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Curiosity
Sep 12, 2012


This is like something from a nightmare.

I don't know why (?)he wants her to know he fantasises about assaulting her. At least she can consider it a warning. I wonder if she can get a restraining order based on that screencap...

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Teddybear
May 16, 2009

Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!


SybilVimes posted:

The culture shock about 'american flags, everywhere!!!' is less about the buildings, and more about people that affix flags to their cars, their bikes, their mail boxes, their trees, etc etc etc.

Seriously, flags are everywhere there, here, there are 2 official buildings with flags (town hall and local working men's club), and a handful of houses (belonging to known racists) with st george crosses taped to the windows.

We don't have a queen we can funnel our nationalism through. We also didn't quite get a full dose of the horrors of nationalism in WWII, so combine that together and it's flagapalooza~

Buzkashi
Feb 4, 2003
College Slice

Lap-Lem posted:

Simple reason is, it's against the law. You cannot post the post tax price in the USA. You can say, "this item is $100 after tax it is $106" but you cannot say "This items is $106".

Why is it a law? beats the hell out of me.

Maybe in some places, but in cases like Washington state as long as you list that it's tax included it's alright.

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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I'm just going to throw this out there. Pickles are loving delicious and they should be on everything.

hepscat
Jan 16, 2005

Avenging Nun
Jury duty lady is having a hard time. :cry:




It occurs to me that if you believe everything both lawyers say, it really would be an emotional rollercoaster to sit through any trial.

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Jossos posted:

3 gallons (I am basing this off the one toilet I remember looking at and seeing the amount of water in a single flush) is a lot of water. I am sure lots of places have low-flow ones these days though.

US shitters on the whole are definitely too low.

Modern toilets use a little more than 1.5 gallons the older ones used 3. Just like with shower-heads and other appliances there has been a push to reduce water usage over the years.

lenoon
Jan 7, 2010

I don't have any particular idiots on Facebook but by god has anyone else seen a veritable tide of idiotic 'which character from x y z are you?' Posts recently?

That and everyone arguing over whether firefly on Netflix is gods gift to television (answer: I guess if you are a fan? No need to get worked up over it) and I might take a break from f b for a while

Guilty Spork
Feb 26, 2011

Thunder rolled. It rolled a six.

Obligatory Handle posted:

A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had.

http://m.tickld.com/x/20-weird-things-about-america

My favorites are the inability to do basic math when working with sales tax, the inability to look up tip etiquette in the country your visiting, bathroom insecurity, the persecution of jaywalkers, and "What's the deal with bread in America? I mean, who needs it that sweet? Are we eating dessert or a sandwich here? I mean, come on? What's the deal?"
It would be nice if places listed prices with sales tax, but it's not exactly hard to remember that it's going to be a little under 10% more. Likewise, tip about 20% of the price you pay, or a few dollars if there isn't one, and you're golden for most things.

We are kind of nuts with how much sugar is in things. Not sure where he got the idea that pickles are a thing though. They're in burgers and served with sandwiches sometimes, but otherwise aren't really a thing.

#9 is kind of amazing because every cultural difference has things like that. I'd hate to see what happens when that Italian guy tries to deal with Japanese people.

Jaywalking is technically illegal, but it's got to be one of the least enforced laws we have.

The pledge of allegiance is kind of creepy, yeah.

Hard to get mad at this, but easy to eye roll at some of it.

Damn Bananas
Jul 1, 2007

You humans bore me

lenoon posted:

I don't have any particular idiots on Facebook but by god has anyone else seen a veritable tide of idiotic 'which character from x y z are you?' Posts recently?

Yes. I don't mind most of them but there are some really stupid ones lately. I've had at least 7 or 8 friends post what color their aura is. What? At least "What city should you live in" was sort of fun.

karl fungus
May 6, 2011

Baeume sind auch Freunde
It's like early 2000s LiveJournal all over again.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Curiosity posted:

This is like something from a nightmare.

I don't know why (?)he wants her to know he fantasises about assaulting her. At least she can consider it a warning. I wonder if she can get a restraining order based on that screencap...

Kind of have to give the girl some props for staying cool and not letting any freaking out that might have been causing her to do leak into the chat. Because holy gently caress, that is the creepiest. Not the least because what is doubtless being left UN-said. :stonk:

deadly_pudding
May 13, 2009

who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

Guilty Spork posted:

It would be nice if places listed prices with sales tax, but it's not exactly hard to remember that it's going to be a little under 10% more. Likewise, tip about 20% of the price you pay, or a few dollars if there isn't one, and you're golden for most things.

We are kind of nuts with how much sugar is in things. Not sure where he got the idea that pickles are a thing though. They're in burgers and served with sandwiches sometimes, but otherwise aren't really a thing.

#9 is kind of amazing because every cultural difference has things like that. I'd hate to see what happens when that Italian guy tries to deal with Japanese people.

Jaywalking is technically illegal, but it's got to be one of the least enforced laws we have.

The pledge of allegiance is kind of creepy, yeah.

Hard to get mad at this, but easy to eye roll at some of it.

HFCS in the bread is super dumb, too. Unsweetened bread is loving delicious :colbert:

I understand it's to trick people into eating more bread, and bread-related products, yeah.

Miranda
Dec 24, 2004

Not a cuttlefish.
I moved to the US (Georgia) from Aus nearly 4 years ago and yes, a lot of these things were weird to me. But a lot of it is the south as well..
I agree with the portion sizes, flags, drat prices without tax (Aus instituted the GST and it made life a lot easier), tipping I can figure out (I always over tip because I've worked in hospitality), the prescription drug ads are weird as poo poo, aerosol cheese is pretty funny (and egg beaters, why do these exist), I hate pickles, I love college football and my professional rugby player friends were amazed at how big it is at colleges, bread is very sweet, I love unlimited refills (fountain coke is like crack), and I do find it odd there are no signatures on credit cards...

Zeether
Aug 26, 2011



Making jokes about sports relating to police beating up a man is probably not a good idea if you ask me.

Natalie Fartman
Apr 5, 2013

I selflessly rescued an abandoned cat during the COVID-19 Pandemic :3:

I just needed to dive in and say that as a Brit visiting the US, that list is mostly accurate. I don't even care how stupid you think it is. You guys ABSOLUTELY have a flag problem and your toilets allow for an alarming level of poop inspection I never knew I needed.

edit: one of the first faux pas I did here was order a glass of water and then immediately pick it up and drink it before the waiter could put the straw in it. Straws with all yo drinks.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure anyone can go to a foreign country and find cultural differences that amuse/perplex them.

Natalie Fartman has a new favorite as of 19:26 on Apr 17, 2014

moerketid
Jul 3, 2012

Dutch toilets have shelves with no water that poop falls on so people can inspect it. That was a very :psyduck: thing when moving here.

Thankfully our new house has normal western style toilets because the poop shelf one in our old place was the worst thing ever, it gets horribly messy and the stench is vile. :smith: Also there's the "what do you do when the flush won't move the poop off the shelf"...other foreigners have advised that you place down a few sheets of toilet paper first to construct a poopraft to float it gently away. Just if you're ever in Holland and in that situation.

SybilVimes
Oct 29, 2011

moerketid posted:

the poop shelf one in our old place was the worst thing ever

When I was young I camped in the woods for a week with a bunch of other people, our toilet arrangement was a tent around a bucket in the ground with a plastic seat over it, which we had to daily decant into a hand-dug cesspit that was about 8'x8'x16'. So yeah, it can get worse than a poop shelf.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Miranda posted:

I hate pickles

Get out.

:911:

Perestroika
Apr 8, 2010

Zeether posted:



Making jokes about sports relating to police beating up a man is probably not a good idea if you ask me.

To make things even worse/better, it's also stolen from this Cracked article: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-recent-trends-that-make-it-hard-to-trust-police-part-2_p2/. Note that it was posted just today. Somebody was so impressed with that joke that they just had to turn around and immediately reposted it as their own to impress their friends with their razor-sharp wit.

Araenna
Dec 27, 2012




Lipstick Apathy

Obligatory Handle posted:

A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had.

http://m.tickld.com/x/20-weird-things-about-america

My favorites are the inability to do basic math when working with sales tax, the inability to look up tip etiquette in the country your visiting, bathroom insecurity, the persecution of jaywalkers, and "What's the deal with bread in America? I mean, who needs it that sweet? Are we eating dessert or a sandwich here? I mean, come on? What's the deal?"

I'm a bit curious about a few of these. Like, what does #6 mean? That we use cars more than public transportation, and therefore have.. roads? Or #9, isn't that just a normal language difference? And how is it weird to have a law to put fault on the pedestrian if they walk in front of a car?

dentist toy box
Oct 9, 2012

There's a haint in the foothills of NC; the haint of the #3 chevy. The rich have formed a holy alliance to exorcise it but they'll never fucking catch him.


Natalie Fartman posted:

edit: one of the first faux pas I did here was order a glass of water and then immediately pick it up and drink it before the waiter could put the straw in it. Straws with all yo drinks.


My family never uses straws, and when we go out to eat and my mom tells them not to give us any straws the waiter looks at us like were crazy. I don't get the whole straw thing either.

Karasu Tengu
Feb 16, 2011

Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter
Those sorts of lists always bother me because who goes to a foreign country and expects it to be exactly like home? Just because both countries speak English doesn't mean we have the same everything.

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Araenna posted:

I'm a bit curious about a few of these. Like, what does #6 mean? That we use cars more than public transportation, and therefore have.. roads? Or #9, isn't that just a normal language difference? And how is it weird to have a law to put fault on the pedestrian if they walk in front of a car?

I'm guessing in a lot of other countries they build sidewalks so you can walk everywhere. Cities have good public transit and are walkable but where I live right now I can't even walk to the post office or corner store without walking in the street (so I drive).

Glagha
Oct 13, 2008

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Araenna posted:

I'm a bit curious about a few of these. Like, what does #6 mean? That we use cars more than public transportation, and therefore have.. roads? Or #9, isn't that just a normal language difference? And how is it weird to have a law to put fault on the pedestrian if they walk in front of a car?

I think #6 is referring to how in the US people drive everywhere rather than walk. I think that's probably because everything around here is spread the gently caress out though. When I can't get to the store or... anything really without crossing a major highway, I'm drat sure going to be driving a lot.

Soviet Commubot
Oct 22, 2008


Decrepus posted:

I'm guessing in a lot of other countries they build sidewalks so you can walk everywhere. Cities have good public transit and are walkable but where I live right now I can't even walk to the post office or corner store without walking in the street (so I drive).

It's not just that, it's much less convenient to get around by car in a lot of places. I live in a medium sized city (about 250k people) and cars are very much an afterthough, largely because the city center was build up before cars existed. I don't have a car because I would have to park it a couple miles from my house and living near a subway station and bus hub there's not much in the city that's really much more convenient to get to by car. Once you leave the city it's a completely different story and everything is pretty car centric, of course.

I hit a pretty rich goldmine of lovely racism today. It's in French so I won't screenshot it but it's an article about how the new interior minister wants to boot out more Roma people. The OP complained about how leftists called the UMP nazis for wanting to do this while the Socialist government does the same thing. The irony is that the OP, Raj, is an immigrant from India and even pulls the "I can say this because I'm pretty much the same race!" thing. Gotta pull up that ladder, I guess. Here are a couple of translated posts. I can screenshot the rest if someone speaks French and wants to torment themselves.

Raj: When the right says the same thing the socialists treat them like nazis... for doing the same thing???

The Roma were originally from Gujarat in India.

As far as I'm concerned they're still heartless primitives without any dignity or humanity !!!!

Christine: (a bunch of stuff about how that's racist bullshit)

Raj: Christine, if you want to understand the Roma come visit me in Paris, you'll get to understand them then. They're special...

Christine: (A bunch of stuff about having lived in Paris near Roma people and all that poo poo was still racist)

Raj: Their history doesn't give them the right to behave like barbarians. As you say there are thieves in every community but with the Roma it's the most common profession. They wreck the lives of honest people. This isn't history, this is what's happening 100m from my house :( :( :( :( :(

Christine: (More stuff saying how that's not really correct)

Raj: The only things the Roma do are beg, exploit their children, steal and kill. Try to help one out and you'll get fixed really quick

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!

Shannonmcn posted:


Already online via LAD so no name censoring. :barf:

I totally thought the dude was talking about Wee Man from Jackass getting in a fight with a black dwarf man. And apparently being so into Wee Man that he calls him My Wee Man.

Regalingualius
Jan 7, 2012

We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.




So, a guy I kinda got on with back in high school linked this on his feed: The 100 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Realize.

Here's just one of the many bits that irked me (the only one enough to quote it back to him):

"18. Yay, you can twerk!! But can you do anything useful?

...

46. Learn to play Chess."

karl fungus
May 6, 2011

Baeume sind auch Freunde
#45 is just "orgies"

:psyduck:

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013



Regalingualius posted:

So, a guy I kinda got on with back in high school linked this on his feed: The 100 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Realize.

Here's just one of the many bits that irked me (the only one enough to quote it back to him):

"18. Yay, you can twerk!! But can you do anything useful?

...

46. Learn to play Chess."

Holy poo poo this reads like :smug: in text form.

Also:
9. The quiet ones are the best between the sheets — although it may take some time for them to open up.

10. Dating is overrated and usually a waste of time.

Possible :mrapig:?

Lottery of Babylon
Apr 25, 2012

STRAIGHT TROPIN'

Regalingualius posted:

So, a guy I kinda got on with back in high school linked this on his feed: The 100 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Realize.

Here's just one of the many bits that irked me (the only one enough to quote it back to him):

"18. Yay, you can twerk!! But can you do anything useful?

...

46. Learn to play Chess."

89. You don’t have ADD.

90. You’re most likely to be your own cause of depression.

Oh gently caress you.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Lottery of Babylon posted:

89. You don’t have ADD.

90. You’re most likely to be your own cause of depression.

Oh gently caress you.

I'm guessing the article was written by some ignorant white boy who's never had to earn a thing in his life.

Austrian mook
Feb 24, 2013

by Shine
I've read this article a couple of times and yeah, it's pretty goddamn horrible.

E: 16. Reading is always better than watching TV. :laffo:

Austrian mook
Feb 24, 2013

by Shine
50. You should live in New York City for at least a year.

I'm so glad someone posted this article because I find something new every time I read it.

Karasu Tengu
Feb 16, 2011

Humble Tengu Newspaper Reporter

kannonfodder posted:

I'm guessing the article was written by some ignorant white boy who's never had to earn a thing in his life.

http://elitedaily.com/author/paul-hudson/

Yes.

Austrian mook
Feb 24, 2013

by Shine
63. They stopped making good music in the 90s.

Maker Of Shoes
Sep 4, 2006

AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

Holy poo poo that article list. :psyduck:

Edit: From one of his articles

quote:

Love is a voluntarily accepted illusion. Sure, when we fall in love, we feel that we’re in love, but feeling – like everything else we experience – all originates from the brain.

To be clear, I’m talking about romantic love and not the love between parent and child or brother and sister. I am talking about sexual, romantic love. What really differentiates the two is the sex. So falling in love is basically accepting that you care deeply for an individual mixed in with the urge to jump his or her bones.
:goonsay:

Triskelli
Sep 27, 2011

I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS


Glagha posted:

I'm just going to throw this out there. Pickles are loving delicious and they should be on everything.

Agreed, and I am certain that Cik-fil-a's secret to success was hiding the pickles under the patty.

Aphtonites
Dec 25, 2012

Sure, Jailbot was broken, but
weren't we all at some point? :(

Olanphonia
Jul 27, 2006

I'm open to suggestions~

Regalingualius posted:

So, a guy I kinda got on with back in high school linked this on his feed: The 100 Things Every 20-Something Needs to Realize.

Here's just one of the many bits that irked me (the only one enough to quote it back to him):

"18. Yay, you can twerk!! But can you do anything useful?

...

46. Learn to play Chess."

It's like every part of this conspires to be worse than the part before it.

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Afraid of Audio
Oct 12, 2012

by exmarx

Olanphonia posted:

It's like every part of this conspires to be worse than the part before it.

I couldn't make it past the mid twenties.

What I love about that list is that it so transparently says, "Everyone should just be me: Pinnacle of Humanity" which is wonderful.

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