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Different places in the world have different cultures and general outlooks on life. But we try to learn more about others and try to understand them so we can get along better. It just so happens that in some places, there is more interest about different people and in some places, there’s less of it.

Often the ones that are ridiculed for not knowing what’s happening in other places in the world are Americans. Bored Panda has a couple of articles in which we gathered lists of people poking fun at Americans. In this article you can see people joining a TikTok trend of sharing the dumbest things Americans have ever said to them and in this one you will find an assortment of screenshots of Americans being completely clueless.

But the people from the United States keep on surprising us and the stories of non-Americans meeting peculiar Americans are never-ending. Reddit user u/esq__ asked “Non-Americans of Reddit, what's the weirdest thing an American has said to you?” Nearly 12k people joined the discussion and they were sharing not only weird encounters but quite absurd questions you wouldn’t expect an adult to ask.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "Why do you brits (I'm not British) call an elevator a lift when it goes both up and down?"

I responded that Americans didn't call an elevator a descendevator when it moves down.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird At customs in LAX:

Customs Agent: “Where are you from?”

Me: “Denmark”

CA:“Sir, please don’t lie about your nationality”

Me: “Excuse me?”

CA: “Denmark isn’t a real country, now please tell me your country of origin.”

Me: “Sir, you are literally holding my passport, which is from Denmark, in your hand. How can you sit there and tell me that my country doesn’t exist?!”

CA: “Sir, Denmark is a region of Sweden, and not a recognised independent nation”

The swedes would be fond of this encounter.

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Panda Kicki
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a swede I am highly amused. Of course we dont really want those smorrebröd eating lazy bastards, but anyway... 😜 We pay for your postal service, you know (terrible deal made by crazy politicians...)

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I once had an american tell me I need to try the “real” Gouda cheese they have in the US because everything else was fake Gouda… I’m Dutch and actually lived near Gouda

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Talking about my SIL

“Do you look alike?” “no, she’s black” “You can’t say that!!!” “What should I call her then?” “African American” “But…. She’s British/Guyanese….”

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"African American" is insultingly reductionist, if you ask me. It homogenizes the myriad African cultures. If someone called a white American "European American," he'd be likely to deny the homogenization and tell you his ancestry. We need to do better. (Yes, I'm aware that most black Americans don't know their roots, absent a DNA test, because there was certainly more than one slave route. We still need to do better. People should know their ancestral roots. I can't imagine not knowing mine, how lost I'd feel.)

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I’m British, was travelling in the states. Got talking to a guy at a bar while we’re waiting for service, and he recommended I try a pint of Guinness while in the US. He informed me they don’t sell Guinness in the UK.

I politely explained that they do indeed have Guinness in just about every pub in the UK. He disagreed, adding that he’s never been himself but his son in law went to London on business and told him so. I explained I’d lived in the UK including London my whole life. He looked at me lost in thought for a few moments, and said: “They don’t have Guinness there,” and walked away.

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Thorfin Wolfsbane
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it seems an unfortunate trend in America now is to live in an alternate reality where facts are dismissed if you don't agree with them.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I swear on my mothers life that this happened:

I was on a student exchange between my German school and a school in San Francisco in the late 90s.

When the Americans came to visit us, we had a welcome party for them at a friends place. That friend had a dog, and at some point he gave the dog a command in German. The dog obeyed, and one of the American kids asks how we managed to teach German to the dog.

He wasn’t joking either, he seemed convinced that all pets are somehow born with knowledge of the English language, but all other languages need to be taught to them.

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H.L.Lewis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol, American here. My first dog was abandoned by some people who were from Puerto Rico. He chose me after my neighbor saw him tied up, the house empty. And him on a 2ft chain. Very smart doggo. He ended up bi-lingual. My only problem with him was that he was trained in Spanish. Lol. I just taught him the same commands in English. He caught on quick! Good boy.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird When an American asked me what it's like to have an accent. They thought that they had no accent and their voice was 'default' basically

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was once in Dallas and the girl serving me in the cafeteria on hearing me speak, "Gee, you got a funny accent". My immediate thought to myself was, look who's talking!

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird “I don’t need affordable healthcare. I need freedom.”

This is an actual quote.

Anyway, the full cost of my kid’s birth including all scans, midwife, obstetrics appointment, labour, innoculations, heel stick and follow-up antenatal was $180.

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Wayne Dorman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a reason why there's so many cases of bankruptcy and suicides due to crippling debt caused by medical bills. Healthcare should not be a luxury reserved for the rich.

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aj B
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But if the poor can afford healthcare then the Evil Red Menace WINS!!!! /s

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JennyLaRue
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand what freedoms some Americans think they have over all the other western countries.

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Ozacoter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently the freedom of becoming bankrupt if you need surgery

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Sarah Tate
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an American I honestly will never understand the crippling idiocy that makes a large population of people here think that we don't need universal health care. These are the same people who will start a Go-Fund me page (and ask for thoughts and prayers) when their mother can't afford the life-saving cancer treatment she needs.

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Frances M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Full price for all my kids to be born in hospital with epidural, two-weekly (once every two weeks) full scans and treatments for pregnancy related illnesses? €0 Plus any time off that I needed from work in relation to any doctors appointments was at full pay and not deducted from my sick leave or annual leave. I’m never emigrating from Ireland.

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Benjamin Tang
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The sweet, sweet freedom of adding thousands more to already insane tax bills so other's don't have to pay.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm looking at that and thinking that $180 is expensive. We literally pay nothing.

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Bob Belcher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter is 9. She was perfectly healthy but because she didn't eat for the first 4 hours after birth they put her in the NICU. She stayed for 4 days and then they released her. $60,000 bill of which I had to pay 10% of. I swear not only is our system expensive as f**k, they look for reasons to pad the bill and if you protest they make you look like a horrible person and call CPS on you.

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Nicki
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those people are idiots, I (an american) have great insurance because my husband is retired military, but I wish EVERYONE had the same care we have. I don't care if I have to pay a little more in taxes, I hate to hear stories of people who have to use crowd funding sites to raise money because of medical bills, it breaks my heart...

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Honu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And we still pay about 2x per capita for our healthcare than other developed nations with national health coverage. It's insane that people see that as freedom. It's graft.

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Hugh Cookson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funnily, those of us out here in the civilised World have universal healthcare - the cost of my wife's recent cancer scare - nothing. The cost of my recent health check up - nothing. The cost of my ex wife's treatment for Breast Cancer (Double Mastectomy, Chemo, Radiotherapy, therapy for a year and follow up treatment for 3 years ) - nothing. You people in the USA need to wake up and start kicking your politicians in the nuts for NOT allowing you to access free healthcare for everyone, if you don't you are more stupid than I ever thought possible ....

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Philly Bob Squires
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Won't happen because... 'murica! Weez not soshe-list! /s (And you can downvote all you want!)

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Aunt Messy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Republican health care program: We don't need a health care program. I feel fine today.

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Id row
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how ignorant most of our country is. We have socialized police, fire and school systems in place, also *social* services and *social* security, but you mention socialized health care and these idiots tell you to move to Russia if you don't like freedom. The health care industry and insurance companies love these idiots for getting them rich.

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Philly Bob Squires
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same ones who wore shirts that said "I'd rather be Russian than a Democrat" are the ones telling YOU to move to Russia! LOL

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BetweenTheCracks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

B-b-but affordable healthcare is sOsHuLiSm!!!1!!! The merest hint of that dog-whistle word sends the slapheads who love to moo about "freedom" into a tizzy 11 out of 10 times. 'Murica!

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Miss Frankfurter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🇨🇦 here. When working in the US many patients would ask me about the Healthcare system. One patient commented that he would never want our system because he didn't want his tax dollars going to anyone else's Healthcare. I said " What do you call the County hospital next door? It's your tax dollars at work."

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BetweenTheCracks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Somebody should tell that patient about public roads, the fire department, their precious precious police department...........

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Amy Pattie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this was Melbourne Australia, the $180 would be all for parking

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IlovemydogShilo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's $180 more than what you would pay for it in the UK. And guess what? We have freedom here too. For free.

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't "need" freedom to survive... But you do need affordable healthcare.

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Viviane
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is definitely a problem. I have an excellent therapist, but it's not free. Even with a health plan from work, it can be a luxury.

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Giovanna
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I need the freedom of losing my home over an appendicectomy"

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Leigh C.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd rather pay a few bucks in taxes ( I say a few bucks because I know I pay more but for other services we get, but what comes out of the taxes for healthcare is only part of the fraction.) than be so deep in debt that it would soar in so much interest my kids, and their kids would inherit the debt, as well as theirs. I don't even know how Americans are affording to pay hundreds of thousands just to stay alive.

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Frankenfrog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You wouldn't even have to pay more. You pay more in insurance than you would with universal healthcare

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Cthulette R'lyeh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a currently pregnant woman in the US who had to save for YEARS to not be completely crushed by debt just to start a family.... that last sentence makes me wanna cry.

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xn0
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find it insane that americans have to pay several thousand dollars for basic health care.

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Alice Teasdale
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Australian here. Paid about $1.75 for months of appointments and my daughter's birth. The bill was because I made a phone call from the ward.

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Jennifer Doscher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are sooo many t***s out there making noise and waving our flag. They only speak for themselves. I had the "luck" of being born in the USA and I would LOVE affordable healthcare! Poor health is miserable. Debt is worse. I digress...

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Bex
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, this isn't one person's "weird" belief or thoughts. This is the mindset of too many Americans bc too many just believe what they hear instead of learning about something on their own and forming their own opinions. And yes, I'm an American living in America saying this!

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kjorn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i wish all those redneck moron get in so much medical debt

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LJ Robinson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a heart problem, I'm insured. I am so many thousands of dollars of debt that I don't even know where to turn. It's hopeless for someone like me. I truly don't know what to do.

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Seabeast
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do they imagine that having affordable health care means giving up freedom? Not being in debt up to your eyeballs is actually very freeing.

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Steve
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't SAYING something stupid. This is BEING something stupid.

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EJN
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Americans are so afraid of socialism that they would rather pay outrageous prices to convince themselves that politically they are "safe".

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Jenifer Halpern
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, why do you think so many people are becoming expatriates of out "great United States of America!"? In my dreams I'm one of them!

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NinjaWolfy94
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I paid almost double that for a dentist check up the other day (in Australia)... Oof.

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NinjaWolfy94
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As in, the dentist checked my teeth for anything that needed fixing and noted it down for next time. No work was done.

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Caroline Seguin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The full cost of my kid's birth including everything and a c-section was 0$

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Sam Ward
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, it wasn't. The full cost was likely in the thousands. It's just that you forced other people to pay your bill for you.

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Vermillion Ace #443
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word "freedom" is more of a meme now than it is an ideal in the US.

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Ms LaDonna
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are the people who voted to put a T.V show host in the white house, you really can't expect much from them.

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Trillian
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose *sings*

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All's Gravy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An NHS birth at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London: all the scans, amnio, normal delivery, recovery = £0 at point of use. Same set up/staff at the same hospital, different decor in recovery suite, but private = £12,000. And one still is paying National Insurance contributions! It is a literal fool who would opt for the second. Completely private hospitals would be 3 or 4 times that amout, paying for privacy and security presumably?

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Glenn St-Germain
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I spent three weeks in the hospital last spring with pneumonia. Total cost to me: zero. (Canadian)

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steven mayes
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the UK healthcare is free, paid for by the extortion prices we pay for hospital parking.

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Turgut Kalfaoglu
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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lovely! Probably an American would have paid $200K and sold his house, and enslaved himself to Big Money for the rest of his life.

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Geir Waldeland
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm Norwegian and had to spend between six and seven months in hospital some years ago, starting with a helicopter flight, after a car accident + about a year and a half with treatment two days a week after I was discharged, and I haven't paid a penny, because it's covered by the government.

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

" Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. Too many individuals, however, want the civilization at a discount." Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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ADHD
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

far too many morons in Murica, 640k medical bankruptcies each year. too many selfish ppl too.

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Wednesday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$180 for the entire pregnancy, delivery, and post-natal visits. That IS freedom, right there...

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Derek Claridge
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France , Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, BELGIUM has freedom! 207 sovereign states in the world and like 180 of them have freedom..."

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CharliAnn Olney
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thank the good Lord on a regular basis I have fully paid health care!

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Jo Hicks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Full cost of the several life saving operations I've had in the last 3 years (around 5 ops) AT POINT OF SERVICE - zero. I don't even have to pay parking fees in hospitals now as I have a blue badge that exempts me \o/ Yay for our NHS.

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k1ddkanuck
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in Canada we have both. I know to our cousins to the south it sounds like heresy, but freedom need not come at the cost of survival. And spoiler alert: America is a lot less free than most places with healthcare. Canada included.

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Daniel Collins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Taxes pay for your "free healthcare".... and the wait times alone are why each year the amount of Canadians coming to America to pay for procedures is a thing.

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Wilf
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$180? That's way too much. The birth of my daughter cost us the cost of the hospital car park ticket. £14.50 in total. And that figure sticks in my mind because I actually complained about how expensive the parking was...

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Hugo A-niro
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why aren't people looking into the afford able care act ? If you let the repubkicans have their way insurance will leave you with nothing

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Wistiti
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At work this morning, one of my collègues says « we should be more like the US where everyone pays for whatever they need ». It saddened me to hear that.

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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually can't believe America is making us being healthy and living cost so much freaking money. I mean, that's just the worst thing for sick poor people since they definitely can't afford it!

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Martha Meyer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is like saying "I don't need chcocolate ice cream, I need vanilla ice cream." Ever thought of just getting... both?

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Roxy Eastland
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My births cost me nothing. And I had them at home with minimal interventions. I'm not sure what yoke I'm living under that Americans are free from? It usually comes down to guns.

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Dandy Andy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow sorry to hear you had to pay $180, that's terrible! If only you were lucky enough to be British then you wouldn't have to pay anything.

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Whawhawhatsis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband was in the military when my son was born in the Air Force hospital. His birth cost me absolutely nothing. And now my husband qualifies to get all his healthcare from the VA, so his only charge is $8/month for prescriptions. So he had major surgery a couple of years ago for under $50. I pay more than that to see my doctor in his office, and I have good insurance!

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BetweenTheCracks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the biggest failures in the US was not letting the "freedom lovers" gasp out their final Covid-laden breaths in an open field, instead of a hospital bed that could've been used for someone with living brain cells. Can you imagine how much more collectively intelligent this country would be right now if that had happened?

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Stacey Montebello
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I spent that much by my 2 and prenatal visit with good health coverage...

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Chris Zaydel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$180 ? All those involved had to split $180? lol, Your kids birth cost thousands, but 99% of it was paid for by tax money, Taken by force of law.

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TheReader19
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is is of the most stupidest, uneducated statements I've ever heard

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Kerri Peek
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am an American with free Healthcare (VA) and my "freedom."

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TimesNewLogan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I swear, this is primarily in the Southeastern US. We're not all this stupid!

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Truth Monster
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The funny part is that all Americans if you talk to them and not at them, agree that healthcare in this country is broken. The problem is that many of us do not trust the government to make it better. They never make it better, they just run it into the ground, campaign on fixing it, throw money at it, rinse repeat. Meanwhile the average schmoe dies in red tape waiting.

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ms Cabins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/paid-off-hospital-birthing-bill-tiktok Some reading on the subject...

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Daniel Collins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ya'll act like you don't pay taxes to cover this "free healthcare".... this coming from an American living in Canada. Yea, f**k all these taxes I pay each year in Canada even if I do not go to the hospital or Doctor that entire year. Not to mention the wait times for a simple procedure took over a year. Why do you think more and more people are going to the US to have procedures done?

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Derek Clark
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You pay insurance. Monthly, and since everyone in my country pays that insurance monthly, (no choice in the matter) it's a lot of money that can go to all the healthcare needed. It's around a 100 euros and no, it doesn't cover everything, then you need additional insurance and that would be around 50 euros more then. On top of that we pay around 380 euros a year if we use the hospital or certain medication. But that does mean no surprise bills, it means no worry about being pregnant or needing a doctor or the hospital. You don't have to worry about being in debt for needing an ambulance and if you need months in the hospital, then that's also not something we have to worry about.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True, but socialised health care is better for everyone in the long run, as you wouldn't riddle people with debt and unemployment because they're too sick to work and thus they would be contributing to those taxes. Either way,, you have an insanely inflated military budget and you already pay more in ignorance than you would to universal health care. If it's as bad as people say it is, how come USA is the only supposed civilised country that doesn't have it?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Anyway, the full cost of my kid’s birth including all scans, midwife, obstetrics appointment, labour, innoculations, heel stick and follow-up antenatal was $180." No, it wasn't. The full cost was way more than that. It's just that other taxpayers paid your bill.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is such bs . Honestly I'm getting so sick of hearing how dumb Americans are. We aren't the only country with stupid people , criminals, racists , or big egos . Your free health care isn't free , you pay for it with higher taxes. It takes months sometimes to see a doctor for you guys , but we can make immediate appointments . All countries are different , all people within those countries are different . America is full of good people who actually look up to people from other countries , and enjoy being around them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The well off in every single universal healthcare country pay out of pocket for private health insurance which tells you all you need to know about the quality and access of these programs. That being said, usa needs affordable access for people without employer health insurance. Poor people get free healthcare in usa. I pay 13k/per year for healthcare and I'm a nurse at a major medical center

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I live in the southern hemisphere. Talking to an American online in December, and I mentioned it was summer for me. She kept asking which month I was in (kept insisting it must be June) and couldn't seem to wrap her head around the idea that it was simultaneously December and summer in the southern hemisphere.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird “Wait, y’all have IKEA?”

Im Swedish

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, we in Sweden generally dont own our personal IKEA place , but there are plenty of them to visit. But in the north you can have a couple if hours ride to get to one.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird An Austrian friend and I were told about about this magical thing they have in America called Fireworks and how we should go see it at least once in our lives.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Canadian here. I was 7 and in Florida telling my new also 7 year old friend about our money system. I told her we don't have dollar or two dollar bills they are coins and called a loonie and a toonie. She goes and asks her parents and they told her I was lying.

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"Ya'll are part of the USA, you just have a different flag 'sall."

Umm... no. I assure you Canada us not part of the US.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I was asked if France is part of the United Kingdom. When I tried explaining him what the United Kingdom is, he told me England is no longer part of the UK because of Brexit.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, that seems to be about the level of understanding most people who voted to leave the EU had about Brexit too.

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"Speak english this is america!" It was online, but yeah. The sheer stupidity struck me hard.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The idea that the internet is America somehow seems to spread, have seen that several times.

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Met a cool group in Belgrade, they were very surprised they could have beer at 21. That was so sincere, I kinda felt sorry for them in a good way. Decided to be a good host and show them the REAL good time. Took them parties, river clubs, cave clubs, found them drugs (they asked) ...all in all we had a pretty epic week, the kind of young people of 21 can make for themselves in capital city.

Somehow the conversation went to God, I mention I don't really believe in that, and they were so f*****g pissed. Literally, instant change. Whole group started explaining me Jesus stuff, angrily, they were disappointed and angry they spent a week with me.

I was so f*****g surprised, I mean we drinked, drugged, and did a lot of s**t Bible I presume doesn't approve. Couldn't held a conversation that evening, couldn't change subject, they kept pushing. Aggressively.

Went to the bathroom, went home.

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"How can Canadians offer free healthcare? Why would any doctors want to work for free? This is slavery!"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was in the states a few years back and when people found out I had free healthcare it became a topic of conversation. The attitude that surprised me most was that many of the people who were opposed to it were against it because they did not want to pay to help other people. Others got sick? it was their problem.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Had a black american assume that I was "african-american also" because I'm black. I had to explain to him that the ethnically specified title "african-american" is only used to describe black people from america, not black people from other countries, and that black people from other countries are not specifically labeled by heritage, race or ethnicity. Afterward I revealed to him that I am actually bahamian.

Despite all that explaining, he still proceeded to ask "Oh! so you're an african-bahamian then?" I felt the vein on the side of my head twinge a little lol.

Edit: The term is not "african-bahamian" because I am not inherently attached to african citizenship or heritage. This term would be used for someone who is actually from africa, but is also a bahamian/ vice versa, OR someone who is closely attached to that heritage (say, a bahamian whose parent/s were african.) Over here we would just say that we are Bahamians of african decent, but only if the topic came up.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "How long did you take you learn to use metric instead of normal measurements?"

He genuinely didn't understand that metric was a system we actually used every day, we weren't constantly having to mentally convert meausrements to feet or pounds to understand how big they really were.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Quite funny given that the US is the only country that doesn't use metric on a daily basis (it's used in scientific fields at least)

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird 'I didn't know it was this cold in Cuba' we are in Spain. Spain, Europe. Stupid f****r came to university here on a scholarship for six months and didn't even know which country was coming into nor thought it was strange how long the flight was, he also didn't think about googling the place to see where it was, the weather... dunno, INFORMATION about the place he was going to live for six months. Only packed flip flops, tshirts and shorts. We're in the North of Spain, we have UK weather. He had to spend quite a bit for winter clothes in October because he had nothing to wear. He was also bummed because he couldn't find tacos here (you can)

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird As a Brit, I had to bite my tongue when asked 'Do you celebrate Independence Day?'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean celebrating the day America officially severed from the England? We don't, but upon reading some of the entries on this list makes me think we should start doing so.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird “I love the African-American culture here!”

— said in Cape Town, South Africa

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m assuming the beach in the picture is in Cape Town, but I would like to say that I it is a very lovely beach indeed

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I live in NZ and worked in retail, so there's been a few.

Funniest was "You have to serve me!" after they made a racial remark (wasn't too bad, but still f****n rude), threw a tantrum in the store because they didn't look at the prices before they used one of our products, then started trashing the place.
When my manager told them no I certainly did not have to serve them (by law) and she was calling the cops for destruction of property the lady made an O face then took off without paying. Cops got her like an hour later. I just wish I was still at work when they brought her in to pay for all the stuff she broke/stole/used.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would pay to watch them use "the customer is always right" in someplace like France.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I’d say it’s a toss up between:

“Is England in London?”

“Do you still like, drive horses to get around in Europe?”

And a guy trying to smack talk on Xbox who after I told him nobody cares said “Who cares what you think?! You’re foreign!” I said “So are you?” And he laughed and said “No r****d, I’m American”

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird I met an American tourist who was adamant that my country [Iceland] was a home ruled territory under the US government.

He said this during our nations independence day.

He assumed we shared a similar status with Puerto Rico.

He was convinced of the error of his ways after confronting two other natives and a Google search.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oooooh, an American that changed their mind after some research. A rare find indeed!

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "Are your parents Democrats or Republicans?"

eh, have different political parties here luv

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The colours are swapped as well - blue is the right, red is left, yellow is somewhere central

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird The typical stuff. Do you have cars /trees/dogs/in Germany. Another favourite : Is Hitler still alive?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Oh yeah, he lives in Poland on a farm tending for his cattle and painting the landscape"

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Asking how much I copay for insurance. I don't even know what copay means.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird A middle aged American was surprised to find out Venice was so old (and an actual city for centuries), and not built in the 20th century for tourist purposes

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably thought it was built by the same people that created the Vegas attraction !

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Englishman, living in the US for 15 years now. I’ve been asked a lot of bizarre things but one of the best was someone who asked what language we speak in England, and how long it took me to learn English when I moved here.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just don't understand how they don't recognise the connection between "England" and "English"

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Poking fun at me with France stereotypes. I'm not from France, my parents are not from France, and I've never been to France. My first language is French, that's enough for Americans to treat me like I'm from France.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha! I once travelled with a friend from Belgium to NY. She was flemish and therefore spoke Dutch. She spoke some French, sure, as Belgium is a bi-lingual country and she was taught in school, but she wasn't really good at it to be honest. The receptionist at the hotel we stayed insisted on speaking French to her the entire time and after she explained she'd rather speak English as it was better than her French, he genuinely accused her of lying as "Belgium is a part of France, so French is your first language."

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "Ah, you're from Denmark. Where in Canada is that again?"

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you can't be from country that doesn't speak English, you are white!!

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "I can't believe you would live in a country where you're living under the dictatorship of the queen."

I am Canadian.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dictatorship? The only power she has is luring tourists in to pay to tour her castles 🤣

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "You speak real good English for a foreigner" - I'm British and she knew that.

Edit, because a lot of people seem to think that no American could ever say this and mean it: it was a lovely, sweet, older woman who thought she was paying me a genuine compliment. We sat and chatted in her garden for about an hour as she plied me with her homemade lemonade and asked me about my life and what brought me to Washington State. I thanked her, because she was saying something lovely (albeit weird), and we continued chatting.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My colleague was marked down on a feedback form after giving a presentation in the US. It said "Broken English, non-American". He's British, and as far as I am aware the only language he speaks is English. He was however slightly nervous. Considering how varied American accents are, I was surprised at the lack of tollerance.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Had a taxi driver in New York ask how we got there (from Ireland). When we said by plane, he was like „you have airports?!“.

Also thought we were still getting round on horses.

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Chich
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well they did capture their airports from the redcoats in 1776 so maybe he thought yours were still occupied by the British.

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I’m Australian and in 2015 I was doing a cruise around New Zealand with my family. Might add that I have an Autistic daughter who was 14 at the time and despite being Autistic is incredibly sociable, but has a tendency to strike up unusual conversations with strangers. We needed to get to one of the restaurants a few floors above us and decided to use the lift instead of the stairs. The lift arrived on our floor and we entered with an elderly couple already inside. My wife and I greeted them and they duly greeted us back and we soon ascertained they were American. Seconds later, my Autistic daughter stated the obvious that we were all travelling in a “lift”. A random throw-away comment, but that’s just who she is. The female literally barked at my daughter and told her the correct word was in fact an “elevator”. At this point I interjected and politely mentioned that where we are from it’s called a “lift”, but this couple were adamant that it was an “elevator”. Their attitude was we were wrong and they were right. Fortunately we never did get to see them the remainder of the cruise. We share a common language being English and there are going to be differences how we say things depending where we’ve been brought up - it’s about being open minded and accepting. Unfortunately it appeared that the world revolved around this couple.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Truthfully, their attitude is ignorant and offensive to me as an American. Regional differences in language are everywhere, including within the USA. In NY, the little sugary pellets you put on ice cream are called "sprinkles", but not far away at all in most of the New England states they're called "jimmies".. A hoagie and a wedge and a sub are all basically the same kind of sandwich, but it can differ within 50 miles depending if you're from northern New Jersey or southern New Jersey, etc. Anyone insisting that "the correct word in English is..." is not a very good observer of English, and people in general.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird “Wow you speak American very well for a foreigner”

Thanks lady, I’m Canadian and “American” is the only language I know

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You could really blow her mind by telling her that Canada, Mexico, etc. are all in America since America is actually two continents constituting an entire hemisphere

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"why didn't they walk around the berlin wall?"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah just a walk through the park... and mine fields, bullet storm, guard dogs and a lot more

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I once spoke to an American that was surprised that black Australian individuals had an Australian accent.

It's so weird but you can also see it coming somehow in how they often think about race: the same thing that one was surprised that black Dutch individuals of course had Dutch names.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember seeing a stand-up comedian who happened to be Asian starting his act by saying "nope, there's nothing wrong with your TV - this is the way I talk. I'm from Nashville", in a good ol' southern drawl...

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A friend was dating an American, and a bunch of us went out for a pub meal (UK).

Now, there's a stereotype that Americans can be a little loud. And, unfortunately, this was the case with this girl. Literally everyone in the pub was giving her side-eye, but noone says anything because that would be rude.

My friend very subtly tries to make her aware of the noise level, and she talk-yells, "oh no, honey. I'm not loud. All y'all are just too quiet! Such a quaint little country, y'all need to use your outdoor voices!"

We were quite clearly inside...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There could be two other reasons for her being so loud: 1) she has hearing loss & doesn't realize how loud she's talking, or 2) most American bars/nightclubs play music so loud that it's impossible to have a conversation without shouting. But neither of those are obviously not her problem since she said what she did about it.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird "Do you have color television in Germany?"

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One American guy I met instantly told me where he lives, why he left America, why he married his foreign wife, when he shot his first gun and how his father made him do it (7 years old IIRC), and why he thought that was a good thing and built character, and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember.

I genuinely couldn't get a word in edgeways to get away. My wife had to come pull me away saying we needed to leave. This was in a supermarket in southeast Asia. He just came over and said "Are you American". I said no. He launched into his life story and wouldn't stop.

Wife said I'm way too polite but how do you deal with that, just walk away while he's still talking?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

USA is like everyplace else. We have educated people and uneducated people, smart people and not-so-smart people.

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That I must be a socialist because I'm from the UK where we have the NHS.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And again, people in the US rarely seem to not know / understand the difference between a social market system and socialism.

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird They asked me if I spoke African....

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I lived for a while in an old house in Somerset. It was once owned by Rev Thomas Budd who travelled to America on The Mayflower. Had quite a few Americans turn up on the doorstep (there's a blue plaque) expecting me to drop everything and provide a house tour and have expert knowledge of Thomas Budd.

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My wife was staying at a hostel in Athens a few years ago. She shared a room with an American in her 20s. They got talking about where they’ve stayed in the past, and my wife told her that she used to live in Sweden for a few years. The American didn’t know where or what Sweden was. My wife said “It’s a country, next to Norway”. “Oh Norway!”, the American burst out, “Ole is from there! Do you know Ole?!”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, we can just inform LAX staff that Norway is now a region in Sweden, ask Ole for more info, all the 10 million swedes know him 😝 ( actually if she meant movie star Olr, Ole Bramserud, he is known by a lot of us as he is in an old, very popular, series of films, Sällskapsresan)

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50 Things Americans Have Said That People In This Online Community Thought Were Weird Canadian here, worked for AT&T. Where I worked in Windsor, I could SEE America. The number of questions about snow and igloos whenever anyone found out was too high. I swear I spent 15 mins trying to convince a woman FROM Detriot that the criss crossing lights in the sky came from Ceasars Windsor and that there is no snow here right now, it's July

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#50

“Spaghetti with eggs kinda weird”. “That’s a Carbonara”!!!

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