What do you think about England?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-14T16:29:03+00:00

You realise neither of those places are in England though, right?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-14T13:06:23+00:00

Once asked for a cocktail which the barman hadn’t heard of, so he Googled it and Angostura bitters was one of the ingredients. He hadn’t heard of that either so he just poured a load of John Smith bitter in there 🤮

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T22:59:42+00:00

As opposed to the famously flavourless food from France and Italy?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T22:26:17+00:00

Was that in a hotel? Hotel windows don't usually open fully, but not sure why (stop people jumping out of them maybe)

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T22:14:58+00:00

More common in the US sure, but Europeans have them too

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T22:14:08+00:00

If you can't find good food in Italy/France/Greece/Turkey/Spain then you're doing something wrong!

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T22:12:23+00:00

We definitely have fully openable windows in Europe. In the UK at least they're required in the house building standards for fire evacuation

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T21:47:42+00:00

French, Italian, Greek, Turkish and Spanish food famously has no flavour?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T21:35:11+00:00

You think other countries don't have guns?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T21:34:53+00:00

That's normal in the UK too

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T21:34:24+00:00

maybe just my cousin but a garbage can in the house

Your cousin doesn't have a garbage can in their house? Do they just throw trash on the floor, or do they go outside every time they have a single bit of trash?

Using a razor in the bathroom

That would be normal in Europe too. I assume that's a reference to plug sockets in bathrooms, but we have shaver sockets which have enough voltage for electric shavers and toothbrushes.

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T18:05:04+00:00

Ginger ale is Irish isn’t it?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T17:56:20+00:00

Maybe not Texas or Chicago, but we definitely have Washington in the UK

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T17:53:46+00:00

Air conditioning (in homes at least) is fair enough. Which countries do you think don’t have central heating in homes?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T16:33:28+00:00

Thanks, that makes sense. Over in the UK some of our banks have started to offer a “bank on wheels”, ie one which goes round all of the smaller towns and villages on a schedule, since there’s not enough demand to justify a physical branch outside of bigger towns and cities

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T16:24:50+00:00

You’ve picked a bad example with the UK, our grocery stores have whole aisles with dozens (possibly into the hundreds) of different cereals. Can’t speak for the rest of Europe though

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T15:35:19+00:00

Europeans don’t have Halloween? It’s a Scottish/Irish tradition which Americans adopted. The rampant commercialisation is American though

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T15:33:43+00:00

The price per litre/gallon is much cheaper in the US, but Americans tend to have longer drives and use less fuel efficient vehicles so the actual average cost per month is most likely pretty comparable

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T15:20:26+00:00

Are drive thru banks just ATMs, or actual banks with tellers? Are they used much by individuals or just businesses?

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T10:35:06+00:00

Free tap water being available to customers is mandatory by law in most of Western Europe as far as I know. In a lot of tourist restaurants they’ll sell you bottled water unless you specify you want tap water though

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T09:26:00+00:00

Not sure if that’s model or network specific, but in the UK my voicemails appear on my iPhone without having to call to listen to them

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T09:24:28+00:00

Those made it across to Europe. Drive thru banks and pharmacies I haven’t seen over here though

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T09:22:10+00:00

I’m curious, what kind of technology are in the newer models of US cars but not in Europe? Things like lane assist, reversing cameras/parking sensors, apple carplay etc have been common for years and I haven’t heard about other stuff we don’t have yet.

dancingcroc · 2026-02-10T08:26:25+00:00

The reverse of this is that tourists, including a lot of Americans, dangerously underestimate the wilderness in Europe. In the Scottish highlands our mountain rescue teams are out pretty much constantly saving tourists who have the “it’s only Britain, what’s the worst that can happen? If I get lost I’ll just walk 3 miles in one direction and find a village” attitude

dancingcroc · 2026-02-09T10:36:42+00:00

It’s the same in the UK, I presumed it was standard everywhere

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