Getting married in Blackpool by a smashed scouser teenager in a track suit.
Ridiculous holiday tattoos is the only thing air can think of
Royal weddings.
Quick reminder that “Europe” is a mosaic of countries, and that there is a huge difference between let’s say, Portugal, Austria and Latvia.
I don’t really think there is a country which would be so liberal regarding marriage that you could get married by Elvis or a Machine on short notice amd drunk just to get laid (on the other hand, most European cultures stopped caring about marriage, and donxt need it to get laid or have kids)
Kinda like when people lump California and Alabama together when talking about Americans. Annoying, isn’t it?
The differences between California and Alabama are still an order of magnitude or more smaller than between e.g. Portugal and Latvia.
I live in California. I’ve been to Alabama, Portugal, and Latvia (just this year for the Baltics, great places). I disagree.
Parts of the deep south are just fucking alien in a way I’ve never felt anywhere else.
Different places in Europe are, of course, different. But different in a way you can wrap your head around with an undercurrent of commonality. The same things being done in interestingly different ways by normal people.
The sense of dislocation and strangeness I feel in certain (not all) places in the deep south is far beyond anything I’ve experienced, not just in Europe, but also Asia, South America, and North Africa.
All you just told me is that you haven’t been to either. You couldn’t be more wrong.
But you do know the cultural differences there are TINY in comparison, right?
Dang…6 day old response and I just got the notification. Sorry!
They are not tiny by comparison, which is what I’m trying to convey. For one, we have every culture in the world fully represented here across multiple regions. If that isn’t enough to convince you, take a trip that includes maybe LA, Seattle, Idaho, Minnesota or anything adjacent, NYC, south Florida, Alabama or Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. I doubt this will convince you, but I have to at least try. It really bothers me when people say shit like “Americans are x,” completely discounting the fact that we are a federation of 50 different countries, each with it’s own unique laws and cultures.
/rant
It’s beyond bizarre to me that you’d think the differences between states in the US would be comparable to that of countries in Europe. Think of the language alone.
The US is a huge mosaic of states, and there’s a huge difference between say California and the Deep South.
That being said, their question still stands as they were just curious about possibilities in a region. The US is just as large and diverse, so it’s possible something like that exists in Europe, and if so, what.
Lmao Americans thinking calling it soda or pop is equivalent to what Europe has for cultural differences.
the US is just as large and diverse
LMAO peak Yank
Yeah, the region in question was meant to be broad since this is a pretty specific and peculiar subject.
I don’t think getting married when drunk is very common at all outside of Vegas.
Are there other places in America that allow it?
I think Reno, Nevada does some similar antics. And possibly Atlantic City, NJ. All of them have local economies based on casinos (and historically, organized crime).
That makes total sense haha
I’d have to imagine that there’s something similar involving Afterskis or Finnish cruises.
Yes, cruiseboats in the Finland-Sweden route might be considered. But it’s still far from Vegas.
Getting married by a fake pope across the tracks in the seedy outskirts of East Vatican City.
Would the Vatican tolerate papal imposters?
…That feels like suicide by Catholicism, somehow
Sometimes there’s no European equivalent to American depravity.
In the mid-20th century, America was considered so culturally bankrupt that the CIA thought it should create some.
BBC: Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?What about mimes?
Getting a tattoo or getting baptised whilst hammered
Is getting drunk and getting baptized really a thing? Because if so, I think that might win.
There was polish documentary showing some trashy village in the middle of nowhere. Everyone just waited for Saturday because that’s when local disco had party with strippers. Guys would fingerbang strippers right on the stage. But I think that’s more trashy than drunk Elvis wedding. Equivalent is probably getting drunk on vodka and banging an ugly chick in the bathroom of that disco.
i feel bad for the strippers thats so sad
viktor orbán
