Going to the forest to pick mushrooms, nuts and berries. Going to the beach to pick up washed out amber. Having a lot of people grow their own food, even the city folk.
Being atheistic as the norm. Sky daddies don’t hold much power here.
Living below sea level for generations, and only remembering when you see other countries flood.
if NL gets annihilated by some climate related disaster, can the rest of the world claim hubris
Absolutely. You get first dibs on “I told you so”. But until then, I get the right to go “neener neener neeeeeener”" at the sea.
spending to much time at work and to much time on medical billing and administration and spending to much time on taxes and other government paperwork while making enough for now if your lucky but knowing you won’t have whats needed later in life
Unfortunately not just a U.S. thing
You are save to eat raw meat. I Love Mettbröttchen with Zwiebel.
Isn’t that like whole Europe? I eat tartar steak from time to time and I don’t go above medium-rare with normal steaks.
I can tell if you’re Catholic or Protestant by the way you pronounce the letter H.
I thought this was a reply to one of my comments for a second and thought “what kind of roast is that?” haha
Going bankrupt due to medical bills.
It’s easy to tell where you live.
It’s in your username.
People in the UK drink so much tea (or coffee these days), that breaks in soap operas (such as Eastenders) cause the national grid to be on high alert, due to the incredulous surge of power from so many kettles being turned on at once.
That’s incredible actually
People playing and hearing songs with looped beats and vulgar lyrics through a bass boosted sound system which costed them several months worth of minimum wage to pay for having it on their cars. They generally drive slowly through streets near beaches in order to exhibit their “fancy sound systems” while all the vulgarity plays repeatedly. I guess it’s unique from this green-and-yellow country where I live.
I could also say wearing flip-flops and bermudas on a daily basis, or one of the highest usage and dependency of Meta’s WhatsApp worldwide, or the country with the most welcome (often too nosy) people. Or, through a more positive lens, the richest land where crops easily grow when you sow something, the highest ecological diversity (especially plants, it’s so common to find exotic plants here), the highest climate diversity (you can travel south to meet snow, then travel north/northeast to meet hot climates, without leaving the same country), etc.
- Not being able to afford healthcare and insurance.
- Half of the population worshipping a felonious, racist, homophobic sexist as if he’s a deity.
- K.C. Barbecue.
None of these are unique by any means (i wish the second was but fascism is rising globally).
The styles of it tho, I’ll give you that.
There are two types of BBQ: KC and wrong.
Proper Poutine
Cheesesteaks. And no, a steak sandwich doesn’t count.
Chicken cheesesteak with provolone and fried onions on an amoroso rollllllllll
Churches the size of castles full of people preaching humility.
Not just humility but literally poverty as a virtue too
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven but there’s such a thing as the Space Needle, and camels are like tiny compared to that thing…
Good thing the Space Needle has no eye.
Leave me alone! I’m rationalizing!
US or is there another?
Christ I hope there isn’t
Well there’s this place…
I mean I guess you can have ONE but we’re lousy with ‘em over here.
Winning a domestic sports league and calling yourselves “World Champions”
/start rant
Europe loves to shit on US. Find another country or continent that Europe contrasts themselves from more than US. Popular contrasts:
- Gun safety
- Medical expenses
- Educational expenses
- Workers rights
- Length of history
- Mass transit
- Police brutality
I can’t go a day on Lemmy without seeing at least one of the above. Yet, you don’t see daily comments on how Europe is better than Brazil, India, Japan, Australia, Canada, Egypt, South Africa, Mexico, etc. Can you imagine if they did that?
News: Man Freezes to Death in Rural Canada
- EU resident: That never happens here because we have have mandatory heater laws or some shit.
News: 5 People Gunned Down and Robbed in Sao Paulo Favela
- EU resident: No idea what that’s like to live in that fear since we don’t have large pockets of extreme poverty and guns are highly controlled here.
News: Mumbai Police Assault Orphaned Girl
- EU resident: I’ve never heard of such a thing. Our police are here to protect us and orphanages are considered sacred.
News: Almost 90% of Egyptians Have Electric Power
- EU resident: What a shame that Egypt isn’t a developed country.
News: Shoot Out between Rival Cartels Kills 13 Adults, 3 Children
- EU Resident: That’s why we don’t share a border with the US or genocided the indigenous inhabitants here.
If 9/11 happened tomorrow, you’d see comments like, “What a tragedy. I’m happy I feel safe in Europe because we aren’t building bases in the Middle East. The worst thing I have to worry about is if people in Dubai think I’m American when I’m on vacation there.”
We get it. You guys are superior. The US has considerable social problems despite its GDP. You’d think you would be a little more grateful about the US helping yall build those fantastic social programs after you guys fucked yourselves up in WWII. Or US subsidizing your military defense, from aircraft carriers, troops, foreign bases, military equipment production, space, to being a nuclear sponge. Y’all be shitting your pants in the Summer and the freezing your asses of in the Winter with Putin if it wasn’t for us.
/end rant
You see, one of the reasons we like to shit on you so much is because of your fake feeling that you somehow managed to solve WWII.
WWII would be over soon-ish even without you, you joined last minute when it started affecting you directly. Which is fine, you had no obligation to help back then. And it’s great for us that you joined because it means fewer people have lost their lives. But you believing that without you we would have lost is some Putin-level propaganda.
Your misguided belief that thanks to you we have better lives and that’s why you can’t have nice things is not only another great piece of propaganda, it’s also utter nonsense. If you’re capable of doing it, why don’t you do it for yourself?
The other reason we like to shit on you is because you like to cosplay as a developed nation, but the only thing that’s developed about you is being rich, other than that you’re the same dictatorship as other developing nations (except you have two ruling parties, not just one).
What’s the point of making fun of Brazil? What happens there is just sad and everyone knows it, no one pretends otherwise. But in US, when bad shit happens, half of you pretend it’s fine and you’re still somehow superior to everyone around.
Or US subsidizing your military defense,
I’m sorry to say, but the reason the US sucks isn’t because they “sacrifice” so much to help others. This is a super common argument to make, but it’s not true.
The US government spends more on healthcare per capita than most countries, in medicare, medicaid and veterans care. The reason everyone else doesn’t benefit, is because all that money disappears straight into the pockets of the super rich. You could have the same social programs without spending a single cent more, and probably spending less.
You are the reason I’m going to say I’m Canadian if i ever get to visit a better country
