“Things In My European House That Don’t Make Sense In America”: Viral Video Roasts American Households, But Many Disagree With It Interview With Author
It’s no secret that lives in America and Europe seem like worlds apart. From understanding time and space completely differently to American schools that confuse the hell out of non-Americans, these are just the tip of the iceberg of the fundamental differences between them.
But sometimes God is in the details, and it doesn’t take a whole lot to see the stark difference. So when TikToker Sara Ras filmed her European house to show what things don’t make sense in America but totally do there, it immediately went viral.
Amassing 1.9 million views and 470.4k likes, the comedy clip revealed all the small things that Europeans take for granted. Like reusable kitchen towels and a kettle to boil water: everything feels kinda way smarter and more effective. So let’s see Sara’s full clip down below and let us know what you think of it in the comment section!
TikToker Sara Ras has filmed her European house to show what things wouldn’t make much sense in American households
@saarbabyyCan’t believe Americans use paper towels for EVERYTHING 🥲 ##fyp ##foryou ##xyzbca♬ 아무노래(Any song) – kozico0914
The clip has gone viral, amassing 1.9 million views on the social media platform
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Bored Panda reached out to Sara Ras, the 23-year old social media influencer from Hillegom, The Netherlands. Social media has been a full-time job which she’s been doing for the last ten years.
When asked about her viral TikTok, Sara told us that the idea came after she realized that “in all 15 apartments in New York City that I’ve ever lived in, there were no kitchen towels to clean up small messes.”
And to make her TikTok even more humorous, Sara came up with more differences that nearly all European citizens have in their homes as a standard. “And the kettles were one of those things. I got pretty shocked when my friend asked me for tea and she put a cup of cold water in the microwave. I’m just so used to electric kettles or even a kettle on the stove, I HAD to include it.”
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While living in Manhattan, Sara used to always bring her own shopping bags for veggies. “However, it amazed me how many groceries were already packed in plastic. Back at home, we do that too, but not for every single item,” she recalled.
Talking about the plastic packaging, Sara also mentioned that most Europeans who buy groceries take their stuff home in brown paper bags.
“In the EU, we passed a law that forbids stores to hand out free plastic bags. It cut down the amount of plastic bags by 80%. I think it would be great if the US could discuss a law like that too!”
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Despite the ongoing globalization, Americans and Europeans still have very distinct tastes when it comes to almost everything, whether it’s burgers or steak tartare, SUVs, or electric cars. But as we’ve seen in this TikTok clip, a quick look around the household is sometimes all it takes to see that stark difference.
The app Porch has recently conducted a survey of 600 people in the US and Europe in order to grasp the differences in customers’ preferences on their homes. Probably not very surprisingly, the survey reflected some of the major differences.
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Almost a quarter of European survey participants prefer to settle in a place surrounded by nature, compared to only 9.9% of American respondents. Meanwhile, gated communities and cul-de-sacs that are known as stereotypically American things were preferred by 23% of Americans. Only 5.5% and 3% of European respondents said the same thing.
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Americans also seem to like more spacious things, like larger surfaces, more bedrooms, with an average of 4 in the US and 3 in Europe, and more bathrooms (three and two respectively.) Europeans also said they were happy with a moderate 0.9 acres of land, while Americans like way larger plots of 10.6 acres on average.
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When it comes to the inside of the house, the differences between European and American households remain major. “Roughly 30 percent of Americans wanted tile in the kitchen, and nearly 16 percent preferred wood, compared to the 1 in 5 Europeans who opted for either marble or stone flooring instead.”
Turns out, Europeans were way more fond of wood floors, bamboo, laminate, and even marble. And as for other preferences, “Americans were more interested in having centralized air conditioning and a laundry room, while Europeans favored solar panels, swimming pools, and libraries,” the survey found.
While the video went very viral, getting over 2 Million likes, there were some who thought the video was far from the truth:
Yet most people loved the video and said it made them laugh:
What do you think? Were some of the things true, which ones were not? Share your opinion below!
I have never commented on anything before but I finally had too. This article is rude and wrong. I am American. I use those ikea bags all the time. Who doesn’t have a kitchen towel? I have NEVER seen someone use a microwave to heat up water. My house is not made of cardboard. It’s made of brick. I have a clothes drying rack from ikea! Who wears shoes in their house????? Of course my shower head comes off. Anyone can purchase that. America is huge. We are all different people. Stop with these stupid articles based on dumb crap you see on tv. Just stop. We get it. You think it’s funny to make fun of America.
You aren’t hilariously roasting all Americans. You are revealing you know nothing about a huge country. And limping is all together.
Very true. I have seen many people stereotyping about America based off of one person or a post or something... I literally have every single thing on this post in my house. I know I will get downvoted for saying this, but it is my opinion; This girl may have done this to make fun of America but she is basically saying she knows nothing about it...
Yes very rude me and my dad (when he. Was still alive) built are house out of brick and it did survive a tornado.
My dad built his house out of straw and got eaten by a wolf.
This is just yet another generic, not-very-subtle bash of America badly disguised as an "oh, look at our differences" post. I love the posts that actually draw attention to and/or celebrate our differences; the generic bashing posts just get laughed at because it's so obvious when the poster has no idea about what America is truly like.
Actually "America" is a two continents -- -- north and south. The United States of America ins a conglomeration of semi independent States. In the USSR these were called Autonomous republics.
Preach
Yes. I am European an this girl is very biased. It's like some Americans are so biased because they don't know Europe. There are very many differences between our continents/countries, but even I know people here who use paper towels for everything. These people are just lazy. But there are actually also many Americans who walk around the house with shoes on. Quite simply, the world is not black and white!
@Arenite: Generally, while recycling is the much better option than extracting new resources, it does cost energy and labour to reuse materials. Cotton towels can be used for years, there's no need for frequent washing and you can just add them to your regular clothes. Sponge cloths that you actually use for cleaning easily last for months. Paper towels are single use items, that have to be recycled just after one single use and may only be recycled something like ten times before the paper quality is too low to use for anything. Overall paper towels use way more energy and material than reusable cloth, and generally any single use item is incredibly far worse than any reusable alternative.
@Arenite: Cotton towels are not used for cleaning anything. Cotton towels are used for drying surfaces you've cleaned or other things like your dishes, in case you do that manually. For cleaning surfaces a kind of sponge cloth is commonly used, which consists of 70% cellulose and only 30% cotton (at least the one I've just checked), both of which are recyclable materials, too. In most cases, these cloths can simply be washed by hand with water and later reused, no need for frequent washing with any pollutant. In case you want to, you can use organic soap and quickly wash them by hand every now and then. Waste water treatment, filtering and reuse is common in Europe, it's not like we just flush these detergents into rivers and ignore what's happening from then on.
... due to deforestation for coal extraction and farmland). In order to make a tree into paper, there's a lot of energy and work involved.
@Arenite: Paper is only recyclable to a degree, high quality paper (e.g. used for milk cartons always requires cutting down trees because the quality of recycled paper is too low) needs cut down trees. Paper towels do use recycled paper because it doesn't need a high quality but this means they can't always be recycled because every cycling decreases the quality and at some point it becomes unusable or needs fresh resources mixed in. I can only talk about Germany here but I assume it's not that much different in the US (I remember having seen a chart showing the distribution of US area according to different purposes and a huge portion - the majority if I remember right - of woodlands are used commercially). Forests completely untouched by humans are basically non-existent, ~99% is affected by humanity in one way or another, commercially grown and used trees make up a large portion taking away land for natural forest habitats (which is already very small...
Btw, just curious, how many people In Europe are biased? Most of America looked up to Europe but after seeing several biases like this started making a fool of that continent.
@Arenite: Now, admittedly, there is one advantage to paper towels and that is indeed sanitation, which has been mentioned before. However, you're using the cloth for cleaning at home, for which reusable cloth are fine enough. If you have a baby or some other case that requires more sanitation or in a public place, that's where paper towels may be preferrable, but there is absolutely zero environmental benefit to paper towels.
Paper towels are more sanitary than dish towels. Use them once and throw them away. In the era of Covid, paper towels are the better choice.
So you don’t use paper towels. Paper, which is recyclable, made from trees, a renewable resource. Instead, you use a cotton towel, made from a labor intensive crop, that is dirty after the first use and needs to be washed repeatedly, with soap/detergent, that pollutes the environment, in water, a non-renewable resource. I get it now.
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How do you know "many" of us wear shoes in the house?
I'm European, never been to another country, yet even I could tell she doesn't have the right ideas about Americans 😑 Making fun of people without knowing them is bad on so many levels
They really did try to say we didn't have kitchen towels 😭
I think the point is more that many Americans use lots of paper towels. Most Americans I know do. She is saying they ONLY use cloth. I don't know anyone in America who does that. I'm sure they exist but it's not common.
And that we dont have removable shower heads😂
Jaclyn please don't feel bad. I completely agree with you, we still have a long way to overcome stereotyping. Even if it's just for jokes. I'm German and everywhere you look you hear nothing but stereotypes about Germany, no matter good or bad. It might be a smaller country still we have so many different regions and cultural habitats, variation in language etc. I guess every nation knows that. Besides, America is a continent, not a country. It's probably because the USA are huge and have a big influence on the rest of the world. So never mind, most people know you guys are all different just like the rest of us. Big hug from Berlin. :)
America is not a continent. North America and South America are continents. United States of America, the country, is on North America the continent.
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I like your comment but americas a country, north america is a continent
It is also wrong from the European point of view. She took things that she think are normal everywhere but they are probably just normal in her region/family. For example in Spain barely anybody has kettles , I only know one person that has them. We also tend to use our shoes inside our homes and its seen as rude to take them off in many houses (because of the smell). Most supermarkets where I have lived (Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium) use a ton of plastics, reusable bags are a very new thing.
The taste of radiation really made me wonder what the point of the article is. Just to throw a perception to feel good? I mean if you boil water in a microwave oven there is no lingering radiation at all. Don't feel bad about this. Absolute majority of people see through such articles easily.
Generalisations for attention I guess. All of these things are normal in New Zealand too - except brick houses (too many earthquakes) and a lot of people wear their shoes indoors (we have clean footpaths). If you shoes are wet or muddy, sure, they'd come off.
I agree with you. This made up article is very rude!!!!
I know right! Literally I have most of these things
Agreed! I was coming down here to comment the same thing. Clearly they don't know America, and coming from the PNW this couldn't be further from the truth. Also, she doesn't speak for all of Europe -- Europe is a big place too and living in Georgia (okay, you can argue with me that it isn't Europe, but don't say that to a Georgian's face!) and travelling all over Eastern Europe, she is clearly thinking her affluent Western Europe capital is the same as everywhere in Europe. Deep breath. I'm good now 😅
I'll be honest, I use the microwave to heat up water, but just at work for instant, because COVID has our coffee machines turned off.
Well, according to this scientifically literate poster, you drink radiation at work🙄.
Agreed! There are a couple of things Europeans have that Americans don't. An overwhelming sense of superiority and an obsession about how people boil water. Is that an unfair observation? Too bad, that's what I'm getting from all this crap.
You think Americans don't have a superiority complex?
American here, and I'm sorry, but the idea that a large percentage of our population doesn't walk around with a superiority complex, is downright laughable. "This is the GREATEST country EVER in the history of the world", "USA, USA, USA!!!", and self appointed, "Leaders of the free world", ring any bells?!?! I've never heard, say, "GERMANY, GERMANY, GERMANY", chanted at EVERY sporting event, have you?!?!
Emperor Kitten, you think Europeans don’t have a superiority complex? Asking for the millions of murdered and repressed people in the countries you colonized. Coming from the one country that kicked your sorry asses out!
Good for you that you have IKEA.... Which is a European company. Swedish actually ;-) /Swedish Per
I was thinking the same thing.
I heat up water in my microwave -- to let it boil and the steam soften any dirt stuck to the walls. I don't heat up water for drinking, though, yuk! And I, too, have every single one of these things in my house. This story is beyond ridiculous.
I boil water in the microwave all the time, and I fail to see what's wrong with that. It usdsless energy than doing it on the stove.
To be fair, what she means is that its worse than an electric kettle
you do that? i have an electric kettle for tea making, but if i'm cooking something i use the stove.
I think that by America she meant USA, so hold your horses.
You think Americans in the USA don’t have kitchen towels and cheese slicers?
Thank you all of your above
Are we... not supposed to heat up water? Any reason why? Genuinely curious
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To be fair I think that BP Americans are more European than the average American.
The shoe thing, every upstairs neighbor I've had. The shower head also not so easy because apartments tend to have rules about what you can and can't do. Think they assume most americans live in trailers or apartments. Which by sheer numbers us probably accurate.
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Calm yourself, just accept that the rest of the world develops stereotypes about us like most people do. Broad generalizations for fun here. Just don't return the favor and make fun of them.... it gets ugly. Like DO NOT point out that most Europeans believe that their media can not lie to them, or that America is literally built on the ideal of being different from Europe... they are still a little sensitive to it.
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You gave away you're american, an american offended snowflake.
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Jaclyn I understand but its not really that rude.
Oh but it is very rude.
Gosh... I probably haven't traveled in the same USA than she did...
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I've been to the USA she described. Just because you do things a certain way in your home doesn't mean the majority of Americans do. Reusable towels? My American friends (plural, repetitive, families from different areas of the country) thought I was odd to not use paper towels/ baby wipes. Tea in the microwave? A man I knew bought a small kettle when he worked a contract job in America, everyone thought he'd lost his marbles (I'm serious). While in America (New York) I very rarely saw another person with a reusable shopping bag. In Europe (Italy, France, Denmark, Czech...) it was standard. My American friends think I'm weird for using Ikea bags or reusable shopping bags or when I get annoyed because the fruit is already glad wrapped with plastic. I have had to explain to PhD educated people that a drying rack is environmentally friendly because they still out of habit put their stuff in the dryer. I have been to the America she talks about. Repeatedly.
So you know what... 3 people from America? Lmao I live here, these are common place in a lot of households.
I'm American and I don't wear shoes inside my house. I don't microwave water, I have a kettle. Most people I know use canvas bags for groceries and reuse them. We have kitchen towels but I personally use paper towels when I clean and disinfect to prevent cross contamination. Our eggs are refrigerated cuz we don't put any coating on them. I think the lady in the video should use some of that normal water pressure in the shower to clean the mold and mildew all over her grouting. Ewwwww!
The eggs have the coating removed in the US not added in Europe and her grouting is deliberately a dark colour, not mildewed, for contrast in looks.
The grout has probably come out of the lighter sections. It does do that! She needs to regrout in some parts. The photo of her sitting on the loo has the same grout - that wouldn't be mildewed. If people have that level of mildew across their whole bathroom they have a serious problem!! It is a dark mix that she has used, not mildew. Very fashionable at one stage to use dark grout with pale tiles.
When chickens lay eggs, there is a coating on them that helps preserve them and prevents them from drying out. Americans wash that off, so they have to go in the fridge.
The contrast in dark/less dark grout is simply due to some of it being wet and some dry. I agree, not mildew.
Now I have to scroll up again just to look at the grouting in her bathroom! Thanks.
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So then why all the lighter sections? Look again.
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It's definitely in need of a clean. That is not contrast. Look at the shower picture. It's very clearly mildewed there.
fresh eggs from the chicken do not need to be refrigerated because of the bloom. market eggs are washed, taking the bloom off and taking away the protective natural coating
Look in the shower. Dark to light is rather abrupt and uneven. That’s dirt, not design.
Ewww! You made me scroll back up and I don’t care what anyone tries to excuse/explain below her bathroom Is DISGUSTING! I’ll pick American any day over having to shower in THAT bathroom!
The grout is dark colored, not mildewed. The lighter areas are where the water coming from the shower head is blocking the view of the grout. Not that I'm excusing any of this fool's opinions of the United States.
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This post wasn't directed at you, while you can argue several of these things don't apply to you... she was generalizing what her experience was. It was not a personal attack. As for eggs and coating them... they wash the eggs in the US to remove chicken crap and chicken body juices... but in true American form, they probably go a bit far with it and so we have to keep them cool to avoid bacteria. Straight from the farm.... fridge or no fridge, It doesn't matter.
The biggest difference in the US vs Europe in regards to eggs is the sheer length of the supply chain. A plain old grocery store egg in Los Angeles may have traveled farther than it takes to cross some entire countries in Europe, and through much warmer weather than much of Europe experiences. That increases the risk of bacterial growth and reduced the room temperature storage time.
I have never commented on anything before but I finally had too. This article is rude and wrong. I am American. I use those ikea bags all the time. Who doesn’t have a kitchen towel? I have NEVER seen someone use a microwave to heat up water. My house is not made of cardboard. It’s made of brick. I have a clothes drying rack from ikea! Who wears shoes in their house????? Of course my shower head comes off. Anyone can purchase that. America is huge. We are all different people. Stop with these stupid articles based on dumb crap you see on tv. Just stop. We get it. You think it’s funny to make fun of America.
You aren’t hilariously roasting all Americans. You are revealing you know nothing about a huge country. And limping is all together.
Very true. I have seen many people stereotyping about America based off of one person or a post or something... I literally have every single thing on this post in my house. I know I will get downvoted for saying this, but it is my opinion; This girl may have done this to make fun of America but she is basically saying she knows nothing about it...
Yes very rude me and my dad (when he. Was still alive) built are house out of brick and it did survive a tornado.
My dad built his house out of straw and got eaten by a wolf.
This is just yet another generic, not-very-subtle bash of America badly disguised as an "oh, look at our differences" post. I love the posts that actually draw attention to and/or celebrate our differences; the generic bashing posts just get laughed at because it's so obvious when the poster has no idea about what America is truly like.
Actually "America" is a two continents -- -- north and south. The United States of America ins a conglomeration of semi independent States. In the USSR these were called Autonomous republics.
Preach
Yes. I am European an this girl is very biased. It's like some Americans are so biased because they don't know Europe. There are very many differences between our continents/countries, but even I know people here who use paper towels for everything. These people are just lazy. But there are actually also many Americans who walk around the house with shoes on. Quite simply, the world is not black and white!
@Arenite: Generally, while recycling is the much better option than extracting new resources, it does cost energy and labour to reuse materials. Cotton towels can be used for years, there's no need for frequent washing and you can just add them to your regular clothes. Sponge cloths that you actually use for cleaning easily last for months. Paper towels are single use items, that have to be recycled just after one single use and may only be recycled something like ten times before the paper quality is too low to use for anything. Overall paper towels use way more energy and material than reusable cloth, and generally any single use item is incredibly far worse than any reusable alternative.
@Arenite: Cotton towels are not used for cleaning anything. Cotton towels are used for drying surfaces you've cleaned or other things like your dishes, in case you do that manually. For cleaning surfaces a kind of sponge cloth is commonly used, which consists of 70% cellulose and only 30% cotton (at least the one I've just checked), both of which are recyclable materials, too. In most cases, these cloths can simply be washed by hand with water and later reused, no need for frequent washing with any pollutant. In case you want to, you can use organic soap and quickly wash them by hand every now and then. Waste water treatment, filtering and reuse is common in Europe, it's not like we just flush these detergents into rivers and ignore what's happening from then on.
... due to deforestation for coal extraction and farmland). In order to make a tree into paper, there's a lot of energy and work involved.
@Arenite: Paper is only recyclable to a degree, high quality paper (e.g. used for milk cartons always requires cutting down trees because the quality of recycled paper is too low) needs cut down trees. Paper towels do use recycled paper because it doesn't need a high quality but this means they can't always be recycled because every cycling decreases the quality and at some point it becomes unusable or needs fresh resources mixed in. I can only talk about Germany here but I assume it's not that much different in the US (I remember having seen a chart showing the distribution of US area according to different purposes and a huge portion - the majority if I remember right - of woodlands are used commercially). Forests completely untouched by humans are basically non-existent, ~99% is affected by humanity in one way or another, commercially grown and used trees make up a large portion taking away land for natural forest habitats (which is already very small...
Btw, just curious, how many people In Europe are biased? Most of America looked up to Europe but after seeing several biases like this started making a fool of that continent.
@Arenite: Now, admittedly, there is one advantage to paper towels and that is indeed sanitation, which has been mentioned before. However, you're using the cloth for cleaning at home, for which reusable cloth are fine enough. If you have a baby or some other case that requires more sanitation or in a public place, that's where paper towels may be preferrable, but there is absolutely zero environmental benefit to paper towels.
Paper towels are more sanitary than dish towels. Use them once and throw them away. In the era of Covid, paper towels are the better choice.
So you don’t use paper towels. Paper, which is recyclable, made from trees, a renewable resource. Instead, you use a cotton towel, made from a labor intensive crop, that is dirty after the first use and needs to be washed repeatedly, with soap/detergent, that pollutes the environment, in water, a non-renewable resource. I get it now.
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How do you know "many" of us wear shoes in the house?
I'm European, never been to another country, yet even I could tell she doesn't have the right ideas about Americans 😑 Making fun of people without knowing them is bad on so many levels
They really did try to say we didn't have kitchen towels 😭
I think the point is more that many Americans use lots of paper towels. Most Americans I know do. She is saying they ONLY use cloth. I don't know anyone in America who does that. I'm sure they exist but it's not common.
And that we dont have removable shower heads😂
Jaclyn please don't feel bad. I completely agree with you, we still have a long way to overcome stereotyping. Even if it's just for jokes. I'm German and everywhere you look you hear nothing but stereotypes about Germany, no matter good or bad. It might be a smaller country still we have so many different regions and cultural habitats, variation in language etc. I guess every nation knows that. Besides, America is a continent, not a country. It's probably because the USA are huge and have a big influence on the rest of the world. So never mind, most people know you guys are all different just like the rest of us. Big hug from Berlin. :)
America is not a continent. North America and South America are continents. United States of America, the country, is on North America the continent.
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I like your comment but americas a country, north america is a continent
It is also wrong from the European point of view. She took things that she think are normal everywhere but they are probably just normal in her region/family. For example in Spain barely anybody has kettles , I only know one person that has them. We also tend to use our shoes inside our homes and its seen as rude to take them off in many houses (because of the smell). Most supermarkets where I have lived (Spain, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium) use a ton of plastics, reusable bags are a very new thing.
The taste of radiation really made me wonder what the point of the article is. Just to throw a perception to feel good? I mean if you boil water in a microwave oven there is no lingering radiation at all. Don't feel bad about this. Absolute majority of people see through such articles easily.
Generalisations for attention I guess. All of these things are normal in New Zealand too - except brick houses (too many earthquakes) and a lot of people wear their shoes indoors (we have clean footpaths). If you shoes are wet or muddy, sure, they'd come off.
I agree with you. This made up article is very rude!!!!
I know right! Literally I have most of these things
Agreed! I was coming down here to comment the same thing. Clearly they don't know America, and coming from the PNW this couldn't be further from the truth. Also, she doesn't speak for all of Europe -- Europe is a big place too and living in Georgia (okay, you can argue with me that it isn't Europe, but don't say that to a Georgian's face!) and travelling all over Eastern Europe, she is clearly thinking her affluent Western Europe capital is the same as everywhere in Europe. Deep breath. I'm good now 😅
I'll be honest, I use the microwave to heat up water, but just at work for instant, because COVID has our coffee machines turned off.
Well, according to this scientifically literate poster, you drink radiation at work🙄.
Agreed! There are a couple of things Europeans have that Americans don't. An overwhelming sense of superiority and an obsession about how people boil water. Is that an unfair observation? Too bad, that's what I'm getting from all this crap.
You think Americans don't have a superiority complex?
American here, and I'm sorry, but the idea that a large percentage of our population doesn't walk around with a superiority complex, is downright laughable. "This is the GREATEST country EVER in the history of the world", "USA, USA, USA!!!", and self appointed, "Leaders of the free world", ring any bells?!?! I've never heard, say, "GERMANY, GERMANY, GERMANY", chanted at EVERY sporting event, have you?!?!
Emperor Kitten, you think Europeans don’t have a superiority complex? Asking for the millions of murdered and repressed people in the countries you colonized. Coming from the one country that kicked your sorry asses out!
Good for you that you have IKEA.... Which is a European company. Swedish actually ;-) /Swedish Per
I was thinking the same thing.
I heat up water in my microwave -- to let it boil and the steam soften any dirt stuck to the walls. I don't heat up water for drinking, though, yuk! And I, too, have every single one of these things in my house. This story is beyond ridiculous.
I boil water in the microwave all the time, and I fail to see what's wrong with that. It usdsless energy than doing it on the stove.
To be fair, what she means is that its worse than an electric kettle
you do that? i have an electric kettle for tea making, but if i'm cooking something i use the stove.
I think that by America she meant USA, so hold your horses.
You think Americans in the USA don’t have kitchen towels and cheese slicers?