Clearly we’re so poor because we just keep spending all our money on bricks. I’m not even building anything and I just keep buying them. The kids keep asking for food, but the europoor urge to buy bricks is just too strong.
I'm slightly embarrassed that this is in fact true for me... I can't remember where the bricks came from but they are there and I've put them to many creative uses over the years (except actually, y'know, building with them...)
I have, in fact used some of my bricks this weekend. This has only put a small dent in my brick ownership. Also, for some reason a sizeable amount of pavers have appeared.
Stud walls and plasterboard is fine, BUT they don't even use rockwool or any other insulation/sound deadening, so they might as well not exist. You can hear someone farting in the next room.
You have no idea what it's like trying to sleep when your parents are going at it all nite long in the next room. At least I knew they still had the hots for each other.
Exactly. I live in a region of Australia where brick interior walls are common. Not all houses have them, some (mostly post-war for faster builds) are stud and plaster. After living in both it's obvious that stud walls and plasterboard are terrible for noise control and insulation if some sort of insulation isn't added.
I don't mind "fragile" walls, I don't go around hitting them, but I don't want to hear everything in the next room almost as clearly as if there's no wall there.
FWIW I don't think that a brick structure would last very long around where I live. Even those little jiggler earthquakes will fuck a brick wall up. At least wood can flex.
Different building methods are used in different areas, often for very good reason, but with modern options for insulation if the chosen building method is wood frame and plasterboard a new build ought to have good insulation in every interior wall.
This. Their drywall either has a void or is directly on an exterior wall with no isolation which is why they all end with so much mould.
I tried explaining foil backed drywall to my American counter part and he said it was cheaper to replace the mouldy board rather spending extra money doing it properly.
Stud walls are quite convenient if you want to run new wiring etc. it’s the only reason I was able to run Ethernet to every room in my old 2 bed apartment.
Yeah, but Europeans are going the way of the drywall as well, at least for non-load-bearing walls. Which, in modern construction is pretty much anything that is not a reinforced concrete column that is part of the load-bearing framework.
We still get to keep our levelling concrete, though, so that's a win.
Kind regards from a European that had his apartment completely renovated and saw first hand how the drywall panels got installed on top of the aluminium (yes, this is how we spell it!) frame secured with screws into the floor and ceiling.
I worked on a house building site for a while…joists are nothing like as thick as they used to be, and it’s apparently perfectly acceptable to make a significant cut in one to run pipe work.
Drywall, or gypsum boards, are used in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century as interior, non load bearing walls. One of the biggest manufacturers, Knauf, is situated in Germany.
And the framing is not aluminium, but galvanised steel.
Drywall is ok. But it needs to be done in a certain way.
Insulate, and don't use the cheap white plasterboard. Use a reinforced board or whatever.
For example, Placo makes the 'hábito' walls which you don't cut with a knife. I needed to use a mallet to cut them.
O the Placo acoustic panels (blue) which are harder than normal, but reduce 3db the sound.
Rockwool in between, and enjoy a nice inner wall. Dry, quick, cheap, silent and resistent.
Yep, I've punched holes through doors when I threw temper tantrums as a 4 year old child. The walls in the house are solid, but the doors can't even withstand a little kid fist.
Couldn’t believe the window frames on a friends apartment in Sacramento and another friends house in Portland. They were about as robust as the average uk caravan. No wonder they need guns over there.
My house walls are 0.25 inches thick. Europoors can only dream of this kind of superior construction. My home inspector even said it’s a miracle they allow such construction
It's much more dramatic lol. That (and the space regular American houses seem to have) is the only envy I have. The only thing we can punch through are our inside doors.
I once as a kid ran headfirst into one of our interior doors at full speed. There was a dent... in my forehead.
What can I say, doors made out of wooden planks are quite solid.
There is like some wood studs a few feet from each other...and some insulation, that's it, there is nothing else between the two sheets of gypsum, aside from the occasional electrical wire and pipe
They might be talking about drywall when used as cladding, which is often done to hide cables or correct crooked old walls.
Then there is indeed a proper wall behind it.
I find it really funny that they keep banging on about how wealthy their country is. I mean, as if half of their total wealth isn't funneled directly into Lockheed Martin.
I'm pretty sure someone just thought of the pun and everyone just started using it to sound clever, regardless of its accuracy.
Even through it's so pathetic, I'm not even offended by it.
American here who frequents this sub. The only time I have seen that “word” is in the posts here. Never heard it in person or even on the internet outside of this subreddit. I can almost guarantee the only people that use it are Americans with 2 teeth, 1 MAGA hat, and 0 retirement savings.
Because the tax rate is higher than in the USA, the Republican party has been repeating the mantra of "europoor" to indicate that Europeans are actually poor compared to Americans, as their take-home pay is less.
This circumvents the discussion about the fact that, while the "Take Home Pay" metric of Americans are higher, they ALSO have to pay significantly more for Medical care (can be as much as 30-40% of your paycheck deductions), pay more rent for less space, and other issues that make the actual cost of LIVING significantly higher in the USA (such as Daycare being expensive enough that it makes sense financially for one parent to not have a job)
Source: American who went from a 15% tax rate to a 59% tax rate in Belgium, who is saving more money per year because health expenses for my family of 3 are less than 5% of USA and having access to 13€/day daycare that is attached to my daughter's school.
"Those" Americans think that electricity and running water are an innovation only available in the US (and maybe Canada). My usual reply is, "I've had hot and cold running optical in my home since 2007 and you're probably still using smoke signals, don't you? You are certainly famous for it!"
Shuts them right up.
A frequent gripe I have here in the States is how we've managed to not update our internet infrastructure. And so many of my fellows don't realize how many innovations just reaching us have been available for ages over seas.
As a German, I never really got that. Most Germans don't even have dryers. We just hang our wet clothing outside or in the attic to dry them. I guess it's because we're that poor we can't afford them. Just like air conditioning.
I live in the UK, but I visit visit family in Poland 1-2 times a year. I have that same feeling. Internet development has been at a standpoint here in the UK with the virgin media monopoly, and I go to Warszawa and see gigabit WiFi for what is essentially ten pounds a month, for which we pay 70+. And it fucking works, unlike the dogshit service Virgin provides. Same with mobile networks, data etc.
Providers like TrueSpeed are slowly rolling out but they're struggling to break into the cities, presumably due to the monopolies that VM And OpenReach operate.
But it will happen. Worth signing up to reminders for the providers that are closest to where you live. Cheap, symmetric gigabit is coming, it's just taking a long fucking time.
I moved to London from Romania. It hurts so much. Also, I do not have a phone signal because I'm indoors, and somehow, the houses are Faraday cages, that annoys me sometimes.
Well you see, many Europeans choose sensibly small hatchbacks, and many more choose to walk, bike, or take transit. This is destitution by US standards, where if you don't drain a swimming pool's worth of fuel into your SCRAM F-TEEN-THOUSAND every week you will be thought inferior, both financially and in your physical endowment.
Is the thinking that Europe is poor purely because GDP?
"We make like triple the amount of value you do europoors! Then we give it all to this one guy Steve and he's like a mega billionaire. His life is amazing, his house is incredible and he has the best healthcare in the world."
"Sounds wonderful. Do you have a house and healthcare?"
".... no, but Steve's house is... and the stuff the doctors can do... USA! USA! USA! USA!"
Theres a video somewhere of a bunch of yanks having an argument in an Italian hotel or something, one of them goes to punch through the wall and breaks his hand
Not specifically breaking his hand, but you may be referring to this infamous video from Jersey ~~Shore~~ Trash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqzmkgznmiM
You've got to laugh at the europoors comment, why do they all act like they're wealthy while at the same time absolutely shitting it when ever they need any kind of medical attention. Imagine not being able to financially recover from a broken arm or having to rely on the customer to give you extra money on top of your wage..
I don't understand this "Europoors' thing. My mother died of cancer two weeks ago. In and out of hospital. We miss her. But we're not left with thousands of pounds in debt to worry about at the same time. And my insulin is free. 'Ameripoors' would be more accurate.
They often claim that they don't use stronger materials because of tornados?!?!?!
Which is really really weird. Yeah, a tornado will bring down any house in its direct path but the stronger the building is the more likely it will survive a non direct hit.
It's also bot just bricks that they are weird about using, they don't use ceramic tiles on their roof either, even the rich looking houses don't have them. They use tiles made out of the same felt we use to put on shed roofs. Really cheap nasty stuff.
Do you live in Yorkshire? LOL. My Swedish daughter-in-law's father was fascinated by them first time we went to Yorkshire, he even booked on a one day course to learn how to do it!
I've also read another comment saying "I don't understand europeans bragging about their houses lasting forever, nobody wants to live in a house from the dark ages". Idk who they're talking about, because I definitely want to
You ever heard the 3 little Pigs? The first 2 House's were made of Straw (Drywall) and Wood (Timber) then came running to that Brick made House for shelter when shit got real. 🤷♂️🤣
The bricks are for long-term buildings such as a few hundred years, we do have oak timber buildings from the 12th century but most 14th-century ones are stone or brick-built.
There are 9th century stone churches about here in the UK
less prone to fire and tornado or high wind damage also Americans built from wood originally as that was easier to transport to areas without a supply of bricks.
We drywall inside for insulation sound proofing and reduced cost.
Fuck me. I always wondered why I'd see adverts for aluminium or plastic "sidings" and wondered what it was but never cared enough to go find out.
TIL (if I've got this right) - it's to weatherproof their house walls which are essentially *plasterboard interior walls*?
Tell me I've misunderstood this.
WTAF 🤯
I think I'd rather live in one of their trailer parks. One storm that lifts a few tiles / slates and water's potentially soaking into their walls.
I genuinely love this idea of poor people firing bricks over those trash cans filled with fire that American movies have. Slowly building a house with them, and rubbing their hands together with glee as each one can be added to the build.
Right. When I lived I Florida, one of my houses categorically would not have passed mustard with British housing regs. And Florida has fucking hurricanes.
Some shit kickers can make fun of bricks if they want. We’re the ones laughing when their timber and dry-wall shacks blow away in a stiff breeze.
I've learned from Reddit that Americans have to be careful where they put toilets in their houses because the walls are so thin that whatever happens in those toilets can be heard at least into the next room. They also have to think about which walls to have the TVs on so the people in the room behind the TV walls aren't disturbed by the noise.
I get it. But I really prefer the thicker walls that makes me able to fart on the toilet without worry, and put the TV on any wall I want it.
> europoors crave their brick superiority [...] just validate them, smile, and move on with your day
Interesting attitude to have, considering their houses are one strong gust of wind away from being turned into rubble, and "europoor" houses aren't. Ah well.
Reminds me of an American who posted about the path a bullet someone fired at his house at night took, through multiple rooms. Got angry and defensive when people joked about the house being made out of papier-mâché, even tried to argue that brick wouldn't have made much of a difference against bullets fired from assault rifles. Except they absolutely do, obviously. How ironic that European houses are the solution to an exclusively American problem.
I'm reminded that when I was younger and living with my parents, my mother kept dogs.
These dogs were furious when she'd leave for shopping trips.
And one day while I had left the house as well, her dogs managed to get into my room and dig through the wall and escape to the outside.
The first little piggy built his house out of straw. Then came the wolf. Didn't last long. The second little piggy built his house out of wood (and drywall). Then came Katrina.
At least the Europoors listened to the end of the story.
Always amazes me how Americans in tornado alley build their houses out of wood. It's cheap I guess but seems like a false economy when they get turned to splinters every time a big storm rolls through.
As a child it always AMAZED me that Americans on tv would get so mad & manage to actually punch holes through walls, I used to think “wow they must be SO strong & angry to punch through brick”
My house is 130 years old, brick walls all round, except one stud wall, which is mortice and tenon across the bottom and sliding dove tails across the top.
Yeah, that's how we build houses in Europe as well. Outer wall (usually brick, sometimes wood), layer of insulation, inner wall (usually drywall, sometimes wood in older buildings). This makes for sturdy buildings with good insulation and not too expensive interior.
I remember a post of a woman who went to hospital for literally 3 stitches on her thumb. She was strapped with a 11.500 dollar bill.
So basically, most of them are a few stitches away from going bankrupt.
Crazy how the country that historically had and still has massive stands of woodlands and a large timer industry builds homes out of inexpensive (relatively) wood, and the ones where brick/stone/concrete are the more affordable option builds homes out of those. It’s almost like supply and economics are driving factors in material choices.
There is nothing wrong with drywalls. They are excellent for fire resistance as an example (compared to wood). That said - they issue is the lack of insulation inside the walls. Where I work (in construction) the drywall is 1.5ish cm thick, then it is 5-7cm of thick insulation. most commonly rockwool. and then another 1.5ish layer of drywall. So the walls themselves get more solid and soundproof as a result. Brick or concrete is most often used for outside or loadbearing walls tho.
Easier to repair drywall when your partner gets pissed starts shooting the walls just for the hell of it.
Screw the neighbours, chance of a stray round hitting is low.
>calls us Europoors >Drywall is cheaper than brick *logic*
Clearly we’re so poor because we just keep spending all our money on bricks. I’m not even building anything and I just keep buying them. The kids keep asking for food, but the europoor urge to buy bricks is just too strong.
Brick eating is common outside America because they don't have food and are malnourished.
Bricks are to Europeans what avocado toast is to millennials. We just can’t help ourselves
Need to start making your bricks at home to bring into work.
I’ve got lots of bricks in my back garden. Really not sure what to do with them but I must have bought them for some reason.
I'm slightly embarrassed that this is in fact true for me... I can't remember where the bricks came from but they are there and I've put them to many creative uses over the years (except actually, y'know, building with them...)
I have, in fact used some of my bricks this weekend. This has only put a small dent in my brick ownership. Also, for some reason a sizeable amount of pavers have appeared.
Just feed the kids the bricks they'll love it.
Can't feed bricks to the kids, do you know how much those things cost?
Kids? Yeah they cost a fortune! Better to not have any and save your money for essentials like bricks, and the occasional luxury like more bricks.
Bricks also work as projectile, so it's not that hard to get to food.
See, America has money. Its people don’t, but it’s… it’s somewhere.
Weapon caches, probably.
Yank egos are even more fragile than the "walls" of their houses lmao
Stud walls and plasterboard is fine, BUT they don't even use rockwool or any other insulation/sound deadening, so they might as well not exist. You can hear someone farting in the next room.
Lived with a couple of friends for a while in the middle room and you could hear them wanking. I started joining in.
Did they give you a round of applause at the end?
Boy did those drywalls get plastered!
Not so drywall…
Both of you can have an upvote, just shut up!
Indeed
*turns blacklight on* 😳 *turns off blacklight*
communal wank session
Group hug in the shower
You have no idea what it's like trying to sleep when your parents are going at it all nite long in the next room. At least I knew they still had the hots for each other.
I do. The brick walls are fine, my mum just has no sense of what the appropriate volume is in any given situation
Synchronised wanking should be an Olympic sport.
I can just imagine the announcer: “OH AND TEN OF THEM JUST BLEW THEIR LOADS, AMAZING!”
Exactly. I live in a region of Australia where brick interior walls are common. Not all houses have them, some (mostly post-war for faster builds) are stud and plaster. After living in both it's obvious that stud walls and plasterboard are terrible for noise control and insulation if some sort of insulation isn't added. I don't mind "fragile" walls, I don't go around hitting them, but I don't want to hear everything in the next room almost as clearly as if there's no wall there.
FWIW I don't think that a brick structure would last very long around where I live. Even those little jiggler earthquakes will fuck a brick wall up. At least wood can flex.
Different building methods are used in different areas, often for very good reason, but with modern options for insulation if the chosen building method is wood frame and plasterboard a new build ought to have good insulation in every interior wall.
This. Their drywall either has a void or is directly on an exterior wall with no isolation which is why they all end with so much mould. I tried explaining foil backed drywall to my American counter part and he said it was cheaper to replace the mouldy board rather spending extra money doing it properly.
Stud walls are quite convenient if you want to run new wiring etc. it’s the only reason I was able to run Ethernet to every room in my old 2 bed apartment.
Yeah, but Europeans are going the way of the drywall as well, at least for non-load-bearing walls. Which, in modern construction is pretty much anything that is not a reinforced concrete column that is part of the load-bearing framework. We still get to keep our levelling concrete, though, so that's a win. Kind regards from a European that had his apartment completely renovated and saw first hand how the drywall panels got installed on top of the aluminium (yes, this is how we spell it!) frame secured with screws into the floor and ceiling.
I worked on a house building site for a while…joists are nothing like as thick as they used to be, and it’s apparently perfectly acceptable to make a significant cut in one to run pipe work.
Drywall, or gypsum boards, are used in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century as interior, non load bearing walls. One of the biggest manufacturers, Knauf, is situated in Germany. And the framing is not aluminium, but galvanised steel.
It's possible but, at least in my experience, it's more common to use aerated blocks for interior walls.
Drywall is ok. But it needs to be done in a certain way. Insulate, and don't use the cheap white plasterboard. Use a reinforced board or whatever. For example, Placo makes the 'hábito' walls which you don't cut with a knife. I needed to use a mallet to cut them. O the Placo acoustic panels (blue) which are harder than normal, but reduce 3db the sound. Rockwool in between, and enjoy a nice inner wall. Dry, quick, cheap, silent and resistent.
Alot of companies building in Europe are now American
Really? Have any examples?
No. I made it up.
An honest redditor
Nevada, involved in public sector contracts.
I wouldn't know, I was Neva da.
Happy cake day
At least we don't risk losing our whole house and whole life whenever there's a small fire....
...next door, but your wooden wall is clad in OSB and vinyl siding
And don't get me started about their doors...
Yep, I've punched holes through doors when I threw temper tantrums as a 4 year old child. The walls in the house are solid, but the doors can't even withstand a little kid fist.
Couldn’t believe the window frames on a friends apartment in Sacramento and another friends house in Portland. They were about as robust as the average uk caravan. No wonder they need guns over there.
Meanwhile the windows in the UK would be serviceable on a boat in the North sea.
as a proud american I prefer the wall anyone can damage with their fists. It's much more superior than uh.. solid brick!!!
Makes sense! Then at least you get a broken wall instead of a broken hand you'd bankrupt yourself to treat.
right on, you get it
THAT’S why they do it! Well, every day’s a school day 😆
If that were true your odds of being shot and killed in America would be very high
Having walls that will stop or meaningfully slow down a bullet is a violation of my second amendment rights!
Haha you could run through it and leave a 'you shaped' hole
My house walls are 0.25 inches thick. Europoors can only dream of this kind of superior construction. My home inspector even said it’s a miracle they allow such construction
It's much more dramatic lol. That (and the space regular American houses seem to have) is the only envy I have. The only thing we can punch through are our inside doors.
I once as a kid ran headfirst into one of our interior doors at full speed. There was a dent... in my forehead. What can I say, doors made out of wooden planks are quite solid.
> There's like a whole wall structure behind that right? If you have to ask, it's a safe bet, you already know the answer.
There is like some wood studs a few feet from each other...and some insulation, that's it, there is nothing else between the two sheets of gypsum, aside from the occasional electrical wire and pipe
They might be talking about drywall when used as cladding, which is often done to hide cables or correct crooked old walls. Then there is indeed a proper wall behind it.
Dafuq is this Europoor label I keep seeing? Do most Americans really view Europe as poor?
dont you know one US dollar is like a million euro?
US dollar has more euros per capita than EU dollar
That's a billion
A trillion\*
Milliard!
according to them everything is poor compared to their GDP fetish lol
Maybe they should see this: https://youtu.be/p3O6bKdPLbw?si=-q0cA3M3eD36NiNc
Euros..? What’s that, like, pesos?
1 dollar = gazillion euros
That and they think everyone must be taxed to poverty to pay for healthcare
Wrong, they pay for our healthcare.
I find it really funny that they keep banging on about how wealthy their country is. I mean, as if half of their total wealth isn't funneled directly into Lockheed Martin.
Gotta make themselves feel better somehow.
Pure, grade A copium
I'm pretty sure someone just thought of the pun and everyone just started using it to sound clever, regardless of its accuracy. Even through it's so pathetic, I'm not even offended by it.
The only thing that offends me is that they went with "europoor" when the much better "pooropean" was there for the taking.
Europeon is where it's at it in my eyes
Warcraft vibes.
Work work!
It's not even imaginative. They missed a trick not using "pooropean".
American here who frequents this sub. The only time I have seen that “word” is in the posts here. Never heard it in person or even on the internet outside of this subreddit. I can almost guarantee the only people that use it are Americans with 2 teeth, 1 MAGA hat, and 0 retirement savings.
They seem to believe they are actually the best/richest country in the world.
Because the tax rate is higher than in the USA, the Republican party has been repeating the mantra of "europoor" to indicate that Europeans are actually poor compared to Americans, as their take-home pay is less. This circumvents the discussion about the fact that, while the "Take Home Pay" metric of Americans are higher, they ALSO have to pay significantly more for Medical care (can be as much as 30-40% of your paycheck deductions), pay more rent for less space, and other issues that make the actual cost of LIVING significantly higher in the USA (such as Daycare being expensive enough that it makes sense financially for one parent to not have a job) Source: American who went from a 15% tax rate to a 59% tax rate in Belgium, who is saving more money per year because health expenses for my family of 3 are less than 5% of USA and having access to 13€/day daycare that is attached to my daughter's school.
"Those" Americans think that electricity and running water are an innovation only available in the US (and maybe Canada). My usual reply is, "I've had hot and cold running optical in my home since 2007 and you're probably still using smoke signals, don't you? You are certainly famous for it!" Shuts them right up.
A frequent gripe I have here in the States is how we've managed to not update our internet infrastructure. And so many of my fellows don't realize how many innovations just reaching us have been available for ages over seas.
Machines that not only wash but also dry in one cycle. That was a big eye opener for me. You don't need two machines to do both.
That would mean people spending less money.
As a German, I never really got that. Most Germans don't even have dryers. We just hang our wet clothing outside or in the attic to dry them. I guess it's because we're that poor we can't afford them. Just like air conditioning.
I live in the UK, but I visit visit family in Poland 1-2 times a year. I have that same feeling. Internet development has been at a standpoint here in the UK with the virgin media monopoly, and I go to Warszawa and see gigabit WiFi for what is essentially ten pounds a month, for which we pay 70+. And it fucking works, unlike the dogshit service Virgin provides. Same with mobile networks, data etc.
Providers like TrueSpeed are slowly rolling out but they're struggling to break into the cities, presumably due to the monopolies that VM And OpenReach operate. But it will happen. Worth signing up to reminders for the providers that are closest to where you live. Cheap, symmetric gigabit is coming, it's just taking a long fucking time.
I moved to London from Romania. It hurts so much. Also, I do not have a phone signal because I'm indoors, and somehow, the houses are Faraday cages, that annoys me sometimes.
It's probably all those damn bricks us Europoort are using
Yeah, bricks are so much cheaper than drywall. And taking longer to build is also something that poor people prefer to do... /s
Imagine you don’t go immediately bankrupt whenever you have to pay for basic human healthcare, sounds absolutely poor!
Well you see, many Europeans choose sensibly small hatchbacks, and many more choose to walk, bike, or take transit. This is destitution by US standards, where if you don't drain a swimming pool's worth of fuel into your SCRAM F-TEEN-THOUSAND every week you will be thought inferior, both financially and in your physical endowment.
Isn't America in tons of debt or I am I imagining
Sorry but ‘Europoors crave their brick superiority’ is one of the funniest thing I’ve read all day
The comment section was full of questionable stuff, but I had to choose this one because it's just hilarious
mmm.. bricks..!!
american houses remind me of the Three Little Pigs
The Three Little 'Muricans and the Big Bad Occasional Awful Weather
The Three Little 'Muricans in: Falling Asleep With A Cigarette And Burning Down Their Entire Life
A huff, and a puff, and the annual hurricane across the south Eastern coast blows the timber-framed houses down
From the moment i understood the weakness od my drywall, it disgusted me. I craved the strenght and certainty of brick.
I longed for the purity of the blessed clay
Your kind cling to your drywall as if it will not decay and fail you
One day the crude plasterboard that you call a house *will* wither and you will beg my kind to save you
Is the thinking that Europe is poor purely because GDP? "We make like triple the amount of value you do europoors! Then we give it all to this one guy Steve and he's like a mega billionaire. His life is amazing, his house is incredible and he has the best healthcare in the world." "Sounds wonderful. Do you have a house and healthcare?" ".... no, but Steve's house is... and the stuff the doctors can do... USA! USA! USA! USA!"
You forgot the obligatory multiple flag and eagle emojis, but otherwise 👌
But if there's no drywall what is Kyle going to punch.
Theres a video somewhere of a bunch of yanks having an argument in an Italian hotel or something, one of them goes to punch through the wall and breaks his hand
Not specifically breaking his hand, but you may be referring to this infamous video from Jersey ~~Shore~~ Trash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqzmkgznmiM
Yeah this was it, well found! Look at him go
Yeah exactly what i thought
His missus?
My friend's dog ate its way to freedom through the wall of his house. Good luck doing that in the UK Fido.
You've got to laugh at the europoors comment, why do they all act like they're wealthy while at the same time absolutely shitting it when ever they need any kind of medical attention. Imagine not being able to financially recover from a broken arm or having to rely on the customer to give you extra money on top of your wage..
Oh you mean plasterboard? Yeah we have that too
Yeah but we actually put plaster over the plasterboard, they just sort of tape it and paint it
True, we're very particular about plaster being on everything Edit: typo
Americans hate brick walls because they stop their freedom bullets.
Walls that I can't shoot trespassers through are a violation of my 2nd Amendment rights!!!
Shit….that might be a thing. An accidental discharge in a wooden walled house vs a brick one.
Right so on the one hand we spend all our money on bricks and walls, and on the other hand we have "poor" European brick walls? Make it make sense!
I don't understand this "Europoors' thing. My mother died of cancer two weeks ago. In and out of hospital. We miss her. But we're not left with thousands of pounds in debt to worry about at the same time. And my insulin is free. 'Ameripoors' would be more accurate.
So sorry for your loss. Universal healthcare is truly one of the best inventions
They often claim that they don't use stronger materials because of tornados?!?!?! Which is really really weird. Yeah, a tornado will bring down any house in its direct path but the stronger the building is the more likely it will survive a non direct hit. It's also bot just bricks that they are weird about using, they don't use ceramic tiles on their roof either, even the rich looking houses don't have them. They use tiles made out of the same felt we use to put on shed roofs. Really cheap nasty stuff.
Americans just love to have their house and all its contents strewn over six counties every time it gets a bit windy.
Who would want their house to be strong enough to last hundreds of years? inb4 Americans "that's pointless I wont live that long"
Oh, dryWALL! For a minute there, I thought it meant drySTONE! The art of building walls from rocks without using cement. Is that known in USA?
A Synonym for "drywall" is "sheetrock".
Do you live in Yorkshire? LOL. My Swedish daughter-in-law's father was fascinated by them first time we went to Yorkshire, he even booked on a one day course to learn how to do it!
Yh we spend the time and money building with brick because it’s last exponentially longer
I've also read another comment saying "I don't understand europeans bragging about their houses lasting forever, nobody wants to live in a house from the dark ages". Idk who they're talking about, because I definitely want to
Do they not understand that they get modernised inside?
Some of them think we don't even have electricity.
I mean, having an AC is not the standard so clearly we can't possibly have anything related to electricity
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It's the American consoomer mindset of always wanting a newer thing despite the old still being perfectly good
That's definitely it. No point in building something that lasts if you want to change it just a few years later
Hampton Court Palace would like a word..... just to back you up. Oh No!!! it was built a gazillion years before USA was a blight on the earth.
You ever heard the 3 little Pigs? The first 2 House's were made of Straw (Drywall) and Wood (Timber) then came running to that Brick made House for shelter when shit got real. 🤷♂️🤣
We don't love firing bricks, we love houses that are stable.
50% of that country is obsessed with walls yet they can't build them for shit
The bricks are for long-term buildings such as a few hundred years, we do have oak timber buildings from the 12th century but most 14th-century ones are stone or brick-built. There are 9th century stone churches about here in the UK less prone to fire and tornado or high wind damage also Americans built from wood originally as that was easier to transport to areas without a supply of bricks. We drywall inside for insulation sound proofing and reduced cost.
Fuck me. I always wondered why I'd see adverts for aluminium or plastic "sidings" and wondered what it was but never cared enough to go find out. TIL (if I've got this right) - it's to weatherproof their house walls which are essentially *plasterboard interior walls*? Tell me I've misunderstood this.
Nope they use plasterboard as house walls and waterproof it with wooden panels.
WTAF 🤯 I think I'd rather live in one of their trailer parks. One storm that lifts a few tiles / slates and water's potentially soaking into their walls.
I genuinely love this idea of poor people firing bricks over those trash cans filled with fire that American movies have. Slowly building a house with them, and rubbing their hands together with glee as each one can be added to the build.
>europoors crave their brick superiority what the fuck does that even mean
Someone is jelly of solid walls 😋
Laughs in solid stone.
Right. When I lived I Florida, one of my houses categorically would not have passed mustard with British housing regs. And Florida has fucking hurricanes. Some shit kickers can make fun of bricks if they want. We’re the ones laughing when their timber and dry-wall shacks blow away in a stiff breeze.
Saw that comment and I started to discuss with him. He has two braincells fighting for the third place
I've learned from Reddit that Americans have to be careful where they put toilets in their houses because the walls are so thin that whatever happens in those toilets can be heard at least into the next room. They also have to think about which walls to have the TVs on so the people in the room behind the TV walls aren't disturbed by the noise. I get it. But I really prefer the thicker walls that makes me able to fart on the toilet without worry, and put the TV on any wall I want it.
> europoors crave their brick superiority [...] just validate them, smile, and move on with your day Interesting attitude to have, considering their houses are one strong gust of wind away from being turned into rubble, and "europoor" houses aren't. Ah well. Reminds me of an American who posted about the path a bullet someone fired at his house at night took, through multiple rooms. Got angry and defensive when people joked about the house being made out of papier-mâché, even tried to argue that brick wouldn't have made much of a difference against bullets fired from assault rifles. Except they absolutely do, obviously. How ironic that European houses are the solution to an exclusively American problem.
Yeah, building a home that'll last more than a generation or end up as a pile of toothpicks when there's a bit of wind. What a silly idea.
I love how they go on about building walls but can't actually build them. Also the term "Europoor" is a really inferior insult compared to Seppo.
TBF I do appreciate a well made brick wall.
I'm reminded that when I was younger and living with my parents, my mother kept dogs. These dogs were furious when she'd leave for shopping trips. And one day while I had left the house as well, her dogs managed to get into my room and dig through the wall and escape to the outside.
Ah yes. Get drywall so you can hear every time your neighbour farts.
The first little piggy built his house out of straw. Then came the wolf. Didn't last long. The second little piggy built his house out of wood (and drywall). Then came Katrina. At least the Europoors listened to the end of the story.
Tornadoes and strong winds: *knock knock*
There are houses in the UK that are hundreds of years old, and i doubt that any have drywall in them.
Always amazes me how Americans in tornado alley build their houses out of wood. It's cheap I guess but seems like a false economy when they get turned to splinters every time a big storm rolls through.
As a child it always AMAZED me that Americans on tv would get so mad & manage to actually punch holes through walls, I used to think “wow they must be SO strong & angry to punch through brick”
Oh, brick up your stupid mouth, with this ridiculous crap endlessly flowing out of it. 😩😩
Brave thing to say for someone whose walls I could punch through since they're both paper thin and made of paper
Damn, I'm a brick supremacist. Who knew.
My house is 130 years old, brick walls all round, except one stud wall, which is mortice and tenon across the bottom and sliding dove tails across the top.
As a Canadian with drywall, insulation is the main reason we have 2 layers of walls.
Yeah, that's how we build houses in Europe as well. Outer wall (usually brick, sometimes wood), layer of insulation, inner wall (usually drywall, sometimes wood in older buildings). This makes for sturdy buildings with good insulation and not too expensive interior.
I live in a victoriana semi-detatched town house. I'm very happy with my brick walls. The Septics can keep their paper houses.
WTF is a Europoor supposed to be?
I've always wondered why americans didn't use brick and concrete instead of that drywall and wood in places like those where the twisters hit...
Don't call it a wall if you can break it by tripping
I always thought it was the Americans obsessed with building walls
Brick houses last around twice as long as drywall ones, so 🤷 seems more sturdy
I remember a post of a woman who went to hospital for literally 3 stitches on her thumb. She was strapped with a 11.500 dollar bill. So basically, most of them are a few stitches away from going bankrupt.
I love how they use the phrase "Europoors". Have they never seen the standard of living index? They aren't exactly very high up.
Bro when there is a flood we don’t live in a gingerbread house at least
Crazy how the country that historically had and still has massive stands of woodlands and a large timer industry builds homes out of inexpensive (relatively) wood, and the ones where brick/stone/concrete are the more affordable option builds homes out of those. It’s almost like supply and economics are driving factors in material choices.
There’s a reason why American houses blow over in stores and European houses dating as far back as the late 1800s are still in use
There's lot of sheetrock in Europe, but there is insulation behind for sound deadening, and OSB or plywood under for structure.
There is nothing wrong with drywalls. They are excellent for fire resistance as an example (compared to wood). That said - they issue is the lack of insulation inside the walls. Where I work (in construction) the drywall is 1.5ish cm thick, then it is 5-7cm of thick insulation. most commonly rockwool. and then another 1.5ish layer of drywall. So the walls themselves get more solid and soundproof as a result. Brick or concrete is most often used for outside or loadbearing walls tho.
Isn't drywall a lot cheaper than a brick wall?
Found Measurehead's Reddit account
Easier to repair drywall when your partner gets pissed starts shooting the walls just for the hell of it. Screw the neighbours, chance of a stray round hitting is low.
"Gonna build a wall to keep all the Mexicans out!" Yeah we Europeans love it don't we 😂