Interesting/annoying things about the USA

Well it posted twice so ill use this second post to say that open container laws are stupid too
 
RJN said:
There are entire dry counties in Georgia
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School and college life as portrayed by American media is also fucking weird.
 
I think it might be a semantics thing. I call the person I live with my roommate but we don’t actually share a bedroom. I’ve only actually shared a room with a stranger for one year. It was terrible
 
Yes. I was horribly bullied at school but I think I'd be a gibbering wreck to this day if I'd been over there.
 
Definitely the portrayal that people seem to be a bit defined by their college, with some kind of lifelong alliance to a university. I suppose it’s the closest thing they have to peerage.
 
I mean we have cliques in education in the UK, but it's all apparently so identikit in the US.
 
RJN said:
I think it might be a semantics thing. I call the person I live with my roommate but we don’t actually share a bedroom. I’ve only actually shared a room with a stranger for one year. It was terrible
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Isn't it quite normal at college though? Or can you just tell I'm watching Buffy at the moment
 
I think the education thing is more of a movie/tv thing. My school didn’t have “jocks” and “nerds” or however it’s portrayed. I also was never bullied and I don’t think it was common at all.

the sharing a room thing is common, but only in your first year or two of college. I agree it’s terrible

we did have “campus police” (resident advisors) when I lived in a dorm
 
My university had a set of "duplex" rooms where you'd have one person on the ground floor and one up in a mezzanine, but that was as close as it got to sharing. They were the cheapest rooms, of course.
 
When I was in halls last year all halls apart from The Bins, Hulme had their own EN-SUITE :zsazsa:
 
Ag said:
When I was in New York, I went into a public toilet and the toilets had no cubicles. I witnessed a quite unpleasant man having a shit
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Was it in Washington square park?
 
Ag said:
When I was in New York, I went into a public toilet and the toilets had no cubicles. I witnessed a quite unpleasant man having a shit
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When I was in New York I heard a man shout at another man in an alley “HEY YOU CAN’T SHIT ON ME MAN, THAT’S ILLEGAL!”

That explains it!
 
Soldi said:
When I was in halls last year all halls apart from The Bins, Hulme had their own EN-SUITE :zsazsa:
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In my halls (demolished now of course) we had cubicles and a shower shared between 12 people (half of whom were TRAINEE TEACHERS with nits).

But we did have sinks in our rooms, so I guess that's sort of like an en suite.
 
Yes, WHY do public toilet cubicles in the US have such wide gaps in the doors? Have they heard of privacy?

Edit - dUb beat me to it.
 
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Gangsta Nancy Lam said:
In my halls (demolished now of course) we had cubicles and a shower shared between 12 people (half of whom were TRAINEE TEACHERS with nits).

But we did have sinks in our rooms, so I guess that's sort of like an en suite.
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Sounds like Cavendish to me :D
 
RJN said:
my guess would be to discourage drug deals (wish wsp is a hot spot for that) but I don’t actually know
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I was offered weed there, didn't understand what he meant and declined. I really wanted some as well.
 
When I was a terrible bartender, I was so terrible at bartending that they sent me to the bathroom to stop people doing drugs.

If I saw two pairs of feet, I had to bang on the door and tell them to come out. If they didn't, I had to PUSH OPEN THE DOOR.

It all ended in tears when I kicked open the door on a girl who'd taken her shoes off to have a shit.
 
Sorry, that had nothing to do with the USA, I just wanted to share.
 
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Gangsta Nancy Lam said:
When I was a terrible bartender, I was so terrible at bartending that they sent me to the bathroom to stop people doing drugs.

If I saw two pairs of feet, I had to bang on the door and tell them to come out. If they didn't, I had to PUSH OPEN THE DOOR.

It all ended in tears when I kicked open the door on a girl who'd taken her shoes off to have a shit.
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Not sure if I prefer @Rhythmbarbican catching two pensioners fucking in an M&S toilet or this story in terms of toilet stories I've read this week.
 
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