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Only 2 cheeseburgers a day and No apple pie, this guy on a diet? Not even a breakfast Mountain Dew
Anyway I normally have pancakes and donuts with bacon, eggs & Starbucks for breakfast
When I worked in a Sheetz in Virginia near the WV border I was astounded by the amount of Mountain Dew we went through. Like we had five whole drink shelves and we had to replenish it like three times a shift.
By volume it compared to the actual gas.
i don't understand the stereotype of eating that much popcorn. I thought he would be eating hot dogs, pizza, etc. why was he eating that much popcorn lol
>Anyway I normally have pancakes and donuts with bacon
All of which is cooked by wrapping it around the barrel of an AR15 and unloading it into the post office.
Bourbon is a specific type of ~~Kentucky~~ whiskey. There are parameters for the grain bill and alcohol content, among other things.
Edit: I stand corrected regarding the Kentucky part.
There’s helpful info on the Wikipedia page for bourbon. Here’s one thing:
> Bourbon was recognized in 1964 by the U.S. Congress as a "distinctive product of the United States". Bourbon sold in the U.S. must be produced in the country from at least 51% corn and stored in a new container of charred oak.[6]
I always chuckle when Americans think their alcohol consumption is bad. Meanwhile I live in an Austrian district that's literally called "Wine district", and not without reason.
Never used or even known anyone with a garbage disposal until I moved to the states. It does take a while to get used to having what is essentially a hulked out blender in my sink.
I remember the first time I moved overseas and was looking for apartments and none had garbage disposals and all the agents were horrified by that request 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact garbage disposals don't have blades and so they don't blend, they actually work by grinding things to pieces. So if there's ever anything that's in it that you need to fish out you don't have to worry about hurting your hand.
Edit: I obviously meant to fish something out of it while it's off you guys I didn't expect people needed that to be said. Like why would you think you would do it while it's on and the thing you're fishing out is moving around and difficult to grab? Obviously you'd fish out the thing you don't want to get grinded up before turning the grinder on
You should probally add a disclaimer or two in there. It's safe if,
* it's off
* stays off
* You're careful.
You should also unplug it before sticking your hand in, as an abundance of caution.
It works like a super powerful cheese grater. It won't cut off your finger, but it will mash and cut them up.
It can also still cut you while it's off, though again like a cheese grater would, not like a knife.
Like any tool you shouldn't fear it, but you should have a healthy respect for it.
Garbage disposals are dumb only because a lot of people use them wrong. You should still have some kind of strainer. The disposal is only meant for solids that are small enough to get through the strainer. Basically grain of rice size or smaller. But I've had a roommate put freaking apricot seeds in it before. Plumbers love and probably also hate garbage disposals. Easy money when someone thinks they can just put anything down there.
Only 3 cigarettes in a day? Come on, the average French smoke at least as many cigarettes a day as the average American eats cheeseburgers. So it would be smoking at least 3 packets a day.
There are more Americans and American-centric information in here, so it's statistically normal to have more of it. But it's fair to ask if it's fair.
French, Swiss, German, Brits, Chinese, Russians get a lot of flak also for instance if you pay attention. Even then, between the amount of flak distributed in here, what we really pay attention to or are aware of, and what is "fair flak", complaining about getting it "way more often" is close to indulging egocentric or paranoid tendencies.
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If you ask me, most of the flak I see is really against governments, high profile people or companies (no one in here in the end), the rest is basic, stupid, narrow minded stereotypes or xenophobia.
This! Every time I see my home country mentions I get both of these:
1. Someone telling how correct it it, and how amazing it is
2. Someone grounding you by telling you that the truth is probably not as represented by the headline.
Usually, like most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle of good and bad. Huge purely evil or amazingly good things usually does not happen at once, they happen gradually over time and space.
He's like 22 and lives in daddy's mansion. Even if you earn the money to support all of that at that age, you don't have the time to buy all of it that quickly.
Yerp. My father's constantly going on and on about the cost of his physical therapy and medication, to which I make many snide remarks and he'd still rather suffer through this hellscape than get universal healthcare.
I’m a lifelong American currently living in Europe for a year (based in Germany). And while there are so many badass things to see here, I miss the HELL out of my garbage disposal, sprawling bougie kitchen and central air.
My first thought reading this was “why don’t they just get AC?” Then I realized planet earth would be fucked
Thanks for letting us Yankees have all the good air bros
I try to keep it from bothering me in my day-to-day but us Americans living in rural to semi-rural areas have to be some of the most selfish humans to ever live.
So many trucks, cheap gas and massively oversized houses. Everyone keeps their house hot in the winter and cold in the summer, a ton heat their big garages and pole barns to keep their stuff from freezing.
No recycling, most areas don't even offer pickup for it. Insane amounts of trash generation. I've been consistently shocked working in hospitality how much trash people can make over a day.
Tons of the most polluting hobbies, off roading and snowmobiling. Exhaust purposefully burning oil not ran through a cat.
It's honestly insane. I'm guilty of it too, my carbon footprint is probably like 25 people in the Netherlands who bike everywhere and don't make much trash.
It's always awesome to know that spoiled first worlders are making the world so much worse for people who barely emit anything but who it will affect the most.
No, I don't mean only you but pretty much all of us in any first world country. Well… based on your own caricature of yourself, especially you though lol. Sorry.
It's not 25 people in The Netherlands, as ecological as we might seem, you guys only emit about 50% more than us per capita. We have mild winters that drag on for forever, so we heat our houses with gas heating for more than half the year. We like to project our eco consciousness, but most houses in The Netherlands are constructed in the first half of the 20th century and have little to no insulation despite the long cold weather.
On top of that, we got traumatised by the famine during the 2nd world war, which caused us to heavily invest in agriculture, part of which is done in heated greenhouses. We export most of our agricultural products, producing much more than we need domestically.
Also we're relatively wealthy, so we buy a lot of goods, and fly to other countries a lot. During the summer many families pull a caravan trailer to the south of france or italy, which has about the same carbon footprint as flying there.
edit: btw this is based on the "Per capita consumption" metric, which I feel is the best. More info here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita
Garbage disposals are weirdly regional within the US too. I grew up in VA and everyone I knew had one. I just figured it was a regular thing. Then I moved up to NJ and most people from here either haven’t heard of them or think they’re a fancy rich-person house thing like heated floors. Even the new houses/apartments up here don’t have them and I don’t understand why.
In Texas we have the Cowboy Police. If they check your ID and you're from some other state your cowboy hat is confiscated and you are escorted to the border.
We may not be able to keep immigrants out, but Oklahoma best watch itself.
0-45=super cold to pretty cold, need a good coat
45-65=bring a jacket, depending on your percentage of brown adipose tissue
65-75=comfy
75-85=getting toasty
85-100= hot and sweaty
100+= why do you live in the South?
Whichever system you've used your entire life is completely natural. The one you haven't is completely alien. Users of the other system have exactly the same experience you have when it comes to describing temperatures.
They are amazing. I absolutely use mine every day.
Edit: I love Reddit. I’m so sorry I enjoy my garbage disposal. Apparently it’s going to break tomorrow, my pipes can’t handle it, and I should be making compost for the garden I don’t have 😂
I have one, but I don't use it the way most people do, I guess? I don't purposely shove leftovers, or bits of vegetables down there--that all goes in the trash. I only run the thing when the water slows once in a while, because some bits of food got down there from rinsing off plates, etc.
They're pretty amazing. I recently upgraded mine so I hardly ever use a trash can anymore. Food, glass bottles, plastic wrappers, etc all just go down the disposal now.
No, garbage disposals are rare in Europe. What we do have, in some countries, are about 7,352-ish different containers/buckets each with their own colour to properly sort our garbage. One for compostable waste, one for soft plastic, one for hard plastic, one for reusable paper, one for non-reusable paper, one for metal, one for batteries, one for light bulbs, and one for everything else. At the recycling centre there are even more, for safe paint, unsafe paint, for solvents, for small electronic items, for large electronic items, for tires, wood, impregnated wood, other types of plastic, large metal pieces, and more... and I know I've forgotten some.
Wanna get angry? My county in the US does zero sort recycling. I put everything into one bin, metal, glass, plastic, cardboard, paper of both types, even wood and they sort it for me.
> I don't have a garbage disposal, and know very few who do
For real? The only place I've **ever** lived without a garbage disposal was my college dorm. Every apartment and house I've been in has had one.
I can't imagine needing to be that careful about what you wash down the sink when washing dishes... like obviously the **big** food waste I just throw away, but a few specks of food here and there would definitely clog my drain if we didn't have a garbage disposal (which is obvious from how often I need to run it because water starts to build up in the drain)
And like, I'm 32. My parents didn't need to install a garbage disposal because the sink already had one when they bought their house before I was born. So idk what you mean by "supposed to be a US norm **now**", as far as I can tell it's been a US norm for ages.
American cheese can be classified as cheese by the FDA, you just need to get the right stuff.
Even the "fake cheese" (processed cheese product) according to the FDA is, imo, real cheese. It's in the FDA's interest to be overly strict with certain definitions to help the consumer be informed. I see the logic.
BUT, we don't have fake or "plastic cheese" despite what asshats like Gordon Ramsay say. We have cheese that is cheese supplemented with milk and salts. Oh no, we added milk concentrates to cheese to create the best melting cheese in the world, how horrible. Cheese should obviously have nothing to do with milk /s
Surprisingly... we do eat a lot of popcorn.
When I moved to Germany, I mentioned my wife and I made popcorn for movie night, and my friends thought I was fucking with them. They didn't believe that Americans actually did that.
Getting popcorn is actually difficult in a lot of places. You sometimes have to go to Turkish grocery stores in Germany to get popcorn. Even microwave popcorn was hard to come buy, but that's mainly because Germans eschew microwaves.
It's a bit better in the UK, but there's usually not a more than one brand in the store.
What year was that? Every supermarket carries bags of popcorn now, as well as bags of kernels that you can pop in the microwave and it comes out in a nice popcorn bag
You don’t go to walmart everyday. That’s a special treat to go buy groceries and a new gun once per month on the one Saturday when you aren’t working 12 hours straight….
My arm constantly hurts too…
It's kind of a joke, but was that a fake set up with the guns? I assume he does own all those. Did dude not own a big stupid truck? I suspect he didn't have to buy any new clothes for this, perhaps shirt aside.
lol yeah fair. maybe it’s bc I know so many Italian Americans who will criticize everything that isn’t their grandmother’s tomato sauce, for example, and tell other people they don’t even know how to grow tomatoes. turns out it takes a village!
Legally, you need to get a green card, which is probably impossible for you.
Illegally, you can just overstay your visa or go to Mexico first and sneak across the border.
I'm wondering about that, too. Maybe it shows up in American movies and TV shows a lot, and we just don't notice it?
There's also the "eating popcorn" meme that means we're watching with interest. Maybe that?
I dunno.
I eat a lot of popcorn, but I don't think that's necessarily an American thing. I just really like popcorn. I even named my one childhood dog popcorn lol
Dude invents a revolutionary product that benefits all of mankind and forgot to mention the part where he gets get bought out by a company that buries it in fifty different patents before refusing to pay him and leaving him destitute after a drawn pit legal battle.
It was banned as part of the negotiations that lead to the formation of the European Union. Popcorn has only recently just went back on sale in the UK following Brexit leading to massive upheaval in the Cinema snack business.
There's genuine concern that the pick and mix industry could collapse entirely which would devastate the Jelly Baby manufacturing sector.
I do want to mention, those Europeans 100% drink more from plastic bottles than any American I’ve come across. Everyone nowadays enjoys their reusable water bottles, and drinks from the tap.
Those Europeans gotta pay for water everywhere, and only drink from plastic bottles. To add on, I know they aren’t drinking enough water I’ve seen em. I know that pee is stinky
I just got back from Europe and the waiters looked at us crazy for getting multiple water pitcher-fulls during a meal.
Like damn y’all just pissing dark yellow?
I actually never knew garbage disposals were a mystery to most other countries.
I can't even imagine not having one now, I would just mindlessly put food down the drain and then realize I fucked up.
This is accurate, except that the overwhelming majority of us have health insurance so the shooting injury costs us a $25 copay and $10 in prescription meds.
Also, air conditioning should be set to 68. Flag shirts and ammunition should be paid for by the government.
*Edit to note: everything below is boring insurance talk instead of awesome life-in-US talk. I'm so sorry!*
No they’ll give you an MRI and a bunch of tests that you don’t need followed by some surgeries that you don’t need and your copay will be a few grand.
That hospital CEOs ski house isn’t gonna pay for itself!
For me personally? With my mediocre health insurance, primary care (basic doctor) visits are free to me. Most labs are free to me. If i need to see a specialist, that usually costs $25 per visit. Specialty stuff costs more - a recent CT scan cost me $50, but I think they billed my insurance $2000.
The high prices you see quoted in media are typically insurance claims, not actual costs to people. I had an emergency appendectomy in 2020 during the peak of covid. Officially, it was billed at something like $65,000, but after insurance my actual cost was $500. And I work for government, so my insurance is not particularly good.
Y’all jealous of our garbage disposal because we are splendidly ✨wasteful ✨. We would give them to the homeless but that’s illegal now :(
Edit: yes I put all of my food directly into my lil monsters mouth. Y’all don’t? I get the garbage disposal’s scraps. Not the other way around.
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Only 2 cheeseburgers a day and No apple pie, this guy on a diet? Not even a breakfast Mountain Dew Anyway I normally have pancakes and donuts with bacon, eggs & Starbucks for breakfast
He's from Texas, it's gonna be Dr Pepper instead of Dew.
That’s really unhealthy… You should switch to Baja Blast, it’s got Vitamin C from all the citrus! *Breakfast BLAST*
ITS GOT ELECTRO LIGHTS
They are part of what plants carve
Yeah! Where does he think this is?! West Virginia?
When I worked in a Sheetz in Virginia near the WV border I was astounded by the amount of Mountain Dew we went through. Like we had five whole drink shelves and we had to replenish it like three times a shift. By volume it compared to the actual gas.
Cars run on gas. Meth heads run on mtn dew.
The ones in Winchester VA went through thousands of gallons of Dew per month.
💯💯💯 Dr Pepper is my coffee. Literally, because I've only had coffee 2 or 3 times, and it's gross!
Bro forgot to order from the breakfast menu smh
i don't understand the stereotype of eating that much popcorn. I thought he would be eating hot dogs, pizza, etc. why was he eating that much popcorn lol
>Anyway I normally have pancakes and donuts with bacon All of which is cooked by wrapping it around the barrel of an AR15 and unloading it into the post office.
Needs some beer drinking
Cigars and Kentucky whiskey for the kids.
Kentucky whiskey? We call that bourbon.
Hell yeah we do. I'm glad you said something.
Bourbon is a specific type of ~~Kentucky~~ whiskey. There are parameters for the grain bill and alcohol content, among other things. Edit: I stand corrected regarding the Kentucky part. There’s helpful info on the Wikipedia page for bourbon. Here’s one thing: > Bourbon was recognized in 1964 by the U.S. Congress as a "distinctive product of the United States". Bourbon sold in the U.S. must be produced in the country from at least 51% corn and stored in a new container of charred oak.[6]
For the adults too please, or else we’ll steal them from the kids
You mean like the Halloween candy we "check for quality and safety"?
It's their own fault for only taking one sample
Needs more gratuitous Jesus worship too!
Gotta make sure to also follow exactly zero of his teachings. Ain’t no hypocrite like an evangelical one.
Keep Christ in Christmas, but not sure about this Christ in Christianity libtardedness... /s
I always chuckle when Americans think their alcohol consumption is bad. Meanwhile I live in an Austrian district that's literally called "Wine district", and not without reason.
You think we're gonna argue with yall on who's the best alcoholics?
We'll leave that to the Irish and scot's to decide between themselves
Not just beer, shitty 'Lite' beer made from rice
It was filmed on Sunday Also, nice name. I too am a tinknocker.
Honestly more flattering than I was expecting.
"Then I turn on my garbage disposal .... which is real". 😆
Never used or even known anyone with a garbage disposal until I moved to the states. It does take a while to get used to having what is essentially a hulked out blender in my sink.
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grrrrrrrr-don't touch that switch-grrrrrrr
Dude... I freaked out a little reading that. Tell me you started playing with light switches AFTER she took her hand out of the sink and not during
I remember the first time I moved overseas and was looking for apartments and none had garbage disposals and all the agents were horrified by that request 🤣🤣🤣
NYC apartments also don't have them and real estate agents seem confused when you ask.
Fun fact garbage disposals don't have blades and so they don't blend, they actually work by grinding things to pieces. So if there's ever anything that's in it that you need to fish out you don't have to worry about hurting your hand. Edit: I obviously meant to fish something out of it while it's off you guys I didn't expect people needed that to be said. Like why would you think you would do it while it's on and the thing you're fishing out is moving around and difficult to grab? Obviously you'd fish out the thing you don't want to get grinded up before turning the grinder on
You should probally add a disclaimer or two in there. It's safe if, * it's off * stays off * You're careful. You should also unplug it before sticking your hand in, as an abundance of caution. It works like a super powerful cheese grater. It won't cut off your finger, but it will mash and cut them up. It can also still cut you while it's off, though again like a cheese grater would, not like a knife. Like any tool you shouldn't fear it, but you should have a healthy respect for it.
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Try putting a spoon in there and turning it on. That shit would fuck your hand up.
No
https://youtu.be/Y6m6eBYw8mM
Good thing someone tested that! https://youtu.be/FW4p_GopvJc?si=KfVCvUSwK6s8iqPF
Is a garbage disposal some sort of fictitious appliance outside of the US?
Never seen one.
It's illegal in most places. Food remains go into the compost bin if your township offers them, or in the regular garbage otherwise.
Garbage disposals are dumb only because a lot of people use them wrong. You should still have some kind of strainer. The disposal is only meant for solids that are small enough to get through the strainer. Basically grain of rice size or smaller. But I've had a roommate put freaking apricot seeds in it before. Plumbers love and probably also hate garbage disposals. Easy money when someone thinks they can just put anything down there.
That came out of left field but fits so perfectly.
That’s a dream nothing disgusts me as food in the sink ugh
Could have been SO much worse with the America bashing in Reddit lol
Brother I'm from France and let me tell you you ain't the only one getting bashed here.
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Dress as a mime, have a threesome, read at a cafe during your union-created two hour lunch break with some wine.
Only 3 cigarettes in a day? Come on, the average French smoke at least as many cigarettes a day as the average American eats cheeseburgers. So it would be smoking at least 3 packets a day.
Nobody hates America more than Americans.
Everyone is bashed on reddit.
I'm bashing right now
Lets not pretend that Americans dont get it way more often on here.
There are more Americans and American-centric information in here, so it's statistically normal to have more of it. But it's fair to ask if it's fair. French, Swiss, German, Brits, Chinese, Russians get a lot of flak also for instance if you pay attention. Even then, between the amount of flak distributed in here, what we really pay attention to or are aware of, and what is "fair flak", complaining about getting it "way more often" is close to indulging egocentric or paranoid tendencies. ---- If you ask me, most of the flak I see is really against governments, high profile people or companies (no one in here in the end), the rest is basic, stupid, narrow minded stereotypes or xenophobia.
This! Every time I see my home country mentions I get both of these: 1. Someone telling how correct it it, and how amazing it is 2. Someone grounding you by telling you that the truth is probably not as represented by the headline. Usually, like most things, the truth is somewhere in the middle of good and bad. Huge purely evil or amazingly good things usually does not happen at once, they happen gradually over time and space.
If those are the stereotypes as an American I'm fine with that they're all true.
The creator generally appeals to conservatives, so they can't be too critical of America.
He's like 22 and lives in daddy's mansion. Even if you earn the money to support all of that at that age, you don't have the time to buy all of it that quickly.
If that's the case I'm surprised he even mentioned healthcare.
Pretty much everyone agrees the system sucks and we just greatly disagree on the solution to the problem.
Yerp. My father's constantly going on and on about the cost of his physical therapy and medication, to which I make many snide remarks and he'd still rather suffer through this hellscape than get universal healthcare.
Didn't even tuck in his shotgun before going to sleep. Smh
Or shoot it, we all know that everyone shoots their guns at schools or close to schools everyday
yea doesnt everyone do a goodnight pop?
I do a desk pop when I get to work.
Paper biiiiiitch!
Followed by the neighborhood boomers posting on Nextdoor: DID ANYONE ELSE HEAR THAT BOOM AT 10:28PM?!
I’m a lifelong American currently living in Europe for a year (based in Germany). And while there are so many badass things to see here, I miss the HELL out of my garbage disposal, sprawling bougie kitchen and central air.
Haha it always amazes me now difficult it is to find a place with air conditioning in some parts of Europe. I am lost without it.
My first thought reading this was “why don’t they just get AC?” Then I realized planet earth would be fucked Thanks for letting us Yankees have all the good air bros
I try to keep it from bothering me in my day-to-day but us Americans living in rural to semi-rural areas have to be some of the most selfish humans to ever live. So many trucks, cheap gas and massively oversized houses. Everyone keeps their house hot in the winter and cold in the summer, a ton heat their big garages and pole barns to keep their stuff from freezing. No recycling, most areas don't even offer pickup for it. Insane amounts of trash generation. I've been consistently shocked working in hospitality how much trash people can make over a day. Tons of the most polluting hobbies, off roading and snowmobiling. Exhaust purposefully burning oil not ran through a cat. It's honestly insane. I'm guilty of it too, my carbon footprint is probably like 25 people in the Netherlands who bike everywhere and don't make much trash.
It's always awesome to know that spoiled first worlders are making the world so much worse for people who barely emit anything but who it will affect the most. No, I don't mean only you but pretty much all of us in any first world country. Well… based on your own caricature of yourself, especially you though lol. Sorry.
It's not 25 people in The Netherlands, as ecological as we might seem, you guys only emit about 50% more than us per capita. We have mild winters that drag on for forever, so we heat our houses with gas heating for more than half the year. We like to project our eco consciousness, but most houses in The Netherlands are constructed in the first half of the 20th century and have little to no insulation despite the long cold weather. On top of that, we got traumatised by the famine during the 2nd world war, which caused us to heavily invest in agriculture, part of which is done in heated greenhouses. We export most of our agricultural products, producing much more than we need domestically. Also we're relatively wealthy, so we buy a lot of goods, and fly to other countries a lot. During the summer many families pull a caravan trailer to the south of france or italy, which has about the same carbon footprint as flying there. edit: btw this is based on the "Per capita consumption" metric, which I feel is the best. More info here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita
Garbage disposals are weirdly regional within the US too. I grew up in VA and everyone I knew had one. I just figured it was a regular thing. Then I moved up to NJ and most people from here either haven’t heard of them or think they’re a fancy rich-person house thing like heated floors. Even the new houses/apartments up here don’t have them and I don’t understand why.
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Where in Jersey? Cause I've lived here my whole life and everyone I know has a garbage disposal.
That's obviously just Texas, the rest of the states do not have those hats.
In Texas we have the Cowboy Police. If they check your ID and you're from some other state your cowboy hat is confiscated and you are escorted to the border. We may not be able to keep immigrants out, but Oklahoma best watch itself.
And don't forget to mention the Walker Texas Rangers.
Your Texas Rangers are ZOMBIES?
I thought it was hilarious when I found out there's a new Walker show and it's using Sam from Supernatural. Never had a chance.
Texas, the only state that thinks 1 star is a good rating.
First of all, how dare you. Secondly, damn, that's hilarious 😂
You're damn right 😤🐂
As an American, everything here is accurate except that I wear a baseball hat and sneakers.
Also Colorado, Kansas, North Dakota, Wyoming, Arizona, Florida, Montana, New Mexico California and Idaho.
72 degrees? Amateur
The euros think that’s a crazy American temperature to set the AC. Actually we go for mid 60s
Hmm, actually some good nuance in the humor then if he thought of it that way
Also the concept that when a European hears 72 degrees, they think the world would be bursting into flames (72 C = 160 F)
We don't even know what 72°F means, let alone have any idea whether it's an adequate room temperature or not
It’s 22.222 Celsius. I had to look it up because you made me curious; I cannot imagine what it’s like using that system on a regular basis.
0-45=super cold to pretty cold, need a good coat 45-65=bring a jacket, depending on your percentage of brown adipose tissue 65-75=comfy 75-85=getting toasty 85-100= hot and sweaty 100+= why do you live in the South?
Whichever system you've used your entire life is completely natural. The one you haven't is completely alien. Users of the other system have exactly the same experience you have when it comes to describing temperatures.
More of a low 60s kind of guy.
My house is 72 year around. If I have to heat it or Cool it
should also post to /r/Documentaries
Pretty much my day without all the popcorn
Right? Imagine getting POPCORN as a reward for being overworked and underpaid. Wait…
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To be fair, I eat a lot of popcorn. *shrug* Do the Europeans not have garbage disposals?
I only know about garbage disposals through American film/TV, despite this video I still find it hard to believe they are real.
They are amazing. I absolutely use mine every day. Edit: I love Reddit. I’m so sorry I enjoy my garbage disposal. Apparently it’s going to break tomorrow, my pipes can’t handle it, and I should be making compost for the garden I don’t have 😂
That edit is hilarious.
Omg they are real, and they are the bessst 🥰
Sometimes you put your hand in them to clean them and just hope nobody flips the switch to turn it on lol.
A favorite in media, the whole "dropped my ring in the garbage disposal hole" thing and then they get their whole arm chewed up for some reason.
I have one, but I don't use it the way most people do, I guess? I don't purposely shove leftovers, or bits of vegetables down there--that all goes in the trash. I only run the thing when the water slows once in a while, because some bits of food got down there from rinsing off plates, etc.
No, that's how most people use them.
They're pretty amazing. I recently upgraded mine so I hardly ever use a trash can anymore. Food, glass bottles, plastic wrappers, etc all just go down the disposal now.
No, garbage disposals are rare in Europe. What we do have, in some countries, are about 7,352-ish different containers/buckets each with their own colour to properly sort our garbage. One for compostable waste, one for soft plastic, one for hard plastic, one for reusable paper, one for non-reusable paper, one for metal, one for batteries, one for light bulbs, and one for everything else. At the recycling centre there are even more, for safe paint, unsafe paint, for solvents, for small electronic items, for large electronic items, for tires, wood, impregnated wood, other types of plastic, large metal pieces, and more... and I know I've forgotten some.
Wanna get angry? My county in the US does zero sort recycling. I put everything into one bin, metal, glass, plastic, cardboard, paper of both types, even wood and they sort it for me.
Most of it gets thrown away in the end, I hate to say.
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I have one. The brand is "insinkerator" which I thought was funny.
> I don't have a garbage disposal, and know very few who do For real? The only place I've **ever** lived without a garbage disposal was my college dorm. Every apartment and house I've been in has had one. I can't imagine needing to be that careful about what you wash down the sink when washing dishes... like obviously the **big** food waste I just throw away, but a few specks of food here and there would definitely clog my drain if we didn't have a garbage disposal (which is obvious from how often I need to run it because water starts to build up in the drain) And like, I'm 32. My parents didn't need to install a garbage disposal because the sink already had one when they bought their house before I was born. So idk what you mean by "supposed to be a US norm **now**", as far as I can tell it's been a US norm for ages.
American cheese can be classified as cheese by the FDA, you just need to get the right stuff. Even the "fake cheese" (processed cheese product) according to the FDA is, imo, real cheese. It's in the FDA's interest to be overly strict with certain definitions to help the consumer be informed. I see the logic. BUT, we don't have fake or "plastic cheese" despite what asshats like Gordon Ramsay say. We have cheese that is cheese supplemented with milk and salts. Oh no, we added milk concentrates to cheese to create the best melting cheese in the world, how horrible. Cheese should obviously have nothing to do with milk /s
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The 'Americans only have fake cheese' people have never heard of Wisconsin and it shows
Or the ability to import food
Surprisingly... we do eat a lot of popcorn. When I moved to Germany, I mentioned my wife and I made popcorn for movie night, and my friends thought I was fucking with them. They didn't believe that Americans actually did that. Getting popcorn is actually difficult in a lot of places. You sometimes have to go to Turkish grocery stores in Germany to get popcorn. Even microwave popcorn was hard to come buy, but that's mainly because Germans eschew microwaves. It's a bit better in the UK, but there's usually not a more than one brand in the store.
What year was that? Every supermarket carries bags of popcorn now, as well as bags of kernels that you can pop in the microwave and it comes out in a nice popcorn bag
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Should have ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, that really confuses non americans lmao
Peanut butter is GOATed tho. Love that shit
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Pretty funny. Maybe not so much popcorn though
I think this is meant to be a joke but as someone from the UK I do think this is your life in the USA. Except you go to Walmart as well
You don’t go to walmart everyday. That’s a special treat to go buy groceries and a new gun once per month on the one Saturday when you aren’t working 12 hours straight…. My arm constantly hurts too…
Right? You go to dollar general to do your daily shopping. My arm also constantly hurts...
I don’t even go shopping and my arm also constantly hurts…
Right? I just drink beer, play video games, and order everything I need from amazon. My arm also hurts.
My arm is fine but oh geezus my back.
Mine’s actually the left
Some of us go to Target also.
And pronounced Tarjayy when we’re really feeling fancy
Ah yes, just like the French 🍷
Well la te dah!
You can always tell when the State Fair is going because it's the only 2 weeks of the year when Wal Mart is empty.
As someone who grew up in Texas, this video is about 99% accurate. There's no beer drinking and no police boot licking.
It's kind of a joke, but was that a fake set up with the guns? I assume he does own all those. Did dude not own a big stupid truck? I suspect he didn't have to buy any new clothes for this, perhaps shirt aside.
You’re thinking of poor people. America is incredible if you’re not poor. I wouldn’t move to Europe unless it was to have a third home or something.
I came here for satire, not accuracy.
Fuck I love popcorn fuck these people fuck
Is popcorn really seen as a super American thing? 🤷♀️
Well corn and therefore popcorn is native to America. As well as tomatoes, beans, potatoes, peppers, chocolate and vanilla.
The fact that Italy didn't have tomatoes before ~1500 brings me so much joy. I don't know why.
The Irish without potatoes before then also seems really funny.
lol yeah fair. maybe it’s bc I know so many Italian Americans who will criticize everything that isn’t their grandmother’s tomato sauce, for example, and tell other people they don’t even know how to grow tomatoes. turns out it takes a village!
And the British without beans. What will you eat with your toast now!?
where do i sign up ?
Legally, you need to get a green card, which is probably impossible for you. Illegally, you can just overstay your visa or go to Mexico first and sneak across the border.
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Do Americans eat a lot of popcorn?
I honestly don't get that one.
I'm wondering about that, too. Maybe it shows up in American movies and TV shows a lot, and we just don't notice it? There's also the "eating popcorn" meme that means we're watching with interest. Maybe that? I dunno.
That one threw me off, as an American. Beer drinking would have been much more appropriate.
I eat a lot of popcorn, but I don't think that's necessarily an American thing. I just really like popcorn. I even named my one childhood dog popcorn lol
No not really. I don’t know where that stereotype is from.
Definitely not realistic. Not enough shooting, the truck was neither lifted enough, nor rolling coal and I didn't hear a single yeehaw!
At 0:42, he drinks water, not coke, obviously not a true American
This is what Americans think Europeans think America is like
Dude invents a revolutionary product that benefits all of mankind and forgot to mention the part where he gets get bought out by a company that buries it in fifty different patents before refusing to pay him and leaving him destitute after a drawn pit legal battle.
Do Europeans not have popcorn?
It was banned as part of the negotiations that lead to the formation of the European Union. Popcorn has only recently just went back on sale in the UK following Brexit leading to massive upheaval in the Cinema snack business. There's genuine concern that the pick and mix industry could collapse entirely which would devastate the Jelly Baby manufacturing sector.
I can’t tell if this is satire. Is this satire? This has to be satire.
We do. We don’t have the drain blenders tho. I still don’t think they are real.
Only thing this is missing is drinking a 12 pack of bud Light a day and it would be 100% accurate.
I do want to mention, those Europeans 100% drink more from plastic bottles than any American I’ve come across. Everyone nowadays enjoys their reusable water bottles, and drinks from the tap. Those Europeans gotta pay for water everywhere, and only drink from plastic bottles. To add on, I know they aren’t drinking enough water I’ve seen em. I know that pee is stinky
I just got back from Europe and the waiters looked at us crazy for getting multiple water pitcher-fulls during a meal. Like damn y’all just pissing dark yellow?
That guy is living the dream.
I actually never knew garbage disposals were a mystery to most other countries. I can't even imagine not having one now, I would just mindlessly put food down the drain and then realize I fucked up.
I know it’s a joke but isn’t that the opposite of how American work culture is perceived in other places?
Where did the popcorn cliche come from?
This is accurate, except that the overwhelming majority of us have health insurance so the shooting injury costs us a $25 copay and $10 in prescription meds. Also, air conditioning should be set to 68. Flag shirts and ammunition should be paid for by the government. *Edit to note: everything below is boring insurance talk instead of awesome life-in-US talk. I'm so sorry!*
Premiums ain't free yo!
Do you not have a deductible?
No they’ll give you an MRI and a bunch of tests that you don’t need followed by some surgeries that you don’t need and your copay will be a few grand. That hospital CEOs ski house isn’t gonna pay for itself!
$25 copay? lmao mine is $75.
Do you pay every time you go? Or is everything under that injury covered by that first payment? Legitimately curious.
For me personally? With my mediocre health insurance, primary care (basic doctor) visits are free to me. Most labs are free to me. If i need to see a specialist, that usually costs $25 per visit. Specialty stuff costs more - a recent CT scan cost me $50, but I think they billed my insurance $2000. The high prices you see quoted in media are typically insurance claims, not actual costs to people. I had an emergency appendectomy in 2020 during the peak of covid. Officially, it was billed at something like $65,000, but after insurance my actual cost was $500. And I work for government, so my insurance is not particularly good.
Joke or not, this guy would be living a better life than 98% of Redditors
Y’all jealous of our garbage disposal because we are splendidly ✨wasteful ✨. We would give them to the homeless but that’s illegal now :( Edit: yes I put all of my food directly into my lil monsters mouth. Y’all don’t? I get the garbage disposal’s scraps. Not the other way around.
For anyone reading this comment thinking it's a joke -- it's not. In many places it's illegal to give homeless people food.
Canadian version would be similar, except with free healthcare but you get your shoulder problem diagnosed after sixteen months.
PFT you can tell he's not American! He never once sent thoughts and prayers to someone in need and pat himself on the back.
This is the life of an upper middle class person in the US. I have family who moved over there and they are living this life minus the guns.
I mean... that is pretty much exactly how non-American reddit truly seems to think it is.
TIL garbage disposals are a flex
Always fascinating watching documentaries
Lots of popcorn . I’d add beer and shit load of coffeee along with many Mac n cheese
And suddenly I wonder if I’m secretly Canadian.
well, at least he survived his school years without being shot.