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Things that are super popular in the world except in America


1. Bidet
2. The metric system
3. Tiny city cars
4. Motorcycles
5. Football (a.k.a. soccer)
6. Trains
7. Foreign movies
8. Subtitles
9. House music
10. Tea

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Affordable health care seems to be popular in a lot of places around the world.

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Just about every industrialized country has some form of universal health care other than the US.

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Yep, that's what I was getting at.

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Mexico (just kidding).

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As you said ⚽️⚽️

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As opposed to 🏈🏈

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2,7,8,9, and 10 are all very popular with me.

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paid maternity leave.
roundabouts - don't see this in canada either

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Are roundabouts popular outside of Britain?

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popular in europe

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Yes, at least in Germany und Spain.

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Roundabouts have sprung up everywhere in my area an the past ten years.

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we have a few small ones here but not in major cities.

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We have roundabouts on roundabouts 🤯
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/swindon-magic-roundabout

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That’s a headache-inducing image!

It looks like the layout of the belt drives of a large grass mower deck if you flipped it over…hard to tell what goes where and it could take awhile to figure out.

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I’ve driven round it and lived to tell the tale. I kinda closed my eyes and went for it, lol.

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‘I can’t get left! Look kids, there’s Big Ben and Parliament! I can’t turn left !!!’ 😄

You know this movie…

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National Lampoon's European Vacation, lol.

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🎯

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there are not paid parental leave in the USA?

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It varies by state and employer: "...as of October 2018 the United States does not have nationwide laws that guarantee paid parental leave to its workforce; however, certain states have passed laws providing paid workers with such rights. As of April 2022, ten states (California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, and Maryland) and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that grant parental leave as part of state paid family and medical leave insurance laws, with four being effective currently. In states without such laws, a proportion of companies do provide paid parental leave."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#United_States

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OK. Thanks for the info.

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You're welcome.

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What is "house music"?

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A style of dance music that originated from Chicago in the 1980s

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Short answer, just yell ‘BOOF BOOF BOOF BOOF BOOF BOOF’ repeatedly and dance like you are possessed. Cocaine and pills may help. I always avoided that scene.

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rotten teeth

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Skipping showers
Only changing clothes every 2 days

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