For example, I’m a white Jewish guy but I’ve adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.
I set all my digital clocks to 24hr mode, something I picked up after living in Europe. Would never go back.
One of us! Now shift to metric!
I actually use some metric when measuring around the house for projects, especially for anything shorter than an inch. I can’t be bothered to figure out 1/16 of an inch…it’s easier in mm.
Likewise. I just found it much easier when trying to schedule my day. Not having to account for the switch from 12-1 makes the math simpler.
Stretching. I think this originally came from southeast Asia, its so far back that its hard to discover. But I stretch every single morning. As a Native American I need that to limber up so I can dance, which I enjoy doing.
I’m a big white guy but I wear sarongs all the time, having grown up on Java and wore them as a kid. Soooo comfortable and versatile.
Sounds perfect for a desert climate. Another custom/fashion I wish would catch on in the hot desert of the USA.
Sleeping on a thin futon laid out on the floor (Japan / Korea). And riding a bike or e-bike everywhere (Netherlands), even though US cities and infrastructure are hostile to humans
oh man. im so the opposite. I got a higher bedframe so getting up and down is even easier.
Also better for bending over, standing beside, hanging off of and various other things… man I’d hate to just have a mat on the floor. How tragic.
a raised bed helps to keep pests off. whats the benefit of a ground bed?
living in north america
I wear a mask unless I need my mouth for something.
Same here. I’m immune compromised and masks are a blessing.
I used to get sick once a month and now I’ve not been sick since before covid.
I love wearing a mask it makes me feel like a ninja
With a mask on, I’m 50% better looking!
I say salud instead of cheers
I got a bidet recently, and it’s been a life changer. I guess they are becoming more popular now in America, but nobody had one growing up.
which one did you get? which features are essential? what to avoid?
I bought the Tushy. It’s nothing crazy fancy, but works amazingly. It’s one piece that you install between the water line and the tank of the toilet. Very quick install. For new users, I’d suggest keeping the water pressure low (the little knob you turn to activate it) that way you’re not getting water up your butt when you’re not expecting it. It’s a weird sensation at first, but you quickly get used to it. Now I swear by having a bidet.
Weird as in I’m going to come from Poseidon tickling my butthole? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I cross my sevens like a German.
When you indicate the number 3 with your hand, which fingers do you hold up?
Thumb, index, middle fingers?
Middle, ring, pinky (small finger) fingers?
Index, middle, ring fingers?
I heard Germans do it one of these ways, English does it another, and Americans does it yet another way. Don’t know if it’s true, but I think I saw that in some movie. Maybe Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino?
I swap between 1) index, middle, and ring and 2) thumb, index, and middle because I was raised with 1) but learned to do 2) while learning American Sign Language, as 1) in ASL means the letter W.
I still do that the right way. Pointer, middle and ring.
This is a German thing? I know tons of people here in Canada who do it.
It’s done all over Europe. They also have a fancy 1 that’s nice because it doesn’t look like a lower case l. I’m not positive that the 1 is used outside France though but it’s the standard in France. https://ielanguages.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/davidsno.jpg
Yep, we do that too. It’s called a Serif, though it being a French word I’d guess you know that.
I thought it was a Spanish speaking country thing only until this comment
They do the fancy 7 all over Europe.
I adopted this years ago so I could tell the difference between a 1 and a 7 😁
I am European and I don’t cross them, or any other character (except ‘t’ and ‘f’)
I cross the lowercase z (I write it without a loop).
You’ve adopted that from North American culture then.
I was raised in an extremely conservative Southern Baptist Christian tradition, but I often recite the Hail Mary and/or the first line of the Shema (in admittedly very poor Hebrew) when I pray. There’s something about knowing that the same prayer has been prayed by millions and millions of humans through history that makes me feel more connected.
I don’t get the hail mary. The our father would be baptist acceptable and should have been recited for longer given its in the bible specificallly.
frequent use of westside gunn noises “ddddrrrrrrrrrr” “doot doot doot doot” “AAHHH”
im from chile
My wife and I celebrate White Day, or at least a version of it. She buys/makes a gift for me on Valentines, and I buy/make one for her a month later.
Doesn’t really change much, but it’s a fun little twist.
Interesting. I’ve always heard of a month after Valentine’s as “steak and a blowjob” day.
My family have never lived in the Upper Midwest, and yet somehow I’ve picked up an accent that sounds like I’m from somewhere between Minneapolis and Toronto.
I blame Garrison Keillor, and maybe Moxy Früvous.
American, here. Got a bidet, and I am never going back. The fact that this isn’t standard in American households is disgusting.
I got one just around the time that toilet paper was getting yanked off shelves at lightning speed, and it has ruined me for public toilets.
Peasant toilets. Hideous.
Love my bidet. I feel so clean and it’s so nice.
Yes. Bidets should be opt-out at this point.
Oh so true! Before I visited Japan for the first time I thought having shit left on my ass is just a normal thing. But later I also visited Morocco and they have a bucket of water on the toilet so you can wash yourself. It seems it’s only in Europe/America where people don’t wash themselves after pooping.
They have been disappearing in France, sadly, because people couldn’t afford the space…
I’m adding integrated bidets to all our toilets in our oncoming renovation though.I like the integrated ones much more anyway. I got one for our second toilet from my fiance for my birthday, she’s a keeper :D
There are bidets in many countries in Europe too. In Spain, most houses have them, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing in France and Italy.
Separate bidets are a thing, but only in older houses.
I was a week in Italy and never seen them. But it’s good to hear that it’s getting better.
I got a bidet but then I read you have to turn it off at the connection to the water (at the bottom/back of toilet) every time or eventually the gasket can wear out and it will explode and the water will just go and go and go. If that happened at night or when noone is home you’d have major water damage!! I thought you could just use it with the trigger. Do people really actually fully stop the water every time? I uninstalled mine because I don’t think I can reliably remember to do that.
The T-adapter? That’s not mechanically complex and should literally last forever if made out of the correct materials and isn’t touched all the time. It should be no more fault prone than the connection to the toilet.
A misaligned thread or a washer not fitting quite right might be an issue from a bad install. That’s an easy fix though and you should see a leak before things go catastrophic.
If your really looking for piece of mind I’m sure there are t adapters that can close themselves down in certain failure states.
Been using a bidet for several years, and that has literally never happened. I think you might have gotten bad info.
Bidet life is best life
I’m British and I say y’all fairly often. It just rolls off the tongue.
It probably has some root in a region of England anyway.
I’m trying to recreate this and my brain just won’t let it happen.
Try it with Tom Hardy’s cockney accent. 🙃
It’s like “yawl”.
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Happy to have more of the y’all in English English, but personally I’d like an uptake in youse.
As someone who has lived both in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, y’all just sounds and feels better than youse.
Is youse a thing I’m Pennsylvania and/or Kentucky? I was thinking a la the land of the free, home of the brave (Scotland)
Now yer talkin’!
I’m a redneck American who says y’all, and calls people cunts a lot. We have so much to share
Thank you for that gift, cunt
