10 things Nuclearned learned whilst in Europe (now with bonus things!!!)

[sjwaste]

Not so fast. Paris is by far the most unfriendly place I have ever been but the rest of France is very nice.

I've been told the same.

 

[coloumb]

#9 - it's the oddest thing when you first encounter it and can literally be uncomfortable if you're socially shy.

Whilest staying in Ireland on a business trip - I had dinner in the hotel restaurant and was puzzled why they wouldn't bring me the check or ask me if I needed anything. I honestly thought I was being ignored when I finally waved a hostess over to ask for the check.

#10 - Couldn't agree more - but so far this seems to be the norm for any country other than the paranoid USA.

 

[tommo123]

1.They have awful teeth

2.Europe never thanked us after bailing them out from WW2, even though they went to war with us in the revolution.

3.The whole country is a stronghold for Liberals.

4. Their socialist country provides healthcare to everybody, putting a disproportionate amount of hardship on the Upper class.

5. They once trusted their country to a woman

6. Their economy is in the tank. (See 3,4 and 5)

7. You can't get a qtr pounder at Mcdonalds, because their measurement system blows.

8.The king of whales doesn't even have any god damn fuckin' whales

9. They call french fries chips, even though they're french fries.

10.They don't call French Fries Freedom Fries, even though they're Freedom Fries.

retarded troll is retarded

1 - americans have bad teeth too.
2 - they did with the interest on the loans paid. britain giving up the empire to stop the nazis while the US coasts in at the end after most of the fighting was done by the local boys (esp russia). europe owes more to the russians than to the US.
3 - what country? europe isn't a country
4 - as 3
5 - as 3
6 - what economy? more than 1 economy in europe
7 - you can get qtr lbs in europe.
8 - king of whales? you mean aquaman? wtf! :awe:
9 - chips are chips. french fries are french fries.
10 - no one but the US has freedom fries as most other countries don't have a populace as feverishly nationalistic as to embrace such a retarded name change (well, apart from north korea).

 

[tommo123]

Ice is marketed? And here I just thought I preferred cold to "piss warm". 🙄 I prefer my drinks damn near frozen.

if the drinks come out anything above chilled then the place is doing it wrong. ice is just a trick to have to serve you less drink. about a 3rd of the glass is taken up by ice and dilutes the drink. vile.

 

[tommo123]

You're not including the French in that equation, are you?? 😉

Actually, I found the French broke down into two camps. The friendly ones, who would understand that you were just visiting, and would go out of their way to help you out.........and the arrogant ones, who would turn their nose up at you, and consider you just another barbarian who didn't deserve their time. 🙄

question - the arrogant french people, were they parisians? last time i went there i found the french were generally nice people unless you were in paris. kinda like england. londoners (not all of course) should be beaten daily. especially for that stupid rhyming slang

 

[OVerLoRDI]

4,6,9 are absolutely true.

 

[Broheim]

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/egim45edme/1-new-zealand/#gallerycontent
Top 5 friendliest countries.
1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. South Africa
4. Canada
5. USA

please tell me you don't think that survey is in any way representative of the real world.

 

[JimmiG]

WTF is a washcloth and why would you want to use one?


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[Exterous]

WTF is a washcloth and why would you want to use one?


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Its a cloth we use for lathering and scrubbing in the shower

 

[Puppies04]

WTF is a washcloth and why would you want to use one?

Its a cloth we use for lathering and scrubbing in the shower

Otherwise known as a flanel and there was a report in the paper the other week that they are getting harder and harder to buy in England nowadays because people dont use them anymore. Personally I like using them.

 

[TheKub]

5. "Smart" hotel rooms suck. Several of the rooms required a key to "turn on" the room, which is how the hotel controls the power consumption of their customers. Generally, this key has to be turned in to the desk whilst you are out siteseeing. In other words, whilst you are gone, nothing in your room ("air conditioning", water heater) works.

Fixed that for you.

 

[JulesMaximus]

retarded troll is retarded

10 - no one but the US has freedom fries as most other countries don't have a populace as feverishly nationalistic as to embrace such a retarded name change (well, apart from north korea).

I've never heard anyone call them freedom fries EVER. At least not in SoCal. Do they do this only in the retarded states?

 

[Zargon]

wait did someone in here actually suggest spain was on the right side of WW2?

2 - they did with the interest on the loans paid. britain giving up the empire to stop the nazis while the US coasts in at the end after most of the fighting was done by the local boys (esp russia). europe owes more to the russians than to the US.

see the pacific, and russias run into germany was purely for empire building, not to help anyone but themselves

as for #10, what jules said, no one calls them freedom fries, anywhere, like, ever.


as for OP: well I've never been to europe but my dad used to travel there extensively for business and always complained about the lack of proper AC and getting lukewarm beverages

 

[jagec]

russias run into germany was purely for empire building, not to help anyone but themselves

Good heavens, you must have slept all through history class if you think that THAT was Russia's only contribution in WW2.

 

[Zargon]

Good heavens, you must have slept all through history class if you think that THAT was Russia's only contribution in WW2.

their RUN INTO GERMANY. I never said anything about the rest of it now did I. they contributed much more, but their main motivation for brekaing germany instead of containing was building their empire, not FREEING the occupied people, but occupying those people themselves.

 

[yuchai]

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/egim45edme/1-new-zealand/#gallerycontent
Top 5 friendliest countries.
1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. South Africa
4. Canada
5. USA

Terrible list. Ireland is certainly way ahead of France, Italy, and the UK from my experience

 

[Krazy4Real]

Son: Why do they have drinking fountains near the toilets?
Me: Those are bidets. They clean your butt.
Son: Ohhhhh..............

LOL!

 

[AnitaPeterson]

1.They have awful teeth

2.Europe never thanked us after bailing them out from WW2, even though they went to war with us in the revolution.

3.The whole country is a stronghold for Liberals.

4. Their socialist country provides healthcare to everybody, putting a disproportionate amount of hardship on the Upper class.

5. They once trusted their country to a woman

6. Their economy is in the tank. (See 3,4 and 5)

7. You can't get a qtr pounder at Mcdonalds, because their measurement system blows.

8.The king of whales doesn't even have any god damn fuckin' whales

9. They call french fries chips, even though they're french fries.

10.They don't call French Fries Freedom Fries, even though they're Freedom Fries.

I am sorry... I haven't been here in a while, so I can't tell ... are you serious (as in you really believe the crap you just wrote) or are you being a troll (in which case, I congratulate you for reaching a peak of trolldom) ?

 

[Sheep]

I've never heard anyone call them freedom fries EVER. At least not in SoCal. Do they do this only in the retarded states?

I refer to them as freedom fries as a joke, occasionally--the same way Target becomes the fancy French store pronounced "tarjay".

 

[ThePresence]

Which is odd because the Czechs are the most aloof people on the planet. Also the worst drivers.

Sounds like Hungarians.

 

[Cookie]

Not so fast. Paris is by far the most unfriendly place I have ever been but the rest of France is very nice.

I had the exact opposite experience in France and Paris. Everyone I met, or asked help/directions/etc from in Paris was great. Everywhere else in France (I was only in the north part) I received rude comments and a complete lack of willingness to help, or even try to communicate. The worst was trying to buy a train ticket to Vimy. I ended up not going. 🙁

 

[NuclearNed]

How long where you there?

10 days total; I think 3 days in London, the rest in Italy (Rome, Florence, & Venice)

 

[NuclearNed]

and was the service better, worse or about the same as here in the USofA?

In every restaurant we were at, the service was at least as good as that in the US. In at least 2 restaurants, it was definitely better.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I am sorry... I haven't been here in a while, so I can't tell ... are you serious (as in you really believe the crap you just wrote) or are you being a troll (in which case, I congratulate you for reaching a peak of trolldom) ?

Read any of his posts. He's 100% troll.

 

[NuclearNed]

Glad you had fun. Venice is a pretty horrible place, yet somewhere that you need to see once in your life. I, personally, am not likely to ever return. The local culture is gone, it's just a giant tourist trap now. The few locals I managed to meet when I wandered into Cannaregio basically told me as much - the money comes easily, but they basically sold their culture out for it. It's a real shame. Great people if you manage to meet and speak to any of them, though. Thankfully most do speak standard Italian, as Venetian is a distinct language (despite its "dialect" status in Italy). I cannot understand more than a few words of Venetian, and (standard) Italian is my first language. I'd love to learn it, as things are significantly cheaper in Venice if you speak the language - the posted prices are for tourists, not locals.

Most of the people you meet in Venice are tourists. There's something wrong with that, but it's a beautiful place and something to be seen.

We loved Venice, but it was still our least favorite of the 4 cities we saw (London, Florence, Rome, Venice)