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ITT: Weird habits from your country that other countries may

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ITT: Weird habits from your country that other countries may find strange.

>In Brazil we don't throw the toilet paper in the toilet, but into a trash can next to it.
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I'm Brazilian and I somehow picked this habit up even though I was raised in the US.
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>>78255871
You get mercilessly teased and bullied if your classmates find out that you're not yet circumcised at sixth grade. Or even past fourth grade.

As it was a ceremony of some sorts to young adulthood, your peers would think you're gay while the girls think you're a chicken.

Didn't even believe that "getting it snipped" would get you a growth spurt. I just wanna get an exemption card and a license to bully at second grade.
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>>78256263

Uncircumcised dicks are superior in all aspects. More sensibility, less risks of "fail" in the right time. It's even more beautiful tho.
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>>78255871
Not country-wide but in my state it's considered weird to take your hat off in a restaurant unless you're at someplace fancy(in which case you probably wouldn't have a hat on anyway)
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>>78255871

Let me see...

>we kiss each other to say hi, doesn't matter if I dont know you and if we have the same sex

>when we drink mate we share it to anyone, for example, if you drink mate in your uni you may share it with 6-8 people, like making a round... and all of them drink from the same straw, and foreigners usually find this gross.
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In my country we eat monkey soup.
It sounds terrible, but it is far too tasty.
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>>78255871
We invite amerindians to copulate with our wives.
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I eat a lot of spicy, specially on snacks. I bathe my snacks on like 2 types of spicy sauces, soy sauce, lemon, and 2 types of powder chile. People say that Im crazy for eating something so spicy but I never get a stomachache for doing so.
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>>78257005
whoa....
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>>78257019
Are you me?
I eat Indian food almost all the time and pour sriracha on everything else
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>>78257019

But it is normal in your country or just a weirdness from you?
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>>78257075
I dont think I have ever tasted sriracha but whenever I eat tacos I pour a lot of sauce on my tacos combining both the red one and the green one.
>>78257085
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlgKvTzHKGs
Search for Dorilokos or Tostilokos, I personally dont like those that much since the vegetables and other random shit they put on it taste really bad for me. The thing I do tastes like extremely spicy and salty crunchy chips
And even then not everyone does that, some just put a lot of Valentina on it instead.
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This is what a graveyard looks like here.
Those houses carry a whole family coffins.
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Some people apparently throw water out the windows during the new year festival as a symbol of new year, new me...or something like that...

I also learned that just recently, I don't understand it..

>>78256850
Kissing is a common greeting exchange everywhere in Latin America except for males, though some relatives do that, it's just uncommon.
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cheek to cheek kiss salutes, usually exaggering a "muack" sound
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>>78256850
>>we kiss each other to say hi, doesn't matter if I dont know you and if we have the same sex
OP asked for strange habits, not gay habits.

We are very aware that Argentina abounds in faggottry.
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>>78256850
>>78257279

You argies have serious problems with kisses, wtf.
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I remember visiting family in Argentina and it caused a whole bunch of drama when I pushed an uncle away when he tried to kiss me.
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>>78256181
>tfw half-Brazilian and I couldn't understand why my relatives would do such a thing
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>>78257353
its only a cheek2cheek thing tho
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We buy a lot of guns for funs and I like it that way.
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>>78257357

It's disgusting to see that fucking paper filled with shit that came from the depths of your ass softing and spliting into the water.
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In Canada we all have to say good night to each other if we live in the same floor and then we all have to shower together in the shower in the morning.
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>>78257438
Is it true that price tags on things are before taxes, so when you get to the cashier the actual price is higher?
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>>78257279
Thats only weird if its with a man
>>78257357
We also do that in Mexico
>>78257441
Get a trash can with a cover.
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>>78257459

>a gay habit coming from Canada

Oooooh, so much surprised.
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>>78257279
It's the norm for man saying hi to girls, and girls to girls.
Man just shake their hands here in RS.

The mate is normal. But we don't share from a outsider, example:
>working
>everyone is drinking a chimarão
>a client show up
>we don't pass to him, and if someone pass to you, you politely denied it. Because you were not invited in the first place.
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>>78257397
Kissing as a greeting (even when its straight) is very very rare here and even then its generally just for grandparents.

So when this guy I dont know ran up came and tried kiss me I though he was gay and being pushy.
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>>78257480
Yes and it's theft.
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>>78255871
They did this in Costa Rica but when you know the reason it's not that strange. I thought it was going to be really gross but it wasnt.

>>78257302
It's the Italian in them

In my country, workplace and school has designated times for using the bathroom. Everyone goes around 1:30 PM. Bathrooms in the United States are very high-capacity because of this.
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>>78257218
very comfy
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>>78257545

There's a reason for it? Controlling the flux of shit into the sewers or something?
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>>78257562
I think its because the pipes get clogged with the paper
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>>78255871
I've never visited Brazil so tell me, how do you deal with all that poop smell?
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>>78257594
>>78257562

are you guys serious? Yes, it's because most houses don't have adequate plumbing to handle the toilet paper.
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>>78257624
Athens has the same problem
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>>78257441
It's disgusting to see that fucking paper filled with shit that came from the depths in a trash can, smelling up the bathroom.
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>>78257604
There is a cover in the "shit bucket". You don't smell shit, just piss in the ground because you tried to pee with your morning wood.
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>>78257604
i don't think cleaning your ass with paper is normal. People normally go take a shower after shitting
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>>78257662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rIqKr4syo
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>>78255871
>Weird habits from your country that other countries may find strange
I'm trying really hard, but other than some culinary stuff (smalahove) i can't think of anything.

You tell me, if you know of anything.
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>>78257687
No, unless you fuck up something.
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>>78257624

>"In Brazil we don't throw the toilet paper in the toilet, but into a trash can next to it".

Just learn something with us for once.
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>>78257687
I don't feel like taking 3-5 showers a day though.
>>78257651
I wish I still got morning wood. I can't get any kind of wood anymore. :(
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>>78255871
>>78256181
STOP THIS MEME
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Im surprised not a single american has mentioned microwaving water
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>>78257730
>I wish I still got morning wood. I can't get any kind of wood anymore. :(
What? How old are you?
Your dick should work for like, 60 years...
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>>78257353
Well, wherever I visited my family, one uncle I had was always more like "don't come with that bullshit", no one really made a big deal out of it though. I imagine you pushing your uncle is probably what made them more upset than refusing the kiss.
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>>78257648

It doesn't. The trash cans are closed.
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>>78257776
>open trash bin
>see shit paper
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>>78257753
I'm 36. I think it's just my depression, but I recently started antidepressants and that made it go from almost impossible to get an erection to completely impossible to get an erection. I'm just hoping that if/when the depression itself goes away, the penis will wake up again.
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>>78257793
Lol, drop the depression medicine and change something in your life.
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>>78257708

>Paying U$300,00 p/year for having a TV.
>Food stores don't open on Sundays.
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>>78257748
Other countries don't find it strange, just hilarious, as expected from retarded people like Americans.
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>>78257793
>depression medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
Isnt there cases of those pretty much making things worst and turning people into literal psychos or something similar? The video is based on those things
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>>78257788
you normally fold it in a way in which you don't see the brown color on the paper. still, I don't understand why this is so popular among Hispanic countries, do we all have shit piping?
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>>78257857
>Food stores don't open on Sundays
Wait, is that strange? Isn't Sundays supposed to be holy in Christian countries, and you're not supposed to work? Isn't Brazil mostly Christian?
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>>78257906

Brazil isn't Hispanic, and we have this habit as well.
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>>78257906
>LatinAmerica
>Not being poor
I think everyone has shit piping
>>78257933
Some places usually close earlier on sunday but food stores being closed doesnt seem that weird.
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>>78257933

Well, here the most part of the stores close on the Sundays, not only food stores, and we don't work too. But in the way I saw this about Norway, looked like ONLY the food stores don't open on Sundays. Forgive my mistake.
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>>78257397
I don't even do that with women. The only woman I kiss is my wife. I just shake hands or hug, and hugs are only for family. This has been awkward, as my wife's family is more "ethnic" than mine. The men like to hug, and the women like to cheek kiss.
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>>78257906
>>78257964
nah we throw our tp into the bowl. Sometimes it clogs but you unclog it and that's it
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>>78257906
naturally, the other third world shitholes doing worse than us are just too poor to have a toilet
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>>78256850
Sharing the Mate, fucking gross.
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>>78257075
Just to clarify, Mexican spicy is completelly different than Indian spicy.
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>>78258060
that's mate 101. You're drinking and with someone you know then you ask if they want a mate.
It's the same as sharing a sip of water out of a bottle. You've got an immune system quit acting sissy
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>>78258097
How? Ive never tasted Indian spicy
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>>78257459
Is this the norm also with girls?
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>>78258097
>>78258133
Well the heat comes from chilis in both cases. The other spices are what's different.
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>>78258133
Indian Spice doesn't hang around for as long, but is hotter overall.
It's very intense for 30 seconds or so and then it fades on its own without you having to drink milk or anything.
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>>78255871

OP here. Let's see how it's the feeling of doing this:
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>>78258060

t. Crickets eater
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>>78258266

Quite sickening, but acceptable.

6/10.
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>>78258266
I kinda like that green toilet, except how do you know when you've gotten it all the way clean? Ours are all white here so it's easy to see where you've missed a spot.
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>>78258277
I tasted them once when I went to Oaxaca and they arent that bad actually
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>>78258300

Here the standarts are white too, but I rather prefer my green one. Also, it's not so hard to see, the only problem is knowing if there's piss on the water, so I always flush before using.
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>>78258330
Yeah I've eaten dried insects a few times and they're pretty good. I'd honestly love to get some freshly cooked from the market like in that pic. Looks delicious tbqh.
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>>78258330
t. Tizoc Hernandez
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>>78258300

I like it exactly because I don't see the water becoming yellow or something. It's awful.
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>>78256181
Im a CHI and i do this too
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>>78258300

My grandpa has one of this but brown in his house, you never know if it's clean or not... You don't even see the poop after you shit
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>>78258133
They don't use "chile" or "salsas", they use just spices that taste, well... "spicy"
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>>78258361
I still like corn chips better but they arent that bad, I would like to eat them once again but I doubt I will go there anytime soon. Meanwhile I eat some small dried fish with spicy as a snack every once in a while
>>78258372
t.CHI
>>78258387
I love dark toilets for that reason.
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>>78257459
>we all have to shower together in the shower in the morning
what part of Canada do you live in?
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>>78258118
You just fix an additional cup of fucking Mate for the other person.

Sharing saliva is fucking gross and subhuman desu.
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>>78255871

And you have to add the electric showers... You probably don't realize t>>78255871
hat outsiders shit in their pants when they have to take a shower under these for the first time.
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>>78257730
you take 3-5 shits a day?
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>>78258266
>green toilet
>fucking toilet paper touching the floor
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>>78258500

Sorry for the double mention, i'm phoneposting and I have big fingers
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>>78258501
Fuckin A, man. I don't understand how people who only shit once a day or once every two days don't just feel bloated all the time.
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>>78258500

Just set the shower in a way that pleasures you, m8.
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>>78258529

I shit once every two and sometimes three days...
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>>78258500
>Search electric shower on google
>This doesnt seem too bad
>Search electric shower brazil
Oh...
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>>78258529
How much do you eat? How many calories, fibre?
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>>78258529
My gf shits once a week or even less.

This baffles me of course.
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>>78258529
I shit every two or three days.

You must be full of shit (literally), but what can you expect eating plastic burger food 24/7.
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>>78258577
I don't pay attention to calories or any of that but I don't really eat excessively. I mean I have a decent appetite and on occasion will pig out, but I usually only have one or two normal meals a day, with occasional snacking. My diet is not amazing, but not horrible either, especially by burger standards.
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it's pretty fucking common to take food out of other people's dishes if you are relatives or friends.
I haven't been in a home that doesn't have hot sauces in their kitchens.
Spicy sauce is put into everything, popcorn, fruit, salad, candies, previously spiced food, spicy chips, beer or you just drinking it straight up.
everything is food, from insects to bone marrow to brains and animal eyeballs and everything in between, as long as is properly cooked and exhaustively spiced even dirt tastes good.
Virgin marys everywhere you go, from schools, to hospitals, houses, cabs, buses, public toilets, heck I've met several people that go around their lives carrying a virgin mary token or card inside their wallets.
Old people love gardening like a fucking lot, entire biomes can be found inside and outside old people's houses, perhaps that's why chi's are such good gardeners when they cros the border
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>>78258774
None of those things are true in my home or in any of my friend's, aren't you going a bit overboard?
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>>78258774
>>78258812
What parts of Mexico are you guys from? I mean I've never even visited so I don't know shit but it seems reasonable that that could be regional shit?
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>>78258812
What are you talking about? Those things all seem pretty common. The "everything is food" part doesnt apply to the whole country but more to specific places and the gardedning part Im not too sure but everything else is right.
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>>78258812
hot sauce shit is real as far as I've seen by traveling from Yucatan to Chiapas, to mexico city and all the way to Baja.
In my home state insects are quiet a delicacy and quiet expensive shit eaten in indigenous communities but bone marrow, intestines, brains and all that stuff is eaten all the way to San Luis Potosi.
You'd been shiting me about the virgin mary stuff unless you haven't used public transportation in all your life.
And gardening is qiet typical in the capital, and south, perhaps not as much in the north tho
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>>78258812
I can relate to these
>take food out of other people's dishes if you are relatives or friends.
>I haven't been in a home that doesn't have hot sauces in their kitchens.
>Spicy sauce is put into popcorn, fruit, spicy chips
>i eat insects, bone marrow and brains
>Old people love gardening like a fucking lot, entire biomes can be found inside and outside old people's houses, perhaps that's why chi's are such good gardeners when they cros the border
I've never done the shit paper in the bin and I've only seen that in public restrooms
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>>78258907
Insects are expensive? Why?
>bone marrow, intestines, brains
My nigga. The only brains I've ever eaten were in Mexican food. I've had them in tacos, and also I don't know the word for this but a Mexican place down the road from me makes these smaller corn tortillas that get fried so they're crunchy. The brains are inside with a bunch of spices. Those things are fucking amzing.
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>>78256263
That's fucking harsh leave that shit hole
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>>78258971
>Insects are expensive? Why?
you can't harvest them and are only available in rainy seasons, they are rarely served as food anyways. I've only eaten insects at hipster underground bars alongside fine Mezcal or Tequila.
They work more as an appetizer or touristy gimmick than as a proper food unless you're from deep southern Chiapas where some insects such as giant worms and queen ants are indeed eaten in Tacos.
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Sometimes we use a hakapik to smash a couple hundred thousands seal heads in annually.
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>>78259049
WHAT THE FUCK CANADA!? I always forget that behind the shitpost there are psycopaths killing seals with clubs.
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>>78259089
WHAT THE FUCK MEXICO!? I always forget that behind the shitpost there are psycopaths killing eachother with machetes.
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>>78259128
Hey I've only chopped 2 heads off this year
I hate how western media stereotype us as this kind of fucked of character
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>>78259128
touché ;_;
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Mostly Maori customs like the hongi, which white Kiwis find a bit unusual as well. Some people find the habit of thanking the bus driver as you get off a little strange. There's also a few idioms like "Bring a plate" meaning Bring a plate of food at a communal get together.
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>>78259488
sorry on a VPN for Netflix desu
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>>78256850
I literally kissed other people cheeks until I was 16~ even if I didn't knew them even in school, and nodoby ever told me that I just had to "kiss" with my cheek. I wonder why.
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>>78259186
It's not sarcasm funny when people think is real.
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>>78259659
I find it funny for the exact same reason
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>>78257708
>The weird costumes you wear on proms
I don't remember if it's you or Sweden
>Dancing naked around a pole on summer
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>>78257708
russefest
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>>78259488
>Bring a plate
We have the same idea, but we just say "bring a dish to pass." This type of communal meal is called a potluck here.
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>>78255871
Lmao we do this in Greece too

>>78261079
Midsummer is Sweden, but I don't know why you think we dance naked around the pole we dance with clothes
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>>78257976
here a lot of companies work 7/24 except government, banks
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We have a holiday where we eat pankakes in the park to celebrate the arrival of spring
You can't put money directly on someone's hand, you have to put it over a table or something.
We eat raw scallion with salt uma delicia.
When some stranger talks to you on the street it's very sudden because they don't call you to try and get your attention first, they just say "tell me where x is" (no "please" or any of that faggotry) out of nowhere and in a barely audible voice, so you have to be always ready
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>>78255871
We eat with our hands.
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do people do this in other countries too after they finish high school?
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>>78266566
We have a grand march followed by a few days of grad parties.
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>>78256850
The kissing thing is typical for Italians, French and Walloons. In Flanders people that want to come over as posh cunts also kiss dudes when they greet them
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>>78256410
>Uncircumcised dicks are superior in all aspects.

preach.
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>>78266566
No but we do have chrysostomos, which is a party high school students hold when they have 100 days left until graduation. What happens is they go out on Thursday and on Friday they take over the entire school
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>>78256263
This isn't true

I wasn't bullied because I had an uncut dick
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>>78264831
Yeah I've heard of Potluck, and all of the Anglosphere has an equivalent of it. The plate thing is confusing as there are numerous stories of immigrants bringing empty plates to parties.
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>>78266566
Everyone goes to a 2 weeks vacation to the south
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We measure each other's willies in the sauna, especially in the army
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>>78268571
we do that too, it's a bro thing
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>>78265308
The pancake thing sounds comfy. The other thing, not so much.
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>>78265308
Shit, I still do this even though I've lived in America for so long now
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>>78255871
Interesting. We have quite a bunch of public toilets with displayed warnings asking everyone not to put toilet paper in the toilet, but I've never seen shit-stained toilet paper in the basket either.

I don't think anyone uses the basket, and everyone just puts it into the toilet anyway. It honestly feels weird to have a shit-paper basket waiting all day to be picked up by the establishment staff.

>>78255871
>Weird habits from your country that other countries may find strange.
I'm not sure about this one, but quite a few foreigners have noted that it's weird that when we go out for drinks at night, there's this habit of ours to insist on paying the round for everyone in the group. This means that if two Portuguese are in the same group, there's often this discussion as to who gets to pay for everyone, and it's usually only ended after there are enough rounds so that everyone can pay for one.

Apparently this is odd behaviour, but I've seen it all my life. It's not even an ostentatious "I'm richer than you" kind of thing, and is often a genuine "I'll do this for you out of the bottom of my heart" kind of thing, but foreigners find it odd.
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we don't step on thresholds because it would anger the home spirit who lives under them

every time I stepped on it when I was a kid I got yelled at
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On Sunday or any other legal holiday pretty much the whole country shuts down, except for some restaurants and gas stations, even buses an trains only go hourly in big cities.

Dinner is not supposed to be a warm meal, only bread with toppings.

If you are agreeing on any kind of meeting then you are supposed to be there on the agreed time, which means coming five minutes early, standing in front of the doorand then ringing the bell with the stroke of the watch hand.

You bought your credit card for traveling puposes? Too bad, almost no one accepts credit here, why would you want to pay fees if paying with cash is cheaper?

All water is carbonated by default unless you explicitly request a non-gasous glass of water.

You don't have a lot of friends, here, friends are considered to be people you have known for years or even decades, anyone else is just an acquaintance.
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>>78271045
>On Sunday or any other legal holiday pretty much the whole country shuts down
>no one accepts credit here
Get with the times for fuck sake. It's the worst thing about going to Germany how fucking backwards you guys are.

>If you are agreeing on any kind of meeting then you are supposed to be there on the agreed time
This is good. Truly the sign of a civilized society.

>All water is carbonated by default
Why would anyone want plain water anyway?

Overall pretty good, very much like Sweden except you're like 30 years behind on some things.
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>>78265051
I really enjoyed that everytime I was in Turkey, there is always something going on in the night.
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>>78255871
>In Brazil we don't throw the toilet paper in the toilet, but into a trash can next to it.

some people do the same in Russia lol.
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>>78271303
>Get with the times for fuck sake. It's the worst thing about going to Germany how fucking backwards you guys are.
muh labor laws
muh transaction fees
muh bank privacy.

It's still not that uncommon to buy a car with cash.
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>>78271444
People actively avoid stores here that don't take debit/credit cards. So at least here the transaction cost is well worth it for companies. Virtually every store here takes card, even very small businesses. In Germany you don't even take card in touristy places. So it's a bit of shock (and nuisance) when you're so used to just using your card and not having any cash on you.
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>>78271045
Another thing, all Germans are required to possess a government-issued ID(not the driver's license) and confirm their identity upon request by police officials(this doesn't directly translate into an obligation to carry it but in the case the police can escort you to the next police station or your home for you to confirm your identity, so most Germans do it anyway or you have to do it yourself within 24h).

This also applies to foreigners, so you better carry your passport with you when you are here.

If you are a member of the Catholic or Lutheran church in Germany you are required to pay church tax which is withdrawn on behalf of the German finance minstry and you have to formally quit the church in order to avoid this.

This also applies to foreigners coming to live and work in Germany who were baptised in their respective home countries.

If you lied on your tax form about it then be prepared to get a letter from the tax ministry one or two decades later to pay back your taxes.
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>>78271890
>all Germans are required to possess a government-issued ID(not the driver's license) and confirm their identity upon request by police officials
Hitler would've been proud.
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>>78271890
which is withdrawn by the finance minstry on behalf of the churches*
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>>78271890
>If you are a member of the Catholic or Lutheran church in Germany you are required to pay church tax which is withdrawn on behalf of the German finance minstry and you have to formally quit the church in order to avoid this.
>This also applies to foreigners coming to live and work in Germany who were baptised in their respective home countries.
How does one even quits the church? Do they give you a form to sign?
Here you can choose if the 0.5% of the taxes you pay goes to the Church or other organizations (scientific reaserch, NGOs, etc.)
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>>78271958
Personally, I think that government-issued national ID cards are very pratical. Just look at the mess of hoops you have to jump through and the issues with identity frauds and theft in the US(the whole social security number piggybacking and the abundance of competing standards) and the UK with their passport interviews and required co-signatures.
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>>78272083
You have to go to nearest district court and fill out a form pay 30 bucks and keep out the receipt for the rest of your life because one day the church might come back to claime the taxes and then you will have to prove that you quit.
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>>78272083
That's actually pretty cool
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>>78257218
isnt that common everywhere?
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>>78272083
>Paying taxes to ngos
Disgraceful.
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>>78272153
Of course a German would think it's a good idea. But sometimes it's worth sacrificing some convenience for a greater cause. Sadly we have national ID cards, too, but there are ones issued by banks as well so at least there's that. And there's no requirement to carry it on you (or even have on) all the time because while our government is filled with morons, at least they're not openly fascists.
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>>78272369
Why don't you just end it now?
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>>78272369
I think it's good to have one standardized form of identity documentation but in many countries that don't have this they ended up using a more impractical, more insecure or blatantly inferior alternative anyway, like in the case of American social security numbers which were never meant to be used in that way.
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>>78272470
It's one thing to have a standard and quite another to have it all be done by the government. All ID-card here, whether issues by the police, other governmental bodies or private actors (banks usually) follow the same standard. All without being an Orwellian nightmare.

I've never understood why Germans are so trusting of the state.
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>>78272257
No. Picture is a normal finnish cemetery.
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>>78272257
That looks really messy. Ours are more like well kept parks where it's supposed to be calm and quiet.
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>>78257748
What's wrong with that? I used to do that all the time at work because I didn't wanna wait for it to boil on the stove.
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