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.
Ah yes, the magically appearing coffeeshopwiet. I’m trying to get rid of it officer, honestly, but it just keeps coming back! Suppose I may as well sell it for a reasonable price in my humble little shop in Doetinchem. Perhaps with a bit of coffee on the side. Maybe in edible form for those who can’t smoke the leaves.
can people not use that to take each other’s shops down?
There are bow trials being done with legally grown weed. Meaning it’s a government run weed farm.
Wasn’t there a country where some company ran a “lost and found” service where you’d pay them to “find your weed”. Like they were selling you weed but in order to make it legal their business was for you to pay them to find your lost weed.
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.
I’m so in favor of that time format, both 8601 and 24 hour.
I generally prefer dates ordered from most to least prominence myself, but any ordering is better than the weird flip flopped month day then year thing we got Stateside.
Interesting that y’all say o’clock before the minutes, tho! Haven’t seen that before.
We basically say “hour”, but hour and o’clock is the very same word in my language: “óra”
Bit like in Dutch, actually, with the Dutch word being uur. “Het is zes uur” for six o’clock.
Nice date format, too bad about orban though 🤷
Pigs in Space? Or which one?
Slight mixup with a polish party
It makes more sense now, yes. And you are absolutely right. Most Hungarians despise that piece of shit, myself included.
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.
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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
Don’t forget that making a spliff out of your train ticket, ink and all, is a thing lol
Edit: There are also pockets where the police won’t go because they recognize they’re full of crime and drugs, but as long as it stays within those couple of streets, they’re happy to let things stay as they are so it doesn’t spill out.
Oh and over a quarter of the population consists of immigrants.
And there’s free water everywhere… hiking, in towns… just bring a water bottle and find a fountain that’s always running. The water is ice cold year round too.
It’s also the home of H.R. Geiger (Alien design fame) in Gruyère. You can go to the town of Gruyère, which is gorgeous, and see the museum, go to the Alien-inspired café, see how they make the Gruyère cheese that you probably know, and even visit the Cailler chocolate factory, which has a Willy Wonka-type tour with infinite chocolate tasting at the end… mmmmmmm…
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.
Herren means “men”. “WC” means toilets, the place, in this case. I get the pun but it’s not the best one.
The water is accessible on the front by the way.
I think I must not understand what the pun is.
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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 ;)
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
If you are going by approximate anatomy, Canada’s asshole would probably be the Panama Canal. Y’all poop boats.
We’re grateful for the Canadarm too. A tip o’ America’s hat for that program.
Big love to our northern brothers across the border! That said, we can’t be just y’all’s asshole. You’re forgetting that we got the perfect dangling phallus of Florida that cannot be ignored (despite our best efforts.)
Hey we’re both the assholes of the world, there’s enough room for two on this throne
We eat raw olive oil with bread for breakfast. Trust me, it’s actually more disgusting than everyone thinks.
Imagine a country physically located in Africa that has more influence from the Arab world and the European [sub]continent than local influence. Your average citizen can speak like, 3 languages, and there’s certainly some that can speak more than that. We even participated in the Eurovision Song Contest at one point (biggest regret imo).
Have you ever heard of Pokimane? What about Loreen? Chances are they have ethnic roots from this country. Oh, and Faouzia too.
There’s so many mosques here. I’m not against practicing religion, but I have to say that there’s probably too many mosques, when a couple hundred is more than enough for everyone. Try appropriately 40 thousand. And the state actually wants to build more.
Some Israeli company uses our argan oil for their skincare products. To this day, this remains my worst nightmare.
Hospitality.
You guys really need to try our couscous. It’s delicious.
Hey, I see you mentioned the USA in your post. Well guess what. It’s not France that first recognized them, it’s us.
I gave you enough clues. The country is Morocco.
Oh man I actually love the raw olive oil, especially on msemmen (I’m half moroccan)
Good for you. Msemmen is actually quite good though.
We even participated in the Eurovision Song Contest at one point (biggest regret imo).
Wait, why was that regretful? o.o
I have to say that there’s probably too many mosques
There’s more churches than businesses in my county here, I completely understand that sentimen-
Try appropriately 40 thousand.
u wot mate
You guys really need to try our couscous. It’s delicious.
I’ll look into it! Thank you for your reply :D
Wait, why was that regretful? o.o
Not only did we only participate once for a single year, it ended up being a poor result, receiving only 7 points from Italy and getting 18th/19. The Moroccan broadcaster chose not to return. It’s actually even more of a problem now because of… things that happen that offend the Moroccan state, such as LGBT rights. Also, Israel participating would result in massive boycotts if Morocco participates alongside them.
There’s more churches than businesses in my county here, I completely understand that setinen-
Yeah, counties are small. Morocco is bigger than most European countries.
u wot mate
Yep. It’s actually true.
Anyway that’s all the additional stuff I have to say.
Do you season or do anything special to the couscous?. Over here it’s just served plain and I always wondered if other countries seasoned or prepared theirs differently.
Carrots, potatoes and pumpkin everywhere. We also add chicken.
If you’re feeling fancy then saffron is a good one. Tumeric and cumin are more common, as well as harissa. Sometimes aniseed, cinnamon, nutmeg or mace for something sweeter/peppery, though I personally don’t like those as much.
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Do you season or do anything special to the couscous?. Over here it’s just served plain and I always wondered if other countries seasoned or prepared theirs differently.
The World
We don’t praise guns 🙃
Gonna guess you’re a true blue, fair dinkum Aussie, mate?
