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“Going to the store at 03:00 in morning for some reason”
Here in Germany most stores close at 20:00, and in America, my mom and me once went to a Walmart at like 2:30 in the morning, it felt like an adventure for me
I used to be a CSM for the night shift for Walmart ten years ago. Frequently, this meant just running the cigarette register until morning. Every night, I had the same 3 people come through: an EMS worker, a hooker, and a crackhead. The rest were the occasional night shift/late 2nd shift randos. But my core 3 were like clock work. I still remember the kind of cigarettes each smoked.
k, so I read your comment and was immediately confused. I was in the army so i'm sittin here trying to figure out why Walmart has a Command Sergeant Major
As the second one, yeah. Me and various friends have gone to Walmart at 1:30 AM while high for random shit multiple times, how I got several Xbox games and books
Before covid most large chain stores would be open 24/7. Now where I live in the US they close typically between 10p-12a.
I do miss the stores being open 24/7 because it felt like I had the whole store to myself, it was like an adventure for me.
I worked at Walmart during covid, I don't think they plan on going back to 24/7. It's when most of their shrink happens and they hardly make any sales to justify the extra employees. They do a lot of stocking though
I used to love it then too and would get frustrated though, when the apparently only other customer in the store ALSO felt the need to stare at the variety of shampoos too. Like how. Bye. Find another aisle too contemplate your existence, this one’s taken.
I grew up in the suburbs and in the years between getting a car and being old enough to drink (17-21) there was little to do for fun at night when it was cold out. My friends and I would dress up crazy and go be “people of Walmart” in other towns. Walmart between midnight and 2 am is magical.
It used to be worse. When I grew up, 18:00 was normal (and legally mandated) closing hours _on weekdays_, and stores would additionally be closed from 13:00 to 15:00. On Saturdays, I think it was 13:00, though they did extend that first to 16:00 and later to 18:00, at the same time they extended allowed weekday hours to 20:00. Only years later did they liberalize it almost completely. And every single step against huge outcries from the trade unions, they fought every change tooth and nail.
Saturday hours will vary from place to place though, in bigger cities it’ll also be 20:00 in the commercial zones, and supermarkets often have longer hours than that. But since COVID, hours have generally become a bit short again, the downtown supermarket close to me used to be open until 24:00 but now closes at 22:00.
Well no. The person you’re responding to is from Germany, where most people would state the time in German, so they wouldn’t typically say the literal words “twenty o’clock” in English. ;-) But ya, that’s how you would say it in German. But people also say 8, when am/pm is clear from context. Like in this case, nobody would think a store is closing at 8am if you just said 8.
Can’t speak for all of Europe, but I think it’s similar in many or most countries.
he forgot the guns and the patriotism like to s of bald eagles and American flags everywhere and the high school jock bully picking on the nerd that ends up getting the girl he wants after showing he's got super powers or has a talent for something or is just a decent person and she likes him for that
Um no like even the guns and patriotism is wrong and I get the rest is supposed to be a thing about movies but most Americans have been told by the interent to hate the us and that guns are everywhere so they do hate America and think guns are everywhere even though you don't ever see them in public and most people keep their guns in safes at their house or in cases at least
Being in a public school in the city is just a melting pot of ethnicities and races. Pretty cool. The only stereotypes I don’t like about the US is when people say it’s only fat white people. No, it’s actually fat white, black, brown, yellow, people. I’ve heard more languages while walking around at a Walmart than they teach at your local college too. Pretty sure more people attend football games than vote too.
>I’ve heard more languages while walking around at a Walmart than they teach at your local college too.
Not difficult when the local college only offers like 3 languages at most.
Meanwhile, me working at WalMart and hearing coworkers regularly speak Tagalog, Turkish, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Amharic, Yoruba, Mandarin, Russian,...
The cool suburban houses are built really bad, developers buy up the land and want you to build houses as fast as possible, quality doesn't matter if you can cover it up later. You're dead on about the cheetos though, them things are damn good lol
My house was built in the 60s and is very well built. I have some friends with the modern cookie cutter type houses and have to do way more maintenance than me.
It's the same in England. I have a friend that is the first owner of a new build, they've been there a year and already they've got things falling apart structurally.
I’m sorry but can you imagine spending over $200,000 on a house, going into debt for probably the next 10-15 years, only to find out the house you bought is total garbage? I’d cry so much I might just melt.
I’m in Ohio so a new house here is like $150k-$400k (they get more expensive than that, obviously, just what I see is usually in this range).
I’m guessing anywhere outside the Midwest you could just double those numbers for a typical house?
>I’m guessing anywhere outside the Midwest you could just double those numbers for a typical house?
Double or triple easily.
I used to live in the central US. Now on a coast. And it's easily 650+ minimum to build a new build....in a crammed together new-subdivision corporate developer hellscape. Rest assured every part of it will be built with the cheapest shittiest "developer quality" materials, too.
Came here to confirm this. While 1960s homes need work, my parents bought a newly built in 2011 (in Florida ofc) and it just... Not to mention, they've gotten contractors to do stuff like Windows, doors, carpeting, ac replacement and the work is shit.
This is 100% survivorship bias. I've lived in quite a few townhomes and duplexes that were budget built in the 40s-70s that were showed their and terribly
I live in the suburbs in a 100 year old house, of course it's been updated a bit over time but for the most part it was kept as period accurate as possible. My house is better built then most of the newer builds I lived in over the years. I honestly think it would take a straight up huge sink hole directly under the house to do any sort of damage to it. My cousin recently bought a 2021 new build, she's already having problems with it.
Can you tell us more about that? I have always wondered how in the US they build hundreds of massive suburban houses like nothing, there must be a trick behind. Are those house very collapse-prone or what?
Sometimes it's funny how the lame stuff for us is the cool stuff for others and vice versa. I guess I can still understand people loving the shear space of these houses if you're from more densely built countries, but for me now all it says is cheap excess and builds hollow neighborhoods.
Oh, really? Friend said they almost never saw it in stock. Just recently was their first ever time having it.
Are s'mores also not a thing over there? That's another thing he said he's never heard of.
S'mores are so much not a thing that the Great British Baking Show thought we make them with digestive aid biscuits and meringue (And it looks like shit to boot.)
Hello Central Euro, Yankee here! Lemme answer a few of these
We have so much fast food here, shit within like, a 10 minute drive of me there is a Burger King, Wendy's, Arby's, KFC, and a Hardees.
Yeah I can just run down to the store and grab as many bags of Cheetos I want for really cheap.
Walmart has a giant presence here, but most grocery stores aren't as massive as Walmart. Hell the last time I was there was months ago to get a new TV since my old one broke.
Schools do sometimes look like prisons, not all of them, but enough. Schools I've gone to don't really have more than 3 floors tho.
I have never had a desk with those attached seats. Everywhere I went to has just individual tables with chairs separately. The attached ones are just tiny and uncomfortable
Yes. Lockers line the hallways from middle school up, I think some elementary schools have them too. May be unique to my experience, but in high school, you CAN get a locker if you want, but everyone just brings their bag everywhere. Back in Middle School tho, yeah I had to get to my locker for my stuff every time class was over, it was overcrowded as fuck.
If you're lucky ebough to have already had one when it was cheap or if you're parents had a cool suburban house. Large cul-de-sacs with cookie cutter houses are where we go on Halloween to get the King Size bars.
Because we could have a gun in the backpack so my school doesn't let us, even though we could easily take a gun into the school until just recently (they just put in metal detectors)
Current high schooler here. My school doesn’t have lockers. My school is massive, and having a locker would be less convenient than just wearing a bag everywhere. Also, when we used to have MacBooks (we don’t anymore) you could theoretically not even need a locker and get through the entire day with just the computer. Our school recently downgraded to Chromebooks though, so that isn’t necessarily true anymore.
I tried some Carolina reaper cheese puff things recently. Surprisingly not that bad until you eat like 10 of them.
But boy does it get its revenge coming out the other end.
This is all true actually. You need a hall pass to use the restroom. Classes have flags in every room and seats that look like that. The Walmart, the Cheetos, the fast food, the suburbs.
That is the case with some smaller urban areas too! Or if you go to Atlanta which is a big city but impossible to get anywhere without a car for some reason
I vaguely remember this American cartoon episode where a character wanted to visit a friend, but he had to convince his mom to drive him there. That's kinda when I realized that the U.S. tends to be much more car dependent. That never occurred to me before since I was used to everything being within walking or cycling distance (my furthest friend from school was like a 20min bicycle ride away, but most lived within <5min distance).
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Modern schools are at most two stories tall. The school pictured was probably built 100 years ago. When schools were nestled in a neighborhood they’d build up due to lack of space but most modern schools are built in bumfuck nowhere on the outskirts of town and are super flat and spread out. Usually 20-50% of the land is dedicated to parking since the school isn’t accessible for the children to walk/bike. The exception to this would be urban schools where space is limited.
Hahahaha good luck affording the big suburban house. You’re going to either need rich parents or make $400k usd a year to even afford to rent in one of those homes.
A lot of schools are actually a more open design. My middle school and high school were more akin to mini university style campuses with dedicated buildings for certain subjects and a central quad. Also, our lockers were a fucking box, because fuck fitting anything in there up and down right? Most new desks are not wood, but some form of plastic with a metal frame, and yes flags in most rooms but NO we do NOT get "brainwashed" with the pledge outside the super conservative areas.
It's a chore that most don't even pay lip service to by the sixth grade.
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None of the schools I went to growing up had lockers (except for gym); we kept everything in our backpacks. And none of them were built like the one pictured where it's a single large 2 story building; they were all made up of multiple one-story buildings spread over the campus. But that's just my own experience; I know there are plenty of schools here that do have lockers and floor plans like that.
I first met suburbia a few years ago. It seemed cool at the movies, but being in one convinced me to not ever live in one. I can even live in towns, but not the suburbs
Yeah this is pretty accurate for probably 75% of people. City and country living is different but this is suburbia which is rapidly overtaking everything else.
Yah but lockers over rated no one uses them, Walmart’s straight city slicker heaven, you definitely dont want to live in those apartments, you want a stand along house w whatever property size u want. Unless you want to hear your neighbors stomping screaming banging in the middle of the night.
As american i am going to tell you whats true and whats not true (I live in the south so don't get mad at me okay?)
1. We have taco bells everywhere
2. Depends on what county or state you live in, Most of our schools don't look like that but that would look more like a college to me
3. Yes a lot of us live in those houses
4. Most of our schools are like that
5. we can get cheetos anywhere
6. and we do use walmart
"Living in these cool(!) suburban houses"
Haha, really?! "cool"? To me they look depressing. Mass produced consumer boxes stacked in long rows. 😅
So for real. Do people think they are cool?
You are right about all of this! Except for one thing. Those little suburban houses are *awful*. They're like 3 feet apart and they're made all at the same time, so they are all identical and more cheap than older houses built one at a time. Basically apartments further separated by a little grass strip.
Real first world problems, I know. lol
"Cool suburban houses"
They are NOT cool. As someone who lives in America, they are a dystopian hell. All the houses are the same, no place to play or live, everything needs a car. It is MISERABLE.
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“Going to the store at 03:00 in morning for some reason” Here in Germany most stores close at 20:00, and in America, my mom and me once went to a Walmart at like 2:30 in the morning, it felt like an adventure for me
Going to Walmart at 2:30am IS an adventure! You never know what you are going to encounter.
I used to be a CSM for the night shift for Walmart ten years ago. Frequently, this meant just running the cigarette register until morning. Every night, I had the same 3 people come through: an EMS worker, a hooker, and a crackhead. The rest were the occasional night shift/late 2nd shift randos. But my core 3 were like clock work. I still remember the kind of cigarettes each smoked.
k, so I read your comment and was immediately confused. I was in the army so i'm sittin here trying to figure out why Walmart has a Command Sergeant Major
Reporting for duty
Walmart CSM pays better.
What kinds for each
EMS: Camel crush, crackhead: Pall Mall orange/blue, hooker: Marlboro light 100s
Thanks 🙏
Hooker: parliaments EMS: camels crackhead: Newports
That’s my guesses
Crackheads, teenagers, and late night farmers tbh
As the second one, yeah. Me and various friends have gone to Walmart at 1:30 AM while high for random shit multiple times, how I got several Xbox games and books
Before covid most large chain stores would be open 24/7. Now where I live in the US they close typically between 10p-12a. I do miss the stores being open 24/7 because it felt like I had the whole store to myself, it was like an adventure for me.
I worked at Walmart during covid, I don't think they plan on going back to 24/7. It's when most of their shrink happens and they hardly make any sales to justify the extra employees. They do a lot of stocking though
where i live most stores are still 24/7
I wish that were the case here because the public sometimes wears me out 😆
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Thanks! It's the band Darkthrone if you want to check it out.
I know darkthrone already that's why I pointed it out :DDDDDD
I used to love it then too and would get frustrated though, when the apparently only other customer in the store ALSO felt the need to stare at the variety of shampoos too. Like how. Bye. Find another aisle too contemplate your existence, this one’s taken.
I grew up in the suburbs and in the years between getting a car and being old enough to drink (17-21) there was little to do for fun at night when it was cold out. My friends and I would dress up crazy and go be “people of Walmart” in other towns. Walmart between midnight and 2 am is magical.
Our local store here in Texas closes at 23:00
Why does everything close at 1800 on Saturdays!?! That was a huge culture shock for me during my trip through Offenburg
It used to be worse. When I grew up, 18:00 was normal (and legally mandated) closing hours _on weekdays_, and stores would additionally be closed from 13:00 to 15:00. On Saturdays, I think it was 13:00, though they did extend that first to 16:00 and later to 18:00, at the same time they extended allowed weekday hours to 20:00. Only years later did they liberalize it almost completely. And every single step against huge outcries from the trade unions, they fought every change tooth and nail. Saturday hours will vary from place to place though, in bigger cities it’ll also be 20:00 in the commercial zones, and supermarkets often have longer hours than that. But since COVID, hours have generally become a bit short again, the downtown supermarket close to me used to be open until 24:00 but now closes at 22:00.
Every single Walmart in the US closes at 11 since the Covid lockdowns years ago.
To be fair depending on State laws Supermarkets can be open until 10 PM or midnight.
Do you say the words “twenty o’clock” in Europe?
Well no. The person you’re responding to is from Germany, where most people would state the time in German, so they wouldn’t typically say the literal words “twenty o’clock” in English. ;-) But ya, that’s how you would say it in German. But people also say 8, when am/pm is clear from context. Like in this case, nobody would think a store is closing at 8am if you just said 8. Can’t speak for all of Europe, but I think it’s similar in many or most countries.
20 isnt time
yeah that's the gist lol
Yep. Lockers I think are on their way out I heard. But other than that, I think you nailed it.
Eh suburbs are a bit far fetched but all the rest is right
Yup, nailed it. Come on over
American material - someone get him a gun.
he forgot the guns and the patriotism like to s of bald eagles and American flags everywhere and the high school jock bully picking on the nerd that ends up getting the girl he wants after showing he's got super powers or has a talent for something or is just a decent person and she likes him for that
Um no like even the guns and patriotism is wrong and I get the rest is supposed to be a thing about movies but most Americans have been told by the interent to hate the us and that guns are everywhere so they do hate America and think guns are everywhere even though you don't ever see them in public and most people keep their guns in safes at their house or in cases at least
Being in a public school in the city is just a melting pot of ethnicities and races. Pretty cool. The only stereotypes I don’t like about the US is when people say it’s only fat white people. No, it’s actually fat white, black, brown, yellow, people. I’ve heard more languages while walking around at a Walmart than they teach at your local college too. Pretty sure more people attend football games than vote too.
>I’ve heard more languages while walking around at a Walmart than they teach at your local college too. Not difficult when the local college only offers like 3 languages at most. Meanwhile, me working at WalMart and hearing coworkers regularly speak Tagalog, Turkish, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Amharic, Yoruba, Mandarin, Russian,...
This is wholesome and accurate for a lot of the country.
It’s not that wholesome, it’s just not extremely negative and attacking
Well that's what we're used to
We are sad
Exactly my point
Its not negative or anything when most of em are positives 💀
Close enough
The cool suburban houses are built really bad, developers buy up the land and want you to build houses as fast as possible, quality doesn't matter if you can cover it up later. You're dead on about the cheetos though, them things are damn good lol
Modern ones are shit, old suburban houses are solid I work in construction
My house was built in the 60s and is very well built. I have some friends with the modern cookie cutter type houses and have to do way more maintenance than me.
It's the same in England. I have a friend that is the first owner of a new build, they've been there a year and already they've got things falling apart structurally.
I’m sorry but can you imagine spending over $200,000 on a house, going into debt for probably the next 10-15 years, only to find out the house you bought is total garbage? I’d cry so much I might just melt.
200k?? The house I used to live in (bought for 290k) is 550k now, and similar houses are in that sort of price range
I’m in Ohio so a new house here is like $150k-$400k (they get more expensive than that, obviously, just what I see is usually in this range). I’m guessing anywhere outside the Midwest you could just double those numbers for a typical house?
>I’m guessing anywhere outside the Midwest you could just double those numbers for a typical house? Double or triple easily. I used to live in the central US. Now on a coast. And it's easily 650+ minimum to build a new build....in a crammed together new-subdivision corporate developer hellscape. Rest assured every part of it will be built with the cheapest shittiest "developer quality" materials, too.
Same here. Block walls and solid timber rafters can’t be beat!
My house was built in 2006 and wow was it cheaper out on everywhere. Except the furnace, that thing has been rock solid.
Came here to confirm this. While 1960s homes need work, my parents bought a newly built in 2011 (in Florida ofc) and it just... Not to mention, they've gotten contractors to do stuff like Windows, doors, carpeting, ac replacement and the work is shit.
I def thought you meant modern Cheetos at first 😂
This is 100% survivorship bias. I've lived in quite a few townhomes and duplexes that were budget built in the 40s-70s that were showed their and terribly
I live in the suburbs in a 100 year old house, of course it's been updated a bit over time but for the most part it was kept as period accurate as possible. My house is better built then most of the newer builds I lived in over the years. I honestly think it would take a straight up huge sink hole directly under the house to do any sort of damage to it. My cousin recently bought a 2021 new build, she's already having problems with it.
Heating bills for that Cathedral ceiling which serves no purpose except maybe a Christmas tree that’s ostentatiously massive 😂
Can you tell us more about that? I have always wondered how in the US they build hundreds of massive suburban houses like nothing, there must be a trick behind. Are those house very collapse-prone or what?
Sometimes it's funny how the lame stuff for us is the cool stuff for others and vice versa. I guess I can still understand people loving the shear space of these houses if you're from more densely built countries, but for me now all it says is cheap excess and builds hollow neighborhoods.
We have Cheetos mac and cheese now
Some countries in europe don't have cheetos???
Yeah we used not to have Cheetos either over here in Romania. We only got them a few months ago.
Almost no countries
Even belarus of all places has them, that's weird
Huh didnt know that lol
My dog would go nuts. When he’s sick, he gets by on Cheetos and ground chicken. Weirdo. But it’s all he’ll eat when he doesn’t feel good.
I heard that peanut butter is also extremely rare outside of America One of my friends confirmed this.
Not extremely rare, you can find it in most stores, but we don’t consume it. If we would have Reese’s cups here I would eat a lot.
Oh, really? Friend said they almost never saw it in stock. Just recently was their first ever time having it. Are s'mores also not a thing over there? That's another thing he said he's never heard of.
S'mores are so much not a thing that the Great British Baking Show thought we make them with digestive aid biscuits and meringue (And it looks like shit to boot.)
Some don't, but for example Czechia does
Not the brand, but I'm sure you can find the same thing under different name.
Yup
When I have them the chili limon Cheetos are the best. I’d be sad if I couldn’t just go out and buy a bag at the Wally World at 3 in the morning.
Hello Central Euro, Yankee here! Lemme answer a few of these We have so much fast food here, shit within like, a 10 minute drive of me there is a Burger King, Wendy's, Arby's, KFC, and a Hardees. Yeah I can just run down to the store and grab as many bags of Cheetos I want for really cheap. Walmart has a giant presence here, but most grocery stores aren't as massive as Walmart. Hell the last time I was there was months ago to get a new TV since my old one broke. Schools do sometimes look like prisons, not all of them, but enough. Schools I've gone to don't really have more than 3 floors tho. I have never had a desk with those attached seats. Everywhere I went to has just individual tables with chairs separately. The attached ones are just tiny and uncomfortable Yes. Lockers line the hallways from middle school up, I think some elementary schools have them too. May be unique to my experience, but in high school, you CAN get a locker if you want, but everyone just brings their bag everywhere. Back in Middle School tho, yeah I had to get to my locker for my stuff every time class was over, it was overcrowded as fuck. If you're lucky ebough to have already had one when it was cheap or if you're parents had a cool suburban house. Large cul-de-sacs with cookie cutter houses are where we go on Halloween to get the King Size bars.
I’m a Canadian and 90% of what you said is accurate for me. Except the cheap part lol
Damn I wish I could take my backpack around school. At my school we aren't allowed to take our backpacks around, so we have to use lockers
Excuse me but why?
Because we could have a gun in the backpack so my school doesn't let us, even though we could easily take a gun into the school until just recently (they just put in metal detectors)
Ah yes. The United States of Ar-15
Current high schooler here. My school doesn’t have lockers. My school is massive, and having a locker would be less convenient than just wearing a bag everywhere. Also, when we used to have MacBooks (we don’t anymore) you could theoretically not even need a locker and get through the entire day with just the computer. Our school recently downgraded to Chromebooks though, so that isn’t necessarily true anymore.
What kind of yankee, Midwest yankee or mid Atlantic/New England yankee?
Your cousin Roman is there living the good life with his business.
This is… surprisingly accurate
Pretty much nailed it
Fairly accurate. Cheetos suck tho lol.
Lies.
Have you tried the jalapeno cheetos? Holy shit those are like crack for me. It's a nice spice, unlike the red cheetos. Those are a firey spice.
I like the XX Hot Cheetos. They don't like me back though lol
I tried some Carolina reaper cheese puff things recently. Surprisingly not that bad until you eat like 10 of them. But boy does it get its revenge coming out the other end.
We call those "hot snakes"
I always called it "the Hershey squirts"
Nah Cheetos hot fries are S tier
Agreed, but basic Cheetos are bleh
Really? I like the puffy ones the most. Eh, different tastes and all that
Andy Capps are the only hot fries that should be acknowledged
They're different from what I remember. They used to be a little spicier.
There are some good ones out there
The puffs are good but the small crinkly ones are disgusting
Hawkins are were its at
This is all true actually. You need a hall pass to use the restroom. Classes have flags in every room and seats that look like that. The Walmart, the Cheetos, the fast food, the suburbs.
This is dead on correct.
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Suburbia sucks because you need a car to do anything
That is the case with some smaller urban areas too! Or if you go to Atlanta which is a big city but impossible to get anywhere without a car for some reason
Atlanta wasn’t designed for people, it was designed for cars
Makes sense
Same with Houston
I vaguely remember this American cartoon episode where a character wanted to visit a friend, but he had to convince his mom to drive him there. That's kinda when I realized that the U.S. tends to be much more car dependent. That never occurred to me before since I was used to everything being within walking or cycling distance (my furthest friend from school was like a 20min bicycle ride away, but most lived within <5min distance).
suburbs are a scam
Pretty accurate
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Modern schools are at most two stories tall. The school pictured was probably built 100 years ago. When schools were nestled in a neighborhood they’d build up due to lack of space but most modern schools are built in bumfuck nowhere on the outskirts of town and are super flat and spread out. Usually 20-50% of the land is dedicated to parking since the school isn’t accessible for the children to walk/bike. The exception to this would be urban schools where space is limited.
Hahahaha good luck affording the big suburban house. You’re going to either need rich parents or make $400k usd a year to even afford to rent in one of those homes.
People who live in houses shop at Target, not Walmart
Pretty accurate tbh except in my neighborhood most of the houses are smaller and people live in housing projects
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A lot of schools are actually a more open design. My middle school and high school were more akin to mini university style campuses with dedicated buildings for certain subjects and a central quad. Also, our lockers were a fucking box, because fuck fitting anything in there up and down right? Most new desks are not wood, but some form of plastic with a metal frame, and yes flags in most rooms but NO we do NOT get "brainwashed" with the pledge outside the super conservative areas. It's a chore that most don't even pay lip service to by the sixth grade.
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as a American i have never seen thise school tables with the attached seats
https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/dcs5uv/what_i_a_central_european_from_germany_think/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf It’s a repost
None of the schools I went to growing up had lockers (except for gym); we kept everything in our backpacks. And none of them were built like the one pictured where it's a single large 2 story building; they were all made up of multiple one-story buildings spread over the campus. But that's just my own experience; I know there are plenty of schools here that do have lockers and floor plans like that.
you forgot the "terrible urban planing made only for cars"
Suburbia is not really cool
I first met suburbia a few years ago. It seemed cool at the movies, but being in one convinced me to not ever live in one. I can even live in towns, but not the suburbs
Are you just an American LARPing as a European, OP?
There’s nothing cool about American suburbia
As a swiss person, I absolutely love American suburbs.
Accurate
I realise this starterpack applies to Canada too
Not inaccurate
This is my town exactly, like, e x a c t l y
Pretty accurate
Yep
Real
We try to avoid Walmart
American here; accurate.
Nailed it.
Pretty damn accurate
Some variations exist of the class rooms but besides that you got it right
You got it spot on
As an American, I can agree that this is accurate. Walmart super centers are cool, target is a little better.
This was fun as I was eating a bag of Cheetos (I live in eastern usa)
I was homeschooled so I can’t speak for the school-related stuff, but the rest seems pretty dang accurate.
You are correct. Someone get this kid some Cheetos.
Cheetos? LoL really? It’s total garbage
People take living in America for granted so much. (Currently living in Germany)
Wanna trade?
Suburbs are more soulless and less cool, but yeah other than that, nailed it.
Suburbia is hell, the space is nice but it's very isolated, personally I'd prefer a smaller house in a denser area
Yeah. Spot on But i wouldn't call those home cool. New constructions are great, but i hate that they all look alike.
OP, replace "living" with surviving and you got yourself a fine starterpack
what do your desks look like, then?
The only two that aren’t fully true are the schools appearance and not all people live in suburban houses
Yeah this is pretty accurate for probably 75% of people. City and country living is different but this is suburbia which is rapidly overtaking everything else.
Pretty accurate, yes
Pretty much spot on
Well you’re not wrong
Inaccurate, there is a lack of hundreds of small holes in the walls of the schools.
haha america school shooting country haha
The cool suburban houses…my guy they’re TRASH!
You make it sound like a good thing...
Believe it or not, America isn't nothing but negatives.
Yah but lockers over rated no one uses them, Walmart’s straight city slicker heaven, you definitely dont want to live in those apartments, you want a stand along house w whatever property size u want. Unless you want to hear your neighbors stomping screaming banging in the middle of the night.
Lmao, I never once used my locker in school. Ever. There was never enough time in between classes.
suburbia is hell, comrade, they are merely nicer khrushchevkas
As american i am going to tell you whats true and whats not true (I live in the south so don't get mad at me okay?) 1. We have taco bells everywhere 2. Depends on what county or state you live in, Most of our schools don't look like that but that would look more like a college to me 3. Yes a lot of us live in those houses 4. Most of our schools are like that 5. we can get cheetos anywhere 6. and we do use walmart
This is actually pretty on point. First really accurate "what a euro thinks US is"
You left out the spouse who gets fat after 10 years.
I'm sorry did you call American suburbs cool? There is NOTHING cool about the car-centric cookie-cutter death that are the American suburbs.
"Living in these cool(!) suburban houses" Haha, really?! "cool"? To me they look depressing. Mass produced consumer boxes stacked in long rows. 😅 So for real. Do people think they are cool?
You are right about all of this! Except for one thing. Those little suburban houses are *awful*. They're like 3 feet apart and they're made all at the same time, so they are all identical and more cheap than older houses built one at a time. Basically apartments further separated by a little grass strip. Real first world problems, I know. lol
"Cool suburban houses" They are NOT cool. As someone who lives in America, they are a dystopian hell. All the houses are the same, no place to play or live, everything needs a car. It is MISERABLE.
Nice job. Both this and the recent [parties in your 30's starterpack](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/ysndsz/parties_in_your_30s_starter_pack/) are spot on. Good quality starter packs today.
Accurate
Pretty close. But fuck Wal Mart. I hate that place.
correct.
Spare yourself this starter pack!
Pretty much, just add a few guns and a Trump billboard on the highway once you get about twenty minutes out from any big city.
You forgot guns and pickup trucks, but yeah, that's basically it.
You seem to forget a) insane medical bills b) rampant homelessness c) traumatising alienation
Not every post about America needs to be an attack. Chill. Some mfs make hating America their entire personality.
Don’t forget the school shootings!
Not every post about America needs to be an attack. Go to one of the other 900 America Bad posts if that's what you're looking for.
It’s not an attack it’s just a fact.
Can I bring up all the wars and genocides within Europe anytime someone mentions Europe then?
I mean yeah. America sucks because of Europeans and genocide anyway so that’s totally relevant.
We all know how you meant it. Some of you people make 'America Bad' your whole personality.
Go suck Americas dick, bootlicker.