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

@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 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😂

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

Well, according to this scientifically literate poster, you drink radiation at work🙄.

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!

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.

You think Americans in the USA don’t have kitchen towels and cheese slicers?

My comment has reposted several times sorry!!

My comment has reposted multiple times sorry!

Oh but it is very rude.

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.

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.

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.