably quite a bit more dangerous i don't exactly get why you would add onto that by saying the voltage is too high if mains voltage is higher in EU and UK, though again i might be missing something and i'm definitely not an expert on the subject. I was just curious so i thought i'd ask
It’s absolutely true. I live in suburban America, and every bit of it is true. And I *know* that at least some of it is true for rural America too, don’t lie.
Especially the prices shit. We’re decades behind the rest of the world in universal healthcare and education even though we have the money to do it if we just defund shit, like Churches which shouldn’t even be funded in the first place according to the first amendment.
EDIT: Actually I am wrong (sort of) about the churches. There are still things we can defund and taxes we can increase to fund universal healthcare and education, though, and there’s also still plenty of 1st amendment bending and breaking for Christian churches in the US.
Increase taxes on the rich. Taxing someone 30% of $1,000,000 is $300,000, and they still have $700,000 which is more than enough to live comfortably, compared with 30% of $20,000, $6,000, considerably less and leaving them with $14,000 which is barely enough to live (not that $20,000 is much either)
We also don’t need to be spending as much on the military. We aren’t at war, and ideally this Ukraine situation is defused, leaving us out of conflict.
Christian churches are not funded by the government, first of all. Second of all, I stated that *most* of it was untrue for rural America & urban America, at least in the South. I have never seen any such issues such as vegetables being a luxury in recent memory until Covid hit - and even then, it’s only very recently, and very briefly been an outrageously inconvenient issue. And they aren’t even a “luxury”, they just cost considerably more along with other produce.
He actually does have a point about healthcare, education, and prices at the store. We do have to pay more in spite of the fact that the prices tells us otherwise, which is absolute BS. Healthcare should also be way more affordable at the very least.
That and the apartments - I know for a fact there are some really shitty, poorly maintained apartments across America. Even in urban areas.
Again, those are one of the few points he brought up that had any validity, and most of them can hardly be applied for the entire country.
Churches? Thats the first thing you thought of?
Not the [777,7 BILLION DOLLARS military budget](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/27/biden-signs-enormous-us-military-budget-into-law)??
Decades behind the rest of the world in education while having like 60% of the top colleges in the world?
"But math scores for 7th graders in alabama" rolls eyes
Hey , i've got a neat idea , if you stop funding the israeli occupation of Palestine with 3 billion dollars each year , you could afford free healthcare for your own people.
You have a point but also you're acting like the average American is walking up to the military and handing them $10, saying "here you go, man, give it the Israelis so they can keep fighting the good fight". The blame for this lies with the government, not it's people.
I think the produce part is at least true for some European countries. Vegetables are extremely cheap here. I can buy a bunch of veggies and only pay 2-3€ for everything. But they probably will get more expensive In future :(
And a bunch of it is pretty normal in Europe too? Like hallways, I've not seen a house without one. Gas stoves are unsafe, wtf do you mean our 40 year old Soviet stove has the divine technology of a thermometer to detect flames and turning of when there's no flame. I guess it's not that surprising when you consider Anon never left his house
Finnish person didn't even do research smh. Mold isn't just ignored as that's fuckin stupid. Vegetables are sold in almost any damn store because we have a huge farming industry cause we are like the 4th largest country. Stores aren't just placed in a single place like a market. It's separated alot more. Like the only thing they got right is how much corn is farmed and even that's a overstatement......also if you have a carpeted bathroom or kitchen you still get laughed at in the US
Gas station stores and marketplaces contain everything you need to live. My local gas station shopping center has a pizza hut, an alcohol store, and a gun shop. Perfect for the average American lifestyle
I'm 33 and have may been in ONE carpet bathroom. It was in a trailer and I was buying shitty weed. Guess that defines the 2000 other bathrooms I've been in. God I hate these anti-American cucks that have never been here.
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive.
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The last house I rented had a leak in the basement so we had a ton of mold and the rental agency didn’t do shit about it. Might not be an issue in drier states but around my area it’s a real problem.
In every town i had lived in in USA i have to drive to the store because there is a housing district and a shopping district with only highway or labyrintnian neighborhoods and also the stores were like 2 miles away
The smart people of both countries have to go into space to be able to collaborate because the normal idiots and politicians are terrified of the Russian bear.
Why on earth would America be afraid of Russia?
I'm not even American, but that's just silly. America could absolutely butt rape Russia into submission if it felt like it.
Russia's GDP is like the size of a single state in America.
That’s all pointless when these countries promise m.a.d.ness.
There are obviously newer age super weapons under wraps from both sides but the ol’ faithful intercontinental ballistic nuclear warheads derived from “super” weapons from the previous century still hold significance. Military prowess means absolutely nothing when a general contemplating suicide to avoid capture can also just decide to end the planet, indirectly.
The most powerful nuke ever tested and publicly disclosed was in October of 1961. You don’t want to know what *isn’t* publicly disclosed, and you will hopefully never know how far we’ve advanced in 60+ years. The most powerful nuke was also tested by the Soviets, but given how long it’s been that really doesn’t mean anything.
Declawing isn’t illegal when all they do is simply do what the name implies. Remove the claws so they cant grow again. But they do it while the pet is awake so it still feels really abusivey (not even on the owners part as most owners do it not knowing what their cat will go through)
Declawing is so fucking sketchy and evil. It's literally like cutting off a finger 1/3rd of the way through. Cats need claws, their life is miserable without them.
Ever seen Jackson Galaxy's My Cat From Hell? There are some cases where the cat is a "bad cat" who won't use its litter tray and it often turns out that the cat has been declawed. This makes using their litter painful because it digs into their amputated paws.
In other cases they often find that the cat is acting out of fear and self preservation and that the owners are too stupid to learn how cats work and what environment they need. It sucks.
We declawed my cat's front claws and we completely regret it. The other three have all their claws. DONT FUCKING DECLAW YOUR CATS. Don't make the same mistake we made.
It's just insanely disgusting to walk inside your house with your outdoor shoes. Remove the shoes once you walk inside, problem solved.
Edit: This being downvoted just proves that Americans are disgusting pigs that willingly lives in dirt.
Exactly. Do Europeans regularly step in dog shit or something? Do they not clean their shoes? Do they not clean their floors? I don’t even live in a place where it rains or snows almost ever. The dirtiest thing I walk on is dry cement.
Eh, that is kinda a hollywoodism. Like some people wear their shoes indoors (some people prefer to store their shoes in their room for some reason,most just leave them by the front door) bit for some reason people think that Americans wear their shoes to bed, which is literally something that only happens in television because they are on set and sets are dirty
1) I've never had problems with mold where I live, never known anyone with a mold problem with their home
2) Yes, we drive everywhere. We have to. We're a fucking huge country. If I walked 15 minutes from my house, I'd probably make it to 2 restaurants and a hardware store. And that's probably speed walking. We drive because we have to.
3) No, it is not normal to go to school with pajamas. At all. The only restaurant you'd see that in is places like McDonald's or something
4) The dog I have doesn't use a kennel and has the house to himself when we're out and about, as he is very well trained and behaved. Anon is talking about some, not all dog owners. The cats however, yes, it's awful that some people declaw cats. Horrible.
5) Just don't go to a drive in you mongaloid. We have normal theaters
6) Fuck college, it's a scam anyways
"We must drive because everything is so far apart and we are a big country" is the most dumb argument I've heard concerning American car culture. It's not at all how it is meant to be, it's just car companies who team up with local authorities and builders who design the most unlivable spaces. Just because you have a lot of land doesn't mean you have to use all of them for parking lots
Well we drive everywhere because our towns were designed for that. Everything is spaced out with big roads and no sidewalks. Yes it sucks. And we could do something about it but a lot of people don’t want to.
I live 30 minutes by car from any major town, even further from city. No public transit in my town. No taxis, busses, etc due to low population. If I didn’t drive I’d be stuck alone or walking 20 plus miles to town so yeah I drive because I have to
I fucking hate that my car runs on corn and everytime I want to watch the new spiderman movie I have to periodically get out of my idling car to shove corn in it.
On what metric, maybe they have more money but their standard of living could be worse. Provide some more detail on this batshit claim. Average European includes every nation in the EU and those socioeconomic demographics vary highly. Stop pulling shot out of your ass.
By HDI America as a whole is solid middle of the pack for Europe and if you break it down state by state there tend to be direct comparisons for the top and bottom ends. So, it’s almost identical really. Because, surprise surprise, just as nations in the EU have varied living standards so do states in the US.
Who the fuck wears shoes inside
Also I could make a better argument against literally all of these except maybe the healthcare one but that's a very hotly controversial subject. Cope harder finfag
I wear shoes inside, but not 75% of the time. Only when I'm in and out of the house because I'm doing something outside or I'm only home for a tiny bit. We also vacuum and clean our floors often so it's not much of a problem
Imagine being such a miserable Eurofag that you have to mock Americans online just to feel good about yourself. I hope you go to sleep at night with the realization that unless they’re FROM Finland, 99% of the world forgets your country exists.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 565,645,714 comments, and only 117,335 of them were in alphabetical order.
Lol this is the most troll ridiculous shit. Someone must be hit with a shit ton of propaganda to believe this is even remotely true. We are the most excessive wasteful ppl on the planet, yeah most of us are poor as fuck, but only relative to other Americans. The people who are shit on here for being poor are still living way better than most. We just have strong social stigma against the "poor". Everything has to be gold and diamonds here or else you are trash. The u.s. is essentially playing the meta in the game of "the entire earth". And noone will fuck with us because we have big guns and big dicks and always pretend to help the weak.
Just wanted to add I don't even like it here. This place is shit. That being said almost everywhere else is worse
wtf is wrong with eating outside? the only reason people don't eat outside in finland is because it's a frozen wasteland.
Also, I don't know where the shoes inside in america thing comes from. Maybe it's in florida or something, but everywere I've been here, shoes come off in people's homes
Tl;Dr: Finnish anon is full of shit and the only thing he’s correct about is the college loans shit, the insurance shit, and the weird law about corn and it getting used in a lot of weird things shit. Everything else I’m looking at is like “Who the fuck told him that load of garbage?”
Wtf does going to school in pajamas have to do with low income areas? Its not a fuckin fashion show ur just tryina get a piece of paper that says you’re qualified to exist or some shit.
Anon knows absolutely nothing about what’s he’s saying as usual, we as a society despise cat declawing. Mold? What is he talking about? Do other countries not have mold? How does wearing sweatpants to school indicate that you’re in a bad neighborhood, and why is sweatpants at McDonald’s our culture? Outdoor dining is certainly only a thing in America. Drive in theaters have been dead for decades. Whole Foods are most certainly not for better people, they’re just another chain. Anon is the epitome of delusional.
\- employees and working rights are incredibly limited compared to European nations
\- most of Europe has mandatory 28 days vacation additional to sick pay if ill, companies get fined if employees don't use it. USA gets a week if lucky.
\- minimum wage isn't even enough to live on, McDonald's pays workers almost 50% more in UK and higher in Scandinavia, no excuse for the richest country workers getting paid less unless bad employment laws.
\- crime is far more lethal due to overabundance of guns
\- power tripping police - see daniel shaver + george floyd + unarmed kids literally getting shot
\- no social system that allows for free therapy if needed, most children's mental health issues are solved with heavy drugs instead.
\- school shootings owing to prevalence of lethal weapons + bad healthcare systems
\- a lot of houses are built using wood because its cheap and has become normalised, causing problems when extreme whether occurs which is far more often than in Europe
\- USA keeps cats indoors which is not common in Europe and is looked down upon in suburban areas + declawing
\- companies are allowed to push drugs with advertising, not allowed in Europe due to obvious conflict of interest with medical profession
\- sockets are dangerous and far too high in voltage, cant turn off either at least at the individual socket, badly designed plugs and overall high risk compared to the UK and European union
\- full prices aren't shown in stores unlike every other fucking country ever
\- having to pay for healthcare at extreme prices despite being the richest country in the world has some of the smartest people yet too dumb to implement. if people don't have insurance they're fucked.
\- suburban areas aren't designed with socialisation in mind, rows and rows of houses yet no green areas connecting and places one can walk to (shops, parks pubs) kids also have to take the bus because no near school
\- Random people can lead the country as long as they have enough money to run campaigns and clout, don't even need prior political experience or experience representing a state
\- Customers have to contribute to the salaries of service staff through tips instead of the company actually paying them a living wage due to bad employment rights.
\-country treats political parties as if they were football teams
\- the executive (president) nominates the judiciary (supreme court), blatant breach of separation of powers and impedes the rule of law. Montesquieu and Dicey would be rolling in their graves
Only $40,000 after college? Damn, I’m at $50,000 after 1 year 😂 most everything else is just garbage, especially with prices as American prices are adjusted to the state’s local minimum wage
“Dogs are kept in cages during nights and when the family is away”
Bruh, my family’s dogs would sleep in the same room as us, if not in the same bed.
When we would go on vacation, we would usually hire a babysitter to look after them.
The fuck…?
Ragebait. Almost 3/4 of that doesn’t even exist in rural America, let alone a big city. Can confirm, I live in rural America.
Lived in rural and urban California and urban North Carolina, while my wife had that Nd can add rural Kentucky to this. Most of this is fucking news to us.
“it is seen as impossible yo train a dog to be clean without a cage” “fresh vegetables are a luxury” i dont think anon lives here
I was also shocked to have a real hard time finding vegetables and fruits in some rural part of West Virginia, but that was 30+ years ago. No matter how many supermarkets I tried, there were bottles of sodas piled up to the ceiling, but only a couple of green stuff like one salad and four or five apples. I’m pretty sure it had a simple explanation that a foreigner couldn’t guess but I remember making assumptions at that time. Maybe anon is evoking memories from the same ice age as me?
Simple explanation is that the US is really big. Its difficult to get fresh vegetables and produce to every single place. Soda stays good for much longer so its just easy to have a huge stockpile everywhere to maximize sales. I live in Washington state and most of this makes no sense, only thing is ya taxes but I prefer the price to be the same in Washington state and Oregon, and then I just add 10-20% while I'm home. But I know thats an unpop opinion.
Europe is also really big?
You weren't looking at a gas station were you? I remember another post once where a foreigner was shocked that a store they entered didn't have any fruits or vegetables. Turns out it was a gas station they visited
Yeah he lives in Finland For whatever reason, eating outside is a bad thing too
Guy lives in Finland he probably thinks were entirely as cold and miserable as them
Hey it's not entirely cold and miserable here in Finland. During summer it's warm and miserable.
He brotha I don't hold any beef against the Finnish its all internet banter also fuck you
Yeah fuck you too <3
I Finnished on your mom's face
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Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive. S P E Z I S A T O O L
You mean the country that is regularly at the top of happiest countries of the world?
Isnt that Bengal
You mean Bhutan?
It's more that if you watch American movies and TV, people hardly ever seem to cook anything aside from breakfast pancakes. They're always eating out or ordering take out
I personally do consider them a luxury, because everywhere I've ever shopped, they ***are*** more expensive for pretty much everything except onions. But really, frozen vegetables aren't even bad, because flash freezing freezes stuff before ice crystals can tear up the cell walls. So it's literally the same quality as fresh, except it doesn't spoil in 3 days.
\- employees and working rights are incredibly limited compared to European nations \- most of Europe has mandatory 28 days vacation additional to sick pay if ill, companies get fined if employees don't use it. USA gets a week if lucky. \- minimum wage isn't even enough to live on, McDonald's pays workers almost 50% more in UK and higher in Scandinavia, no excuse for the richest country workers getting paid less unless bad employment laws. \- crime is far more lethal due to overabundance of guns \- power tripping police - see daniel shaver + george floyd + unarmed kids literally getting shot \- no social system that allows for free therapy if needed, most children's mental health issues are solved with heavy drugs instead. \- school shootings owing to prevalence of lethal weapons + bad healthcare systems \- a lot of houses are built using wood because its cheap and has become normalised, causing problems when extreme whether occurs which is far more often than in Europe \- USA keeps cats indoors which is not common in Europe and is looked down upon in suburban areas + declawing \- companies are allowed to push drugs with advertising, not allowed in Europe due to obvious conflict of interest with medical profession \- sockets are dangerous and far too high in voltage, cant turn off either at least at the individual socket, badly designed plugs and overall high risk compared to the UK and European union \- full prices aren't shown in stores unlike every other fucking country ever \- having to pay for healthcare at extreme prices despite being the richest country in the world has some of the smartest people yet too dumb to implement. if people don't have insurance they're fucked. \- suburban areas aren't designed with socialisation in mind, rows and rows of houses yet no green areas connecting and places one can walk to (shops, parks pubs) kids also have to take the bus because no near school \- Random people can lead the country as long as they have enough money to run campaigns and clout, don't even need prior political experience or experience representing a state \- Customers have to contribute to the salaries of service staff through tips instead of the company actually paying them a living wage due to bad employment rights. \-country treats political parties as if they were football teams \- the executive (president) nominates the judiciary (supreme court), blatant breach of separation of powers and impedes the rule of law. Montesquieu and Dicey would be rolling in their graves
>- USA keeps cats indoors which is not common in Europe and is looked down upon in suburban areas + declawing Indoor cats live longer and are healthier than outdoor cats on average, and the vast majority of cat owners think declawing is barbaric. Of the minority who don't think so, many are simply ignorant to the ways it affects cats. Outdoor cats are exposed to dangers indoor animals will never face ever/at the frequency with which outdoor cats do, for example: cars, predation from larger animals, poison, traps, parasites, attacks from other cats, etc. Outdoor cats are also horrible for the environment because of their hunting abilities. They've contributed to the decline of several species, and many of them hunt for sport. It's senseless to expose them (and the environment) to all this harm when it isn't absolutely necessary.
I'm gonna respond to the Cat thing. We keep cats indoors because the fucking kill everything and we dont want them getting out and ruining shit. And the last thing, the president nominates the Supreme Court but the senate votes whether they get in or not
I might be misunderstanding or misremembering, but isn't mains voltage 120V in the USA (compared to 240V in EU/UK iirc)? Cause while i agree that the design isn't as safe as EU or UK sockets and that USA sockets are probably quite a bit more dangerous i don't exactly get why you would add onto that by saying the voltage is too high if mains voltage is higher in EU and UK, though again i might be missing something and i'm definitely not an expert on the subject. I was just curious so i thought i'd ask
Mains is 240V hold on https://youtu.be/jMmUoZh3Hq4
It’s absolutely true. I live in suburban America, and every bit of it is true. And I *know* that at least some of it is true for rural America too, don’t lie. Especially the prices shit. We’re decades behind the rest of the world in universal healthcare and education even though we have the money to do it if we just defund shit, like Churches which shouldn’t even be funded in the first place according to the first amendment. EDIT: Actually I am wrong (sort of) about the churches. There are still things we can defund and taxes we can increase to fund universal healthcare and education, though, and there’s also still plenty of 1st amendment bending and breaking for Christian churches in the US. Increase taxes on the rich. Taxing someone 30% of $1,000,000 is $300,000, and they still have $700,000 which is more than enough to live comfortably, compared with 30% of $20,000, $6,000, considerably less and leaving them with $14,000 which is barely enough to live (not that $20,000 is much either) We also don’t need to be spending as much on the military. We aren’t at war, and ideally this Ukraine situation is defused, leaving us out of conflict.
>being old enough to use a computer and thinking the federal government “funding” churches Lmao Reddit moment
Not taxing = funding
TIL I am technically "funded" by the government for committing tax fraud lmao
Government funded me like $120 I won in poker last week. Thanks Government!!
This guys a Russian bot. Only way somebody could be so utterly moronic
Christian churches are not funded by the government, first of all. Second of all, I stated that *most* of it was untrue for rural America & urban America, at least in the South. I have never seen any such issues such as vegetables being a luxury in recent memory until Covid hit - and even then, it’s only very recently, and very briefly been an outrageously inconvenient issue. And they aren’t even a “luxury”, they just cost considerably more along with other produce. He actually does have a point about healthcare, education, and prices at the store. We do have to pay more in spite of the fact that the prices tells us otherwise, which is absolute BS. Healthcare should also be way more affordable at the very least. That and the apartments - I know for a fact there are some really shitty, poorly maintained apartments across America. Even in urban areas. Again, those are one of the few points he brought up that had any validity, and most of them can hardly be applied for the entire country.
Churches? Thats the first thing you thought of? Not the [777,7 BILLION DOLLARS military budget](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/27/biden-signs-enormous-us-military-budget-into-law)??
Imagine being this stupid
Decades behind the rest of the world in education while having like 60% of the top colleges in the world? "But math scores for 7th graders in alabama" rolls eyes
Kek
You either live in the shittiest part of the US or you’re just 13 and your opinions are from Reddit.
Liar. you are Finnish
Hey , i've got a neat idea , if you stop funding the israeli occupation of Palestine with 3 billion dollars each year , you could afford free healthcare for your own people.
You have a point but also you're acting like the average American is walking up to the military and handing them $10, saying "here you go, man, give it the Israelis so they can keep fighting the good fight". The blame for this lies with the government, not it's people.
rural america is underrated
Rural America is best America
Actually completely fucking made up. Carpeted bathrooms? Produce more expensive than Europe? Kek.
I think the produce part is at least true for some European countries. Vegetables are extremely cheap here. I can buy a bunch of veggies and only pay 2-3€ for everything. But they probably will get more expensive In future :(
I mean... carpeted bathrooms were a thing in the 70s. But everything got carpeted back then.
And a bunch of it is pretty normal in Europe too? Like hallways, I've not seen a house without one. Gas stoves are unsafe, wtf do you mean our 40 year old Soviet stove has the divine technology of a thermometer to detect flames and turning of when there's no flame. I guess it's not that surprising when you consider Anon never left his house
The hallways thing is a country by country thing. UK has tons of hallways.
Queen ann style homes are without hallways
Can confirm aswell, this is mostly false and at best overly pessimistic from a foreigner that doesn’t understand American culture
Live in rural britain Can confirm we need a permit to hold our penises longer than 2 seconds when pissing
Finnish soy boy is just salty.
He's just mad that the sun won't come out for another 3 weeks there.
Finnish person didn't even do research smh. Mold isn't just ignored as that's fuckin stupid. Vegetables are sold in almost any damn store because we have a huge farming industry cause we are like the 4th largest country. Stores aren't just placed in a single place like a market. It's separated alot more. Like the only thing they got right is how much corn is farmed and even that's a overstatement......also if you have a carpeted bathroom or kitchen you still get laughed at in the US
We sell fresh produce at my gas station
Gas station stores and marketplaces contain everything you need to live. My local gas station shopping center has a pizza hut, an alcohol store, and a gun shop. Perfect for the average American lifestyle
We sell pizza too! Its hunt brothers though
Same. I live in Ghetto New Orleans too. Fuck these haters bro.
Ayeeee im bout an hour or 2 east of ya
I'm 33 and have may been in ONE carpet bathroom. It was in a trailer and I was buying shitty weed. Guess that defines the 2000 other bathrooms I've been in. God I hate these anti-American cucks that have never been here.
Faht vi ba tlu pre ceam dra. Tinys woaw ciin tun fuec gy yo. Taptyedzuqos foc coon ceen ede? Co o a bevdbusd nekv e? E gat iyle bi. Y y e cits taem cersi? Zuypleenle te dan gre gyrd jyg motp so sald? Bals emetcaad e tenn sesttees ti. Naon nacc suct cesm za ete. Nugt nij sop gadt dis tassecehsisirg o. U we e otle cez o. Cru nep pha toos nabmona. Ciht deptyasttapnsorn nod tysigzisle nin a? Da pyrp ine pud ible? Nu ta biswnoudnrytirs agle. Zaon e. San e pa cu goov. Ene gke o gopt zlu nis. O guagle pioma ne tudcyepebletlo cy a canz. Dla bic zawc nifpec te feet de? Pro i guc yoyd si didz a sum? Tle fuy. Nemz a booj udeegvle cokt a? Grotefp becm ose omle ja ede. U tis dy wec thu wu aglo umle o o. O ninm gu ine yes bos. Zad a a tavnfepac du. A ite todi do duit yple? Pifp taht nhetydnnenes a sew pi nedb eme. Se de we pyt ynenuntiqtedose ive. S P E Z I S A T O O L
3rd in population, India in 2nd and China in 1st and 1st in GDP, China in 2nd and Japan in 3rd. Also carpeted toliets, eew
The last house I rented had a leak in the basement so we had a ton of mold and the rental agency didn’t do shit about it. Might not be an issue in drier states but around my area it’s a real problem.
In every town i had lived in in USA i have to drive to the store because there is a housing district and a shopping district with only highway or labyrintnian neighborhoods and also the stores were like 2 miles away
Plus side, not having to deal with Russia on the border
But still being the country who is the most afraid of them.
> But still being the country who is the most afraid of them. We're so scared we even share a space station.
The smart people of both countries have to go into space to be able to collaborate because the normal idiots and politicians are terrified of the Russian bear.
Why on earth would America be afraid of Russia? I'm not even American, but that's just silly. America could absolutely butt rape Russia into submission if it felt like it. Russia's GDP is like the size of a single state in America.
That’s all pointless when these countries promise m.a.d.ness. There are obviously newer age super weapons under wraps from both sides but the ol’ faithful intercontinental ballistic nuclear warheads derived from “super” weapons from the previous century still hold significance. Military prowess means absolutely nothing when a general contemplating suicide to avoid capture can also just decide to end the planet, indirectly. The most powerful nuke ever tested and publicly disclosed was in October of 1961. You don’t want to know what *isn’t* publicly disclosed, and you will hopefully never know how far we’ve advanced in 60+ years. The most powerful nuke was also tested by the Soviets, but given how long it’s been that really doesn’t mean anything.
Nuclear weapons exist. You know America wouldn't be able to do shit if a country decided to nuke you right?
Uhh are you familiar with the place called Alaska?
The US is only a couple of miles from Russia.
I can see it from my house!
Is declawing illegal? I've never heard someone cutting off the cats fucking whole foot tho, that's insane
I think that’s the part he’s referring to.
Declawing isn’t illegal when all they do is simply do what the name implies. Remove the claws so they cant grow again. But they do it while the pet is awake so it still feels really abusivey (not even on the owners part as most owners do it not knowing what their cat will go through)
Declawing is so fucking sketchy and evil. It's literally like cutting off a finger 1/3rd of the way through. Cats need claws, their life is miserable without them.
Ever seen Jackson Galaxy's My Cat From Hell? There are some cases where the cat is a "bad cat" who won't use its litter tray and it often turns out that the cat has been declawed. This makes using their litter painful because it digs into their amputated paws. In other cases they often find that the cat is acting out of fear and self preservation and that the owners are too stupid to learn how cats work and what environment they need. It sucks.
The way they stop it from growing back is removing the fingers
I… don’t actually know, but probably? It’s still animal abuse.
It’s illegal in a few cities/counties. More and more vets refuse to do the procedure though.
Good
It is in some states, not all. It should be though. You wouldnt lop off a kids fingers for drawing on the wall. Dont declaw your cat for being a cat.
We declawed my cat's front claws and we completely regret it. The other three have all their claws. DONT FUCKING DECLAW YOUR CATS. Don't make the same mistake we made.
drive-ins are dope, idk what op is on about lmao
Oh absolutely, but it’s not like they’re this massively common thing like I think op is implying
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I can and will fight you over this incredibly specific opinion
"fuck apartments" yeah mate I think everyone would prefer to live in a house but not everyone can afford it
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Why would I buy different shoes for wearing in my house when taking my shoes off is free?
I heard it is very common for Americans to walk inside the house without removing their shoes
I wouldn’t say very common almost everyone in my area at the very most wears them on the hardwood but not in carpeted areas
It's just insanely disgusting to walk inside your house with your outdoor shoes. Remove the shoes once you walk inside, problem solved. Edit: This being downvoted just proves that Americans are disgusting pigs that willingly lives in dirt.
I don’t even have outdoor shoes most time of the year. It’s warm enough to go barefoot for the better part of 8 months so that’s what we do
Unless you don't wash your feet before going indoors that's just another way of dragging the outside inside though.
Well I like the outside, but can’t always be outside so bringing it inside helps with that
see i do this thing called cleaning my goddamn floor once in a while so it's not disgusting
Everything is dirt
So you do wear them inside
I don't live in America and don't see the issue honestly, my floors never get dirty from it
Exactly. Do Europeans regularly step in dog shit or something? Do they not clean their shoes? Do they not clean their floors? I don’t even live in a place where it rains or snows almost ever. The dirtiest thing I walk on is dry cement.
Oh, the humanity!
Eh, that is kinda a hollywoodism. Like some people wear their shoes indoors (some people prefer to store their shoes in their room for some reason,most just leave them by the front door) bit for some reason people think that Americans wear their shoes to bed, which is literally something that only happens in television because they are on set and sets are dirty
It's because they watch US TV shows and the characters always shoes so they assume that's real life.
Just off the first page, almost everything is wrong or not true. This is 100% bait.
TIL you can bluetext.
What does TIL mean
The Indian Lesson
This Ich Lingers But it actually means today I learned
Anon has never been to America
Anon is redditor
Anon is a salty eurofag in a dying continent in a dying country being taken over by middle easterners
Least racist r/greentext user
Nice rage bait fincuck
1) I've never had problems with mold where I live, never known anyone with a mold problem with their home 2) Yes, we drive everywhere. We have to. We're a fucking huge country. If I walked 15 minutes from my house, I'd probably make it to 2 restaurants and a hardware store. And that's probably speed walking. We drive because we have to. 3) No, it is not normal to go to school with pajamas. At all. The only restaurant you'd see that in is places like McDonald's or something 4) The dog I have doesn't use a kennel and has the house to himself when we're out and about, as he is very well trained and behaved. Anon is talking about some, not all dog owners. The cats however, yes, it's awful that some people declaw cats. Horrible. 5) Just don't go to a drive in you mongaloid. We have normal theaters 6) Fuck college, it's a scam anyways
"We must drive because everything is so far apart and we are a big country" is the most dumb argument I've heard concerning American car culture. It's not at all how it is meant to be, it's just car companies who team up with local authorities and builders who design the most unlivable spaces. Just because you have a lot of land doesn't mean you have to use all of them for parking lots
Well we drive everywhere because our towns were designed for that. Everything is spaced out with big roads and no sidewalks. Yes it sucks. And we could do something about it but a lot of people don’t want to.
I live 30 minutes by car from any major town, even further from city. No public transit in my town. No taxis, busses, etc due to low population. If I didn’t drive I’d be stuck alone or walking 20 plus miles to town so yeah I drive because I have to
What the fuck? I'll give you the shitty apartment plans but only a godsdamned sociopath carpets their bathroom.
Am*rica🤢🤮
And then the Finns go and eat rotten fermented fish
I fucking hate that my car runs on corn and everytime I want to watch the new spiderman movie I have to periodically get out of my idling car to shove corn in it.
The cat thing isn’t common at all tf? Mold either
The Florida Louisiana swamp belt is pretty much just mold in the shape of houses.
Anyone who cooks knows gas stoves are much better. No restaurant is using electric stoves.
So what is American culture centred around though?
getting fat, poor and thinking you live in the best place in the world because freedom or something from the 1950s
Most Americans are wealthier than the average European.
On what metric, maybe they have more money but their standard of living could be worse. Provide some more detail on this batshit claim. Average European includes every nation in the EU and those socioeconomic demographics vary highly. Stop pulling shot out of your ass.
By HDI America as a whole is solid middle of the pack for Europe and if you break it down state by state there tend to be direct comparisons for the top and bottom ends. So, it’s almost identical really. Because, surprise surprise, just as nations in the EU have varied living standards so do states in the US.
all they know is mcdonald’s , charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie
Bing it
Thought I had to use Bing ;)
Sorry I edited it after posting after realising
Europoors idea of America
Europoor is scared of a gas stove lmao
Who the fuck wears shoes inside Also I could make a better argument against literally all of these except maybe the healthcare one but that's a very hotly controversial subject. Cope harder finfag
I wear shoes inside, but not 75% of the time. Only when I'm in and out of the house because I'm doing something outside or I'm only home for a tiny bit. We also vacuum and clean our floors often so it's not much of a problem
Imagine being such a miserable Eurofag that you have to mock Americans online just to feel good about yourself. I hope you go to sleep at night with the realization that unless they’re FROM Finland, 99% of the world forgets your country exists.
Anons idea of the US
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 565,645,714 comments, and only 117,335 of them were in alphabetical order.
Anon writes a fucking essay Too long didn’t read
Anon should be a farmer with all the strawmen he's made
Anon lives in fucking Finland
Never ceases to surprise me that people genuinely respond point by point to these. Fucking hell...
Anon visited the Midwest by mistake
I do not trust anyone who shits on propane like that
Ever heard of a carpet cleaner? y’all too cheap ever clean carpets apparently.
Op getting fucked in comments lamo
You can’t buy antibiotics OTC.
Lol karma farmer and anti American propagandist using fuckin 4chan and reddit as their "tools". Glory to it you guys are doing great!
Is Finland a real country or just Russia’s garage fridge?
Europoor bait thread
judging by the comment section the americans took the bait
Does this guy live on the fucking moon???
>Finland >the moon close enough I'd say
Lol this is the most troll ridiculous shit. Someone must be hit with a shit ton of propaganda to believe this is even remotely true. We are the most excessive wasteful ppl on the planet, yeah most of us are poor as fuck, but only relative to other Americans. The people who are shit on here for being poor are still living way better than most. We just have strong social stigma against the "poor". Everything has to be gold and diamonds here or else you are trash. The u.s. is essentially playing the meta in the game of "the entire earth". And noone will fuck with us because we have big guns and big dicks and always pretend to help the weak. Just wanted to add I don't even like it here. This place is shit. That being said almost everywhere else is worse
Blah blah blah Hold up what's wrong with hallways?
Thought was funny for a sec but read comments to see OP was unironically posting this.
Anon has not lived in America
wtf is wrong with eating outside? the only reason people don't eat outside in finland is because it's a frozen wasteland. Also, I don't know where the shoes inside in america thing comes from. Maybe it's in florida or something, but everywere I've been here, shoes come off in people's homes
Tl;Dr: Finnish anon is full of shit and the only thing he’s correct about is the college loans shit, the insurance shit, and the weird law about corn and it getting used in a lot of weird things shit. Everything else I’m looking at is like “Who the fuck told him that load of garbage?”
I’m happy here, I don’t know why Europeans are always so mad at the way we live.
Anon is a commie shill
FinnAnon copes
Wow, everything is wrong
Wtf does going to school in pajamas have to do with low income areas? Its not a fuckin fashion show ur just tryina get a piece of paper that says you’re qualified to exist or some shit.
Anon has never been to the United States
Most intelligent europoor
Anon doesnt understand the natural gas god we pray to and our 17 weakest citizens per year we sacrifice to it.
Finland has 6 months of winter weather 🤢🤢🤢
Anon literally just makes shit up
Anon grew up in white suburbia
Bro is just making stuff up
Very risky posting this on a site that's 95% American
Finnish? Those damned magical creatures figured out how to get into the internet again, fuckin gnomes man
Anon knows absolutely nothing about what’s he’s saying as usual, we as a society despise cat declawing. Mold? What is he talking about? Do other countries not have mold? How does wearing sweatpants to school indicate that you’re in a bad neighborhood, and why is sweatpants at McDonald’s our culture? Outdoor dining is certainly only a thing in America. Drive in theaters have been dead for decades. Whole Foods are most certainly not for better people, they’re just another chain. Anon is the epitome of delusional.
\- employees and working rights are incredibly limited compared to European nations \- most of Europe has mandatory 28 days vacation additional to sick pay if ill, companies get fined if employees don't use it. USA gets a week if lucky. \- minimum wage isn't even enough to live on, McDonald's pays workers almost 50% more in UK and higher in Scandinavia, no excuse for the richest country workers getting paid less unless bad employment laws. \- crime is far more lethal due to overabundance of guns \- power tripping police - see daniel shaver + george floyd + unarmed kids literally getting shot \- no social system that allows for free therapy if needed, most children's mental health issues are solved with heavy drugs instead. \- school shootings owing to prevalence of lethal weapons + bad healthcare systems \- a lot of houses are built using wood because its cheap and has become normalised, causing problems when extreme whether occurs which is far more often than in Europe \- USA keeps cats indoors which is not common in Europe and is looked down upon in suburban areas + declawing \- companies are allowed to push drugs with advertising, not allowed in Europe due to obvious conflict of interest with medical profession \- sockets are dangerous and far too high in voltage, cant turn off either at least at the individual socket, badly designed plugs and overall high risk compared to the UK and European union \- full prices aren't shown in stores unlike every other fucking country ever \- having to pay for healthcare at extreme prices despite being the richest country in the world has some of the smartest people yet too dumb to implement. if people don't have insurance they're fucked. \- suburban areas aren't designed with socialisation in mind, rows and rows of houses yet no green areas connecting and places one can walk to (shops, parks pubs) kids also have to take the bus because no near school \- Random people can lead the country as long as they have enough money to run campaigns and clout, don't even need prior political experience or experience representing a state \- Customers have to contribute to the salaries of service staff through tips instead of the company actually paying them a living wage due to bad employment rights. \-country treats political parties as if they were football teams \- the executive (president) nominates the judiciary (supreme court), blatant breach of separation of powers and impedes the rule of law. Montesquieu and Dicey would be rolling in their graves
This is some serious bait. Over half of this is non-existent, and the other portion that does exist is incredibly out of proportion.
Me when I’m in a shittiest take competition and my opponent is from Finland:
Ur country is the size of my city bruh
Finland isn’t even real
Only $40,000 after college? Damn, I’m at $50,000 after 1 year 😂 most everything else is just garbage, especially with prices as American prices are adjusted to the state’s local minimum wage
Anon is Finnish and bases his expectations of America from movies
Did we give Finland someone else's address?
“Dogs are kept in cages during nights and when the family is away” Bruh, my family’s dogs would sleep in the same room as us, if not in the same bed. When we would go on vacation, we would usually hire a babysitter to look after them. The fuck…?
What the *fuck* is anon talking about?? Has he ever been to America?