When Americans & Europeans Tweet About Each Other...

[@egfdevos]

How is the weather outside? 30° C - Hot 20° C - Warm 10° C - Cool 0° C - Cold

[@arnodobler1096]

And as a driver, I know from 0 to -X it's going to be slippery on the roads. And the plants outside get frost.

[@senzelian]

40°C 💀

[@AlbandAquino]

Not only that, but when it's 0 C outside, you know the previous rain/snow could produce ice (0 in C is the freezing point of water, 100 C is the boiling point.), your liquid cooled engine could need some time to warm up, etc... Numerous applications, without thinking too much about it. Plus... If you even consider going to work by 0 F, You need a "priorities" shuffle immediately .

[@dzzope]

​@@AlbandAquino Ice can form on surfaces with air temp of 3c (or higher if wind chill).. just fyi

[@Kullioking]

@@AlbandAquino 0 F = -18 C thats warm. Last winter we had -25C where i live and i still where going to work.

[@rrrado1]

6 glasses of water to a meal? Check yourself for a diabetes.

[@Vera150607]

That was what I thought. Some people here in Europe have a habit of only drinking after eating.

[@MayYourGodGoWithYou]

Old hack for dieting, drink ONE glass of water an hour before you eat as it makes you feel fuller faster. 6 during a meal, don't know how you'd have room to eat.

[@rockrane1]

😂😂Hellarious. But exellent comment👍

[@judithrowe8065]

I am in awe of American bladders. Too much water is a health risk too. Unless it's a heatwave or you do heavy manual work, 6 glasses a day is enough.

[@homyachock]

​@@judithrowe8065unless you have some illness or it's too hot, you just drink as much as you want. You don't need to count it if you're healthy and the weather is ok.

[@tracymuckle8512]

Americans have been fooled into thinking holiday pay, unions, a living wage and family leave are benefits, instead of rights

[@peterang6912]

They are fooled because they call payed holidays,sickdays and unions, family leave is socialism and socialism is bad...

[@stiegelzeine2186]

Yep the entire mentality among many Americans is that it’s normal working for some rich asshole all your life making him 10 times more money than he pays you and then getting fired when you cause your boss a little inconvenience because you’re sick for a few days even if you were healthy for the entire year so you didn’t even take 1 day free

[@captain007x]

Americans also call that ' socialism' like it was bad.

[@thewoode1050]

They are benefits... We Europeans have forgotten that all that needs to be paid for and thus earned by someone...

[@stiegelzeine2186]

@@thewoode1050 you literally earn your employeer more than he pays you so those "benefits" are the bare minimum

[@tins369]

Sorry, but your argument about Fahrenheit makes zero sense

[@matikaevur6299]

Sorry, is it zero at Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin or Rankine? Or some other more esoteric/specific .. :)

[@tins369]

@@matikaevur6299 😂😭💀 I go with Celsius

[@matikaevur6299]

@@tins369 For temperatures - yes! For making sense - Kelvin. Can't get lower than that without some fancy quantum magic :)

[@OtagesBringthemhome_NOW]

Agree tins it's not even an argument. Just what he is used to. Ridiculous really. Just as dumb as drinking 6 glasses of water and ice during lunch and thinking that's normal/healthy.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@matikaevur6299 I absolutely love Rankine, zero argument.🤔

[@allenjohnson7686]

6 glasses of water!!!!! What was for lunch a 1kg block of salt???

[@222tg_]

They're just programmed to drink tons of water when eating because yeah, you're right, everything is extra salty and greasy there. Gotta find ways to hide the chemicals somehow 🤭

[@videomailYT]

^^ and don't forget the sugar... XD 😉🥳

[@TheRaven2k]

Probably so many chemicals in US water that you get thirsty from drinking it.

[@Racoon209]

6 glasses of water = 1,2l - 1,5l 😂 that's crazy.

[@schneidershakir]

Ist so 😂😂

[@ingrida1121]

Europeans do not consume as much sugar and salt, which is why we do not require so much water.

[@danvernier198]

It's mostly that the American recommendation on drinking water is based on the total amount of water needed and obviously you consume a lot of water in your food. They don't actually drink as much as they believe.

[@WookieWarriorz]

@@danvernier198 American just feel the NEED to consume, im telling you, they HAVE to buy something anywhere they go and often thats a bottle of water at minimum.

[@AdLockhorst-bf8pz]

Drinking water? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXbdiJ6Ji8aVo5osi=Av3X5thP093zOJdG DWL KRALINGEN in Rotterdam is coming up on a renovation. Did an internship years ago. The waterdrop shaped tanks are very good looking; the ozone generators were really sexy!

[@paulozavala3232]

I would think that if you drink 6 glass of water then you are drinking to much over the entire day. And thats not good for you because then you also leach/drain out your body of your much needed elektrolyts! You should consume 2-3 liter per day! 6 glass of water is about 1 liter! So do the math.

[@Patrik6920]

..also if the body doesent need to constantly need to dispose of waste products thers no need for much water.. basicly Urination is one of the ways our bodies dispose of waste products from breaking down some foods and other stuff .... cant be more specific or this gets removed...

[@sameebah]

'super-iced' means 'super diluted' Much like super cold beer means tasteless beer. Europeans *DO* drink water, but we drink it throughout the day, not just over lunch.

[@Kuroo21]

Exactly!

[@RheaLifeOC]

Well yes but also no. Our food is not full of sodium and sugars like theirs..their sugar and sodium intake is 3x ours..so they need more and are told by the media, which can lead to a lot of problems..when you consume too much water. Also our tap water in europe is drinkable and has 3x the amount of nutritions that for example Evian has. While german tap water has 11mg of magnesium per L water, evian water has 3mg per liter.. They trick americans by saying "electrolytes" and other bs..and push the narrative to drink 6-10liters per day..which is insane. Which also lead to a lot of children, minors and atheletes just straight up drowning their own brains and dying. Which is horrifying to think of..it's insane.. More sodium, more sugar..less nutritions in water for your body to get rid of that stuff, means more consumption, means more consumption, means more consumption.. America might not be the most obese country, but it's a rat hole of unhealthyness..and it probably has the most obese people on earth not % wise but count wise..

[@weerwolfproductions]

@@RheaLifeOC I was thinking - 6 full glasses of water? that's like 1,5 litres already. A grown person only needs 2-3 litres of fluid per day! 10 litres are bad for you! That's way too much!

[@mach2223]

I think the reason they dilute it with so much ice is because their sodas have twice as much sugar as eu soda, and also that sugar is high fructose corn syrup, not regular sugar aka sucrose, and HFCS tastes sweeter than regular sugar, so it has more sugar AND the sugar tastes sweeter. If your soda was 3 times as sweet, you'd dilute it down to half too. The ice just has the benefit of making it colder at the same time as well. This is not to say that any of it is good. That syrup is nasty and is known to cause health issues, but it does at least explain why they use so much ice. You literally can't drink the soda undiluted if you wanted to, unless your sugar tolerance was insanely high.

[@Ikkeligeglad]

0 degree celcius: water freezes. 100 degrees celcius: water boils, thats simple, what's not to like about that?

[@8tonystark8]

And it corresponds to life years as well 0-5 just skip that 5-10 not that good 10-15 can get by 15-20 sweet spot 20-25 the absolute best 25-30 feisty 30-40 shit's getting serious/crazy 40-50 burnout 50+ creeping death

[@matttiaz7576]

Like as good american He propblably like huge numbers ( Hp in car , Sq/mt in house ) so he think lets say 38C isnt impressive like 100F regarding wheater . 100>38 visualized more hot.... dosnt make sense...but for Him does. if I understand correcly . PS ... btw 38C in thailand isnt rare its almost daily to be honest ...people works and do normal stuff with that . When I see Murican or Italian walking around in thailand , they looks melted, mainwhile Thai dont even sweating... its hilarious

[@Eric_Viking]

Kelvin.

[@rahansk8200]

​@@matttiaz7576😅

[@holgerackermann75]

Water boils at 100 °C only at 1 atm. Which means it will boil at about 98 degrees C if you live at 600m above sea level and even change with the weather. So it's not a perfect system though better than Fahrenheit with completely boggus points of reference.

[@balasFTW]

About the 6 glasses of water at lunch it can be either: - diabetes type 2 (not controlled) which leads to thirst and high frequency leaks; - the person in question is focusing too much on what others are having at that moment. In every European country tap water is safe for consumption and people use the fountains to fill their bottles or drink from drinking fountains. People don't drink just at breakfast, lunch and dinner, we drink water throughout the day. Even watermelons, melons, apples, pears, etc. are full of water.

[@yvesd_fr1810]

I am french and I have worked in the US at the Loyola hospital of Chicago as a biologist. At the canteen, two US medics were discussing " do you remember the temperature of the human body in Celsius ?". The other answered :" It hink it is 40°C". I almost choked ! Guys, at this temperature, it is time to act swiftly if you want to keep your patient alive !

[@beussta]

j'ai déjà eu 41 perso, j'ai passé un sale moment

[@yvesd_fr1810]

@@beussta M'étonne pas. J'espère juste que c'est un mauvais souvenir sans séquelles !

[@isabelmauricio6394]

When in doubt, measure your own, then the patient's. 😁

[@karstenbursak8083]

Why food standards are so bad in the US ? One word answer: PROFIT

[@Phiyedough]

The same with health care, the government works for the benefit of companies rather than citizens.

[@publicminx]

​ @Phiyedough thats actually wrong. in difference to STUPID people (also most youtubers and followers are) there is a reason why people with HIGHER quality criterion go to certain countries like US, Germany/Switzerland, Israel and so on. The reason is that most are just talking about 'public healthcare' vs. 'private' (both exist in Europe as well as in the US) with a heavy (and often selective) focus on BASIC treatment. Thats why all of a sudden a lot of less developed countries pop up in the most stupid comparisons while everyone WITH BRAIN should know that there is something wrong if one looks closer. And indeed it is: if you look for instance at the 'Cancer survival rates' then the US is the 2nd best after Cyprus and Nr. 1 among the more comparable countries in the world. And you get similar results in many other fields when it is about state of the art care. This means: one has to compare health care in a much more complex way and radically stop to think like an idiot that if there is a public healthcare that this is automatically the best (while in reality even simple things are often not working, especially in less developed countries - while some left wing ideologies try to sell everything which is not private as better - against the reality). People should also understand that you have today in most countries usually a mixture of public/private cooperations anyway. It is just STUPID to think in the old ideological categories (which were always kind of stupid). In general: the more developed a country is the better the treatment IF YOU ARE NOT AN IDIOT (!). There are some exceptions depending on the people and the context. In some cases depending on your lifestyle it might be better to have a more generic public health care system, in other cases people prefer rather private ones. Another example is using gaps: typical are all kind of teeth surgeries or beauty sugeries etc. when ppl use 'cheap' choices from countries who are less developed but on a raise (you had that often for instance after the fall of the Berlin Wall/Cold war with cheaper treatment in Poland, Czech, today reather Turkey, still sometimes Thailand, India etc.). Thats sometimes scum, sometimes good deals (often if the doctors/medical service has a western education but works cheaper under less developed conditions but with good standards).

[@bordeaux1962]

Healthy, affordable food in the USA: Red flag, evil socialism attacks !!!!

[@karstenbursak8083]

@@Phiyedough isn't everything in the US about their god: the almighty $$$

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Makes no sense. A higher standard product could have a higher standard margin, and typically does, not the opposite. It's like USA with its huge GDP and consumer-based economics, still has mainly poor people who can't produce... gee how did China steal all those jobs?

[@ro887]

Bro, why you acting like drinking 6 glasses during lunch is normal? 😭

[@klausjuergen]

It´s an indicator for an undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.

[@MrHodoAstartes]

Yeah. Europeans tend to kinda drink throughout the day as we go and as we feel like drinking. Americans have been essentially conditioned by enormous cup sizes and free water, coupled with weird health propaganda to drink above and beyond what is sensible. Going by an average cup size of 250mL, drinking 1.5L just over lunch is completely insane. You actually need that much water per day, plus what you take from food. The average European also has by lunch eaten breakfast, had 2-3 cups of coffee (and that's just coffee and not non-dairy creamer, sugar syrup, venti mocchachino milk bombs with 2000kcal), maybe some water or juice. You know, the amount of liquid that your body is comfortable handling. Having to constantly pee while your pee is fully colorless just means you force your kindeys into overdrive trying to keep your blood from turning to dasani. This cycling has no function for the body. Yes, you want to have regular urin that's not too concentrated. But an hourly crystal spring from your crotch does nothing for you. So unless you are in the desert and doing labor, you really don't need that much.

[@holgerackermann75]

​@@klausjuergenthought the same.

[@LednacekZ]

if you get a 3dcl glass with 2,5dcl filled with ice, no wonder you drink 6. it is still only 6x0,5dcl which is 3dcl or one glass of water in Europe.

[@digidol52]

I can't see how that is healthy.

[@uncle_matula]

I'll explain why people in Europe tend to drink less fluids: because we don't have all the sugar and salt in our food, so less fluid is enough. So all those carbohydrates and salt bind a lot of water and make you thirsty all the time. If you're on a carnivore/ketogenic diet, for example, you eat almost no ch, you're on a much lower fluid intake than the average, up to 1-1.5 litres a day In addition, drinking a lot of fluids has the disadvantage that the kidneys excrete urine more quickly, not enough time for the minerals/vitamins to be absorbed

[@SuperLn1991]

Also, I've notice than American tend to eat less of "juicy" food (tomatoes, peaches, apples, sauces etc...) and than their fruits tends to be less juicy unless they are organic (and 10x more expensive).

[@manub.3847]

In addition, in many European countries water costs extra in restaurants and people prefer to enjoy their meal rather than fill their stomachs with water. Depending on the season and climate zone, Europeans also drink an average of between 1.5 and 3 liters and more of liquid (coffee, tea, water, etc.).

[@uncle_matula]

​@@SuperLn1991 yep, soups, stews...etc

[@emrk6517]

That's true, also, there's also been ongoing marketing campaigns for decades that made water and water related accessories a lucrative business. Because you know, Americans try to make money out of everything. So now they've ended up convinced they need to drink more than human beings actually do require. Hence the online outrage of how Europeans must be dehydrated 😂.

[@evilmessiah81]

also many americans have diabetes and that makes you way more thirsty, because the body tries to get rid of the suggar

[@Hodoss]

5:00 That woman must have misunderstood how it works in France. By law you can get free tap water. In restaurants you can ask for a jug of water (une carafe d'eau), so the size of your glass doesn't matter, and you can ask for another jug if need be. Although if you're gonna walk around a lot, as will often be the case for a tourist, you should bring a bottle or thermos of water with you. You can fill it with tap water in your hotel room, and if needed refill it at fountains or bathrooms.

[@Jagodamusa]

In Poland, water towers ("wieża ciśnień") still exist, but their function were almost completely replaced by sth called "hydrofor" (type of a water pump). They remain mainly as an emergency source of water (e.g. for fire-fighting purposes). Some water towers were adapted for public utility buildings (cafes, hotels, restaurants, observation towers, and even churches). And so it happens the tower shown in the picture at 13:06 is in Wrocław, Poland.

[@missgranger5362]

FDA be like: "It's all good until proven bad." Europe be like: "It's all bad until proven good." Different approaches to food safety. Plus, more laws to prevent lobbying in the EU compared to the US.

[@yt_n-c0de-r]

Yet, the lobbies are getting more and more foothold on the EU (mostly because our German conservative parties are leading & selling out). We shouldn't kid ourselves: The process is just slower here, but we are heading towards the US standards day by day! PS: private or commercial lobbies or all form, size and influence should be banned by law forever. Only lobbying on science-based facts and for societies / citizens at large should be allowed - which kinda is what politics are origianlly about: interests of people (~ polis: the "state" & by extent its "people")

[@jimb9063]

@@yt_n-c0de-rSadly true I fear. As ever, we in the UK are in the vanguard, at least for Europe as a continent. IMO it was the main reason for some why we "needed" to leave the EU. The attitude that everything is for sale and is there just to make money out of has crept in more and more over the last 30 years. Housing was once considered an important thing for your population to have. Now they're simply commodities to buy and sell. According to the former Home Secretary, homelessness is a "lifestyle choice". I also heard that no other country has a privatized water supply, a monstrous idea from any political angle in a national perspective, IMO. The anger that's led to the disgraceful scenes this week in the UK is largely about the issues above IMO, as well as the downgrading of all public services. As usual though, it's manifested into mindless violence focussed on the wrong people. Mixed in of course with some who undoubtably hold abhorrent views, and those who just like to throw things at the police and smash stuff up on summer evenings.

[@yt_n-c0de-r]

@@jimb9063 Well, leaving the EU wasn't the smart move, imho. Didn't solve anything, just silenced some loud, old ones in fear of loosing shit, but not wanting to change anything actively. And as I heard many are regretting it already in the UK? "leaving" in face of catastrophies is a natural reaction, especial in physical ones (natural catastrophies) which subconsciously teach us the "flight" mode in times of hardships. Perfectly fine. But in social / political catastrophies, so men-made ones, non-physical: it's the "fight" mode we need more - just not physical (violence) one. We need to fight the systems with better ones - not flee the problems and leave the rotting systems to more rot as we engage in "brain drain". Hence, the wiser ones give in, bend not break, until the fools are left to rule. Which is happening more and more around the globe: everyone voting with emotions for right-wing fascists and selling-out, at the cost of ALL of the world itself. I'm ashamed my generation is repeating history politically, socially and economically, just at faster pace and bigger scale!

[@paul1979uk2000]

@@jimb9063 I don't think standards will drop in Europe, there would be too much resistance to it from the people, food intake is far more of a big deal in Europe then it is in North America, so even thought corporations and some governments might want to lower standards, they will likely have a much bigger fight on their hands from the public if they tried. Even the UK when we left the EU with Brexit, I've not seen any indications of lowering food standards, and if there are any hints of that, it's usually all over the press, which kicks up a fuss with the public. Longer term, you can never be too sure, people need eternal vigilance to keep governments and corporations in check, otherwise they would lower standards if we let them, just like the American people have allowed them to lower standards to almost dangerous levels in the US.

[@jimb9063]

@@yt_n-c0de-r Totally agree. Especially about repeating mistakes, and apathy being a massive danger.

[@Real_MisterSir]

Fahrenheit for weather is garbage. There is no sense to it. Celsius: -10 and below you'll freeze to death without proper clothing ~0 you risk snow and ice on the roads ~10 you can be comfortable with a light jacket ~20 you'll feel comfortable in a tshirt and shorts ~30 its hot and you should consider hydration and shade ~40 you're fucked if you don't have AC nearby ~50 actually getting cooked alive and the sun is the enemy of all biological existence It's very practical and it does hit hard. Fahrenheit saying "it's 15 degrees" doesn't hit whatsoever even though it should. But saying "It's minus 10" does. 100 is boiling temp for water, 0 is freezing. We are mostly made up of water, this is what biologically makes sense.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, what good is a scale where the only range used is between 16 and 86, that sounds weirdly arbitrary. On the other hand, when there is a minus before the number I know I might need to grab a coat.

[@dalitrh]

@@Real_MisterSir -10°c freeze to death?? What? Nah, that's a cold summers day! I've got a neighbour who wears shorts down to -29°c, not kidding! Don't know what he does when it's colder because I haven't seen him in any colder weather. Me, myself just wear a t-shirt and jeans when shoveling snow, no matter what temperature 👍

[@Makjaoiuewhxkjs]

Wiyhout shelter you would not survive in -10 for a long time.

[@Soken50]

@@dalitrh Europe is humid so -10 will suck the heat right out of you, in dry cold you can be fine with just a shirt blocking radiative cooling if there's no wind but not in the miserable wet cold of the North of Europe, you're in hypothermia within minutes.

[@dalitrh]

@@Soken50 I literally live in the northern Europe 😏 30 minutes from Hell 😉👍

[@nigelpluck3342]

10:19 we drink water in Europe, just not a lake of water with every meal 😂😂😂

[@TheAlchaemist]

I was going to point that out, 2 glasses perhaps? and that's it... 6 as the post said is a huge exaggeration...

[@bordeaux1962]

Agreed. It's not a question of the size of the glass, but how often you refill, from a bottle or, as in France, from a carafe. . Small glasses are more elegant, easier to handle and the water doesn't get warm too quickly.

[@Kyragos]

I drink one glass of water or a cup a tea per meal, no more. But I don't drink water only during meals. Maybe the misunderstanding comes from people drinking only during meals...

[@TheArcticFox76]

Yeah, gotta dilute all that sugar they put in food is US somehow. But if you gotta drink 6 glasses of water / meal, you might want to have your blood sugar levels checked...

[@littleDutchie92]

​@Kyragos plus, we also just drink water at home... we don't carry around those huge water bottles everywhere like in the US to have a sip of water every 2 minutes, but we just drink water from the taps in our home and at work...

[@CuriousChar]

Drinking so much water with a meal, you’re just diluting your stomach acid and messing with digestion, possibly another contributing factor to obesity and other conditions related to malabsorption etc.

[@verttikoo2052]

USA is the only country in the world that uses Fahrenheit. Everyone else has moved on. 😂

[@Scream250]

I think Liberia still uses Fahrenheit

[@verttikoo2052]

Cayman Islands 🇰🇾 use it too. It is time to move on because everyone else over 8 billion people uses Celsius.

[@saxon-mt5by]

Officially maybe, but I still use Fahrenheit in preference to Celsius; give me a reading in Celsius and I have to convert it before I understand it.

[@verttikoo2052]

That is why Fahrenheit needs to go. No more conversion to obsolete measurements. Celsius and Kelvin are sufficient.

[@screenfixer1936]

Even miles ,feet etc. As ancient Romans,

[@John-jw8rx]

Organic food in the US doesn't follow the same European standards either. Much of it wouldn't be classed as organic here.

[@chrissiesbuchcocktail]

German here. I drink almost only tap water (2-3 liters/day). I hardly drink anything else. I never use ice. And I drink most of it between meals not during meals. Edit: In restaurants people don't drink that much water because there are no free refills. That doesn't mean we don't drink water at all. We do but much more at home than in restaurants.

[@yt_n-c0de-r]

Yeah, free refills of anything is just to save money on food (filling with water) or driving the munchies (with sugary soft drinks)for cheap fastfood... Restaurants are for enjoyment. A wine, beer etc. 😅 The US drink more, as most of them are probably undiagnosed (health "care" is too expensive) with some form of diabetes, due to their food quality & composition, which makes thirsty as hell...

[@picobello99]

Exactly. I drink about 2-3 litres per day, mostly water or tea. But I consume most of it at home or at work. In restaurants I usually only order 1 or 2 drinks because it's pricey. I think most of these Americans "complaining" about Europeans not drinking water are tourists that are out and about all day and therefore either have to drink at restaurants or carry their own bottle of water. They seem to miss people living in Europe would mostly drink at home where those tourists wouldn't be able to see them.

[@jattikuukunen]

That sounds pretty inconvenient if you put it like that. In Finland, it's pretty standard to get a jug of tap water brought to your restaurant table. It's common sense to carry a water bottle with you if you're outdoors for the whole day, but it will eventually get empty. Imagine the following situation: you walk to a building and ask to fill your bottle. If they fail to fulfill that task, fine, but would you eat the food they offer? Doesn't matter if it's a restaurant or not, I wouldn't trust their service to be good enough for serving food.

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

The thing is that you don't have to drink that much, really. What you need is 2-3 l of fluid per day. A lot of it you get through your food . Cooked potatoes? they are moist. sauce and gravy? there's water in it. Soup? Same thing. Juicy meat - the name says it all. All of that adds up. You only need to fill up the rest and compensate for sweating. The obsession of drinking water is based on misunderstanding of what you really need.

[@chrissiesbuchcocktail]

@@jattikuukunen Are you talking to me? Then I don't get your point because what about what I said is inconvinient?

[@eyuns72]

In Europe we have worker rights, so if McDonalds want to sell burgers here, they have to abide to the local laws. I work for an American owned company, and we have the same rights as that macdonalds tweet mentioned. But the US offices don’t because they follow US law. Same company, different countries with different worker laws.

[@michaeltempsch5282]

Companies are free to offer better than the legally required minimum... BTW, no legally required minimum wage at all in Sweden - that's handled in kollektivavtal (collective agreements between the unions and the organisations for businesses/the employers. A company need not join the agreement, but if they do not offer the minimums per the agreement, are very likely to be put under pressure...

[@Soken50]

@@michaeltempsch5282 What company in a non-competitive labour market is gonna offer more than legally required? Anyone can flip burgers, they're not gonna offer vacation, pension, ect. unless the government forces them.

[@kebrus]

US pushes and normalizes water consumption to the extreme, drinking 6 glasses of water during a meal is not normal...

[@butaudo1918]

The reason why we don´t drink as much water is because the food isn´t full of sugars and chemicals that basically f*** up your whole system. I drink about 2 cups of water a day and one or two cups of tea, mostly because I want, not because I feel thirsty and the rest comes from food like soup, tomato, cucumber, grapes, yogurt etc etc.

[@Schachtschabel]

In the Netherlands most of these watertowers are decomissioned, most water organisations use pumps. They are now used as houses/offices or simply monuments.

[@thomasfranz6467]

Yeah, same in Germany, I know of many structures that are still called 'water tower', but I don't think any of them are still in use. They're just a part of the city.

[@Sander-zj3wi]

Water towers where needed as no communication was possible with the area as it is done nowadays. These old systems where pumps with a simple pressure switch that would switch the pumps on or off. Nowadays frequency controlled pumps are used to keep the pressure constant.

[@MrJimheeren]

The tree water towers in Amsterdam are all very much in use. Those millions of liters keep a lot of nice pressure on our water pipes

[@picobello99]

Yes. There's a water tower near my house that is now used as a home (I would never want to live there, seems really inconvenient lol)

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

They really should use stuff like water towers and Japanese water clocks as monuments to basic engineering. It's so beautiful how volumetric output can transfer to something like standard pressure or time elapsed.

[@Steeler-wg5zo]

So easy with Celsius: -10° Ice skating possible 0° freezing point 10° Uncomfortable 15° Fresh 20° T-shirt out 25° real summer day 30° quite hot 35° freaking hot 40° stay at home

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I'm a Highlander, so 0° and with the sun out is T-shirt weather.

[@sabinereimer7809]

​@@Thurgosh_OGI get it! I am living on an island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean... never 0 C. But very wet and a lot of wind... T-shirt weather starts at 15 C...😂

[@infin8ee]

I'm Australian so we'd never get anything done but I see your point 😂

[@LeVolture]

Wrong, 0 is melting point, below 0 is freezing point

[@TallisKeeton]

from -5C to +15C I like such temp to work outside, and when you work you dont need more than a tishert and flannel shirt or polar waistcout.

[@just_passing_through]

I grew up with Fahrenheit and converted to Celsius. I like C for weather too. 0 is obvious- you will get ice on your car at 0. 40 is hot - just swap your mindset from 100 being hot, to 40 being hot. It’s really that simple.

[@MrLucky5001]

European here. I've been taught to not drink much water during a meal, because it just fills you up. water has 0 calories, so it just ruins your appetite. after my meal, I drink as much water as I need to.

[@kimmygersmann8189]

Same here. I drink over half the glass after the meal.

[@TMPOUZI]

Celcius is perfect for weather for Southern Europe. 0 is freazing, 10 is cold, 20 is just fine, 30 is warm, 40 is too hot. And all the in betweens

[@Nails077]

My understanding is that Americans overhydrate massively and that might come from a misunderstanding about how much water the human body needs. We get a lot of water through what we eat and other things we drink that is mostly made of water, yet Americans seem to have the idea that water intake doesn't count unless it is just pure water.

[@Fragenzeichenplatte]

Or maybe it's all the sugary drinks.

[@drawbyyourselve]

Less over hydrating and more bapancing the salz Levels in the food. Americans eat way more of that stuff/ have it just in every meal in high quantities and therefore need more water.

[@PotsdamSenior]

I had a large portion of salad for dinner. Cucumber and tomato. So basically just water. I know, in the US that wouldn't even count as a meal.

[@DrVVVinK]

Like American's misunderstanding of circumcision.

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Or lobotomy, which came and went being legal and then illegal under the nose of nothing happening to circumcision.

[@arnodobler1096]

With the amount of sugar in US sodas, it's probably better to dilute it! The constant thirst in the US could also have something to do with sugar / diabetes.🤔

[@dalitrh]

I've been thinking the same thing.. The amount of water you only see with diabetes patients here in Europe. Or the morning after, but not all day every day. But as some people mention, the amount of sugar and salt pulls water out of the body.

[@arnodobler1096]

@@dalitrh Yes, the North Americans are once again the underdogs here.

[@OtagesBringthemhome_NOW]

Yes and way more salt and unhalthy additives than is allowed in Europe too. There is a good video explaining which and why so many American food and drink products are banned in Europe

[@mystery_exe]

I don't know about other places in Europe, but where I'm from you usually get served chilled glasses instead of ice. It's just as cool and refreshing as ice, way more convenient to drink from, it doesn't water it down and you don't get less of the actual drink.

[@isabelmauricio6394]

Or the drinks have been sitting in the fridge. They don't need ice.

[@elmerdeleeuw1569]

"and you don't get less of the actual drink." ... This right here is the issue. Actual drinks cost money, water doesn't. Make people think that "ice" means "quality", and they'll happily pay you for the privilege of you diluting their drinks to the barest minimum to still taste (somewhat) like the drink you are selling them.

[@hextatik_sound]

0 Fahrenheit dead cold? LOL! That's normal winter temperature where I live. No frostbites. We go skating, skiing, bicycling to school in that weather.

[@bonnie115]

I don't normally drink water with my meals. I'd rather have a nice cup of tea afterwards.

[@PedroConejo1939]

I'm with Europe on every one of those, but the American obsession with drinking extraordinary quantities of water is bordering being unhinged.

[@AltCutTV]

Apparently around 300 years ago or so, fancy folks in Sweden went to health resorts to drink water. And nothing else. 9 litres of it a day. I do wonder if most managed to pass it all before.. just passing. 🥵 Maybe this idea simply carried on to this day in US. Drinking excessive volumes of water is actually a health risk in itself. As is way too little, of course. But the latter should be a lot harder to not.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@AltCutTV considering the US are one of the most religious countries on the world, they probably decided that 40 days of lent wasn't enough

[@althelas]

Watertowers in Europe are not as common as they were 100-150 years ago. The old ones are decommissioned and a lot of them have been fixed up to become homes, but they are grade listed buildings under proteciotn of the state for being historical monuments. About drinking water... yes we drink water but apparently not to the extend of how much US Americans drink. When we go have dinner with friends, we usually share a few bottles of water among the whole table in addition to whatever drinks we have with our meals.

[@garryreeve824]

You don't see water towers much in England, I mean it rains so much we have webbed feet for God sake why would we want to store the damn stuff.

[@Kyragos]

There are water towers here in France, maybe not everywhere, but they are most often definetly plainer than the one shown here.

[@LeSarthois]

@@Kyragos yeah it's interesting to read comment about how water towers are less and less used used in Europe. I worked for SAUR and I can tell you the water towers we have in France are definitively, for the vast majority of them, in use.

[@peterfireflylund]

40 is scorching.

[@darkiee69]

Re: the apples. Those could be two completely different variants of apple. It doesn't have to be genetically modified at all, it could just been done the old fashioned way. The bigger one is most likely a cooking apple ment for jam, sauce and pie, while the other is a smaller eating apple. 6 glasses of water at lunch? Why, didn't she like the taste of the food? Or is she a garbage disposal and have to flush it down?

[@lvrobertus]

Right? Those are clearly just two different strains of apples. It would be like saying look at how bad being in the sun is and then showing a white and black person.

[@t.johnson2966]

We call the big ones cooking apples. Less to peel.

[@androcarot9288]

When I was in Chicago, too much ice. The drink is more water than drink. 😂😂

[@John-jw8rx]

That's the scam 😉

[@maskeddev]

They have to ice their drinks because without it you'd taste all the nasty added chemicals

[@LadyHeathersLair]

I (mostly) grew up on metric. I don’t get Fahrenheit, I like Celsius. But when it comes to a person’s height, I’ll admit that I can visualize a person in feet and inches rather than metres.

[@ikke12345]

6 full glases of water at lunch?? To much water is also toxic

[@MrThomashorst]

You have to drin 5-6 liter in a short time period to become intoxicated from water😂

[@Pidalin]

tell it to beer drinkers 😀

[@saya-mi]

@@Pidalin you know, beer is just liquid bread so that doesn't count as water 😂

[@kathylecluyse7820]

@@saya-mi True. I love my glass sandwiches!

[@Real_MisterSir]

@@MrThomashorst It's not a matter of the water being "toxic". It's a matter of drinking too much water not giving your body enough time to absorb nutrients and minerals due to excess water flooding it all out too quickly. And this happens way before the water itself becomes toxic to you. Different steps, both are bad. One is just less noticeable upfront.

[@garryreeve824]

The food thing in the U.S. is what happens when you let an industry police itself (FDA) What could possibly go wrong with that? 🤥

[@razorwireclouds5708]

They also allowed Boeing to investigate itself for negligence and poor manufacturing standards.

[@karenglenn6707]

My sister and I took our respective kids to the US for a holiday on the West Coast and we seriously struggled to find decent food with fresh vegetables. They would serve a salad but that was it. Trying to get mashed potato and fresh veg was a joke, the mash was fake and disgusting. The kids thought it was great, they got chips with everything. The food was absolute rubbish!! We stayed in one motel where breakfast was included, which was learnt on the first day was iced donuts! Who eats that crap for brekky!?? Even the kids weren’t happy, they wanted cereal which we had to buy with some milk so that they had a half decent breakfast. My son is grown now and still cannot eat iced donuts, they make him queasy 🤢 same for me.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Interestingly the ESRB seems to get it done. But only because they got the choice, either police themselves, or the government does it. And they wouldn't want the second option.

[@taranvainas]

Digestion becomes difficult if you drink 6 glasses of water during a meal. We are not fish.

[@ruggerorossi551]

About water : the drinking when eating depends on the person and personal choises actually; For example i don't drink when i eat because my doctor always told me that is pretty unhealty to drink when you are eating (i don't remember why tho) and therefore it's common knowledge among adults who teach this to their kids too; so, i think that is the reason why drinking while eating is not common; Also , i noticed when i saw photos of American dishes that besides peas and potatos and perhaps salad, i did not see "juicy" vegetables like tomatos, cucumber, or bell peppers ; foods that at least in my Country are eaten a lot especially in the summer, which help with the thirst (Edit : sorry for my English, i am just an old man trying to learn , please correct me if i did mistakes !)

[@Aegopodium]

You did really well. 💜

[@mynewname7830]

How you describe F vs C, it is basically feelings vs logical. Both makes sense based on your upbringing.

[@Jeni10]

Hey Ian, Aussies grew up with Fahrenheit as well! We just adapted very easily. Americans really don’t like change. I’ve witnessed that with so many things!

[@gerardflynn7382]

It is so easy to conform to the Metric system. Out of the 195 countries in the world 192 countries are in the Metric system. Only 3 are living in the Dark Ages Liberia, Myanmar and the US that are still using the Imperial measurement system.

[@IWrocker]

That’s a great point

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

When ever an American is finally able to confront objective reality, all her focus is shifted to double down on the emotional reality of opinion. This is actually my experience, it's not beneficial to teach certain type of person rational thinking. They will become fundamentalists of their remaining faith. Creationism basically.

[@Jeni10]

@@gerardflynn7382 Even the inventors of the Imperial system, the British Empire, switched go Metric in 1965! Stubbornness on the part of Americans, because it was introduced but never taken up!

[@John-jw8rx]

​@@Jeni10we still use both. Americans get confused when they find out we use "their" system 😂

[@walterverbeeck6929]

More shockingly is that a McDonald's hamburger, taste a lot more better than a McDonald's in the USA. Naturel meat instead of the hormon meat, and in the European buns for the hamburger, are no chemicals which also keep yogamats soft.

[@andregon4366]

I don't know about US but McDonald's food always tasted worse than the worst food a low grade restaurant can make. It tasted like I was eating from a landfill. 🤢 If US McDonald's is worse, then I don't know what drives people to eat their products (I refuse to call McDonald's products "food").

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

It's not just that it's hormone-meat. Hamburgers in McDonald's in the USA aren't even really meat. They would not be allowed in Europe. So we have actual minced meat - they don't. I think the European name for the US version would be "meat byproduct" instead of meat.

[@MLWJ1993]

They're still a far cry from a "proper" burger 😂

[@x340x]

@@MLWJ1993 eeh, not really.

[@Tschacki_Quacki]

@@x340x Oh yes, really. There are tons of documentaries that expose that McDonalds is getting a lot of it's meat from the worst places in Europe.

[@fadipolkahi5544]

Nah, it makes more sense for the zero to be at the point where things flip from freezing/melting.. but then i'm Dutch, so used to metric and celsius..

[@mbos14]

Yeah most of the Fahrenheit vs Celcius argument i have seen have been emotion based more then actual reason based. (as in what they grew up with so that why it makes sense. there is a KZbin video where someone just uses his own experiences as a reason why celcius doesn't make sense.) Also hello fellow Dutchy.

[@noefillon1749]

That's mostly a question of what you are used to. There is no "better" system for the human comprehension (except a system where usual temperatures are between 0.005 and 0.0052 but that would be pure stupidity).

[@antonioalonso2474]

You ar for me one the friendliest and sympathic american that i see/know @ KZbin :) The best part from you is, that naturally you have your own american sence and opinions BUT you are always open minded to see other possibilities or opinions in other cultures or countries....if more armericans were so empathic like you, the world would be more easier for all :)

[@arendbralds3324]

When below 0°C the water outside starts to freeze. Makes sense.

[@Hrochnick]

6 full glasses of water with lunch is just weird. What did you do in the afternoon? Urinate, just urinate. All afternoon. That's all.

[@jasoda2007]

The Danish Labour Unions broke McDonalds and forced them to comply with Danish standards when they tried to bully their way into the Danish market in the 1980`s…

[@Ikkeligeglad]

And still they earn money here but they don't pay any tax🤔

[@jasoda2007]

True 😊

[@gerardflynn7382]

The same happened to Walmart in Germany during the 1990's

[@Ikkeligeglad]

@@gerardflynn7382 Ask Musk what he thinks about the unions here in Scandinavia🤣🤣

[@da206hbe]

When you get a job in Sweden your employment contract usually consists of at most 2 pages. When Tesla employs someone here they have to sign an employment contract that's over 70 pages long. In it you have to agree, among other things, that anything you may invent in the future belongs to Tesla. Even if you don't work for them any more! How so many Americans admire this piece of shit is beyond me. He's smart, but his ethics. Same goes for Bezos. Known in most parts of the world as the employer from hell.

[@Alakablam]

Bigger produce usually doesn't do much positive for the flavour

[@mbos14]

Yeah it's a reason why nicer looking or bigger fruit tends to taste more watery.

[@Avvisoful]

But the picture at 6:11 COULD also be misleading and simply be a difference of normal apple varieties. Like Elstar on the left and Jonagold on the right. Two german apples I know, that could fit the pictures.

[@suicidalbanananana]

The weirdest thing about this? based on the flavors (or rather lack thereof) it's fair to say that pretty much all their fruit/veggie produce are bigger _because they contain more water_ yet they all drink like 3x or more water, maybe to dilute the pesticides etc? 🤣

[@jimb9063]

@@Avvisoful It's a bit disingenuous anyway IMO, it's something that humans have been doing to plants for thousands of years, not just recently with GM. Modifying them to make the yield bigger. That "natural organic" apple would look nothing like the original fruit that humans started to cultivate..

[@kathylecluyse7820]

@@Avvisoful I had the impression the left apple was a Cox Orange Pippin, very tasty apple that, but on the smallish side. Greetings from Belgium btw!

[@KARMAZYNA]

11:11 Yep, that's an actual water tower in my city (Wrocław, Poland). It's no longer used an such though. There's a restaurant up on the top floor, so you can admire the cityscape during your meal. 😊

[@peckelhaze6934]

I have adapted to using metric and imperial, Fahrenheit and Centigrade here in the UK. I grow my own apples and they are organic. They resemble the apple on the right (EU), I have never seen an apple like the US one here in the UK. That is a mutant apple. I drink a lot of water. My city has a beautiful big Victorian water tower, no longer used.

[@John-jw8rx]

6 glasses of water loaded with ice. My stomach is aching just thinking about it😂

[@Lunary_]

Celsius is Much Better for Weather NEGATIVE Degrees is REALLY Cold and 30+ IS Pretty Hot 100 = Dead etc.

[@marcapouli7805]

I went few times in a sauna when I was younger, it was 98° celsius. Hot, but not deadly at all 🙂

[@roevhaal578]

@@marcapouli7805 Yea but you're sitting still and sweating for a limited amount of time, imagine going outside and get hit by the sun at that temperature.

[@maskharat]

​@@marcapouli7805 42°C and above starts being deadly. Just a matter of more or less time needed. If you have 100°C in a sauna you're in a slow cooker, that's OK for a while, your body will manage to keep cool for 15 - 30 mins through evaporation. If you get 100°C in the sun you're in a microwave. High energy radiation, i. e. the sun, is more effective at putting heat into you than transmission through air is.

[@taranvainas]

@@marcapouli7805 If you had been at 98º C you would have been there, but dead.

[@marcapouli7805]

@@taranvainas I'm still here !

[@senzelian]

Of course we drink water in Europe. Usually around 2L a day. In hoter climates we drink more than that and in colder climates less. But when we're going to a restaurant we usually dont drink water, as this is a relatively special occasion. So we drink beer, whine or Coke for example. At home we tend to drink more water. Of course there are exceptions.

[@Sadlander2]

Are you a bass player or just a fan of Duff McKagan? ;-) Big time Gn'R fan here!

[@senzelian]

@@Sadlander2 Just a fan 😁 Duff is the guy I can most identify with. GnR is one of my favorite bands of all time. :)

[@hawthorn187]

We have a watertower from 1764 but it's not in use anymore. We now have water recycling.

[@MorenoJ1973]

I'm a European. Ok, the border are now better and difference. But don't forget the Berlin Wall and (The Iron Curtain) of the cold war in Europe. How many people died trying to cross the wall or border. Europe was not always that friendly, warm place. It is recommended to drink at least 1.7 liters of water per day. For the proper functioning of your kidneys and against dehydration. For example, if you weigh 60 kilos, recommended drink is 2.1 liters in my country.

[@vampire4312]

The Ice-Thing is pretty simple: No free refills in (most of?) europe. So, we tend to like some actual in our glass, instead of 99% frozen water.

[@thyrussendria8198]

Another point: European drinks come pre-cooled instead of being cooled entirely by the ice

[@jhonnycubero21]

We drink water. But we just don't drink it excessively during lunch and dinner.

[@issey1456]

Most people keep a small water bottle at work and refill it with tap water

[@thomasfranz6467]

Only in America do you hear people dying because they drank too much water in the news. America seems to have a weird obsession with that stuff, it's seemingly advertised everywhere and people talk about it all the time. I just drink whenever I'm thirsty, hasn't killed me yet. I don't even have space in my stomach for the amounts of liquid some Americans chug down at a normal dinner. Of course salty and sugary food increases water demand, but by that much?

[@stribs44]

It's just about getting use to Centigrade

[@Paxmax]

In Germany I was surprised when several of my colleagues didn't have anything to drink at lunch time if we ate out!? When we get back we do take a cup of coffe. Everone has a bottle of water ready at all times at work. They also had a miracle tap in the kitchenette: One knob that turns sideways and up/down. And that controls the single spout to release, chilled water, instantly heated water, room temp plain water, carbonated water(cold or room temp). Only downside, no ice 😂

[@just_passing_through]

10:01 The stomachs of most Europeans won’t even HOLD 6 glasses of water. The human stomach is approximately the size of your fist. Only if you practice stretching it over your entire life can you fit 6 glasses of water in it without feeling bloated. Only force feeding yourself humongous portion sizes every day of your life will stretch the stomach to the point where “stomach stapling” even becomes an option.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Depends on how tall you are, and if you do a lot of exercise or physical labour you will have to eat more as well. When I was a teenager there were kids in my class who would eat like 12 slices of bread in one sitting for breakfast and then again for lunch, they werent fat.

[@asaris_]

German here and I can't speak for everyone but personally speaking in regards to the drinking amount thing: I prefer to do the majority of my liquid intake AT HOME where I predictably have a toilet (not just any random, but MINE) in reach. Definitely beats being out and about and not knowing where the nearest public one is or in which state it's in. As I said, I don't dare to speak about everyone here, but I guess something along the lines of that might be a reasoning for a lot of people.

[@cinziaalbini3676]

Italian here, it's the same thing for me too

[@ahmanni]

in weather also it is important to know when it get close to freezing temperatures so you can expect ice on the roads. At least in here high north. Greetings from Finland.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Even moreso in places where it isn't that cold most of the year. So you want to know when the three days in February with ice show up.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Keep in mind that the Big Mac price in Denmark is including taxes. And the standard VAT rate in Denmark is 25%, so of those $4.90 only $3.675 go actually to the company.

[@Philemaphobia]

And of the 22,- wage, how much gets paid to the bank account of the worker? Roughly 10,-? Closer to 9? With all the benefits it’s still better, but you can see even in the video reaction how it’s misleading by a lot, when it doesn’t have to be.

[@andreimoisa4895]

Closer to 9? How have reached that number? All the taxes in Dk are around 40%, so if you get 22$ before taxes you will end up with 12.14$ after tax…and in Denmark if you have more than 24 km commute (12km each way) you get something called commuter deduction. So you get some money back in the taxes. And then, free hospitals, free schools (you actually get paid to go to school) and much more

[@Philemaphobia]

@@andreimoisa4895 Sorry, I used the tactic ‚say something wrong on the Internet if you want to get an answer quickly‘ Thanks for your response. Are tax rates the same for everybody or are they capped? (I still don’t get, why the initial statement is worded so weirdly, even it were 9 instead of 12ish, as I stated before - the argument would still hold.

[@andreimoisa4895]

@@Philemaphobia the taxing depends on the municipality you are living in. It’s usually a difference of maximum 3% between municipality. But there are a lot of tax deductions. I even get deductions because I have a mortgage. You even get deductions if you hire a company to work at your house (renovation, replacing windows). You do have extra 15% tax if you have high income though (above 94.000 $ yearly). But usually this people get nice company cars, bonuses and all sort of benefits that balance that out.

[@timpeterjensen2364]

@@Philemaphobiai dont remember the specific numbers, but if you are earning millilons you are combined likely over 50% in taxes, if you are a mcd. Worker, you are likely around 35% (also theres a an amount yearly thats akwsys tax free, for the rich people it barely matters, for the lowest earners its a decent chunk)

[@kopasdupas]

We do have water towers, but most of them are inactive since the pumping technology progress made them obsolete. The biggest water tower in my town has been converted into waterworks museum. Some are used as a fancy places to meet, and others are left empty, unused.

[@TheBerteh]

There are many Victorian era water towers that are very gothic in design in the UK. They are considered historically significant and are very rarely demolished unless unsafe. Most are unused now and quite a few have been converted to dwellings :)

[@JohnDoe-us5rq]

There are some pretty big apple variaties available around here, too. But usually, the smaller the apple, the better the taste. At least more 'applely' 😃

[@Slgjgnz]

About water, it's not that European don't drink, it's that they don't drink during meals. That's something we learn as a child, avoid drinking while eating. It's bad for your health, as it can dilute your enzymes leading to slower digestion, increase the volume of your stomach leading to bloating, and alter satiety signals leading to overeating and rapid hunger. We drink between meals.

[@suicidalbanananana]

Honestly the amount of water & salt the average American consumes goes a fairly long way in explaining why even the healthy ones often still look "puffy" 😉

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

Who the hell doesn't drink alongside their meal?! I'm German and I've never known for a bottle or jug of water to not be on the table.

[@baka_yu9343]

@@diarmuidkuhle8181 I think they mean bigger amounts than a glas or two. In the extreme case mentioned, we wouldn't drink 1-2 liters while eating, but between meals, we could probably add up to that number. Just not during the meal.

[@mixlllllll]

That's bullshit, we have always drank during meal. Speak for yourself.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I'm not sure where in Europe you are from @Slgjgnz but most of us in the UK, do have a drink during a meal. Be it Tea, coffee, a soft drink or an alcoholic beverage, most of us have one with our food.

[@perolofjohansson4924]

One more for the weather in Celsius -12 / +12 are when i starts to get really cold and the snow changes its structure and when it gets warm enough so you get that the spring is here or when it goes below the fall is here to stay

[@TheSuperappelflap]

I take a 1 liter glass bottle with me to work and then try to drink it 2 times while Im there, its nice to have some water with my coffee and I dont ingest all the microplastics from plastic cups and bottles. Then with lunch I dont have to drink much unless it is very spicy.

[@module79l28]

3:35 - I can assure that the standards are actually different pretty much all around Europe because we refrigerate our drinks, so we hardly ever need to put ice in them.

[@Loki1815]

Why are Muricans ALWAYS sipping a drink? Talk for 30 seconds, sip, another 10 seconds, Sip! Ad infinitum... I saw an un-uncut video of a female, English, judge, passing sentence for 37 minutes, never missed a beat, never stuttered and never took a drink!!

[@LucaMuccioli]

Too much sugar in theirs food and drinks and a probable type 2 diabetes

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

Celsius is perfect for weather. Below 0 is freezing, below 10 cold, 20 is room temperature and above 30 is a heatwave.

[@bliblivion]

5:09 Tap watter is free in France, ask for more watter next time.

[@lina9535]

Have you seen that picture of the highway in China that goes from like 20 lanes or something to like 1-5? That is madness

[@marcapouli7805]

Where I grew up in France, the water tower was called "chateau d'eau" (water castle). It was an old stone made tower. It doesn't exist anymore though 😢

[@ferchrissakes]

The water thing: America seems to have taken the “8 glasses a day” to heart, and the gone all ‘merican with it, and gone too far. The thing is, that 8 glasses a day rule-of-thumb *includes* water absorbed from food and other drinks too. It was never intended to mean “chug gallons of water at all times regardless of anything”. It was no different than recommendations to eat 3 pieces of fruit a day or make sure you get some fiber, but the water thing just ran off on its own. In Europe, you just drink to stay hydrated not as some sort of socially enforced ritual. We have cigarettes for that.

[@SuperLn1991]

I remember the first time I saw apples in the USA! They were red! Not just a bit red like red apples are supposed to be, they were red as blood, and so shiny and big, perfectly round! They literally looked like cartoon's fruits! And they tasted..... nothing. Apples are not supposed to be shiny! I had to go to a posh organic farmer market to find very expensive normal apples.

[@Tschacki_Quacki]

Not saying that the apples you tried weren't trash but there are many apple varieties that are shiny and nothing is wrong with them. Many apples have a stronger wax layer on the outside. They are getting cleaned with brushes which also acts as a polish for the wax layer and they become shiny 🙂

[@sannita2007]

One: about C vs F About weather, specifically in colder countries is very crucial to know how much below cero the temperature is. 0 is slushy snow and probably rain & ice. We immediately know what to wear. -5 -> -10 (some say -15 but I don’t agree) it’s very nice weather to go out. -20 and you seriously need to bundle up. And then there is a factor with wind: it can be -10 but “feels like” -22. Yes, I’m from Finland and we do not have snow/ice days. We go to school/work in all weather. Second: Do you need to add tip to your almost 6$ burger?

[@lionfighter10]

i dont go to a restaurant to drink water ... ill get a softrdink or a glas of bier (0.5l) minimum

[@billigmad3720]

I'm from Denmark. Many years ago I learned that you are not supposed to drink a lot of water/soda/beer/whatever during a meal or straight after. It has something to do with the acid in your stomach. So I drink water before a meal (like an hour before), and small dozes during a meal. Then in between meals, I'll chug down a big glass of water every 1-2 hour (when I feel thirsty). At the end of the day, I'm at about 3 liters - maybe 4 at summertime. And that is the recommendation (for summertime with some extra activities - like I walk 2 hours a day). Otherwise it should be about 1½-2 liters a day.

[@jeffree9015]

We wouldn't want a glass of ice, we don't get free refills.

[@mixlllllll]

Some places do have free refills.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@mixlllllll Not many and some of those are actually US companies, like 5 Guys.

[@dwarzi]

Buffet places have free refills

[@MikesVoyagesAndDrives]

Regarding borders: I live in eastern Switzerland and it's just under ten minutes by car to Austria and about 30 minutes to Germany. It's also 15 minutes to Liechtenstein, where there are actually no border controls. I go shopping in Austria almost every week because the prices there are much lower than here in Switzerland. As I'm German, I also go to Germany from time to time to buy some things there that you can't get here in Switzerland. Austrian and German customs never actually check anything. Swiss customs almost always check at some border crossings with Austria, but only occasionally at others. As a normal rule, you are simply waved through if you have a Swiss license plate. Regarding ice in drinks and drinking in restaurants: I think it's completely exaggerated to put so much ice in drinks. At some point you only drink water and if I want to drink water, I order water. During my stays in the USA, I often experienced that the whole drink tasted strongly of chlorine because of all the ice, as the drinking water is probably chlorinated there. Perhaps I only notice this as a European because it is unusual for me, but since then I have always ordered my drinks in the USA without ice. It's also the case that there are no free refills in Europe. That's why it's unusual to drink a lot with your meal in restaurants. It just gets expensive. But even if there were free refills, I certainly wouldn't drink six drinks during the meal unless it was extremely hot. I also want to eat and if my stomach is full of water, nothing else will fit. There are not many water towers in Europe. The one in the photo is also not a normal example, but rather a historical monument.

[@HaurakiVet]

Your comment about familiarity being a factor in seeing the value or otherwise on either system is, I believe, quite true. I learned the imperiasl system at school here in NZ but when we adopted the metric system, in its totality, unlike the UK) I had to adapt. As existing cars had speedometers showing miles per hour the government provided small stickers to put on the face of these instruments giving key speeds showing on road signs, so 30mph was replaced by 50kph, 40 mph by 70 kph and 60 mph, which was the open road speed at the time, to 80kph. The conversion period passed very quickly, although there was, naturally, some lag where habit held on. Years on I find that temperaturebin celcius is second nature to me and my peers, there is no attempt to rejig mentally from Celsius to Fahrenheit needed in order to visualise conditions. I know that setting the thermostat to around 20+ degrees will give abreasonable inside temperature, and that the high twenties or low thirties is summery. Single digits is wintery. What really consolidates things is talking with one's children or grandchildren. They have no clue what miles, pounds and farenheit and for me to use them in conversation would be speaking to them in a foreign language.

[@lina9535]

I remember one year, very early in the morning as I was going to sleep (was like around 3am), and I was like "what's that sound?" So I look outside my window and they are laying new concrete on one of the two lanes outside my building (I'm on the 1st floor, entry floor has no apartments, and from the road I'm technically 2 floors up). They did that work at night so that it wouldn't hinder traffic later. Still annoyed me because I had to shut my window to not hear it 😂

[@Jeni10]

“How much does McDonald's - Management in Australia pay? The average McDonald's salary ranges from approximately $57,078 per year for Assistant Manager to $90,569 per year for Operations Manager. Average McDonald's hourly pay ranges from approximately $27.34 per hour for Shift Manager to $27.98 per hour for Manager.” Macca’s abide by the Australian laws for business management, employers and employees, including holiday pay, sick leave andcparental leave, because these things are not benefits in Australia, they’re the norm for any full time job.

[@aniieesteiner]

0F/-18C, deadly cold, cars won't start. Meanwhile, in the Nordics....

[@Wabbajack-t7p]

-30c or more for a week and the lowest was -37c where i live. Not fun times😂

[@annafrolova7891]

​@@Wabbajack-t7pOymyakon: hold my beer! Oymyakon is the coldest town on earth, -60°C is a regular winters temperature, the record one was -72°C. And yes, people live there))) Tom Hardy was there starring a documentary. Tom was lucky enough that winter was warm, only -50°C 😂😂😂

[@Wabbajack-t7p]

@@annafrolova7891 😅

[@lisso71]

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[@AnNi1492K]

It is not healthy to drink a lot while eating. It makes digestion worse 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@MagdalenaBozyk]

yes, exactly. You need your saliva for digesting. And it also helps you knowing when you have chewed enough (the process mixes food with saliva). If it's hard to swallow - you need to chew more, not drink water.

[@infin8ee]

Or exercising . It can cause a loss of electrolytes etc and people have died. It's an American thing and a gen z thing!

[@MrSuperJensen]

Ofcause we drink water. We just don’t use as much salt. 😉

[@Rhinoleum]

6 glasses of water during lunch? That's what an average person in Europe will drink throughout a day, not during a lunch.

[@monikadeinbeck4760]

in Europe water in a restaurant is very expensive, so people will drink tap water at home. when I'm away from home the whole day I will have a water bottle with me. In a restaurant, I do not drink to hydrate, I drink for pleasure.

[@mixlllllll]

In most restaurants in my country tap water is free.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Tap water is legally free on request in all eating (while sitting in, not take away foods) establishments in the UK.

[@MeganovaLP]

Americans drink so much water because of all the sugar in their food. Diabetics also drink a lot more water than normal people here in Europe.

[@palantir135]

No, if the body is exposed to higher sugar levels, it learns to deal more efficiently with those levels. Only diabetics are very thirsty after sugar intake. First the sugar has to get into the blood.

[@Dr_KAP]

It’s more likely from the high salt content 😊

[@elaradtke9439]

celsius is also easier to understand for weather temperature. it’s in relation to our body temperature which is around 36. 37 is elevated, 38/39 fever and by 40 its getting very dangerous and life threatening.

[@agalie7139]

A cousin from US, in visit, drank about 3-4 liters of water in a day, 2-3 beers and a glass or two of soda. It was not even hot outside. I barely drink 2-3 liters in all. But after a week he started to drink less. I think is because of the US food : too salty, highly processed, less veggies and the body needs a lot of water to digest.

[@midnightkitchen8379]

So true

[@bigsweade]

-18C is childs play. In northern Sweden you can easily have -25 or even lower. My old Volvo started up without a fuss when it was -42 one morning. At -18 the kindergarden kids are out playing in the snow, lol

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

I'm from southern sweden, never experinced temprature under -20 and i'm saddened because it have become uncommon it even dips below -10 now days