For those who don’t know:
Texts from iPhone to iPhone appear as blue bubbles, while texts from Android users appear as green.
For many in the US who still use SMS to communicate, the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
What’s your version of “If everyone knew this was a thing in my country, they’d think it was silly”?
People doing ski slopes in the cheese. Some people don’t care, some get angry.
In Sweden we buy large hard cheeses and use the Norwegian cheese slicer
to get thin slices for our bread. Surely a superior way of eating cheese on bread. Anyhow, if you apply the pressure wrong you will deform the cheese into a ski slope shape over time
Some people are unbothered by this, which is completely insane.
Scone / scone.
Care to elaborate for non-British/Irish people?
Scone should be pronounced scone and not scone.
In some parts of the country, it’s pronounced to rhyme with cone, and in other parts it’s pronounced to rhyme with gone. That would be simple but there is another orthogonal dimension which is a demographic one (usually self-perceived class) which also influences the pronunciation.
It is, consequently, almost impossible to guess how any given person you meet might pronounce the word. And it is also something which, while seeming incredibly trivial, people here feel very strongly about.
I, of course, pronounce it correctly: scone.
That’s weird, everyone knows scone rhymes with spoon.
Wow, this is so quaint! I totally love this, thank you for explaining.
And I will now make sure to use the correct pronunciation during my next visit to the Isles (hopefully next year…)!Just make sure you know which order to put your jam and clotted cream (or clotted cream and jam) on your scone before you come!
Oh no, this is getting increasingly complicated… from a combinatorical perspective alone I now already see the potential of mortally insulting 3/4 of the people I will be meeting… 😯
I am from Germany and what brand of car your are driving is often seen as a statement, often associated with a certain social group.
Although I have observed that this has been constantly diminishing over the years.German, too. I don’t own a car, but is this whole EV vs. combustion still as big a thing as it was 7 years ago? I feel it was a much bigger discussion here due to our car tradition/ obsession than in the US. Elon is a dipshit, and until that was apperent to everyone, EVs were cool due to Tesla
Has it ever been?
I mean, outside of some mostly right-wing bubbles that are trying to exaggerate it as some kind of oppression symbol in a cultural war that happens mainly in their heads?Most people I know treat the topic from a rather rational perspective regarding the pros and cons of EVs in their specific situations.
Really? I felt it was a major topic back then. Maybe due to the whole Fridays for Future Movement which I followed closely at the time and faced a lot of backslash from conservatives. Online bubbles :)
A very loud (i.e. present in social and normal media) but in my everyday life almost none-existent group of people.
They seem to have migrated from Diesel-against-Greta-“Empörung” (is there an English word for that?) to Corona-deniers and now to fighters in self-proclaimed cultural wars against green topics and a tolerant society. All sprinkled with some deep right-wing views.
Might be different in other parts of Germany though, my sample is mainly taken from Bavaria and south-western Germany.
I personally know of only two families leaning into Schwurbler-views - out of hundreds of chilled ones. One of these actually drives a Pickup. But also owns a house with a solar roof… so… well.You live abroad now?
Yeah, I don’t remember anyone from my rl social circle who was opposed to them. Maybe sceptical at first, I think is fair with bleeding edge tech. by now, some of them use an EV as their daily driver and are super happy.
I don’t know anyone who I’d call “Schwurbler”, so it didn’t witness this shift of topis myself, but yeah, that tracks. Good for your neighbour though. I guess we are all quite complex creatures or it was simply a good investment xD
But no, I am still in Germany. I was just under the impression that Tesla was seen as cool in the US due to Musk’s image as a funny, relatable internet guy back then, going as far as to Tesla’s stocks only performing as well due to his very loyal online fanbase, while we in Germany were still to scared to even touch the damn technology, leading to a much higher adoption rate in the US then here. (What a monsterous sentence, I hope it makes sense) But I could be wrong.
“Empörung” (is there an English word for that?) Outrage, I think
Football (soccer) teams? I guess that’s a common one, but people can get really violent about it over here, lol. We’re all here enjoying football, something we all love (well, not me, but I’m getting in the mindset of those who do), there’s barely any disagreement between us! 🙄🙃
Rangers v Celtic?
No, more like “City F.C.” v “City United”, lol.
the blue/green bubble divide is a huge source of social conflict.
I live in the US.
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Japan takes baseball teams seriously to the point that some bars forbid anything but the most basic conversations like with politics and religion. I think younger generations care less, but ive seen conversations ended as they got heated.
its not really a thing in the us. never been a thing with me or my friends and im pretty sure this is one of those things where it came up but then was blown out of proportion where most everyone never really cared about it.
do you chat by sms? are you ok?
