Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Traditions That Are Weird To The Rest Of The World


What's normal to one country's locals might be looked on as nothing but pure madness to the rest of the world. Traditions are weird like that. Sometimes we'll grow up thinking that our family traditions were nothing outside the ordinary, only to go on to realize that they were truly bizarre. Like having the kids go out to play in a frozen tundra that is well below 0 degrees. 

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Text - JimBobBoBubba • 2y Sending the kids out to play in -20° weather. F or C. 990 ...

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Text - Andromeda321 • 2y At a wedding, it's normal for the bride who's wearing white to disappear and return in a red dress. Then the wedding emcee says something on the lines of "there's one less girl in the world, and one more woman," and then to collect money in a hat. If you put money in the hat, you get to dance with the bride, and pretty much everyone in the wedding party will do so (usually the money goes towards the honeymoon these days). It's also a tradition but not at all weddings for

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Text - IqouLe • 2y Being able to check how much anyone gets paid 4.8k ...

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Text - tappydidjustpassedby • 2y No fucking speedlimit on the Autobahn! 1.7k ...

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Text - Brudaks • 2y Apparently going out to a nearby forest in a random late summer Saturday with a knife in your hand to pick mushrooms is considered weird and socially unacceptable in many countries around the world. + 346 ...

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Text - per08 · 2y Summer. Shopping Centres. Bare feet. Australia. 1.4k ... +B

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Text - svehlic25 • 2y Few days before Xmas we buy a live Karp(fish) and fill our bathtubs with water and let it swim around for a day or two before killing and fileting it for Xmas dinner. We do this because karp are bottom feeders and it helps to clean it out. That's what l've been told at least. Slovakia, likely Czechs too. EDIT: The clean water helps filter through the fish, it doesn't help clean the bottom of the tub as far as l'm aware ;) 582 ...

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Text - ramya92 • 2y Side to side nod to imply yes Edit: I am from India...talking about the classic indian nod. 1.4k ...

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Text - MePirate • 2y Not my country but when I was deployed to Kyrgyzstan I learned that marriage by kidnapping is somewhat normal. I was talking to one of the locals and she told me her sister got kidnapped for marriage and I was in shock, and she goes " no it's okay, we know him and he is a nice guy". Apparently it isn't as violent as you would imagine but more of a tradition thing. 3.5k ...

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Text - tfxin • 2y Measuring in feet,inches, and pounds 2.5k ...

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Text - TheBassMeister • 2y If you work in an office here in Germany and open two windows to get a cool draft, a coworker will close them angrily in the next few minutes, yelling angrily "Es zieht". A lot of Germans wrongly believe that a draft will give them all kind of sicknesses from a stiff neck to a common cold. There is of course no scientific proof that a draft is harmful. 3.9k ...

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Text - Burritozi11a • 2y Gravy and cheese curds on fries 645 ...

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Text - mememe7770• 2y For my Malaysian girlfriend : Not drying off after a shower. Just walk around the bathroom, dripping everywhere and going about the rest of your routine Source: I'm Canadian and visited her family last year. Post-thought: we compromise now. She dries her hair and I do my best to bottle my emotions XD 798

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Text - TitchyBeacher • 2y Eating salted yeast slurry, also known as Vegemite. It sounds disgusting. I'll even concede that it looks disgusting. It is delicious. 79 ...

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Text - detmeng • 2y It's my understanding that PB&J sandwiches are not considered a yummy sandwich in countries other than the US of A. 710 ...

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Text - fingerpaintswithpoop · 2y Making small talk with people you meet in public (America.) Less common in some parts than others, like you're more likely to have someone strike up a conversation with you while waiting for the bus somewhere in Alabama than in New York, but from what I hear that simply doesn't happen anywhere in Europe. 1 54 •..

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Text - Clayman8 • 2y Eating a pot-full of melted cheese with bread on tiny fork-spikes, then having thick whipped cream for dessert. 96 ...

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Text - veryfascinating • 2y Singapore - it is normal to use packets of tissue paper (paper napkins) to reserve your table at a food court (hawker center) while you go and buy your food. 1.1k ...

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White - Marius_Nightfire • 2y Milk in a bag. 1.3k ... +B

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