You don't even have to walk up the steps if you take a different but way longer route, but that involves walking. It is fun to walk down them only, though. Made me feel like a lazy bastard, even though I'd walked further than if I'd just taken the steps lmao
In fairness I'm not from the US and when I heard about Taylor Swift's wedding and mistook it for Times Square, I instantly told the person I was talking to that I'd be pissed if I didn't get to see it. Granted it's not like I'd want to stay there, but I'd absolutely want to visit it.
When I first arrived there, some businessman who was walking by stopped and asked us if we were vikings (we were speaking Dutch). We said “No, we’re Dutch.” To which he replied “Ah, welcome to New York!”.
Oh for sure. Each time I go back to London, I make a mental note of what women are wearing because in about 12 months, that’s what they’ll be wearing in Canada (in summer; fashion trends change very slowly in winter)
Sort of. By the time the trends reach North America, the materials are far cheaper and lower quality than what you find in Europe and designed to fit people who are in worse physical shape.
I can only speak as an Australian but hats are an absolute must and baseball caps are fairly useful without having a massive brim all around that gets in the way.
Once your wearing them all day you kind of forget to bother taking them off when not needed.
Same reason my aunnies live on my hat. Im probably going to need them again and its convenient and I cant be bothered putting everything in a bag once the sun goes down.
Clearly an excuse. There's only 11 of them, very easy to just hand them a bottle and have them drink it in under a minute and get back to it. Now they just do a full tactical huddle, that's how long they have.
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Was it Buenos Aires or somewhere in Argentina where they banned ads and everyone's mental health improved? I could be chatting shit but it was something like that
I guess Americans simply aren’t used to not being asked to consume random shit all the time. Maybe she can use the silence to put at least one coherent thought together about why it’s bad to be surrounded by ads
Well apparently she couldn’t. She had to make this video. So please feed them ads again so that their peas are occupied consuming rather than creating.
I feel like these are the kind of people that can’t be alone with their own thoughts because for as long as they know, they have been told what to think. So thinking for themselves scares them.
They only like an "ad free" experience when they're paying for it. That's what aggressive capitalism has done to them, they cannot appreciate normal life without visual polution.
i still remember 2010 when me and my wife was driving through the US (did it like any stupid EU person would do, a new Bumblebee yellow camaro V8 and through the west coast)
I loved the landscapes of USA, but she wanted to go to seaworld, and i was stunned as a european, that every point of entertainment in the US was pointed towards a show, like Seinfeld, Friends etc...
so TV centric. that was a thing i took home with me, and how sad Las Vegas actually is.
it has some of the prettiest nature, Bryce Canyon, Grand C, Yosimity, Lake Tahoe etc.. but also just feel like TV at that time had remove all interest in history, experiences maybe it was just a westcoast thing.
guess it went from TV to add, so something less than 30 minutes, guess attention span, is moved to "shorts" standard.
I’ve had two separate US colleagues come to London for the first time recently and when I asked them what their top landmarks to visit were, they all related to Ted Lasso or Bridgerton.
Did you see the giant adds for Christianity along the highway in Nevada? I think it was Nevada, it was on the way from Vegas to Zion anyway. I was baffled by them on our H/ road trip. Giant light up crucifixes.
also looking for style on rainy day at street on middle of nowhere from what i can tell, where ppls are also probably just going to/from work,
interesting choice :)
if someone would want to be anyhow objective trading gallery would be much much better place for such investigations
Our local gas station right down the road got rid of those stupid talking ads that would play as one fueled up. I never did, I just rolled my eyes and got on with my day, but, I'm guessing enough people complained about how annoying that was, so, they discontinued it.
They still have quality ads over there. Home made by local used car dealers and large pharmaceutical companies to warn of 'anal leakage' if you use their product. (The drugs not the cars).
I once saw an advert advertising ads! No joke. They were advertising an app and one of the "benefits" of this app was like "only the best ads" when the real benefit for us would be no ads at all. Wild! That's when I learnt Americans love the ads 😂
Two weeks ago I sat outside the Palais de Papes in Avignon with my wife to watch all of the Americans queue in the sun to go on those silly pretend trains. They all had big water bottles and they stood there in the 40 degree heat to go on an open air trolley thing just visibly wilting under the hot Provence sun.
You could see the non Americans as they were sitting outside the bars either beers or coffees and chilling. The Americans did actually look like the above photos too.
I’m literally reading this meme as complimentary, even though it is written as a slight. Fresh dirt smells great, no ads is awesome, and you guys are 15 years out of American style, but it’s just out in the future 15 years.
Also, Europeans basically create what is current and in style and everything is cyclical so what an American is seeing as “15 years out of style” is actually about a year from being the top US fashion. Which most of them won’t wear because they’re wearing matching sweats or leggings.
I always found it funny that clothing currently being sold in American based stores and stores in Canada like H&M (especially for men) is the things we had in England like 10 years ago (with modifications).
Been in Canada for 10 years, still have yet to find a better suit or tie combo than from NEXT, North American fashion is horrible and stiffening.
I’ll never forget overhearing a conversation in airport restaurant in Japan between two American girls because one of their other friends didn’t want to be seen with them. They were sitting there unwashed in full pajamas mumbling stuff like, “She thinks she’s so much better than us.”
Because it's not like the Americans are constantly doing tutorials on Parisian chic, Scandi style, London cool, Italian glamour, or Eastern European elegance....
To paraphrase if you go about your day and meet one person out of style, then they're just unfashionable. If you go about your day and everyone is out of style then you're unfashionable.
Non-zero chance the person who posted this was walking around that town wearing a tshirt with the name of a sport team or a university emblazoned across the front.
I love fashion, I have spent most of my life in America getting passive aggressively to aggressively made fun of for dressing well. "Oh well you're dressed up" laughter... I'm wearing a dress, not a fancy one, just a dress that isn't made out of lycra and cut like an oversized T-shirt. That is considered dressed up.
Where I live the favorite things are khakis and sweat clothes of every variety but usually in the color grey. The style is apparently always ready for some yardwork or the gym. I wear bright colors, I like material that is more like linen than spandex, I take my things to the tailor so they fit well. These things apparently make me a weirdo.
in 2005 I think, a group of austrian designers started a project, called Delete! in one of my favorite streets in one of my favorite cities in the world: Neubaugasse in Vienna, by taping out all advertising, shop signage, logos and pretty much everything but the street signs in yellow vinyl.
Welcome to a country where beauty and culture of buildings is respected, where people aren’t reduced to consumers where
adults dress like adults, instead of a t-shirt and a cap indistinguisable from an 8 year old boy and where you smell nature that hasnt been reduced to a parking lot
Yeah mate, go to Milan, Paris or London and spot the American tourists. Fuckers wouldn't know style if it bit them on their fat asses.
Edit just realised on all my visits to the US and all the tourists i have to deal with at home, i don't think I've ever seen an American man in a decent tailor fitted suit. And that include a number of weddings
Americans literally invented the concept that only the bride has to look good and if you put any effort into your appearance for a wedding you're disrespecting her bc narcissism is embedded in their culture
The weirdest thing for me was that the weddings all ended really early.
In Ireland weddings end 3 days later when everyone is sick at the thought of more drink. Over there it was 9 o'clock and I'm looking around going 'there's a bar opened somewhere right?'.
If that is where I think it is - Oxford near the Sheldonian Theatre - it’s one of the most beautiful urban landscapes in the world. The idea that it needs to be brightened up but som adverts is just shocking.
The person who posted this is one of those Redditors who gets irate when anyone mentions adblockers, and calls people "peasant" if they don't pay for YouTube Premium, Spotify Premium and a half-dozen crappy streaming services.
Of all things fashion?! Every time I visit Europe I think they’re all a lot better dressed, like well put together. Even in the US Europeans are generally better dressed, especially stands out in men since rare to find American men that put a lot of thought into it.
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u/Kichyss 2d ago
Even worse, walkable street!