Question about your country

[Deeje]

Vehicles always stop for people at zebra crossings.

You have zebras and people using the same crossing?

We have wombats, kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas and koalas that end up as road kill every year but we can't seem to teach them the road rules.

We also tend to tell it like it is, which is sometimes seen as rude to those with stricter sensibilities. Aussies will not usually beat around the bush with fake niceties.....they want you to get to the point without assuming that you want to know how their garden is growing or what the weather is doing today....personally, I hate small talk. Give me a good D & M any day, regardless of the topic.

 

[amorphous_constellation]

Deep fried pizza

It is probably not too authentic, but a lot gas stations have some variation of a fast food calzone.. also there are pizza rolls, but I haven't tried deep frying those yet

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Back to my adopted country

You can discuss you latest operation or your sex life over dinner with friends but it is taboo to discuss your work

I wish we were like that.

 

[Revoltingest]

I can eat at a German, Korean, Thai, French, Chinese, Mexican,
Ameristanian, vegetarian, & Vietnamese restaurant.
Those aren't different restaurants....they're 1 eatery in Pontiac, MI.

 

[Secret Chief]

People refer to the capital as "London."

 

[amorphous_constellation]

I can eat at a German, Korean, Thai, French, Chinese, Mexican, Ameristanian, vegetarian, & Vietnamese restaurant.
Those aren't different restaurants....they're 1 eatery in Pontiac, MI.

they got a buffet stand like that in the mall here, but I hadn't really been there since before covid , it's got at least 10 sections

 

[Twilight Hue]

What is one thing normal your country that is odd in other countries?

Cowboys. *grin*

 

[Inquire of God]

What is one thing normal your country that is odd in other countries?

Buy liquid products by the gallon.

 

[VoidCat]

Buy liquid products by the gallon.

The drinking age here is 21...to all nonamericans what is it in your country?

 

[TransmutingSoul]

That you can travel all day and still be in the same country, possibly even the same state.

That is Australia also

Regards Tony

 

[Revoltingest]

they got a buffet stand like that in the mall here, but I hadn't really been there since before covid , it's got at least 10 sections

The guy who ran the restaurant was the only
worker there. He cooked everything to order.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Cowboys. *grin*

They have those in other countries. And they aren't always regarded as chivalrous and noble people.
It's more the mythical literary status of them here that is unique, sort of the American version of a knight or samurai.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I can eat at a German, Korean, Thai, French, Chinese, Mexican,
Ameristanian, vegetarian, & Vietnamese restaurant.
Those aren't different restaurants....they're 1 eatery in Pontiac, MI.

I've heard Japan has the best Italian.

 

[Twilight Hue]

They have those in other countries. And they aren't always regarded as chivalrous and noble people.
It's more the mythical literary status of them here that is unique, sort of the American version of a knight or samurai.

True, but we had John Wayne. ;0]

 

[Revoltingest]

I've heard Japan has the best Italian.

Best Italian food I ever had was in Italy.

 

[Sunstone]

They grow em clever in the uk... Pushing a button is no problem

The mere idea the UK has brighter pelicans than the US sure pushes my buttons.

My congressman is not going to hear the end of his until action is taken or the world has been reduced to such rumble that there's not even a chance a future American civilization will rise capable of solving the problem!

Pelicans! Damn atrocity the UK gets bright pelicans decades before a true American country boy even hears of them.

 

[Orbit]

Americans smile and say hello to strangers on the street (unless you're in NYC), which makes Europeans think we're simple.

 

[amorphous_constellation]

Americans smile and say hello to strangers on the street (unless you're in NYC), which makes Europeans think we're simple.

what's so aesthetically pleasing about someone using a few muscles to derange their default facial arraignment... why does it give the person who sees it a hit of dopamine (probably?)

 

[Sunstone]

They have those in other countries. And they aren't always regarded as chivalrous and noble people.
It's more the mythical literary status of them here that is unique, sort of the American version of a knight or samurai.

Well said, Wollf! Thank you!

Oddly enough, Americans have some thanks owed the Germans for the mythical status of the American Cowboy. During the later half of the 1800s German authors created a genre of cowboy novels that were so popular they influenced American culture like Christmas trees, which are also of German origin, and passed on to America via their popularization by Albert and Victoria.

Needless to say, most of the German authors filled in the gaps in what they knew about cowboys with ennobling fantasies.

I actually like some of Wayne's roles, and I can't criticize a man for acting who could easily outdo me in person except for my poker face. I assume his politics were honestly arrived at, except the damnable racism and stuff. Do you know if he was a misogynist too, Wolf?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Oddly enough, Americans have some thanks owed the Germans for the mythical status of the American Cowboy. During the later half of the 1800s German authors created a genre of cowboy novels that were so popular they influenced American culture like Christmas trees, which are also of German origin, and passed on to America via their popularization by Albert and Victoria.

Needless to say, most of the German authors filled in the gaps in what they knew about cowboys with ennobling fantasies.

I actually like some of Wayne's roles, and I can't criticize a man for acting who could easily outdo me in person except for my poker face. I assume his politics were honestly arrived at, except the damnable racism and stuff.

America basically has two "eras" of cowboy literature. The first ones featured more "normal people" as cowboys, and these were more rough, less refined, and more morally ambiguous.
Then a bunch of city slickers like Zane Grey heavily romanticized the Cowboy, turning it into the archetype we know today.
Or at least that's what I've read. I've never found the cowboy character appealing. To the point the first movie in the Fistful of Dollars trilogy is the only "true" western/cowboy movie I've ever watched, and that was just to see what the cowboy movie is about. And I say "true" western/cowboy, because I do love Blazing Saddles and a Million Ways to Die in the West, but those are comedies, and Blazing Saddles is literally a movie in every way possible. And I do really enjoy some of Sam Shepard's plays, and just about all of his have a cowboy-archetype character in them.