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Renaissance Robot posted:Please remember that Surprise T Rex is British so "a stranger talked to me" is an indescribably shocking event that will probably haunt them until they die Oh right duh. Said brit friend got screamed at and threatened on a bus during one of the post-brexit-related votes because she was wearing the Wrong Color Tie or something and therefore was a traitor to the country, so I just assume that's how British people normally interact with strangers.
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ikanreed posted:Why you lying to the nice girl? Yeah that's everywhere. Pretty much everything outside the inner ring suburbs in this country looks the same with different chains
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Jun 7, 2022 15:15
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ikanreed posted:Why you lying to the nice girl? Buddy compared to Florida the rest of the country is thoughtfully laid out and well-built.
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Jun 7, 2022 15:21
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biggest monoculture on the planet. one side of america looks and sounds just like the other side to anyone not from here, and the middle is literally the same strip mall gas station combination for 3000 miles.
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Jun 7, 2022 15:29
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Renaissance Robot posted:Please remember that Surprise T Rex is British so "a stranger talked to me" is an indescribably shocking event that will probably haunt them until they die This is very true. We're a sensitive, insular breed. No judgement on the nice lady, and I'm not really complaining or anything, she was very friendly. It just struck me as odd because she came over, asked where we were from, said that if we were local to her that my wife would have been snapped up there and then to join her church choir and was just generally doing the "man you can't waste that voice" kinda thing, it just didn't seem to occur to her that the whole "local church community" thing really doesn't exist very much over here - presumably because the prevalence of Christianity in the USA. I think a lot of people here would broadly say they hold some kind of Christian belief in God etc, but the latest figures for UK adults who actually attend any kind of Christian church (Anglican, Orthodox, Catholic, Presbyterian, etc. combined) is something like 5% of the population.
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Milo and POTUS posted:No it is not I mean I'm basing it on my personal experience from driving trips to a bunch of different parts of the country and living in upstate New York for a few years, plus the fact that my relatives and friends from other parts of the country have complained about it when they come visit, plus knowing how pretty much all of central Florida's infrastructure in particular was constructed in a panic without even basic levels of planning in the middle of the last century when people started flooding in. The rest of the country isn't that much better sure, perhaps me saying "lot of that" was too strong, but there's definitely some differences.
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Surprise T Rex posted:This is very true. We're a sensitive, insular breed. A lot of people who say they go to / are a member of a church here also don't actually go to church either. Maybe show up for Christmas or a potluck or something like that, just kinda use it as a social club like I mentioned. Though I definitely see how it'd be weird to just have a lady start churching at you if you're not used to that lol.
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Jun 7, 2022 15:42
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Shame Boy posted:The rest of the country isn't that much better sure, perhaps me saying "lot of that" was too strong, but there's definitely some differences. you’ve been there if you’ve ever driven across a single state.
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Though honestly I'm kinda disappointed you didn't run into a sandwich board dude on a street corner yelling through a megaphone about how you're a big gay abortion sinner and will burn for eternity for doing all your gay kissings, though maybe that's just a south thing and Vegas doesn't have those. I remember after the fires destroyed the far more religious conservative towns in northern California they all moved to Chico temporarily, and my friend who lived there at the time mentioned one of them did the whole megaphone thing and people there were terrified and called the cops and social services and the local news and everyone was live-tweeting it and I'm just like lmao that's adorable, we have several of those every weekend.
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i am harry posted:mate the rest of it, the rest of america not the cities, is 80% of the country, and it’s absolutely nothing but the same one light town with the husk of a dead grain silo towering above the gas station I've driven between New York and Florida a few times, I know what you're talking about yes. That's better than Florida, if only because there's less of it. Though I think part of it is actually having things like terrain kinda makes you do things besides rail-straight road grids lined with never-ending strip malls. Or at least it means you can hide the strip malls behind hills better, idk.
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Failed Imagineer posted:4 weeks holidays is laughably stingy to most Europeans tho. This year I have 30 company days + a bunch of national holidays That really depends on the European country and the age cohort though. Italian labor reforms in the 90s have brought us basically in line w/ american labor standards. If you entered the job market after 92 and are not like an engineer then gently caress you, look forward to poo poo contracts with no sick leave, no pto or insurance etc for the next two decades. Also get ready to sign your resignation letter on the first day so they can date it when you're no longer needed and you're fired, lol. Our version of at will employment. Maybe youll catch a break eventually and sign up with a decent company or a megacorp, who are like the only targets of oversight here. Or a public sector job which is its own can of worms. Southern Europe for the most part has been getting gutted to hell.
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mortons stork posted:Also get ready to sign your resignation letter on the first day so they can date it when you're no longer needed and you're fired, lol. Lmao oh that's a good one
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i am harry posted:mate the rest of it, the rest of america not the cities, is 80% of the country, and it’s absolutely nothing but the same one light town with the husk of a dead grain silo towering above the gas station lol
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dear eurotrash: marry me and get me a EU greencard or whatever and in exchange i'll call your in-laws a variety of slurs and rude things (also you)
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Surprise T Rex posted:This is very true. We're a sensitive, insular breed. We're not an especially pious or holy people. The thing to understand how it's so common here is that churches in the US are exempt from basically all taxes and book keeping standards. They also qualified for COVID relief loans and considering that they can just claim whatever and there's no evidence to the contrary anybody can demand, I'm confident most of them made out like bandits
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tokin opposition posted:dear eurotrash: marry me and get me a EU greencard or whatever and in exchange i'll call your in-laws a variety of slurs and rude things (also you) iirc you need to live in the EU for at least three months to be able to glomp onto your pretend goon spouse's free healthcare, so it's not the best for emergencies but for chronic things or treatment planned way in advance, seems solid
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Epic High Five posted:We're not an especially pious or holy people. The thing to understand how it's so common here is that churches in the US are exempt from basically all taxes and book keeping standards. They also qualified for COVID relief loans and considering that they can just claim whatever and there's no evidence to the contrary anybody can demand, I'm confident most of them made out like bandits Or labor laws! If you have teaching or talking about god as one of your job duties, labor laws mainly don't apply to you. So churches that run unrelated businesses are sure to mark everyone down as "oh this is a missionary slash janitor" so they can treat you however they like!
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30.5 Days posted:Or labor laws! If you have teaching or talking about god as one of your job duties, labor laws mainly don't apply to you. So churches that run unrelated businesses are sure to mark everyone down as "oh this is a missionary slash janitor" so they can treat you however they like! Don't forget the scheme where they bring in "visiting missionaries" from overseas and wouldn't you know it, their missionary duty is to be a live in maid whose compensation is room and board!
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30.5 Days posted:Or labor laws! If you have teaching or talking about god as one of your job duties, labor laws mainly don't apply to you. So churches that run unrelated businesses are sure to mark everyone down as "oh this is a missionary slash janitor" so they can treat you however they like! when I learned religiously affiliated schools can stop unionization with 0 effort bc of this, the private education industry started making a lot of sense
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One of the most America.png things for me was the combination gas station casino cigar lounge truck stop restaurant Liqour store fireworks store donut shop coffee shop it is one of the greatest regrets of my life that I didn't take a picture
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Housing prices... not going up forever?! https://twitter.com/jesse_kleine/status/1534201996130955264?t=uIKbupHRM3XgWAVw23cRcg&s=19 Any Canadian under 40 has never experienced this.
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evilpicard posted:One of the most America.png things for me was the combination gas station casino cigar lounge truck stop restaurant Liqour store fireworks store donut shop coffee shop it is one of the greatest regrets of my life that I didn't take a picture so you found a walmart, big deal
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Megillah Gorilla posted:My sister spent six months travelling the US and she said the things which stayed with her the longest were just how run down everything was and all the homeless people everywhere. I worked at Catholic hospital, so there were nuns around and they ran the place. Spoke to one nun who returned from a trip from fricken Africa and she said the poverty there is nothing like she saw right here in LA.
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evilpicard posted:One of the most America.png things for me was the combination gas station casino cigar lounge truck stop restaurant Liqour store fireworks store donut shop coffee shop it is one of the greatest regrets of my life that I didn't take a picture yeah it's called a Flying J
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buccee's is pretty fuckin american, you gotta say
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skooma512 posted:I worked at Catholic hospital, so there were nuns around and they ran the place. have it crossed your mind she might be a Putin-SeeSeePee planted ops
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evilpicard posted:One of the most America.png things for me was the combination gas station casino cigar lounge truck stop restaurant Liqour store fireworks store donut shop coffee shop it is one of the greatest regrets of my life that I didn't take a picture This is every exit in Missouri and most have porn and ice cream too.
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skooma512 posted:I worked at Catholic hospital, so there were nuns around and they ran the place. Quick reminder, Gavin is sitting on a budget surplus that could effectively end homelessness in the US, and is likely to sail to re-election tonight, and if he doesn't will definitely win in November. Somehow California just hoarding roughly 100 billion while people die in its streets is a sign he's doing a good job.
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skooma512 posted:I worked at Catholic hospital, so there were nuns around and they ran the place. Africa is a big place. There are some countries like Algeria and Tunisia where the population lives longer than the US, and some where that is definitely not the case.
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i mean, half is earmarked for education, theyre gonna make transit free, 2 billion for rent relief, other ordinary lanyard democrat stuff
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Casey Finnigan posted:lol what does america seem like to someone who's never been here? Like a fun place to visit, for a short time.
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Hollandia posted:Like a fun place to visit, for a short time. to be fair travelling to asia without a native friend or relative is one tourist trap after another tourist trap
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Chamale posted:Africa is a big place. There are some countries like Algeria and Tunisia where the population lives longer than the US, and some where that is definitely not the case. I don't recall exactly which country she was sent to, but it's def not North Africa. I assume as a healthcare nun they sent her to someplace that really needed it, or at least visited such a place.
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Palladium posted:to be fair travelling to asia without a native friend or relative is one tourist trap after another tourist trap Oh word?
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Palladium posted:to be fair travelling to asia without a native friend or relative is one tourist trap after another tourist trap This describes most places tourists like to go.
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Shear Modulus posted:yeah it's called a Flying J We always stop at the Flying J on the way to my parents' house, there's a cinnabon built right in! I often wonder what it might be like to use one of the paid trucker showers.
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Oh yeah they sell Gator Dave's Gator Products there, which has the best sign:  I think my favorite thing about it is how the gator on the first sign is saying "chomp" out loud while the gator on the second sign is merely thinking "chomp"
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In Training posted:when I learned religiously affiliated schools can stop unionization with 0 effort bc of this, the private education industry started making a lot of sense Yep. Also, Evangelical Christianity became a political force after desegregation. Wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross indeed.
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It's definitely strange seeing those weird US megachurches. I know the US is a capitalist hellscape (same here tbh, the USA is just better at it) but it's still very unsettling to look at. Again, this is all coming from the perspective of an outsider, but it definitely feels like on the surface people in the USA at least pay lip service to God or Jesus on a near-constant basis - in politics, on TV, radio, billboards, then all the "thoughts and prayers" stuff on facebook when bad poo poo happens, etc. By contrast, I literally cannot remember the last time I heard anybody in the UK mention Jesus or God at all outside of Christmas. Maybe it's not that widespread, and it's just in the super rural, overly white/old towns that this happens though? Maybe we get exposed to this via the internet disproportionately because it's funny to laugh at fundies who think Jesus was a white American who drove a Ford truck and loved his guns rather than a middle eastern socialist. idk.
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