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![Beijing: questionablefindings
everything-is-connected
penroseparticle
My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because
it's old and America is spooky because it's big
meduseld
The difference between America and England
is that Americans think 100 years is a long time,
while the English think 100 miles is a long way."
-Earle Hitchner
burntcopper
A fave of mine was always the american tales where
people freaked out because 'someone died in this
house and all the europeans would go ...Yes? That
would be pretty much every house over 40 years old
My school is older than your entire town.
Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for
a shopping trip?
American looks up at the beams in a country
pub* Uh, this place has woodworm, isn't that a bit
unsafe?' 'Eh, the woodworm's 400 years old, it's
holding those beams together
bedlamsbard
A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer
program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Amer-
icans and Canadians, and my year it was all Ameri-
cans and one Australian. We ended the program with
a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled
onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can't remember),
the professors went to the front to warn us that we
wouldn't be making any stops unless absolutely nec-
essary. We're headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone
flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge
All right, it's going to be a long bus ride, so make sure
you're prepared for that."
We all brace ourselves. A long bus ride? How
long? Were Americans; a long bus ride for us is a
minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly
plausible. We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as
long as we get a bathroom break.
The answer. "Two hours."
Oh.
derinthemadscientist
English people trying to travel around Australia
and wildly underestimating distance are my
favourite thing
marzipanandminutiae
a tour guide in France told my school group that
a particular cathedral wouldn't interest us much
because "it's not very old; only from the early 1600s"
to which we had to respond that it was still
older than the oldest surviving European-style
buildings in our country
guana-sneeze
China is both old and big. I had some Chinese
colleagues over, we were discussing whether they
wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive
war ship which sank on it's maiden voyage after
12 min). They asked if it was old, I said "not THAT
old" (bearing in mind they were Chinese) "it's from the
1500s." To my surprise they still looked impressed,
nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised l'd forgotten
something: ". mean it's from the 1500s AFTER the
birth of Christ" and they went "oh, AFTER...
ceescedasticity
My dad's favorite quote from various tours in Italy
was "Pay no attention to the tower- it was a
scornful tone] tenth century addition."
My last boss was Chinese, and she said when
her parents came to visit her from Beijing they
pronounced Chicago "A very nice village."
blondegingersaxon
This post keeps getting better
2thefingerfuckingfemalefury
What I'm getting from this is both distance and time
are Utterly Terrifying
Source: penroseparticle
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