“Pavement Just Randomly Ends”: 30 Common USA Things That Confuse Foreigners

No, not like candies. We don' thave background checks on candies, and these btw are vintage, nonfucntioning collector items. Not functional.

Criminals will break the law any way they can. The mentally unstable/racists/terrorists will also. Why punish law abiding citizens?

You've the most guns per capita than any other country...and the highest deaths by gun per capita too. Guns do not make you safer.

Yeah, a lot of us think that's excessive too.

Listen, the majority of Americans don’t like this. We’re just not as loud, obnoxious, and butthurt about it as the ignorant minority that thinks a cherry-picked portion of the Second Amendment is all there is in the Constitution.

Generous portions are OK as long as they allow you to take the leftovers home.

i like the portions because i always have leftovers to take for lunch :D

This one seems kind of outdated to me. Other than food-trough type US restaurants, most are not any larger portioned than their international counterparts any more. US fast/fast-casual food is definitely an exception. By design their portions are grotesque and “cheap.”

As a broke medical student, the only way I can afford to eat out is relying on the huge portions. I can snack on the chips and salsa or bread served before and eat a small portion of the meal. With the leftovers and I can get 3 meals out of one portion

Leftovers = more than one meal, no waste

Population density in the US is widely varied. In NYC you can do without a vehicle. In rural areas, the work commute can me over 50 miles. The nearest grocery store can be 20 miles away. It’s absolutely not feasible to walk… And there is no public transportation.

Quite often, the pavement ends at a city/county/state line, especially if the bordering city/county/state doesn’t have enough of a budget to fix or extend it. I live on a road in a similar situation. The road crosses the county line about three houses down from the dead end. You can tell where that line is because the nice smooth recently redone pavement belonging to the wealthier county ends where the cracked, broken, pothole filled, and in some spots nearly non-existent pavement of the less wealthy county begins.

“Not really able to walk anywhere” Yeah, totally wrong. Just because a lot of people don’t, does not mean one cannot. The only real difference in walkability is the distances involved. That isn’t really any different than anywhere else in the world. Now, effective and coordinated public transport…. there we have issues

What’s a metro lol

Pavement ends in Europe, too. Also,w e call them sidewalks. They end because a municipality border is reached, as a rule, so it's not actually random. It's "You are no longer in a township/town/municipality that gets enough foot traffic to warrant having sidewalks". LA is a metro area of many smaller towns, and each will do its own thing within the metro area. Ditto NYC, Washington DC, etc etc. It's crazy, right? That things change when you cross a town line!

Patriots be like "Freedom!" whilst crushing the freedom of women and other races.

Patriotic slogans displayed to the public, flags everywhere, singing the national anthem at school, reciting the pledge of allegiance and raising the flag are all characteristics of dictatorial states.

“Patriotism”. I understand why companies do it, it sells s**t, but members of the public? Draping everything in the flag…and not taking care of the flag, leaving it as fluttering rags? To me that is comparable to the friend, or to the uncle who brings every conversation around to, “the gays”…who blames everything on them, who hates being “checked out” by them, how they always look so good, so put together. How much time do you think they spend in the gym, getting all sweaty, and glistening? What do you think they do in the showers, all together, pressed up against one another, kissing, caressing? Do you think they cuddle, sitting on the couch, watching a movie…that must be nice. I hate “the gays”! Look at me, I’m a Patriot. No, vets shouldn’t have access to mental healthcare, suck it up. No, the should have to use food stamps, damn leeches. Their job is to die by order of the President *waving flag that was made in China*

The American idea of patriotism is f****d up. If you are patriotic to your country but not your fellow citizens, you are not patriotic.

You mean “patriotism”

I see this come up in every list of "things wrong with the US". I've never had anyone peer at me through the crack, nor have I looked through at anyone else. If the door is closed, you simply walk to the next stall. We really have more self control and manners than some give us credit for. That said, I've really no idea why they're designed this way. We've gotten accustomed to it, I suppose.

I saw something about this and I think it's so if anyone has medical issues and passes out or just dies somebody could see them through the space under the door and pull them out instead of it being a long time before anyone gets suspicious.

This is one of corporate psycology's many devious uses. Some sosiopath consultant have adviced to do this to stop people from using the faciliteties "unnessecarily" and therefore they save money on maintenance, cleaning and running costs.

Makes it easier to mop the floor.

Why have a door at all? /s

It's not so much the fact that you are happy with the military...the fact that it receives an unhealthy amount of obsessive admiration from people and an unreal amount of money from the government, which in my opinion could be better spent on, for example...healthcare?

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Why would 'God' bless people trained to kill other people? (largely for political reasons too!)

Shouldn't you at least pray for the folks that die to keep you safe?

Because they have difficultly winning wars where they have all the money and resources (i.e. Afghanistsan, Iraq, Vietnam)?

And by association, God should bless war ?

Given the fact I've seen Union Jacks on speedos in the UK, I think Europeans may want to look a wee bit closer to home to criticize? Maybe? Hmm? Also, knives are only tacky after the blood on them starts drying :-)

I’m American and a realist about my country. We’re good, but we’ve made, and are still making, some really horrible mistakes, so are not as great as we think we are. If we could overcome that tendency, we could potentially be great, but Im not deluded enough to think it’ll happen anytime soon. I don’t own—-or even like—-stuff with the flag all over it, as I really don’t want to advertise what I really don’t deeply feel. Especially since drumpf s**t all over the remnants of stuff we used to be proud of.

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Please! Don’t stab me!! Wait, is that a knife with our great flag on? Oh, well go right ahead.

Knives are tacky? I use a knife everyday at work.