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

In Brazil we also eat rice every single day, but now I live in Germany and my German children don't like if we have rice every day.

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

Another contributing factor is our very large variety of really good breads, cheeses and cold cuts, often served with pickles, tomatoes, cucumber, olives and so forth.

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

I wouldn't call it restricting, but a warm meal is usually more work to prepare and more expensive to dine out. Many people still think it's important to eat one hot meal a day (i don't, when the family is not home I never cook) but no one wants to trouble more than once in a day.

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

I'm German and for me and most people around me it's completely normal to have at least two warm meals a day. Also I've never heard anyone saying that they don't want a hot meal because they've already had one that day. Is that a regional thing? :D

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

I think that might be more of an age and maybe rural thing. My theory is that it's a post-war leftover when people were poor and kept it simple. And throughout the years they carried on with it, because it's cheap and saves time.

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

I think it’s pretty normal to only have one full meal a day, and have light meals for the other two? Was normal growing up in the uk, you can only eat so much and you only have so much prep time. My American relatives will cook or eat out for all three meals and I can’t keep up with them, I leave their place feeling like I’ve swallowed a planet 🤮

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

Let me share a bit I have been able to figure out but still need at least another 10 years of poking researchers to verify. This is a Netherlands and Belgium thing. After WW1, Belgian was in ruins and Netherlands helped provide the rebuilding materials. Wood in all sorts was a important resource. To save on fuel it was promoted to have only one hot meals per day. In addition it was more practical to have the lunch at work as cold/neutral food. Note wood was considered the fuel for the lower classes. The alternative Peat took a while for production to increase and coal was expensive. This one hot meal per day is still a thing to this day and no one really can say where it started, but some pamphlet do exist "Spaar hout, help België herbouwen" and some dutch Forest still have there origin stories. Tilburgse Bossen.

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

From my understanding it’s because hot meals are heavy, which upsets digestion. My aunts host family, and my uncles family tried to explain small cold breakfasts to me when I was little, but I didn’t fully understand, then in high school, my German teacher had told us that typically, lunch is the German version of American dinner. They eat smaller breakfasts, a big, usually hot lunch, then a small dinner, with coffee and coffee cake as a midday snack

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

I do this in the US not as a restriction really but a way to minimize labor. One hot or large meal usually at dinner that we eat as a family. Other meals are self-prepared so they tend to be simple.

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

I'm German I have several hot meals in a day, but they are small meals. What Trillian said about price and time is right: two dinners a day is a bit over the top. And the hot lunch is often a proper 'dinner'. So in the eveneing it's just bread and cold meats/cheese

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

Pancakes are not a breakfast food in Germany. We eat them for or main meal with fruit baked in or with bacon and a salad.

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

same here in Belgium. Bread for breakfast and lunch and warm meal in the evening. But not 100 of the time...

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

Almost no one here eats pancakes for breakfast, except at a café for brunch. It's rather eggs or so, sometimes. And yes, if I had a warm meal for lunch, I'll have Abendbrot - bread or shortbread, perhaps with some salad.

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

This is something I have done my entire life and I live in the USA. Learned it from my father who happened to be stationed in Germany for 10 years in the army...

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

No wonder the continental breakfast served in European hotels did not have any hot food. It was mostly cold cereals, pastries, & bread. I went thru a German travel agency when I went to the Canary Islands. It was part of my package deal so I was happy.

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

S**t if I eat 1 HOT meal a week it's a miracle... That pic of sausage makes me want sausage and maple syrup.

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

i am Indonesian and i can't function properly without 3 warm meals a day

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

Sounds like the Netherlands too. Although it's changing a bit, nowadays.

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

Hot cakes cooked with a warm heart is a hot meal. If a cold hearted cook prepares it does to count. Sides, you can use room depurate syrup to make it a cool meal.

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

OK, I am struggling to find the rationale behind this - is it because Germany is a Calvinist nation and, therefore, it is considered an extravagance to eat a hot meal twice or even three times a day? BTW, I have lived in Germany.

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

I knew it. I'm an alien in my own country, so I love to heat up the potato salad because cold Kartoffelsalat tastes terribe! And had no issue in getting hot meals for more than once a day. ^^

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

It's the opposite in Sweden. My wife can't understand when I give my kids sandwiches for lunch. She thinks that lunch must be hot . I myself don't like heavy lunches

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

Well one reason for not eating several hot meals a day is less strain on your digestive system. A lot of warm meals require a certain amount of fat, which gives your digestive system a nice workout. Which is kind of counterproductive later in the evening if you want to sleep. Personally I could never go to sleep after a fulfilling, warm meal

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

If they only eat one hot meal, why are there so many hearty looking Germans? Must make that one meal a huge one.

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

wait fr? I've never heard a German say this and I have German besties

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

I am German and I can`t tell you why.. it`s just.. This Is The Way.

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

And here my German boyfriend usually eats three hot meals per day. Though to be fair he sometimes eats only sandwiches, it mostly depends on what he's in the mood for and how much effort he's willing to make.

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

Please go get therapy. I messed myself up badly with this earlier in life, long lasting throat and digestive issues. I know the thrill of the control, but you can control other things in your life that are much healthier. It won’t be easy, but you can, even if you don’t think you are worth it, I do.

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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

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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.

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