For example, I’m a white Jewish guy but I’ve adopted the Japanese practice of keeping dedicated house slippers at the front door.
I’m British and I say y’all fairly often. It just rolls off the tongue.
I’m a redneck American who says y’all, and calls people cunts a lot. We have so much to share
Happy to have more of the y’all in English English, but personally I’d like an uptake in youse.
As someone who has lived both in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, y’all just sounds and feels better than youse.
Is youse a thing I’m Pennsylvania and/or Kentucky? I was thinking a la the land of the free, home of the brave (Scotland)
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I’m trying to recreate this and my brain just won’t let it happen.
It’s like “yawl”.
Try it with Tom Hardy’s cockney accent. 🙃
It probably has some root in a region of England anyway.
Now yer talkin’!
American, here. Got a bidet, and I am never going back. The fact that this isn’t standard in American households is disgusting.
Bidet life is best life
I got one just around the time that toilet paper was getting yanked off shelves at lightning speed, and it has ruined me for public toilets.
Peasant toilets. Hideous.
Love my bidet. I feel so clean and it’s so nice.
Yes. Bidets should be opt-out at this point.
I would LOVE the house slipper bit. I’ve suggested it so many times. Wife and kids just won’t go for it. Wife says it’s rude to ask a guest to take off their shoes. I disagree but she just can’t see my point or view. If you want to enter my house, show respect and take off your shoes to keep my house clean.
I just don’t get it lol. Whenever I enter someone’s house for the first time I ask “would you like me to take my shoes off?”.
It’s not that hard, and especially obvious if they have light colored carpet
I have multiple guests slippers at the door with internal shoe cleaner also to hand, but that’s mostly for show as we clean them anyway. Regular guests eventually get to choose there slippers and we’ll get what ever they want.
I’m sorry, what do you mean by “internal shoe cleaner”? My wife and I have “inside shoes” (not really slippers) with a small shoe rack / bench next to the door, but we’re trying also to get slippers for the guests because so many of them usually ask if they should remove their shoes when they see us doing it. I’m having issues choosing the right slippers because I don’t want that using a slipper that many other people have used becomes a hygiene issue. I know that in most cases it’s not, but I don’t want guest to “feel” like it may be. How do you deal with that?
Anti bacterial shoe shoe spray, like they use in ice rinks or bowling alleys.
What’s rude is bringing disgusting bacteria (E Coli, etc) and potentially-toxic chemicals into somebody else’s house by not taking your shoes off. There’s just an objectively-right and wrong answer to this one.
My wife is from a shoes off in the home culture so our home is like that. Before I met her I could go either way on it.
One time when she was away I put my shoes on our bed and sent her a picture of it just to tease her. Hehe
I’ve learned from the Japanese phrase ‘itadakimasu,’ which is said before eating as a way to thank the person that prepared the food. I think in the west, a lot of us grew up learning to say things like grace before a meal, but that is too religious for me and gives God credit for peoples’ hard work instead. I love the idea of ritualistically thanking the people who actually made the food. It was one of the things I appreciated while studying there that has stuck with me.
In my culture its common courtesy to thank a person after the meal, either the one who made it, brought it, or paid for it. But only if they’re present. It ain’t a ritual. Same-ish thing.
いただきます literally translates to “I humbly receive”.
Before I quit drinking I believe I was following Russian culture with my vodka intake.
Drinking cheapest vodka possible chasing it with cheapest bear possible, then fight, sing, fight again, vomit all over the place, and fall asleep face down in a bowl of salad?
no such thing as half a bottle of vodka
From the USA: wearing a white t-shirt under my shirt or t-shirt. Helps preventing sweat stains under armpits. Really hot in the summer though
Try and get 100% cotton. It’s the polyester that makes it hot.
In the SW USA in summer it can get 117F (47C) and let me tell you, my dude, 100% cotton is still hot as hell.
I don’t know this for sure, but to me it seems like the whole suit and tie and jacket thing was a northern European tradition and eventually an eastern USA tradition where it’s cold. That shit don’t work in the desert, and those who continue to claim “professionalism” and maintain such stupid customs are fools, in my opinion.
I’m not middle eastern but those dudes have the correct answer to the desert. I really wish the thawb would catch on in the Sonoran Desert of the southwest USA.
those who continue to claim “professionalism” and maintain such stupid customs are fools, in my opinion Not if you have AC at 65 everywhere! /s
I adopt representing 3 with thumb, index, and middle finger (German?), Instead of the usual index, middle, ring. This is easier for teaching my little girl as her hands muscle aren’t fully developed yet and have a hard time controlling her ring finger.
Isn’t that the thing from Inglorious Bastards?
Yes, from that bar scene.
It looks oddly asymmetrical, like weight is missing from one side but otherwise it’s good for your hand I suppose.
Yeah, it look weird. Guess that’s by it’s not as popular, but while seeing my baby develop, I saw that they developed control over thumb and index, then middle. So, it’s the quickest way to teach them to count up 3.
Most of Europe (outside of the UK) does this.
And also professional wrestlers
I use my index finger and my pinky with my middle finger curling around my ring finger. As a white foreigner, I show them horizontally on the east coast of the US like an E and vertically on the west coast like a W to try to fit in better. ;)
I’ve started doing it all the time now as well, as it’s valid ASL and we have two hard of hearing children, one of which communicates primarily with sign.
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I’ve always used high beams as a thank you/I’m letting you pass/bro, your headlights are off, depending on the context.
Here in Germany it’s common to quickly flash your hazards when you’re on the highway and enter a traffic jam to signal the person behind you “Watch out, I’m slowing down and won’t accelerate again”
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We started doing so here in Singapore. Even our public busses flash hazard lights twice to convey a thank you sometimes now. In the context of someone giving way to you.
But on a highway when there’s a sudden slowdown in front, we turn on the hazard lights to convey “dude slow down the dude in front is being weird”. Especially useful when there’s torrential downpours.
Isn’t that automatic in some vehicles now, to flash on heavy braking?
Not sure, haven’t been in any that I’ve driven so far. Our cars always have some lag between the latest tech and what’s actually being sold for some reason (tho arguably it’s getting better).
Single flash of hazards to thank someone is common in Brussels traffic, there are a lot of very selfish drivers on the road who never let anyone merge in. Haven’t seen it outside of here, maybe because people are usually a bit more polite or zipper merging works as it should.
Common in all of Belgium to put hazards on to warn people behind you that there is a traffic jam up ahead. I really like that passing the baton system.
Also single flash of high beams to notify someone you’ve seen them and they can cross or pass where they’d otherwise not have right of way. While you should always be as predictable as possible, sometimes doing it wrong resolves the situation faster for everyone.
I also always raise my hand as a thanks when someone stops to let me use a crossing (I have the right of way as a pedestrian but I still feel like sending people a thank you for observing the rules correctly). Did that when walking in Brussels this morning out of sheer habit, realized that is probably actually pretty unusual for a big city. My small town habits are betraying me.
I was raised in an extremely conservative Southern Baptist Christian tradition, but I often recite the Hail Mary and/or the first line of the Shema (in admittedly very poor Hebrew) when I pray. There’s something about knowing that the same prayer has been prayed by millions and millions of humans through history that makes me feel more connected.
I heard Koreans use metal chopsticks and bought pack home. Took some time to learn how to use those but so much easier when I can put those in dishwasher.
I hate metal chopsticks. Maybe I’m a bad Korean. I just find that they don’t grip as well.
Gotta agree with you there. Although Korean spoons are the best!
Is this what you mean by Korean spoon? What is better about them? I really love the ceramic spoons you get with Chinese soup, those are great for stews.
Yes there are several things I like:
- Long handles prevent the part you actually hold from getting hot and they don’t fall into the bowl as often when you’re eating soup from a bigger bowl.
- The length also allows you to reach things further away when eating family style meals.
- The bowl shape is optimized for eating soup & rice. At the same time, bowl is not too deep that it is uncomfortable to eat non-soupy things.
- Being metal lets you use the spoon to cut and scrape things, ceramic spoons are harder to use for that purpose because they’re typically thicker and more rounded.
Nice. Thanks for the info. I’m kind of curious and want to try Korean spoons now.
I’ve lived in Japan for a long time. I make a lot of Japanese noises now.
All according to keikaku I guess
All I can think is you saying YAMETE KURASAI Onichan!!! at random places
I am not Jewish, but I have adopted the practice of placing stones/pebbles on my parents’ gravestone each time I visit.
Is that cleaned up or are there a pile there after a while?
It stays. It looks like a purposeful embellishment. For my own family’s purpose, it acts as a physical record of me visiting often (because extended family is judgemental and believes that I am not visiting at all).
Pro tip, leave a whole pile of rocks, enough to last for years
A few jump to mind.
I say No Worries quite a lot.
I use chopsticks as much as a fork at home.
I take my shoes off inside.
I’ll order a Pint.
What culture says “no worries”? I’ve heard it so much I thought it universal by now.
I picked it up from Aussie slang
Ah yes. Heard it from them too, quite often.
I’m Australian and always assumed it was Australian. It seems Australian but maybe we picked it up elsewhere… likely Britain if anywhere.
Chopsticks I do use whenever they are easier (noodles, salad) and also for eating potato chips. I leave my shoes on though, we have dogs, it’s a lost cause. Roomba runs about 3 hours a day.
I now use toilet paper.
Drink tea. Adopted from Japanese Anime.
