All of us have been in other countyr once at less. What is the most culture you´ve visited, or waht things are the strangest to you???

For me:JAPAN and Japanese (they are very NEAR)

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Rarest cultural thing I've seen? An American in America. Or maybe a white guy who actually knew that he was white. Who knows; America is full of surprises...

Yep, definately america...

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I haven't been to many different places.
I'd say Poland, there are a lot of religious people there, something the Netherland don't have nowadays.
But its not realy a weird country per se...

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One of the craziest things was when I was in the Middle East. Every morning the churches start playing prayers over a huge PA system. You can hear it all over the cities. They play prayers like 2 more times later in the day too and when they did I had to be off the street and out of sight. If I got seen out during those times I was at risk of being "confronted". Seems that they close down all the shop and stores during the second prayer at around noon and don't open again until 4-5 hours later. It was like a ghost town during prayer times and the prayers just sounded spooky. I got stuck out in the street many times during prayer but nothing ever happened to me. No one ever confronted me either but I did recieve soon evil looks from some people.

Very hard for someone to live there imo.

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I have never been outside of America except for a single afternoon at Niagra Falls, Canada.

However....I knew a Philipino girl and her mom got care packages from back home which included Squid Chips.
Nacho cheese...Sour Cream N Onion...B-Bque, etc etc
They smelled horrid....so one day I asked why squid chips? Her mom said potatoes dont grow well in the Philipino islands and also area/land is a rare thing.

Anywhooo.....they smelled absolutely disgusting.

theres a small island off the coast of newfoundland owned by france, and i was there ALONG time ago, but its an odd place, their graveyards are above ground graves and you can smell all the "death", and some have glass tops and you can look at them in there, hell some have 6 people in them , booze is cheap, drinking age... no age.

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It's not far from here that there's some culture difference. My sister-in-law is one of about 2 houses on a very long road that actually has electricity. She lives in a highly Amish area. The neighbors call her the Yankee lady.
A friend of mine sold his old family home to some Amish and it had to be converted back to a non-electric home with changes in the plumbing, too. But in the meantime, the kids had a ball flushing the toilet and watching the water swirl down and playing with the garage door opener. The dad did use the shop phone to call him one day when the toilet water wouldn't go down. My friend told him about the black rubber thing withthe long stick attached and how to use it. The guy thought that was one great invention!

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that sounds like hell on earth haha

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probably France but they're total fuckheads over there!

Italy has some wierd shit too, they sleep in the afternoon and shit and the guys wear more makeup there then the girls, haha

im going there for april break! yay!

haha ill be on the look out for the guys in makeup

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cool shit, where exactly are you going? if you can, check out Forli and Modena, they both have some cool clubs with cool bands every now and then, Rimini is the cool shit too but not this time of the year

Jordan in the Middle East. The women are all purchased and owned by rich families and as a result most of the guys over there are gay in a prison kind of way. If you hail a cab over there, get in the back seat. If a guy tries to spark up random conversation, be consciousness of his mannerisms and where the conversation is heading. We had several incidents of Jordanians trying to lure Navy and Marine guys back to their houses for "a good time". Their government also wanted to execute one of the Marines that touched ("violated") one of their women at a fancy wedding ceremony.

Also in the Middle East, never extend your left hand or touch someone with your left hand. This is the "butt-wiping" hand for many of these people and they assume that you are wiping your ass with your left hand just like they do. As with many asian countries, the toilets consist of a bowl in the ground, a hose, and no toilet paper in sight

There are many other wierd things about the Middle East and I consider it to be the ass of the earth.

Hell yes, I know just what you mean. Never hold your pointer finger up for meaning #1 or point it at someone or something either. It is the equivalent to fliping someone the middle finger there.

Never show the bottom of your feet either, like by proping your feet up, because I nearly started a riot doing that.

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Yeah they do that in Tanzania too. I was there for a month, I spent a week building guttering on a school and then did cool stuff. I was at the top of Kilimanjaro on my 18th birthday at sunrise - that was really something. The people have a very laid back attitude, it's great.

Haha yeah, I have a friend who is Middle Eastern and he told me that doing the thumbs up is like flipping someone off. He told me once that he and his uncle were in Iran driving on the highway and a slow car was in front of them. The guy in the slow car let them pass and while they were passing, my friend's uncle gave the other driver a thumbs up as to say "Thank you" cuz he lives in the U.S. and so obviously here the thumbs up doesn't mean fuck you and so he forgot. And ooh was the guy pissed.

haha no, ill be with my latin class for most of the time. im going to all the big tourist spots really, i dont get to plan my own vacation or i would check out some smaller italian cities. nevertheless itll be great, ive never been to europe before
im pretty sure we're going to florence , definitely rome, etc

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this is probably cliché but the USA, from all the places i've seen, has the largest number of fat fucks for each average person.

seriously, watch your weight. i was at a restaurant and a fat chick's waist was bigger than the table she was eating from.

disgusting shit, man.

My little brother has a really close friend who is half Vietnamese and, I believe, half Cambodian, and I remember one time he came snake hunting with us and he was talking about squid chips. He was complaining about how he always has to eat them, but when I aksed him if they were any good, he admitted that they were. I guess he was just sick of eating them. Hell, if I can get sick of cheeseburgers, I guess he can get sick of squid chips.

I personally love squid, so I'd probably enjoy these chips.

As far as the original question, the farthest I've ever been out of Massachusetts my whole life is one time I spent a couple days in Washington, DC. I've only been to New Hampshire and Maine once each and I've never been to Vermont. I've only driven through Connecticut. I've been to Rhode Island a lot, but not recently. The last time I was there was May 2004 because my uncle had a cookout in Cranston.

I've spent nearly my whole life in Massachusetts. Of course, since I live in the USA, I have seen a lot of different cultures. I honestly don't know what is the strangest, none of them seem particularly peculiar to me.

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Mmkay, well I guess it's okay cuz you don't live here but.....no fucking shit, did you like just notice that? It's like this:
http://www.lonuncavisto.com/humor/a...s/00000655.html

You're SO correct.....there are pigs everywhere here.....barely carrying themselves around.....lumbering to take each next step towards the McDonald counter to oder super sized everything.

It's quite disturbing.

Hey watch it, fastfood is damn good, but depends who you are. I can eat like a week's worth of non-stop fastfood from various places for like 2 weeks and I would hardly pack any pounds. It's amazing how much I can eat and I weigh like nothing.

yea the same problem in australia, it is absolutely disgusting. perhaps you can refer to my classic rant on my opinion of fat people. i find them exceptionally offensive. i mean i like tolerance and all that, but dude....its foul.

silent night, that pic you posted. firstly: secondly, imagine trying to have sex with that bottom chick. it would be like sticking a french fry into lake eyre.

hah i actually forgot about the purpose of this thread. i've only been to australia and new zealand, and before i launch, i will say that i find new zealand a much, much more desirable place to live. its beautiful, scenic, hilly, and mild most days. plus its my gf's home country of course

i dont see many strange cultures here, especially in melbourne city. you get the odd hare krishna chant and a cult thing sometimes, but more often than not the randomness comes from the bums outside flinders street station

When I went to stay with my second cousin once removed up in Springfield, New Jersey, she had a great New England accent. She said words like "intanet," "aye," and "idear." That's also the farthest I've ever been from home....

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That sounds like a perfect Rhode Island/Central Massachusetts accent to me. How did she get that in New Joisey?

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Haha, I'm willing to bet her Gunt would have more water than Lake Eyre.

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possibly....but about the same size and wetness

thats funny theres this girl at my school that we call swimming pool (for obvious reasons) and this year her little sister came to my school and we call her jacoozie (or how ever you spell it)

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I don't know about Lake Eyre, but thinking of Lake Erie was just as amusing. A french fry, huh?

There's a lot of overweight people here in the US because the old adage when I grew up was clean everything on your plate. There's starving people in China and they'd love to have your food. We also had the grandparents that were brought up in the Depression. My mom still has a slight aversion to pancakes. They used to have them periodically with chicken gravy on them when she was little. So those people wanted their families to have better than them so food was one of the things that became a sign of prosperity. People did a lot more physically active work long ago and so their metabolism was higher to burn off all the food they were eating. You also didn't have all the conveniences of as many premade foods although there were some. Heaven knows there wasn't the gyms to go to that their are now and most people wouldn't have gone there anyway from working pre-sunrise to past sunset. I've heard that England is running into the same problem now.

I've changed a lot of my own eating habits and I weigh more than I used to, but I've got more muscle than I used to and feel better. I just found out today that my pear shaped body is healthier in the long run than an apple shape so that made me feel better. I'll never look like a pencil, but I sure as shit wouldn't want to.
I like my curves.
But that's some of the reasons why we're overweight here. Food prep is changing and it's going to take awhile for people to adjust to different eating habits. But knowledge and knowing that the reason for eating is to stay alive and not to make yourself feel better with an instant gratification is going to take some time.

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I always laugh when somebody uses a word they can't even spell to try to demean somebody. Wow, you're a dumbass.

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I called you a dumbass more because you feel the need to make fun of this girl who is obviously very fat. Don't you think it's bad enough going through life as a rotund pudgeball without having assholes around to let her know about it every five minutes? Did it ever occur to you this girl will already have problems trying to get anybody to go out with her because of the way she looks without pubescent morons constantly working to decimate what little remains of her self-esteem?

If you want to come here and brag about how you like to make fun of two huge girls while at the same time butchering a rather simple word, you'll leave yourself open to criticism. Don't flaunt your ignorance if you don't want it to be noted.

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hahahaha, dude, that wasn't even me that you called a dumbass! you quoted some rabifoodslicer.

Yes Chris, how dare you spell words properly. With, uh, letters. Damn you and your ejukation.

Dear me.

The strangest thing I've seen in another culture was watching Icelandic people eat sheeps testicles. I imagine that isn't strange in and of itself, but they looked so unspeakably vile. But I pride myself on my open mindedness and thought "Well, why not?". So I tried them.

And what do you know, they tasted even worse than they looked.

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i'm afraid he's got you there, chris.

and the degradation and humiliation of very fat people is absolutely right. even more right than the degradation of very skinny people. fucking despicable little pigs, and binge eating bulimic bastards.

FBS: do you eat meat pies? there's probably a good amount of sheeps testicles in those

I know what you mean about the food thing in other countries. I will just about try any food once, but I don't know how people in those counrties can stand to eat it.

Worst country I have ever eaten was in Crete ( or how ever the hell it is spelled ). Just dirty ass food. I'm sure there is something worth eating there but I couldn't find it.

Best country I have ever eaten at was Italy. Everything there was super good. Speaking of Italy. Something that I thought was wierd there was that there are nearly no bars ( but I did find one bar that was near the pier that was designed to attract Sailors ). The candy stores is where you have to buy a drink and there are kids everywhere. Anywhere I found booz I didn't want to drink it there. No dark, smokey, dirty, dangerious bars anywhere that I could find away from the pier

Edit: Chris, you did just shoot yourself in the face back there. Even you are prone to looking like a dumbass at times, just like everyone else. The difference is we don't we don't normally pick others to death with stuff like spelling mistakes. Just because someone can't spell, or doesn't take the time to spell check doesn't mean that they are not worthy of posting. It makes me think you were looking for a reason to bully someone.

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Oh, take a darn Midol and get over it.

I want to see someone correct one of the posters that's drunk and see how far that gets them. And I've seen some drunk posters' writing. I saved the "Atif and Walpurgis Show" today. Umm hmm.

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Well, I think Chris was more annoyed with the fact that they are making fun of this fat girl (which I always feel quilty when I laugh at a fat joke).

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Yes, how irascible I am, to go out of my way to pick on some poor young fellow who simply uses a word he can't spell to torment some young girl! Surely I am a bully. Perhaps the irony of this whole situation is lost on you, so let me put in a way you can understand- you are accusing me of being a bully because I chastised a boy for his bullying of a young girl. The very fact that you would jump all over this situation alludes to the possibility that you really wanted to. Otherwise you could wait for much more compelling evidence of my supposed bullying than my making a teenager look stupid for bragging about picking on some girls in his school.

By the way, I don't take time to spell check my posts, either. If I spell a word wrong, I spell it wrong. If I notice it later, sometimes I'll edit the post. There's a large difference between a typographical error and not knowing how to spell the most basic words in the English language when that is your first language. If I didn't know how to spell a word, I'd look it up, and I'd certainly hope somebody would let me know if I were frequently misspelling a word. Nobody enjoys being corrected, but I certainly appreciate it, because I know it makes me aware of mistakes that would otherwise go unnoticed, and thusly allow me to better myself. If you or anybody else around here doesn't like that, too fucking bad.

As for you shimbolla, my mistake. The funny thing is, I actually knew you weren't the same guy when I clicked on the 'quote' button, but somewhere between then and my response, you became the other guy in my mind. The nearest explanation I can come up with for that is that I was intermittently studying for an exam on Saturday at the same time. It was still in error and I apologize.

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I've made that mistake a couple times. It's hard to tell you people apart.

I don't want to ruin this thread with an conflict, but fuck it. I do see you make post like that often, ruining threads and running people off. I just don't feel like saying anything normally, but today I did. You jump peoples asses out of nowhere and find some reason to justify it, but nothing really objective. Poeple can justify anything when they want. I didn't jump all over the situation until after the fact, so yes I really did want to point that out. You do it lots as do a few others. I don't know why and most times I don't care to know why. Others have posted that you do this and I see it too.

I don't like how you always post that you have to "explain things in a way that others can understand". You are not smarter or more sophisticated than anyone else here no matter how complex you write or what words you use. Your sarcasm pisses me off the most because it doesn't get to the point and, yes, I damn well know the irony of what I posted. Does that change anything... me being ironic, or does it just point the issue in another direction or make you look smart by pointing that out? I see at least 3-4 fat jokes a day here and you say nothing. I believe you select people. You are not consistent and that is why I think you bully select people. Does that mean you do? No, but that is the way it is looking to be.

That is just my serious opinion. Sorry if I seem harsh.

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Yup. Idiots. A lot of us try our hand at that.

And what happened to the kulturkampf, wankers? Here I am, about to post something about asian women's pubic hair and this is turning into another daisy-ridden fagdance.

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Well go ahead and post it man!

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New Jersey.

It's REALLY scary there for me. Not another country, but DAMN!

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I'm all high and angrified. Later.

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oh quit stalling and give us a laugh will ya. you're putting me in suspense here.

Sorry, dudes. It was all my fault. I had actually meant it to be kind of a teasy joke between me and Chris, and luckily he understood that, but I see that brought up some hidden emotions in a few others. My fault. Give peace a chance. And more importantly, don't let my comments ruin this guys culture-based post. Happy trails. Carry on.

You obviously aren't trying to use logic here if you think a comparison between random people making stupid jokes about fat people on a message board and some kids purposely eroding the self esteem of a couple of girls is either valid or warranted.

I also can't help but wonder, if you noticed how hypocritical your post was, why'd you bother to post it? I don't think you really bothered to look at the situation. I think you said, 'ooh, there goes that Chris, bullying people around again! I'm gonna fix his goat!' Of course, now in hindsight you see how ironic the whole situation is... yet still feel the need to continue arguing?

Other than those issues, your post is completely incoherent. My sarcasm didn't get to the point? Perhaps it didn't to a person with a 4 year old's perceptive abilities. I also note you feel the need to mention that I am neither smarter nor more sophisticated than anybody here. That's awfully telling on your part, considering I'm not very sophisticated and have never even used that word in relation to myself. You're the one bringing that up. You're also the one bringing up smarts. It reveals an inferiority complex, as if somehow my correcting people makes you feel dumb. That easily explains this whole situation, really, why else would you have been so defensive?

My pointing out what that kid was doing does not change the course of discussion in other direction, it turns it back into the direction I originally was going. My whole point of responding to that kid was to make him feel like a jackass for not only doing what he does, but then having the temerity to come here and brag about it. My making fun of spelling was merely a segue way to that purpose. You are the one constantly trying to change the course of discussion by painting me as bully and focusing on the spelling part of the post, rather than the the actually point, which I'm convinced you missed. It's funny, CANNIBALCORPSE knew exactly what my point was, and he's 15 years old. So, either you missed my point entirely, or you saw it and decided to start a baseless argument anyway. It's also funny that after missing such an obvious point, you then say I'm not smarter than anybody here. Well, maybe you're right, but hey, at least we all know CANNIBALCORPSE is more perceptive than you.

I'll tell you, when my arguments are hinged on shit and they fall apart, I usually concede defeat. I guess you have a bulldog's never quit mentality, some might say that's a good thing. Of course, when seen in the context of a person refusing to allow his fallacious argument to die, it's not such an admirable trait. So, if you don't want to ruin this thread with conflict, as you claim, then stop continuing an argument that has no foundation.

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AHHHH, I HAVE A BIGGER DICK, BRAHBRAHBRAH

on that note, those canadians are wierd, they are like americas retarded little brother, they even did a canadian american idol, but, like a retarded little brother, i love canada even if it did shit its pants. i have always been fascinated ith the japanese idea of porn, they dont really show much, and they have an abundance of rape porn for some reason.

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Haha, for a second I thought the "swimming pool" nickname was due to the fact she gives a lot of blowjobs, and is basically the school slut! Haha that's my perverted mind thinking.

I know these arent rare cultures, but here are a few weird mixes i have seen in the past... Polish/Chinese and African/Irish, they are both quite rare if i do say so myself, I have only met one of each of those but i did laugh a shit load when i found out about the Polish Chinese kid... heh... good times.

haha my step dad was tellin me that when he was in saudi arabi during the gulf war he always tried to use the bathrooms on the american facilities cause in arabic bathrooms you gotta stand up to shit cause their toillets arent like ours . they also cut your hand off when you steal somthing, its that eye for an eye shit. hehe i guess it works though, kinda hard to steal without hands...

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we should adopt that style of justice in our cultures.

Like testicular amputation as a result of male prostitution?
I think I'll pass...

no, testicular amputation as a result of rape, sodomy for male prostitution

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I think those kind people may actualy enjoy that, but who cares? It's not like they hurt anybody but their own arseholes with their jobs
Besides, I'd hate to be the one carrying out the sentence

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What the fuck is wrong with prostitution, male or female? You americans

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Nothing, we just prefer to call it marriage here. One of my friends married a female dentist, so now he's a male prostitute. After gay marriage is eventually approved of here, then gay prostitution will be legal as well.

Speaking of prostitution, the whore houses in Thailand are pretty bizarre (and legal). There is a converted hotel there where they sit the clients down at a table where they can view a large glassed in room filled with a hundred or so hookers. There are three sets of bleachers labeled "Sport", "Fantasy", and something else (different price grades) and the girls all have numbers on them. The girls sit there in bikinis watching TV and doing their nails or whatever and the guys pick a number after a drink or two.



American Idol, like so many other reality shows, is based off a british TV show. I guess that makes us Britain's retarded little brother again. After fighting so hard for our independence, it's a damn shame...