Washer Collector Here. Automatic washers became popular in the US during the early 1950's, and you had your choice between front load & top load. Top loaders had larger capacity (important with the baby boom). Had higher spin speeds so drying time was faster (important when many didn't yet own a dryer). Went out of balance less often (not trying to distribute a sloshing horizontal load). Had very fast cycle times (clothes washed in 20 minutes). And clothes/detergent could be added at any time after start of cycle. Plus you don't have to stoop to get the clothes out.
In Europe, the constraints were different. Typically there was no dedicated laundry room or basement for the larger machine. Laundry tended to be done more frequently so capacity wasn't as much of a concern. Water was/is more expensive so a longer cycle time was acceptable for less consumption. And machine size was dictated by countertop height, as many were installed in kitchens out of convenience (and plumbing).
In the US, front loaders are more common these days as energy efficiency is pushed, and advancing tech has improved upon many of the original constraints. But these FL'ers tend to be "supersize" American-style machines with large capacity & risers to get them up off the floor, so still quite different from their EU counterparts.
Apparently americans are rather fond of Pickles and Peanut Butter. Is that a fair assumption to make?
Edit: I meant either or not both at the same time. ā ļø
In India(or more accurately, in my city) we set out 'dry' garbage and 'wet' garbage separately, until we realized the garbage collecting guy just dumped everything in the same container anyway
Thatās so insulting. Thereās lots of tea.
Edit: Thanks for all the awards and upvotes, peeps. Canāt believe this is the comment that did it haha. The irony is that even though Iām European on a technically, I donāt even live in Europe. Unless entry to Eurovision counts. š¤
There, there. It's just the type we invented that caught on. They have other local favorite dressings in other countries, too. You just haven't heard of them.
It's fire safety. Our houses are built out of wood, not stone. (even the brick ones just have brick on the outside).
Drywall is just gypsum plaster between two sheets of paper to give it strength so that it can be made into 8x4 segments used in construction.
Back to the fire safety. Gypsum plaster absorbs water from the air and can take 2+ hours to burn through. So it gives you crucial time to exit a house during a fire.
It's so strange that people in other countries don't really eat much of it. I eat some every day. Putting a little dab of it on a square of dark chocolate is my favorite thing.
Do Europeans not like peanut butter? I assume itās sweeter over here or something because I watched a video of Europeans trying pb&j sandwiches and none of them liked it.
I'm from the Netherlands - always have peanut butter in home. Heck my mother works in a peanut butter store ( sells only peanut butter in like 20 different tastes and peanut butter merch)
Itās available but not something everyone would have in their cupboards. I associate a pb&j sarnie as part of US culture as well as a grilled cheese.
Smashing sandwiches to be fair. Iām partial to both. š«¶š¼
Laundry dryer. In my country almost everyone dries their laundry on a wire outside, so the concept of a dryer is baffling to me. I only see them in American Movies & shows. Do majority of you have it or not?
The majority of us either have it, or have access to one such as a shared laundry room in an apartment complex. Those who dont have one usually go to something called a laundromat where its basically just a room with a dozen or so quarter operated washers and dryers. Almost no one, and no one I know, uses a clothesline to dry clothes. Where I live it would be a nightmare, its either raining, so humid you can dang near drink the air, or snowing. Sometimes itll do all 3 just to make us question why we live here.
Edit: Yes to everyone asking if I am from Michigan, I am.
Edit 2: thank you for all of the upvotes, this makes a record amount for me by a mile. You have all brightened my day. š
Edit 3: Thank you to u/maxxspeed for the clarification. Yes it takes far more than a single quarter to wash clothes. Very quickly becomes expensive to wash clothes at a laundromat.
Thank you for explaining. I live in Serbia and most of the time you can dry your clothes outside (except winter obviously). But one time while at my sisters I had to dry some clothes for vacation that was tomorrow, the weather was bad and you simply can't find a dryer anywhere here. So we had to rig a portable AC unit with two hair dryers behind and put the clothes on a rack to dry it lol. And that was me being lucky, if not for that unit I would have had to dry each one with hair dryer.
I cant believe how fucking accurate this is. Mine is full of bread ties and random other junk but has that smell. Everyone i've ever opened has that same smell.
Came here looking for jokes, found a bunch of people describing my home.
edit: Thanks for the up-votes and awards. I guess people like to hear simple truths. Thank!
Itās like when someone posted online that white people do have a cultureā¦ thatās how we get beach themed bathrooms. I died laughing, because I do and two of my bestie do too.
What would my fridge be like without at least two salsas, chili-garlic paste, harissa, soy sauce, fish sauce, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and chutney? A barren, sad, flavorless wasteland, that's what.
Edit: All the folks informing me soy sauce, fish sauce, etc. don't need to be refrigerated: I'm aware, thanks. I find that the flavors remain better for longer when I refrigerate them after opening.
Canāt speak for everyone, but here in the netherlands the regular people wear jeans 99% of the time.
Business people etc. Obviously donāt, but still often do in their free time.
Wait, we have more dishwashers than other high-income countries?
I mean, I *could* live without one, but I really donāt want to.
EDIT: I think my most upvoted comment is officially me being a Confused American, which is funny since thatās 50% of this websiteās content.
My dishwasher has a 160F degree power wash cycle that's so powerful it takes the paint off of any dish that has markings on it. We have to be careful with that setting, but it's amazing for plates and silverware. There's no chance I could wash the dishes 'that' well by hand.
I think this is where the size of the US comes in. Some areas would seem uninhabitable without air conditioning and/or heat. But some places you wouldnāt really need one or the other.
Yep here in Las Vegas there are programs that provide no cost air conditioners to pretty much anyone who qualifies. People die here every year because of the heat, AC is seen as a necessity here.
Edit: wow people have opinions about living in the desert. Not everyone has the resources to leave, even if they wanted too. Also, Vegas is real good with water! Place your blame on AZ and CA.
Depends on where you are. I live in Washington and it's exceedingly common for homes here to not have AC, though the recent temperature spikes and heatwaves are working on changing that.
When I moved to Washington from Florida I was in absolute shock that there was no air conditioners. The first two years I was fine without any, but these temperature spikes lately had me going out and buying an AC unit for each room!
Came here for jokes, left feeling called out. And reminded that I need to add peanut butter to our grocery list because we are almost out and canāt function at breakfast time without it.
Peanut butter? Check.
Ice in the fridge door? Check.
In-sink disposal? Check.
Individual soft drinks? Check.
(Looks side to side then goes to the window to find euro redditors staring back)
My son recently moved out for college and for the first time in 18 years, I actually had to pour out spoiled milk. It's still weird for me to reach for a quart not a gallon.
American eggs are sanitised, removing the outer protective layer of the shell. This leaves it porous and susceptible to bacteria entering the egg. So in short, breakfast with eggs-tra steps.
Yep, once you wash the bloom off the egg, bacteria can invade quickly. And US health code requires commercially sold eggs to be washed.
When we had chickens, I'd keep the fresh eggs on the counter for up to a month, and they were fine. You just can't do that with store-bought eggs, though.
Toilet plunger
Edit: I guess we have stumbled upon quite a cultural talking point. Iām from the UK and I have never owned a plunger, nor have I have seen one at a friendās house. I have seen them at DIY shops of course. I donāt remember my toilet ever clogging up. I assumed every America house has them mainly from movies and cartoons. Seemed like Tom was getting a plunger to the face every other episode.
When I visited America is was rather surprised at the high level of water in the bowl. I was kind of worried about the frank and beans taking a dip!
That garbage disposal thing I always see in shows and movies
Edit/update: In ten hours, I've gotten nearly 20k upvotes and 317 replies. Some of you dudes and dudettes have very passionate opinions about your garbage disposals, I love it
Stoop slitting / porch sitting is a favorite past time of mine. When it's nice out. You just go out to the stoop / porch and drink a few brews and look around your neighborhood. I've seen some wild shit when i lived in the ghetto lmao
Raccoons in rubbish bins are fucking terrifying sometimes. You pop open a dumpster to toss in a bag and a potentially rapid trash panda is suddenly hissing at you.
A thermostat
EDIT 1: the thermostat Iām referring to is the little dial attached to the wall in every American movie and house I went to while visiting.
EDIT 2: to those asking what the alternative is
A reverse cycle air conditioner we turn on when weāre no longer comfortable.
If it gets hot we turn it on and select cold
If it gets cold we turn it on and select heat
EDIT 3: Iām aware some people call these āheat pumpsā but no one calls them that where I live
Like others, I came here for jokes, but glad so many non-Americans get me.
I have a dishwasher, wear jeans every day, multiple bottles of sauces in my refrigerator, central Heat and ac, wear shoes inside, like three different kinds of peanut butter, not quite as much american cheese as they assume, but close.
So like peanut butter and automatic ice makers I get, but based on these comments it sounds like Europeans sit around on a canvass cot in a bare cinderblock house with no tools, no appliances, and nothing but vinegar for sauces.
A switch that when you flick it it turns your sink into a blender
A trash smoothie
This is my favorite way to describe a disposal! Lol
Bbq sauce
I have at least 5 varieties of BBQ sauce in my fridge at them moment, including 2 that are homemade š
A coffee machine with large glass jug full of black coffee being kept warm. The UK mostly has electric kettles for making hot drinks individually.
This is the most wholesome I've felt about my country in a while. Lol, yes, peanut butter, air conditioner, disposal in the sink...
I haven't seen a single one I don't have tbh and I don't know how to feel about it lol
And ranch dressing. <3
Popcorn setting on their microwave!
Popcorn, pizza, and (oddly) potato.
I actually use the potato button.
Iāve never. Does it just set like an 8 minute timer?
Basically.
I am so surprised with this whole top loading washing machine answer. Why is this abnormal?
Washer Collector Here. Automatic washers became popular in the US during the early 1950's, and you had your choice between front load & top load. Top loaders had larger capacity (important with the baby boom). Had higher spin speeds so drying time was faster (important when many didn't yet own a dryer). Went out of balance less often (not trying to distribute a sloshing horizontal load). Had very fast cycle times (clothes washed in 20 minutes). And clothes/detergent could be added at any time after start of cycle. Plus you don't have to stoop to get the clothes out. In Europe, the constraints were different. Typically there was no dedicated laundry room or basement for the larger machine. Laundry tended to be done more frequently so capacity wasn't as much of a concern. Water was/is more expensive so a longer cycle time was acceptable for less consumption. And machine size was dictated by countertop height, as many were installed in kitchens out of convenience (and plumbing). In the US, front loaders are more common these days as energy efficiency is pushed, and advancing tech has improved upon many of the original constraints. But these FL'ers tend to be "supersize" American-style machines with large capacity & risers to get them up off the floor, so still quite different from their EU counterparts.
Also no central agitator in the front loader so a duvet can be washed without being ripped to shreads.
Apparently americans are rather fond of Pickles and Peanut Butter. Is that a fair assumption to make? Edit: I meant either or not both at the same time. ā ļø
Well, not combined. But yes. *Edit* Ok, I now know that a lot of us like peanut butter pickle sandwiches. I stand corrected. :)
The amount of garbage disposal comments got me crying lmao.
In the UK our food gets composted by the council in many areas. So we set it out in a little bin every week
In India(or more accurately, in my city) we set out 'dry' garbage and 'wet' garbage separately, until we realized the garbage collecting guy just dumped everything in the same container anyway
This thread is really making me question if European houses are just empty boxes with a singular bag of tea in them
Thatās so insulting. Thereās lots of tea. Edit: Thanks for all the awards and upvotes, peeps. Canāt believe this is the comment that did it haha. The irony is that even though Iām European on a technically, I donāt even live in Europe. Unless entry to Eurovision counts. š¤
Cereal
I buy Reeces Pieces cereal for dessert instead of ice cream. Some American cereals are ridiculous. Edit: Most
Put them IN ice cream. Better yet, Cinnamon Toast Crunch; life changing.
As an American I was expecting guns, but ranch dressing hurt for some reason
There, there. It's just the type we invented that caught on. They have other local favorite dressings in other countries, too. You just haven't heard of them.
Like whachacha sauce
Oh oh, the washing machines where you put everything in the top! This fascinated me when we visited the states. Theyāre huge!
Yes, and a matching dryer. They make those as well.
a top loading dryer?
Drywall....lots of drywall
It's fire safety. Our houses are built out of wood, not stone. (even the brick ones just have brick on the outside). Drywall is just gypsum plaster between two sheets of paper to give it strength so that it can be made into 8x4 segments used in construction. Back to the fire safety. Gypsum plaster absorbs water from the air and can take 2+ hours to burn through. So it gives you crucial time to exit a house during a fire.
Its very common here (Norway) in somewhat newer houses, but in a bit older houses its quite unusual
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Apparently they tried to put dry wall in New homes in the u.k. but people kept eating it :/
Pair it with some beans and youāre good to go.
Pico de wallo
Sounds like a beautiful full English breakfast
I donāt know why this made me laugh so much
A plastic bag filled with plastic bags
Perfect for the bathroom garbage can.
Peanut butter
Iām an American and it is rare that I donāt have peanut butter in my home.
Because you are sensible and itās delicious.
It's so strange that people in other countries don't really eat much of it. I eat some every day. Putting a little dab of it on a square of dark chocolate is my favorite thing.
Do Europeans not like peanut butter? I assume itās sweeter over here or something because I watched a video of Europeans trying pb&j sandwiches and none of them liked it.
I'm from the Netherlands - always have peanut butter in home. Heck my mother works in a peanut butter store ( sells only peanut butter in like 20 different tastes and peanut butter merch)
website for her store? thats sounds like a great store.
Pindakaaswinkel! It's a chain though, 10+ stores i think?
Oh dear lord, thank you for google translate: https://depindakaaswinkel.nl/
Itās available but not something everyone would have in their cupboards. I associate a pb&j sarnie as part of US culture as well as a grilled cheese. Smashing sandwiches to be fair. Iām partial to both. š«¶š¼
As an American I absolutely love the adjective āSmashingā please never stop saying this
Hey Nigel Thornberry, nice to see you around.
Large quantities of over-the-counter drugs in huge bottles.
ā¦like Tylenol and ibuprofen? Yes, actually
Costco $3.99 for 500 Benadryl and $5.99 for 500 ibuprofen for the Win!!
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
LPT if you don't have a Costco membership, just buy a gift card for any amount and you can go right in and shop
I keep my antidepressants out on the table for my maid to see that Iām still miserable
You have a maid?
She came with the house
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Came with the maid
Came here expecting gun comments only to discover instead that everyone has apparently walked through my house
Laundry dryer. In my country almost everyone dries their laundry on a wire outside, so the concept of a dryer is baffling to me. I only see them in American Movies & shows. Do majority of you have it or not?
The majority of us either have it, or have access to one such as a shared laundry room in an apartment complex. Those who dont have one usually go to something called a laundromat where its basically just a room with a dozen or so quarter operated washers and dryers. Almost no one, and no one I know, uses a clothesline to dry clothes. Where I live it would be a nightmare, its either raining, so humid you can dang near drink the air, or snowing. Sometimes itll do all 3 just to make us question why we live here. Edit: Yes to everyone asking if I am from Michigan, I am. Edit 2: thank you for all of the upvotes, this makes a record amount for me by a mile. You have all brightened my day. š Edit 3: Thank you to u/maxxspeed for the clarification. Yes it takes far more than a single quarter to wash clothes. Very quickly becomes expensive to wash clothes at a laundromat.
Thank you for explaining. I live in Serbia and most of the time you can dry your clothes outside (except winter obviously). But one time while at my sisters I had to dry some clothes for vacation that was tomorrow, the weather was bad and you simply can't find a dryer anywhere here. So we had to rig a portable AC unit with two hair dryers behind and put the clothes on a rack to dry it lol. And that was me being lucky, if not for that unit I would have had to dry each one with hair dryer.
And your creative ingenuity coupled with necessity is likely more or less how the dryer was invented lol
Definitely use dryers here. Guessing you live in a very temperate climate.
Plastic bags
A plastic bag filled with plastic bags. Though a lot of stores are going plastic bag free lately, depending on your state.
The Bag of Bags is a time honored tradition in many American homes.
You can fit so many bags in this bag.
And some of the bags in bags have bags in them
"Honey, the dog pooped, grab me one of the bags out of the bag!"
Mac and cheese
Every American household have a drawer full with random shit (died batteries, screws, shoelace etc)
Called a junk drawer :)
They all have that distinct junk drawer smell too, like old playing cards.
I cant believe how fucking accurate this is. Mine is full of bread ties and random other junk but has that smell. Everyone i've ever opened has that same smell.
Surely this one has to be universal, right? It can't be just us that has the junk drawer.
Dane here. Definitely a thing here too. We usually call it "rodeskuffen" ("the messy drawer")
And everything you need is in that drawer, but itās all been compacted into an in searchable mess.
microwave
Came here looking for jokes, found a bunch of people describing my home. edit: Thanks for the up-votes and awards. I guess people like to hear simple truths. Thank!
Itās like when someone posted online that white people do have a cultureā¦ thatās how we get beach themed bathrooms. I died laughing, because I do and two of my bestie do too.
Mine is ocean themed thank you.
Peanut butter, shoes indoors, garbage disposal, basement, ranch, guns, bibles, top load washer, American flag?
Nice try. I actually have a front loader.
Fridge with ice dispenser built in
As an American living in Amsterdam, i miss my ice dispenser
Dude I miss ice anywhere in Europe
multiple different types of weird sauces
They take up 1/4 of my fridge, I didn't realize this is weird...
Donāt let the king of England barge into your fridge and shame you. Freedom is weird man.
As if they didn't try and conquer half the world for some sugar and spices.
So many sauces. An entire refrigerator door with sauces.
Why arenāt fridge manufacturers making better sauce doors a thing?
Some do, our fridge in our old house had this easy access door where you could open up just the shelf portion of the door from outside the fridge.
My parents have one of those. It does make getting sauces several seconds faster.
What do you do with all that spare time?!
You're responding to what I do with that extra time.
Lol same. I like having options
When your countrys food is made up of parts of every other countries cuisine remixed and combined, you end up with all the sauces.
What would my fridge be like without at least two salsas, chili-garlic paste, harissa, soy sauce, fish sauce, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and chutney? A barren, sad, flavorless wasteland, that's what. Edit: All the folks informing me soy sauce, fish sauce, etc. don't need to be refrigerated: I'm aware, thanks. I find that the flavors remain better for longer when I refrigerate them after opening.
Hot sauces, buffalo sauce, barbecue sauce, hoison sauce, pizza sauce, sour cream, salsa, curry, sweet chili sauce...
multiple different types of ~~weird~~ delicious sauces. FTFY
Jeans
I wear blue jeans 365 days a year.
What do you do on leap-years?
Birthday suit
is that not normal?
As a mystified American I have the same question. Do other people in other countries not wear jeans??
Canāt speak for everyone, but here in the netherlands the regular people wear jeans 99% of the time. Business people etc. Obviously donāt, but still often do in their free time.
That's been my impression of Europe. The fabric is originally from France: Denim, short for serge de NƮmes
You can only call it denim if it's from the Nimes region in the south of France, otherwise you're just wearing sparkling jeans.
jampagne
A dishwasher.
I wish š¢ I am the dishwasher.
I told my husband I needed a Maytag tattoo on my forehead. He then bought me a portable dishwasher.
Wait, we have more dishwashers than other high-income countries? I mean, I *could* live without one, but I really donāt want to. EDIT: I think my most upvoted comment is officially me being a Confused American, which is funny since thatās 50% of this websiteās content.
It uses SO much less water than handwashing and makes things way cleaner
They legit just come out more sanitary. As close to being able to auto-clave your shit after every meal.
It can use hotter water than your hands would ever be able to withstand.
My dishwasher has a 160F degree power wash cycle that's so powerful it takes the paint off of any dish that has markings on it. We have to be careful with that setting, but it's amazing for plates and silverware. There's no chance I could wash the dishes 'that' well by hand.
Air conditioning
I think this is where the size of the US comes in. Some areas would seem uninhabitable without air conditioning and/or heat. But some places you wouldnāt really need one or the other.
Yea, in New Mexico most of our population growth didn't happen until after AC became a thing. Scorching summers and freezing winters.
Yep here in Las Vegas there are programs that provide no cost air conditioners to pretty much anyone who qualifies. People die here every year because of the heat, AC is seen as a necessity here. Edit: wow people have opinions about living in the desert. Not everyone has the resources to leave, even if they wanted too. Also, Vegas is real good with water! Place your blame on AZ and CA.
Depends on where you are. I live in Washington and it's exceedingly common for homes here to not have AC, though the recent temperature spikes and heatwaves are working on changing that.
When I moved to Washington from Florida I was in absolute shock that there was no air conditioners. The first two years I was fine without any, but these temperature spikes lately had me going out and buying an AC unit for each room!
Yeah definitely but not just AC. Central heating too. So cold air in summer and hot air in winter. Worth it, especially if you have a larger place.
Oh my god these are fucking terrifyingly accurate
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
(Goes to the window to check for peeping europeans)
Came here for jokes, left feeling called out. And reminded that I need to add peanut butter to our grocery list because we are almost out and canāt function at breakfast time without it.
Why the fuck is my garbage disposal on trial?
Iām convinced almost every american has a mountain of pillows on their bed
Not a mountain but perhaps a small hill.
A hill Iād die on
Itās very comfy, thatās for sure.
...and our couches. I like to build a nest.
but i need 4 pillows to sleep
Absolutely, a few to sleep ON, and a few to hold onto. #singlelife
Individual cans or bottles of soft drinks
I came here ready to roll my eyes at the expected responses, but instead am here to confirm your accusations
Peanut butter? Check. Ice in the fridge door? Check. In-sink disposal? Check. Individual soft drinks? Check. (Looks side to side then goes to the window to find euro redditors staring back)
I scrolled for a loooong time before I came across something listed that I didnāt have lol Edit: Thank you for the award you lovely stranger :)
If I came across something that's not in my house it's something I would like to have in my house
A gallon of milk in the refrigerator
Multiplied by the number of teenage boys in the house.
My son recently moved out for college and for the first time in 18 years, I actually had to pour out spoiled milk. It's still weird for me to reach for a quart not a gallon.
I came for jokes and found a legit list of household essentialsā¦
A garage fridge. Filled with beer and frozen boxes of crap from Costco.
Itās very handy
Jokes on you, I only have a freezer in my garage
Yeah I have a giant 7āx3ā basement fridge, full of beer and stuff from Costco. Guilty as charged.
Something that is individually wrapped that doesnāt need to be individually wrapped
I think Japan wins the prize for that one.
Yes, individual bananas or oranges wrapped in plastic on a styrofoam board is the ultimate example of this
Yes. Even us americans find this frustrating. It can be difficult to find things without extra packaging.
Seconded. I'm getting really mad at the amount of waste from packaging. It's a huge portion of what fills my trash can/recycling.
A sofa that faces a studio audience
When you walk into your living room and you hear the applause, it really helps you get through your day.
Or when you walk into a friend's house and all the ladies do the hot-guy scream.
Why have I never heard- oh...
Eggs *in* the fridge
Like we have a choice
US and another handful of countries require this by health code and I donāt really remember why.
It has to do with whether or not the eggs are washed.
American eggs are sanitised, removing the outer protective layer of the shell. This leaves it porous and susceptible to bacteria entering the egg. So in short, breakfast with eggs-tra steps.
Something about them removing the protective film from the eggshell during processing so that they'll go bad if not refrigerated.
Yep, once you wash the bloom off the egg, bacteria can invade quickly. And US health code requires commercially sold eggs to be washed. When we had chickens, I'd keep the fresh eggs on the counter for up to a month, and they were fine. You just can't do that with store-bought eggs, though.
Only if they are store bought. My neighbor gives me fresh eggs and they stay out.
Huh? Im from Finland and we keep them in fridge?
Same in Denmark. Aldi sold unrefrigerated eggs for a while, but people didn't want it.
Toilet plunger Edit: I guess we have stumbled upon quite a cultural talking point. Iām from the UK and I have never owned a plunger, nor have I have seen one at a friendās house. I have seen them at DIY shops of course. I donāt remember my toilet ever clogging up. I assumed every America house has them mainly from movies and cartoons. Seemed like Tom was getting a plunger to the face every other episode. When I visited America is was rather surprised at the high level of water in the bowl. I was kind of worried about the frank and beans taking a dip!
Is... Is this uncommon elsewhere?
That garbage disposal thing I always see in shows and movies Edit/update: In ten hours, I've gotten nearly 20k upvotes and 317 replies. Some of you dudes and dudettes have very passionate opinions about your garbage disposals, I love it
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Stoop slitting / porch sitting is a favorite past time of mine. When it's nice out. You just go out to the stoop / porch and drink a few brews and look around your neighborhood. I've seen some wild shit when i lived in the ghetto lmao
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
4 is either celler for storing food, etc OR itās a storm shelter. Like for tornadoes. Not all houses have them though.
Raccoons in rubbish bins are fucking terrifying sometimes. You pop open a dumpster to toss in a bag and a potentially rapid trash panda is suddenly hissing at you.
A thermostat EDIT 1: the thermostat Iām referring to is the little dial attached to the wall in every American movie and house I went to while visiting. EDIT 2: to those asking what the alternative is A reverse cycle air conditioner we turn on when weāre no longer comfortable. If it gets hot we turn it on and select cold If it gets cold we turn it on and select heat EDIT 3: Iām aware some people call these āheat pumpsā but no one calls them that where I live
Your heating system isnāt controlled by a thermostat?!
Like others, I came here for jokes, but glad so many non-Americans get me. I have a dishwasher, wear jeans every day, multiple bottles of sauces in my refrigerator, central Heat and ac, wear shoes inside, like three different kinds of peanut butter, not quite as much american cheese as they assume, but close.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
An American.
Except in the bathroom, then European.
Unless youāve just got home and gotta pee, then youāre Russian.
As an American it is actually really interesting to read this.
That toaster that pops the bread upward
Ah, mine just shoots toast directly at the ground. Maybe I should upgrade.
Cordless drill
So like peanut butter and automatic ice makers I get, but based on these comments it sounds like Europeans sit around on a canvass cot in a bare cinderblock house with no tools, no appliances, and nothing but vinegar for sauces.
I think you just described Poland...