There are so many natural springs in the Swedish inland, that you don’t really need to worry about bringing drinking water when hiking.
It is recommended to bring a water filter with you, but most of the water is clean and safe to drink.
How often do moose bite people in Sweden?
Not often as long as you’re not karving your initials into its side.
To my knowledge, I only have a vauge memory of having read this happening, but it may be a Total:Recall scenario where you comment has implanted a false memory.
In any case, I would not be worried about biting, moose are far more likely to crush you when they decided to cross the road just infront of your car, in the evenings, when it is dark, at roads with no lighting.
That is how me and my dad almost had a terrible crash many years ago, we were heading home from Uppsala toward Stockholm, dad was driving, we were on the backroads, and had just started driving on a long straight on the road, there was an oncomming car, and as we got close a moose decided to cross the road just ahead of us, dad had no tome to brake, and had to swerve into the oncomming lane and then back into our lane, we made it, but had a huge adrenaline kick.
All learner drivers in Sweden are required to go to a driving facility and learn about the risks of exsessive speed, stopping distance and swerving, both on dry and wet track to get a feel for it should it happen later, it is really fun, as you get to drive the car at speed alone for the first time.
Weed isn’t legal in The Netherlands, the sale of weed is only condoned. Meaning the coffee shops who sell weed cant legally purchase it.
As far as the laws concerned it magically appears.
There are bow trials being done with legally grown weed. Meaning it’s a government run weed farm.
so they illegally purchase it and then sell illegal goods, legally?
Eh, not legally. It’s illegal but condoned (up to 5 gram, for personal use only). Meaning they won’t arrest or prosecute you for it, but technically you are still beaking the law. I guess in theory some DA could add it along with other charges. But since we don’t have a US-style kangaroo court system, this never happens.
we don’t have a US-style kangaroo court system
What does that mean?
A lot of DA’s in the US trump up charges and add anything they can think of, often in order to scare the defendant into settling out of court. I believe some 97% of cases in the US are settled out of court. That doesn’t happen over here.
OK. Thank you for explaining.
can people not use that to take each other’s shops down?
How, if they’re all playing at the same game? Like, what would be the point, if you get them to start busting others for it, they’ll eventually bust you too…
Canada is, surprisingly enough, not part of America.
We’re not America’s hat - you’re Canada’s asshole. /s
Remove the /s and you’re right.
Be a man ;)
We’re grateful for the Canadarm too. A tip o’ America’s hat for that program.
We are Canada’s pants.
No - they’ve already got pants. Nice and sturdy ones. Bit jealous.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/qarlinngua-nunavut-arctic-bay-hidden-sea-arch-1.4515601
If you are going by approximate anatomy, Canada’s asshole would probably be the Panama Canal. Y’all poop boats.
Just because we do our best here in Canada to not be like our American cousins … it doesn’t mean that a good number of us think, act and believe like our southern relatives.
Honestly, I live in northern Ontario where we shouldn’t have so much American influence but it’s so strange to meet and talk to outright Trump supporters with ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ stickers, don’t trend on me and Confederate flags. It’s especially strange when some back woods people I know barely have any knowledge of Canadian politics but enjoy mentioning their second amendment rights and the right to bear arms (both of which is an American thing and not part of Canadian history)
That’s extremely strange. I’m curious - in your experiences, are these usually Canadian-born people or do they sound like they could be from America?
There’s a significant number of them that are Canadian born. Honestly, it speaks a lot to the influence of fox news and other right wing propaganda outlets… these people weren’t the target - the propaganda isn’t even relevant to them - and yet they’re just as brainwashed as maga idiots.
It’s happening in Alberta too.
It’s just the side effects of news media like Fox news.
They probably had a bit of conservative bent to their politics to begin with but when you toss in daily hourly propaganda to these people, their ideas start to sound normal and even necessary to them.
I also have a bunch of friends in southern Ontario around Hamilton and Haldimand region and you can’t believe the number of boomers down there who just leave Fox News on all day in the background. They watch more American news than they do Canadian and they are the same group that will call the pubic broadcaster CBC as communist or socialist. It’s amazing how powerful propaganda can be to a whole group of people. It may not fool everyone, but it fools enough of them to make difference.
I hate the fact that my country infects Canada with that filth. You’re wonderful neighbors, and we were already enough trouble before Fox “News” came along.
Nice to hear from Europe-America in this thread.
Now go play with Exotic-America and his juguetes in the corner and let the real countries talk.
You’re not part of the United States of America, but you’re still part of the continent of North America.
Canada is the younger brother of the United States of America… you do everything with an eye on them… And this is not a surprise to anyone
We use the ISO-8601 date and time format, mostly. We separate the portions by points, not dashes, though. So a typical date looks like this: 2023.12.22. If we shorten it without the year, it’s 12.22., or 5.12. We say it with just the numbers, without the points, and shorten “hónap” (month) to “hó”. So its “5. hó 12”, basically “5th mo’ 12”.
For time we use the 24H format, regularly even in everyday speech. If it’s very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say “6 o’clock 24” or “13 o’clock 46”.
So always from bigger to smaller “powers”. It’s auto-sorted on most filesystems, table of contents etc. and very clear in everyday use. It’s nice.
Hungary.
Just to be pedantic, iso 8601 stipulates that the delimiting character is a “-” not a “.”
That’s why I said “mostly”. (Points instead of dashes.)
If it’s very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say “6 o’clock 24” or “13 o’clock 46”.
Isn’t 6 o’clock 24 in the morning?
When it’s obvious that you are talking about the evening, like it’s winter, dark, and you are walking on the street and somebody asks what time it is, you just say 6 o’clock/hour 24.
Thank you for explaining.
Szoszi kérsz eladó bojlert?
In Finland, during winter, we enjoy making wide openings into an icy lake near the shore, and go swimming in it. Best translation I can find is ice swimming. This is usually paired with a piping hot sauna, and you alternate between the 80-100 celcius hot room and taking dips in the ice water. If no lake/similar body of water is available, rolling around naked in snow is also a valid option.
We do that in Michigan too but it’s to punish people who commit crimes against fashion
and translation is not necessary, here in Russia we call such people (swimming in an ice hole in winter) simply: walrus
I remember this is also a cooking style called blanching.
or in this case, reverse blanching? – cold first, then hot.
We are not middle earth
I concur
(But my instance doesn’t easily identify me as kiwi)
Ah. The forgotten lands, according to some maps.
There there be dragons
Well obviously, you’re a couple of islands surrounded by thousands of kilometres of water, that makes you Middle Ocean
This website has maps of how french words are pronounced differently depending on where people live, sometimes the words aren’t even the same but still refer to the same thing!
https://francaisdenosregions.com/index-des-billets/
Of course it’s only interesting if you’re into french language haha
It’s probably reasonably well-known, but nearly (or around) 90% of Aussies live within 50km of the coast, despite us having a landmass similar in size to the USA.
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People are racists on a town to town basis.
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One of the official language isn’t used in the daily life despite having the larger speaker base. People use dialect.
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These dialect can vary a lot between regions or even towns.
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People will be angry and rant if the train run 5 minutes late.
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The biodiversity is actually bad.
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You can legally urinate on a UNESCO monument.
Switzerland
Some others:
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Half of the people with swiss citizenship have a foreign background at some level.
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The majority of immigration went from permanent to temporary. People come for a small amount of time.
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Despite being one of the most neoliberal country, people of the city of Berne voted to allocate money to the self-managed cultural center. This can be explained by the city-countryside political divide.
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Switzerland doesn’t have direct democracy but a semi-direct democracy.
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Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus still have a Landsgemeinde where people vote cantonal level legislations using show of hands vote.
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Corruption at the local level is high.
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There are more unwritten rules than laws.
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People keep their friends during the entire life. As a side effect, people can be seen as unfriendly. It can take up to 10 years to make a local friends.
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You can reach 95% of the country by public transportation.
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The Habsburg dinasty originated from the small town of Habsburg in the Canton of Aargau.
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Which monument is this you speak of? :o
The Zytglogge in Berne is the UNESCO monument you can urinate on.
Rather amazingly, set into its outside wall on the street is a pissoir. The “Herren WC” sign is a little misleading, as there is neither WATER nor a CLOSET."
How wonderful!
This is actually misinformation and misleading. The sign says
like on the picture.My link was for the illustration.
I don’t know what “Herren” means, but WC stands for water closet. It sounds to me like there isn’t any running water or stalls.
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A traditional Christmas meal includes KFC and cake in Japan.
Here’s a few:
- Our national animal is a Unicorn
- We are oddly proud of our tap water being drinkable
- We have nearly 800 islands
- The saltire (our flag) is the oldest in the world allegedly, from 8th century
- Despite being part of the bigger country of United Kingdom, Scotland has its own entirely separate legal and education systems.
Scotland
The World
The night before December 6th, children leaves their shoes on front of the chimney, along with a glass of milk and a carrot for Saint-Nicholas and his donkey (other countries say it’s a horse, but it’s a donkey for us).
Saint-Nicholas leaves a bunch (like, a lot) of candy and toys during the night for children to find when they wake up.
Traditional treats include speculoos, chocolate coins, nuts, clementines and “guimauve” (like marshmallows but a little less soft, in the shape of clogs or religious figures, sometimes chocolate-covered).
Also, on Easter, children will find eggs in their backyard. They are dropped by “the bells”. The story is that the bells of Rome fly across Europe and drop eggs along the way (see this postcard). So when the children are done finding all the eggs, they shout “THANK YOU BELLS”.
Belgium
I thought this would be Dominic the Donkey
Here in Mexico and some parts of LATAM we celebrate Día de los Reyes Magos which is a recalling of the Three Kings visiting baby Jesus, bearing gifts on Jan 6th.
Kids are also supposed to leave their shoes under the Xmas tree and in then when they wake up in the morning, there are some candies and sometimes gifts inside them.
We also cut a big, circular bread called “Rosca de Reyes” that has some small plastic baby Jesus inside, if you are cutting your slice and you get a baby Jesus, you have to buy the tamales for the Feb 2nd celebration, Día de la Candelaria.
While the plastic baby Jesus is supposed to be held with respect because catholicism and stuff, a lot of kids normally throw it away, play with it or sometimes burn it, sometimes you are cutting your slice and you “accidentally” cut thru it too.
Moms and grandmas have a chancla nearby for enforcing peace.
Sejm RP youtube channel (basically parliamant) recently got 600k subscribers and live streams have over 1M views
Curiosity…. Why is the USA excluded?
USA wasn’t excluded. Just the people currently living in the USA.
Technically if your from the USA and living abroad you could talk about the USA.
