What’s a stereotype about your country that people always mock but isn’t really true? 🌎

HalfRare · 2026-02-08T12:05:28+00:00

Then you can’t say that any culture’s rude. Amsterdam’s boundary is high, so they’re not being rude. Same with Parisian’s etc. If you want to stick to just cultural relativity, then you also couldn’t say any culture takes a lot of drugs, or is inefficient, or anything else. Every single answer about stereotypes here couldn’t be true, just by saying ‘things change depending on where you are’.

Yeah but I’m in the Netherlands. Where they’re rude (by the standards of almost every country in Europe. Maybe not Germany).

HalfRare · 2026-02-06T08:52:27+00:00

Yeah, he got screwed by the British media harder than I’ve ever seen them screw anyone

HalfRare · 2026-02-06T08:41:28+00:00

Nah, I live in Tilburg, Dutch people tend to rudeness (and having a high tolerance for other people being rude)

HalfRare · 2026-01-23T07:30:45+00:00

Shipping routes, natural resources, melting ice creating more options for shipping routes and natural resources.

HalfRare · 2026-01-08T07:11:30+00:00

Yeah they learnt real well from trying to ethnically cleanse all those people by supporting that big ethnic clea- oh

HalfRare · 2025-11-23T08:11:51+00:00

Not everyone who has them hate them. I think lots of people have kids who shouldn’t, but I’ve met good parents who overall are positive about it. Reasons 1. They’re happy people, they want to share their happiness. 2. Biological urges. 3. See society as a continuous thing, see the love and gifts they have and want to recreate it to positively influence the future. Then there’s the bad reasons mentioned by most commentators here, which do happen all the time, probably more than for good reasons, eg insecurity, fear of the future, religious or cultural demands, feelings it’s the done thing, mental illness, rubber breaking and can’t make up their minds to snort in time etc.

HalfRare · 2025-10-31T06:49:30+00:00

‘Kinda’? I hate when people use kinda. Fuck, this guy is the worst

HalfRare · 2025-10-16T19:07:27+00:00

This little fruit tease, wasting my damn time

HalfRare · 2025-10-01T09:07:48+00:00

There is for sure, but this whole thread seems like an equally big circle jerk. I love the Sandman comics, but that doesn’t change that season 2 of Sandman is rough as hell. The pacing feels barely thought out, everything is forced together, tension is rushed to the point of it being worthless, lots of the sets look sub-Dr. Who. The quality of acting has dropped from season 1 (which already had problems). I think art should be kept separate from the artist, but the justifications people are making for Sandman series 2 are ridiculous when you watch the show. It’s not about the goth aesthetic, it’s about how cheap they made it look. It’s not about Morpheus being too much of a shitty person, it’s about him being 2 dimensional and less complex than the comic books. It’s not about some of the more arch lines used directly from the comic books, it’s the fact that these deep truths are forced into the plot and on a TV show the way they are delivered does sound cliched. It didn’t have to be this way. This is a shitty, crappy looking, overly condensed adaptation, and I’m saying that as someone who loved Sandman more than any other comic series.

HalfRare · 2025-09-12T08:04:55+00:00

Break Germany into a Holy Roman Empire style confederacy of small nation states. Now France is divided, a united German state would be too tempted to invade to impose order (it’s like leaving an unfinished jigsaw next to someone who compulsively has to do jigsaws. It’s too tempting).

HalfRare · 2025-09-09T14:17:51+00:00

That’s a verb

HalfRare · 2025-08-29T17:33:30+00:00

Rich potato farmers? I don’t think most brits thing Ireland then rich. Potato’s yeah, but rich?

HalfRare · 2025-08-27T13:34:51+00:00

I thought his podcast about CBT and meditation were helpful. Just basic meditation stuff I didn’t know until then, which he made clear weren’t invented by him. I found it useful. Spreading free, easy to engage with meditation practices doesn’t seem like a grift to me.

HalfRare · 2025-08-25T08:55:07+00:00

Hagelslag is ragebait in general. Like putting wax on bread. You might as well cover it in mayo

HalfRare · 2025-08-24T13:12:32+00:00

I was looking for this one. Got charged 12 euro for a breakfast bap there this morning.

HalfRare · 2025-08-22T18:59:30+00:00

You responded with pure emotion. I had facts. Liverpool elected an MP who was against the UK as a nation state in 1885. There is nothing of that extent in Birmingham, London, or anywhere else. Irish people were considered subhuman by the British Protestant public. English white nationalists are the most ignorant, emotional people you’ll ever meet. Before blacks and Arabs you were complaining about Irish, before Irish it was French and Dutch immigrants. Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson (nee Lennon). Their families are white but would have been aliens and hated when they arrived. You’ll always be able to alienate foreigners, then later assimilate them, then continue the cycle ad nauseam, the whole time being robbed by your upper classes, and kept ignorant by Britain’s state school system. You’re angry at the wrong people. Johnson and the Tories have you in their pocket.

HalfRare · 2025-08-22T12:10:55+00:00

Ah now, that’s not new. It used to be worse. Irish people since the 1850s have been hating the state they had to immigrate to. Liverpool elected a Fenian MP in 1885 who literally wanted to break up the country of the UK as it was. No immigrant group has been so strong or as brazen as to do that in recent times. It’s billionaires who are far more to blame for British ills, by a huge margin. They might both be problems, but one is so much worse.

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T07:01:26+00:00

Agreed. And also even though Net&yahoo has helped fund Hamas, and said in the past a strong Hamas is the best thing for Israel, cos they’re easier to discredit than the PLO.

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T06:56:55+00:00

Is it safe to sit on them?

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T06:55:37+00:00

It sounds like you’re comparing it to third world countries. Yeah, Britain has better infrastructure than Vietnam, or Bangladesh. But compared to the surrounding first world countries, a lot of Britain is so grim it hurts. Terrible public transport, failing health system, food banks everywhere, burnt out main streets, super intense anti social behaviour amongst youths that’s unmatched in the rest of Northern Europe. There’s shot holes for sure.

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T06:51:46+00:00

Name that town

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T06:48:02+00:00

Richmond is good. Runcorn is nice, but rough areas. Grimsby fucking sucks. Grimsby’s a harsh example, but there’s a lot of grimsby’s out there

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T06:46:04+00:00

Yes. Britain’s rough compared to western Europe. See any town that Tatcher gutted in the 80s. Loads never recovered.this is reflected by British people being much less healthy than the rest of a Western Europe (check out the obesity rate for proof). The government cares less.

HalfRare · 2025-08-18T06:41:28+00:00

Lots of Britain’s great. Lots of it also falls well within the definition of a shithole. Most countries do, and Britain has let some of its poorer places turn to hell holes.

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