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I'm from Belfast and this sounds right on the money. If you can't handle a bit of bantering you won't have a fun time lol
The Midwest of the US is very much like this too. The West Coast is not.
In the Southeast you will banter like this with friends/acquaintances. For strangers you will passive aggressively compliment them. "Wow that sweater has such an interesting design. Where in the world did you find something like that?"
I’m from the Northeast and this shit is a sport. If you don’t play along, you get a double dose.
Eh being from the Midwest but living in the north east, it’s way less common for people to talk to or about strangers loud enough to hear.
It’s a lot more Scandinavian than the Midwest, ironically.
They might live in Boston though.
Boston is like 30% tourists, and 69% college students from out of town. Unless you’re in maybe Dorchester or whatever is left of ungentrified South or East Boston.
Boston area though. I've only been a few times but I regularly work with some guys from there. They can TALK. Like endlessly. And they talk shit.
Once they know you sure. Strangers, hardly ever.
When I lived in Wisconsin for a year, and wore a red vest to school, I was asked "What's with the life vest?" and "Where'd you park your DeLorean?"
I heard people in the US north west will give you shit if you wear a coat, though. Y'know, because it's often cold and wet there and the natives are too cool to protect themselves against it.
You live there long enough and you grow your own coat.
They're wearing a coat of their own making, layers. That's the grunge look, you just pile on t-shirts and flannel.
Helps with warmth, but those kinds of clothes don't protect much against rain. And being wet = being cold, even if you wear 5 layers. Plus, it's just a lot easier to take off a coat once you're inside than those bajillion layers.
Thermal underwear. The thinness and heat-retaining quality these days is amazing. You can get away with very few layers:
And in many cases you can do without layer 2.
That's specifically what you're not supposed to do according to the natives. They think it's uncool to wear coats.
None of the other clothes are waterproof by any measure, which makes them practically worthless in the rain.
Had an Irish colleague at a previous job. Asked him how he could possibly be this good at banter and he said everyone does this back home. General high level of banter by default.
Funniest fucking colleague ever.
Same in Denmark.
If you know someone Danish well (or at all, really) and they never tease you, odds are that they can't stand you, aren't comfortable around you, or both 🤷
In the same vein: ‘Scotland, not subtly ever’.