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[–] 63 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Large parts of the world use 24h time regularly. Only Americans, as far as I know, really struggle with 24h time, roundabouts, and bidets as concepts.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    American here. I use 24h time, vastly favor roundabouts over traffic lights, and I would rather poop at home with my bidet attachment than get paid to poop at work. I'm not exactly your average American, but there are probably millions of us. The world mostly hears the loud dipshits because they are loud and their thoughts are dipshit enough that people who hear them feel the need to tell somebody about what a stupid dipshit take they heard from some loud dipshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I'm also an American. Those are examples from personal experience.

    When I was growing up the dipshit town where my family lived was thinking about installing a roundabout instead of the series of 4 lights in front of the Walmart. The level of genuine panic it caused was insane. Huge groups at city council meetings with signs worried about car insurance rates going up because of "all the accidents it will cause!" Needless to say, it didn't happen. Meanwhile, roundabouts work just fine for the rest of Earth and I've only ever seen one accident in one, due to construction.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Why on earth would anyone be afraid of roundabouts? Like they aren't even more complicated than traffic lights to understand.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    hey we're getting better at roundabouts

    no really they are installing them at a frightening pace and if you're under 60 you've figured them out, especially the toilet roundabouts what flush you out. over that... well... i'm not going to talk about my MIL i'm trying to wind down not get angry

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    There are countries in Europe that don’t use bidets. Not even a handheld bidet shower. In those countries they don’t even wash their ass or cooch the old school way unless they are from a migrant family.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    My wife is from Colombia and not used to the 24 hour system.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Technically she’s still American. Just South American.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    i just got in an argument with all of lemmy not half an hour ago in my head and earlier than that in reality that no one else gets to claim american because i don't know. i was on your side on this argument.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Either using both or mostly issuing 24h is a thing in the Eastern hemisphere, so Europe, Africa, and Asia. It's not universally applied, but there's lots of places that use it on things like telling you when a TV show will be on, for example.

    Par example

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