• Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Hardly surprising coming from a nation where a third of you think dogs can get autism and about half can’t read good

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      The difference between the US and Europe in this regard is that Europeans are a bit more discreet with their crazy people. EU have 3 times the population as the United States does, obviously they’re gonna have ~3 times more crazy people than we do. They just don’t talk much about it, while, in the US, the crazy people refuse to shut the fuck up

      Edit: I mistakingly used EU instead of Europe when referring to a population of around 750 million. The EU does not have that population, but Europe, generally speaking, it does. That was my mistake.

      Edit: yikes, a lot of crazy people disagree with me

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          I was thinking of the population of all of Europe, not just the EU. And I tend to use Europe and EU interchangeably. I probably shouldn’t do that.

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            Not your fault. Both are valid abbreviations for each other. Only E.U. would actually be concrete, but…

            Saying the EU should be the European Union. Whereas just EU should signify Europe as you wouldnt say the Europe.

            The context here made it obvious you meant Europe though, dont know how people missed that.

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              I assumed OP either did a typo or wasn’t a native English speaker

              I have not encountered anyone referring to geographical Europe as “EU” before, that would be confusing!

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              I think the EU is a beautiful thing, and sometimes I forget that not all of Europe agrees with me.

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        Education makes a tremendous difference. Americans have mentally ill people probably at the same rate as EU, but also has ignorant people and that’s where the difference is made up. If you travel 3 hrs in USA, you’ll find the same culture. If you travel 3 hrs in Europe, you’ll be in a different culture altogether.

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          clicks on post

          “hmm this is interesting wonder what people have to say about this”

          scrolls

          the people

          “y’know people are crazy y’all don’t know how to read your pronouncation is wrong that’s the wrong word that’s not right there’s like 4586k people there how about being mental huh we’re just quiet Americans suck”

          sighs

          “how did this even come to this bro…?!”

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          Culture doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence. Also, no, driving 3 hours in the US will definitely get you to a different culture, likely a different accent even. It takes 3.5 hours to get from NYC to Boston…

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      half can’t read good

      It should be ‘read well’, not good. ‘Good’ is an adjective and is always used with a noun. ‘Well’ is an adverb and is used to modify a verb, adverb or another adjective and answers the question ‘how?’. Since the verb is ‘read’ it would need the adverb ‘well’ to modify the verb.

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    Our town had the case of the time traveling chef.

    Im from a small vacation resort town with a strong historical theme to it. Its a beach town, with many seasonal workers coming in for the summer.

    One of these, a chef, was new in town, and ate some magic mushrooms, and decided to go for a walk. He dipped into the woods, and came out the other side tripping, in the old historic district. It was also like 3 am, and there were no cars on the road. Apparently, his phone battery died somewhere allong the walk.

    Fron this, he surmised he must have traveled back in time to the 1800s, and realized his money was no good, because it was dated in the future. So he decided to start walking home, hoping his house still (used to?) Exist.

    Eventually his walk took him by a driveway, with a taxi parked in it, still running, with the lights on. He decided that the cab must have fallen through whatever temporal anomaly had brought him there, and decides to drive it back home. Which he does successfully, and falls asleep.

    He wakes up the next morning to police, let in by his coworkers, whove found the cab which was obviously reported stolen. (The owner had apparently stopped at home for a quick minute mid shift, in a town where thats absolutely safe enough to leave you’re keys in your car for a moment)

    He gets charged, gets a court date. Shows up court, figures he was caught red handed, and decides to just be honest, and tells them that story, eith the exception of changing magic mushrooms to ‘bad truffles’ i a thinly disguised attempt to not self incriminate.

    Judge is laughing, cabbie is laughing. They agree to drop all charges in exchange for restitution (something like $500, as though he had ‘rented’ the cab for 12 hours) court fees, and the agreement that he ‘find supervision for any future mycological endeavors’

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    The burden of proof is on the prosecution. They have to show he didn’t.

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    I once worked with a guy who let me know that he was manic schizophrenic. Let’s call him Bob (his name was not Bob).

    He told me that he has a power out of his control where he can time travel to anywhere in his timeline to his own body, past or future. He would then inform and warn people of whatever, and would announce himself by saying “future Bob is here”.

    He seemed like a nice guy, but I didn’t really know what to say to that. I never got to experience an episode of his, and he didn’t last very long at the job. I wonder what that guy is doing now…

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    Florida: [Alcoholic bath salts devourer hits wall.]

    EuroLemmy: Americans don’t believe in mental health

    Americans: [Grind jaws, sniff reflexively]