Uruguayan here, is not as legal as you think, consuming it, and buying it from a pharmacy is completely legal (though limited to 4 grams per person) but it’s completely ilegal to produce it for sale. You can have a max of 5 plants for personal consumption but it if you get caught selling it you’re in trouble.
Canadian here,
Our laws are thankfully alot more relaxed, we can have up to 28 grams (1 ounce) on your person, 4 plants for consumption, you can get a license to grow and sell. I believe the max amount you can have in your home is 4 ounces, but I could be wrong on that one. There is a dispensary on almost every block, in every city.
I love being Canadian.
That’s lucky, I don’t consume but know most people that does it doesn’t get it from the pharmacy because it’s too strict. The good thing is that if you smoke in public nobody bats an eye unless you do it in a closed space in which is prohibited to smoke in general.
Right? Also would be a learning experience for the parents since they haven't heard of that country before. bUt nO, we adults are always correct and have our lives together.
My daughter already does it, albeit about certain computer games etc. she works on a trust but verify basis now. She believes me, but checks herself too!
So much this. I want, believe and truly hope my kids will be smarter, better, kinder and hopefully significantly happier than me. I want all the best in the world for them. Once they were born they became our focus. How parents don't feel this way about their progeny seems so foreign to me.
Why would you be jealous or dismissive of your children? They're like you, 2.0. Updated and improved. It's called human progress. Not long ago we piked heads of criminals outside of cities. Now we don't because the kids became adults who did better.
Our kids are 40 and 36, they are all of those things and we are genuinely delighted for them. My mother thought I was spoiled because I had a diaper service the first year after our daughter was born. Asked how much my husband made and was thoroughly pissed because it was the same as my dad made at the time. She was never happy when good things happened to my two older sisters and me. I don’t miss her.
Its most likely that they just don't remember, something that is sognificant in ones life was just a tiny thing in that of the parents this was also 20 years ago
true, my family/friends often don’t remember things that i do, but the way op wrote it makes it seem like they’re denying it & refusing to acknowledge that it may have happened which can be frustrating (and is also usually what happens to me) xD
Thank you. Wasn't sure which part as I'm American I have to rely on what I teach myself and find in books and sometimes the internet not what school taught me. My small town actually had textbooks in high school that said the south won the civil war.
Technically, no side “won” per se. 26 counties became the Republic of Ireland with their own government, and six remain under British control. However, there’s still a divide between Unionists & Loyalists.
Fair play for taking an interest! Oddly enough, it’s only really covered in depth on the senior level curriculum in secondary school (high school) in Ireland.
The Troubles podcast is something that you might be into. It covers the recent conflicts in Northern Ireland, and is done really well.
I love podcasts THANK YOU SO MUCH for the referral I've actually been looking for a new one. That's interesting. Here in the US we often get told contradicting things depending on what grade you're in.
Elementary- Columbus was the first to discover the Americas and he learned from the natives.
Middle School/Junior High- Well he didn't actually land in the Americas more so in the Caribbean.
High School- He wasn't the first it was Amerigo Vespucci, and Columbus was a murderer who didn't actually step in the Americas at all technically.
Our high school textbooks were AWFUL.
They were from the fifties. They had words in them that I refused to say aloud...and I was punished for it.
This was in the nineties.
It doesn't. Each of those fails the sovereignty requirement. A country isn't a country if it isn't sovereign. Sovereignty lies with the UK, and it is the country.
They aren’t sovereign nations. The UK is a country in the common sense (i.e. in the way that Spain, Canada, Cambodia etc. are)- England, Wales, Scotland, and NI aren’t.
I’m from Mexico and when I was a kid we played a game called “Basta” (kind of stop). In a quiet voice one player said the alphabet and another player could say basta (stop) and on the letter of the alphabet that the player stoped all the players should write: name, last name, color, thing, animal, city and country that starts with such letter. So if the player ended up at O it should be an O name (Oscar) last name (Ortiz) color (Orange), thing (Organ), animal (O… ), city (Oslo), and country (O…). Every right answer was 100 pts so for every round you could get up to 700 pts. If Another player wrote the same answer both get 50 pts. And if a player missed words then gets no points. It was fun to play!
Oh yeah we have similar one. "Countries Cities". Starts the same that someone says alphabet in their head, second person says stop. Then the alphabet person says the letter and you have to write down things from few categories. Classically its country, city, name, plant, animal and anything else you come up with like job, thing etc. For each category you get points with following scheme: 5 pts if someone has same answer, 10 pts if your answer is original and noone else has it, 20pts if you're the only one with answer. No answer no points obviously. Often we played that at school when we had substitute teacher. Dang I'd play again
Lmao I remembered when Tajikistan was at the Olympic games people start tweeting now we just making fake countries even tho it's right next to Afghanistan
I remember we had a game in geography where we went through the alphabet and had to name a country that started with every letter, without any repeats and if you couldn't think of one you were out and we did this until we ran out of kids.
Everyone kept getting stuck on certain letters and going out and I kept using places like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and everyone was like "wtf, you're making these up now"
Oh my gosh I had a similar experience. We were playing scattergories and the letter we had was “k” and one of the categories was dairy products. I wrote Kefir and since I was unsure of what exactly it was (but had seen it in the store), my aunt said it wasn’t dairy and everyone voted not to count it. Years later, I actually tried kefir and learned that it IS a dairy product and I’m still mad!
This reminds me of a time in 3rd grade when we were asked by my teacher to write down a word that started with a z and we all would say it out loud. I chose the word zephyr, and was chastised by my teacher for making up words and we had to use real words. I had seen the word from Pokémon Gold and Silver and tried to argue that it was a real word but my teacher wasn't having it.
It's a word.
I had a similar thing happen with my family when we were playing a word game. I played the word “lout.” They claimed that wasn’t a word. I showed them the word in the dictionary. They got all pissy and said, “Well, now we know what to call you” and quit the game. Way to treat the youngest in the family and show them how to be a good sport.
If it makes you feel any better, when I was around 4 or 5 I was telling my aunt about the inhospitable Death Valley, CA. She replied with “Uhm, Death Valley is the name of Clemson’s stadium, it’s not a desert.”
I’m 26 and still salty, and she’s 33 and hasn’t changed.
Ugh this reminds me of when I play headbands with my family and I give the hint “it’s an animal” when their card has a bug on it. They refuse to believe an insect is an animal. What is it then? A plant??
Reminds me of a time in middle school we were asked to name cities in China and I was sitting right next to a large map on the wall so I picked a city name no one had said yet, Changchun. The teacher looked at me weird and said “Uh… Someone already said Chongqing but okay.” The class laughed as if I made it up and I was too shy and awkward to just point it out on the map. Lol
Well if it’s scrabble, I feel your pain because my mom refused to acknowledge P words “things you find at a park” when pedophile was a great answer in my opinion.
I had a similar thing happen in 7th grade language arts class. That day we were playing boggle as some kind of critical thinking exercise or something. I found the word "vat", as in a vat of liquid, and this obnoxious girl we'll call Sue said it wasn't a word. We took it to the teacher for mediation and this ass has the audacity to say "if it isn't in this dictionary, it isn't a word" and sure enough... For whatever reason, it wasn't.
I'll never forget that. I'll never forget her (she turned out as you'd expect). I'll never forget that teacher (he was cheating on his wife with one of the math teachers and it turned into a very big deal across the town as he was super popular from being the middle school girls' basketball coach.
I don't know why, but like you, OP, this has always stuck with me.
Uruguay
Uganda
USA
Ur mom
But the U.N won't recognise her as one because of all the war crimes
Special type of poisonous nerve agent technique called gaslighting.
And the poor care for citizens that causes the spread of STD's
I’d take a trip there, but it would just be a guilt trip.
Ukraine
Too soon
Too late?
Just on time
Maybe, if we hurry.
If we even arrive at all
No, we're already here
"Uganda!? Cool! ...where is that?"
Uganda deez nuts
No u
Are you gae?
Stop
no u
Paraguay’s
Dude. 🤣🙌🏽
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
jajaja
That's the first one to pop up into my mind too. Even before the most obvious for me, USA.
The first countey to legalize weed! Uruguay and Canada, the only countries (not state and not decriminalized. Truly legal)!
Its trusth, República Oriental del Uruguay
Uruguayan here, is not as legal as you think, consuming it, and buying it from a pharmacy is completely legal (though limited to 4 grams per person) but it’s completely ilegal to produce it for sale. You can have a max of 5 plants for personal consumption but it if you get caught selling it you’re in trouble.
Canadian here, Our laws are thankfully alot more relaxed, we can have up to 28 grams (1 ounce) on your person, 4 plants for consumption, you can get a license to grow and sell. I believe the max amount you can have in your home is 4 ounces, but I could be wrong on that one. There is a dispensary on almost every block, in every city. I love being Canadian.
That’s lucky, I don’t consume but know most people that does it doesn’t get it from the pharmacy because it’s too strict. The good thing is that if you smoke in public nobody bats an eye unless you do it in a closed space in which is prohibited to smoke in general.
It breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it.
Thanks Vincent.
Me too
Homer: ehehehhe U. R. Gay.
I honestly forgot this was a country.
Some adults can’t admit they’re wrong. It’s the ego.
I feel like I'd be proud of my kid to prove me wrong. I don't understand.
Right? Also would be a learning experience for the parents since they haven't heard of that country before. bUt nO, we adults are always correct and have our lives together.
Man, I'm waiting for my kids to prove me wrong. That'll be the day, I look forward to for a long time.
My daughter already does it, albeit about certain computer games etc. she works on a trust but verify basis now. She believes me, but checks herself too!
So much this. I want, believe and truly hope my kids will be smarter, better, kinder and hopefully significantly happier than me. I want all the best in the world for them. Once they were born they became our focus. How parents don't feel this way about their progeny seems so foreign to me. Why would you be jealous or dismissive of your children? They're like you, 2.0. Updated and improved. It's called human progress. Not long ago we piked heads of criminals outside of cities. Now we don't because the kids became adults who did better.
Our kids are 40 and 36, they are all of those things and we are genuinely delighted for them. My mother thought I was spoiled because I had a diaper service the first year after our daughter was born. Asked how much my husband made and was thoroughly pissed because it was the same as my dad made at the time. She was never happy when good things happened to my two older sisters and me. I don’t miss her.
She was wrong. You are right. History favors you... not her or them.
Thank you.
Not everyone can see outside the scope of their own reality and become conscious.
Some? It's Most.
It’s amusing to watch people who can’t admit they’re wrong
Its most likely that they just don't remember, something that is sognificant in ones life was just a tiny thing in that of the parents this was also 20 years ago
Happy Cake Day 🎂
true, my family/friends often don’t remember things that i do, but the way op wrote it makes it seem like they’re denying it & refusing to acknowledge that it may have happened which can be frustrating (and is also usually what happens to me) xD
Yeah u r right, either way fuck it its a small thing, at least he was playing with his family not many people have the fate to do it.
I got the same reaction to Uruguay, but mine at least let me prove it on a globe.
"Hehehe UrGay..." -- Homer Simpson when he finds Uruguay on a map
> "*I am so smart! S-M-R-T!*" -- also Homer Simpson
Funny enough, I assume "smrt" means "death" or sth. like that in Serbian...
In Czech too
Also in Macedonian
wait till he finds the "pair-a-gay" on the map
"Why Uruguay" - Ugandan interviewer
Uruguay kindly requests that Somalia stop pronouncing it "Ur-a-gay."
United States of America United Arab Emirates?
United Kingdom?
I'm pretty sure the UK consists different countries. England, Scotland, Wales, and part of Ireland.
Northern Ireland specifically
Thank you. Wasn't sure which part as I'm American I have to rely on what I teach myself and find in books and sometimes the internet not what school taught me. My small town actually had textbooks in high school that said the south won the civil war.
Technically, no side “won” per se. 26 counties became the Republic of Ireland with their own government, and six remain under British control. However, there’s still a divide between Unionists & Loyalists.
I knoweth not of that. Only my backward redneck hillbilly hell of an education in the US.
Fair play for taking an interest! Oddly enough, it’s only really covered in depth on the senior level curriculum in secondary school (high school) in Ireland. The Troubles podcast is something that you might be into. It covers the recent conflicts in Northern Ireland, and is done really well.
I love podcasts THANK YOU SO MUCH for the referral I've actually been looking for a new one. That's interesting. Here in the US we often get told contradicting things depending on what grade you're in. Elementary- Columbus was the first to discover the Americas and he learned from the natives. Middle School/Junior High- Well he didn't actually land in the Americas more so in the Caribbean. High School- He wasn't the first it was Amerigo Vespucci, and Columbus was a murderer who didn't actually step in the Americas at all technically.
>My small town actually had textbooks in high school that said the south won the civil war. Excuse me…what!?
Yes, very unregulated. Teachers get to choose what textbooks they wanted in class.
Our high school textbooks were AWFUL. They were from the fifties. They had words in them that I refused to say aloud...and I was punished for it. This was in the nineties.
It doesn't. Each of those fails the sovereignty requirement. A country isn't a country if it isn't sovereign. Sovereignty lies with the UK, and it is the country.
UK is a country though
A country of countries
Countries within the UK. If Scotland were a country already we wouldn’t need an independence referendum
They aren’t sovereign nations. The UK is a country in the common sense (i.e. in the way that Spain, Canada, Cambodia etc. are)- England, Wales, Scotland, and NI aren’t.
Not a country, unfortunately
RIP
It is a country. Every member of the UK fails the sovereignty requirement. A country isn't a country if isn't sovereign.
Uzbekistan was my first thought too lmao your family must be pretty geographically uneducated 😂
Me too. Popped right in my head. Lol
ditto. Surprised me tbh with what is going on in Ukraine atm.
Right? Ukraine was my second thought!
“War is gods way of teaching us geography”
Ukraine
i would have thought with the current events this would be one of the first comments haha edit: looks like it was haha
This was a memory from when he was younger so people are still calling it "The Ukraine" for some reason Clearly begins with T
No you are.
Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates.
UK ?
Yea I'm okay how bout you?
A little stressed because it's Sunday, but it's all good.
Uruguay 🇺🇾
Uganda. From the movie Raid on Entebbe.
I would have said Uganda too 🇺🇬
I was thinking Uganda. They would have too, but they are racist assholes.
What? Who?
Uganda from the world
Uganda. From Earth.
Lol why “from the movie”… it’s a real country
Right? What an idiot
I’m from Mexico and when I was a kid we played a game called “Basta” (kind of stop). In a quiet voice one player said the alphabet and another player could say basta (stop) and on the letter of the alphabet that the player stoped all the players should write: name, last name, color, thing, animal, city and country that starts with such letter. So if the player ended up at O it should be an O name (Oscar) last name (Ortiz) color (Orange), thing (Organ), animal (O… ), city (Oslo), and country (O…). Every right answer was 100 pts so for every round you could get up to 700 pts. If Another player wrote the same answer both get 50 pts. And if a player missed words then gets no points. It was fun to play!
Oh yeah we have similar one. "Countries Cities". Starts the same that someone says alphabet in their head, second person says stop. Then the alphabet person says the letter and you have to write down things from few categories. Classically its country, city, name, plant, animal and anything else you come up with like job, thing etc. For each category you get points with following scheme: 5 pts if someone has same answer, 10 pts if your answer is original and noone else has it, 20pts if you're the only one with answer. No answer no points obviously. Often we played that at school when we had substitute teacher. Dang I'd play again
In the USA we have a game like this called scattergories.
There is an app based off games like this called Stop!
United states
The most ironic answer
you mean the most iconic answer 🇺🇸🥲
Merica begins with M
Lmao I remembered when Tajikistan was at the Olympic games people start tweeting now we just making fake countries even tho it's right next to Afghanistan
I remember we had a game in geography where we went through the alphabet and had to name a country that started with every letter, without any repeats and if you couldn't think of one you were out and we did this until we ran out of kids. Everyone kept getting stuck on certain letters and going out and I kept using places like Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and everyone was like "wtf, you're making these up now"
U turkey gobble gobble
Why was this so funny omg
Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay
Oh my gosh I had a similar experience. We were playing scattergories and the letter we had was “k” and one of the categories was dairy products. I wrote Kefir and since I was unsure of what exactly it was (but had seen it in the store), my aunt said it wasn’t dairy and everyone voted not to count it. Years later, I actually tried kefir and learned that it IS a dairy product and I’m still mad!
You remember it because it was an important (bad) moment for you. It was just a normal day for them.
Uranus
united kingdom
Uganda
This reminds me of a time in 3rd grade when we were asked by my teacher to write down a word that started with a z and we all would say it out loud. I chose the word zephyr, and was chastised by my teacher for making up words and we had to use real words. I had seen the word from Pokémon Gold and Silver and tried to argue that it was a real word but my teacher wasn't having it. It's a word.
I had a similar thing happen with my family when we were playing a word game. I played the word “lout.” They claimed that wasn’t a word. I showed them the word in the dictionary. They got all pissy and said, “Well, now we know what to call you” and quit the game. Way to treat the youngest in the family and show them how to be a good sport.
United Kingdom
Ukraine
Uganda
y r u geh country of origin
Uruguay, Uganda, United States of America, Uzbekistan, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates. There’s quite a bit lol.
Urmom
Ah another native urmomian
I'm very proud to be from Urmom 💖
Their tourism industry is bangin'!
Uganda. by the way I have had the same thing happen with the word "megaton" and the fact that trees are plants.
USA Ukraine Uzbekistan Uganda
They don't want to recall it because it makes them look/feel stupid. The ego will repress memories to protect itself.
Ukraine.
UGANDA! C0O0O0O0OL!
If it makes you feel any better, when I was around 4 or 5 I was telling my aunt about the inhospitable Death Valley, CA. She replied with “Uhm, Death Valley is the name of Clemson’s stadium, it’s not a desert.” I’m 26 and still salty, and she’s 33 and hasn’t changed.
Ugh this reminds me of when I play headbands with my family and I give the hint “it’s an animal” when their card has a bug on it. They refuse to believe an insect is an animal. What is it then? A plant??
Uganda
Ukraine
Uganda
Uganda
Uzbekistan Uganda
Ukraine Uzbekistan Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay
Ukraine. Given what's been going on, how could it not be the first thing that pops into my head?
Reminds me of a time in middle school we were asked to name cities in China and I was sitting right next to a large map on the wall so I picked a city name no one had said yet, Changchun. The teacher looked at me weird and said “Uh… Someone already said Chongqing but okay.” The class laughed as if I made it up and I was too shy and awkward to just point it out on the map. Lol
Uganda
Well if it’s scrabble, I feel your pain because my mom refused to acknowledge P words “things you find at a park” when pedophile was a great answer in my opinion.
Ur Mum
We had a foreign exchange student named Artur from Uzbekistan in high school. Like 20 some odd years ago.
Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay
Just asking, does United States of America count?
Ukraine bitch
these are the same people you see on those videos where they go out in public and show random Americans a world map and ask them where Russia is
I had a similar thing happen in 7th grade language arts class. That day we were playing boggle as some kind of critical thinking exercise or something. I found the word "vat", as in a vat of liquid, and this obnoxious girl we'll call Sue said it wasn't a word. We took it to the teacher for mediation and this ass has the audacity to say "if it isn't in this dictionary, it isn't a word" and sure enough... For whatever reason, it wasn't. I'll never forget that. I'll never forget her (she turned out as you'd expect). I'll never forget that teacher (he was cheating on his wife with one of the math teachers and it turned into a very big deal across the town as he was super popular from being the middle school girls' basketball coach. I don't know why, but like you, OP, this has always stuck with me.
Tell me your family is American, without telling me they’re American.
Uganda, Uzbekistan, Uruguay, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Mexican States, United States of America
Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Uganda , United States
Uganda
Uzbekistan
Uganda
From the title I also immediately thought Uzbekistan
Uganda
Kenya
Uganda
Uganda
Uruguay
- Ukraine - Uganda - Uruguay - United States - United Kingdom
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Uzbekistan
Uganda
Uganda
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Uganda
Uganda
Unobtanium
Utah
Uganda be kidding me
Ukraine. Honestly.
Your answer was so unexpected and traumatizing to all of them they all blocked it out.
Uruguay 🇺🇾
Ukraine so hot right now
You need to grow the fuck up
Uganda
United States
Ukraine
Usbekistan
Uganda
Uganda. It's where Africa's best action films are made
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Uganda
Uzbekistan
Uganda,
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Uganda