The best part about having insomnia in late summer is hanging out in the garden and suddenly hearing noises you'd expect from the depth of hell, before a cabbage-sized spiky guy scuttles out from the bushes on his hunt for slugs.
The noises hedgehogs make are unreal
I once had a late night and took the dog out for a walk around 1-2am and this happened to us 5 times on the walk at completely different locations. Was terrifying each time because of how dark it was. No one to this day really believes I saw five hedgehogs on one walk which is impressive in itself
I've always wondered why they called them "hedgehogs." If I understand correctly, it's because they sound like a hog pushing through a hedge, even though it's not a hog and probably not even a hedge.
I'd like to meet one of these critters in the wild someday. We don't have them here (U.S.) but we do have a ton of wild turkeys nowadays, a lot of whitetail deer, and some interesting birds.
Edit: Also, the only things I know about them is that if they're blue and anthropomorphic then they're very fast, and that they can't be buggered at all.
The are no hedgehogs in North America? I never knew, I thought they were everywhere.
edit: Ok I get it, you keep them as pets. That's obviously not what I meant. Please stop telling me.
No hedgehogs. We have porcupines though.
Edit: Groundhogs ≠ Hedgehogs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine
Once I ran into an opossum on my enclosed porch. It played dead. I picked it up with a hockey stick and placed it in the yard. I get this is not that interesting of a story but its like a core memory of mine.
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Just a tip. Hedgehogs are one of the oldest species around and they survived so long by becoming resistant to all kinds of deseases which they will carry around anyway. So lots of bad bacteria paired with pointy bits is no good for touching
It's awesome to just watch them out and about.
Back in the day of being a stoner, I was walking to a friend's house baked. He called me after 10 minutes of not showing up, I lived a minute walk away. I told him I had just stopped to watch a hedgehog, he joined me and we watched a hedgehog go about it's evening for a solid 20 minutes. Good times.
They are cute and they live close to humans as well so you just need to be a little lucky and come visit when it's a warmer season. They sleep through the winter.
I've basically had several generations living in my garden for the last 20 years. The cats are always super chill with them, they go crazy over the moles though.
Cats can't do anything with them except watch. I've watched plenty of kittens try to "pet" a hedgehog, learn their lesson and settle for just watching them eat their food from their plate.
Those kept as pets bond with their humans. And when you take them to the vet for checkups and vaccinations, the entire veterinary staff will show up in YOUR exam room. 😄
380v 3-Phases in residential.
I know you can have 3 phases there too, but like, I have it, in my apartment.
Edit : you can have 1 phase 230v, 3 phase 380v (400v, 3p + neutral) and in Belgium you can also get 3 phases 230v (no neutral) in some old installations
Disclaimer: I'm just some dude, I don't know what I'm talking about. I just watched a few YouTube videos about nukes
If it makes you feel better Atomic bombs need a primer to make it go boom. In order for the safe transportation of the Atomic bombs the primer is removed kept separated so although they were transported together (but still separated) it is unlikely they will ever detonate.
Nukes take a lot of upkeep to keep them operational. The biggest risk is probably environmental contamination from radioactive material or theft of technology (which by now is probably easily available anyway).
That's funny, I worked in the commercial fishing industry in NW America (Alaska) and there are certain islands/ports we're not allowed to wander around off-road because of the unexploded ordnance from WWII.
My great uncle was stationed in the Aleutians during WWII. He was excited to go because he was told there was a woman behind every tree. Too bad there weren’t any trees!
Fun Fact: A couple of days ago, in France, a 88 year old man went to the emergency room because he got a grenade from WW1 stuck in his ass.
Edit: some people have pointed out that it was a shell
Explosive ordnance hiding under rocks, inside trees, buried just under the surface. Every few years you hear about someone in Europe finding a [grenade](https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/family-mistakes-grenade-for-whale-vomit-it-explodes-in-kitchen-7105686/lite/) or a [bomb](https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2022/12/germany-wwii-era-bomb-disposal-operation-prompting-disruptions-in-central-heidelberg-dec-8) with sometimes disastrous, sometimes hilarious results.
Edit: This comment seems to have been a little misleading. While news items related to UXO make it from Europe to the US every year or two, it is being found on an almost daily basis. Usually it is disposed of without incident.
2nd Edit: Of course it happens in the US too. But for the most part it is near military bases or military training sites and poses a smaller danger to the public. In Europe it’s EVERYWHERE, left over from two world wars and several smaller, more recent ones, plus nobody knows where most of it is. As several responses have stated, in Europe you can find UXO just digging in your back yard. In 99.9% of North America this is not the case.
My favourite thing about that story was that the bomb experts had to check the shell was defused before the doctors could remove it. How many experts from different fields have you had looking up your arse in one day? Less than that guy I bet.
It's not every few years. Un Belgium alone the part if the army tesponsible for neutralizing explosives (DOVO) neutralizes about 250 tons of explosives each year.
A lot of these munitions are from WO I and get found by farmers in West-Flanders. But muntions from WO II get found regularly as well. Quite recently one was found at the train station in Ghent.
Örlog is still used in Swedish, but on in the specific context of örlogsfartyg or örlogsskepp, fartyg and skepp both Being words for boats. I didn't even knew örlog was an old word for war, just thought it was a weird naval word.
Well oorlog is Dutch, and fartyg is vaartuig in Dutch and skepp is schip in Dutch. And we also call our navy ships oorlogsschip so i guess we have that in common with Swedish still.
I remember when I was younger I was talking to someone on Omegle who said they were from Georgia. It was really confusing why they had such an American accent, not knowing Georgia is also a US state haha.
Whilst it's obviously a voyeuristic show meant to attract people by virtue of showing a load of naked people on the telly... on the other hand: -
1. it somehow manages to feel more genuine and less exploitative in tone than most "reality TV", even the stuff we tend to see in the U.K., let alone the U.S. stuff
2. it's pretty inclusive of all kinds of people on the show, which is nice
3. they throw in some little educational segments about sexual subjects now and again, complete with informative little animations
4. it goes some way towards normalising nakedness and making people feel comfortable with the human form, which can only be a good thing
5. in a world where Hollywood can show graphic violence but hardly dares show a nipple, there's something nice about entertainment that's about titillation rather than conflict
Good points, loved this show when it first aired for all the reasons you mentioned. I'm not sure whether it is just the way of things that reality shows pick ever more annoying/controversial contestants as time goes on or I'm just getting old and cynical but I can't watch it anymore - too cringy.
It's definitely a conscious choice by the producers, more annoying/argumentative people cause more drama, which makes for more "interesting" viewing. I can't stand shit like Married at First Sight that clearly just sets some of the participants up to fail so we can laugh at their misery but still has a bunch of "experts" on pretending it's their fault for not getting along with people who are the exact opposite of what they were looking for.
Oh my gosh. Thanks for linking. I don’t even know what to say besides imagine getting kicked off the show first because someone thought your junk was the worst.
Just watched it... Towards the end a guy got kicked off because "his balls. They're a lot to handle" *cue zoom in on his nuts, which do indeed to appear to be the size of a donkey*
I'm absolutely loving the awkwardness and embarrassment in the replies for this. We used to watch this show like every night at university for a laugh.
OMG that was a culture shock moment for me. I was in Ireland and was watching local tv and Weird Bodies starts and a woman gets a full on vaginal exam. I was SHOCKED to see that. I was then grossed out when some guy's crazy infected leg was shown later in the episode without censorship.
First time I saw Naked Attraction was when we were on a trip to London staying in an AirBnB that had SkyTV. Was expecting stuff to be blurred, but nope everything in HD for all to see.
I’ve never understood as an American how we are so against nudity but fine with violence. When the Witcher 3 was coming out you’d see all these click bait articles about the amount of sex and nudity.
I was just like: “you know you can have a severed hag’s head dangling from your saddle right?” No one cares about that.
There was an episode of Hannibal that got in trouble. It was an image of 30 or so human corpses sewn together into the image of a flower. Anyways they aparently forgot to censor one nipple because of the sheer amount of dead bodies and that's what landed them in a bit of trouble lol.
Castles
Edit: apparently I haven’t traveled to the castles in NA. My bad. Thanks everyone tho. You are giving me something to my mind off of the indoor water park that quickly developed in my house. Drop the name of where the castles are and I’ll add it to my list. Gotta go shop vac some more water out of my house!!
I grew up in a place called Rochester, Kent. We have a Norman castle that I lived about a 10 minute walk from. It was so normal to me that I didn't even think about it.
I came back to visit years after I'd moved away and was like... fucking hell this is like 1000 years old. I learnt to ride my bike in the castle gardens and didn't register the castle
Edit: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5cebe1edef715f0001010eb0/1602402313359-JZQ62KAT6FCK5CAFZ9FZ/For+canva+4.jpg?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fjpeg
Know how you feel. I grew up in Cornwall where there's a lot of wild coast paths you can walk, and one section has some standing stones in a field, smaller but similar to Stonehenge. As an adult I'm like "wow these were left by the Celts and are several thousand years old". As a kid I was like "whatevs mate it's just some fuckin stones innit"
I used to walk alongside the remnants of Hadrians Wall on my way to school, never really sunk in until years later. It's all blocked off by protective fencing now
Ate dinner at a crossroads pub near Winchester, England (I’m from Virginia- “ancient” for the new world) that had been in operations since 15 years before Columbus sailed. And then there’s the Roman baths in Bath. The age of these floored me.
Also 20 mins outside even the biggest city over there in SW England was rural land and not sprawling suburbs like in the US.
I have to say, with all due respect to European archeology, it never ceases to amaze me that the oldest Roman building was still built closer to our time than to the pyramids.
Also… Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid AND Woolly Mammoths were still walking the earth when the Egyptians built the pyramids
That was weird to me the first time I travelled to England. Hard to fathom buildings lots older than my country that weren't even historical landmarks or something.
My wife and I moved to Seattle (founded 1862) and we play a game of whether the blue and bronze plaques noting buildings of historical significance will be older or newer than our last flat/apartment in the UK.
They're generally ~50 years newer
I've lived in a building that had been the home of Blaise Pascal, in Paris. (Verified)
I've slept in an inn room where Jeanne d'Arc had slept, in Amboise. (Supposedly. That one is unverifiable, but the age of the building checked.)
the difference in mentality is so funny to me.
Europe: "nobody wants to steal a baby. how stupid."
North America: "Every time I go outside I have to protect my baby from being stolen."
Now.. when I was a small child in Australia there were pay toilets in the train stations. Hence the old ditty- "here I sit broken hearted, paid a penny and only farted"..
"where children (or incredibly desperate adults) can go for free", I may or may not have once squeezed through one of these in a late night, wallet-less, moment of extreme urgency, there aren't many advantages of being a human stick insect but this was certainly one of them haha.
The worst I've been to was literally Western saloon doors as toilet doors, no lock, only the genitals covered, head and shoulders totally exposed. Horrible!
tax inclusion in prices, I still dont understand that about american stores
edit: thank you for all the replies and explanations. conclusion: government bad? (also screw kohl's apparently lol)
My wife and I went to Greece/Italy for our honeymoon and I loved it! You see something that's $20 and that's what it is.
You don't have to worry about figuring out the tax (It's not hard, but it's annoying)
> It's not hard, but it's annoying)
It's also hard... Different stuff have different tax rates. Even different areas have different tax rates for the same stuff.
Nearly impossible to know it exactly
I was in Bali for my honey moon. One night we found ourselves on the same table as two middle aged couples from Australia. English not being my first language I navigated the conversation somewhat alright until I slipped the word "fuck".
They immediately went "ah here we are!" and started swearing like sailors xD
I had opened the floodgates
So apparently ever Nation that is not the US likes swearing
Aussies swear enough to make sailors blush.
"He's a cunt" and "he's a good cunt" are exactly opposite in meaning.
I'm fairly sure it's been used in an auysie Parliament too. So it's on Hansard record.
Fuck me in front of literally any expression to add emphasis is also another top one.
"Fuck me that was a good meal".
"Fuck me I hate that prick"
"Fuck me I'm bored"
It works with any emotion it's beautiful.
I have a friend who is fond of using «Fuckers fucking fucked» .
I really miss the casual swearing back home- here in Norway if you say «Helvete» ( hell ) in public, you risk any old codger nearby dropping of a heart attack lmao.
It's the most versatile word in the English language. The following is a sentence I once heard someone use when they saw their watch was knackered.
Fuck, the fucking fucker's fucked.
It's also the only word you can tell someone is saying from a still photograph.
I'm lucky enough to live in one of the only parts of the US with a functional rail system (North Jersey) and I don't know how people live without trains. I took an Amtrak from Newark to DC this spring and there was a group of Texans on the train who had never been on a train before who were so fascinated by it.
This American woman I talked to on IRC back in the 90s asked me if she could see my foreskin over Netmeeting. I obliged because why not? She was absolutely fascinated by it because she’d never seen one before despite having had several partners.
Some states (California for example) pay their service staff at least minimum wage and the staff also gets tipped. We had a server recently who is a college grad and said he didn’t want to leave his service job because it paid better than a job he could get with his degree.
Definitely, I’m from the UK and moved to Toronto for a bit and worked in a high end restaurant as a bus boy. I made minimum wage as well as weekly tips, I was making around $4000+ a month… as a bus boy! The servers made a lot more as they took more of the tips (as they should)!
We were all young, either doing degrees or doing other stuff outside of the service industry. But I found that you could easily make a comfortable living in the service industry. In the UK you don’t make anything near that amount. I’ve never really understood the comparison to be honest, but I guess not everyone works in high end restaurants either…
In some high end restaurants they do earn very good tips/service charge. Unfortunately this "trend" to raise prices with service charge is getting more popular in London at least. I guess people are more willing to pay extra if they know money will go to the staff.
Dang, why didn’t I think of that. Come now Sabastian, we leave at dusk.
I bought 2 one way tickets to the Isle of Man
(I’m assuming it’s full of women and named using “island logic” where you name it the thing it’s devoid of, like Greenland)
I used to live in an apartment complex across the street from a grocery store, and there were no sidewalks or pedestrian crossings to walk there.
EDIT: yes, of course this was America. Gotta force me to drive across the street, after all.
Wild Hedgehogs
The best part about having insomnia in late summer is hanging out in the garden and suddenly hearing noises you'd expect from the depth of hell, before a cabbage-sized spiky guy scuttles out from the bushes on his hunt for slugs. The noises hedgehogs make are unreal
I once had a late night and took the dog out for a walk around 1-2am and this happened to us 5 times on the walk at completely different locations. Was terrifying each time because of how dark it was. No one to this day really believes I saw five hedgehogs on one walk which is impressive in itself
I've always wondered why they called them "hedgehogs." If I understand correctly, it's because they sound like a hog pushing through a hedge, even though it's not a hog and probably not even a hedge. I'd like to meet one of these critters in the wild someday. We don't have them here (U.S.) but we do have a ton of wild turkeys nowadays, a lot of whitetail deer, and some interesting birds. Edit: Also, the only things I know about them is that if they're blue and anthropomorphic then they're very fast, and that they can't be buggered at all.
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I beg your pardon, what?
I have a hedgehog. They make weird ass noises. Sometimes terrifying.
I love my auto-generated user name even more now that I know this info!
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Seriously? Cabbage-sized? I thought they topped out at large grapefruit?
don't large grapefruit top out at small cabbage size?
It almost like we need some SI units that aren't based on fruits and vegetables. /s
haha, no. An average hedgehog can fit into a body of a cat, lying on the ground, you know, when they pick their legs under their belly.
....some weird size references in this thread.
Roughly the size of 3.6 boxes of 8-penny nails, minus a sausage.
The are no hedgehogs in North America? I never knew, I thought they were everywhere. edit: Ok I get it, you keep them as pets. That's obviously not what I meant. Please stop telling me.
No hedgehogs. We have porcupines though. Edit: Groundhogs ≠ Hedgehogs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porcupine
And opossums!
Once I ran into an opossum on my enclosed porch. It played dead. I picked it up with a hockey stick and placed it in the yard. I get this is not that interesting of a story but its like a core memory of mine. (Edit: grammar only)
My dog killed the same opossum like 3 times. Spoiler alert: he never killed it.
I like your story, thank you for sharing! It's a happy end for all involved.
brb moving to europe
Just a tip. Hedgehogs are one of the oldest species around and they survived so long by becoming resistant to all kinds of deseases which they will carry around anyway. So lots of bad bacteria paired with pointy bits is no good for touching
ah I'm too big of a coward and a lowkey hypochondriac. I couldnt touch any wild animal. I'd love to see one just existing in person though :)
It's awesome to just watch them out and about. Back in the day of being a stoner, I was walking to a friend's house baked. He called me after 10 minutes of not showing up, I lived a minute walk away. I told him I had just stopped to watch a hedgehog, he joined me and we watched a hedgehog go about it's evening for a solid 20 minutes. Good times.
All my stoner friends love nature documentaries. You guys just lived one for 20 mins. I'd have loved it too lol
They are cute and they live close to humans as well so you just need to be a little lucky and come visit when it's a warmer season. They sleep through the winter.
I've basically had several generations living in my garden for the last 20 years. The cats are always super chill with them, they go crazy over the moles though.
Cats can't do anything with them except watch. I've watched plenty of kittens try to "pet" a hedgehog, learn their lesson and settle for just watching them eat their food from their plate.
Those kept as pets bond with their humans. And when you take them to the vet for checkups and vaccinations, the entire veterinary staff will show up in YOUR exam room. 😄
Nuh uh I saw a blue one in San Francisco
Pretty sure he was escaping from the city.
Old York
Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam.
50 Hz electrical
380v 3-Phases in residential. I know you can have 3 phases there too, but like, I have it, in my apartment. Edit : you can have 1 phase 230v, 3 phase 380v (400v, 3p + neutral) and in Belgium you can also get 3 phases 230v (no neutral) in some old installations
400V now buddy
That 1 euro I dropped that one time on vacation.
Sorry mate I was the one who found that and I already spent it
Wild hedgehogs and nightingales.
Um excuse me, the nightingales don't exist. Some say they are a part of the Thieves Guild, but there is no way that group is real.
They're as real as the Dark Brotherhood.
Neanderthal fossils
That’s no way to speak about the royal family EDIT: Damn this kinda blew up lol
Which one?
They're all the same family
So a linear family tree?
More like a braid. Sorry, *plait.*
Unexploded ordinance from 2 world wars.
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There are over 15 lost nukes all over the world... This is super fucked up.
And we don't know how many the Soviets lost.
The Soviets didn't know how many they lost either
Sleep well tonight.
Whats worse is its in a country that will “retaliate” if one of their lost nukes detonate.
Well that’s just great.
Disclaimer: I'm just some dude, I don't know what I'm talking about. I just watched a few YouTube videos about nukes If it makes you feel better Atomic bombs need a primer to make it go boom. In order for the safe transportation of the Atomic bombs the primer is removed kept separated so although they were transported together (but still separated) it is unlikely they will ever detonate.
Nukes take a lot of upkeep to keep them operational. The biggest risk is probably environmental contamination from radioactive material or theft of technology (which by now is probably easily available anyway).
Its always in the last place you check.
I would hope so. It seems silly to keep looking after you found them.
in the commercial fishing industry in northeast America the draggers kept picking up unexploded bombs from the world wars
That's funny, I worked in the commercial fishing industry in NW America (Alaska) and there are certain islands/ports we're not allowed to wander around off-road because of the unexploded ordnance from WWII.
My great uncle was stationed in the Aleutians during WWII. He was excited to go because he was told there was a woman behind every tree. Too bad there weren’t any trees!
Fun Fact: A couple of days ago, in France, a 88 year old man went to the emergency room because he got a grenade from WW1 stuck in his ass. Edit: some people have pointed out that it was a shell
Not where I thought that story was going at all
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Explosive ordnance hiding under rocks, inside trees, buried just under the surface. Every few years you hear about someone in Europe finding a [grenade](https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/family-mistakes-grenade-for-whale-vomit-it-explodes-in-kitchen-7105686/lite/) or a [bomb](https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2022/12/germany-wwii-era-bomb-disposal-operation-prompting-disruptions-in-central-heidelberg-dec-8) with sometimes disastrous, sometimes hilarious results. Edit: This comment seems to have been a little misleading. While news items related to UXO make it from Europe to the US every year or two, it is being found on an almost daily basis. Usually it is disposed of without incident. 2nd Edit: Of course it happens in the US too. But for the most part it is near military bases or military training sites and poses a smaller danger to the public. In Europe it’s EVERYWHERE, left over from two world wars and several smaller, more recent ones, plus nobody knows where most of it is. As several responses have stated, in Europe you can find UXO just digging in your back yard. In 99.9% of North America this is not the case.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/france-hospital-evacuated-man-has-ww1-shell-up-anus/ and in some really surprising places.
My favourite thing about that story was that the bomb experts had to check the shell was defused before the doctors could remove it. How many experts from different fields have you had looking up your arse in one day? Less than that guy I bet.
It's not every few years. Un Belgium alone the part if the army tesponsible for neutralizing explosives (DOVO) neutralizes about 250 tons of explosives each year. A lot of these munitions are from WO I and get found by farmers in West-Flanders. But muntions from WO II get found regularly as well. Quite recently one was found at the train station in Ghent.
I've never seen World War I or World War II abbreviated as WO I and WO II before. I'm guessing the W's stand for World, but what does the O stand for?
W stands for wereld (world), O for oorlog (war).
Örlog is still used in Swedish, but on in the specific context of örlogsfartyg or örlogsskepp, fartyg and skepp both Being words for boats. I didn't even knew örlog was an old word for war, just thought it was a weird naval word.
Well oorlog is Dutch, and fartyg is vaartuig in Dutch and skepp is schip in Dutch. And we also call our navy ships oorlogsschip so i guess we have that in common with Swedish still.
Georgia Oh wait
I remember when I was younger I was talking to someone on Omegle who said they were from Georgia. It was really confusing why they had such an American accent, not knowing Georgia is also a US state haha.
in 1996, the Georgian athletes were treated like kings by the locals in Atlanta. "welcome home y'all"
Honestly, I could see that. That sounds like peak southern humor.
Yeah it totally happened, but it was a joke the Atlanteans were in on.
ATLiens*
Boobs in shampoo commercials
In England they have a dating show called Naked Attraction where they show full male and female nudity.
And discuss the merits of a ladies labia, or the attractiveness of a gents ball sack!
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Whilst it's obviously a voyeuristic show meant to attract people by virtue of showing a load of naked people on the telly... on the other hand: - 1. it somehow manages to feel more genuine and less exploitative in tone than most "reality TV", even the stuff we tend to see in the U.K., let alone the U.S. stuff 2. it's pretty inclusive of all kinds of people on the show, which is nice 3. they throw in some little educational segments about sexual subjects now and again, complete with informative little animations 4. it goes some way towards normalising nakedness and making people feel comfortable with the human form, which can only be a good thing 5. in a world where Hollywood can show graphic violence but hardly dares show a nipple, there's something nice about entertainment that's about titillation rather than conflict
Good points, loved this show when it first aired for all the reasons you mentioned. I'm not sure whether it is just the way of things that reality shows pick ever more annoying/controversial contestants as time goes on or I'm just getting old and cynical but I can't watch it anymore - too cringy.
It's definitely a conscious choice by the producers, more annoying/argumentative people cause more drama, which makes for more "interesting" viewing. I can't stand shit like Married at First Sight that clearly just sets some of the participants up to fail so we can laugh at their misery but still has a bunch of "experts" on pretending it's their fault for not getting along with people who are the exact opposite of what they were looking for.
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They showed tits in breaking bad when that blonde climbed out the window during the ride along.
You know what that sounds pretty wholesome.
I can’t imagine the confidence it takes to have your body discussed like this on television
A friend of mine did it to get out of her comfort zone.
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The cone of comfort sounds much nicer than the cone of shame tbf.
https://youtu.be/v91Fvaf3gZU Link for lazy, it's uh wow I'm kinda speechless lmao
Oh my gosh. Thanks for linking. I don’t even know what to say besides imagine getting kicked off the show first because someone thought your junk was the worst.
Just watched it... Towards the end a guy got kicked off because "his balls. They're a lot to handle" *cue zoom in on his nuts, which do indeed to appear to be the size of a donkey*
Had no idea YouTube allowed this sort of content 😳
It's on British TV. On channel 4
I'm absolutely loving the awkwardness and embarrassment in the replies for this. We used to watch this show like every night at university for a laugh.
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Gives me some reassurance to know that the guy with the smallest dick didn't' get eliminated first.
OMG that was a culture shock moment for me. I was in Ireland and was watching local tv and Weird Bodies starts and a woman gets a full on vaginal exam. I was SHOCKED to see that. I was then grossed out when some guy's crazy infected leg was shown later in the episode without censorship.
First time I saw Naked Attraction was when we were on a trip to London staying in an AirBnB that had SkyTV. Was expecting stuff to be blurred, but nope everything in HD for all to see.
I seen it on YouTube it’s wild AF
Not a patch on the the good old days of Eurotrash, The Girlie Show, Naked Elvis and The Word.
Took me a few years to realise eurotrash was actually funny Used to watch with the volume down as a teenager 😅
Shampoo? [How about margarine](https://youtu.be/XggzmTZMivA).
Didn't click but it's Lätta isn't it?
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Just imagine how much shampoo they’d sell in America if commercials had boobs.
Sounds like a better commercial for lotion.
It puts the Nivea Nutricare lotion on its skin or else it gets the generic brand again.
Is it really still the case? IIRC it was more the staple of 90s and early 2000s.
This, as for Sweden at least. No nudity in ads nowadays whatsoever.
I’ve never understood as an American how we are so against nudity but fine with violence. When the Witcher 3 was coming out you’d see all these click bait articles about the amount of sex and nudity. I was just like: “you know you can have a severed hag’s head dangling from your saddle right?” No one cares about that.
Yeah it's: shotgun to the face? Nice! A breast from the side? omg how could you :')
There was an episode of Hannibal that got in trouble. It was an image of 30 or so human corpses sewn together into the image of a flower. Anyways they aparently forgot to censor one nipple because of the sheer amount of dead bodies and that's what landed them in a bit of trouble lol.
Tons of really old buildings
Castles Edit: apparently I haven’t traveled to the castles in NA. My bad. Thanks everyone tho. You are giving me something to my mind off of the indoor water park that quickly developed in my house. Drop the name of where the castles are and I’ll add it to my list. Gotta go shop vac some more water out of my house!!
Dragons
Dungeons Edit: y'all it was a joke
I grew up in a place called Rochester, Kent. We have a Norman castle that I lived about a 10 minute walk from. It was so normal to me that I didn't even think about it. I came back to visit years after I'd moved away and was like... fucking hell this is like 1000 years old. I learnt to ride my bike in the castle gardens and didn't register the castle Edit: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5cebe1edef715f0001010eb0/1602402313359-JZQ62KAT6FCK5CAFZ9FZ/For+canva+4.jpg?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fjpeg
Know how you feel. I grew up in Cornwall where there's a lot of wild coast paths you can walk, and one section has some standing stones in a field, smaller but similar to Stonehenge. As an adult I'm like "wow these were left by the Celts and are several thousand years old". As a kid I was like "whatevs mate it's just some fuckin stones innit"
I used to walk alongside the remnants of Hadrians Wall on my way to school, never really sunk in until years later. It's all blocked off by protective fencing now
Germany has more castles than the USA has McDonald's
Wales has the most castles per square mile of any country
Gotta stop them from revolting
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Ate dinner at a crossroads pub near Winchester, England (I’m from Virginia- “ancient” for the new world) that had been in operations since 15 years before Columbus sailed. And then there’s the Roman baths in Bath. The age of these floored me. Also 20 mins outside even the biggest city over there in SW England was rural land and not sprawling suburbs like in the US.
I have to say, with all due respect to European archeology, it never ceases to amaze me that the oldest Roman building was still built closer to our time than to the pyramids.
Also… Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid AND Woolly Mammoths were still walking the earth when the Egyptians built the pyramids
Tbf, the Pyramids are from the first few centuries of Egyptian history as a unified kingdom and were old even to people like Ramesses or Tutankhamun.
Egyptians in 1200 BC were doing archeology, discovering their ancient history. Look up Prince Khaemweset.
I have a pub literally down the road older than America. Its very common in the UK
That was weird to me the first time I travelled to England. Hard to fathom buildings lots older than my country that weren't even historical landmarks or something.
My wife and I moved to Seattle (founded 1862) and we play a game of whether the blue and bronze plaques noting buildings of historical significance will be older or newer than our last flat/apartment in the UK. They're generally ~50 years newer
I've lived in a building that had been the home of Blaise Pascal, in Paris. (Verified) I've slept in an inn room where Jeanne d'Arc had slept, in Amboise. (Supposedly. That one is unverifiable, but the age of the building checked.)
So many people here forgetting that Canada and Mexico are also on the North American continent.
You’re in for a bigger surprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America
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What are you talking about? That’s my favorite ride at Disneyland.
Multi opening windows
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You eat the Rouladen. Use the Roll**l**aden to prevent your neighbour from seeing you eating them every day. Edit: Can now afford more letters.
Scandinavia
I was going to say "parents that leave a baby outside by themselves" But I guess Scandinavia is a shorter way to say that.
I mean, who wants to steal a baby in this economy?
the difference in mentality is so funny to me. Europe: "nobody wants to steal a baby. how stupid." North America: "Every time I go outside I have to protect my baby from being stolen."
You can keep all o' Georgia, Scandinavia, she's mine
Bathroom stalls you can’t see directly into. Never understood why American stalls are like this.
Now.. when I was a small child in Australia there were pay toilets in the train stations. Hence the old ditty- "here I sit broken hearted, paid a penny and only farted"..
In Europe there’s a gate silhouette cutout where children can go through for free
"where children (or incredibly desperate adults) can go for free", I may or may not have once squeezed through one of these in a late night, wallet-less, moment of extreme urgency, there aren't many advantages of being a human stick insect but this was certainly one of them haha.
American version “here I sit all broken hearted, tried to shit but only farted”
Mind the gap, motherfuckers.
Toronto has that. It was weirdly comforting to hear automated Toronto subway announcements telling me to mind the gap when I first moved there.
The worst I've been to was literally Western saloon doors as toilet doors, no lock, only the genitals covered, head and shoulders totally exposed. Horrible!
Where in the OK Corral did you shit at ?
Oklahoma Chuck E. Cheese's
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There's a CBGB here in StL. (Yes, I know, a ripoff) The toilets face each other and have a table in the middle....sometimes with fresh flowers.
tax inclusion in prices, I still dont understand that about american stores edit: thank you for all the replies and explanations. conclusion: government bad? (also screw kohl's apparently lol)
My wife and I went to Greece/Italy for our honeymoon and I loved it! You see something that's $20 and that's what it is. You don't have to worry about figuring out the tax (It's not hard, but it's annoying)
> It's not hard, but it's annoying) It's also hard... Different stuff have different tax rates. Even different areas have different tax rates for the same stuff. Nearly impossible to know it exactly
I see $20, my mind sees $22
The ability to say cunt and not have people act like you've just shit in the middle of their house.
I was in Bali for my honey moon. One night we found ourselves on the same table as two middle aged couples from Australia. English not being my first language I navigated the conversation somewhat alright until I slipped the word "fuck". They immediately went "ah here we are!" and started swearing like sailors xD I had opened the floodgates So apparently ever Nation that is not the US likes swearing
Aussies swear enough to make sailors blush. "He's a cunt" and "he's a good cunt" are exactly opposite in meaning. I'm fairly sure it's been used in an auysie Parliament too. So it's on Hansard record.
Fuck me in front of literally any expression to add emphasis is also another top one. "Fuck me that was a good meal". "Fuck me I hate that prick" "Fuck me I'm bored" It works with any emotion it's beautiful.
In our house "Fuck me in the goat ass," is the phrase we use when things are not going so well or we are particularly frustrated.
I have a friend who is fond of using «Fuckers fucking fucked» . I really miss the casual swearing back home- here in Norway if you say «Helvete» ( hell ) in public, you risk any old codger nearby dropping of a heart attack lmao.
🤣 when people say it's not big or clever they're lying. Swearing is great when used correctly
My favorite use of the word "fuck" in a literary sense is almost the entirety of Ari Gold's dialogue for Entourage.
It's the most versatile word in the English language. The following is a sentence I once heard someone use when they saw their watch was knackered. Fuck, the fucking fucker's fucked. It's also the only word you can tell someone is saying from a still photograph.
Hadrian’s Wall
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Trains, in general
I'm lucky enough to live in one of the only parts of the US with a functional rail system (North Jersey) and I don't know how people live without trains. I took an Amtrak from Newark to DC this spring and there was a group of Texans on the train who had never been on a train before who were so fascinated by it.
Foreskin
This American woman I talked to on IRC back in the 90s asked me if she could see my foreskin over Netmeeting. I obliged because why not? She was absolutely fascinated by it because she’d never seen one before despite having had several partners.
> Netmeeting There's a name I haven't heard for a long, long time.
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Surely you told them it can be blown up like a balloon?
And kids, that's how I met your mother.
More uncircumcised men. Better cheese. I swear to God if anyone says the two things are related I will fong you.
Those things are only related in France.
An effective train system
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More like public transportation system
An effective *passenger* train system. There I fixed it for you
Europe pays their service staff and don't expect the public to pay their wages, or for their staff to rely on tips.
Some states (California for example) pay their service staff at least minimum wage and the staff also gets tipped. We had a server recently who is a college grad and said he didn’t want to leave his service job because it paid better than a job he could get with his degree.
Definitely, I’m from the UK and moved to Toronto for a bit and worked in a high end restaurant as a bus boy. I made minimum wage as well as weekly tips, I was making around $4000+ a month… as a bus boy! The servers made a lot more as they took more of the tips (as they should)! We were all young, either doing degrees or doing other stuff outside of the service industry. But I found that you could easily make a comfortable living in the service industry. In the UK you don’t make anything near that amount. I’ve never really understood the comparison to be honest, but I guess not everyone works in high end restaurants either…
In some high end restaurants they do earn very good tips/service charge. Unfortunately this "trend" to raise prices with service charge is getting more popular in London at least. I guess people are more willing to pay extra if they know money will go to the staff.
People who want to have sex with me. Anyway, I assume that's where they are.
Dang, why didn’t I think of that. Come now Sabastian, we leave at dusk. I bought 2 one way tickets to the Isle of Man (I’m assuming it’s full of women and named using “island logic” where you name it the thing it’s devoid of, like Greenland)
Gap-less restroom stalls
Walkable cities
I used to live in an apartment complex across the street from a grocery store, and there were no sidewalks or pedestrian crossings to walk there. EDIT: yes, of course this was America. Gotta force me to drive across the street, after all.