110
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 month ago

People in the UK drink so much tea (or coffee these days), that breaks in soap operas (such as Eastenders) cause the national grid to be on high alert, due to the incredulous surge of power from so many kettles being turned on at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

[-] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago

That's incredible actually

[-] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • Not being able to afford healthcare and insurance.
  • Half of the population worshipping a felonious, racist, homophobic sexist as if he’s a deity.
  • K.C. Barbecue.
[-] erev@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

None of these are unique by any means (i wish the second was but fascism is rising globally).

The styles of it tho, I'll give you that.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

school shootings (being common)

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Losing a war with flightless birds.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Going to the forest to pick mushrooms, nuts and berries. Going to the beach to pick up washed out amber. Having a lot of people grow their own food, even the city folk.

[-] Truffle@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Oh that sounds like a dream!

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Churches the size of castles full of people preaching humility.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago
[-] EvilBit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Christ I hope there isn’t

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 1 month ago

Well there's this place...

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not just humility but literally poverty as a virtue too

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 20 points 1 month ago

Being atheistic as the norm. Sky daddies don't hold much power here.

load more comments (7 replies)
[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
  • Car insurance is optional
  • Kids get govt subsidised dental care until they’re 18
  • Most common prescriptions are $5 or free
  • We did away with pennies because they’re pointless
  • It’s common to go barefoot into shops and grocery stores
  • Most kids in elementary school go barefoot
  • Semi automatic weapons banned
  • Kids get 20 hours govt subsidised daycare per week
  • When you sell your car the license plate typically goes with it
  • Most gas stations serve hot food and it’s good (by American standards)
  • Online banking allows instant direct cross-bank money transfer, so nobody uses Paypal or Venmo
  • Nobody pays by check, nobody carries around a checkbook
  • It’s not unusual for public parks to have exercise equipment
  • For short domestic flights, time between entering the airport and boarding the plane can be as short as 60 seconds
  • The milky way is still visible in good sized towns
  • Praying mantises are still common
  • Money (bills and coins) feature women, nature, and explorers not war generals, bankers, and buildings.
[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I’m guessing New Zealand.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[-] echo@lemmings.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Our "solution" to gun deaths is to add more guns.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Ajel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Almost as many saunas as cars. One sauna for every ~1.7 people.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Proper Poutine

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Okay not my country of residence, but you can choose to burn at the 4th hottest global temp of 54C (129F) or you can also freeze at -65C (-85F).

Optionally, you can also enjoy staring directly at the sun as it rises or sets due to the air pollution.

Oh and you can also find this funni river dolphin:

[-] craigers@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I didn't know this would be a guessing game. What is Pakistan?

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Biobaron@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

You are save to eat raw meat. I Love Mettbröttchen with Zwiebel.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] marito@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

We start our spicy food tolerance early, our candy is spicy.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Living below sea level for generations, and only remembering when you see other countries flood.

[-] match@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago

if NL gets annihilated by some climate related disaster, can the rest of the world claim hubris

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. You get first dibs on "I told you so". But until then, I get the right to go "neener neener neeeeeener"" at the sea.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Drusas@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago

Cheesesteaks. And no, a steak sandwich doesn't count.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 14 points 1 month ago

People playing and hearing songs with looped beats and vulgar lyrics through a bass boosted sound system which costed them several months worth of minimum wage to pay for having it on their cars. They generally drive slowly through streets near beaches in order to exhibit their "fancy sound systems" while all the vulgarity plays repeatedly. I guess it's unique from this green-and-yellow country where I live.

I could also say wearing flip-flops and bermudas on a daily basis, or one of the highest usage and dependency of Meta's WhatsApp worldwide, or the country with the most welcome (often too nosy) people. Or, through a more positive lens, the richest land where crops easily grow when you sow something, the highest ecological diversity (especially plants, it's so common to find exotic plants here), the highest climate diversity (you can travel south to meet snow, then travel north/northeast to meet hot climates, without leaving the same country), etc.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Death from not being able to afford medical care

load more comments (3 replies)
[-] stinerman@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

Going bankrupt due to medical bills.

[-] Jon_Servo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It's easy to tell where you live.

It's in your username.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago

Constant mass shootings.

[-] viralJ@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

UK. Cold and hot water coming from separate taps. WTF? I was once told that it is because hot water boilers used to have their tops open to the outside, which meant the hot water could contain some debris, so it was important to use it only for washing and not let it mix with cooking water. But in bathrooms in some modern builds that definitely don't use that kind of boilers you still get separate taps. I told one of my British colleagues about how it's been bothering me since I moved here and she said "oh yeah, I never realised that I've never seen that in any other country". She also told me that kids are just taught to wash their hands quickly under the hot tap, so that they don't run the water long enough for it to turn scolding hot. WTactualF?

load more comments (4 replies)
[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

That's actually really tough in this global age. I live in Japan so things like tea ceremony and Shinto practice come to mind, but there are Shinto shrines and practitioners in many places and people do and teach tea ceremony in other places now. Many would call it the home of sushi and, at least for the common types today, it's probably true (though certain methods that led to sushi are thought to come from Viet Nam in the past).

Tanuki exist in other parts of Asia. I assume onsen (hot sprint) monkeys do as well. Maybe something with Wasabi, but I doubt it. I'm not sure, really.

Edit: thought of one: seeing the Iriomote cat in its natural habitat (although that's really hard since they were nearly hunted to extinction for their pelts at one point). Speaking of Okinawan islands, you can also see Taiwan on a good day from the westernmost point of Yonaguni. That was neat. I took a picture with my phone at the time and it's really hard to see anything, but I could see land with my eyes.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Horrible Past.

(Fossil) Vehicle production as economic livelihood.

Bread fetishism. "Beer purity law".

Semi-ironic calls for a kebap price limit

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] 58008@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I can tell if you're Catholic or Protestant by the way you pronounce the letter H.

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

The most popular pop culture in the world

load more comments (2 replies)
[-] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.

The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice. Village adults don't, not because they are above it, but since there is a genuine risk a neighbour you've known for decades will sue you for stealing; the garbage does belong to them still as the courts have determined.

Edit: Sorry for forgetting the most important part.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2024
110 points (99.1% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26736 readers
366 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics.


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS