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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Non-stop televangelism channels are quite something. But probably you know that’s weird.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (15 children)

White socks and how Americans eat with their knife and fork.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Extreme focus on sports, wearing sportswear (both men and women do this), always “exercising”, mentioning calories on a menu card (a Caesar salad contains 1200 calories!).

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (10 children)

A/C particularly, electricity waste. It's damn ridiculous, even for Texas. Are northerners born in fridges?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It gets to be 90°F with a dew point of ~75°F where I am.

You can swim in the air with those numbers and absolutely suffer heat stroke. Fans just circulate the humid as fuck hot air. :(

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

I've never been there, but apparently you guys don't have blackberries, and have grape jam?

Edit: what you don't have is blackcurrants, not blackberries.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

everything is chlorinated. i get painful rash if i ingest chlorinated water, so basically everything was undrinkable. this was also true for soft drinks the time i visited Vegas, so my options for hydration were extremely limited.

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