Is America the greatest country in the world?

PJ_Soul said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJ_Soul said:

Without getting into the argument, I would like to mention that Europe in general really does have the housing figured out better, for environmental and efficiency purposes. I didn't watch that video, but know that they tend to build their houses to maximize heating, angled according to the sun, with windows strategically placed for the same reasons, shit like that. I've always admired that. North Americans don't do that at all, but really really should. But hardly anyone cares.

THEY WALK WITH THEIR SHOES ON INSIDE. 

Yeah, I don't get why you care about that. You should only care if they walk around YOUR house with their shoes on, since it bothers you so much.

Me, I take off my shoes, but also think it's really rude to make people coming to one's home for a party to take off their shoes. Shoes are part of an outfit - you don't make people, especially women, take off part of their ensemble that they put on to look nice at the party.

100% agree.  
Now if my kids attempt to come in the house with their muddy cleats or spikes my wife might cut off their legs.    Especially since we have a mud room area in one part of the garage.

Couldn’t care less if people leave their shoes on or take them off in my place. My only rules are 1) make yourself comfortable, 2) don’t double dip, and 3) if you get piss on the toilet seat or floor, wipe it up.

mcgruff10 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Couldn’t care less if people leave their shoes on or take them off in my place. My only rules are 1) make yourself comfortable, 2) don’t double dip, and 3) if you get piss on the toilet seat or floor, wipe it up.

Is this an official  invite to all your pj friends?

Offic-al!

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

I remember when I backpacked Costa Rica 25 years ago.

We hit this little establishment in San Jose. The waitress came to our table and proceeded to take our drink order. Rob ordered an Imperial (cerveza). The waitress replied they didn't serve alcohol. We looked at each other... kind of astonished.

Rob said, "Welp. I guess I'll have a Fanta."

I laughed my ass off. Every time I hear the term Fanta... I think to that time. 

That's awesome. Reminds me of the time 20 years ago that I did study abroad in Germany and my friends and I went in to a pub (mind you, we were all 16 and 17, illegal in US, but ready to rock in Deutschland!) and everyone is placing their orders for the various local lagers and it gets to my last buddy and he goes...I'll have a Fanta. We're all like, WTF? I didn't even know what a Fanta was at the time. He was always scared we'd get in trouble with our chaperones.

Meltdown99 said:

You are supposed to wear shoes indoors...never slippers.  Shoes are better for your feet healthwise.  The only time I am not wearing shoes is when I am sleeping.

That's actually exactly what the podiatrist told my wife when she started to developed a couple of spayed toes.  And it's become a regular thing to see people wearing slipper and flip flops everywhere.  This will bring in a lot of business for future podiatrists!

mcgruff10 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

PJ_Soul said:

Without getting into the argument, I would like to mention that Europe in general really does have the housing figured out better, for environmental and efficiency purposes. I didn't watch that video, but know that they tend to build their houses to maximize heating, angled according to the sun, with windows strategically placed for the same reasons, shit like that. I've always admired that. North Americans don't do that at all, but really really should. But hardly anyone cares.

THEY WALK WITH THEIR SHOES ON INSIDE. 

I see a lot of cultural differences, nothing more.  At parties I definitely don't take off my shoes but in my house it depends on the situation, sometimes we wear shoes and sometimes we don't.  You bring up shoes but you guys have a washing machine in your god damn bathroom.  The only reason why this would be done is if you live in a real small place.  You don't have ac we do.  (I have two zones) 
I wouldn't event know how to cook with an electric oven, gas is the way to go. 
But ya bro, you are definitely obsessed.  It is borderline creepy.  

1. Some people have the washing machine in the bathroom (if they're cramped for space or live in an apartment with a washing machine). All houses I've been to in my life has their own room for the washing machine and the dryer. Me, living in an apartment have it in the basement like in american horror films. 

2. We don't have AC (some do) because Sweden isn't generally that hot, so it has not been needed. You can just use a fan or open a window.

And pretty stereotypical of you, if you wouldn't care about:

Air conditioners consume huge amounts of energy, though, and that’s adding to climate change. The US uses as much electricity to keep buildings cool as the whole of Africa uses for all its electrical needs. That power largely comes from polluting power stations, adding to the warmer climate.

And air-conditioning in vehicles burns more fuel, making even more greenhouse gases. With the demand for air conditioning rising worldwide, it’s reckoned that in around 30 years’ time more energy could be used for cooling than for heating.

Air conditioning also pumps out heat straight into the atmosphere. Like a fridge, it takes heat from the inside of a building or car, then transfers it to the warm outside. That extra heat makes cities hotter, raising night-time temperatures by up to 2C, which then encourages people to turn up their air conditioning even higher.

And there’s another sting to keeping cool. Air conditioning systems also use powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide. These gases leak out into the atmosphere, especially from vehicles, and global emissions of HFCs rose by more than half between 2007 and 2012, adding to the burden of climate change even more.

3. Gas over electric oven. Well OK. Sit there in the 1950s with your gas oven and your coal (it's coming back) and your gas-hogging SUV and your prehistorical views of men and women.


4. I'm creepy? I'm not the one who at every turn find a way to support Trump. Which I guess could be a sign to why you have problems taking in  people contributing to this thread and instead hop on a "lets call him an obsessed creep"-train. Which funny enough, only the brainwashed "b-b-b-ut our country is the land of the free and our constitution is written by God himself, how can someone oppose that" seems to hop on.

tbergs said:

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

I remember when I backpacked Costa Rica 25 years ago.

We hit this little establishment in San Jose. The waitress came to our table and proceeded to take our drink order. Rob ordered an Imperial (cerveza). The waitress replied they didn't serve alcohol. We looked at each other... kind of astonished.

Rob said, "Welp. I guess I'll have a Fanta."

I laughed my ass off. Every time I hear the term Fanta... I think to that time. 

That's awesome. Reminds me of the time 20 years ago that I did study abroad in Germany and my friends and I went in to a pub (mind you, we were all 16 and 17, illegal in US, but ready to rock in Deutschland!) and everyone is placing their orders for the various local lagers and it gets to my last buddy and he goes...I'll have a Fanta. We're all like, WTF? I didn't even know what a Fanta was at the time. He was always scared we'd get in trouble with our chaperones.

What's Pepsis equivalent of Fanta in the US? What is their Fanta-competitor? 

Meltdown99 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Meltdown99 said:

You are supposed to wear shoes indoors...never slippers.  Shoes are better for your feet healthwise.  The only time I am not wearing shoes is when I am sleeping.

How about socks or going barefoot...

I have extremely bad feet, and my foot and GP both say wear shoes indoors.  Barefeet and socks do not offer support for plantar fasciitis, which is one of the most common foot ailments...now I have an indoor pair of shoes.  

Well, then you have a medical reason. And not living inside some american sitcom nightmare just for the fun of it.

Meltdown99 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Meltdown99 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Meltdown99 said:

You are supposed to wear shoes indoors...never slippers.  Shoes are better for your feet healthwise.  The only time I am not wearing shoes is when I am sleeping.

How about socks or going barefoot...

I have extremely bad feet, and my foot and GP both say wear shoes indoors.  Barefeet and socks do not offer support for plantar fasciitis, which is one of the most common foot ailments...now I have an indoor pair of shoes.  

Well, then you have a medical reason. And not living inside some american sitcom nightmare just for the fun of it.

But wearing shoes indoors protects people's healthy feet as well...

Maybe, have not heard about that -- but even so you put on shoes to use indoor and not the shoes you used outdoors. Correct?

But here is some kind of a counter argument, haha -- and something for the USA-loving teacher in the thread:

In Sweden you just don't wear your outdoor shoes inside – okay, maybe you do in a lot of workplaces, but not all of them, and certainly not in schools and homes and so on. And now a ten-year study at the University of Bournemouth has found that children who learn with no shoes on are much better behaved and get better grades than children with shoes on. There is also less bullying. Nobody really knows why – although they think it might be because children generally feel more relaxed and "at home" without their shoes on. The lead researcher, Professor Stephen Heppel, has a very interesting article on "shoeless learning" on his personal website. It seems that the Scandinavians really got it right with this one.

my2hands said:

Nobody cares what Sweden does, especially with their shoes

Watching Miracle today in class. USA! USA!