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If you're still unsure (or need reminding) that the concept of normal is relative, there's one online thread that should, once and for all, convince you.

It began when Reddit user SackOfPotatoSacks made a post on the platform, asking everyone to share what's considered routine where they live but would probably be seen as something crazy everywhere else.

Immediately, people started describing the peculiarities of their local area that they've grown accustomed to, proving that culture seeps deeper into us than we often realize.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World My city is EXTREMELY bilingual, everyone speaks both English and French. You’ll hear people speak both languages in conversations quite often, sometimes in the same sentence. In stores, most of the time, people greet you with both languages and you reply in one of them, which tells them which language you prefer to talk in. They go "Bonjour, Hi!" And you say Bonjour back if you want to continue in French or Hi if you rather speak English. It’s kinda crazy.

I’m from Montréal, Canada.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live in Dublin and when we tell people who live in America that we put crisps in sandwiches they laugh at us. Just try it mate. It’s so good

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Free Sundays (germany)
Everything, literally everything is closed on Sundays which is amazing cuz everyone (except from the most essential like doctors, firefighters and the police) have a free day which is awesome!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Some bakeries are open on sunday morning but that's it. But if one has to do some urgent shopping on a sunday, there are always fuel stations with slightly overpriced groceries.

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In Austria around Christmas/St Nicholas time we have events called "Krampusläufe" where people, mostly young (drunk) men dress up as demonic devil-like creatures called Krampus with fur suits, creepy masks and cow bells and pull of shows that include lots of fire, smoke, witch burns etc while mainly Ramstein plays in the back. They also like to whip people in the audience with cow tails. And hell yea we enjoy the show while getting drunk on hot punch. We even bring our kids along.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In Australian rural towns we all had our back doors unlocked; and friends are allowed to go through the back door and make themselves a cup of tea/coffee while they wait for you to get back from whatever you were doing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not just rural towns. I grew up in Melbourne and this was true for everyone we knew in melbourne suburbs. We would come home and my mates would be in the living room or garage watching tv waiting for me to get home. Doors would never be locked...still rarely are to this day.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Experiencing 4 seasons every day. Jacket on, jacket off, it's sunny but it's raining, freezing and windy, then it's hot again... I like to wear shorts and puffer jacket combos for both extremes. Tasmania.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In the Eifel, germany, on the night to 1st of may, people paint a long line from one house to another. The line means that someone in these households is having an affair. Every year several relationships break up because of this. I love it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am german but i have never heard of this. You truely learn something new every day.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Alligators. Just...everywhere. I live in a swampy area of Florida, and it's pretty normal to come across alligators in small ponds, ditches, around pools, or just chilling in a parking lot. I've nearly tripped on alligators more times than i'd like to admit. Thankfully they're pretty chill and won't really bother you unless you mess with them or go near a nest. The police are even trained to deal with rogue alligator calls.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol I live in Florida and it’s so bad it’s like everywhere I look there’s a gator and also, I’ve tripped on a gator or two before, and there was an alligator, I N M Y P O O L

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this! Everyone so scared of them and it's just a daily thing for Florida folk. Man I love being southern, I swear people think were crazy. Lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, yes we do. And it has nothing to do with being comfortable around alligators!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One thing for non-Floridians to know is that alligators come in all sizes. Could be a few inches long, 30 centimeters, 2 feet, etc. Not all are full grown. But yes they are everywhere.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG, they start out at only a few inches? Off to Google baby alligator pics...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alligator Alley is highway lined with heavy chain link fencing, bent and broken by huge gators pushing it down. Yes, they break through and wander onto the highway. Yes, people stop to take pictures with the gators.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The watery ditch across from Morgan Station on old highway 41 is loaded with alligators. Loaded. They’re piled on top of one another, just a short walk across the road from the buildings. Alligator Alley though, don’t stop on the expressway to look, you could get killed. By a car or truck.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Floridian here. Can confirm. I live in a huge city and we still get them just crossing highways or chilling in a kiddie pool.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NO NO NO.... Did y'all know how truley long their legs are? When they stand up they can be waist high .. saw a 6 ft long 3 ft tall Alligator taking hitch hiking. Walking it's long legged self right down the asphalt like it meant business. Paced itself and could give no flucks about any of the cars, trucks, or people shouting, beeping, taking pics, or videos, and not to mention all the ones yelling into their phones "I'm not kidding , a real bag n boots is 4 stepping it's way down 101".. where it was headed I'll never know but I do know it was focused on getting there... Unfortunately somebody called the warden and he said "not today" and called Frank "The Tank" and last I saw it was being bear hugged into the back of his "grocery getter" (truck). But it was so tall

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll stick with the bears I have where I live over this.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a Floridian I can confirm. If you see water, there's an gator in it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a country that basically has no wild animals that can kill a human being. This terrifies me the to my core.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm. There’s also coyotes and bobcats that turn up randomly. We’ve had to watch outdoor cats carefully around our area because of coyotes. Sadly, it’s caused by a TON of land development happening in the area.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

friend's parents live in Florida, and when she went to visit them an alligator ate her little dog in the back yard...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was raised in Florida, and this is very true! We had an alligator that was 12 foot in our canal. It ate my cats!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a vegan, I love ALL animals but I’m also sensible & don’t want to trip over one that could snap my arm or leg off because they’re doing what is natural for them. I have a healthy respect for these animal cousins of mine but still love them & would never intentionally harm any of them. ❤️

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Florida would be great without the people, but until that happens it's best to stay away

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Mary Rogers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Florida without the people would be just one gigantic swamp. People are the only thing keeping it from taking over.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Florida actually has some of the nicest beaches in the world. No alligators on the beaches either. Although there ARE sharks. ;)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

have them south carolina too, some of them quite large. my wife and i sometimes rent a flat bottom boat to row around in the swamps and the guy always says the same thing to us "i shoundn"t have to tell you this but dont put your hands or feet in the water"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just so weird coming from a lifelong pnw, but then earthquakes and volcanoes? meh

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can confirm lmao alligators lived in the pond in our small (SUBURBAN) neighborhood

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! The mama creates a nest on land, and once the baby's hatch she moves them into the water! She raises them for about 2 years, then kicks them out so she can breed again. So if you ever see large mounds of dirt on land, or large patches of foliage in the water, there's a good chance that's a gator nest. Be sure to stay away from it, she WILL protect her babies! But if you're not intruding on their territory, they won't waste their energy going after you (usually) 😝🐊

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems to me as a working symbiotic relationship. It’s when outsiders come the problem starts I guess?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I live in a swampy area of Florida" pretty much explains it all.

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Mary Peace
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very different from the U.K., but strikes me as a reason to shut the external doors.

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Gypsy Lee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same. But as everyone was a redneck the neighborhood gator population mysteriously managed itself.

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Mary Ross
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The trick with gators is to wait till their jaws are closed. The muscles to open their jaws are quite weak--all the power is when the crocodile bites down. Duct tape works just fine.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a sixth generation Floridian. I don't have as many problems with the alligators as with the snakes. There seem to be more of them, they are more difficult to see and they show up everywhere!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love these primeval creatures, but having one in my kitchen? Maybe not.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't even want a spider or mouse in my house so gators? Ummm no..did have an iguana back in the day..he got too big fir me to handle..

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Jessica J.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. Nope. Nope. I haven't been to Florida since 2001, and don't plan to...a hot, humid hellscape, if there ever was one.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same in SE Texas, they're all over in and around the bayous.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's surprises me is people who live around them and forget that they're probably in ANY body of water and they walk their dog past a pond and wonder why they lose their dog... Or especially horrified at the elderly lady in the retirement community, that had a pond there, was gardening and got grabbed and killed by an alligator. 1st of all they have staff that garden, one assumes, so why is she gardening? and why don't they have some sort of barriers up because elderly people could wander too close to edge... in any case I felt sorry for her and her family.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a lil suburban neighborhood with a few man made lakes, and I used to see baby gators laying on the lakes storm sewers, or with their lil snouts sticking out of the water. Never seen the mamas tho. I think the community got rid of them, cause I haven't seen any in years and the duck population have grown significantly lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Free meals everywhere you say. I was in New Orleans before Katrina and I looked everywhere for a live one and didn't find one, probably because I was looking for one/trouble....I did find bourbon street and trouble/ police

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a grad student at UF, giving prospective students a tour usually included a visit to Payne's Prairie, a beautiful wetland reserve on the edge of town. One year we split into 2 groups and ended up waiting an extra half hour for the 2nd group to return because a 10ft gator decided to plop down in the their path back and it took them like 20 min to work up the nerve to step over it (it spanned the entire width of the footpath and it was nothing but marsh grasses on either side).

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, it's the rare Everglades crocodiles you have to be scared of (crocs are aggressive). If you're an adult, you have to be very actively stupid to provoke a gator. If it's on land, you're pretty safe as long as you're about the length of its body away from you. They only really hunt from water, and if they strike and miss, they basically never give chase.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Florida, Where the people are batshite insane, and still manage to be the least nutty thing about the place...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The trick to keep them out of your house is to close the effing doors.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I moved away from Florida and still check every body of water for alligators by instinct

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yeah, I lived in Louisiana for years and myself have experience my share of encounters with gators. After a while, it just becomes normal life in Louisiana.😁

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Florida and don't see them that often but you do see a lot of news stories about it. It's sad cause usually they are put down after sightings cause people are d***s. Also my dad is a cop and no they are f*****g not. At least where I live

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A swampy area of Florida is like saying a smelly area of the a**hole

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Much as cringe at your comment, I do like the name. Great old folk song out of STL, but Jerry Lee Lewis for the win.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we are in north Florida and it's completely true. we have a young one and a mama roaming about 50 yards from our door. small outside pets have disappeared.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, so for those wanting to live in Florida, if you come across an aggressive gator you want to straddle the gator and pin its mouth closed. Gators have a lotta muscles for biting, not a lot for opening the mouth. They can also jump and run. If you're already bitten, and it ain't letting go, give it the nastiest deepthroat it'll ever get. Scratch and claw around the throat (if arm is caught, and f**k up both of its eyes(if possible). However, if it just snaps at you once, that's your cue to run the f**k away. It doesn't want to give chase. Do not zig zag, just bolt.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just have to say I enjoyed reading the phrase "rogue alligators".

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same in parts of Louisiana. We had a gator that would frequently bask in our front yard when I was a kid.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suspect so, yes. Saltwater crocs see you as food, and are aggressive. Also up to 5m (15ft) long

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I ever were to move to Florida, I'd make sure to stay away from areas like that...

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Brian Stanton
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whatever, no one is tripping on gators except maybe at Gatorland smh . They are here but not that common! They were endangered until only a few years ago

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We just went to Gatorland in August. Kids wanted to see it and a friend is the manager.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in germany we would like to swat a bunch of young alis with alligators in our citys

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live next to a game reserve in South Africa. It's not that surprising to hear baboons in your back yard, or spot a rhino 10 meters from your fence.

One time a whole troop of baboons ran over our roof. It's only corrugated iron and we all shat our pants.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty damn cool to live near game reserve, but for those that don't know SA - Baboons are actually pretty common in quite a few Cape Town suburbs too, mainly those bordering on our mountains. Spotting a baboon is pretty normal, like spotting cows on a road trip.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Madagascar. Every now and then we dig up corpses of our loved ones, bring 'em through the village where they lived for a visit, change the tissues they where covered in (several layers) with new ones and put them back in the grave and all that while partying.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's.... Weirdly.... Very caring though... Replacing the tissues and celebrating them...

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World I live in NJ and it’s illegal here for you to pump your own gas/fuel. All stations are full service by law. I believe Oregon is the only other state in the USA that has this law.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World In Norway it's normal to release two million sheep (read: ***two*** ***million*** ***sheep***) into the *wild*, mostly unsupervised, where an estimated *100.000* of them die to either injuries, illness or predators, with the farmers crying and complaining (usually only to that last one), and then repeat the same process again the next year, and every year after that.

Does Norway kind of have a f****d up and moronic sheep farming practice? Yes, yes we do.

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Where I used to live in Manitoba, nobody had fences, mainly because when the properties were divided up, the town planners left space that belonged to the town behind all of them, that was just a strip of forest and Canadian shield. So almost nobody put up fences because it cut off their view & access to what was essentially a super cool nature trail network throughout the town. Everyone knew once you hit mowed grass, that belonged to someone. Us kids barely ever went anywhere on foot via roads or sidewalks, we always took the trails (we rode bikes on the roads though, there were too many rocks on the trails for a regular kid's bike)

Of course, living in a forest had some unintended consequences. We frequently had bears, so I remember when I wasn't even 5 yet being taught what to do if I saw a bear. And two separate years we had a mountain lion, which was a lot worse. The town would hire someone to trap and relocate these animals but it always took a while. I remember watching a bear lying down under the crabapple tree in our front yard just eating all the windfall apples for ages, not a care in the world.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Important distinction: was the bear a black bear or a grizzly bear? One is significantly more dangerous than the other.

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Driving 3 hours at 100km/h and still being in the middle of nowhere (Australia). In parts of Europe you’d have crossed 3 borders in that time

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Starting college, meeting your class on week 1 and then having introductory sauna the next week, boys and girls all drunk & nekkid. Finland :3

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a good way to instill a healthier attitude towards the human body.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World People who are 12-14 driving tractors on the roads in rural Ireland. The legal minimum age is 16, but most farmers don't really care.

EDIT: I didn't realise that this is a rural thing. Still comes as a shock to urban people though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Farmers' kids do that here too. Not much use for a tractor in urban areas though.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Driving over the mountains and shouting "mint sauce" out the window to the sheep....

Wales

( And fellow welshys... Don't lie..you know you've done it)

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Free public transport in the whole country: buses, trains, trams.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this were universal it would make such a difference to so many people, as well as to the planet's carbon budget.

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Having your birthday party look like this:

Your livingroom is transformed so that there's a great circle of chairs with a coffeetable in the center.

If it's an afternoon party, guests will visit between 14:00 and 17:00 or 18:00 - 21:00, but not both! there's 1 timeslot for friends and 1 for family).

As a guest, you arrive, you congratulate the birthday boy or girl, hand over your present. Then you introduce yourself to the group if you don't know them yet. Then, you go over the circle and shake everyone's hand and ALSO congratulate them with so-and-so's birthday.

After making your way through the circle, you take your empty chair and that is now your seat for the rest of the party.

After everyone arrived, the birthday person will bring you a piece of cake and a beverage (usually coffee or tea). Everyone eats their cake and talks to the person sitting next to him/her.

After everyone is done, there'll be a tour of the house and any new things will be pointed out to you. Now is your moment to ask some questions like "oh, was it expensive?" and also compliment the host on how great it is.

After the tour there'll be another round of food and drinks, snacks will be laid out on the coffeetable, but you shouldn't eat much of it. This is the only food that will be brought out and everyone has to share it.

After guests were there for about 3 hours they'll leave again. Everyone knows they're expected to leave but you need to come off as really wanting to stick around longer but you just couldn't because the dog needs to go for a walk or something, make up any excuse that sounds probable.

Then, repeat the cycle again in the evening with the other group. The weekend after that, invite your close friends to come over and have the real party.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Brazil: Apparently being in a restaurant for hours and hours and only eating in 1% of the time. We talk for hours before and after eating here, so we don't leave right after eating. Everyone I knew from other country found it strange

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Drinking alcohol for the first time when you're around 14 y/o. In Germany, it is legal to buy beer and wine when you're 16. So the majority of parents don't see it as a problem when the first drunk experience happens a few years earlier. Actually it is hard to find a teenager here that never tried alcohol before.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was one of this rare Teenagers (edit: not drinking Alkohol early... Actually i drank it. Just tried tiny Drops and i hate it. Even in Desserts or so) ... But i'm weird 😄

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Calling an uber instead of an ambulance or going to work while sick during a pandemic.

Gotta love freedom

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Romania. Being a witch/medium is an official job, meaning you need a permit, your profit is monitored and you pay taxes.

When killing a pig, raw skin covered in salt is the first food consumed, as it is considered a delicacy.

We also fill the pig's small intestine with a mixture of meat, rice and garlic and put it in the oven for about an hour. Yum!

Many people believe that if you look at a baby for too long, you can unknowingly put a curse on it, which will make it cry until you pour holy water on the child and pray to make the curse go away. Parents are an exception, they can not curse their own child.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, that well known method of quieting a crying baby, tipping water on them

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Many (but not all) Germans restricting themselves to exactly one hot meal per day. I've heard sentences such as:

"No I can't, I already ate warm at lunch"
"I tried so hard to find a breakfast place that sells cold food"
"Let's just eat bread, I've had hot lunch"
"You can't eat two hot meals, that's too much"

I still don't get why it has to be no more and less than one hot meal? And why do breakfast pancakes not count as hot food?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is one thing I struggle with. I am Asian, born and raised in Germany. While being little i hated having rice every day. Sometimes up to three times. Then I moved in with my ex, with whom I still live with. He has bread for breakfast and bread for dinner, almost every day. If you add two pickled cornichons and two cherry tomatoes and maybe even a soft boiled egg for dinner, it's considered a feast. I couldn't function without proper hot meals and learned to appreciate my rice now 😅

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Today (in Japan)over a hundred people lined up (staggered for social distancing) at 9:00 am on a Saturday. First one hundred get a ticket. At 10:30 we all line up again. One at a time we draw a number; 1 to 5. Then we go over to a big basin of the best quality of rice and take as many scoops as the number we drew. You are encourage to make each scoop heaping. This is not a food bank thing (I hope) just the promise of “good rice” draws a crowd.
It was at a roadside tourist shop/complex.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Israel. Where I live, it is normal.for about 15% of the population not to work and get paid by the government since they are praying to God and that's important too. Off course, the rest of the ppl pay for them. f**k them and their god

TheReal_KindStranger , Kyle Taylor Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

15% unproductive adults is a hell of a lot for a society to carry. Although, I read, it's just the men that do this. The women are raised to be the workhorses in those cults (sorry, but if you raisechildren into this, it's a cult not a cloister/temple/monestary) and do ALL the work.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Welp, in Lithuania we have hill of crosses with over 200 k. crosses, we have a hotel where you live in a jail cell and ex KGB agents shout at you and dogs bark at you all the time.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Sweden: The government has monopoly on any alcohol above 3.5% and can only be bought at one store dedicated to it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing in Pennsylvania. You can only buy hard liquor like vodka, rum and whiskey at 'state stores'

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In Cincinnati we eat spaghetti noodles topped with a soup-like chili and a 1/4 pound of shredded cheddar cheese.

And it’s delicious.

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30 Peculiar Things That Seem Normal In Some Countries But Not In The Rest Of The World Putting a block of cheese in your hot chocolate. Colombia.

NecroPaCo , frodinc Report

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