Pete
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Im just a trans guy from Alaska, looking to graduate high-school next year and become a paramedic and a homesteader.
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It's 3:38 AM in the middle of the night. You're driving your car through the middle of nowhere. The last person you saw passed by you 20 minutes ago. You come to a crossroads with traffic lights. No cars to the left and right for miles. The traffic light is red. You stop your car and wait for it to turn green. You're standing there, contemplating the futility of existance in the middle of the night. Nobody is there, nobody would care if you just drove on. At some point during those moments you start to question your own sanity and ability for self-determination. Still you wait for the green light, because this is Germany and in Germany you follow the rules.
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Faroe Islands. More sheep than people in my country.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Belgium. We didn't have a government over a year, and it went suprisingly better than when we did.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Italy here. Road rage is as present here as everywhere else, but all drivers magically get together when a cop is nearby. Seriously, there are so many ways fellow drivers will alert you so you won't get a ticket. Panic headlight flashing, lowkey honks and nudges from bystanders when you park in a risky spot. It's actually pretty dope.
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I live in Belgium and I doubt there are many other countries where two people who are both lifelong citizens of the same country cannot speak to each other. This happened to my friend, a Walloon, who met an old Flemish lady. She didn't speak English or French, he didn't speak Dutch. They legit could not speak to each other, but they were both Belgians through and through.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Australia. Entering Eurovision as a country from Oceania.
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People count out loud the number of fouettés in the theater at the live performance of Swan Lake. In Cuba, due to reasons too long to explain but definitely having to do with communism, classical ballet is a popular art form in the sense of "not bourgeois". So the social composition of the crowd that comes to the theater for the classical ballet is not what you would expect in any other country. Mix that with natural latin irreverence and what happens is that people have ended up cheering the ballet dancers as if it was a sport. In particular, in the classical choreography of Swan Lake, there is a point where the black swan does about 30 fouettés or so and the crowd (that has seen the choreography before) goes like "ONE! TWO! .... SIXTEEN! SEVENTEEN! ... THIRTY!!"
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Have farms larger than Connecticut (14,357km2) Australia has 4 of them. The largest is larger than Israel, 44 of them are larger than Delaware, and this is still more than three times the size of the largest Ranch in the US, the Waggoner Ranch in Texas.
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Wales. Place names like this llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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United Kingdom. I don't believe any other countries have the annual 'chasing cheese down a hill' competitions.
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National Crate day! In NZ we have Crate day to celebrate the first day summer which is basically celebrated with a crate of local beer, a bbq and sports, usually at a mates flat or the beach.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Canada. When our national hockey team makes the Olympic finals, the government changes liquor laws THE SAME DAY to allow bars to open at 6am.
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In Mexico we experience paranormal stuff very close. Even people like me, who doesn't believe in it, have parents, siblings, children or grandparents who have experienced ghosts or other entities very close. Not in the "friend of my friend" kind of way. It is really really common to be in the same room, and someone just says: "I saw my great-grandfather coming out from the well" or stuff like that. And nobody makes a fuss about it. We just process it and move on. But really, I don't know anybody who hasn't experienced a close encounter with something paranormal in one way or another. And again, I'm an atheist and a skeptic. I haven't experienced something at first hand. And that makes me an exception. Not the average.
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Luxembourg. People who speak 4-5 languages fluently.
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In Colombia, hot chocolate is served with slices of salted cheese in it.
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Finland. Saunas in most apartments or at least apartment buildings, haven’t lived in a building that doesn’t have one. A lot of great well known (and underground) metal bands. And a nuclear power plant that is at this point 11 years behind schedule and according to Wikipedia the 3rd most expensive building in the world.
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Such cheap olive oil. And eating incredibly late. Lunch is more or less at 1-3 pm, and dinner at 9-10 pm. That is why in Spain we have snacks between foods.
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Canada. When our national hockey team makes the Olympic finals, the government changes liquor laws THE SAME DAY to allow bars to open at 6am.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
In Mexico we experience paranormal stuff very close. Even people like me, who doesn't believe in it, have parents, siblings, children or grandparents who have experienced ghosts or other entities very close. Not in the "friend of my friend" kind of way. It is really really common to be in the same room, and someone just says: "I saw my great-grandfather coming out from the well" or stuff like that. And nobody makes a fuss about it. We just process it and move on. But really, I don't know anybody who hasn't experienced a close encounter with something paranormal in one way or another. And again, I'm an atheist and a skeptic. I haven't experienced something at first hand. And that makes me an exception. Not the average.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Luxembourg. People who speak 4-5 languages fluently.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
National Crate day! In NZ we have Crate day to celebrate the first day summer which is basically celebrated with a crate of local beer, a bbq and sports, usually at a mates flat or the beach.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
In Colombia, hot chocolate is served with slices of salted cheese in it.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Faroe Islands. More sheep than people in my country.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Italy here. Road rage is as present here as everywhere else, but all drivers magically get together when a cop is nearby. Seriously, there are so many ways fellow drivers will alert you so you won't get a ticket. Panic headlight flashing, lowkey honks and nudges from bystanders when you park in a risky spot. It's actually pretty dope.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Wales. Place names like this llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochCommon-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
I live in Belgium and I doubt there are many other countries where two people who are both lifelong citizens of the same country cannot speak to each other. This happened to my friend, a Walloon, who met an old Flemish lady. She didn't speak English or French, he didn't speak Dutch. They legit could not speak to each other, but they were both Belgians through and through.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Finland. Saunas in most apartments or at least apartment buildings, haven’t lived in a building that doesn’t have one. A lot of great well known (and underground) metal bands. And a nuclear power plant that is at this point 11 years behind schedule and according to Wikipedia the 3rd most expensive building in the world.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
People count out loud the number of fouettés in the theater at the live performance of Swan Lake. In Cuba, due to reasons too long to explain but definitely having to do with communism, classical ballet is a popular art form in the sense of "not bourgeois". So the social composition of the crowd that comes to the theater for the classical ballet is not what you would expect in any other country. Mix that with natural latin irreverence and what happens is that people have ended up cheering the ballet dancers as if it was a sport. In particular, in the classical choreography of Swan Lake, there is a point where the black swan does about 30 fouettés or so and the crowd (that has seen the choreography before) goes like "ONE! TWO! .... SIXTEEN! SEVENTEEN! ... THIRTY!!"Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Such cheap olive oil. And eating incredibly late. Lunch is more or less at 1-3 pm, and dinner at 9-10 pm. That is why in Spain we have snacks between foods.Common-Things-Some-Countries-Rest-World-Finds-Weird
Australia. Entering Eurovision as a country from Oceania.
