You can buy a coffee mug with a $9.99 price tag, the be asked to pay $10.74 at the register. The German mind cannot comprehend this
You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.
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slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
FelixCress@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Not any sane mind can comprehend this.
DesolateMood@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I can comprehend it, but I’m certainly not happy about it
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
All there is to comprehend is that the US contains states that have distinct sales tax laws.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not only can Americans comprehend it, they actively choose for it to be this way. Macys tried to switch to straight forward pricing and it did not go well for them so they switched back to their bs sales.
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Imo it only works if everyone does it at the same time and if it’s implemented by legislation enforcing it. If one company does it, their competitors can take advantage of the perceived differences.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I thought that was JC Pennys
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I stopped off in Oregon once for some McDonald’s. My total ended up being $8.00 exactly and I let out a little smile and told the cashier ‘wow perfect, what are the chances’
She looked at me like I was an idiot, and I learned some things about Oregon that day.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Oregon has entered the chat
peregrin5@piefed.social 10 hours ago
neither can the Oregonian mind
Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
A lot of germany has deposits actually, so an extra 25-50 cents on top for cans and glass bottles
fading_person@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Mr bean, is that you?
evergreen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
As an American, I can ride my mobility scooter for 74 hours and still be in Walmart. Comprend that.
seejur@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Do they have pit stops to recharge the batteries at Walmart? I would imagine there is also a burrito stand nearby
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 6 hours ago
They’re not called burritos any more. They’re called Americas.
If you imply different you’ll get deported.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
>my citizens in Cities:Skylines
ICastFist@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Don’t forget to put a toll booth on every street
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
LANE CHANGE
capuccino@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
do germans move their cars like the flintstones how do they magane have fuel/battery for 72hrs?
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
Since you’re in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You’ve never heard of NASCAR. We are good at turning left for hours on end.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You’ve been turning right since at least '80…and you started far on the right already.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Hey!
Don’t forget Nixon.
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Oh, please. There’s way more to NASCAR than that.
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
You can fit 74 texases inside an Australian cattle station. They’re hilariously angry about it.
Entitle9294@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
I think those are called beltways
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
Can easily do this around the Arc of Triumph
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Paint It Black starts playing in french
ceenote@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I really wanna know what they put in to Google to make it spit out that time estimate.
wischi@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Probably a scripted route.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.
Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
America’s been adopting roundabouts in the last decade.
Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Finally! People complain about them, but those people don’t understand how beneficial they are overall.
Zink@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Yeah, I have a few in my Pennsyltucky town and over the years people have even learned not to stop at the yield signs!
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yielding is a woke liberal socialist concept
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
They put one on a rural overpass where farmers have to cross all the time where I live. Everyone I know who lives there or farms there hates it.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Only 74 hours?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 hours ago
Gas is expensive over here.
rumba@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
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If you overshoot your destination, do you have to drive another 74 hours to get back to it?
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If you turn around (going against the circle), does it go up in time?
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Why did it stop at 74? Why not infinity or 99? I can plot 79 hours from Key West Florida to Anchorage Alaska
What a neat bug.
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ramble81@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
2,219km is only 1,378mi… that’s about the distance from the southern tip of California to the top of Washington State. Not even the width of the US.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
Or the circumference of your mum’s fat arse
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Or the size of your Mom’s big butt.
Beep boop I’m a bot that translates British English to American English. To opt out, reply ‘ligma’.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
It also would only take around 20 hours.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
20 hours to travel 2219km is 110km/hr. Around the narrow lane of a roundabout, that’s at least 6gs, which can be fatal without training
474D@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Uh, you know we have roundabouts in the US too, right?
Opisek@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Round about one roundabout
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
heartbreaker@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This is a reference to a series of old memes that popped up as a reaction to each other lemmy.world/post/14474175 lemmy.world/post/14726913 lemmy.world/post/14707889
there were a lot more
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
You don’t need a roundabout to drive around a block forever.
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Don’t even have any nice landmarks on the drive, like Big Ben.
rmuk@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Parliament.
Entitle9294@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
big ben, parliament!
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 hours ago
Hey look kids! It’s Big Ben!
uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
German who lives in USA, they have them here too. Sometimes more. The town I live in has 3 in succession
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
When you can’t decide between Hertha Sponer and Marie Curie
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
You guys are gonna love canberra
Siegfried@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You can drive from gibraltar to Edinburgh and still be in UK
Pandantic@midwest.social 14 hours ago
The Longest Roubdabout by Germany
random_character_a@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The wheel and circular geometry are relatively new Inventions.
nuko147@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
74 hours without the stops!
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
At exactly the 4,376th minute the universe will fold and all time and space shall collapse.
marzhall@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Be careful spending that much time there or maybe wear protection, I’ve heard that route is still a bit radioactive
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
American here, kills me every time it’s not that difficult!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
We have one of these in rural middle of bum fucked and nowhere America.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
American here, I have no problem with them. There was a roundabout nearby in my city. When they unleashed it, the first driver brave enough to traverse it swerved off the road and died on the spot. It caused such a scene that the next 3 cars watching entered the wrong way and started to pile up. More cars piled up over the coming weeks, it couldn’t be taped off because the city service workers were unfortunately not Europeans and also could not traverse the labyrinth, they too piled up and died of starvation. Eventually it collapsed into a singularity under its growing weight (Americans are fat, so it was over the Chandresekar limit), cars add into the eternal swirl each day and emanate slowly as Hawking radiation. It’s quite beautiful to see.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
for a country who’s core values is Car, they suck at driving
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Our core value is taking necessary services and pricing them like a luxury.
Spread everything out really far, get rid of public transit, and, since everybody still needs a license to drive your expensive cars, make the driving test super easy to pass so almost everybody can drive. Boom, 1.2 passengers per car and nobody can actually drive them well.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
you don’t have to be smart to drive, we made sure of that.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Our core value isn’t Car, it’s “individual freedom, especially at the cost or inconvenience of others”. It just so happens that Car aligns pretty well with that
Bosht@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve never seen this copypasta and I love it.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 minutes ago
It came from the heart
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
This was brilliant.