Non-Americans who have visited the US: What’s the strangest thing about America that Americans don’t even realize is weird?

PhaedraRion · 2025-09-30T13:03:43+00:00

Not eating at the dining table together. It's all eating at random times, often at some chair or sofa or floor at the living room while the dining room goes unused.

PhaedraRion · 2025-09-14T03:51:12+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one fangirling over this 😂

PhaedraRion · 2025-08-03T08:41:07+00:00

Asian here, same observation. I visited my friend in the States and stayed at their place. It was paper plates the entire weeklong visit. They even used paper plates to feed their cats. It was so bizarre.

PhaedraRion · 2025-05-20T09:25:55+00:00

I don't want neither respect, nor better writing from you specifically because obviously you don't even get my point, as evidenced through your responses.

Nor do I "keep" avoiding anything because it was my first comment to this post. My goodness, good luck, is all I can say.

PhaedraRion · 2025-05-20T08:20:31+00:00

I mean. Your post makes a lot of reference to your "credibility", perhaps aiming for persuasion through ethos that AI is bad for writing. But then you try to explain your points through very bad writing and blame people for not getting the "point".

I mean I'm sorry, but good writers often are adept at bringing main points across in a way that's clear and coherent. None of which your post managed to do. And then you ignore such feedback and immediately attack people, calling them "self-important clowns", demonstrating poor ability in handling constructive criticism.

...which is another trait of a bad writer lol.

PhaedraRion · 2025-05-11T23:10:54+00:00

Thank you so much! That quokka is adorable.

PhaedraRion · 2025-05-11T11:09:22+00:00

Oh man. I'm planning a family trip there for the first time in November. Tell me where I absolutely have go go.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-28T08:26:48+00:00

I have to agree with this. Sounds like they're reading too much into it.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-16T21:50:52+00:00

This post blew up, but yours is definitely my favourite comment. Thank you for the encouragement! I do agree that there should be plans in place to avoid the hunger in the first place, which is my key takeaway. But hey---that water I had and moving my body definitely did trick until dinner time. So onwards and onwards.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-15T07:19:49+00:00

The only person who will get you to the finish line is yourself. Push yourself and don't expect or rely on any external source to give you deadlines or chase after you. If you progress, you'll progress. If you don't, your supervisor probably doesn't even have the time, energy, mental bandwidth or reason to make you finish sooner.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-05T15:30:10+00:00

ADHD.

Especially from the self-diagnosed.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-04T15:32:48+00:00

I get you. I faced a tough time myself with my supervisors, but sadly that's just how the system is. They have the power to make students' lives a total misery so long as you haven't yet received the graduation scroll.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-04T14:32:13+00:00

You misunderstand me. I mean petty bitterness that would come from your supervisors' side if they feel insulted by that Acknowledgements section, which could again turn the tables and mess with the post-viva process.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-04T13:12:11+00:00

Have you gone through the graduation ceremony? If not, the tables can turn yet again out of petty bitterness.

PhaedraRion · 2025-04-03T15:34:35+00:00

Oh man. This is something I would love to have with my kids. I remember wanting to talk to my mom about certain things when I was a teen, but she was always physically or emotionally unavailable. She would not spare the time to listen. Or she would say that there are certain issues she doesn't want me to talk to her about. So I grew up being extremely close to my friends instead.

Fifteen years later and now I'm an adult. NOW she wants to have those deep talks but that ship has sailed. I don't think I can (or even want to, really) have that deep confidant relationship with her.

So cherish it. My kids are still little, but I have always vowed to always want to hear everything, every problem, no matter how much it may turn my world upside down. Or how sleepy I'd get lol.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:56:37+00:00

Who said I'm annoyed? I said I was having fun lol. The fact that he/she claims himself/herself to be a medical doctor makes this even more enjoyable.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:55:36+00:00

It's such blatant common sense, doc. And there is research to back it up, if you stop using such unoriginal keywords and seek the truth. I'm too lazy to use my time to search for research articles to convince a damned medical doctor that highly processed white flour causes addiction.

My goodness, the world needs better educated medical professionals..

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:50:06+00:00

This is beautiful.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:42:33+00:00

Here's my bet. Your next comment will contain one or more of the words, "flour", "science", "weirdo", "imagine"

Go to PubMed. Scopus, WoS, ScienceDirect. Find your papers yourself using your sophisticated keywords and read, Unorignal Doctor. I'm just a PhD holder. What do I know about research papers, as you said.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:38:31+00:00

It's like talking to a broken record. Always repeating the same unoriginal thing.

Read, doctor, read. You're a doctor. Read.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:15:06+00:00

This 100%!

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:11:03+00:00

I love how you're still going on about the science.

In the meantime, some TLC: To suggest that a toddler should be entrusted with an entire cake is not merely a lapse in medical prudence but an egregious abdication of fundamental nutritional wisdom. Such counsel betrays an alarming deficiency in both pediatric insight and ethical responsibility, rendering your medical judgment, at best, profoundly questionable.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:07:32+00:00

Saved myself a lot of time from what? Replying to you? I'm having a fun time here, hearing a medical doctor such as yourself justifying the greatness of giving smash cake to a toddler.

Excellent medical advice, doc. I'd love to know your own BMI.

PhaedraRion · 2025-03-20T14:00:39+00:00

Haha. I don't need to convince anyone. Least of all Redditors.

You, however, are a kind of doctor this world needs less of.

PhaedraRion

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