so they illegally purchase it and then sell illegal goods, legally?

Ah yes, the magically appearing coffeeshopwiet. I'm trying to get rid of it officer, honestly, but it just keeps coming back! Suppose I may as well sell it for a reasonable price in my humble little shop in Doetinchem. Perhaps with a bit of coffee on the side. Maybe in edible form for those who can't smoke the leaves.

There are bow trials being done with legally grown weed. Meaning it's a government run weed farm.

can people not use that to take each other’s shops down?

Wasn't there a country where some company ran a "lost and found" service where you'd pay them to "find your weed". Like they were selling you weed but in order to make it legal their business was for you to pay them to find your lost weed.

I'm so in favor of that time format, both 8601 and 24 hour.

Just to be pedantic, iso 8601 stipulates that the delimiting character is a "-" not a "."

I generally prefer dates ordered from most to least prominence myself, but any ordering is better than the weird flip flopped month day then year thing we got Stateside.

Interesting that y'all say o'clock before the minutes, tho! Haven't seen that before.

Szoszi kérsz eladó bojlert?

Nice date format, too bad about orban though 🤷

If it's very clear that you are in the late afternoon or evening, you just say "6 o'clock 24" or "13 o'clock 46".

Isn't 6 o'clock 24 in the morning?

How often do moose bite people in Sweden?

Heck that's really neat to know, actually!

Some others:

• Half of the people with swiss citizenship have a foreign background at some level.

• The majority of immigration went from permanent to temporary. People come for a small amount of time.

• Despite being one of the most neoliberal country, people of the city of Berne voted to allocate money to the self-managed cultural center. This can be explained by the city-countryside political divide.

• Switzerland doesn't have direct democracy but a semi-direct democracy.

• Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus still have a Landsgemeinde where people vote cantonal level legislations using show of hands vote.

• Corruption at the local level is high.

• There are more unwritten rules than laws.

• People keep their friends during the entire life. As a side effect, people can be seen as unfriendly. It can take up to 10 years to make a local friends.

• You can reach 95% of the country by public transportation.

• The Habsburg dinasty originated from the small town of Habsburg in the Canton of Aargau.

Which monument is this you speak of? :o

you are writing about a place where every second person is prone to skin cancer and you don't even notice it... It's just like a cold (illness ) for you. And the fact that you live so far from the rest of the world that if you have the opportunity, you certainly try to escape from the country (despite the high level of prosperity of the country). And you can't swimming in ocean.... water is cold, evenin summer...

Guy Fawkes is a real big deal. Fireworks will be going all week.

Try a major UK city. It's dark early, often foggy, people are fighting each other with rockets on the streets. People are holding hands and burning effigies of the latest prime minister.

God do I miss England in November.

Don't pick on them though, because we're the Pacific redneck brothers. Only we can pick on Australians.

I've always loved seeing these sorts of brotherly rivalries between nations.

You always know when Tonga or Samoa is playing a sports match, because you'll see the flags and hear the cars tooting everywhere.

Ahh, that big a sports rivalry, then?

It's difficult to find some nationality that isn't represented by a restaurant somewhere.

Got a favorite nationality's food?

New Zealand is a beautiful country and it'd be a dream to get a chance to visit y'all some time :D

We also have no romantic relationships with them either.

Well yeah, bit rude for the sheep to cheat on their Welsh spouses, innit? Nawh I kid, love ya Wales! A Welsh accent's honestly my favorite from the Isles.

American here, we'd never pick on the Aussies, they're our little brother that just keeps picking up our bad habits, which I guess makes NZ the little brother that we forget even exists most of the time, till you do something cute.

Just because we do our best here in Canada to not be like our American cousins .... it doesn't mean that a good number of us think, act and believe like our southern relatives.

Honestly, I live in northern Ontario where we shouldn't have so much American influence but it's so strange to meet and talk to outright Trump supporters with 'Let's Go Brandon' stickers, don't trend on me and Confederate flags. It's especially strange when some back woods people I know barely have any knowledge of Canadian politics but enjoy mentioning their second amendment rights and the right to bear arms (both of which is an American thing and not part of Canadian history)

Remove the /s and you’re right.

You're not part of the United States of America, but you're still part of the continent of North America.

We’re grateful for the Canadarm too. A tip o’ America’s hat for that program.

If you are going by approximate anatomy, Canada's asshole would probably be the Panama Canal. Y'all poop boats.

Big love to our northern brothers across the border! That said, we can't be just y'all's asshole. You're forgetting that we got the perfect dangling phallus of Florida that cannot be ignored (despite our best efforts.)

Hey we're both the assholes of the world, there's enough room for two on this throne

Canada is the younger brother of the United States of America.... you do everything with an eye on them... And this is not a surprise to anyone

We are Canada's pants.

Nice to hear from Europe-America in this thread.

Now go play with Exotic-America and his juguetes in the corner and let the real countries talk.

My wife’s late grandfather was from Latvia, displaced during the Second World War, I always enjoy reading things about the country and relaying them on to her.

Passion for dance is a really cool thing to have in my book, preserves something that words doesn’t.

I'm not even into dancing but goodness me, that sounds like a lotta fun to watch. I'll have to see one of y'all's competitions if I ever find my way around the Baltics!

Very cool.

Your country is my favorite in all of Europe. I definitely wanna spend the rest of my life over there.

Everyone who thinks this is a bad idea, get your downvotes ready.

Okay but I friggen love the candied klompen. Definitely gonna have to grab a few if I ever get a chance to visit Belgium!

I thought this would be Dominic the Donkey

We do that in Michigan too but it's to punish people who commit crimes against fashion

and translation is not necessary, here in Russia we call such people (swimming in an ice hole in winter) simply: walrus

I remember this is also a cooking style called blanching.

or in this case, reverse blanching? -- cold first, then hot.

We call that a polar bear plunge in North America, not sure if the sauna is involved though

Shit I'm down to try that.

That's what it is. I've always been able to tell a distinct difference between the British English accent, and the South African English accent, even though they're almost identical. You speak English with a happy accent.

All the South African folks I've met working in tourism had been absolutely lovely! Just a joy to talk with. Last time we had a South African gal I managed to blindside her with an unexpected Tot Ziens as she went to leave the gift shop, and we wound up just chatting for a good while. Coincidentally that was the day me and a coworker were talking coins, and it just so happened I had my Rand coin with me that day. Seeing one of those this far away from her home was uncanny for her.

Oddly, the long service leave varies from state to state/territory. One state gives 6 weeks at 7 years, another gives 12 weeks at 10 years.

We moved country earlier this year, and my wife misses “dim sims”. Truely unique

Aight, my geography isn't heaps great, but I do vaguely remember a Southeast Asian nation with tons of indigenous languages. Shot in the dark, one of the archipelago nations?

The cherry ballart sounds neat! So I take it ya crack 'em open to get the fleshy juicy goodness inside?

Huh, interesting! I take it Polish folks are generally more widely engaged in politics?

I don't actively look it up much but linguistics is a seriously fascinating thing. We've invented not just one seriously complicated and complex series of grunts and noises to communicate everything from immediate danger to the craziest of dadaist humor, but thousands of them - and the vast majority have little enough similarities to one another that dedicated translation services are necessary. Humans can do some really cool stuff.

The more I learn about other languages the more I realize that most languages do that. English probably also did that before it became mixed with french

Very interesting! I vaguely recall having once seen an infographic explaining how to read cryllic in very little time ages ago, and if it's that rigid with pronunciations and such I can see it being that easy to pick up.

As opposed to English, where you might cough and hiccough while the borough's favorite dough-maker ploughs through the field.

We even participated in the Eurovision Song Contest at one point (biggest regret imo).

Wait, why was that regretful? o.o

I have to say that there's probably too many mosques

There's more churches than businesses in my county here, I completely understand that sentimen-

Try appropriately 40 thousand.

u wot mate

You guys really need to try our couscous. It's delicious.

I'll look into it! Thank you for your reply :D

Oh man I actually love the raw olive oil, especially on msemmen (I'm half moroccan)

Do you season or do anything special to the couscous?. Over here it's just served plain and I always wondered if other countries seasoned or prepared theirs differently.

Do you season or do anything special to the couscous?. Over here it's just served plain and I always wondered if other countries seasoned or prepared theirs differently.

I met a carpenter like that just two weeks ago, hitchhiking southwards. Sadly we were going in the other direction or we would have taken her along.

That section about tradies maintaining a centuries-old employment tradition is just fascinating to me. Honestly with the rut I've been in lately it sounds fun to just uproot myself, learn a solid trade, and travel city to city for work. Probably ain't, but that's perspective for ya.

Well obviously, you're a couple of islands surrounded by thousands of kilometres of water, that makes you Middle Ocean

Ah. The forgotten lands, according to some maps.

I concur

(But my instance doesn't easily identify me as kiwi)

Nawh, can't be. Too cold to be the middle of the earth.

Marketing be strong, yo.

Honestly as a kid I would have loved that!

It's large prominence in my media, news, just in the general online zeitgeist. I wanna learn neat stuff from elsewhere for a change, just see what kinds of interesting stuff ya got all over the world.

USA wasn't excluded. Just the people currently living in the USA.

Technically if your from the USA and living abroad you could talk about the USA.

Can't blame ya with how brutal the Outback is. Yer skin cancer rates are already sky high, I can't imagine how bad it'd be if y'all lived in the parts of the country where they haven't invented clouds yet.

Yeah the income disparity here is nuts x.x One of many reasons why I wanna get outta here.

Most of the US doesn’t think of you at all mate.

Gonna guess you're a true blue, fair dinkum Aussie, mate?