Asklemmy

44148 readers

314 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

298

Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

675 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 4) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All of the ads for Medication on TV

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That Americans are actually not Americans, but illegal aliens from Europe?..

OK, I haven't been in the US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Most Europeans are also illegal aliens from somewhere else.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How annoying waiters are. I don't need small talk and I don't need you asking if everything's okay every five minutes. Just let me eat in peace!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The exact opposite experience if you're non white. I'm light skinned and get normal service. I go out with certain friends and suddenly we're getting ignored and waiting longer than people that came in way after us. We just end up ordering pickup or avoiding certain places all together.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Sugar in hot drinks by default. Asking for coffee-no-sugar seems to trigger incredulity. At least this was my experience in the South. New York is another country altogether, no eyebrows raised there.

load more comments (5 replies)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

I think this is a good thing. I would like to keep track of the calories I consume. (Do I? Nah, I just eat whatever looks healthy)

load more comments (5 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments