Things Americans do

>>77292928
having a basement full of water bottles and bean cans

getting shot

I've had German tourists tell me they were surprised we had electricity out in my middle of nowhere

Have an extra glass door

>>77292975
oh, storm doors? you don't have those?

>>77292928
they shower with their socks and shoes on. This is an anglo thing btw

>>77292988
No, they're retarded

>>77293046
i shower with socks sometimes

i like when they're all soggy and heavy

>>77293046
Shit, how'd you know?

>>77293046
I have never met an American that had done this.

>>77292928
I don't understand why everyone is so confused about microwaving water. When I was younger and more autistic I couldn't boil water for my tea and we didn't own a kettle so I just microwaved it for two minutes. Is this weird?

Paying for college.

I've never heard of anyone microwaving water

there's this old as fuck etiquette rule that says when a couple is walking down the street, the man is supposed to walk on the side of the street.

me and my then brazilian gf were walking down the street, and when we crossed the street i made sure to walk next to it. she asked me why i did that and i explained it was an etiquette thing. when she asked why we do it, i told her, "it's so girls are less likely to get hit by a car."

then she kissed me for the first time :3

Why do Americans put screens on their doors and windows?

Beep beep, real McAmerican coming through. Here to verify your shitty European memes.

>>77292928
I honestly learned about the whole microwaving water thing from /int/ threads like this. I've never met anyone who does that either. Just like the rest of the world, we boil water in a pot or a kettle.

>>77292945
The bean can bit is true. Always handy to have a reserve of canned food.

>>77293973
True as well.

Also, window screens are a definitively American thing. Europeans seem fine with letting their houses swarm with flies for some reason.

>>77294158
keep bugs out and let cool air in

>>77292928
that man is British

Going to drive-through for breakfast

>>77292928
Preparing a big breakfast and only drink the juice

>>77294401
Tbf McDonald's breakfast is great hangover food.

>>77294606
... but that's what you're supposed to do.

Unironically max out their credit cards and pay credit card tier interest, even when they're fully capable of paying the outstanding balance.
Genuinely boggles the mind how someone can think this is a good idea.

>>77292928
I think Americans have water tanks on their houses rather than just getting it through common water supply pipe system

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I don't think anyone else sings their national anthem and a stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordnance fly's overhead.

>>77294165
yeah but why only beans?

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Unironically this is a weird thing that Americans do
You use your dominant hand to hold your fork and move it your secondary hand if you need your knife

>>77295000
this is only true if you live in a rural area.

>>77295136
i only noticed i did this thanks to /int/

>>77295000
Not that I have ever herd, but my family home had a well, got all of our water from there.

Never eat vegetables or any fresh food at home.
Not have sewer system in suburbs

Going out to buy a coffee and then going back home to drink it instead of just making coffee themselves at home.

Clap at the end of things, especially cinema and when a plane lands
Say "you've been a great customer today" after you go through the checkout
Think drinking is really cool because you have to be 21 to do it

>>77295252
>because you have to be 21 to do it
I don't think it has anything to do with the age restriction because we have it st 21 too but nobody makes a big business out of it.

Having front doors open straight into their living rooms.

>>77295267
Alright, but it's more effectively policed in America.

Maybe it's due to he stigma attached to drinking in the US, which has lasted from the prohibition days. You have to go to a special alcohol shop to buy booze, you can't just get it from your local Tescos.

Using plastic cards with magnetic stripes instead of electronic chips.

>>77295297
>You have to go to a special alcohol shop to buy booze
nope you can buy your hooch at any store that sells food. From big stores that have a place for alcohol, to gas stations.

Getting cigarettes its a lot more annoying.

>>77295287
How else would it be?

>>77295313
We have chips though

>>77295349
Front doors should be in the hallway

>>77295336
Maybe it's just in some states then, or after a certain time of night. I'm sure I read you have to go to "liquor stores".

>>77295349
You have a hallway.

>>77295349
open into a foyer

>>77295136
This is dumb, no one does that.
I hold the fork in my dominant hand and knife in other and I don't switch them when I cut. Who the fuck does that?

>>77295297
Can't they literally get booze at convenience stores and petrol stations? That is true in Australia though. Supermarkets have to have a seperate bottleshop attached to it even.

>>77295252
>thinking we wait till age 21 to drink

About as true as the Belgians being the best football nation.

>>77295377
Twinx Peaks told me that you do switch.

>>77295336
Depends on the state to be honest. Where I live, you can get trash can beer at the grocery store/gas station but most things are liquor store only.

>>77295377
we were taught to in school

>>77292928
>strange things that foreigners imagine Americans do
Live in a dorm while studying in university.

>>77295377
Every other American. What are you? A commie?

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>>77295369
>liquor stores
there are liquor stores in all states, but that is just if you want to buy specific shit.

If you want you standard beer/alcohol, you can easily get it at any store, but you may be right on certain states the type of booze common stores can sell but if you want to get drunk, it is not that hard to find alcohol besides liquor stores.

>>77295399
>we
What state are you from? Never been over is in school.

>>77295403
First year almost all do that, by the second year it is much cheaper to find roomates and take the bus.

>>77295403
Isn't that what every non-Russian country does?

>>77295435
oregon I've met know this even from other states

>>77295466
*most people

>>77295466
We don't have that over in Texas. Hmmmmmm.

>>77295455

Nope, there are no dorms in France either

t. got degree in France

The microwave thing is only true when it comes to people too stupid to buy an electric kettle

>>77292945
Only crazy preppers

>>77295000
What

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Using those upright mop-like vacuums instead of the usual droid-like ones.

>>77295297
>>77295369
In certain states/counties they either only sell beer (maybe wine) or no alcohol at all in convenience stores and grocery stores, so you have to buy liquor at dedicated liquor stores if they even allow alcohol to be sold in the county. It's like that where I live, so I have to do nearly 45 minutes round trip for liquor.
t. southerner

being loud, rude, disrespectful

>>77295506

True, we use vacuums like pic related

What is a drone vacuum? Can you show us?

Smiling for no reason.

Saying "sorry" when passing by even if you weren't even aware that they're there.

Saying "thank you" to bus drivers.

>>77295377
Yes you do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_YVjEZ1zc

55 seconds

>>77295518

>being loud, rude, disrespectful

OP said strange things, none of these are strange. In fact I've seen more chinese overseas embody these stereotypes than American tourists.

But we all know you aren't really Chinese anyways.

Calling peanut paste peanut "butter".

>>77292928
I hadn't heard this microwave meme until I came to /int/
The only time I've microwaved water was when it was in a bowl with some instant ramen.

>>77295514
yeah, I thought this was the case.

I can only guess It's a cultural remnant of the prohibition era.

>>77295537

>Smiling for no reason.

Americans smile when they are happy or when they are trying to be friendly - which is quite often. I know that in Slav countries smiling is a sign of weakness / crazy people / flirting but it isn't the same in the states. We aren't cold machines and (generally) wear our feelings on our sleeves.

>>77295380
They even have drive-through liquor stores.

They're called brew-thrus

>>77295380
Aldi doesn't. I'm guessing it's because of the age restriction on selling alcohol, because then they couldn't hire 14 year olds for $7 an hour.

>>77295559
Pretty much, and what with the Christian sentiment in the South, the laws still hate liquor. People still figure out how to drive drunk around here anyway.

>>77295380

In my state you can't (Texas)

>>77295568

There is no such thing as a "brew-thru"

Or atleast I have never seen one

>>77295297
holdouts from prohibition explain a lot of north american drinking behaviour
for instance: here in canada a pint is legally 20 imperial ounces as decreed by her royal majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, by the grace of god. But because of our barbarian cutural practices, the 16 ounce pint dominates and those who question such are branded as alcoholics.

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Holding gamepads like this.

>>77295552
Our peanut 'paste' comes from a jar. That's why we call it 'butter'.

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Good thread

>>77295603
canada is worse in some places
take a trip to the lcbo

>>77295607

Not true, I've only ever seen europeans do that

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>>77295596

>>77295136
>how to eat salad

>>77295579
the one weird positive of government controlled liquor/beer stores in Canada is that even if you pay an absurd markup as well as absurd taxes employees know what the fuck they're selling to you, they've drunk it and know the tasting notes.
I never though much about it until I stopped being poor, now I like it

Using single inverted comma ' instead of double inverted commas ".

>>77295624

What the fuck is that? We are talking about USA - not Florida anon. I speak on behalf of majority of Americans when I say that this is ridiculous

>>77295616
I just said it was worse man
we've got all the british ritual of drinking without british rules.
I mean, for canadian drinkers, a trip across the border often seems like a pilgrimage. While there's still a prudish attitude towards alcohol in the states, the pricing is more than agreeable.

>>77295613
this still makes no sense

butter comes in sticks, not in jars

>>77295624
That's really strange

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>>77295691

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>>77295653

>>77293046
I strap on my biggest boots and my wooliest socks for shower time

>>77295624
I have never seen anything like this in my life.

>>77295720

Just because they exist in one or two locations does not mean they are widely known

Just look at all these americanons - none of us have ever seen these

>>77294065
This is a thing in quite a lot of places I think, I always do it for my gf and she'd say 'thank you', I asked her why she thanked me and she told me how when she was young her dad said it was what a man should do for a woman

also really cute story, thanks for sharing :)

>>77295717
This is what poor people buy. Butter isn't supposed to come in a tub.

>>77292928
They have to hide their beer bottles in brown bags and can't drink alcohol in public.
Land of the free my ass

>>77295717
that's a tub, not a jar

>>77295720
Flyover country. That explains a lot.

>>77295807
Whatever, same thing.

>>77295778
kys richcuck

tub > stick

>>77295828
>paying for unhealthy foods that will make you fatter and unhealthy
>no money for healthcare

Kek

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>>77295552
>eating paste
That's the worst naming convention I've ever heard. Really think about why calling it "butter" is strange to you when your phrase indicates you're eating glue.

>>77294981
They tell teenagers "you need to be making monthly credit card payments to build up your credit score"

>>77295836
You aren't supposed to eat it all in one go, you fat fuck. One tub could easily last a few months.

>>77295805

Both true. EU is great about this. Not sure if its illegal in Germany but in France nobody cares if you drink in public. If you do that here you will have a bad time with the police.

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>mfw Yuropoors don't have an extra fridge in the garage

Bomb the shit out of mudslines

>>77295818

Designed for a family. Truly only a fatfuck could eat all of those in one go.

Fuck, who am I kidding. I know several friends who could eat that all solo. Most of us are fat.

>>77295872
I'm not fat and how the hell am I supposed to know? I buy stick butter like a normal human

>>77295912
Serbians did a lot of that too

>>77295937
You and your friends are disgusting

>>77296012

I'm not fat tho. Just hang around stoners who eat a fuckton of food. What a shocker right

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>Renaissance fairs

Why?

>>77296046
Lack of culture.

>>77296046
>>77296069


Renaissance fairs are awesome, shut your whore mouth. They exist because we like to larp / pretend we are medieval europeans and get drunk on mead

>>77295455
Certainly not here and also not in Germany where I did Erasmus.

>>77295624
Wait is everyone serious

This is called a bottl-o here

Every single Bottle shop has a drive thru here.

Drink so much shit coffee. I never understood why are they such plebs when it comes to coffee. They drink watered down filter coffee (they call it DRIP lmao)
Plus they add so much god damn cream.

>>77292928
not only believed apocalypse, even wish it to be real for religious bullshit and some prepare own shelter in order to survive.

they live in kinda fantasy world.

>>77296265

>not only believed apocalypse, even wish it to be real for religious bullshit

Majority of us don't believe that shit. Sure there are religious nutjobs but they are not the majority

>and some prepare own shelter in order to survive.

True

>they live in kinda fantasy world.

True

>>77296223

Function over form. Americans dont drink coffee for the taste anon they drink it to wake up and continue their office slave duties

Unless if you go to Portland / Oregon kek. There they are very serious about their microbrewed coffees that match with their hipster brewed beers

wearing shoes in the house. didnt you step in public bathroom? thats nasty

Eat cheesburgers burgers for breakfast at 7 am.

Drinking and driving literally all the time, ever Yank tv show seems to have excessive drink driving and there doesn't seem to be any stigma against it. We have huge media campaigns about how you're a massive wanker if you drink drive so seeing it constantly flaunted as the norm on your tv shows is just so alien to me.

>>77296347

True

>>77296381

Not often but sometimes, true

>>77296398

True. Some people actually drink beers when they are at the wheel, its pretty disgusting tb h

>>77296223
If you think Americans are plebs with coffee, wait till you come to the UK (almost 80% of all coffee sold here is instant coffee, very few people own coffee makers)

>>77296046
>the piss stain on the bearded dude's pants
God Bless

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>>77296304
Eugene OR reporting, this is accurate.

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>>77296448

>insinuating people want to come to your irrelevant country

>>77296398
Not where I live. They have billboards comparing the cost of a cab and dui, and a catchy:
>IF YOU'RE GONNA DRIVE HAMMERED, YOU'RE GONNA GET NAILED
Not to mention the Moms Against Drunk Driving (MADD) organization.

>>77296583

>IF YOU'RE GONNA DRIVE HAMMERED, YOU'RE GONNA GET NAILED

Damn thats clever. Here it's just

"786 TEXANS DIE EACH YEAR ON OUR ROADS FROM DRUNK DRIVING"

>>77296448
Also noticed a lack of dairy selection. Only found 1-2 kind of "yoghurt" and they were sweetened. Here you can get kefir/yoghurt/sour cream dozens of kinds

Taking "gender studies" meme bachelors or whatever when going to college
Putting peanut butter or bacon everywhere when it comes to food
Driving automatic cars
Owning more than 2 credit cards

>>77296858

True on everything except the gender studies one, only turbo feminists would take a meme degree like that

>>77296744
there's like 20 kinds of yoplait

>>77296347
We don't wear shoes inside the house.

>>77292928
drink some watered abomination and calling it 'beer'

>>77292928
they don't have glasses they drink from jars

americans crap to the movie when it end

>>77292928
>strange things that foreigners imagine Americans do
Unironically enjoying Nintendo games.

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>>77299644
fuck you nintendo is good

Wear baggy suits

Be incapable of wearing proper suits

>>77299727
Maybe if you're 10.

>>77294158
Bugs suck we need protection from them.

>>77295778
Butter is the same shit from a tub or sticks.

>>77295607
how are you supposed to holdit

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>>77299597
>crap to the movie
I thought they only sharted in marts

>>77300232
Sharting is a God-given right for every free citizen of the US of A protected by the constitution and cannot be limited to only a single venue

>>77295022
>I don't think anyone else sings their national anthem and a stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordnance fly's overhead.
Because nobody else CAN sing their national anthem while their stealth bomber capable of dropping nuclear ordnance flies overhead.

Are drive thru liquor stores an american thing?
I never saw any in Europe

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Poop in McDonalds bathrooms
Found this yesterday after selling my blood plasma for $80

>>77292928
USA chant at EVO
I never saw such a nationalism in other countries tournament.

>>77292928
>The microwaving water thing is true by the way
Bullshit.

>>77294065
And if there's a puddle and a car goes by you'd be more likely to get splashed. My mom said if a girl is street side it means she's "for sale".

>>77295541
>there are only two styles of dinning
Christ I fucking hate that stereotypical American arrogance. Also, anyone putting down their knife and changing the hand they hold their fork with before taking a bite would be seen as mentally challenged if they did that here.

>>77303870
>at eorm
>want tea
>go to break room
>get a mug, fill with water and microwave for 2 minutes until boiling
>drop tea bag in
>now have tea
Wow so whacky and chrurazyyy! I have an electric kettle at home though.

>>77292945
my father does this.

>>77304390
Fuck *>at work

>>77295624

i'd use it if something like that existed here

>>77293744
>we didn't own a kettle
Yes, that's weird.

>>77304130
My grandmother told me that you cut with your right hand your entire meal, then swap and put your fork in the right hand and use the knife if you need

She said cutting with your left hand and immediatly eating that bite is an impatient, European way of eating.

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>>77303630
They really want that win. This years EVO was their closest chance since forever.

>>77299739
There aren't a lot of places to get a suit tailored, and I think most people just assume it's expensive to do.

>>77295022
cool as fuck desu

>>77304130
It's an old American practise. Thet actually did it so slow down the eating process and prevent gluttony.

>>77294158
So we can get a cool breeze without getting eaten alive by mosquitos.

>>77295252
I have never seen someone clap when a plane lands. Do people actually do this. Also never heard someone clap at a movie theatre either. Really I've only heard people clap at live performances.

>>77307743
I have never seen it in an American movie theatre that I recall but I have definitely seen it on flights in the states.

>>77295297
Only certain states have booze shops. Most midwestern and western states don't. The state I grew up in (Wisconsin) has very relaxed drinking laws compared to other states. I used to drink beer when out to dinner with my parents when I was 16 because I could legally order a beer if my parents said it was ok.

>>77295568
Only in Florida have I seen one.

>>77295637
You mean "quotation marks?"

>>77292928
1. Act all fake friendly towards strangers asking them questions you dont really give a shit about.

When I was in the US I couldnt go into a fucking store without some dumb amerishart asking me "Hello, How are you?" like a fake friendly robot.

2. Wear outdoor shoes inside. Our upper class wears indoor shoes, but Thats not the same as walking around in your Timberland boots inside your home.

3. Buy bottled water. I heard americans cant drink their tap water. 3rd world t b h.

>>77299644
Maybe in 1993.

>>77296347
This is a meme that irks me. 99% of Americans take theirs shoes off when they are in a house. You only see people with shoes on in doors because they don't want to waste time filming their actors/actresses putting on or taking off their shoes.

Maybe been mentioned but they talk too much.
I work with tourists and get a lot of Americans, they never shut up. Even when you try to explain something or give a security breafing they gotta spew out shit.
Sometimes I feel like leading a group straight down the deepest crevasse I know and leave them down there..
And in my experience the southerners are a lot more friendly than northerners.

>>77296398
Are you nuts? In California, if you drive drunk and get caught, you may never see the light of day again.

>>77308636
I'm originally from Alabama, there driving with an open container is ok as long as you ain't wasted.
Then again Alabama is a god damn shithole.

>>77295060
It's not only beans. Plenty of canned goods are stored by many people. My friend's parents have a giant shelf full of cucumbers from their garden that they've pickled.

Those fucking supersized meals...

>>77295297
It may be because I'm in a part of the country with more bars than grocery stores, but I can literally just go into the wine and spirits section of any retailer and get some booze.

>>77308787
That's one part I love about America.
Here in Sweden you work all day, go out for dinner and what do you get? Some kids meal..
I'm not fat but I am a big guy. To fill up on fuel I literally gotta order two or three times..

>>77295653
>I speak on behalf of majority of Americans when I say blah blah blah blah blah

faggot

>>77296744
In Wisconsin the grocery store is 50% dairy.

>>77293973
>only americans paying for college

>>77295136
I-I eat like that as well, Can I be an American now?