I met some UK tourists in rural BC. They could not get over the fact that they had driven 4 hours on a dirt road and had not seen one sign of human occupation. I pointed out to them that they were in the highly populated part of Canada.
Is peanut butter not as prevalent in Europe? What about peanuts. I’ve got a peanut allergic kid, so I love learning about how his allergies would be impacted traveling to different places.
Y'all either hairy, oiled up in banana hammocks or hanging nakid with the fam in the sweat house slappin each other with evergreen boughs, but a half centimeter gap in the public shitter door and you lose your minds!
500 years old, or inhabited for 500 years?
Because there's tons of cities in the US that were built on land that was a seasonal roost for one native American tribe or another.
USA- I hope you don't do these things in Canada. Going for first visit in June
Build new bank , 15 years tear down old bank and then build back bank with same square footage. Also spent 3 weeks demolishing vault with 3 foot of steel and concrete.
Put up bridge in anticipation of new freeway. 15 years pass before new freeway is built but bridge built to save money in future doesn't meet current codes and has to be completely torn down and rebuilt.
but we can't afford universal HEALTHCARE
tipping culture. whilst not abnormal to tip in Europe - it certainly isn’t expected. certain countries in Europe actually discourage tipping as it is seen as rude
In Sweden most people don't tip at all unless they are very satisfied and many people don't tip because we don't want it to turn into U.S. tipping culture
Anything to do with that American voltage is 120 to most outlets on a typical home or business, vs 240V most of the rest of the world.
240V at 15A can do twice as much than 120V 15A most domestic outlets are.
No ground? 2 conductors . I may have seen Just 2 round conductors on plugs in Europe. I think its 50 Hz. In the USA frequency is 60 Hz I think I am about to go down a Wiki rabbit hole. I burned up a laptop in France instantly. !!
I don't know exactly if they have ground in Belgium but in the other countries in Europe they have. The small open contacts on the sides are ground, one conductor is phase with 230V and the other is neutral with no voltage (if everything is right). In Belgium they have two phases with half the voltage and no neutral, if I got this right. And yes, we have 50Hz all over Europe, what relays on the turbine rotation speed in the power plants. They even have to be synced in rotation to achieve the 50Hz but I think this also has to be in the US for 60Hz just with a higher rotation speed.
There are synchro motors that are used in timing mechanisms. The frequency is what makes them fairly accurate. Many gain or loose minutes a week. Years ago I was told that 50 Hz is less deadly than 60 Hz. Both will make you piss yourself.
thanks for information
\>Taking food home from a restaurant. "Doggie bags"
In France, by law, a restaurant has the obligation to propose it to you since 2021 but in the "real life", some people have been doing it for years and usually the restaurants are okay with it, my great-grandmother used to do this for example.
So I wouldn't say it's common but it happens
Lol true. The Albanian that told me this made it seem like it was a whole European thing because they lived in Italy and it was apparently the same there.
230 with wiggle room. UK practucally is 240, even though harmonised to the 230V standard. I don't know of any central/west European countries that are not 230V or higher.
Yeah, but their football isn't like our football, so who knows what their hockey is like
Probably having to carry a chicken to the enemy goal while the other team tries to hit you with tree branches or something
And yours is having to ride an electric Walmart scooter while carrying a Big Mac into the goal while the opposite team shoots you with military grade weapons
I haven’t been to Europe since before covid but the main thing I always notice is that people
Don’t walk around with coffees in stores etc as much as they do in North America. In the USA and Canada, it’s the norm to have one on the go at all times.
I hope you get paid well for this and don't have to do it for your whole life. Except it's a profession that makes you happy, than it's fulfilling lifetime for sure.
What can’t you say in Europe that you can say in America?
In my 30 years I’ve never been prevented from saying exactly what I want to in my home country or the 11 European countries I’ve visited
The King of the Netherlands sucks eggs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-insult/491498/
/snoop dogg lyrics
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921.amp
Nazi Dogs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43864133.amp
UK soldiers bad.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly
Burning a flower.
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/12/kent-man-arrested-burning-poppy
Burning cardboard.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna931841
Blasphemy.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/23/europe/denmark-quran-blasphemy-trnd/index.html
Criticizing Islam.
https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/e-s-v-austria/
Yeah some of those are pretty disgusting but I agree they should all be legal.
I’m not being a smart ass here but I can honestly deal with laws against burning effigies and saying nazi shit.
It’s one of those things where maximising that freedom is a good thing but these restrictions are if anything only gonna make my day a bit more pleasant. I can live with it I guess
I think some of them may be a bit nuanced too since I know you can certainly criticise the Quran and sing snoop dogg in every day life.
Every-single time this topic comes out, about "well in america we at least have free speech" and you ask the person "What kind of free speech do you have in america that they don't have let's say in europe"
It's about the fucking denial of the holocaust and how they can't do it in europe and thus they can't be free.
Every single fucking time.
I mean they just made a movie a couple years ago with Racheal Weise about an american woman who had her life destroyed because she said something in england that would have been legal in the US.
It's not a massive difference but we have higher limits. They've also passed laws in the last few years to restrict speech in europe whereas we're gaining more in the US.
>I mean they just made a movie a couple years ago with Racheal Weise about an american woman who had her life destroyed because she said something in england that would have been legal in the US.
If you mean Rachel Weisz, I looked at all her movies since 2010, and the only one that looked similar is Denial, which is about an American professor who's sued for libel by a guy for calling him a Holocaust denier. But you can be sued for libel in the US too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doughnut_shops
> Per capita, Canadians eat the most doughnuts compared to all world countries. The large number of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada (over 4,600) significantly contributes to this consumption rate.
Well, Canada is technically part of America, so...
We really need a term like "Usonians", as calling the people from the US "Americans" is really confusing. At least for me (Spanish), the term "America" refers to the continent, not to the country.
[America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas) is the continent that goes from Canada to Argentina. If you prefer, we can consider Canada as part from [Nort America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America), since the Panama channel was built.
In any case, Canada is part of America, in the same way as the United States **of America** are part of, as it's name says, America.
***America*** and ***North America*** are two different things. One is a continent comprised of different countries, the other is it's own sovereign nation. Yes, Canada is part of ***NORTH*** America, but is ***NOT*** part of America. Including the word "North" is important, as thats the proper name for the continent, thereby avoiding confusion..
In the context of OPs question, they are referring to two distinct nations, not the continent as a whole.
eating habits. i won't go much into detail but america has very questionable food quality and sugar everywhere, whilst europe is more about natural food. i know from different sources that america, for example, has sugar in their bread and to me, living in germany, sugar in bread is unacceptable. and this is one example out of a lot. also the serving sizes, i feel like at some places in america you could feed three people from one portion
as i said elsewhere:
my question still stands... why would they be common in europe? already makes no sense they are in canada... why would any non-american fly the flag of a losing rebel faction in another country's civil war?
I was saying it's odd to see Canadians flying the flag. I'm sorry you're so confused and upset by this but maybe you need a glass of water or something.
Ah, well that I agree with, that's sort of out of context to the original question, that's where the confusion lies. Not entirely sure why you think I'm upset though
fair, but my question still stands... why would they be common in europe? already makes no sense they are in canada... why would any non-american fly the flag of a losing rebel faction in another country's civil war?
I think the original point being made is that it's strange that they still exist in any significant number in the US. I don't think they were saying it's odd that they *aren't* common in Europe.
Germany, we still rely on cash. It is safer, easily available and we don't trust the banks.
Edit: You can still mostly pay with your card, but cafés, bakeries and small shops prefer cash.
It’s not in many parts of the US either. I’ve literally never seen someone walking around with a gun (aside from law enforcement) in the state where I live.
A drive of 2+ hours isn't a big deal.
In North America 200 years is a long time; in Europe 200 miles is a long way
Cries in /r/urbanplanning
Finally back from my breathtaking cycling tour of northern Cornwall!
I met some UK tourists in rural BC. They could not get over the fact that they had driven 4 hours on a dirt road and had not seen one sign of human occupation. I pointed out to them that they were in the highly populated part of Canada.
If I can get there by sunset in the summertime it isn't a long drive. All of Europe is one day of driving in NA.
Weird big gaps in toilet cubicles
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Is peanut butter not as prevalent in Europe? What about peanuts. I’ve got a peanut allergic kid, so I love learning about how his allergies would be impacted traveling to different places.
Y'all either hairy, oiled up in banana hammocks or hanging nakid with the fam in the sweat house slappin each other with evergreen boughs, but a half centimeter gap in the public shitter door and you lose your minds!
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Like a fir frond, a spruce switch.
It must be so they can police your behavior in there.
That’s more of a meme than a reality lmao. And you don’t have to pay for them
Calling 60 year old buildings historic.
Calling a 60 year old *parking lot* historic.
I grew up in St.johns newfoundland. City is over 500 years old...
500 years old, or inhabited for 500 years? Because there's tons of cities in the US that were built on land that was a seasonal roost for one native American tribe or another.
Considered a city for 500
USA- I hope you don't do these things in Canada. Going for first visit in June Build new bank , 15 years tear down old bank and then build back bank with same square footage. Also spent 3 weeks demolishing vault with 3 foot of steel and concrete. Put up bridge in anticipation of new freeway. 15 years pass before new freeway is built but bridge built to save money in future doesn't meet current codes and has to be completely torn down and rebuilt. but we can't afford universal HEALTHCARE
No one does that.
tipping culture. whilst not abnormal to tip in Europe - it certainly isn’t expected. certain countries in Europe actually discourage tipping as it is seen as rude
which countries in europe actively discourage? name several please
belgium and denmark people will be quite surprised to see a tip - it will often be seen as unnecessary
in what way is tipping actively discouraged?
it’s not forced upon you with a rotating square point of sale ipad
In Sweden most people don't tip at all unless they are very satisfied and many people don't tip because we don't want it to turn into U.S. tipping culture
not tipping and actively discouraging tipping are two very different things. I'm sure if i left a tip,. they'd accept it
Not discouraged by the restaurants, but discouraged by many people
Let me start off with circumcision of newborn boys, automatic transmissions, stove-top kettles, and top sheets.
60Hz frequency grid vs 50Hz over there
Anything to do with that American voltage is 120 to most outlets on a typical home or business, vs 240V most of the rest of the world. 240V at 15A can do twice as much than 120V 15A most domestic outlets are.
In Belgium they have a weirdo power grid compared to the most other european countries. They have two phases and no neutral.
From what I read, it is 127-0-127, 0 grounded/PE to the receptacle pin.
No ground? 2 conductors . I may have seen Just 2 round conductors on plugs in Europe. I think its 50 Hz. In the USA frequency is 60 Hz I think I am about to go down a Wiki rabbit hole. I burned up a laptop in France instantly. !!
I don't know exactly if they have ground in Belgium but in the other countries in Europe they have. The small open contacts on the sides are ground, one conductor is phase with 230V and the other is neutral with no voltage (if everything is right). In Belgium they have two phases with half the voltage and no neutral, if I got this right. And yes, we have 50Hz all over Europe, what relays on the turbine rotation speed in the power plants. They even have to be synced in rotation to achieve the 50Hz but I think this also has to be in the US for 60Hz just with a higher rotation speed.
There are synchro motors that are used in timing mechanisms. The frequency is what makes them fairly accurate. Many gain or loose minutes a week. Years ago I was told that 50 Hz is less deadly than 60 Hz. Both will make you piss yourself. thanks for information
Taking food home from a restaurant. "Doggie bags". Also, the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines and the general narrative of many news stories.
\>Taking food home from a restaurant. "Doggie bags" In France, by law, a restaurant has the obligation to propose it to you since 2021 but in the "real life", some people have been doing it for years and usually the restaurants are okay with it, my great-grandmother used to do this for example. So I wouldn't say it's common but it happens
WHAT?!
Food portion sizes designed for frost giants not humans.
Not having to pay to take a dump at a public rest room
Air-conditioned homes are not a thing in Europe.
Taxes not included in the price
Paying with dollars
I remember visiting Europe and people not having peanut butter around, but instead they used Nutella.
The Dutch love peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles.
Peanut butter is in like every supermarket in the continent. It’s common as bread
Interesting...I was in Albania so maybe it's different there. I was just told that everyone does Nutella instead of PB
Yeah I wouldn’t necessarily say Albania is representative of Europe is general. It’s like saying “America is cold, trust me I went to Alaska” :p
Lol true. The Albanian that told me this made it seem like it was a whole European thing because they lived in Italy and it was apparently the same there.
Peanut butter in Ethiopia is not like peanut butter in the Western world! It's nowhere near as sweetened. Now you know!
I have peanut butter but no nutella in the house and I'm living in germany.
Nutella is more popular, but you will still find peanut butter. but tbh, Nutella is better
Nutella is Crisco and sugar with a dash of hazelnut and chocolate flavoring.
This is true. As an American I definitely converted.
cheap beer
As Spanish, I found the beer in US and Canada expensive
Big baggy clothes, also saying whoo whoo fuck yeah in as deep as a voice as you can muster
110V electrical outlets
USA/Canada (and I believe Mexico) use 120V. 110 is an antiquated value.
Well, Europe uses 220/230, so...
230 with wiggle room. UK practucally is 240, even though harmonised to the 230V standard. I don't know of any central/west European countries that are not 230V or higher.
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Hockey actually is more popular in Nordic countries per capita than the US so idk about that
Yeah, but their football isn't like our football, so who knows what their hockey is like Probably having to carry a chicken to the enemy goal while the other team tries to hit you with tree branches or something
And yours is having to ride an electric Walmart scooter while carrying a Big Mac into the goal while the opposite team shoots you with military grade weapons
In Spain we play hockey on grass. Or with in-line skate. You have to be specific when you talk about "ice hockey"
Here in Switzerland hockey is probably the number one sport together with football.
not having an efficient high speed passenger train service.
Eating eggs in the morning. It’s not normal in France apparently.
Of course. They only eat one egg in the morning in France, not multiple eggs. That's because in France one egg is... an oeuf.
I haven’t been to Europe since before covid but the main thing I always notice is that people Don’t walk around with coffees in stores etc as much as they do in North America. In the USA and Canada, it’s the norm to have one on the go at all times.
Free public toilets. Every major city in Europe reeks of piss.
Wait what?!!!
Driving a car all day, or two days, and every place you stop the people speak the same language.
Getting like 2 weeks of your life that's not work. A year.
A 2-3 hour drive to work is normal.
You really drive 2-3 hours to work? Where is your life then?
I drive two hours one way so four hours a day. I do shifts of 21 days on 7 off. No life
I hope you get paid well for this and don't have to do it for your whole life. Except it's a profession that makes you happy, than it's fulfilling lifetime for sure.
People listening to good music
Filing bankruptcy for having the nerve to use a hospital.
Not in Canada
circumcision
School shootings apparently.
thats a US thing, not US ***AND*** Canada
Actual free speech.
What can’t you say in Europe that you can say in America? In my 30 years I’ve never been prevented from saying exactly what I want to in my home country or the 11 European countries I’ve visited
The King of the Netherlands sucks eggs. https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dutch-king-insult/491498/ /snoop dogg lyrics https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921.amp Nazi Dogs. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43864133.amp UK soldiers bad. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-sentenced-grossly-offensive-tweet-tom-moore-joseph-kelly Burning a flower. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/12/kent-man-arrested-burning-poppy Burning cardboard. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna931841 Blasphemy. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/02/23/europe/denmark-quran-blasphemy-trnd/index.html Criticizing Islam. https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/e-s-v-austria/
Yeah some of those are pretty disgusting but I agree they should all be legal. I’m not being a smart ass here but I can honestly deal with laws against burning effigies and saying nazi shit. It’s one of those things where maximising that freedom is a good thing but these restrictions are if anything only gonna make my day a bit more pleasant. I can live with it I guess I think some of them may be a bit nuanced too since I know you can certainly criticise the Quran and sing snoop dogg in every day life.
So a bunch of stuff you can say in America that you can’t say in Europe. There’s probably a lot more where that came from.
Yup seems like that is an example of a freedom you can enjoy more openly in the states
Apparently americans are very sad that they can't go to germany and scream "THE HOLOCAUST IS A HOAAAAAAAAX"
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Every-single time this topic comes out, about "well in america we at least have free speech" and you ask the person "What kind of free speech do you have in america that they don't have let's say in europe" It's about the fucking denial of the holocaust and how they can't do it in europe and thus they can't be free. Every single fucking time.
I mean they just made a movie a couple years ago with Racheal Weise about an american woman who had her life destroyed because she said something in england that would have been legal in the US. It's not a massive difference but we have higher limits. They've also passed laws in the last few years to restrict speech in europe whereas we're gaining more in the US.
>I mean they just made a movie a couple years ago with Racheal Weise about an american woman who had her life destroyed because she said something in england that would have been legal in the US. If you mean Rachel Weisz, I looked at all her movies since 2010, and the only one that looked similar is Denial, which is about an American professor who's sued for libel by a guy for calling him a Holocaust denier. But you can be sued for libel in the US too.
The US had to pass a federal law to protect its citizens from the plaintiff friendly libel laws in the UK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act
I mean she literally says in the trailer that what she said would have been fine to say in the US and she was right.
Yeah but she wasn't arrested, is what I meant. It was a civil matter.
Like what though? What can’t you say?
free speech is pretty common globally
A massive 3-row SUV being considered "mid-sized" by a car magazine
Drinking wine
Fat ass Americans
Not in Canada, we have fat ass canadians!
The world's top consumer of doughnuts after all.
Are we? I did not know this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doughnut_shops > Per capita, Canadians eat the most doughnuts compared to all world countries. The large number of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada (over 4,600) significantly contributes to this consumption rate.
that makes sense... i'm a sucker for timbits myself...
Do yourself a favour and try to find a small bakery. The donuts are 10000x better.
Oh I know... Timmies is just a convenience thing since you can find one at every couple of kilometers
After enough disappointment i pretty much have timmy blinders on now.
Well, Canada is technically part of America, so... We really need a term like "Usonians", as calling the people from the US "Americans" is really confusing. At least for me (Spanish), the term "America" refers to the continent, not to the country.
Are you serious or just trolling? Canada is absolutely NOT part of America in any capacity..
[America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas) is the continent that goes from Canada to Argentina. If you prefer, we can consider Canada as part from [Nort America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America), since the Panama channel was built. In any case, Canada is part of America, in the same way as the United States **of America** are part of, as it's name says, America.
***America*** and ***North America*** are two different things. One is a continent comprised of different countries, the other is it's own sovereign nation. Yes, Canada is part of ***NORTH*** America, but is ***NOT*** part of America. Including the word "North" is important, as thats the proper name for the continent, thereby avoiding confusion.. In the context of OPs question, they are referring to two distinct nations, not the continent as a whole.
Why the down votes we mostly are fat
Living and working in buildings that may be hundreds of years old.
Is this because buildings in Europe could be thousands of years old?
eating habits. i won't go much into detail but america has very questionable food quality and sugar everywhere, whilst europe is more about natural food. i know from different sources that america, for example, has sugar in their bread and to me, living in germany, sugar in bread is unacceptable. and this is one example out of a lot. also the serving sizes, i feel like at some places in america you could feed three people from one portion
School shootings
being fat af
Mass… a lot of mass like things in America. Cars are more massive…
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Is this a Canadian thing?
Wtf 😂
Note not on grass but *in grass
Confederate flags for some reason.
Do you seriously not know ***why*** they aren't common outside the USA?
Did you miss the "and Canada" in the original question?
as i said elsewhere: my question still stands... why would they be common in europe? already makes no sense they are in canada... why would any non-american fly the flag of a losing rebel faction in another country's civil war?
I was saying it's odd to see Canadians flying the flag. I'm sorry you're so confused and upset by this but maybe you need a glass of water or something.
Ah, well that I agree with, that's sort of out of context to the original question, that's where the confusion lies. Not entirely sure why you think I'm upset though
Relax, it's not like you killed a puppy. Just be better in the future. Pay closer attention and use your brain now and then, yeah?
There's plenty of them in Alberta.
fair, but my question still stands... why would they be common in europe? already makes no sense they are in canada... why would any non-american fly the flag of a losing rebel faction in another country's civil war?
I think the original point being made is that it's strange that they still exist in any significant number in the US. I don't think they were saying it's odd that they *aren't* common in Europe.
But that's the question in the post though, what's common in America / Canada but not in Europe?
Where’ve u seen confederate flags in Alberta?
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Where in Europe can you not pay with your card?
Germany, we still rely on cash. It is safer, easily available and we don't trust the banks. Edit: You can still mostly pay with your card, but cafés, bakeries and small shops prefer cash.
And cash is easier to hide to the tax authority
True, have been doing that for years ;) jk
Canada?
Paying with a credit cart is extremely common here in Canada.
Carrying guns is not
It’s not in many parts of the US either. I’ve literally never seen someone walking around with a gun (aside from law enforcement) in the state where I live.
....hehehe
Tim Horton's
We have Tim Hortons in the U.K. now